Connacht Squad 2016/2017
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Great he is not seriously injured but surely he will be in Irish Camp for the Leinster game?
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TryOfTheRound was a close call as Young_niyisy's try for ConnachtRugby was hailed on social & by WillGreenwood too. Bring on Round 2!
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phatguerilla wrote: Could I be an arse and ask that people say 'renewing' when speaking about a player who is signing a new contract, instead of saying resigning, please?
Pedant alert...
You don't resign from a Rugby career, you retire or are released...
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sea_point wrote:
phatguerilla wrote: Could I be an arse and ask that people say 'renewing' when speaking about a player who is signing a new contract, instead of saying resigning, please?
Pedant alert...
You don't resign from a Rugby career, you retire or are released...
And before you say it PG, I know...!
Deliciously ironic isn't it...
#BadgeOfHonour
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connachta wrote: TryOfTheRound was a close call as Young_niyisy's try for ConnachtRugby was hailed on social & by WillGreenwood too. Bring on Round 2!
Robson's Try for Wasps V Zebre won Try of Round 1...
Rather bitter about that I gotta say ha
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A noter que @Young_niyisy (@connachtrugby) s'est classé N°1 des votes sur l'ensemble des réseaux sociaux de la #ChampionsCup
on ChampionsCup French twitter
Means Niyi was voted n°1 on social media taken together.
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- dobby
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You would expect that there will be a limited amount of players of players travelling to Chicago, 25 maybe 26. As such you would expect the Irish camp prior to the game will not be enormous. So it will be touch and go if Tiernan will be involved in this camp. The camp is likely to be expanded to a larger number for the Canada game (hopefully including Niyi) but I think it possible that Tiernan could be available for the Leinster game if not involved in that smaller camp. That's how I see it!wp_rathead wrote: Great he is not seriously injured but surely he will be in Irish Camp for the Leinster game?
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The whole squad will travel, you can't run meaningful attack or defence drills unopposed. We'll be missing all of TOH, Matt, Niyi, Ultan, Kieran, Quinn and Finlay for Dragons and some or all of them for Leinster, depending on injury, minutes played and whether they're playing against NZ.
The other provinces have dealt with this for years, and I'm delighted we have this "problem" now too. We can't win a trophy every year, so Connacht being a viable pathway to international caps is vital to player signing and retention.
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salmson wrote: The whole squad will travel, you can't run meaningful attack or defence drills unopposed. We'll be missing all of TOH, Matt, Niyi, Ultan, Kieran, Quinn and Finlay for Dragons and some or all of them for Leinster, depending on injury, minutes played and whether they're playing against NZ.
The other provinces have dealt with this for years, and I'm delighted we have this "problem" now too. We can't win a trophy every year, so Connacht being a viable pathway to international caps is vital to player signing and retention.
maybe what you say is true. if true i am unaware of it. connacht don't travel to away matches with their full squad and i'm not sure that ireland don't either. you do your training during the early part of the week and then the 24/25 travel, be it provincial or international. that would be my understanding. i can't see the justification of travelling with players that simply won't be involved?
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This isn't a 6N 90 minute jaunt, I expect it'll be treated like a Super Rugby tour match - travel early with a full squad to acclimatise / get over the jet lag. Way too far to bring last minute replacements so I'd expect a 30 man squad - matchday 23 plus a spare 2, prop, lock, backrow, 9,10, outside back - at a minimum, perhaps the full 34/35 man squad.
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salmson wrote: The whole squad will travel, you can't run meaningful attack or defence drills unopposed. We'll be missing all of TOH, Matt, Niyi, Ultan, Kieran, Quinn and Finlay for Dragons and some or all of them for Leinster, depending on injury, minutes played and whether they're playing against NZ.
The other provinces have dealt with this for years, and I'm delighted we have this "problem" now too. We can't win a trophy every year, so Connacht being a viable pathway to international caps is vital to player signing and retention.
Healy is injured until end of Nov.
Hope Finlay and ONE of Niyi/ToH won't go. Because if they do we will really struggle for 2 weeks in their positions.
For the others I agree we will benefit from caps on the long term
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salmson wrote: This isn't a 6N 90 minute jaunt, I expect it'll be treated like a Super Rugby tour match - travel early with a full squad to acclimatise / get over the jet lag. Way too far to bring last minute replacements so I'd expect a 30 man squad - matchday 23 plus a spare 2, prop, lock, backrow, 9,10, outside back - at a minimum, perhaps the full 34/35 man squad.
I see it exactly as that. It is, as you do not describe, a 90 minute jaunt. It is not a test series where you need a large squad. Am I reading this wrong?
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Naulia Dawai scored 1 try so far in the Semi. 20 to go
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FACECUTTR wrote: Naulia Dawai scored 1 try so far in the Semi. 20 to go
6 mins he scores, played well overall
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How does the Mitre 10 cup work? It looks like there are 8 teams still in it so how is semi-finals?
www.mitre10cup.co.nz/Fixtures
This fella looks like a proper player btw.
Ps Megatron are you the lad that used to chat on totalfpl?
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Mitre Cup works as follows:
2 divisions (Premiership is top one. Otago finished top of the Championship) of 7 teams each, you play everyone else in your division and 4 of the teams in the other division for 10 regular season games over 9 weeks (one midweek fixture). Then it's 1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd in both divisional semis. Worst team in the Premiership division is relegated in favour of the winner of the Championship division.
P.S. I might be wrong here but I thought Megatron was female?
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