Harlequins vs Connacht 12/01/13 13:35 SS1 HD

We all know this particular ref is not that good, but yesterday he was OK, now I watched it on Sky and he got most calls right, a few wrong and missed a few things but in the whole it was one of his better games. Two of the yellows came from the touch judge,one was warranted, one could have been let go and that was Reyneeke's but I think they had no choice but to send Marler to the bin, where he should have been in the first half. JOC's was warranted, but watching the Leinster game later, two identical offences were let go without even a penalty and right in front of the ref and touch judge.

What pissed me off no end is the lack of fight, Marler is a prck, and not one of our boys stood up to him and that in my book is not acceptable , at one stage he was choking White from behind that to me is red and a fist full of fives to go with it he got neither. One missed tackle directly after half time when we looked like we wanted to go home yet the game was all to play for, easy try. Loughneys missed tackle on Ego and another try and the last try, you can clearly see a hand under the ball. Quinns are a good team, no mistaken that but we really made a rod for our own back. McSharry passing inside and badly passing inside was just plain stupid and reminded me of the game in Toulouse last year when he butchered a similar opportunity. Lovely preplanned backs move for O Halloran off a line out and not one support runner WTF. If we had the brains that would have been two tries and it would have put Quinns on the back foot.

The penalty try, if you see the camera angles from right above the scrum, you can clearly see Swifty was not supporting Buckley properly and hence why he was been pushed backwards, in the image you can clearly see it was not a tight five. Anyway, we will get a few more of these results before the season is out, Pat Lam cannot come soon enough imho.

The fighting came because your front five kept pushing even when the scrum collapsed leading to a very real danger of very serious injury. I think you would have a go if you felt that there was an attempt to make you a paraplegic!

Quin Kong wrote: The fighting came because your front five kept pushing even when the scrum collapsed leading to a very real danger of very serious injury. I think you would have a go if you felt that there was an attempt to make you a paraplegic!

Marler involved in 6 separate punch ups according to the Telegraph

Keep your own house in order

Quin Kong wrote: The fighting came because your front five kept pushing even when the scrum collapsed leading to a very real danger of very serious injury. I think you would have a go if you felt that there was an attempt to make you a paraplegic!

Simply not true, Marler is a class A prick, he spent 82 minutes running around the paddock looking for fights. He has this idea he is a hard man where he is anything but, and the fact he was involved in six incidents highlights how stupid the boy is. He reminds me of Neil Francis an old Irish second row, another prick who used to spend his 80 mins of match time looking to start something.

Quinns is a great club with great supporters and coaches, and I have watched and followed them right back to eighties and always wished them well as I do this year both in the Aviva and the H Cup but Marler is a different matter. On a separate note how Stuart Lancaster can leave out Nick Easter baffles me, to rub salt into the wound he picks a Kiwi instead. Anyway best of luck in Quarter finals .

I suppose it's too late to convert him to hooker. He deserves most of the credit for our try. He hit 4 from 4 (short, two, two, four I think) in the run-up to it.

Loughney could be a great 2! But yes a few years to late I think.

Didn't see the incident which got him and Reynecke sent off. It wasn't televised. Anyone see it?

connachtexile wrote:

I suppose it's too late to convert him to hooker. He deserves most of the credit for our try. He hit 4 from 4 (short, two, two, four I think) in the run-up to it.

Loughney could be a great 2! But yes a few years to late I think.

Didn't see the incident which got him and Reynecke sent off. It wasn't televised. Anyone see it?

He played hooker when he was younger

A couple of seasons ago we had Cronin on international duty and Flavin injured so Dermot Murphy started a few games and Loughney was back up hooker. This was for 2 games. Lets just say when Loughney came on, everyone was praying the ball wouldn't be kicked into touch. His throwing was disastrous

I also thought it was very odd to see Swifty going up for line outs, I can only assume it was an attempt to catch quins by surprise, which would have been fine for one or two but it happened too often and lost that element.