swift4prez wrote:

theCulk wrote: while it's great craic doing up all the permutations and all that, let's be realistic. It's a mammothh task ahead of us to get anything at Sarries. We don't have a good record travelling to England and I expect it to stay poor.

Not many teams have great record going to toulouse but we all know what happened. Connacht have never been closer to getting into a quarter final off the Heineken cup, if we can't dream this week we never will.
Best thing about this forum is its usually positive, other forums like boards can be dire to read, even today I read "a fan" say that an ail team would beat us.

I don't care what anyone says, I'll be in London, looks like at least 300 will be in section 23 and section 26 so should be good weekend anyways.

Well said Swifty. Hope you have a fantastic weekend.

theCulk wrote: while it's great craic doing up all the permutations and all that, let's be realistic. It's a mammothh task ahead of us to get anything at Sarries. We don't have a good record travelling to England and I expect it to stay poor.

Not many teams have great record going to toulouse but we all know what happened. Connacht have never been closer to getting into a quarter final off the Heineken cup, if we can't dream this week we never will.
Best thing about this forum is its usually positive, other forums like boards can be dire to read, even today I read "a fan" say that an ail team would beat us.

I don't care what anyone says, I'll be in London, looks like at least 300 will be in section 23 and section 26 so should be good weekend anyways.

while it's great craic doing up all the permutations and all that, let's be realistic. It's a mammothh task ahead of us to get anything at Sarries. We don't have a good record travelling to England and I expect it to stay poor.

Team - points	try - points difference
1 Ulster - 22	16 - (+)114

2 Toulon - 20	20 - (+)59
3 Toulouse - 19	15 - (+)70

4 Clermont 19	13 - (+)45
5 Munster 18	13 - (+)52

6 Leinster - 17	11 - (+)53
7 Leicester - 20	15 - (+)50

8 Saracens 15	18 - (+)85
9 Nrthampton - 13	10 - (-)7

10 Cardiff - 13	9 - (-)23
11 Edinburgh 12	10 - (-)5

12 Harlequins 12	9 - (+)21
13 Connacht 13	7 - (+)12

14 Glasgow 10	11 - (-)25
15 Scarlets 10	8 - (-)26

16 Gloucester 9	8 - (-)19
17 Castre 9	5 (-)16

i forgot that Connacht cant climb any higher then 13, because teams 1st and 2nd have to be higher then any team in 3rd, no matter which points. Another example, leicester have 20 points in 7th spot and leinster have 17 points in 6th spot.

**hopefully ive got this right

galway_gas wrote:

swift4prez wrote: Might aswel start one, could be Connacht's biggest win if we win and results go our way.

We beat Saracens = Amlin QF

We beat Saracens and results go our way = Heineken cup QF

we're currently 11th, only 8 go through.
if we beat saracens we go from 13 points to 17 which is max spot we can get. (even 5points wont move us to 7th spot).
Here is where we need luck. basically we need to win, Cardif (vs Exeter) and Northampton (vs Castre) to lose. If we get 4 points we cant let edinburgh get 5 points. doubt that will happen they play Munster in limerick.

7th Leicester 20 points 15 trys
8th Saracens 15 points 18 trys
9th Northampton 13 points 10 trys
10th Cardiff 13 points 9 trys
11th Connacht 13 points 7 trys

if im wrong sorry

edit, had it right first time. rrr

if 2 teams are even on points is it tries scored or points difference that counts?

by looks of it, points first, then trys, then points difference. if its 2 teams from same group, its points then head-to-head, which is why Toulouse was ahead of saracens before todays game. (toulouse won in london).

as connachtcl said, yes quins could sneak up, quins 12 points, 9 trys

swift4prez wrote: Might aswel start one, could be Connacht's biggest win if we win and results go our way.

We beat Saracens = Amlin QF

We beat Saracens and results go our way = Heineken cup QF

we're currently 11th, only 8 go through.
if we beat saracens we go from 13 points to 17 which is max spot we can get. (even 5points wont move us to 7th spot).
Here is where we need luck. basically we need to win, Cardif (vs Exeter) and Northampton (vs Castre) to lose. If we get 4 points we cant let edinburgh get 5 points. doubt that will happen they play Munster in limerick.

7th Leicester 20 points 15 trys
8th Saracens 15 points 18 trys
9th Northampton 13 points 10 trys
10th Cardiff 13 points 9 trys
11th Connacht 13 points 7 trys

if im wrong sorry

edit, had it right first time. rrr

if 2 teams are even on points is it tries scored or points difference that counts?

swift4prez wrote: Might aswel start one, could be Connacht's biggest win if we win and results go our way.

We beat Saracens = Amlin QF

We beat Saracens and results go our way = Heineken cup QF

we're currently 11th, only 8 go through.
if we beat saracens we go from 13 points to 17 which is max spot we can get. (even 5points wont move us to 7th spot).
Here is where we need luck. basically we need to win, Cardif (vs Exeter) and Northampton (vs Castre) to lose. If we get 4 points we cant let edinburgh get 5 points. doubt that will happen they play Munster in limerick.

7th Leicester 20 points 15 trys
8th Saracens 15 points 18 trys
9th Northampton 13 points 10 trys
10th Cardiff 13 points 9 trys
11th Connacht 13 points 7 trys

if im wrong sorry

edit, had it right first time. rrr

We need Quins to not get a BP win against Scarlets as well I think?

We should be pretty safe if we get 4 tries and beat Sarries though. Should be easy enough right? :whistle:

Might aswel start one, could be Connacht's biggest win if we win and results go our way.

We beat Saracens = Amlin QF

We beat Saracens and results go our way = Heineken cup QF

we're currently 11th, only 8 go through.
if we beat saracens we go from 13 points to 17 which is max spot we can get. (even 5points wont move us to 7th spot).
Here is where we need luck. basically we need to win, Cardif (vs Exeter) and Northampton (vs Castre) to lose. If we get 4 points we cant let edinburgh get 5 points. doubt that will happen they play Munster in limerick.

7th Leicester 20 points 15 trys
8th Saracens 15 points 18 trys
9th Northampton 13 points 10 trys
10th Cardiff 13 points 9 trys
11th Connacht 13 points 7 trys

if im wrong sorry

edit, had it right first time. rrr