Doesn't matter who's on the bench to cover Buckley short of injury they ain't gonna get gametime as evidenced by the season so far

Don’t think many of us saw McCabe being ahead of Coulson at this stage of the season.

Absolutely massive Connacht pack, and Connachta gets to see his dream Aki/Akhi centre partnership.

www.connachtrugby.ie/sligo-man-cillian-g...start-against-brive/

Kick-off 8:00pm (Irish Time):
(15-9) Tiernan O’Halloran, Cian Kelleher, Pita Ahki, Bundee Aki, Matt Healy, Jack Carty, Kieran Marmion,

(1- Denis Buckley, Shane Delahunt, Finlay Bealham, Ultan Dillane, Quinn Roux, Cillian Gallagher, Eoghan Masterson, John Muldoon (Capt)

Replacements (16-23): Tom McCartney, Peter McCabe, Conor Carey, James Cannon, James Connolly, James Mitchell, Tom Farrell, Darragh Leader.

Tranier is their TH, sign him ASAP he comes to the Sportsground if Carey leaves!

I saw their whole game and victory against London Scottish on Sunday, Eagles should struggle a lot...

The Eagles are away to Richmond, and have them again in the return in the Sportsgrounds the following week.

He needs a few games under his belt before he gets a run with the first team. After 11 months he will be rusty.
I was going to say he might be bulked up a bit but I dontthinkthat is possible.

Gosh I forgot about the Eagles. Who're the opponents?

They've said Peter Robb is available for selection this week, but he's ineligible for European fixtures as he's not in the 41 man squad, I suppose they must just mean he can play for the Eagles.

Same 4 for the back row as last week: Connolly, Dawai, Masterson, Muldoon. Given that was the weakest line in the team (and there was stiff competition) that's not great.

Prop:
Dominic Robertson McCoy is continuing his rehabilitation from thumb surgery and will be out of action until the end of 2017.
JP Cooney sustained a hamstring injury in a club game last weekend and will be out of action until early 2018.

Lock:
Andrew Browne is continuing his rehabilitation from Achilles surgery and will be out of action until early 2018.

Back Row:
James Connolly played versus Zebre last week in his first game since his ankle injury with no after effects.
Eoin McKeon is continuing his rehabilitation from his hamstring injury versus Cardiff and is planned to return to training next week.
Jake Heenan injured his shoulder versus Cardiff and underwent surgery last week. He will be out of action until April 2018.
Jarrad Butler is continuing his recovery from recent knee surgery and is due to return to training in the coming weeks.
Sean O’Brien is recovering following shoulder surgery and will be out of action until early 2018.

Centre:
Craig Ronaldson (calf) and Peter Robb (hip) have both returned to full training and are available for selection this week.

Back Three:
Stacey Ili (shoulder) has returned to full training and is available for selection this week.
Rory Scholes is continuing his recovery following the removal of his appendix.
Cormac Brennan will return in early 2018 following shoulder surgery

Injury list is shorter for this week

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Farrell needs a rest. That wasn't a punishment at all, on the contrary.
I admit I'd like to see Aki/Ahki too, will be destructive

Thought Farrell was one of the few to come through the Zebre game with any credit at all, would like to see that rewarded with a start and Akhi (who looks like he's carrying some timber to me, looks lighter in the youtube videos) on the bench.

Edit: for me the big one is McCartney in, we need that stability in the pack.

FACECUTTR wrote: 1 Buckley
2 McCartney
3 Bealham
4 Dillane
5 Roux
6 Masterson
7 Connoly
8 Muldoon
9 Marmion
10 Carthy
11 Adeoloukan
12 Farrell
13 Bundee
14 Leader
15 TOH
16 Delahunt
17 Coulson
18 Carey
19 Cannon
20 Dawai
21 Mitchell
22 Crosbie
23 Ahki

Agree to go full-team
Butler straight in if available.
Many can be rested for the much easier returrn game

I'd put Cannon on the bench as you did, and but would probably test the Aki/Ahki pairing, with Farrell 23
(Ahki has been registered for Europe)

Saw this earlier this week, we're very lucky it's televised.

It's one of our key crucial games with Cardiff away, Zebre away and Worcester away