Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

Rugby is a niche sport in connacht. Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon combined only have 2 clubs. Additional connacht schools rugby does not have the same tradition or numbers as leinster. Connacht rugby will always behind the other provinces due to playing numbers not population. Maybe a draft system would work, but it would have to be done at leaving cert stage due to most top players in leinster only playing schools rugby. Sorry for being so negative in my last few posts but I was so dishearten by the performance last night.

An academy draft system requires 18 year old kids to be sent to somewhere they don't want to go. It's never going to work.

But even the basic premise that all the provinces "should" be equal is flawed. When was that ever a policy?

Connacht doing a lot to expand the game though. Sligo has 2 clubs if you take into account South Sligo which fields minis only for now. hopefully Youths soon. Where you getting just 2 clubs alone in Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon...

Connacht schools dont and wont ever have same numbers as Leinster. Well connacht will always be behind the others due to population which affects playing numbers. A full draft system wont ever happen.

There hasn't been calls for TOH to get international caps in years. He was a fine player in his day but his best days look behind him now. He is 31 I suppose. Farrell was arguably the form centre for the 12 months prior to his last serious injury. And has picked up a few other niggling injuries since. Hasn't got back to same levels since.

Nobody is expecting them to.

Sport isn't and has never been a perfect level playing field. The playing numbers and cultural prominence of rugby in Dublin will always be bigger than in Connacht

Connacht should be disbanded and all their best players should be moved to Munster. They're all Munster fans over there anyway except for a few die-hard Buccaneers. That's why they sing The Fields.

Who produced the players? Where are the players from? Where do they want to play?

The model works for Ireland. What you want is charity.

Odd that what proports to be the Connacht rugby thread is largely populated by fans of other provinces rubbing our noses in a defeat.

Stay classy guys 👌

south sligo rfc lasted for about 3 years and is gone almost 10 years ago. 1 club sligo, 1 club leitrim, 0 clubs roscommon, creggs is a few 100 meters inside the galway border. It does of course pull from both counties but its in galway.

OK, I am regularly in creggs a few times a year and I have always been told the club is physically in Galway but its postal address is roscommon

We also ran the Premiership leaders close in both the home and away matches so not far away from being a very competitive side with a few strategic additions.

Roscommon technically has no club but most of Roscommon plays in Creggs. Creggs is over 80% Roscommon players and coaches. Buccaneers while located in Co. Westmeath is also a Roscommon club and part of Connacht.

There are areas where players go to Longford but it's not that many.