Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

TOH, Robb, Fifita'a looks back on training pics too, Tuimauga's there

Aki is MASSIVE boost

I'd go with Tuimauga 17 with Duggan 1 and Burke rested after HIA

Bealhan 3 MCoy 18

Aki/Bolton

Arnold or TOH 23

Fifita'a 19

The rest unchanged, even McNulty!

Not sure Delahunt will be there though, Murphy then

Team named, hopefully no mass changes like last week.

CONNACHT RUGBY MATCHDAY 23 VS LEICESTER TIGERS

Sunday 19th December, 13:00 @ Mattioli Woods Welford Road

Number/Name/Caps ( * denotes uncapped)

15. Tiernan O’Halloran (195)

14. John Porch (45)

13. Sammy Arnold (24)

12. Bundee Aki (112)

11. Alex Wootton (25)

10. Jack Carty (167) (C)

9. Kieran Marmion (194)

1. Mattthew Burke (31)

2. Dave Heffernan (152)

3. Finlay Bealham (166)

4. Ultan Dillane (121)

5. Niall Murray (23)

6. Cian Prendergast (16)

7. Conor Oliver (28)

8. Jarrad Butler (81)

Replacements

16. Shane Delahunt (108)

17. Tietie Tuimauga *

18. Jack Aungier (21)

19. Leva Fifita (3)

20. Abraham Papali’i (16)

21. Caolin Blade (138)

22. Conor Fitzgerald (42)

23. Diarmuid Kilgallen (4)

Leicester team.

15 Bryce Hegarty [4]

14 Freddie Steward [42]

13 Matt Scott [32]

12 Dan Kelly [28]

11 Hosea Saumaki [4]

10 Freddie Burns [83]

9 Ben Youngs [270]

1 Nephi Leatigaga [51] 

2 Nic Dolly [10]

3 Joe Heyes [82]

4 Harry Wells [135]

5 Eli Snyman [6]

6 George Martin [25]

7 Tommy Reffell [57]

8 Jasper Wiese [25]

REPLACEMENTS

16 Julián Montoya [11]

17 James Whitcombe [9]

18 Dan Cole [274]

19 Calum Green [70]

20 Ollie Chessum [18]

21 Marco van Staden [6]

22 Jack van Poortvliet [30]

23 Guy Porter [27]

Freddie Steward is a real threat (if the game goes ahead, of course). I watched him on the telly playing for England in the Autumn Series and he was fantastic. Scored tries against South Africa and Australia.

Good start from Connacht. Should have done better with that line break though

Great time to score. Connacht deserve the lead. Good game.

Tigers changed their entire front row and have got 4 pens from the 4 scrums since.

The one positive from this is its running time off the clock.

Sadly Connacht are throwing this away in typical Connacht fashion.

X2

Carty can do great things in attack but his game management and tactical kicking has been astonishingly poor and will seriously go against him when it comes to Ireland selection

Very smart from Carty there.

Good result for Connacht but that was a smash and grab if ever I've seen one.

It was pretty clearly a tactic not to kick to touch and try to keep the ball in play as much as possible. Carty kicks well to touch pretty much every week, there’s a reason he was hitting it down middle of pitch today.