Connacht vs Glasgow PRO12 Semi Final 6.30 May 21st

We don't have a good record under Marius lately, though I can only recall one controversial game, the TMO-gate loss away to Scarlets in January (which wasn't anything to do with him, Loughs and the TMO will have to square that one away between them).

That's the only league game we had him for this season, last season we had him in the same Scarlets away fixture (loss), the opening day home win over Dragons, and two home losses to Glasgow and Ospreys in the run-in.

Are we expecting the same 23 as the last day then? Or will Ronaldson make the bench?

15 Tiernan O’Halloran
14 Niyi Adeolokun
13 Robbie Henshaw
12 Bundee Aki
11 Matt Healy
10 AJ MacGinty
9 Kieran Marmion

1 Ronan Loughney
2 Tom McCartney
3 Finlay Bealham
4 Ultan Dillane
5 Aly Muldowney
6 Sean O’Brien
7 Jake Heenan
8 John Muldoon (captain)

Replacements:

16 Dave Heffernan
17 JP Cooney
18 Rodney Ah You
19 Quinn Roux
20 Eoin McKeon
21 John Cooney
22 Shane O’Leary
23 Peter Robb

Hi Clan,

Just a quick good luck message for Saturday from an Ulster fan. If any team deserve to get to the final it's Connacht, we don't but I'll take it if make it.

Sincere best wishes for you guys on Saturday.

Baggy

FACECUTTR wrote: Ha ha I'm just gonna blame the flu for that error. I read it on the Ultimate Rugby site. Now it makes sense maybe 18 18 and 14 mins lol. So 50 mins in total. Get your tickets lads I'm here all week......

kermis wrote:

FACECUTTR wrote: Ha ha I'm just gonna blame the flu for that error. I read it on the Ultimate Rugby site. Now it makes sense maybe 18 18 and 14 mins lol. So 50 mins in total. Get your tickets lads I'm here all week......

Max was 14 mins x5 plus 20 in the final over the weekend. I think he started each game but was subbed early 2nd half in each.

Upshot is he's fit and raring to go.

So we keep going with Lough/Bealham, J.P/AhYou sub
OR Bealham/AhYou, Lough/J.P sub?

Loughs or McCartney/Bealham, JP/Ah You subs. If Loughney's got any type of arm, shoulder or rib strain I don't think there will be much benefit in playing him, that whole area obviously comes under a load of pressure in the scrum and his opposing prop would try and target it however he could. I had almost given up on McCartney as a viable prop option before last week but he looked like he would be a serious option for this weekend.

was thinking along same lines, Bealham, Heff, McCartney would give us extra go forward and extra defensive options. only drawback is limits options on the bench. certainly if locks is'nt 100% fit

Marius is one of my favorite refs and doesnt seem to carry the same baggage as some of the other refs, only seen him get a decision completely wrong once and that was down to bad communication with TMO.