I hope KK makes them practice restarts all week long.

McKeon is having a great game a #8.

Both teams playing with fantastic line speed and putting the opponents under pressure, but they are occasionally getting it wrong and tries happen when they do.

Rapidly revising my view on what would constitute a good result here...

super try by carty. Great game of rugby

I'm not a big fan of 7 to 8 changes every match.

I think anything over 5 is too much.
Especially with a new coaching set up.
Players need time to adjust to the new systems and then start bringing in the changes.
I would love to know what the players think?

I agree with Masterson form, I did not notice him at all during the Cardiff Game.
Maybe Jake and Bultler would be an ideal against the free flowing Scarletts.

I do feel if Connacht cut out the stupid mistakes we are top 3.
If not it could be the "road to bilbao" take 2 next year again.

Fingers crossed we get a minimum 1 point

I'm not as defeatest tough start to the season but things not as bad as people make out we could have won last weeks game and also the Glasgow but new systems etc it's still a bedding in period tonight could be the night it clicks, against a serious Scarlet team infairness.
In the States anyone got any recommendations of how I can watch or stream the game.

Sad indictment on our current prospects and standing that we're expecting getting a hammering from Scarlets. It's only last season we would entertain thoughts of winning there. We need leaders to step up now and hopefully Tom McCartney, TOH, and Bundee can do that and lead by example. We might be pleasantly surprised and this might be closer than people expect

Me too. Hopefully the hairdryer treatment gives them a little bit of a boost.

Will be watching this one from behind the couch!

pinky wrote: 15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Johnny Mcnicholl, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Scott Williams, 11 Steff Evans

Any there was me hoping they'd go easy on us...

RoofS wrote:

EnricoPalazzo wrote: Anybody know if Rabbits will be showing the match?

As a general rule, if a match is televised, it's safe to assume Rabbitt's will always be showing it.

Proceedings start at 4pm with Cheetahs v Ospreys, then there is a break for Strictly and Mastermind before the main event. Hopefully one of the Mastermind specialist subjects will be the career of Michael Swift.
(And I haven't seen Strictly this season but I assume Rodney Ah You is on it)

www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/wales/2017/09/29

15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Johnny Mcnicholl, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Scott Williams, 11 Steff Evans, 10 Rhys Patchell, 9 Aled Davies, 1 Rob Evans, 2 Ken Owens ©, 3 Werner Kruger, 4 Jake Ball, 5 David Bulbring, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 Will Boyde, 8 Josh Macleod

Replacements; Emyr Phillips, Dylan Evans, Simon Gardiner, Tadhg Beirne, Lewis Rawlins, Jonathan Evans, Paul Asquith, Tom Prydie

www.scarlets.co.uk/eng/games/12166.php

Yikes.

All change again. Mul gets a rest.

www.connachtrugby.ie/mccartney-to-captai...ht-against-scarlets/

EnricoPalazzo wrote: Anybody know if Rabbits will be showing the match?

As a general rule, if a match is televised, it's safe to assume Rabbitt's will always be showing it.

Anybody know if Rabbits will be showing the match?

Bazzo wrote:

wp_rathead wrote: Nigel Owens is the man in the middle for Friday night

Nige tends to give a lot of leeway at the breakdown. Seeing as we've been completely naive to exploiting that recently I could see it having a big effect...

There are a number of things that strike me as issues. The opposing line is constantly on our case. Now either they are constantly offside or our ball movement is so slow that they are killing us. After so many re-enactments I am inclined to believe our ball movement is REALLY and OBVIOUSLY slow. Never mind our one out pass solution. Its largely uninteresting and requires few brain-cells. And achieves nothing. Surely we can be less brain-dead.

I might want Heenan back, but truly I would rather understand why John and Eoin have been so muck all year. John should know better than last week. Is he slowing down so much where he has to grab a guy without the ball.

Like most Connacht supporters I am really feiced off. I watch Finlay, with a lazy outstretched arm around the neck of the opponent that gave away a penalty. Dave Hefff was the only inspiration in the front;ine. Buckley was anonymous bar breaking the line to allow the first Cardiff try. I would not have him near a Connacht starting 15. He is a man unto himself these days.

wp_rathead wrote: Nigel Owens is the man in the middle for Friday night

Nige tends to give a lot of leeway at the breakdown. Seeing as we've been completely naive to exploiting that recently I could see it having a big effect...