Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

He's had his best year in a while. Really stood up as a leader again in the past few months.

Rodney parade looks like a fancy sportsground

It looks like a Kip

I love kips

Jesus Bolton is lucky not to be sent off there tbf

Dragons look like they are the ones with the extra man at times

great defence by Porch over the line to stop that

As if Butter gauged him

Pathetic really deserved to lose that

Blessed to come out with the win, had Dragons had numerical parity for the game likely would have been another defeat in an away game Connacht were favourites for.

Bolton looked electric but very fortunate to avoid red. Thought Cathal Forde and Niall Murray had decent games.

Clearly would have been helpful to have Marmion on bench. Couple of uncharacteristic errors from Blade late on when he was likely out on his feet. Whatever impact Marmion being picked ahead of Reilly would have had on the latters confidence, not being brought on at all as a 9 mustn’t help it, if you pick Reilly have to be willing to put him on pitch for last 15 at least.

As a game goes this one hurt a lot. We have been tormented by a crap 9 and 10 for so long. So I get that. But not to replace such muck is simply unforgivable. And that says a lot about the Connacht management team. I simply can't wait for Pete Wilkins. More of the same. It would break your heart

Exactly fair enough your backing Reilly etc but what worse could he have done today, he deserved 10-15 mins there.

Blade had his poorest showing in a long time. That's been our strength for so long when one of the lads was poor the other was normally good to come on and change the game a bit.

There’s a lot of **** this coaching staff that doesn’t seem to have any coherent thought process. Leaving a thirty cap Irish international out of selection because he is leaving at the end of season is nonsense that borders on arrogance.

But putting Reilly on bench and then refusing to use him despite Blade being poor and presumably half fucked for the last 15 given how rarely he plays 80 is some seriously illogical stuff.

Clearly some sort of massive issue with being favourites away too, whether it’s complacency (obviously shouldn’t exist at this stage given history) or dealing with expectations, pretty fortunate to beat Zebre 2nds few weeks ago when their first team hasn’t won a game all season, blessed against 13/14 man Dragons tonight…..

Wilkins getting a three fuckin year deal is the eighth wonder of the world.

There are so many fine players at Connacht. To be continually let down by management choices is soul destroying

How can our management do this to our team. It's a total disgrace. Can't remember the last time I felt so disillusioned

The body language of some of the players was not right. Felt they didn't want to be there for whatever reason