another comment. i believe its from e.r's partner but im not sure

Connacht Team are great warriors, so upset seeing them with no confidence in the field when they are so good ans strong!! ***Sorry for saying this: "WE ALL KNOW WE NEED SOMETHING NEW, and that is a NEW... C**** "

liked by ezra taylor.

need something new, NEW... 5 letter word starting with C.
COME ON LADS.. IS THE SECOND LETTER O THIRD A FOURTH C LAST H

Anyone got any idea what he is talking about? Management structure or what?

i can 100% assure you that this is the real page of our former player.
done research from a relieable sorce

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Ezra Taylor - The players are all good players & can compete at a top level. They are totally capable of winning for their region. There are diseases at bay..........

3 minutes ago

Folks, this was just posted on connachts facebook page, stuck it in here before it gets chopped. This must be our Ezra from last year, if so it makes some interesting reading!

P.S think he means play rather than bay

i would consider today, vs ulster and vs munster a hammering.
from 5 mins today we weren't going to play well same down in limerick.
vs ulster we only had the ball for about 5mins of the whole game, ONCE leaving our own half

The fact that we're not getting hammered means very little to me at this point. That's 12 losses in a row now (or is it 13...I've honestly lost count). I don't care if we lost every one of those games by a single point -- you can learn how to lose just the same as you can learn how to win. We seem to be developing and honing bad habits at an alarming rate.

No need to hand your Season tickets in guys,or do you have short memories ?? we have not been hammered once this season by any of the Rabodirect teams, outplayed sometimes but not hammered. We used to be the whipping boys, that is no longer the case, shipping 30 or 40 points was the norm only a few seasons ago. At least we are in games till the end this season.
Having said that there are a few things that need to be addressed the first being, what the hell do we employ a forwards coach??? as we have no idea how to manage the game up front.
We were attacking under the posts with a veiw to at least get a bonus point, then why oh why did we end up being driven into to touch outside the five metre line? that comes down to one thing and one thing only, bad coaching of the forwards. The same thing happened last week when we narrowlly missed a drop goal to win the game. Why on earth did the forwards not take responsibilty and keep driving forward till we were in a better postion for the drop goal attempt????
Munster would keep the ball until it was a dead cert, even if it went five minutes into over time. It comes down to lack of cofidence in your own abilities,this is a coaching problem !!!!
There are other issues but I can't get up the enthusiasm to post further as I,m not a happy camper, as I say at the bottom of my posts, It's not easy being Green !!!

Oh Lord, turns out I'm one of the lucky ones, was out at another game today and missed this. I really feel sorry for them out there. For years upon years I have always hated the feeling of walking out of the sportsground with a lump in my throat after losing games in the last 10-15 mins (too many examples).

Any other season we would simply write this off as an "away loss", and my god were we used to them. The really sad thing is that we aren't guaranteed heineken cup next year, and by the looks of it we wont get it off our own back, which means an expected drop in season ticket holders. Also, our recruitment is going to have taken a huge hit, going to be very hard to try and get a quality player into this side on current form (ask yourself what would benson stanley say about a move now) while also not being able to offer heineken cup, how many other young players from other provinces would be considering a move west?

I'm sorry if this is a negative post, but thats the way it is. We all know that this team has lots of potential and is trying hard as a team to get some wins, and at least (bar today) we are still keeping competitive (ok, maybe rule out the game in thomand as well). Our next win, whenever it will be, is going to be so sweet, but for all the wrong reasons. We were handed a chance this season, given funding, and greater support showed up. Its tough times like this that highlights true character, and I always say to a team that is down (after a loss, or through missing players) that nobody likes to take on a wounded animal. Putting it in terms of the financial markets, Connacht are looking for their "dead cat bounce"... [and I dont mean the dublin band].

Still standing fully behind this team, it breaks my heart to see them lose, but its euphoric to see them win.

seanin4711 wrote: no season ticket for me next year unless DRASTIC changes happen.

I'd say there are a few thousand who are thinking along the same lines at this point, and I can't blame you. I'm on the fence regarding our two season tickets now myself...

embarrassing!!!
no season ticket for me next year unless DRASTIC changes happen.
I am disgusted by the lack of gameplan by the backroom staff(many who have been there way way too long eg bradley era !)
nuff said!

11 mins leinster up 14-0
shows how far were behind

Absolute farce. Basically the game was over within 20 minutes due to our own ineptitude and indiscipline, some of the stuff that happened out there today was unforgivable.

Aironi are a like us a very poor side, they rely on the mistakes of other teams to keep them in games and we obliged by making it very easy for them, mindless penalties, failing to deal with any up and under kicks, tacklers going missing at vital stages, mistake after mistake on any front foot ball. Must have been a dozen knock ons in the opening stages.

All we had to do in the first half was keep the patience, go through the phases, these lads ship buckets of trys most weeks, carry the ball in their 22 and work an opening but between players going for glory themselves, some dreadful passing, trying to force the issue with passes that aren't on. Also whats with not competing in the lineout in their 22 after Gav had pinned them back, they still made 10-15 metres from the lineout so we weren't organising our defence.

I'm fed up of hearing stuff saying we aren't far away, our squad isn't big enough. Today had nothing to do with budget, squad size, we were an indisciplined joke of a side, who were unable to string a handful of phases together.

There is some good individual players in this side but overall there is no structure, leadership, discipline and no evidence of a game plan.

If Connacht were a proper club there would at least be questions asked at this stage about the setup but as we saw with Michael Bradley he had to step away from the job himself despite 4 and a half seasons of failure before then. There is no accountability within the Connacht setup. There is no goals to be met on the pitch it seems.

This is Elwoods 2nd season and people will say give him time, but he was in the previous failed management team, his recruitment has proven disastrous, our best players from last season would prefer to play against the likes of Esher in front of 50-100 people than stay with Conancht. We are only going further backwards.

Make no mistake about it...I still support this team and will continue to show up at The Sportsground, but it would be nice believing our team had even a glimmer of hope of winning some of these games as we shell out our hard-earned money to show our support.

Someone on the FaceBook site wrote:

Front Up, Rise Up, Throw Up!

Was just thinking...they couldn't have come up with the new slogan -- "FRONT UP RISE UP" -- at a worse time. This was the year they needed to do exactly that to build on the momentum of Leinster's gift of propelling us into the HEC, and they've barely shown an ounce of what that slogan implies.

Shall we bring "Your Province, Your Team" back at this stage?

Oh, and last thing... We never win when we wear white shorts!



(not that we're winning in black ones that much, either...)