And as Pinky had foretold, so Murray Kinsella said it hath come to pass...

www.the42.ie/bundee-aki-connacht-set-to-...utm_source=shortlink

...Amen.

Bundee wrote: It's been a great ride with my brothers in green

That was a reference to the bus to the airport. It's very scenic and apparently they had great craic.

Bundee wrote: When the times comes to go then you gotta do what you gotta do. But bleed green for my brother forever! On the next job

Turns out the reason he wasn't in the matchday squad was that he really needed the jacks and he wasn't comfortable with the squat type facilities in the stadium so he went back to the hotel for a proper sit-down.
Reasonable explanation for everything. Nothing to see here. Carry on. It's all about the process.

RonanL wrote: Are we going to talk about Bundee's deleted tweets from the weekend? I saw one on boards and a friend showed me another. If anyone has them, maybe they could share on here? Anyway, to paraphrase, one was along the lines of "it was good playing with my brothers in green. On to the next job". Can't remember the wording of the other.

I had seen both. If I'm honest I'm going to put my head in the sand on this one. Bundee has been great for us hope it was a bit of kite flying but I honestly can't see a 300k plus marquee player being in Connacht on our wage limits. i'll have one of three emotions with his contract negotiations 1 he stays brilliant I'll be elated 2 he heads to France England or even NZ I'd be disappointed but I can understand why and good luck etc... 3 and this is in the extremely unlikely scenario is he moves to another provinve in Ireland and I will literally flip a table over in anger

The other was:

"It's been a great ride with my brothers in green"

One you referenced was:

"When the times comes to go then you gotta do what you gotta do. But bleed green for my brother forever! On the next job"

That last one is as he posted it, so any errors not mine.
Realistically I think that means he's gone, once he doesn't move to another province I'll have no problem with that at all. Came in and gave his all, raised standards across the board and completely integrated with the team and community. Also the best players I've ever seen in the green of Connacht and possibly our best ever player?!?
France for the money (and hopefully declaring for Samoa) or back home for that Black jersey, couldn't argue with either.

Edit: don't see any purpose in those tweets other than to announce his intentions; he's in a position where any club team in Europe would start him so he doesn't need to shoot shots across the IRFUs bow to get their notice.

RonanL wrote: Are we going to talk about Bundee's deleted tweets from the weekend? I saw one on boards and a friend showed me another. If anyone has them, maybe they could share on here? Anyway, to paraphrase, one was along the lines of "it was good playing with my brothers in green. On to the next job". Can't remember the wording of the other.

I wasn't going to bother. Those tweets could be filed under "Earls to Saracens" as easily as under "Moore to Wasps" and either way I guess we won't know for sure until the announcement is made.

Are we going to talk about Bundee's deleted tweets from the weekend? I saw one on boards and a friend showed me another. If anyone has them, maybe they could share on here? Anyway, to paraphrase, one was along the lines of "it was good playing with my brothers in green. On to the next job". Can't remember the wording of the other.

if boshoff turns out to be the real deal then we have the talent in every position to challenge. our backline is simply mouth-watering (Kelleher has stepped us up a new gear). then the talent in the pack is immense. Andrew Browne is showing the Aly style already. Lots to look forward to

1st time I tell you this, but agree 100%. Ugly.
Sadly, the reason is even if there's only 3 teams in northern hemisphere playing good rugby as we do, one of them is in our pool : Wasps . (the others are Sarries and Clermont)

after watching Toulon tonight is there any reason why Connacht wont be back in Edinburgh next year?

All actions of Dawai (minutes of the game, not the video)

5 : 05 good rucking
11 : 55 correct tackle
15 : 05 missed tackle
18 : 03 again !
20 : 42 try
23 : 35 magnificent catch-and-pass
26 : 43 act as Scrum-half
33 : 02 tackle
34 : 42 missed tackle
38 :05 good tackle
39 ; 50 tackle
2nd half
40 : 05 tackle
41 : 00 controling the ball behind the maul for 40 sec
44 : 44 choke tackle
51 : 40 can’t control the ball
53 : 23 same
62 : 25 ball carrying

Sub off

EvoGeo wrote: :woohoo:

I was given the nickname Megatron a long time ago, for a good reason... Some here might attest to that....

So no, that lad wasn't me. I don't know what a totalfpl is.

Seriously, there are two people in my dp and one of them is Locks...... :whistle:

:woohoo:

salmson wrote: 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?

You'd be right. Evo run! run for you life!

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?

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?

FACECUTTR wrote: Naulia Dawai scored 1 try so far in the Semi. 20 to go

6 mins he scores, played well overall