Agree with everything said here. Especially glad for Carty - took a lot of flak all season but came out today and had an absolute stormer.

If we had played like this all season we wouldn't have even had to be in Kingsholm today.

Well done lads ... future looks bright for the Men in Green.

The depression!

Amazing match, we deserved the win but glouster were immense too. Fair play to them, they kept their wits when we were on top.

Huge heart from all the lads. Gutted for them, they really did deserve better.

I just want to say that the positivity and pride shown here over the last few hours is fantastic and is really helping me deal with the disappointment!!

What a performance from the team. Pat will be proud. They were the real winners today regardless of the result. I was so angry/depressed earlier I couldn't post anything!! Next season it is!!

Gutted. No other words. But no prouder CONNACHT man will you find.

Carty was exceptional today. Think all cane agree he didn't have greatest of seasons, but this should be a real boost for him leading into next campaign
Healy, well, he been playing like this all season, but hope he has a great Emerging Tour and gives Joe a headache
Buckley vs Afoa was worth watching alone
Tom, the guy getting getting treatment, seeing we were in trouble and making a tackle - incredible
TOH with a try saving tackle on Johnny May with his face
Robbie looked like he could play another 80- tackled everything that moved and made some great breaks
Aki showed the class we know he has
Aly was, well, Aly. Another guy that been exceptional all term
Masterson been a revelation since he broke into team
Cooney, jaysus, can't believe Leinster let him go!

Young James Connolly, Shane O'Leary, Porter - all stood up to the plate when came on

Poite messed up (horribly) for the penalty with Palmer.
Then the TMO missed obstruction on Browne by 36.
It's a sickner, but unfortunately human error is part of the game (for example, thought Aly was lucky not to get sin binned for blatant knock on when they had a 4 on 1 overlap)

Johnny May's try at the end was smashing.
I was angry earlier. But what a game. And what a season we had. it 24th of May and were within seconds of Champions Cup rugby.

From Exeter Chiefs, you guys did a great shift, and other than a gross miss decision from Pointe, had it wrapped up in normal time !!

Really hope our paths cross again in the not too distant future, Great Club, with Great Fans.

Wild Tooth.

Well fair f@@ks to all the lads, they nearly did it against a very good Glaws side. tHey should have won. We were just out Poited on the day. He really is the Irish version of George Clancy. The match officials and the TMO made some big errors today.
connacht made a fair few but its was unreal how well some played well above themselves.
From Buckley taking on Ofoa to Connolly coming off the bench making a class nuisance of himself.
im totally sick of the result but proud of the performance. Delighted for Carty. Lets hope thats the standard for him from now on.
We showed great heart today and must drive on from here. Lets make hay in the league next year when teams are away with the world cup.
mom was Healy

Great display from Connacht. Did everything right to win the game, they controlled the controllables to win in 80mins, but you can't control brutal refereeing decisions. The fact that he penalised McCartney on half time in extra time for what the Gloucester player did on 78 mins shows the ineptitude of the decision that cost us a chance to play Bordeaux next week.

The players need to hold on to this feeling of injustice and use it to drive themselves on to bigger and better things next season.

Thanks to the players and coaching staff for a great season. Thanks to the rest of the Connacht professional staff for making every trip to the Sportsgound a great occasion this season.

Looking forward to kicking on and becoming a force in Irish and European rugby next season.

Robbed, simple as. But if anybody ever questions why I'm a Connacht supporter they can just watch this game. Gutted put unbowed. Proud to be green.

Magpie wrote: Hard to take, Poite had a good game, but that was a bad decision.

Carty played the game of his life. If we see more of that from him the 10 shirt is his, no questions.

Have been one of Carty's biggest critics but overall had a good game today. I still think we need to recruit an out half and if Carty continues to improves in the meantime fantastic but we can't be relying on a good performance every so often in such a crucial position.

I know it sounds bitter, but connacht were absolutely robbed at the end of normal time, so much so that BT have specifically gone back and pointed it out now. Two decisions at the end of the game have cost us more than any missed tackle or dropped pass that followed in extra time. Laidlaw saying we went to sleep to excuse it just adds to the fury.
Sickened for the lads who put everything into the game today, the skill and quality and work from 1-23, the never give up effort of McCartney coming off the ground to cover, Muldowney and Mul making big carries right into extra time, Buckley putting in work to make an openside proud.

First time poster from Ulster, commiserations guys, I couldn't see it but was following a thread on UAFC.

Sounds you played some good rugby like Mr Poite did you no favours. Sorry you didn't make it but a very good season & more progress. Hope that you build on it next season.

It's been one of those weekends for us both, fortunately Munster scraped through so another game to support.

All the best, sorry for your troubles.

Hard to take, Poite had a good game, but that was a bad decision.

Carty played the game of his life. If we see more of that from him the 10 shirt is his, no questions.

Proud of the lads for all they put into that. Great game. If we had played that well in a few more games of late we'd have probably got 6th but we ended a good season with a top performance. Congrats to Gloucester!

And that's that! Why were we kicking it long when we needed a score I don't know but we were out on our feet.