Best team performance: Leinster at home. A controversial choice, I know.
Worst team Performace: Toss up between the last game or away to Munster.
Try of the season: Fetu in Treviso. Again, Sol is the Hook of the forum, willing to say things others can't.
Best atmosphere of the season: My heart says Biarritz at home, but I honestly lost my mind coming up to the end, so I'll say a draw between that and Leinster at home.
Worst atmosphere of the season: Don't know. No home games with terrible athmosphere. From a personal point of view, watching the Quins away game at home after having missed my flight ten hours before was a bit of a downer.
Best individual performance: Parks at home Leinster game was stunning, he controlled the whole game, kicking impeccable.
Funniest moment of the season: Either Eddie The Eagle falling over and braining himself on a bench, or hanging out in the Clan Bar with the brass band after Biarritz. Electric.
Team shock of the season: I wasn't expecting the run of good form in away games towards the end of the season. Neither did I expect us to go from the highs of the Leinster game to the low of the rest of the inter-pros.
Individual shock of the season: Stretching 'individual', but the leaps that the younger players (esp. Henshaw, Marmion and Buckley) have made.
Biggest disappointment of the season: Interpros or the away Biarritz game. I had myself convinced we were gonna squeak a win (and might have if the pitch resembled a swimming pool a little less)
Reason to be cheerful for next season: Free pints are back with the ST. Oh, and the new backroom staff, new players, new Rabo, new HC, new B&I cup, new fans, new mates, and the fact that I'll have my ticket before the preseason.

Wilko, JHW, White; Muldowney, Clarke; Browne, Faloon, George Naoupu
Marmion, Parks, McSharry, Poolman, TOH, Sinoti, Henshaw

Henry, Buckley, Loughs, Swifty, McKeon, F Murphy, Ronaldson, Griffin (or F. Carr)

Best team performance: Leinster at home, everything clicked, we were superb
Worst team Performace: Glasgow at home, bitterly disappointing phoned-in performance, the departing lads deserved a better send-off.
Try of the season: Fets Treviso
Best atmosphere of the season: Biarritz at home, electric
Worst atmosphere of the season: Biarritz away, wet, miserable and eerily quiet stadium. The match should never have gone ahead but the lads gave us very little to cheer about. Some craic over there before and after though!
Best individual performance: Parks masterclass v Leinster
Funniest moment of the season: Havin the craic with the Biarritz supporters, a great bunch of lads!
Team shock of the season: Couldn't believe what I was seeing during Leinster at home
Individual shock of the season: Marmion and Henshaws rise to prominence has been astonishing
Biggest disappointment of the season: That Biarritz away game going ahead. Things could have been so different in our group..
Reason to be cheerful for next season: New coach, new players, hopefully continuing the year on year improvement we've seen under Elwood, possibly back in the Heineken cup, there's loads to look forward to! There'll no doubt be disappointing results but I'll bet there'll be some savage ones as well. I can't wait.

I find it intriguing that more people have picked Browne at 6 rather than Muldoon. Could there be a sea-change happening with Muldoon going from 1st team to impact player? Would really like to see Cooney given a shot at the LH side as well.

Best team performance:
One of only 2 home games I missed, vs. Ospreys. They were maybe 3 players short of a first choice 15 (we were missing far more), but we got ahead, weathered the predictable storm, then closed out the match clinically.

Worst team performance:
The other home match I missed, Friday's against Glasgow. In 10 years of a home and away league we've won only 2 of the final day games. The last final day win we had was 2008 and we've been abject in each of the 5 since then.

Try of the season:
Fets away to Treviso.

Best atmosphere of the season:
Biarritz in the HEC, pure magic.

Worst atmosphere of the season:
Cardiff on day one, horrible day, horrible match, bad performance, smallest crowd of the season.

Best individual performance:
Loughs at home to Biarritz. Destroyed 2 quality props then took a double headbutt with an "Is-that-all-you've-got?" look of contempt.

Funniest moment of the season:
The Harlequins locks getting upbraided from the Clan for talking loudly while Parks set up a kick at goal "Keep it down baldy"... "That means you too, beardy"... and pissing themselves laughing (fair dues).

Team shock of the season:
4 away wins and a very creditable draw.

Individual shock of the season:
Kind of cheating to name two players, but Henshaw and Marmion going from school/4th choice to mainstays to verge of the international team.

Biggest disappointment of the season:
Couldn't match the home form to the away form. In particular we lost 3 games to much poorer opposition (Cardiff, Edinburgh, Munster) that we should have won.

Reason to be cheerful for next season:
The foreign contingent for next season - White, Clark, George, Dan, Poolman and Sinoti - is the best we've had.

1st XV 2013/2014: Henshaw, Sinoti, Poolman, McSharry, Carr, Parks, Marmion; Wilko, Harris-Wright, White, Clarke, Muldowney, Browne, Faloon, Naoupu.

To be honest 2/3 of the team (injury permitting) picks itself, the only real areas for debate are 1 and 6 in the pack, and of course 13/14/15 where there are any number of permutations.

I went in anyway and had a very tasty crepe and a glass of Cotes du Rhone at 1am. Kinda like a grown up coffee shop now.

<strong>Individual shock of the season: <strong>Henshaw's breakthrough (and discovering Java's isn't a coffee shop anymore!)</strong>

WHAT???! Jaysus, where will I get my tuna melt fix at 2am now?

Best team performance: Biarritz
Worst team Performace: Glasgow
Try of the season: Fetu'u v Treviso away
Best atmosphere of the season: Quins
Worst atmosphere of the season: Wolfhounds game with the crazy woman
Best individual performance: Parks v Leinster
Funniest moment of the season: Marmion winding up Harinordoquy
Team shock of the season: Eric quitting
Individual shock of the season: Marmion starting every game
Biggest disappointment of the season: 3 nils in the interpros
Reason to be cheerful for next season: How bad can it be?

Added bonus. Presuming there are no more signings, and the Sinoti x2 deal is complete, and everyone is 100% fit, what is your starting 15 for the opening game of next season:

Duffy
Carr
Poolman
Tonetti
Healy
Parks
Marmion
McKeon
Faloon
Muldoon
Swift
Muldowney
White
JHW
Brett

Best team performance: home v Leinster
Worst team Performace: away to Munster
Try of the season: Fets away in Treviso
Best atmosphere of the season: The moment Johnny was replaced in the final game & the 15 minutes after the final whistle. (Of course, that's the only atmosphere of the season I witnessed )
Worst atmosphere of the season: No idea, but I'm guessing Zebre!
Best individual performance: Parks v Leinster
Funniest moment of the season: Elwood masks!
Team shock of the season: The annoucement that Eric was stepping down
Individual shock of the season: Henshaw's breakthrough (and discovering Java's isn't a coffee shop anymore!)
Biggest disappointment of the season: Only getting to one game this year! And not having time to hang out with everyone afterwards.
Reason to be cheerful for next season: Can't wait to see what Pat Lam brings to the table

Added bonus. Presuming there are no more signings, and the Sinoti x2 deal is complete, and everyone is 100% fit, what is your starting 15 for the opening game of next season:

Buckley, JHW, White; Muldowney, Clarke; Mul, Faloon, Big George
Marmion, Parks; Carr, McSharry, Henshaw, Poolman; Duffy

Henry, Wilko, Loughs, Swifty, Browne, F Murphy, Nikora, TOH


I really want to see Henshaw with more time on the ball, which is why I've moved him to 13.

Best team performance- leinster + biarritz at home.
Worst team performance- cardiff and scarlets at home.
Try of season- mcsharry v leinster.
Best atmosphere- leinster at home.
Worst atmosphere- there were a few flat nights.
Best individual performance- parks v leinster. What a debut.
Team shock of season- none really.
Biggest disapointment of season- losing 6 home lge games.
Reason to be hopeful- new signings offer hope for breaking 40 pt ceiling.

1. Buckley. 2. Jhw. 3. White. 4. Clark. 5. Muldowney. 6. Browne. 7. Faloon. 8. George.
9. Marmion. 10. Parks. 11. Sinoti. 12. Mcsharry. 13. Poolman. 14. Carr. 15. Henshaw . If mcsharry, griffin and tonetti continUe to have their injury problems id like to see duffy tried at 12 to see how he does there.

Best team performance: Leinster @ home
Worst team Performace: Toss up between Glasgow (home) or Cardiff (home)
Try of the season: McKeown v Zebre
Best atmosphere of the season: Leinster/Biarritz
Worst atmosphere of the season: Zebre HC
Best individual performance: Murphy v Cardiff away
Funniest moment of the season: can't remember one
Team shock of the season: TBP win against Leinster
Individual shock of the season: Marmion
Biggest disappointment of the season: McCarthy going to Leinster
Reason to be cheerful for next season: brand new slate with some good players coming in

Best team performance: Leinster @ home
Worst team Performace: Toss up between Glasgow (home) or Munster (away)
Try of the season: Vainikolo v Treviso
Best atmosphere of the season: Leinster
Worst atmosphere of the season: Zebre HC
Best individual performance: Parks v Leinster
Funniest moment of the season: Can't remember what it was that caused the bang but loud bang behind one of the Biarritz replacements just after kick off in home game frightening the sh1t out of him
Team shock of the season: TBP win against Leinster
Individual shock of the season: Marmion
Biggest disappointment of the season: McCarthy leaving & Cardiff at home
Reason to be cheerful for next season: Fresh ideas in the coaching department, emerging talent and with Lions tour in the summer a chance to get an early head start.

Buckley
Harris-Wright
White
Clarke
Muldowney
Browne
Faloon
Nauopo

Marmion
Parks
Carr
McSharry
Poolman
Sinoti
Henshaw

ConnachtCows wrote: A bit of fun now that the season is over.

Best team performance: Leinster @ home
Worst team Performace: Cardiff @ home
Try of the season: Vainikolo v Treviso
Best atmosphere of the season: Leinster
Worst atmosphere of the season: Zebre HC
Best individual performance: McKeon v Biarritz away
Funniest moment of the season: Henry the Hoover for Biarritz game
Team shock of the season: TBP win against Leinster
Individual shock of the season: Robbie Henshaw development
Biggest disappointment of the season: McSharry injury after going so well and Elwood resignation
Reason to be cheerful for next season: Very underrated backrow that will catch teams off guard once more bulk is put on in pre-season. New coaching ideas for next year and going by early indicators Lam wants to play an expansive game with young guys. Shane Layden and Tadhg Leader to make the breakthrough

Buckley
JHW
White
Naoupu
Clarke
Browne
Faloon
McKeon
Marmion
Parks
TOH
McSharry
Griffin
Poolman
Henshaw

ConnachtCows wrote: A bit of fun now that the season is over.
Go on, it's a Bank Holiday....


Best team performance: Leinster @ home
Worst team Performace: Leinster @ away (my sons support Leinster)
Try of the season: 4th for bonus point vs Leinster George?
Best atmosphere of the season: Leinster or Biarritz home games
Worst atmosphere of the season: vs Zebre Rabo
Best individual performance: Marmion against Biarritz
Funniest moment of the season: Clan refs: in from the side, he's off his feet and high tackle being the most common
Team shock of the season: 5 tries vs Leinster
Individual shock of the season: Marmion and Henshaw
Biggest disappointment of the season: Muldoon, TOH and Loughney had a poor season
Reason to be cheerful for next season: No disrespect, but a career coach.

Added bonus. Presuming there are no more signings, and the Sinoti x2 deal is complete, and everyone is 100% fit, what is your starting 15 for the opening game of next season:

Best team performance: Leinster in the Sportsground
Worst team Performace: Munster in Cork
Try of the season: Personal favourite was Dave McSharry vs Leinster. Fets in Treviso was great as well
Best atmosphere of the season: Biarritz at home. Just beats Quins away. Away crowd was fantastic in London, but died in the second half when we had little to cheer
Worst atmosphere of the season: Zebre in the HC. I blame the London Hangover
Best individual performance: Parks against Biarritz at home was fantastic
Funniest moment of the season: The Ladies Grand Slam Champions being interviewed before the Ulster game, and having to run out of the way of the lads warm up (Cant remember too many funny moments to be honest)
Team shock of the season: Hammering Leinster at home. The team were fantastic all night
Individual shock of the season: Robbie Henshaw and Kieran Marmion. Didnt expect that.
Biggest disappointment of the season: Losing Macca to Leinster
Reason to be cheerful for next season: Heineken Cup rugby hopefully. We have a proper supporter base now. Lets hope it continues to grow. Lets hope we can push on in the league again. All of the young players pushing on after a full season under their belts

Added bonus. Presuming there are no more signings, and the Sinoti x2 deal is complete, and everyone is 100% fit, what is your starting 15 for the opening game of next season:

Wilkinson
Harris-Wright
White
Swift
Clarke
Browne
Faloon
Nauopo

Marmion
Parks
Carr
McSharry
Poolman
Sinoti
Henshaw

A bit of fun now that the season is over.

Best team performance:
Worst team Performace:
Try of the season:
Best atmosphere of the season:
Worst atmosphere of the season:
Best individual performance:
Funniest moment of the season:
Team shock of the season:
Individual shock of the season:
Biggest disappointment of the season:
Reason to be cheerful for next season:

Added bonus. Presuming there are no more signings, and the Sinoti x2 deal is complete, and everyone is 100% fit, what is your starting 15 for the opening game of next season: