Try McCarthy!! Zebre defender throws an absolute shocker of a pass from the ground to behind his own line, all McCarthy had to do was fall on it. Horrendous way for Zebre to lose as all the pressure in the last 10 minutes or so has been from them. 17-30, 86 minutes on the TV clock.
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Sin a bhfuil, FT 17-30. Flatters Connacht but fair play to them, an away win and denying the losing bonus isn't a bad result, even if it is against Zebre.
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It was ok. Improved performance in the backs to some degree but scoreline flattered us. Still no structure. Very Mc Gahanball like.Originally Posted by mr chips
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Very very poor. 200% improvement needed from both players and management
Still making silly mistakes time and again, let them back into the game, no clear strategy and we're still mentally weak.
On the plus side, Griffin is on the way back, Johnny O Connor v good as always, Buckley scrummed well, George played ok
Thought it was a decent performance alot silly errors and blatent forward pass for tehir first try was missed by officials. Good to get an away win. Zebre will improve.
I usually see something positive in a connacht performance but that was rubbish. Fair play to Zebre they have a good couple of players. but connacht lost so many unforgiveable turnovers, knock ons and childish mistakes. a lot of work to do
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The only thing to be said is that Connacht won away from home in that lineups second game of the season season against a team everyone thought they would possibly slip up against and in climatically challenging conditions. Anything else is just moaning bull.....
3-0 after 35 to connahct after playing into the wind. Not a game for the purists but our set piece has been rock solid thus far.
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try connacht. bit of magic from griffin
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8-0 half time
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two tries for scarlets. north scored one and made the other. shambolic second half thus far
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Connacht gone to hell in 2nd half so far. 1st half performance was excellent.
Incidentally the Leinster match in Treviso will be available live online on TG4.ie from 6pm
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dreadful capitiluation by Connacht second half with the fecking Wind !!!! Made a decent scarlett team look fantastic. When I see that fat yoke Jonathan Davies score intercept tries it says it all...very naieve play by connacht no real tatictal plan.
Jon Davies is one of the best centres in Europe FFS! Fat yoke he is not!
yes he is a Fat Yoke and No he's not one of the best centres in Europe ... where did you get that daft idea from
You have to remember this poster Hooke is actually George Hook, dont take him seriously no matter how ludicrous the posts get
David Wallace, James Coughlan - Heroes, Jonathan Davies
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Well he plays in the centre for the best team in Europe (Wales) as exhibit 1 and will most likely be a Lions test starter
Very disappointing loss. Blew it completely in first ten mins of second half. Two pathetic tackles by Duffy and then Griffin gifted Scarlets the win.....
No dont buy that. Wales are not best team in Europe (just becasue they won a fairly dire 6 nations 6 months ago), the man is 17 stone his legs rub togather when he runs, he could be a very good 6 I think, but he's nowhere near the best centre in Europe or even Wales. Lets agree to differ and be on our merry way !! My main interest is Connacht not J Davies.
Dreadful. We're going nowhere fellas.
I know Muldoon and Naoupu were big losses. But that was purely mental at times today. I've said it before and I'll say it again we have no commitment in defence. Falling off tackles is an example of that.
I think we made need changes off the field. I still cant figure out our pattern of play.
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Outlaw - you could be talking about 1 of 2 Irish teams here.
Maybe this doesn't belong in this thread but I believe it's relevant to Connachts situation.There are 5 fully professional rugby teams in IRL. 3 of them coached by NZ'ers, 2 by Irishmen.
The teams being coached by NZ'ers are playing at a differn't level, fast, innovative & accurate rugby. The teams coached by Irish lads (the INTL team is the other by the way) could be summed up most days by your remarks above. ' I still cant figure out our pattern of play' is a damning inditement. No one is saying that about Penney's team even after 3 games. Leinster's pattern of play under Schmidt is crystal clear - thanks very much. Ulster have moved up a level it seems from last year. The teams stagnating are IRL & Connacht. What's the difference? Irish coaches (or more accurately non- NZ coaches - Oz coaches being equally as useless as our own).
Just a proposal - let's just flood the place with NZ'ers. For me the level of coaching is so far ahead. Irish players look much much better when they play for NZ'ers. Perhaps the Welsh players would agree (their INTL team is coached by a NZ'er).
Just a thought.
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I agree. Having seen what Penney has done in 2 months we need outside help.. What galls me is we actually have the best set-piece we've ever had.
Yet after 3 rucks consistently we turn the ball over despite the solid platform. That's a team that doesn't know what its doing. We either kick badly or we move the ball so far away from the point of contact that a player is left isolated or the backrowers are all in the middle of the pitch!
And the tackling has been pathetic. I blame Bradley for a lot of that. He brought in a culture of throwing ML games just to perform against parma in the Challenge Cup. Its something we've never gotten rid of in my view.
Once we leak a couple of tries away from home we get spanked. Those defeats have a demoralising impact on the team.
We cant keep piggybacking on the other provinces success to qualify for the HEC every year
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Sadly have to agree that something is not clicking , hope they sort it out because I think Connacht have a decent squad. Duffy was unusually fragile.
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im not sure elwood is without the required talent. he had the ireland u20's seriously well drilled. you do have to look at some of the decision making and execution from some of the players. vainikolo for example, is griffith good enough? duffy is long in the tooth at this stage. Wheres Parks?
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Changes off the pitch are needed I think. The players need a new voice, McFarland and Elwood are on the scene for years
Same old crap, mentally we're nowhere where we need to be. Duffy, Griffin and O'Halloran all fell off simple tackles, inexcusable. Duffy is normally excellent but he has to hold his hand up. Concentration in the 2nd half was gone, simple defensive errors
Elwood seems to bury his head in the sand, saying we deserved a LBP yesterday and played well in Zebre. Who's he codding? We were rubbish against Zebre, rubbish against Cardiff and Priestland missed 12 points with the boot to keep us in the game yesterday.
Our basic skills are so poor, our passing is atrocious. How often do we see a move messed up with a poor pass, players having the check their stride because of a poor pass and losing momentum or knocking the ball on. Just not up to scratch, there's no excuses for it. Lineouts are a disaster
Only positives really was the back row who were excellent. Browne is a cracking player, missed him badly last year, there was a level of aggression from Faloon that I hadn't previously seen and Mckeon showed up very well.
I didn't see a replay, but from the one angle that I saw, it looked as though Duffy blew a try as well - or was Vanikolo's pass to him a poor one?
he blew a try. i was at the game and the result was extremely demoralising. Many of the supporters were saying that they had seen enough and wudnt be wasting their time in the future. The team is really lacking in real leadership on and off the pitch. Young talented players like tiernan o halloran often look lazy on the pitch and get away with it. they play a predominantly kicking game yet select a 10 who isnt a good kicker of the ball and they have a very good pack until they get inside the opposition 22 when they go to pieces. i have never seen a team with such a case of white line fever either. if there is a way to f** it up they always find it. very frustrating.
Anthony Cunningham, Mattie Kenny and Tom Helebert new coaching team
I'd throw money at them
It was O'Halloran's pass not Vainakolo, seems to be that the default setting for some Connacht supporters is to blame Fets and let the local lads away with all manner of dreadful sh*te...
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