Just back in the door from the Sportsground....I dunno what to say with out sounding negative and over critical.. But I just dont see us going anywhere on the field at all...apart from a few of the players.. alot of these lads shouldnt even be Professional Rugby Players. We got into the Heineken Rugby on the back of Leinster winning the Heineken Cup...They asked the fans to come and they came in their droves 3200 in total committed to Season Tickets. 9100 turned up to watch TOULOUSE.... And at this rate people will only be turning up to watch rugby being played by Gloucester and Harlequins cause the draw definately is not Connacht.....If we were not in the Henieken Cup this season would be the worst in along time.

We need better signings next year the sh*t has to get carted out cause we have an awful pile of sh**e there now!


Yes overly critical I know and it pains me to read back over it, but its what every one is thinking and KNOWS...

i think its the first game i seen that only to subs were made. ah you on for locks and swift was forced off. treviso kept it fresh and brought on legs

Unbelievable incompetence cost us that game. Christmas came early for Treviso with the 2 tries they got, the 2nd in particular. Handy first 3 for them as well after we had been on top for the first few minutes. Should have been a handy win Treviso are poor.

We were camped in their half but no quality, no ideas, no game plan, players taking the ball standing still, knock on after knock on (i've lost count of the number of times I've seen Rodney knock on simple passes), terrible scrummaging, lineout falling apart towards the end, unable to take advantage of extra man, the list goes on.

McSharry again showed he should have a bright future ahead of him, O'Halloran battled well, Muldoon showed great leadership but in general we were awful.

The players we brought in aren't up to it but the personnel there were good enough to beat Treviso anyway. The failure is on the side of management both in terms of personnel brought in and our lack of any real game plan. The up and under was our only effective tactic tonight, the rolling maul was used on a couple of occasions but after that we were out of ideas.

Things are not going to get better under the present management and players. Big calls are going to have to be made. As usual the head men in the branch will bury their head in the sand like they did with Bradley. The supporters are no fools and that 3200 base of season ticket holders will disperse down to 500 or less again if this rubbish continues.

Ah man!

Can't believe we've tossed away another 4 points, McSharry should just go back to Leinster now before we all become attached.

There's goin to be loads of EE abuse, but he is one part of why we are shit. they players made so many, often terrible mistakes, we just are not very good. Book stops with the mgr etc, etc, but why should we think that he can achieve great things from a not so impressive group of players.

Not an ounce of bottle it seems within our ranks, players and management alike. Thats at least 6 games we should have closed out

Pull the other one now Elwood. Its not little things that are going wrong. There's fundamental problems and its time they were addressed

Season over. Great fans, shit team. Connacht - BACK DOWN, SINK DOWN! If we can stay ahead of Aironi we'll do well.

we are shite end of story
yet another game we "should have one" turns ass ways.
give me strength

I would have mul at 8 and ray at 7 and leave it there. Let them settle into the role a bit, too much churn in the game might cause issues.

simpleton wrote: 1. We need Gannon to run the line out.
2. We need George and swift for bulk behind loughs and reynecke
3. Ray and mull will alternate at scrum time.

At line out

4 Gannon 5 swift
6 mull 7 ray 8 George

At scrum our ball
4. George 5 swift
6 Gannon 7 ray 8 mull

At scum their ball
4 George 5swift
6 Gannon 7 mull 8 ray

It's not ideal but
Macca is out
Ah you is carrying a knock
McGuire and Rodgers are injured
Joc and Browne are out injured
Tj is dropped but may be injured as well.

I can understand the selection, my only real concern is that Loughney does ok at th

You'd never have Mul at 8 on our Ball, doesn't have the pace or hands. It's be Ray at 8 on our ball and Mul at 8 on theirs if anything (get Ray closer to the scrumhalf).....

Enjoy the match everyone who is going.
Dont even know if I'll get to listen to it

Support the team tonight. Cheer as loud as you can, and I'm sure we'll get the win.
C'mon the Cows - Moooooo

George has to play 8 its that simple

-_- just remembered that the game is tonight. have to get my skates on and run to town to mill street hope for 4points later

Connman wrote: Well I am sensing a smaller than usual crowd for this season tonight...Going on my own tonight, my usual casual fans have all got excuses...I'd say that is being echoed around the province Thats what Poor performances does for ya....

You might be right, I'm going on my own too.

We've had great attendances despite our form veering between sketchy and awful. At the end of the season I'll be very interested to see how Friday games compare to Saturdays for the non-interpro Pro 12 games. Personally I think if we want to appeal to families and the wider province we should be playing all our matches Saturday teatime, except where decreed by TV.

1. We need Gannon to run the line out.
2. We need George and swift for bulk behind loughs and reynecke
3. Ray and mull will alternate at scrum time.

At line out

4 Gannon 5 swift
6 mull 7 ray 8 George

At scrum our ball
4. George 5 swift
6 Gannon 7 ray 8 mull

At scum their ball
4 George 5swift
6 Gannon 7 mull 8 ray

It's not ideal but
Macca is out
Ah you is carrying a knock
McGuire and Rodgers are injured
Joc and Browne are out injured
Tj is dropped but may be injured as well.

I can understand the selection, my only real concern is that Loughney does ok at th

Well I am sensing a smaller than usual crowd for this season tonight...Going on my own tonight, my usual casual fans have all got excuses...I'd say that is being echoed around the province Thats what Poor performances does for ya....