It'll be in Skysports Italia.

Someone might stream it, but unlikely!

Appears the Zebres game is not on SKY

www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12946,00.html

Biarritz had been going well up to now but were very ragged today.

Berquist at 10 isn't great and without Yachvilli and harinorduqoy they're vunerable.

However, one thing we cannot do against them is kick aimlessly with Brew, Ngwenya and Balshaw as the back 3. Garroywens on a wet night in the Sportsground might be a useful tactic though.

Quins brought down to earth a bit. All they want is 100 miles an hour rugby. If we can slow the game down against them and shore up the set piece we have a chance. I also think they could underestimate us again, certainly our backs and I feel we can cause them trouble with a good platform.

Zebre are improving and it's a real banana skin game next week because they will be wired. It will be devastating if we don't beat them though

harlequin lost away to exeter 42-28
biarritz lost at home to toulon 9-36
zebre lost at home to ospreys 16-34

Biarritz beat toulouse 22-17 at home and are now 3 wins from 3.

As i posted elswhere Quins beat Wasps 42-40 in what was officially an away match. Scored some wonderful tries but both defence coaches have tough weeks ahead of them.

dragons (who are not world beaters) destroying zebre 34-6 at half time

rossie wrote: I see on the official Zebre website that they beat northhampton saint in a tournament game in france recently 30-28.

Decent Squad they brought over to Italy too...

www.northamptonsaints.co.uk/rugby/match/6300.php

I see on the official Zebre website that they beat northhampton saint in a tournament game in france recently 30-28.

As long as we don't bring Imanol Harinordoquy's dad along I'm happy.

Funk It wrote:

sea_point wrote:
Our record in France is masked somewhat by the fact that in the Amlin Cup, French teams pretty much run their second string in all the group games, this is because the Amlin sides are usually those teams struggling to avoid relegation from the Top 14..

Not demeaning our efforts, because a lot of these teams have squads of 40 plus and budgets four and five times ours so even their seconds strings should be competitive in principle...

I understand that alright Sea Point, but I do enjoy overlooking that fact and just going for the statistics. The Toulon game will always stand out in my mind when I think of Connacht against French opposition, was one hell of a gutsy performance on College Road that evening.

And one we could and should have won if it wasn't for 2 dropped balls closed to the line! We played some cracking rugby that day.

sea_point wrote:
Our record in France is masked somewhat by the fact that in the Amlin Cup, French teams pretty much run their second string in all the group games, this is because the Amlin sides are usually those teams struggling to avoid relegation from the Top 14..

Not demeaning our efforts, because a lot of these teams have squads of 40 plus and budgets four and five times ours so even their seconds strings should be competitive in principle...

I understand that alright Sea Point, but I do enjoy overlooking that fact and just going for the statistics. The Toulon game will always stand out in my mind when I think of Connacht against French opposition, was one hell of a gutsy performance on College Road that evening.

Funk It wrote: I saw this up on Joe.ie yesterday. They were trying to make out that its great news for Connacht and all. A player of that caliber with a slipped disc isn't good news for anyone being honest, but I would gladly play a side that he is missing from don't get me wrong.

They are going to be big games, I just hope that we can cause an upset against Biarritz, as we failed to keep it close against Toulouse last season (36-10, 24-3) and we always had a good record home and away to French sides in the Amlin, albeit these being the cream of the crop in France it would be a marker for the teams improvement.

Our record in France is masked somewhat by the fact that in the Amlin Cup, French teams pretty much run their second string in all the group games, this is because the Amlin sides are usually those teams struggling to avoid relegation from the Top 14..

Not demeaning our efforts, because a lot of these teams have squads of 40 plus and budgets four and five times ours so even their seconds strings should be competitive in principle...

I saw this up on Joe.ie yesterday. They were trying to make out that its great news for Connacht and all. A player of that caliber with a slipped disc isn't good news for anyone being honest, but I would gladly play a side that he is missing from don't get me wrong.

They are going to be big games, I just hope that we can cause an upset against Biarritz, as we failed to keep it close against Toulouse last season (36-10, 24-3) and we always had a good record home and away to French sides in the Amlin, albeit these being the cream of the crop in France it would be a marker for the teams improvement.

Yachvilli out for 2-3 months with a back injury. He should be back for our double header, which is a pity because without him, Biarritz are a shadow of themselves