Love to see home grown players strutting their stuff. But what I love more is getting all the points out of the game. Connacht has been poor at that in the past. And the way Glasgow dispatched Munster suggests this season has potential

Mark Mostyn wrote:

connachta wrote: Sacriledge, but Paul Boyle looks like a John Muldoon is the making...

He’s a Paul Boyle in the making.

Well I love so much the look of that back-row in the end
Butler "jumping" captain as 6
Boyle taking Muldoon's heritage as 8
Fainga'a showing what a real 7 is : contest every breakdown phase
SOB/Copeland/Gallagher, as good as they are, will struggle to make way. We're a bit lighter for 2nd row, one of them should be trained to cover there...
I feel for Connolly. he's the Murphy/D.Ryan (retired this week btw) of Connacht. As good as he is, he probably won't have minutes.. McKeon will be back in the mix for n°20 too

Sorted. Happy times

Must get the bonus point win. Very important

connachta wrote: Sacriledge, but Paul Boyle looks like a John Muldoon is the making...

He’s a Paul Boyle in the making.

Sacriledge, but Paul Boyle looks like a John Muldoon is the making...

Cheers I put it up on the clan Facebook page

MulMan wrote: There's hardly anybody heading back to the letterfrack area after the game or even clifden that might have two spare seats, thought the game was at 3pm and the last bus back is at 6 to Lettterfrack

Suggest send a message and link of your post (Copy where the post number is on right upper of post) to the Clan Twitter or Facebook accounts, more reach that way....

There's hardly anybody heading back to the letterfrack area after the game or even clifden that might have two spare seats, thought the game was at 3pm and the last bus back is at 6 to Lettterfrack

Agreed. Looking like proper Sportsground weather so just get the job done. Last year we tried to play without matching their fight particularly at the breakdown and ended up looking foolish home and away. Their 7 was motm in Galway, but seems to be still injured after going off for Italy in Dublin last February. I think we have the stronger back row today but everybody needs to be prepared to get stuck in if this is going to be the first win of the season. Need to keep the scoreboard ticking over unlike the second half last week.

connachta wrote: McCabe had nightmares in both friendlies I saw + Glasgw. Good call to have COD

McCabe is injured. Been waiting to see O'Donnell in action for a long time.

McCabe had nightmares in both friendlies I saw + Glasgw. Good call to have COD

Good to see Boyle back in, thought he was excellent last week.
Defence is a worry, last year we didn't seem to be able to tackle, last week I thought our tackling was generally really good then some bad systems failures let us down.

Sol_ie wrote: Inexplicably nervous about this match.

Oh no, wait. we didn't take any points from them last year.

Explicably nervous about this match.

Strong team out, should be a good battle. The lads seem up for it, and I'd imagine a good start will make all the difference.

Lost the last three against them so, with good reason....
We need the win, so stuff the margin. Any scruffy sort of win will do, to get the ball rolling....

Inexplicably nervous about this match.

Oh no, wait. we didn't take any points from them last year.

Explicably nervous about this match.

Strong team out, should be a good battle. The lads seem up for it, and I'd imagine a good start will make all the difference.

Zebre team announced: www.pro14rugby.org/2018/09/07/zebre-rugb...or-trip-to-connacht/

Tight head making his first start. Two other debutants.

15 Edoardo Padovani*
14 Mattia Bellini
13 Giulio Bisegni
12 Nicolas De Battista
11 Giovanbattista Venditti*
10 Carlo Canna
9 Marcello Violi*

8 Renato Giammarioli*
7 Johan Meyer
6 Matu Tevi
5 George Biagi (cap)
4 David Sisi
3 Giosué Zilocchi*
2 Oliviero Fabiani
1 Andrea Lovotti*

Replacements:

16 Massimo Ceciliani*
17 Daniele Rimpelli*
18 Roberto Tenga
19 Apisai Tauyavuca
20 Jimmy Tuivaiti
21 Guglielmo Palazzani
22 Francois Brummer
23 Tommaso Boni*