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The travelling Clan on their last warm up session in Swansea before the trip to Russia.

wp_rathead wrote:

Magpie wrote: What happened the ref?

Good win, I was confidant of getting something from this game. Make no mistake qbout it, this is a big win for us.

Read somewhere he was ill at halftime

And the next one was smashed by Leader's front-contact, and was there 30 seconds later to award the 2nd Connacht try. Good guy:!

connachta wrote:

Evil_g wrote:

Connacht line-up v Ospreys

15. Tiernan O’Halloran (captain)
14. Darragh Leader Great to have both united
13. Bundee Aki
12. Craig Ronaldson FINALLY!! :woohoo: I have had the intuition of that, can't wait to see the solidest pairing you could imagine
11. Matt Healy
10. Jack Carty
9. Kieran Marmion

1. Denis Buckley
2. Shane Delahunt
3. Rodney Ah You
4. Quinn Roux
5. Aly Muldowney As I predicted
6. Eoin McKeon
7. Nepia Fox-Matamua
8. Eoghan Masterson
I've Dreamt of that trio for a long time too


Replacements:

16. Dave Heffernan
17. Conan O’Donnell
18. Finlay Bealham
19. Ultan Dillane
20. John Muldoon
21. Ian Porter Imporant for kicking game in the end of the game
22. Rory Parata
23. Niyi Adeolokun

Unavailable / Injured: Tom McCartney, Jason Harris-Wright, Ronan Loughney, Nathan White, JP Cooney, Ben Marshall, Jake Heenan, John Cooney, Api Pewhairangi, Robbie Henshaw, Dave McSharry, Shane O’Leary, Conor Finn, Fionn Carr, Danie Poolman.

Probably the XV starters with whom I agree the most since the season has begun. Really hope they'll do well

They indeed did f***ing well. Sooo, Soooo happy. Crucial and impressive win. Rock Solid

Magpie wrote: What happened the ref?

Good win, I was confidant of getting something from this game. Make no mistake qbout it, this is a big win for us.

Read somewhere he was ill at halftime

Huge result. When Dan Baker went in early I was worried but we showed good resilience. 2nd half we looked comfortable until Tipuric came on and started causing problems at the breakdown. Delighted to have seen out the match in a tight finish away from home. Ospreys weren't great and were a bit disjointed but still had plenty of quality on the pitch. Sam Davies didn't really make us pay for our indiscipline. Carty's first couple of misses were worryingly off the mark.

Defensively it was much improved. Lots still to work on, we turned over possession too easily at times but big result and massive step in the right direction. Today was a good example of why we signed Bundee Aki

Straight away now we need to refocus on Edinburgh. After Munster last season we didn't make it count against Edinburgh the following week. Two big weeks before Europe where we need to keep mounting up the points.

Not a perfect performance by any stretch of the imagination but getting a win at Ospreys is not something to be sniffed at so well done to the lads :lol:

Masterson carried well at times and NFM was an absolute nuisance to them at the breakdown (that said if Tupuric came on sooner we may have been in trouble, he was superb) but the undoubted MOM was Senor Aki. When he's in the mood he's dam near un-stopable on both sides of the ball: big tackles, choke tackles, line breaks, stepping and an aggression that more of our players could do with, some game by him :woohoo:

I'm still hot happy with the ref after half time- he was even congratulating the Osprey's players at one point ("well done lads, good clear out"), which could be seen as encouraging the game to flow but I don't remember him doing it to us and as Matty Williams would say "it's a bit ordinary".

Win next weekend and 24 points after 6 games would be some start :silly:

What happened the ref?

Good win, I was confidant of getting something from this game. Make no mistake qbout it, this is a big win for us.

A lot of calls going against us since the Welsh ref came on :whistle:

Edit: and just like that try from a "crossing" penalty against us where the ball handler never went behind the dummy runner

Best tackle of the game so far was by the referee

Not sure about Daragh Leader on the wing. For me its not his position especially from a defensive viewpoint. Big test for Delahunt, carried some good ball in the time he got against Zebre but I'd worry a bit more about the lineout, Andrew Browne suddenly out of the 23 despite a good start to the season?

I think from a defensive viewpoint in a game we will be under pressure the centre positions looks more solid as well as giving us another kicking option. That back row is probably worth a look but would have preferred to see it in the Zebre game, Muldoon was left on for too long in that game.

The main disappointment is that Ronan Loughney misses out along with Tom McCartney, if we had genuine front row replacement options that could be brought on to put the squeeze on Ospreys I'd be a lot more confident about this one.

Connacht traditional never do anything there or ever get anything there. I wouldn't be too hopeful of that record changing unfortunately. Although, I do obviously hope I am wrong.........

Evil_g wrote:

Connacht line-up v Ospreys

15. Tiernan O’Halloran (captain)
14. Darragh Leader Great to have both united
13. Bundee Aki
12. Craig Ronaldson FINALLY!! :woohoo: I have had the intuition of that, can't wait to see the solidest pairing you could imagine
11. Matt Healy
10. Jack Carty
9. Kieran Marmion

1. Denis Buckley
2. Shane Delahunt
3. Rodney Ah You
4. Quinn Roux
5. Aly Muldowney As I predicted
6. Eoin McKeon
7. Nepia Fox-Matamua
8. Eoghan Masterson
I've Dreamt of that trio for a long time too


Replacements:

16. Dave Heffernan
17. Conan O’Donnell
18. Finlay Bealham
19. Ultan Dillane
20. John Muldoon
21. Ian Porter Imporant for kicking game in the end of the game
22. Rory Parata
23. Niyi Adeolokun

Unavailable / Injured: Tom McCartney, Jason Harris-Wright, Ronan Loughney, Nathan White, JP Cooney, Ben Marshall, Jake Heenan, John Cooney, Api Pewhairangi, Robbie Henshaw, Dave McSharry, Shane O’Leary, Conor Finn, Fionn Carr, Danie Poolman.

Probably the XV starters with whom I agree the most since the season has begun. Really hope they'll do well

Is Danie actually injured? No mention of Andrew Browne either. Muldoon was flogged to death last season, at least he'll come off the bench.

That's a long injury list this early in the season...

Connacht line-up v Ospreys

15. Tiernan O’Halloran (captain)
14. Darragh Leader
13. Bundee Aki
12. Craig Ronaldson
11. Matt Healy
10. Jack Carty
9. Kieran Marmion

1. Denis Buckley
2. Shane Delahunt
3. Rodney Ah You
4. Quinn Roux
5. Aly Muldowney
6. Eoin McKeon
7. Nepia Fox-Matamua
8. Eoghan Masterson

Replacements:

16. Dave Heffernan
17. Conan O’Donnell
18. Finlay Bealham
19. Ultan Dillane
20. John Muldoon
21. Ian Porter
22. Rory Parata
23. Niyi Adeolokun

Unavailable / Injured: Tom McCartney, Jason Harris-Wright, Ronan Loughney, Nathan White, JP Cooney, Ben Marshall, Jake Heenan, John Cooney, Api Pewhairangi, Robbie Henshaw, Dave McSharry, Shane O’Leary, Conor Finn, Fionn Carr, Danie Poolman.

They got a decent team together despite all that:


15 Richard Fussell; 14 Tom Grabham; 13 Ben John; 12 Josh Matavesi; 11 Eli Walker; 10 Sam Davies; 9 Brendon Leonard
1 Ryan Bevington; 2 Sam Parry; 3 Dmitri Arhip; 4 Lloyd Ashley (Capt); 5 Rory Thornton; 6 James King; 7 Sam Underhill; 8 Dan Baker

REPLACEMENTS
16 Scott Otten; 17 Paul James; 18 Aaron Jarvis; 19 Rynier Bernardo; 20 Joe Bearman; 21 Justin Tipuric; 22 Tom Habberfield; 23 Dan Evans