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These long stops must be a nightmare for the players getting cold. Especially with the wind

Great Sharks scrum.
Shit Sharks lineout

The ref refuses to penalize the Connaught scrum

Cameron Wright and Penxe....eisch

If they carry on like that they must look for another union

Wright should just stop kicking. Doos

Please get Wright off

Sards wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:42 pm The ref refuses to penalize the Connaught scrum

No ref bashing allowed for you.

Can the ref please red card Wright.

Worse than a player down, fucking awful

Oh well. Huge difference between first and second side in the backline.

Sards wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:42 pm The ref refuses to penalize the Connaught scrum

It's Connacht; Connaught is a nice hotel in London

I think the scrum blindness, is leveled out by him letting Sharks away with a lot of time wasting.

Three tries on the board, & Sharks yet to score; I'll take that.

fishfoodie wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 6:04 pm

Sards wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:42 pm The ref refuses to penalize the Connaught scrum

It's Connacht; Connaught is a nice hotel in London

I think the scrum blindness, is leveled out by him letting Sharks away with a lot of time wasting.

Three tries on the board, & Sharks yet to score; I'll take that.

Apologies.

The ref should have sorted it ages ago. We are not enjoying it either. We want him off. Connacht must be thrilled he is there

No worries

Sharks must have got the hairdryer at half time, as they're looking a lot livelier.

Wright is still a liability though. His passes are are always "too" ... low, high, slow, far ahead, etc, etc

fishfoodie wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 6:24 pm No worries

Sharks must have got the hairdryer at half time, as they're looking a lot livelier.

Wright is still a liability though. His passes are are always "too" ... low, high, slow, far ahead, etc, etc

Oh my word he is bad......

Williams on too late

and that's why you always chase kicks !

That's the TBP secured at least

Ag......

Well done Connacht.

Sards wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 6:35 pm Ag......

Well done Connacht.

and again, Sharks play with some pace, & rumble up to Connachts 22; which makes the deliberate slowness, of the rest of the game so baffling

I thought he'd taken too much out of that, but thats Sharks on the scoreboard

Feck sake; all momentum with Sharks now 24 - 14

[Edit] Try scratched off because try scorer was offside at blockdown

Have they changed the law that they can't review after kick has been completed and awarded?

TheNatalShark wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 6:51 pm Have they changed the law that they can't review after kick has been completed and awarded?

Yeah, I think everyone saw OHs rushing to take the conversion quick, to game the system, & they decided to drop that clause.

Sharks coaches must have to use a logarithmic scale when they rate Wright against Williams

Williams is a million times better at using the players around him, & adjusted to the conditions the minute he got on the pitch

Not bad effort. For a second side. Our scrum depth is fantastic.

24 - 12 FT

Hopefully the Sharks guys have a number of large whiskeys in the dressing room to defrost the players .

A lot of favors being done this weekend; with Connacht beating Sharks, now Scarlets have beaten Cardiff.

There are a lot of teams capable of securing positions 4-8

fishfoodie wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:23 pm A lot of favors being done this weekend; with Connacht beating Sharks, now Scarlets have beaten Cardiff.

There are a lot of teams capable of securing positions 4-8

Ulster losing and Leinster struggling against Ospreys weekend of surprises.

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:15 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:23 pm A lot of favors being done this weekend; with Connacht beating Sharks, now Scarlets have beaten Cardiff.

There are a lot of teams capable of securing positions 4-8

Ulster losing and Leinster struggling against Ospreys weekend of surprises.

Bad weather is a great leveller

Sandstorm wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:16 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:15 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:23 pm A lot of favors being done this weekend; with Connacht beating Sharks, now Scarlets have beaten Cardiff.

There are a lot of teams capable of securing positions 4-8

Ulster losing and Leinster struggling against Ospreys weekend of surprises.

Bad weather is a great leveller

Benetton aren't to be underestimated this season; & Ulster won't be their only scalp I think.

Leinster don't look themselves so far, but are still 10 - 10 at HT, despite being down 10 - 0 at one point; but they've a very experimental SH/OH combination in Foley, & Harry Byrne

All the Irish teams scrumming struggled. Even the Lions gave Munster a scrum lesson.

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:26 pm All the Irish teams scrumming struggled. Even the Lions gave Munster a scrum lesson.

We just don't have enough big guys going into the game; it's been a problem for as long as I've been watching Irish teams.

16 - 10 with 20 mins to go

And just like that, Leinster run in two lovely backs tries, & now it's 16 - 24, & you'd fancy them to get the TBP in the last 10 minutes

Big defence from Leinster

19 - 24 FT

Good game from Ospreys.

fishfoodie wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:29 pm

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:26 pm All the Irish teams scrumming struggled. Even the Lions gave Munster a scrum lesson.

We just don't have enough big guys going into the game

Funny you should say that, I was wondering whether Healy has shrunk.

OomStruisbaai wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:29 pm Good game from Ospreys.

They were in it all the way, & just that failure to draw in the defender in their last attack, meant they never got the space to draw level.

That went about as well as expected for the $harks B team. Congrats Connacht on being the better team by far.

Mchunu probably the pick of our players, our scrum looked very dominant. But our lineout was utter shit. We looked like we hadn't played together before, which was obviously the case. Our backline players had no idea what each were doing.

That combo of Wright/Fleurs was a disaster, it's a pity we didn't start with Williams/Cronje.

Despite the loss, I think there are some scraps of hope in that team. Given the travelling issue, SA teams will need a strong B team for matches like this. A couple of player changes and some more game time, I think this team could click and throw up a couple of surprises.

EnergiseR2 wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:51 pm

GogLais wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:35 pm

fishfoodie wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:29 pm

We just don't have enough big guys going into the game

Funny you should say that, I was wondering whether Healy has shrunk.

Healy is trying to stay mobile. Last legs time

Makes sense, ta.

GogLais wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 1:40 pm

EnergiseR2 wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:51 pm

GogLais wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:35 pm

Funny you should say that, I was wondering whether Healy has shrunk.

Healy is trying to stay mobile. Last legs time

Makes sense, ta.

It's odd to play him on the tighthead if he's trying keep his weight down and become more mobile