Connacht Rugby Bandwagon Thread

Julio_Geordio · May 23, 2016, 9:15am

Where will the dog racing be held after it? Has anyone thought about that like?

ironmoth · May 23, 2016, 9:15am

There’s a rumour that ground staff in Edinburgh will be placing sand and strategic dog shits around the perimeter of the pitch. This will be advantage Connacht if it’s true.

Sidney · May 23, 2016, 9:18am

There will be a fake hare on a rail doing laps of the pitch for the duration of the match to confuse the Leinster players.

Julio_Geordio · May 23, 2016, 9:24am

The Leinster players have decided to change in a stable outside of town to ensure continuity of routine for the big day.

Sidney · May 23, 2016, 9:26am

Away in a manger.

Nembo_Kid · May 23, 2016, 1:09pm

They’ve reached a compromise whereby Shetland Ponies will chase a rabbit around the pitch during the game.

myboyblue · May 23, 2016, 3:04pm

I feel like you’re being harsh on Connacht and the sportsground lads, the subs bench looks pretty plush from this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=5pFK3extlG0

Little_Lord_Fauntleroy · May 23, 2016, 4:23pm

Whats all the sand ?

Mac · May 23, 2016, 4:26pm

That’d be the dog track I’d say

Little_Lord_Fauntleroy · May 23, 2016, 4:29pm

Lolz

flattythehurdler · May 23, 2016, 4:54pm

Rhetorical questions are frowned on here.

ciarancareyshurlingarmy · May 24, 2016, 9:26am

It was a fair question. Very easy to confuse that with the prom at Salthill

maroonandwhite · May 28, 2016, 7:31am

Awe inspiring. Stop what you are doing and watch this.

Juhniallio · May 28, 2016, 7:43am

I think that chap may be getting typecast.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JORbaMkp0NI

Nembo_Kid · May 28, 2016, 7:53am

Agitation mode activated.

Looking forward to answering the question if I was watching the match next week.

maroonandwhite · May 28, 2016, 8:03am

That Latin quarter is as authentic as the Connacht support base, imagined out of thin air just a few years ago. That video has me questioning my devotion to the cause. Don’t worry, ‘the match’ in the office will be a GAA one soon enough.

Sidney · May 28, 2016, 10:01am

True, there are lots of Mayo and Clare people in Galway city.

Ambrose_McNulty · May 28, 2016, 10:09am

A plague on Facebook’s house for bringing this kind of shit to our Internet over the past few years. Puke inducing.

Fagan_ODowd · May 28, 2016, 10:35am

Lovely article here from Gerry Thornley.

The obligatory mention of the camper van that invariably gets trotted out when Irish fans travel abroad.

It’s not an exodus unless there’s a camper van involved.

flattythehurdler · May 28, 2016, 10:53am

Gerry thornley is an unimaginative drone. I read the sports pages most days, and cannot recall a single standout article he has ever written. He’s our own Stephen “fat cunt” jones. Mind you, I can’t recall finishing any Rugby article in recent times. Half a page whine about how the beer cup should always be played in Dublin, with only irish teams allowed in as the Johnny Foreigner only spoils it for everyone (including Johnny Foreigner), rinse and repeat. Then into joe.ie mode banterishness until Johnny Foreigner beats lawnster, then back to the top.
I bet the stock homoerotic one page features on how some random player was saved from a life as a predatory rapist and serial killer by his old games teacher and the rugby ethos are being cut pasted and wheeled out across the broadsheets.
I hope Connacht win. My dad used drag us all up to watch them when we were snappers, and there would be a hundred or two people there, and he’s gone to every game for decades, but fuck me, I’ll be glad to be away from the joeishness if they do.
The standard of sports journalism, in an island of outstanding literary talent, is fucking appalling , paul kimmage excepted.