Congratulations to our friend Mike Forshaw who has today announced that he will join Sale Sharks as Defense Coach. All the best Mike!

good luck Mike

Decadence wrote: Fetu'u to Exeter confirmed

www1.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/1908...ht-for-Exeter-Chiefs

Fixed link for you

Fetu'u to Exeter confirmed

www1.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/1908...ht-for-Exeter-Chiefs

swift4prez wrote: just had a look at sinoti's twitter there, this picture made me laugh. hope the boys see it and have the banter with sinoti when he comes here

**could sea_point or one of the lads fix this so the picture shows up in the post?! cheers

Tried but could only get the link working


zebra's out to get Connacht players and ref

sea_point wrote:

ummm, wrote: <strong>I think it's more of a case that it's up to the teams that are signing our players to make the annoucements, not us. In the case of players retiring we've already had the annoucements.</strong>

If I'm right then I think that would be fair. We always like to hear about who we've signed and lets be honest, we've heard about Sinoti but we're still all very cagey about it and it will take an annoucement from Sears & Co before we really believe it.

Also, you never know when things might not work out. We'd look silly if we annouced Fets was leaving only for his transfer to fall apart at the last minute. Best to wait until the other team has made it official.

Not really, if they're out of contract and no longer Connacht Players then why not be up front about it. Sure it's good PR for the players if the media pick up the story in case there are any clubs that are not aware that they are on the market...

With Fet's, pretty clear from his tweets that he want's to stay but is being released. The only thing that might have changed that was one of our prospective signings dropping out at the last minute or Fionn Carr getting a serious injury. It's unclear whether it's a money issue or Pat Lam exercising some control of the shape of his future squad though...

On the Sinoti thing, he's been on radio silence on Twitter since the end of March, could mean his Italian mobile contract has eneded and he's waiting on his Irish one..... :whistle:

You do that when your squad is finalised for the next year. Ours is not finalised,and last year I think Poolman was the only one after announcing releases. If players are needing Connacht to publicise their release so clubs are aware, they quickly need to change agent

just had a look at sinoti's twitter there, this picture made me laugh. hope the boys see it and have the banter with sinoti when he comes here

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**could sea_point or one of the lads fix this so the picture shows up in the post?! cheers

ummm, wrote: I think it's more of a case that it's up to the teams that are signing our players to make the annoucements, not us. In the case of players retiring we've already had the annoucements.

If I'm right then I think that would be fair. We always like to hear about who we've signed and lets be honest, we've heard about Sinoti but we're still all very cagey about it and it will take an annoucement from Sears & Co before we really believe it.

Also, you never know when things might not work out. We'd look silly if we annouced Fets was leaving only for his transfer to fall apart at the last minute. Best to wait until the other team has made it official.

Not really, if they're out of contract and no longer Connacht Players then why not be up front about it. Sure it's good PR for the players if the media pick up the story in case there are any clubs that are not aware that they are on the market...

With Fet's, pretty clear from his tweets that he want's to stay but is being released. The only thing that might have changed that was one of our prospective signings dropping out at the last minute or Fionn Carr getting a serious injury. It's unclear whether it's a money issue or Pat Lam exercising some control of the shape of his future squad though...

On the Sinoti thing, he's been on radio silence on Twitter since the end of March, could mean his Italian mobile contract has eneded and he's waiting on his Irish one..... :whistle:

They seem to have learned from the whole "Jamie Hagan is staying" incident.

I think it's more of a case that it's up to the teams that are signing our players to make the annoucements, not us. In the case of players retiring we've already had the annoucements.

If I'm right then I think that would be fair. We always like to hear about who we've signed and lets be honest, we've heard about Sinoti but we're still all very cagey about it and it will take an annoucement from Sears & Co before we really believe it.

Also, you never know when things might not work out. We'd look silly if we annouced Fets was leaving only for his transfer to fall apart at the last minute. Best to wait until the other team has made it official.

Borders no.2 wrote: Has the list of departures been announced yet? Surely now the season is over they could put a paragraph on the website listing the players who are leaving and thanking them for their efforts.

On the Connacht website? That thing is a disaster more often than not. I really think the club should be hiring a social media officer. They're should be something new popping up on that page everyday, even if it's something small. Keep traffic hitting the website. Their use of Facebook and Twitter is bad as well. There needs to be a huge overhaul of how they interact with supporters on these platforms.
How often do you see them answer someones request on those pages?

Has the list of departures been announced yet? Surely now the season is over they could put a paragraph on the website listing the players who are leaving and thanking them for their efforts.

I don't care what position he plays a beast like that would be a huge boon to Connacht. Tell Pat get the checkbook out!

Thought he was a prop...actually just a massive 8.

This boy looks explosive, Tongan prop Opeti Fonua with Agen who just got relegated from the Top14. I'm sure Mr.Lam would like his style on the ball. Could do with another prop around.

www.rugbydump.com/2013/05/3172/jonny-wil...-by-huge-opeti-fonua

its_phil wrote:

connachta wrote: Whitten Played both centre and winger this year

He is a center. Wing isn't his natural position. It would be akin to throwing Griffin out there.

Agree, but I watch few Exeter matches and he came on the wing...

connachta wrote: Whitten Played both centre and winger this year

He is a center. Wing isn't his natural position. It would be akin to throwing Griffin out there.