Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

Ralston vs Henshaw is key

he's light copared to Robbie, never really convinced me for now but Wilk sees smth in him, potential he has indeed, and he's already a stealmate for opponent in defence..

he may be a bit more naturally skillful too

Ralston reminds me a lot of Fergus McFadden, he's an admirably gutsy, hard working player. Unfortunately, he's not particularly powerful, fast, or elusive, and doesn't have a standout passing game. As a result, I feel like our attack suffers when he's at 13. He is probably the smartest defender in our squad so I don't mind him playing there against the likes of Leinster, where we may be defending more than attacking.

My feeling this season has been that our attacking shape is very simple and relies a lot on individual moments of brilliance from Forde and Farrell; the former running a lot of clever lines against the grain, the latter using his footwork and intelligent offloading game to create space for both himself and others.

Baird is quite mobile too.

Unforgivable to blow that. Messed up a scrum trying to milk a penalty. Got away with it and then threw a crooked lineout that would have sealed a win.

Being a connacht fan would break your heart.

Didn't play well but still should have won, that's a poor side we played (by Leinster standards)

Connacht scored 3 absolutely brilliant tries and still conspired to lose in the end.

both are complete rubbish but whatever

Surely professional paid players can not make same simple mistakes over and over again for years. Years of no progress now. Simply a game we should have won,simple mistakes again.

Over turned peno at end first half was criminal bad. Happened last week with JJ in last min in South africa, simply mistakes to lose enidrough game at end too nd today

The ref was a disgrace try 1 hand bags reversed penalty try 2 not backing up and yellow card I'm so sick of bad referee's I don't give a fk anymore

Agreed ref was v poor. But really can't blame ref when your up by 3 points and win a scrum penalty with 1 min left and still lose

The reversed penalty was 100% the correct call.

How was being at the match change the fact that reversing the penalty was the correct decision.

I think if you pull an opposition player by the scrum cap in a melee you run the risk of being penalised. The fact that Connacht were due to have possession makes it all the worse. Big turning point in the game.

Still don't know how Connacht lost that, the lineout crumbled in the 2nd half (did they throw to Prendergast much? He's normally reliable on 2 ball I'd have thought) and they still had chances at the end to close it out, pity

OK troll not engaging

The yc for connacht quote rte commentators incredibly harsh.

At the match we taught it was a lens yc ffs

You're the one claiming the reversed penalty was incorrect, it's up to you to present a reason why you think the officials got it wrong.

I've told you that the explanation the ref gave matched what we saw on TV and that it was the correct decision

How is that trolling?