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12 years 4 months ago #23073 by connachta
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Folks, just wanna say whatever happen this afternoon, the Sunday match will remain for eternity in Connacht history, and forever one of the best day of my life!!! Connacht Abu!!!
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12 years 4 months ago - 12 years 4 months ago #23003 by connachta
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Here's what I said about crucial defensive line-speed

thescore.thejournal.ie/connacht-toulouse...sis-1214919-Dec2013/
Great article and sequences by Murray Kinsella by the way
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12 years 4 months ago #22995 by connachta
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2 Million French people now know, finally!!, Connacht, even if they still mispronounce!

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12 years 4 months ago #22994 by St Placide
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By way of diversion; TV audiences in France over the weekend, share of total audience in %,

Sat. 7 Dec.
France 2 Rugby HCup : Racing Metro - Harlequins : 1 302 000 10,7% pda
France 4 Rugby Amlin: Grenoble - London Wasps 452 000 ; 1,9% pda

Sun. 8 Dec

Téléfoot: 823 000 ; 22,2% pda
Rugby H Cup : Toulouse - Connacht : 2 096 000 ; 16,5% pda
Canal Football Club (1ere partie) : 1 094 000 ; 5% pda
Canal Football Club (2e partie) : 1 913 000 ; 7,2% pda
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12 years 4 months ago - 12 years 4 months ago #22901 by The IMF
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Thornley says McKeon made 14 tackles in his 33 minutes on the pitch

irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/nothing-to-lose-for-connacht-as-pat-lam-looks-for-a-repeat-performance-against-toulouse-1.1623530

but the espn site has him at 10/2.

espn.co.uk/heineken-cup-2013-14/rugby/match/191665.html'

I was just wondering which stats Thornley is referring to and how reliable are the espn stats? I notice espn have Clarke with no lineout steals but I can remember at least one so I'm not saying espn are gospel.

I noticed the same thing with Muldoon and a lot people were saying he made 21 tackles on Sunday but again espn have him down as 14/2.

Either way is impressive and one thing the stats don't show is the hit he took off Maka to bounce straight up again but i just wanted to get the right stats before I started making my celebratory t-shirt design, if anyone could point me towards some reliable info?
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12 years 4 months ago #22860 by Decadence
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I recommend everyone read Rob's fantastic article:

www.connachtclan.com/news/280-for-days-l...onnacht-match-report

Just watched the whole game again, man, we made life tough for ourselves at times, but what about that defense for the last quarter! If Marmion can't get into the 6N squad something is seriously wrong.
"Our march is quite slow y'know, when we get to where we want to get to, it's going to take time, but when we get there it's going to be fantastic." - Johnny O'Connor 2013
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12 years 4 months ago #22857 by galway_gas
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Nice match analysis from Murray Kinsella in thescore.ie

thescore.thejournal.ie/connacht-toulouse...sis-1214919-Dec2013/

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12 years 4 months ago #22856 by RonanL
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fatgav wrote: Not sure how long it will be available, but the game in full is here.

www.youtubeDOTcom/watch?v=LaupTAgTPGg


I used keepvid.com/ to download the video. Just use the link above, with DOT replaced with a dot! Nice to have. It's not the best quality so if anyone has a better version, feel free to share :-)
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12 years 4 months ago - 12 years 4 months ago #22852 by clanman
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salmson wrote: Think you're being hard on George, Nathan, and Fionn, especially Fionn. And soft on Kearney who was a bit of a penalty machine.


Maybe a bit on Fionn, George should have passed when he was inside the 22 with players out wide at the start of second half, he was subbed off shortly after. Nathan was penalised a couple of times, Kearney did'nt do much wrong, how many penaties did he concede I must have missed that.
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12 years 4 months ago #22850 by salmson
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Think you're being hard on George, Nathan, and Fionn, especially Fionn. And soft on Kearney who was a bit of a penalty machine.

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12 years 4 months ago #22849 by clanman
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So now that a few days have passed I thought it was time to rate the players from 1-10

15. Robbie Henshaw 8
14. Fionn Carr 6
13. Eoin Griffin 7
12. Dave McSharry 7
11. Matt Healy 6
10. Dan Parks 6
9. Kieran Marmion 8
1. Brett Wilkinson 7
2. Sean Henry 7
3. Nathan White 6
4. Mick Kearney 7
5. Craig Clarke (capt) 8
6. John Muldoon 8
7. Jake Heenan 8
8. George Naoupu 6

16. Jason Harris Wright 5
17. Denis Buckley 6
18. Rodney Ah You 5
19. Michael Swift 5
20. Eoin McKeon 5
21. Frank Murphy 5
22. Craig Ronaldson 5
23. Gavin Duffy 5

I gave the subs all the same score except for Buckley who was very busy defensively when he cam on

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12 years 4 months ago #22847 by clanman
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just settling in for an evening listening to a full repeat of Rob Murphys GBFM radio commentary from the weekend

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12 years 4 months ago #22820 by fatgav
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Not sure how long it will be available, but the game in full is here.

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12 years 4 months ago #22816 by Darragh507
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i think a little bit of offside in those last few mins, but most of the game we were spot on....

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12 years 4 months ago #22812 by menacethedenis
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clanman wrote: If we get one of the top referrees for Saturday's game we won't get away so easily.


It's Leighton Hodges so no, we're not getting a top ref. Didn't notice us offside too much I have to say. No more than Toulouse. You often find with poor or inexperienced refs that both teams get away with the same infringements anyway.
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12 years 4 months ago #22807 by Sol_ie
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www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/tearful-a...zie-1.1622380?page=2

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