Cardiff Blues v Connacht Rugby, 4 December

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Cardiff Blues v Connacht Rugby
Friday 4 December 2015
KO 19:05
BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park

Live on BBC Wales & TG4

Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU, 6th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Neil Hennessy, Simon Rees (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner: Gwyn Bowden (WRU)
TMO: Jonathan Mason (WRU)

A. Head to Head

25 Played 25
19 Wins 4
4 Losses 19
2 Draws 2
603 Points 361

B. Form

Fri 3 October 2014
Connacht Rugby 24 - 24 Cardiff Blues

Fri 6 March 2015
Cardiff Blues 18 - 17 Connacht Rugby  

C. Teams

Cardiff Blues

Rhys Patchell; Alex Cuthbert, Ray Lee-Lo, Gavin Evans, Tom James; Jarrod Evans, Lloyd Williams; Gethin Jenkins (capt), Ethan Lewis, Taufa'ao Filise, Jarrod Hoeata, Lou Reed, Macauley Cook, Josh Turnbull, Manoa Vosawai.

Replacements: Kristian Dacey, Sam Hobbs, Craig Mitchell, James Down, Cam Dolan, Tavis Knoyle, Garyn Smith, Dan Fish.

Connacht Rugby

Tiernan O'Halloran; Darragh Leader, Bundee Aki, Craig Ronaldson, Matt Healy; Jack Carty, Ian Porter; Ronan Loughney, Dave Heffernan, Rodney Ah You; Quinn Roux, Aly Muldowney; John Muldoon (capt), James Connolly, Eoin McKeon.

Replacements: Jason Harris-Wright, Conan O'Donnell, Finlay Bealham, George Naoupu, Sean O'Brien, Kieran Marmion, Peter Robb, Rory Parata.

Well done Blues - someone had to kick the men of Galway in the crackers.

Steffan wrote:As much as I wanted Connacht to win I had a suspicion that Cardiff might pull off a surprise win. Keep these type of performances up and they could climb the table. The mighty Bloooos will not want to finish behind Newport Dragons 2 years on the trot...that's something you would only do for losing a bet

Naysayer alert!
Come on Steff, you're supposed to support Cardiff bloos. It's the law.

GavinDragon wrote:

Cardiff Dave wrote:

Pot Hale wrote:

Griff wrote:

Pot Hale wrote:That's a rubbish decision via TMO for a no arms tackle by Carty.

He got an arm around his leg.

Awful technique, shoulder to the knee. Terrible.

Agreed. Terrible technique in going low from the front but he did have arms out.

Anyway game over.

Well done Cardiff - toppled the league leaders.

I like the sound of that.
I'll probably get battered by the regionalists on here though for liking it.

You're lost cause David. As is your whole set up. Crack on and be a club. And Stef as you and everyone knows it is, for now, Newport-Gwent Dragons

You could be right Gav, to be brutally honest. Certainly misplaced my mojo, that's for sure.