Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

1. Other than under Law 10.4c, an offside player can be put onside when:

1. An onside team-mate of that player moves past the offside player and is within or has re-entered the playing area.

molloyjh im not disagreeing with you , but if Beirne stands still he can be put on side by the advancing Cloete, he doesnt have to retreat.

Im not saying he did, I was replying to the post where mollyj said that he had to retreat in order to be put on side. That's all.

Luke Fitz?

Luke Fitz is a former professional player who is a pretty poor pundit but still a pundit. He is not just a fan.

That says “other than law 10.4(c)” which is the one that covers a player being ahead of the kicker. So that part of the law doesn’t apply in this case.

The rejigging of the league format has probably affected Connacht more than any other team. We share our shield with the 1,2 and 3 in the combined league table. Losing at home to Dragons without any points, failing to pick up anything away to Cardiff, our season is already in dire straits to be honest, and we'll be very hard pushed to make top 8 and champions cup qualification as it stands.

I think the coaching staff can be called into question as much as the team. I think a lot of honesty required among the team and the staff if there is to be any improvement. As you mentioned some players are not playing well and it needs to be addressed.

I was also annoyed at the decision to move the Ulster game (and still am really), but my in laws are in Dublin, so we're going to make a family trip out of it. For those season ticket holders who are still on the fence, just an FYI that you don't have to take the premium level seat the branch have emailed about - you can select whatever seat(s) you want, and then apply your voucher which will take 50 euro off the total. I booked a family ticket in the tier below premium for €85, which cost €35 after the voucher was applied.

Not sure on numbers but if you go to the website: https://www.connachtrugby.ie/connacht-vs-ulster-avivastadium-presale/

You can click in and look at the seat availability. Still quite a few empties, but to be fair the Aviva is a very big stadium. It looks to me like they've probably still sold multiples of the Sportsground capacity, hopefully enough to make a decent chunk of change off the match. If we can win it will have been worth it.

I wish people wouldn't quote that TRK muppet account. Aside from being biased beyond the point of being able to acknowledge a Munster error or ref error benefiting Munster, the guy has made a lot of the fact he had mental health issues in the past, but doesn't hesitate to incite an online pile-on when someone disagrees with him or shows him up. Bang of small man syndrome off him.

He does nothing of the sort. He doesn't @ anyone in tweets.

Some of the comments on here have crossed a line. People are melting down over one take regarding one decision. Get over it.

What pile ons did the trk lad start??

It might be due to the slow death of the site, but no one is ‘melting down’ over this. Rassie’s response to the Lions was a meltdown and the person in question found it hilarious.

People find comments about themselves without being @ ed. No one has @ ed him here yet you believe comments have gone too far and he even seems to have taken some huge offense to them. It is all in the name of fun when he is dishing it out, but everyone is horrible when the shoe is on the other foot.

I have real sympathies for people dealing with mental health issues, but you lose me when the person goes out of their way to incite and troll others to react and then plays the poor soul card and uses their mental issues as some kind of strange shield to avoid valid criticism for their actions. It is like a lad who goes out on a night out looking for a fight and then cries when he finds one.

He has done a great job drawing in a certain type of fan to his page, complaining about practically every decision that has ever gone against Munster and is now shouting about other teams ‘can’t handle their L’. Maybe some time away would be good for him, maybe he can get a handle on his own ‘L’ that was that ridiculous attempt at analysis of that kick that was rightly mocked.

If people want to go vanity searching or hate searching, that's up to them. Nobody is forced to read TRK's analysis or tweets. If you think it's bollocks or trolling, grand.

What I think is unfair is the personal nature of some of the reaction on here.

That's enough white knighting from me.

I can't believe we're still talking about this offside.

1) There is not a single image, no matter how grainy or carefully timed, that shows Beirne behind Scannell before the kick was taken. At absolute best, maybe his foot is in line, with the vast majority of him ahead and the benefit of the pitch lining to show us that.

2) There is no footage or images that show he subsequently was brought onside by a team mate before he played the ball. They don't exist.

He was clearly offside. If you still can't admit that you're either deluding yourself or being purposely misleading with an agenda.