Cardiff Blues v Connacht, Friday 13/09/2013 1905

was gonna watch this and have few cans, but are any of ye watching it in town (as in Galway?)

might pop into O'Connells

Healy you beaut. 7-0.

7-0


18-9 zebre are winning vs munster

10-9 just on the last kick of the game. Happy enough all things considered but with 69% possession should be a bigger gap tbh. According to the welsh commentators the artifical pitch takes more energy out of the players so the bench will be crucial. Scrum has done pretty well so far.

Indiscipline and poor decision making is what will lose us this game if we don't win it. Need to show composure in the 2nd half.

best part of the second half is the stadium announcer saying 3 pints for £10

Painful.

Backwards the only way we're going

In fairness defence was emence, hands were appalling but you have to consider the weather.

Why on earth we didn't go to touch on the last pen?????

illplaybymyself wrote: In fairness defence was emence, hands were appalling but you have to consider the weather.

We don't have a leg to stand on after that

That's a shocking Cardiff team. They didnt even have to come out to play. We handed them everything

Taking off our best player Matt Healy? What the fuck

Some lads need to sharpen up lively

our best player was on stand-by, fionn carr, he's fit and in cardiff!! healy yes our best player on the pitch. george had a shocker! rodney, wtf

That second half was horrible, Excuses about penalties can only go so far, even half that number would have been high. Also thought naopu was poor enough tbh. Overall the game plan seemed reasonable, keep it within the forwards, but with that many penalties...ugh. At least I won money on the glasgow game.

Rodney is a catastrophie at scrumtime, but advanced in open play..

we messed up for sure, very few positive but still

1)Marmion and POD (despite of the high tacle) were ok
2) lineout (and JHW) worked well
3) Draw under high balls

The rest was awful

Firstly some Pros:
* Matt Healy finally showing his potential after an injury blighted first season.
* Henshaw at 13 had a great first half didn't see him at all in the second but don't think it was his fault.
* Griffin and Henshaw as a centre partnership worked well together.
* We had parity in the scrum until Ah You came in.

As for the bad stuff well the second half was bad and can someone explain why Ah You is still playing? He can't hack it at this level and is just a penalty machine. 3 penalties and a yellow card? I don't care how many breaks he makes that's no good. Either try him at Hooker or some other position or release him as he can't play prop at this level.