I see it less as an Opportunity for Muldoon than for the electric Marmion, around the fringe !

connachta wrote: Your idea can be good, but half of the forwards on the video were different from those who play against Leinster last week...

true but if you take out the individuals the structures could be wrong, same thing happened against Glasgow this season

rossie wrote: Can anyone tell me if the surcharge still applies to tickets sold on the night?

Yep the surcharge is here to stay. Full ticket price options can be found on the connacht website once you enter the main site.

Your idea can be good, but half of the forwards on the video were different from those who play against Leinster last week...

just to back my point about Cardiff being poor defensively close-in to rucks\breakdown area, watch the 2nd and 3rd try from Exeter.



Both George and Muldoon are good at taking the ball up through this area of the breakdown

Can anyone tell me if the surcharge still applies to tickets sold on the night?

RogueXV wrote: Not prepared to get into the debate about Carty's defending, but as he points out himself, once teams view you as a weakness they will target you. In the Leinster game one thing that won't show up in the stats but will certainly have been seen by future opponents was the way Madigan went through Carty like a swinging gate on what ended up being a disallowed try. Fully agree he is a work in progress and just had a nice little trial by fire against a couple of the best teams in Pro 12. Unfortunately though he needs to come up to speed quickly in order for Connacht to succeed this season.

fully agree.

Its phil :
1)He's aware about his weakness
2) Other teams target him
3) time to muddy the waters with a change for 1 match especially against Cardiff players who love inside running
4) it's not a sanction or an end to his career!! + we're short for 10, we HAVE to test Ronaldson sooner rather than later
5) of course, Lat won't do that, but he should have against Glasgow, and could regret it once more if a try is conceeded in midfield Friday

Not prepared to get into the debate about Carty's defending, but as he points out himself, once teams view you as a weakness they will target you. In the Leinster game one thing that won't show up in the stats but will certainly have been seen by future opponents was the way Madigan went through Carty like a swinging gate on what ended up being a disallowed try. Fully agree he is a work in progress and just had a nice little trial by fire against a couple of the best teams in Pro 12. Unfortunately though he needs to come up to speed quickly in order for Connacht to succeed this season.

connachta wrote: so Jack Carty himself prooves I'm right

www.thescore.ie/jack-carty-connacht-out-...d&utm_medium=twitter

Carty’s attacking skills are in no doubt, but there is the small matter of ensuring his defence is strong too. Opposition teams will invariably target the out-half’s channel, and Carty admits his D was not up to scratch against Leinster two weekends ago.

A lot of playing 10 is having consistency in everything you do. My defence needs to be a bigger onus and to have consistency in that. I suppose if you miss two or three tackles in a game, you’re going to find out the following week because they’re going to throw fellas down your channel.

“Against Glasgow – I maybe fell off one or two easy tackles against Leinster – so I had Jimmy Downey and a few big boys running down my channel. I suppose if you tick your boxes during the week and get those extras done, it’ll pay dividends at the weekend.”

Proves what right though? That the best team in the league (or any team for that matter) are going to target a young 10. It's not exactly revoultionary attack, especially with Downey playing 12, or surprising that a 22 year old will miss tackles. If a 10 misses two/three tackles a game fine, if he makes a step in error in defence then I'll be dissapointed.

so Jack Carty himself prooves I'm right

www.thescore.ie/jack-carty-connacht-out-...d&utm_medium=twitter

Carty’s attacking skills are in no doubt, but there is the small matter of ensuring his defence is strong too. Opposition teams will invariably target the out-half’s channel, and Carty admits his D was not up to scratch against Leinster two weekends ago.

A lot of playing 10 is having consistency in everything you do. My defence needs to be a bigger onus and to have consistency in that. I suppose if you miss two or three tackles in a game, you’re going to find out the following week because they’re going to throw fellas down your channel.

“Against Glasgow – I maybe fell off one or two easy tackles against Leinster – so I had Jimmy Downey and a few big boys running down my channel. I suppose if you tick your boxes during the week and get those extras done, it’ll pay dividends at the weekend.”

Players are sometimes given specific instructions on their roles in games, it's possible Porter was told to protect Carty, especially seeing as Faloon wasn't there to cover like a speedy 7 would normally do, the way he ran out like a headless chicken was unexplicable. Aside from that he had an OK game, Porter I mean.

A new thread for a new game and we're still talking about the Glasgow game.

connachta wrote:

connachta wrote:

salmson wrote:

connachta wrote: Ok, but last year was for improvement and settling, this year is for qualification.. no more unreliable "for now" should be tolerated...

What do you expect from Carty - or Ronaldson for that matter - exactly? Carty had 2 starts last year, hardly much time for improvement/settling. We have to take the rough with the smooth with our young players and trust them to be quick learners as we can't Toulon our way up the league.

I don't expect much, yes Lam made an error last year, the last 3-4 or 5 matches he should have picked Caty/Ronaldson ahead Parks/Nikiora, and yes he should have choosen a 10/15 à la Patchell/Brock James instead of a 13/15 (Muliaina). But past is past...

Carty has done some poor stuff - a blocked clearance against Dragons and missing touch with penalties against Leinster come to mind - but he's done some really good stuff. The decision to grubber rather than drop goal for McSharry's try against Glasgow is one example, his looped double cut-out pass to put Leader over in the same game is another.

I've never discussed his offensive potential

It should be remembered that Ronaldson had only 3 starts at 10 last year and 2 of them (home to Ospreys and away to Glasgow) he had a mare. I'd be very surprised if Carty is dropped this w/e, Ronaldson will have to wait until Treviso or the Challenge Cup to get a start

But in defence I widely prefer a 10/12, if Ronaldson was trusted for centre, he knows how to tackle. Porter made an insane move for the 3rd glasgow try also because he knew Carty wasn't reliable against a full-speed DT Van der Merve. And Cardiff fly-halfs (Patchell or Davies) will use the same sequence, they both love to run inside the defence. That's why i propose Ron ahaed of Carty for this game, with this kind of opposition.

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Look from 39:00 to 39: 45 (youtube time) of the Cardiff vs Glasgow video below, and you'll see what I fear about midfield attacks in the 10 area

Not a great piece of analysis to be honest on what your trying to say. Two Glasgow players leave a gap that any half decent back would get through. It's a fairly embarassing piece of defending with an awful dummy to no where combined with a 3 man defence covering two men (one of whom is flat with Cuthbert). The 10 should be pulling in to double tackle Cuthbert as the guy outside Cuthbert is covered by defender 3. I'd expect any team to defend that easily, just like I would expect any decent first reciever with pace to expose how glaringly obvious the gap is between the defenders..

Also it's pretty disingenous and unfounded speculation to say Porter "knew Carty wasn't reliable against a full speed DT Van der Merwe". Porter clearly had no idea DT was coming and if he did know it was coming why did he overrun a switch he must have seen coming to make that kind of decision? I'd be for blaming our out-of-position 7 McKeon and our sweeper Porter here, with one not breaking quickly enough because they are adding their weight to a scrum that has got the shove on and the other has completley overran where he needs to be. If Porter is trying to make up for some sort of lacking in defence by Carty here than I'd be seriously in favour of giving him the boot because it's criminal that a 9 wouldnt trust his 10 and especially in this scenario where Carty has his man well covered.

Off-topic on : on the blues forum, I saw our ex-player J.Loxton will play with Cardiff RFC this week

the Amorosino signing with "immediate effect" is still too late to use him for Friday, in all likelihood. Relief, as the next opponent will suffer a lot because of "Speedy Gonzalez"

just watched the video of the Cardiff v Glasgow game and it seemed to me that when in a defensive formation Cardiff fan-out their forwards into the Backline leaving them weak close in at the ruck\breakdown area, Glasgow took advantage of this in the 2nd half by attacking them through the center of the breakdown area with forwards taking short passes or picking up and trundling forward.

The only notable casualty arising from the bruising encounter with the Warriors last week was winger Matt Healy who suffered a concussion in the opening half.

That explains why he got subbed off for Carr at halftime, tbf if there's a chance he's not 100% I'd use Niyi and Poolman as my two wingers with maybe Carr on the bench. I can see this being a big tussle for us as Cardiff put it up to Leinster last wknd.