Give a review of the game as there's a few guys I'd like to see how they do. Also does anyone about this lad Steve Bruce? No football jokes please.

Again no opportunity to see cooney at LH and coneely at 7( their positions).
Rodney at LH fine but give cooney some opportunity to show his worth in his chosen position. We appear to be accepting now that rodney is a failed Th but cooney was signed on the strength of his performances at LH for garryowen in AIL so why nnot give him every opportunity to make it or is that a privilage that is only afforded to rodney.
Aaron is a 7 according to anyone ive ever spoken to thats followed his career. He has been moved to 8 to accomodate grace and now someone else. I wish butterworth every success but it shouldnt be at expense of coneely.

That said il be at game as buccs underage have a blitz in galwegians that morning. They were huge men last season.

The Replacement Bench is interesting for us:

Danny Kenny [flanker] - He's a UCD Player and one of only three students getting a rugby scholarship at UCD at the moment. He also has a highlight reel up



Eddie Earle- former Ireland Youths player and younger brother of Willie Earle of Lansdowne plays for Galwegians at the mo iirc

Charlie Butterworth [flanker] - was mentioned as a potential target for us and he's in the side so should be worth someone keeping an eye on.

P.S. Would love to see this game. Fifita at six to is heartening. I think we're having a look at a few boys here and depending how they go contracts could be given out.

Connacht Eagles Team to Play Enisey STM:

Connacht Eagles Team v Enisei STM

15. Tiernan O'Halloran
14. Steve Macauley
13. Darragh Leader
12. Conor Finn
11. Matt Healy
10. Jack Carty (captain)
9. Marcus Walsh

1. Rodney Ah'You
2. Dave Heffernan
3. JP Cooney
4. Conor Kindregan
5. Jonathan Gardiner
6. Mata Fi'fita
7. Charlie Butterworth
8. Aaron Conneely

Replacements:

16. Kevin O'Byrne
17. Finlay Bealham
18. Peter Reilly
19. Danny Kenny
20. Eddie Earle
21. Steve Bruce
22. Finn Gormley
23. David Panter

It's on at 3pm on Saturday. Free entry

Should be a good game. Enisey impressed me last year albeit against a lightweight Connacht side.

We might find out at 5.00 on Friday evening what time this is on Saturday?

Enisey STM will face Connacht A 6 april and Munster A 9 april

Enisey squad :

1. Sergei Belenkov
2. Pavel Novikov
3. Anton Rudoy (Kazakhstan)
4. Dmitry Simonov
5. Nikita Medkov
6. Sergey Kuzmenko
7. Denis Simplikevich
8. Alexander Bezverkhov
9. Yuri Baranov (Latvia)
10. Uldis Saulite (Latvia)
11. Sergei Novoselov
12. Nikita Ilyenko
13. Rati Urushadze (Georgia)
14. Igor Kurashov
15. Alex Tolstykh
16. Nicolay Serkov
17. Vitaly Orlov (Ukraine)
18. Vladimir Botvinnikov
19. Ramil Gysin
20. Yaroslav Rechnev
21. Ryan Bambry (New Zealand)
22. Victor Arhip (Moldova)
23. Andrey Temnov
24. Yuri Gostyuzhev
25. Stanislav Bondarev
26. Valery Tsnobiladze
27. Pronenko Eugene
28. Pavel Butenko
29. Alexey Shcherban
30. Innokenty Zykov

Ok, thank you

From the Munster President:

"Over the next few weeks we hope to get a few games for the lads.

We’re going to do a tour to Barcelona on the 9th of February, bringing a Munster Development Squad, including club, sub academy and academy guys playing a one off game against a Barcelona club selection.

Then like last year we’re playing a Russian select side again in April.

These are great games from a development point of view and are hugely beneficial."

croket wrote:

connachtexile wrote: Munster announced there playing a Russian team in April I'm assuming it is Enisey.

Do you know if it will be Munster clubs XV, Munster A. or Munster first team?

It will be a Munster development team and probably similar to the last time Munster played enisey so the munster side will be a mix of AIL players, A players and first team players
4 years ago when munster played enisey in nenagh donnacha ryan, nick williams, james coughlan were starters in the pack
limerickrugby.ie/news-143/Nenagh-the-ven...s-Munster-show-class

They didn't really say I think the term they used was 'Munster Development Team' which probably means a good mixture of A and academy players.

connachtexile wrote: Munster announced there playing a Russian team in April I'm assuming it is Enisey.

Do you know if it will be Munster clubs XV, Munster A. or Munster first team?

Yes, only Enisey go to Ireland from Russia in april.

Munster announced there playing a Russian team in April I'm assuming it is Enisey.

Alexander Pervukhin (President Enisey-STM) of the pre-season preparation for the Russian Cup and PRL


Last year you played in Ireland v. Connacht A and Munster Development XV, 2 years ago you played in Italy against Lazio Roma and L'Aquila. Where Enisey-STM go this year?
Do you think you will play against french sides in a short-term?

AP: For the last ten years we have been trying to choose the best place for training camp basing primarily on the number and level of fixtures. We have been to South Africa, to Romania for several times, two times to Italy, couple of times to France –in Vichy, somewhere near Toulouse and somewhere near by Dack and Lion. Unfortunately, during all our visits to France we did not succeed to find worthy opponents in March-April due to their Championship. Even if we arrived in their breaks though the teams of Federal I, which we had agreed to play with, set out their second squads. Only once we were lucky enough to play with a team which entered Federal I having won Federal II. It was a good match which, by the way, we won.
So, for the last years we have worked out a certain way of training camps holding.
The first camps is usually in Turkey which the terms and conditions for a training camp are perfect, especially first trainings on the field after winter.
Besides we managed to attract there Romanian and for the second time Georgian teams to have mutual sparring. Therefore this year we scheduled early first camp in Turkey – from the 1st till 13th February.
The second camp will be there also from 4/5 till 18/19 March depending upon Romanian and possibly Russian teams. And the last camp is traditionally in Ireland where we have a chance to play three games with good opponents in April just before the start of our domestic season.
We are always ready to come in this timeline and to France as well in order we manage to have games with strong teams. We did not succeed so far…
www.enisei-stm.ru/faq/

"Governer Cup 2013" International rugby tournament in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)
www.therugbyforum.com/forum/showthread.p...rsk-(Siberia-Russia)