Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

Indeed it did.

He waltzed through a wall of internationals for that one.

Dillanes second row partner is bate. Needs subbing quick

There’s been no problem with Hansen’s defence in any other games. Probably should have tackled Sheehan but Sheehan is just about as quick, big and athletic as any hooker on the planet. And took that final pass at pace. Not an easy man to take down in that position I’d wager.

Poor old Conor Fitz had a bit of a nightmare cameo, was a great chance of a try at the end there

That was a great game of rugby. So we lost but we were not shabby. And we have improved so much in the last few months. So all good from my perspective

Last play was symptomactic, throwing the ball away because we are not physical enough

Fifita'a helped for a very good 30 min

Augier disappointing

Handling quite good, probably best in the league

Connacht vs Leinster is like Scotland/Jepan vs Ireland/England

brillance sometimes win often lose, vs oiled machine

How good was porter when he came on ?

We gave it a good go and two try decisions went against us, Baird's and McNulty's. Thought the decisions were ok but McNulty's was almost certainly a try even though there was no visible grounding and Baird's was probably a knock on but too many bodies to see it. Would have made the last 10 interesting. Overall Leinster deserved it but we continued our good run of form while missing Porch Daly Aki Boyle Murray and Prendergast 6 likley starters if fit.

Problem with McNultys was the on field decision was no try so if there was no clear footage showing the grounding they couldn’t overturn. Based on the angles shown if it was Leinster scoring I’d have felt it would have been harsh to give them the try so can’t feel too bad we weren’t given it

Any idea what happened to Dowling? Fifita started instead and I wondered if it was due to a knock of just a late change?

I thought Burke did reasonably well again, Alaalatoa seemed to be constantly in the ref's ear about him, but IIRC Leinster just got the one scrum penalty (Aungier under pressure from Porter).

Overall I felt it was a decent display by Connacht, especially give they were understrength. A couple of decisions didn't go their way (the McNulty and Dev try calls), but didn't determine the result. Leinster's top talent really showed their stuff (JVDF, Doris, Porter, Sheahan).

Same, nailed on try. Poor from the tmo

They seemed to slow down the video at a point where the ball was under Baird's thigh for a second, did they rule that the ball was touched down off his leg?

Other than that I couldn't see why that was given as a grounding, even at that it's a poor call in my opinion.