"There's no doubt we need a stadium," said Pat Lam, after witnessing his side's stunning bonus-point victory, hewn despite falling behind by 14-6 with just 25 minutes gone, before scoring 29 unanswered points thereafter to secure Champions Cup football for the first time on their own merits.

"When you're turning away people two weeks in a row you'd easily fill it. But we need a realistic stadium of 10, 12, 15,000 people and it's not a stadium for Connacht Rugby, it's a stadium for Connacht people.

"We're talking about 2020 the Capital of Culture and you can have concerts here, you can do different things and I envision that I said I can see it for the whole community to really get hold of.

"I did a few talks this week in the Latin Quarter to businesses and talked about how everyone's got to help each other, how it's about relationships.

"They wanted to know how could they help us and I said, 'You guys are a reflection of the rugby team. If you're on your own it's a waste, but if the vision is for Connacht and Galway to be massive everyone's got to build relationships and network.' It's just an exciting place to be in."

Right now, Lam is the pied piper of the gloriously, fully awake West. He and his team are leading a revolution; slowly but surely, the rest of the province are following in his wake.

"When you see a crowd like that and the atmosphere but it's not just tonight, you see the Connacht gear everywhere now," he explains.

"On the way to school with my boy yesterday, we must have counted ten to 20 people, of different ages wearing Connacht gear. He told me when he first started going to PE, there were very few.

"It was all Leinster and Munster jerseys. He said, 'Mate, everyone wears Connacht jerseys now.' That's a realisation of where we are and where we can go."

Can we just make Pat dictator for life?

www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/guinness-...vision-34635380.html

I love this:
"Only one team seemed to have faith in their game-plan and each other. It is easy to profess a mentality; executing it separates the magnificent from the mediocre."

or saying 'the cheap seats'

ROG is one of the few Munster with a bit of sensibility.

Think he may become a super coach.

The rest of them are too biased.

eezipc wrote: Foley might be losing the plot a bit. www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2016/0417/782417-foley/

Think the comment 'it was another miserable result for Munster in a season with more ups than downs' might have incorrectly written

Foley might be losing the plot a bit. www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2016/0417/782417-foley/

Sent out a friendly jesting tweet to Trevor hogan and Alan quinlan and offtheball on how munster squandered a lead and then got hammered playing their renowned turgid rugby. I hope to hear them now discuss how munster lost playing ugly. He blocked me the sour puss . It would be nice to see some balance in the media it's crawling with ex munster. Connacht branch should get any of our long term injured onto the airwaves to reach our supporters all over.

eezipc wrote: You will enjoy this.
Also, Gerry Thornley seems to have found a new word. "Dint". WTF is a dint?

www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/pro12/con...ng-fashion-1.2613751

Leave Gerry alone. He got through a whole article without (mis)using the words hence or albeit

eezipc wrote: You will enjoy this.
Also, Gerry Thornley seems to have found a new word. "Dint". WTF is a dint?

www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/pro12/con...ng-fashion-1.2613751

"To impress or drive in forcibly":blink:

You will enjoy this.
Also, Gerry Thornley seems to have found a new word. "Dint". WTF is a dint?

www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/pro12/con...ng-fashion-1.2613751

From Balls.ie
www.balls.ie/rugby/the-8-classic-opinion...cht-rugby-fan/330749

sligsup wrote: Interesting Little piece on Connacht munster combined 15 - get a bit of conversation going.
www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/guinness-...ned-xv-34627064.html

Best part of the article is his agreement that Buckley has been harshly done by Schmidt. Not sure Munster could argue too much about that team and actually a case could be made for an all Connacht second row. Zebo is probably the right choice at FB but TOH is not far off.

eezipc wrote:

sligsup wrote: Interesting Little piece on Connacht munster combined 15 - get a bit of conversation going.
www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/guinness-...ned-xv-34627064.html

1 - 6 is all Connacht bar Ryan. Munster fans cannot be happy with that.

Munster dressing room wall clippings..

Time they re-acquainted themselves with the Chips....:lol:

sligsup wrote: Interesting Little piece on Connacht munster combined 15 - get a bit of conversation going.
www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/guinness-...ned-xv-34627064.html

1 - 6 is all Connacht bar Ryan. Munster fans cannot be happy with that.

sligsup wrote: Interesting Little piece on Connacht munster combined 15 - get a bit of conversation going.
www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/guinness-...ned-xv-34627064.html

Wow what a team, pity they aren't all Irish qualified (or nearly IQ). Oh wait..............

Interesting Little piece on Connacht munster combined 15 - get a bit of conversation going.
www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/guinness-...ned-xv-34627064.html