We're unlucky but not decimated

If Lam takes ponderate risks, he should try :

1) Bealham
2) Heffernan
3) Carey
4) Roux
5) SOB
6) Dillane
7) Heenan
8 ) Muldoon
9) Cooney
10) Carty
11) Poolman
12) Robb
13) Aki
14) Niyi
15) TOH

16) Delahunt
17) Loughney
18) O'Donnell
19) Browne/Cannon
20) McKeon/Connolly
21) Marmion/Blade
22) Ronaldson/SOL
23) Kelleher

19/20/21/22 first choice subject to availability, if not, 2nd name indicated

Yeah, risky but could be a real advantage to have straight in
Cooney (speed recycling)
SOB+Browne or Cannon (physicality and lineout issues)
O'Donnell (scrummage)
Poolman (experience and defence in the back-line)
Bealham at emergency LH (Joe trusted him there, Carey can do the job on the other side)

I guess it's not great for Ulster as well, they had a tough game against the Ospreys and have to travel away to Bordeaux for following week.

hopefully they will rest a few players and we can bring in a few players who need the gametime, not optimistic of winning so a good performance and no injuries please.

The squad update didn't mention any players returned to full training and available for selection but it looked like Ronaldson, O'Brien and Cooney are taking some part going
by the inpho pics today

I doubt it's an ACL for Denis - he was putting some weight on it when coming off.
I'm surprised Marmion is in for next week, he looked badly hurt after 5 minutes, I was sure he was doing more damage staying on.

Let's try to be slightly positive. No ACL for now for Denis Buckey, could "just" be blood or water in the knee... And SOB + Cooney + McKeon back on the trainning pics.

Desperate stuff, Denis looked a bit ligament-y walking off the field. Scrum looked really unstable with Loughney and Stevenson in there, obviously there was more than two subs so don't know where the weak spot is but hard to see how we deal with those injuries and deal with Ulster's pack. Ulster tend to rough us up at the best of times, this traditional interpro before the european games really isn't going to help us out at all.

Squad Update ahead of Ulster game
03rd October 2016

Ahead of Friday’s Guinness PRO12 game at home to Ulster, the Connacht Rugby medical team have provided the following update.

Tom McCartney sustained a hamstring injury in the game against Edinburgh and is awaiting the results of a scan to determine the extent of the injury.

Denis Buckley sustained a knee injury in the round 5 fixture and will be further evaluated by the medical team this week.

Matt Healy fractured his hand early in the Edinburgh game and will see a specialist this week to determine the length of his recovery.

All three players are unavailable this weekend.

Chances for each of them for Toulouse?

Hamstring

Westie85 wrote: Denis, Tom McCartney and Matt Healy all ruled out.

What happened Tom?

This is going to be a tough game, Probably a few weeks too early for us. Ulster are on fire so should be a cracker of a game

Denis, Tom McCartney and Matt Healy all ruled out.