Just shows what this win meant to the players.
Great picture as well.
www.the42.ie/jack-carty-pat-lam-connacht...ick-3145962-Dec2016/

Conn Not 65 wrote: Embarrassing !! Are you for real ! That person beside you could have been anyone of the people beside me .. we are hoarse we screamed then we screamed some more ! I may be that person with the " heehawing " I make no apologies I screamed the same in Coventry I will do the same in Toulose Connacht abu!!

I am for real. I don't understand how people think that's ok. Obviously just my old fashioned view then.

Embarrassing !! Are you for real ! That person beside you could have been anyone of the people beside me .. we are hoarse we screamed then we screamed some more ! I may be that person with the " heehawing " I make no apologies I screamed the same in Coventry I will do the same in Toulose Connacht abu!!

Carty is a wily centre half.
m.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/38305920

eezipc wrote:

Magpie wrote:

eezipc wrote:

Wasrednowgreen wrote: Jack Carty - take a bow son. I doubted you and you rammed it back my throat & I couldn't be more happy. Keep doing it son!!

The crowd did its job and the players feed off that energy...one of the great nights.

My weekend just got better...

It really will go down as one of the great nights in Connacht Rugby, and we have been so lucky the past few years with great nights.
On a negative side, It wasn't a great second half and some of the booing, hehawing and "offside" shouts was a bit embarrassing from the Connacht fans. We are better than that.

However, I agree with what Bundee said to Sky.

Ahh here, get over it, there was very little booing, and Jerome Garces deserved a bit of abuse. As for the hehawing - I hope we never get to a the state were sporting arenas become safe spaces where the thought police ensure nobody says anything offensive to anybody.

Ah here. That's not what I said. There was a guy beside me that was hoarse from shouting offside for everything. Even when Wasps had the ball.Was that you?
And the booing when Niyi clashed heads with the Wasps player. No way that was intentional.
There's no need for that.

at what home ground would you not hear that. It was played up on the big TV screen and it was clear that Wasps player did not use his arms in the initial tackle and then caught Niyi with a late hand around the neck. to be honest I thought the fans were exactly what fans should be. they support their team with a heavy bias. and they had an absolutely rock solid point in the instance you mention. anyway that's just negative stuff.

marmion was absolutely incredible. how does he manage to bring down men twice his size on such a consistent basis. he had a fantastic game. SOB when he came on was simply brilliant. He is such a pain, he won't go away, he is constantly good. Bundee and Rory have formed a very solid centre partnership in a short space of time. Lots of positives. Some missed tackles need to be addressed but that that's for the glass half empty day. Today is glass half full. Lets enjoy it.

Magpie wrote:

eezipc wrote:

Wasrednowgreen wrote: Jack Carty - take a bow son. I doubted you and you rammed it back my throat & I couldn't be more happy. Keep doing it son!!

The crowd did its job and the players feed off that energy...one of the great nights.

My weekend just got better...

It really will go down as one of the great nights in Connacht Rugby, and we have been so lucky the past few years with great nights.
On a negative side, It wasn't a great second half and some of the booing, hehawing and "offside" shouts was a bit embarrassing from the Connacht fans. We are better than that.

However, I agree with what Bundee said to Sky.

Ahh here, get over it, there was very little booing, and Jerome Garces deserved a bit of abuse. As for the hehawing - I hope we never get to a the state were sporting arenas become safe spaces where the thought police ensure nobody says anything offensive to anybody.

Ah here. That's not what I said. There was a guy beside me that was hoarse from shouting offside for everything. Even when Wasps had the ball.Was that you?
And the booing when Niyi clashed heads with the Wasps player. No way that was intentional.
There's no need for that.

When I saw Niyi contesting the ball I thought "game over", than he held on one or two extra seconds against 2 or 3 Wasps forwards, He was considered too light for Pro rugby two years ago, now he winn that kind of turnovers. Deserves all the credit for the equaliser try, thank you to him!

It was such a great night that could so easily have been the exact opposite. Just watching that clock tick down it would have taken an absolute miracle. I normally am reluctant to say anything about a referee but honestly Garces broke my heart and everybody else closeby just groaned as the penalty count mounted against Connacht. What really struck me throughout the game is how slow support was to get to players. We ended up getting constantly turned over. At the end of the day this is a fantastic win. All the fans with smiles on their faces leaving the Sportsground who will be back again. I dread to think how things would be if we lost the game, both for our Cup and Pro12 ambitions. It may not have been pretty but you could see what it meant to the Connacht team coming off that field.

On a technical note would someone ever fix that fecking PA system

Depends on what, if anything Toulouse get against Wasps, ours should have been the easy pool to get a best runners up spot with the 10 pts from Zebre, but with Racing and Sale loosing all their matches so far, and Northampton and Exeter only having 1 win each, 1st and 2nd in the other pools are probably going to be high, I think at least a draw against Toulouse will be needed to get a best runner up spot.

Ideally Wasps and Toulouse draw again, Connacht get 5 pts from Zebre and then beat Toulouse. I think Wasps will top the group though, if Connacht end the pool level on pts with them, Wasps go top because they have the better head to head.

clanman wrote: obviously we go to Toulouse to win but in terms of qualification if Toulouse only win the game against us and don't pick up any TBP's or LBP's in either of their 2 remaining games
and we get the full points against Zebre we go through

think I got that correct.

It depends on the other groups. If Wasps beat Toulouse at home we're basically guaranteed second place(we'd have to lose to Zebre to not get it) but only the 3 best 2nd place teams go through. Usually it's 18 or 19 points to go through, we're on 13 at the minute so if we get 5 against Zebre and even 1 in Toulouse we have a good chance of going through.

obviously we go to Toulouse to win but in terms of qualification if Toulouse only win the game against us and don't pick up any TBP's or LBP's in either of their 2 remaining games
and we get the full points against Zebre we go through

think I got that correct.

Yeah that's legend written tonight
Still think it will be hard to qualify in Toulouse. But it doesn't matter. We wrote history in 2016. We've beaten the 3 Irish provinces, the 3 Welsh, Toulouse, Glasgow twice, won the title, and now one of the best team for years in England.
God I remember the defeat in Cavaliere Prato. We've made a GIANT step, it's cristal clear now.

Wasrednowgreen wrote: ......Let me add that the ref (before he was substituted) had a really poor night

What a pity the sub was Raynaud and not Hodges :evil:

eezipc wrote:

Wasrednowgreen wrote: Jack Carty - take a bow son. I doubted you and you rammed it back my throat & I couldn't be more happy. Keep doing it son!!

The crowd did its job and the players feed off that energy...one of the great nights.

My weekend just got better...

It really will go down as one of the great nights in Connacht Rugby, and we have been so lucky the past few years with great nights.
On a negative side, It wasn't a great second half and some of the booing, hehawing and "offside" shouts was a bit embarrassing from the Connacht fans. We are better than that.

However, I agree with what Bundee said to Sky.

Ahh here, get over it, there was very little booing, and Jerome Garces deserved a bit of abuse. As for the hehawing - I hope we never get to a the state were sporting arenas become safe spaces where the thought police ensure nobody says anything offensive to anybody.

That was something. Managed to make it home before my voice totally gave out. Something else!!

......Let me add that the ref (before he was substituted) had a really poor night