Classic Connacht we played very well the 1st 15 minutes, then unable to manage our weak part conceeding 30 points from 15th to 50th, then back to the business.

But in all honesty I think Pat should have more positive headaches for Cardiff than the reverse
How to include Leader McSharry Finn and Healy whereas Parata and Carr did well? Even without talking about Henshaw for now
Same for Heenan and Fox, Muldowney and Browne/Dillane
Which is very good because we seem to have the depth to play (and win) Challenge Cup with massive rotations without losses in quality

Loughney is the one I'd like to come back to his best soon

Poor first half, some soft Pens given away by players that should know better and some Pens that could easily have gone our way went against us. The soft try after halftime was bizarre, the way it just popped up into Harleys hands was comic book stuff.

Thought the neck roll on Muldoon was a clear yellow esp with regard to the pre season briefing the refs got this year, but then we avoided going to the TMO prior to our last try so I suppose that evened it out (that was a two point decision which could be vital at year end).

Very frustrating game to watch. I thought Nepia-fox Matamua had a blinder,lots of tackles a turnover or two and a try, he could be a real gem.

I thought we played too much rugby in our own 22, and seemed to go wide too quickly too often with little or no gain in ground after 4 or 5 passes.

Onwards and upwards hopefully !!

Phew!

Strange, strange game. Still trying to get my head round it all. Still. Over the piece, happy to get away with four points. Massive thumbs up to your guys for turning the game on it head, with a little help from both the ref (he was mostly ours in first half) and our young lads inexperience against a committed pack. If you play like that in the second half for the full game you will be up there at end of season knocking on the door for play offs.

Many thanks to your travelling Clan, Ciaran, Padraig etc. Pennant will be up in Waxys shortly. Even made it on to the telly. Hope they all had a great time and safe travel back guys. See you in May.

salmson wrote: Bottom line, that Glasgow second string was, with the dishonourable exception of Zebroni, the worst 23 we will face in the league this year. And not only did we lose, we gifted them a bonus point.

i think there will be worse second strings we will face over the next 8 weeks, i thought overall they had a good structure to their game up until midway through the second half. our own second string seems to be maturing which is a good sign for the future. Marmion seems to have rediscovered his spark, carty had another solid game but probably should have kicked a bit more in the first half. looking forward now to the revenge match against Cardiff in 3 weeks time

Cheers Kermis- little hint: until your internationals come back don't take off Fusaro, you were dominating the breakdown until he went off.

Chapeau to Connacht.

In that first 41 mins we got enough luck and decisions in our favour from the referee to last an entire season! Fair play to Connacht for turning things around, actually playing nice offloading attacking rugby and in the end very unlucky not to sneak the win.

Good luck for the rest of the season.

pinky wrote:
We actually didn't. It was 3 converted tries and four penalties.

That's right - they kicked instead of going for the jugular on 68 minutes. Feels like a 5 pointer though.

salmson wrote: Bottom line, that Glasgow second string was, with the dishonourable exception of Zebroni, the worst 23 we will face in the league this year. And not only did we lose, we gifted them a bonus point.

We actually didn't. It was 3 converted tries and four penalties.
At least we get to sleep at the top of the table. It will help us acclimatise in case we need to spend much time in the top half.

Bottom line, that Glasgow second string was, with the dishonourable exception of Zebroni, the worst 23 we will face in the league this year. And not only did we lose, we gifted them a bonus point.

Parata was very good as was Masterson.

TOH good too, Roux Carr and Fox ok

connachta wrote: Feel this one very badly, Glasgow will have a revange in front of their fans to take

After 50 min, 30-6 down I was So So right
But then, we showed character, and even if our defence wasn't good enough, with tacklers melting down in front of any hot attack, 2 points is smth I'd take happily enough from the Scotsound

Dam :pinch:

Ref gave them the first half and us the second. Pity we couldn't have asserted our scrum dominance sooner. Paratta was very good as was Masterson.

3 points lost unfortunately :blush: That Glasgow team is poor and we let them away with it.

Would you be happy to take 2 points from a game away to Glasgow with a halftime score of 23-6? You bet! Oh, but it could have been 5.

After Glasgow's 3rd try much better. We dug our own grave in the first 45 or so. Would have been happy to take 2 points before the game but despite the comeback feels like 2/3 dropped to be honest.

I was a fan of Cooney last season but wasn't at the races tonight. Marmion definitely has nailed down scrum half for the near future on tonight.

2nd half we showed what we can do but lads would want to take a good look at themselves after that opening half effort.

There's not enough beer in the house to make up for that ending. Marmion was great when he came on, parata looked really handy all game, lbp and try bonus point in Glasgow I would have taken that at the start but after that scrum dominance and last 20 minutes it somehow feels like we shortchanged ourselves a bit.

Ah feck.
I can never remember being so confident at 17 points down ...