Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

I don't oppse about Aki' s leaving to Munster. In this season, He looked apparently has been down in speed into the support play.Also he look at only Ireland not Conncht.(this may be my false suspition) On the other hand, Munster desperately needs good ceter. R.Scanell and Goggin are good but excellent and C. Farrel' futuer is unknown,so it hires Alex Nankivell(Maori AB) who fought against Ireland last summer without any impressiion except some handling errors. So Munster want experieced ctb. If they want some mutual trade for him, Connacht accept it with getting approriate player (for example,M.Harey or S.Daly or some younger prospects). This is business to future.

Munster have signed Alex Nankivell, which (hopefully) means that Bundee is not heading south. Your point about his on pitch performance is fair, but Bundee is the cultural heartbeat of Connacht rugby. We need him, but also need him to be fully invested and supportive of the new coaching staff.

Bit like Bundee I don't think they officially announced it yet but imagine its true seeing as they were chatting to Buckley in the press conference.

Very much believe we can make URC quarter finals. Connacht is such a better team that started out this season so I'm really hopeful we can do really well. Some of our more experienced players have really stood up this year and some exciting new talent is very obvious

Munsters last three games are at home to Glasgow and two games down in South Africa against the sharks and stormers with another trip to South Africa in there with champions cup.

Ulster have Sharks and Cardiff away and Bulls, Dragons and Edinburgh at home and with the form they’re in could see them lose 3 or 4 of those.

Tv coverage is desperate

Lads what has happened to TOH? He's had a fantastic season after about 4 poor years back to back. Fair **** to him.

Conceded a woeful try but bounced back almost immediately. A very professional half. DTM has been clinical with a hat-trick.

Nice DDT on Oliver there. Jake the Snake would be proud.

Even by Connacht standards this is a pretty spectacular collapse!

They managed to put a gloss on the scoreline with a couple of more tries. 52-34 with 2 minutes left.

It was a very weak performance but I think it's good to have one of those from time to time. You get the result and learn from it at the same time. I doubt we will as rubbish (or at least I hope so) in our next game

If connacht continue this defence, they'll be looser against Glasgow, Edinburgh, and even Cardiff.That's Terrible. No one was evaluated by this match because Zebre was too weak.

OK....so the following teams I don't think we can catch or pass:

Ulster

Munster

Leinster

Glasgow

Stormers

Sharks

Bulls

Only thing that could let us in is a Bulls or Munster collapse but I don't think either will realistically happen.

That means we're fighting for 8th with Cardiff and Edinburgh. If we win the two games against those two teams that should be enough. Both games at home so team should be really up for them!!

Downside is HC for next years looks very very unlikely :(

Edit: looking more closely I can't see Edinburgh winning too many more and Cardiff could win all their remaining games. Still means we will need to beat both with a few bonus points thrown in along the way..