Bazzo wrote: 11 runs, 37m made, FIVE! defenders beaten(25% of our incredible but unconverted total of 19), 1 clean break, 4 passes, 1 offload, 9 completed tackles 0 missed. In summary: are you having a laugh? If not maybe YOU should watch it again

EDIT: added some more positive stats...

don't like stats much. I wanted him to play well but not his best game

11 runs, 37m made, FIVE! defenders beaten(25% of our incredible but unconverted total of 19), 1 clean break, 4 passes, 1 offload, 9 completed tackles 0 missed. In summary: are you having a laugh? If not maybe YOU should watch it again

EDIT: added some more positive stats...

Bazzo wrote:

dobby wrote:

Bazzo wrote:

dobby wrote:

Bazzo wrote: Really disappointing from the lads. They needed to be thumping Dragons at home and building up a head of steam going in to the end of the season.

There are such games. TOH MOTM again. Wake up Joe

TOH didn't really deserve MOTM. Man-Of-The-First-15-Minutes maybe. Ronaldson and Farrell were both more deserving throughout the game I'd say.

Bazzo, I was going to bet on a Farrell try. He simply dropped most every ball he was given Not his best day

Wat...

Think you need to look again at that bazzo. I wanted him to have a great game but he didn't this time out

Bazzo wrote:

tlocke wrote: On a different note , who noticed Pat's Claddagh ring during the post match interview .... Nice to see.

He's had that for a good while actually I think.

You would think so, that said i never spotted it before.

dobby wrote:

Bazzo wrote:

dobby wrote:

Bazzo wrote: Really disappointing from the lads. They needed to be thumping Dragons at home and building up a head of steam going in to the end of the season.

There are such games. TOH MOTM again. Wake up Joe

TOH didn't really deserve MOTM. Man-Of-The-First-15-Minutes maybe. Ronaldson and Farrell were both more deserving throughout the game I'd say.

Bazzo, I was going to bet on a Farrell try. He simply dropped most every ball he was given Not his best day

Wat...

connemara man wrote: lineouts poor, breakdown poor, accuracy poor, and a lack of a clinical edge, they seem not to be learning from poor games

not getting bonus points when things are this tight in the table are as bad as losses for me

Story of the season really ...

Bazzo wrote:

dobby wrote:

Bazzo wrote: Really disappointing from the lads. They needed to be thumping Dragons at home and building up a head of steam going in to the end of the season.

There are such games. TOH MOTM again. Wake up Joe

TOH didn't really deserve MOTM. Man-Of-The-First-15-Minutes maybe. Ronaldson and Farrell were both more deserving throughout the game I'd say.

Bazzo, I was going to bet on a Farrell try. He simply dropped most every ball he was given Not his best day

lineouts poor, breakdown poor, accuracy poor, and a lack of a clinical edge, they seem not to be learning from poor games

not getting bonus points when things are this tight in the table are as bad as losses for me

salmson wrote: I hope Connacht have Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith stood at the Sportsground gate with those memory wiping yokes. Dear Lord.

Have to agree with you salmson. That was very very hard to watch. Errors all over the place.

tlocke wrote: On a different note , who noticed Pat's Claddagh ring during the post match interview .... Nice to see.

He's had that for a good while actually I think.

dobby wrote:

Bazzo wrote: Really disappointing from the lads. They needed to be thumping Dragons at home and building up a head of steam going in to the end of the season.

There are such games. TOH MOTM again. Wake up Joe

TOH didn't really deserve MOTM. Man-Of-The-First-15-Minutes maybe. Ronaldson and Farrell were both more deserving throughout the game I'd say.

In the end relieved just to have won. At 14-0 early on and us getting in behind them seemingly at will it looked like a comfortable romp and really it should have been. You've got to be ruthless in these type of games. To go 66/67 minutes without scoring at home to Dragons tells its own story. Lineout became a mess and the rest of the game disintegrated from there. Lots of poor handling errors and the game got bogged down in scrums. Not taking the points at 14-9 was mind boggling really given how we'd been struggling to get any real momentum in the 2nd half. Even with a slight wind the first penalty in particular was kickable.

Very frustrating game and for me given the start we made its a point dropped but it could have been worse. Take the 4 points and try and move forward. 2 games in a row against the Italians we need to keep picking up wins.

For me automatic European qualification is long gone but Cardiff are well within our sights and Glasgow could potentially be reeled in (even if its no real use regarding qualification).

On a different note , who noticed Pat's Claddagh ring during the post match interview .... Nice to see.

Worried for Dillane spot with ireland. The guy need gametime.
Ronaldson/Farrell pairing brillant, the sunlight within the blur of a mitigated night

Damn that was ugly. Rarely you see a game you could have won by 21 or lost by 3 but that was it in a nutshell. So many ballcarriers isolated, so many handling errors. But.....it's a win. It's 4 points. Think new coach announcement is badly needed to focus some minds.

Bazzo wrote: Really disappointing from the lads. They needed to be thumping Dragons at home and building up a head of steam going in to the end of the season.

There are such games. TOH MOTM again. Wake up Joe