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I know!!fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:19 pm FFS Edinburgh; you've let a blimp get a hattrick against you
By birth Leinster; by location Connacht. Gotta support that underdog !Slick wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:23 pmI know!!fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:19 pm FFS Edinburgh; you've let a blimp get a hattrick against you
Who’s your team fishfoodie?
You can't beat quality.fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 9:19 pm FFS Edinburgh; you've let a blimp get a hattrick against you
I'm a real stickler for comedy level release in games I ref and that one wouldn't have passed my metric for "clear release".Slick wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:33 pmYeah, I don’t think he did release, he seems to have hands on him the whole time.Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:26 pm
Whitehouse called "no release"
Boyle had made the tackle, got back to his feet and got his hands on the ball, pulling it over on to his own side. There was clear air, he was supporting his own weight and lifted the ball.
It was a classic 7 turnover
Three points to the home side
I’m not sure I’ve noticed Boyle much before but he’s having a good game
I did notice that he wasn't enforcing any kind of, "Gate", tonight, & Edinburgh realized it.Uncle fester wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:13 pmI'm a real stickler for comedy level release in games I ref and that one wouldn't have passed my metric for "clear release".Slick wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:33 pmYeah, I don’t think he did release, he seems to have hands on him the whole time.Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:26 pm
Whitehouse called "no release"
Boyle had made the tackle, got back to his feet and got his hands on the ball, pulling it over on to his own side. There was clear air, he was supporting his own weight and lifted the ball.
It was a classic 7 turnover
Three points to the home side
I’m not sure I’ve noticed Boyle much before but he’s having a good game
At the end of the day, ref is always right and it's Whitehouse so if only one team is pissed at him, that's an unusually good day.
fishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:26 pmI did notice that he wasn't enforcing any kind of, "Gate", tonight, & Edinburgh realized it.Uncle fester wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:13 pmI'm a real stickler for comedy level release in games I ref and that one wouldn't have passed my metric for "clear release".
At the end of the day, ref is always right and it's Whitehouse so if only one team is pissed at him, that's an unusually good day.
Should make it a little more excitingOomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:53 pm Saffer derbies have only one round to go, so from next weekend this competition will pick up steam again. The travelling also is so much easier compare to Superrugby. Teams only fly out late next week.
Friday, 25 February 2022
* Zebre v Bulls
* Leinster v Lions
Saturday, 26 February 2022
* Connacht v Stormers
* Benetton Rugby v Sharks
Our teams will shoot up that log in the next month or two.Chilli wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:36 amShould make it a little more excitingOomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:53 pm Saffer derbies have only one round to go, so from next weekend this competition will pick up steam again. The travelling also is so much easier compare to Superrugby. Teams only fly out late next week.
Friday, 25 February 2022
* Zebre v Bulls
* Leinster v Lions
Saturday, 26 February 2022
* Connacht v Stormers
* Benetton Rugby v Sharks
The crowds in Ireland should be good.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:47 am Weird to travel just for one weekend. Think the passionate crowds and shite reffing will be our biggest adjustment.
It's a professional sport now. No excuses. We have had a taste of NH reffing. It should have been analysed.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:47 am Weird to travel just for one weekend. Think the passionate crowds and shite reffing will be our biggest adjustment.
You know Gelant will love it. He thrives up north. His future paymasters will be watching him keenly.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:16 am Stormers will struggle against Connact. Dunno if
Libbok will be able to adobt to the conditions.
Connacht destroyed the Bulls 34-7. They had an away win last weekend and lose only Aki . It's now even tougher with the winter weather.Sards wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:52 pmYou know Gelant will love it. He thrives up north. His future paymasters will be watching him keenly.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:16 am Stormers will struggle against Connact. Dunno if
Libbok will be able to adobt to the conditions.
It won't be easy like playing against the Italian teams. [Who also klapped the Bulls]OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:48 amConnacht destroyed the Bulls 34-7. They had an away win last weekend and lose only Aki . It's now even tougher with the winter weather.Sards wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:52 pmYou know Gelant will love it. He thrives up north. His future paymasters will be watching him keenly.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:16 am Stormers will struggle against Connact. Dunno if
Libbok will be able to adobt to the conditions.
Unfortunately we also lose Carty & Hansen this weekend too; & the weather forecast is dry, cloudy, & 30km/hr winds.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:48 amConnacht destroyed the Bulls 34-7. They had an away win last weekend and lose only Aki . It's now even tougher with the winter weather.Sards wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:52 pmYou know Gelant will love it. He thrives up north. His future paymasters will be watching him keenly.OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:16 am Stormers will struggle against Connact. Dunno if
Libbok will be able to adobt to the conditions.
Head coach Andy Friend wants Connacht to be aggressive and physically brave in Saturday’s 1 PM kick-off United Rugby Championship meeting with the Stormers at the Sportsground.
Connacht kept their Champions Cup qualification hopes for next season alive last weekend when they defeated the Scarlets in Wales 29-23.
The Stormers will pose a different challenge, but Friend – citing the 34-7 win over their compatriots, The Bulls, last October as an example that should provide confidence – is confident that his team can win if they stick to their tactical blueprint.
“The blueprint is not too dissimilar to the Bulles,” the Australian said.
“We know we’re up against a very physical side, so we’re going to have to front up physically. We have got to not be afraid to put bodies in front defensively. I think probably more so than against the Bulls, they are full of threats in the backfield, so our kicking game has got to be spot on.
“And then similar when we played the Bulls, I thought we made the most out of all our opportunities. We got into the score zone and we executed, so our ability to look after the ball and to take our chances when opportunities present ourselves; if we can do all that, I think we can put ourselves in a very good position.
“And if we don’t, they have enough firepower to really hurt us, so it will be a good contest.”
After last weekend’s win away to the Scarlets – the first in the league in Connacht’s history – Friend is keen for his team to find consistency and to knit a run of wins together.
“It’s really important(to gain that consistency). That’s the beauty of this competition. Someone asked me the other day if the season looked like it was dwindling out, but it’s not; we still have eight games to go.
“The teams that we’re playing, they’re either ahead of us or around us so there’s still a lot that can happen. The only thing that we can control is what we do on Saturday. It’s really important that we back that up(the Scarlets win) now and really important that we just don’t leave it.
“It was a good performance and a courageous performance, I thought, against a good Scarlets side, but if we leave it there, it won’t have counted for much. We’re very clear in our reckoning that out of the next seven games, we must win five of them.
“We’ll be attempting to win seven of them, so ideally, we’ll target this one on the weekend and see how we go.”
Meanwhile, centre Tom Daly is keen to make up for lost time after his recent injury absences.
The Carlow native returned to action last weekend away to the Scarlets after a number weeks out with injury and contributed an excellent performance, capped by providing two try assists for teammates in the victory in Wales.
And now Daly is looking to contribute as much as he can to the Connacht cause between now and the end of the season.
“Yeah, definitely, it’s always frustrating being injured,” he said.
“I think I have been very lucky since I came to Connacht, I hadn’t had an injury since I’ve been here. I was on a nice roll, but unfortunately, injuries are a part of rugby and you’re always going to pick up one here or there and it was tough missing that block because there was a lot of big games in it.
“Obviously the four European games, you want to be part of them and then the big interpros over Christmas as well, so it wasn’t the nicest block to miss but it’s just good to be back out there now and back winning games as well last weekend, which is good.”
The Stormers are Connacht’s next opponents when they visit the Sportsground and Saturday and Daly is expecting an exciting and physical affair.
The key to any home win, the former Ireland sevens player said, is to front up in the physical stakes and not allow the visitors to release their talented backline.
“I think you can expect from all South African teams that they are going to have a massive pack with big carriers and a really big back-row who are good over the ball and then some really good individuals in the backs.
I know one of their wingers, Seabelo Senatla, he is a former sevens player and I played against him at under ’20s and I remember he was electric back then and he’s the same now. Their whole back three looks very dangerous.
“They are pretty similar to the Bulls team we played earlier in the season. A big heavy pack with good individuals in the backs, so it’s about fronting up physically and meeting them head-on, like we did with the Bulls earlier on in the year and then trying to keep their outside backs quiet by taming their forwards a little bit.”
[/quote]OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:53 am
“They are pretty similar to the Bulls team we played earlier in the season. A big heavy pack with good individuals in the backs, so it’s about fronting up physically and meeting them head-on, like we did with the Bulls earlier on in the year and then trying to keep their outside backs quiet by taming their forwards a little bit.”
InterestingSards wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:23 pmOomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:53 am
“They are pretty similar to the Bulls team we played earlier in the season. A big heavy pack with good individuals in the backs, so it’s about fronting up physically and meeting them head-on, like we did with the Bulls earlier on in the year and then trying to keep their outside backs quiet by taming their forwards a little bit.”
More like, never released,from the squad.