With the talent out there that is a bad result. I'm sure the flu messed it up but Bedford shouldn't be putting 50 points past us.

that result is a real shame..

50-12. The away results in this competition have been very poor.

36-12, come on, two more tries for BP

28-7 at half time. Try from Brian Murphy.

Bonus Point for Bedford. This is heading towards a Llanelli type hammering. Very disappointing.

21-0. This will probably end our B&I Cup hopes. This could get messy if the lads don't get themselves together.

14-0 now. Not looking good unfortunately.

one penalty missed on each side

Balls 7-0 down after a couple of minutes.

Game kicking off. Bedford Blues twitter will have good updates.

twitter.com/BedfordBluesRFC

Here's hoping for a good start to the day.

Peter Reilly out with flu. Saba meunargia in at Th.

Love this line-up! We finally seem to have gotten over the injury hump at the start of the season and now have close to a full deck to choose from. Parata back from injury and I for one would be very interested in seeing Meunargia on the bench. Apart from Moloney who is off with the U19 it's nearly a full powered Eagles squad.

No POD in the Eagles. So being kept round the Sportsground just in case, let's hope Marmion's going to make it.

Eagles’ team to face Bedford Blues
13th December 2013

While the senior team welcome Stade Toulousain to the Sportsground tomorrow in the Heineken Cup, the Connacht Eagles are traveling to England to play Bedford Blues at Goldington Road in round four of the British & Irish Cup.

Following an impressive 17-8 win over the Blues in the last round, the Eagles lie in second place in pool 3 – one point behind leaders Rotherham Titans.

Coaches Nigel Carolan and Jimmy Duffy have made four changes from last week for tomorrow’s 2pm kick off. Scrum-half Marcus Walsh will start tomorrow in an otherwise unchanged back line.

Up front, Dave Heffernan and Peter Reilly are promoted from the bench to the front row while Aaron Conneely makes a return from injury to take his place in the back row.

Bedford Blues v Connacht Eagles: Kick-off at Goldington Road is at 2pm on Saturday, December 14th.

Connacht Eagles’ lineup v Bedford Blues

15 Shane Layden
14 David Panter
13 Conor Finn
12 Brian Murphy
11 Steve Macauley
10 Jack Carty (captain)
9 Marcus Walsh

1 Finlay Bealham
2 Dave Heffernan
3 Peter Reilly
4 Dave Nolan
5 Danny Qualter
6 Sean O’Brien
7 Aaron Conneely
8 Eoghan Masterson

Replacements (from):

16 James Rael
17 Saba Meunargia
18 Ultane Dillane
19 Conor Kindregan
20 Caolin Blade
21 Tadhg Leader
22 Rory Parata

Yes, so tired since Sunday, wasn't asleep before 3 A.M after this incredible accomplishment :woohoo: