Connacht Rugby Thread - Part III - The Violence of the Lams

Billysays no

Such a huge game

thomond2006

Brilliant start to the second half. Great hussle in defence.

oneofakind32

Well, they made **** of that maul.

oneofakind32

They have another crack at it now...

funtime93

Where are yous watching this?

thomond2006

funtime93 wrote: »

Where are yous watching this?

http://www.tg4.ie/ga/beo/caineal-2/

oneofakind32

3rd time lucky?

Robbo

Ah Rod.

thomond2006

That was NOT on from Ah You.

d-gal

What else does Healy have to do to get on the Irish team?!!

Robbo

Matt Healy twirling, twirling towards freedom!

oneofakind32

Matt Healy, Ireland loss is Connachts gain. He would have scored one if he was on Trembles wing in Twickenham today as well.

Robbo

****ing restarts, we have to improve them.

oneofakind32

Classic Tag Rugby move spinning through the defensive line.

Billysays no

Matt Healy. Feic ar sin

thomond2006

'Madden NFL' style spin from Matt Healy. Great score. A lot of time to go but 3 tries in the bag....a BP win would be massive.

calico77

connachts defence is terrible. far too loose. they need to learn when to target the breakdown

Robbo

Aki's passing is getting better and better.

Robbo

I'd like to see Poolman on for Niyi to short things up and offer a better aerial counter.

MayoForSam

Robbo wrote: »

I'd like to see Poolman on for Niyi to short things up and offer a better aerial counter.

You got your wish

Crimsonforce

Score ?

Your Face

27-22

Robbo

I take back everything I've ever said about George Clancy in the past.

Hagz

Think Connacht got out of jail there. He wasn't held at all.

calico77

thats a bad decision.

thomond2006

Wrong call IMO. I don't think Davies was held. Absolutely massive in the context of the game.

Your Face

He was tackled tho.

thomond2006

Your Face wrote: »

He was tackled tho.

He wasn't held in my opinion and got up to score?

Connacht go down the other end and score three points. Massive decision.

MayoForSam

Squeaky squeaky bum bum time

Your Face

thomond2006 wrote: »

He wasn't held in my opinion and got up to score?

Connacht go down the other end and score three points. Massive decision.

Dont think he got up on his feet tho. That made it a double movement after that. Decisive decision alright.

Robbo

Brilliant that Webb has gone off.

Robbo

Doing the double over Ospreys, jesus.

Bundee was a one man highlights reel. I must say that I thought that Qualter had missed his shot at this level but he was incredible when he came on. 2 lineout steals and some serious work around the park.

oneofakind32

Some game, some result. Shame it wasn't on Sky Sports so the Pro12 nay sayers could have seen it.

Your Face

Nice

connachta

Guess what??? Now Top 4 is my target!!! Massive result!!!

OldRio

Great game of Rugby. Credit to both sides. Marvelous result for Connacht.

thecretinhop

Dosed with a cold hoarse from watching ireland match watch healy raes dunbelivable act and then tg4 player crashes. Walked the dog for me nerves and got last 10 minutes on twitter
Yes get the fcck in! Edit i think i am halucinating rtes jean byrne is dressed as a black magic box

Billysays no

What a win.

freyners

Opinions on clancy call. Looked wrong to me.

Huge win tonight. That's got to be champions cup now

Billysays no

We are Connacht and we can beat the best.

oneofakind32

freyners wrote: »

Opinions on clancy call. Looked wrong to me.

Huge win tonight. That's got to be champions cup now

Probably wrong.It doesn't make a difference for us but it was worth 2 league points for ospreys. They have a right to be annoyed.

thomond2006

The non-try for Ospreys with an Irish ref is nice justice for Connacht after Cardiff away with a Welsh ref last year.

BeardySi

Christ what a match! Glued to every minute of it (streamed from tg4.ie in the end, much less faff...) Bundee was immense.
Was a brilliant result after the dismal Ireland match!

hermano

Bundee didn't look great at the end. Was his ankle acting up again?

Diabhal Beag

I'd like to hop on the Niyi Adeolokun defensive mastermind bandwagon if there's still room.

Billysays no

Unexpected win but what a win. Ospreys are no joke. Simply huge

freyners

hermano wrote:

Bundee didn't look great at the end. Was his ankle acting up again?

Think it was just a prayer no?

lostboy75

freyners wrote: »

Think it was just a prayer no?

Min or two before the whistle he went down, got up again fairly quickly but was limping quite badly. As they left the ground, it was down to just a slight limp. But still quite noticeable.

Borders no.2

oneofakind32 wrote: »

Probably wrong.It doesn't make a difference for us but it was worth 2 league points for ospreys. They have a right to be annoyed.

It could potentially have been worth 5 to Ospreys. That would have at least levelled it at 27-27 and put them ahead if they got the conversion and who is to say how it would have went from there. A win there would have flipped Champions Cup qualification majorly in Ospreys favour.

I'm sure there'll be war over this from Ospreys but that's just because it happened to a "big team". Until the standard of officiating gets to a professional level the product which is good will suffer.

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth after George Clancy's try decision against Leinster. Tonight was repayment. Against Leinster we deserved nothing on the night regardless of the decision but tonight it was Connacht minus 15 players versus Ospreys minus 14. We were the more weakened side with injuries and callups but what I love about Connacht under Pat is that we get on with it and someone else comes in and does a job.

On the try also Davies slowed up near the line when it looked like he should romp home so they have some questions to ask themselves.

astonaidan

Great match, some serious running game, I saw back line moves today from Connacht than Ive seen from Ireland in 3 years. Great experience for my first match. Surely Healy and TOH put their hands up for a Ireland jersey against Scotland or Italy

Oh and Ospreys player never got held, was like 6 feet away definite score, no idea how it wasnt given