Connacht line-up v Toulouse

15. Robbie Henshaw
14. Fionn Carr
13. Eoin Griffin
12. Dave McSharry
11. Matt Healy
10. Dan Parks
9. Kieran Marmion

1. Brett Wilkinson
2. Jason Harris-Wright
3. Rodney Ah You
4. Mick Kearney
5. Craig Clarke (captain)
6. John Muldoon
7. Jake Heenan
8. Eoin McKeon

Replacements:

16. Sean Henry
17. Denis Buckley
18. Nathan White
19. Andrew Browne
20. George Naoupu
21. Frank Murphy
22. Craig Ronaldson
23. Gavin Duffy

Looking back on the match last night I have to say there's lots of room for improvement for Connacht. We were actually quite poor in places, which is a great moan to have when you come out of Toulouse with a win.

Toulouse will come at us with another level, we need to have one of our own.

Barraque fecked out of the squad completely? I imagine with Beauxis at 10, they'll keep it pretty tight and kick everything. Strong looking team, but we did it away and they're coming to our home now. Win this and a QF is a possibility....

My god, that's a strong looking team - but as menacethedenis said, if we play like we did last week we're more than a match for them.

Strong team but the pressure's all on them to get the win and meet expectations. We have nothing to lose and if we play like we did last week we could be in for a cracker (Weather and flu epidemic permitting)

1 FERREIRA
2 TOLOFUA
3 JOHNSTON
4 MILLO-CHLUSKI
5 MAESTRI
6 NYANGA
7 DUSAUTOIR
8 PICAMOLES

9 DOUSSAIN
10 BEAUXIS
11 MEDARD
12 DAVID
13 FRITZ
14 HUGET
15 POITRENAUD


REPLACEMENTS

RALEPELLE

STEENKAMP

MONTES

TEKORI

GALAN

FICKOU

GEAR

BEZY

I think we might have angered them. That is a strong team

www.stadetoulousain.fr/Connacht_Stade___...ousaine-49-5178.html

Getting very excited about this now lads. Flying home tonight for it. First home game in a while... don't think too much work is going to get done today!

Any more info on the Flu story? The Brother was talking to Mul at the Dail thing on Wed evening. He said that it was working its way through the camp but didn't say much more than that. A bit worrying

COME ON CONNACHT!!!!!!!

Swift4prez, this is your calling.
Could be a cushy job for life in TG4 out of it if you play your cards right.

Beadh tu I bhfad nios fearr na Eoin O Neachtain.

menacethedenis wrote: Hope someone from the Clan can volunteer for this (my Irish is embarrassingly bad). Last year my cousin ended up doing it and he's a Munster fan from Limerick with Connacht sympathies!

Me too. Would do it myself but my Irish is barely passable. If worst comes to worst I know a girl with good Irish and who would consider herself a Connacht fan, but doesn't know much about it really.
Will stick it up on FB too in a bit to see if there is anyone there that can have a lash at it, but would be better if one of the "initiated" were able to take it on.

Hope someone from the Clan can volunteer for this (my Irish is embarrassingly bad). Last year my cousin ended up doing it and he's a Munster fan from Limerick with Connacht sympathies!

IRISH SPEAKERS NEEDED

RTS nuacht and TG4 are looking for a Connacht with good Irish for a very brief interview.
S4P??? You know rugby and being an island man I suspect that you have good Irish?

Lad at work said to me that there was a flu virus sweeping through the team. I was hoping he was just messing with me... Nope.

Any more word on the seriousness of this?

Word on twitter - can't substantiate this - is that one player is in hospital

George was spotted "stocking up on Strepsils, Lemsips and orange juice the last day"

still cannot wait until Sat - gonna be great buzz around town.. anyone know if any Toulouse fans be over the Friday night?