a lot of players tonight were embarrassingly bad, I cannot understand how Ronaldson who was having an absolute mare wasn't brought off, his game management was really poor, Thornbury, Farrell, Blade, Griffin, McCartney and Masterson were all very poor also. There was absolutely no cohesion and Zebre were able to predict us and just had to make their tackles as there was no clever lines or support play any time a half break was made, passes thrown to nobody the ball flung away in the tackle when there was no support, a shambolic lineout, a non-existent defensive line and no plan b whatsoever, this is much worse than the sham that happened last time we met Zebre. I'm really, really annoyed at the lack of a performance tonight, I'm not sure why, or what it is within the team, but they can turn up for the bigger games more often than not and at least compete and do the basics well, but the lesser matches which lets face it are our bread and butter we just give rubbish performances, like both Cardiff games and both Zebre games the Dragons game, and even a few wins came with lackluster showings, surely from here the only way can be up, at least we looked better when Muldoon, Roux and Marmion came on.

Inept. Didn’t think they could play as bad as that. Shocking.

Didn’t even have the smarts to go for posts with last penalty. Can not seem them winning another game this year.

This is beyond poor, very poor tackling and the defensive line is all over the place, even when we've had the ball the lines have been poor and the carries have been weak, fair play to Zebre they look an awful lot more organised, which is very worrying. We need to make changes while we're still in it.

Really scrappy first half, the ref is allowing it to turn ugly, but horrid defence by us on multiple occassions, I missed ten minutes or so from the 2nd-11th mins while there was a power outage here, did Parata go off injured for them.
Edit: I see he's still on, I just didn't know if I had heard his name and 22 for them had come on.

Won't be there tonight, but just saw on Twitter that Corinthians inclusion rugby team are playing for the very first time during half time at the Sports ground tonight. Please give them your support.

Parata and Gaffney!

Great to have SOB back and interesting he is at 8.

Connacht team

(15-9) Darragh Leader, Cian Kelleher, Eoin Griffin, Tom Farrell, Matt Healy, Craig Ronaldson, Caolin Blade, (1- Denis Coulson, Tom McCartney, Finlay Bealham, Gavin Thornbury, James Cannon, Eoghan Masterson (Capt), Naulia Dawai, Sean O’Brien.

Replacements (16-23): Dave Heffernan, Peter McCabe, Conor Carey, Quinn Roux, John Muldoon, Kieran Marmion, Jack Carty, Pita Ahki.

Zebre team

15 Ciaran Gaffney
14 Gabriele Di Giulio
13 Giulio Bisegni
12 Faialaga Afamasaga
11 Rory Parata
10 Carlo Canna
9 Guglielmo Palazzani

8 Renato Giammarioli
7 Maxime Mbandà
6 Johan Meyer
5 George Biagi (cap)
4 James Tucker
3 Eduardo Bello
2 Oliviero Fabiani
1 Cruze Ah-Nau

Replacements :

16 Tommaso D’Apice
17 Andrea De Marchi
18 Dario Chistolini
19 David Sisi
20 Derick Minnie
21 Riccardo Raffaele
22 Serafin Bordoli
23 Giovanbattista Venditti

Hi Mulman,

I won't be coming from that direction but I will be travelling back that way after the match. PM me if that is suitable for you.

There's hardly anybody travelling to this from/through Foxford/Swinford/Charlestown direction that would have a spare place, I'll cover fuel.