Connacht Rugby

2023 - 3 - 25

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Connacht 41-26 Edinburgh recap and result from URC clash (Irish Mirror)

Connacht have beaten Edinburgh 41-26 in the latest round of the United Rugby Championship. The hosts made hard work of it and had two men sin-binned before ...

Connacht 15-0 Edinburgh Back at even numbers Connacht put their foot on the gas. Connacht 27-19 Edinburgh Connacht 20-7 Edinburgh Try! But Conor Oliver's yellow card coupled with a Glen Young five pointer brought the visitors back into the game.

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Connacht beat Edinburgh to boost play-off hopes (BBC News)

Tries from Cathal Forde, Connor Oliver and Caolan Blade for Connacht gave Connacht a 20-7 lead at half-time, with Lee-Roy Atalifo crossing for Edinburgh.

However, a yellow card for Edinburgh full-back Boffelli and a quickfire double from Blade to complete his hat-trick put Connacht in control and comfortable as the game entered its final stages. Two yellow cards for Connacht players Butler and Dowling in the third quarter and an opportunistic try from replacement Young provided Edinburgh with a potential way back into the game. Connacht secured a 41-26 bonus-point win over Edinburgh at the Sportsground to boost their bid for a play-off place in the United Rugby Championship.

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Edinburgh Rugby left to lament familiar failings by clinical Connacht ... (The Scotsman)

This was a performance that aptly summed up Edinburgh's frustrating season as they let chances slip at the Sportsground in Galway and were then scorched by ...

Any hope of a comeback disappeared when full-back Boffelli was binned for a mid-air collision and at 14-a-side it was Connacht who prospered. Boffelli’s conversion made it 27-14 with Connacht flanker Conor Oliver binned in the move for not releasing. “We didn’t play at the level we expected and we paid the price for that.

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Caolin Blade scores second hat-trick of season as Connacht beat ... (Independent.ie)

As the campaign unfolded last autumn it was hard to see Connacht being very much in the hunt coming around the final bend.

Even when Connacht had Oliver and Oisín Dowling carded there was no panic – just the showmanship of Blade pulling the strings. There was an aesthetic attraction to it all but a low return on the scoreboard. To have three bonus points in the bag by the break is good on any day, but it wasn't that handy. The ease with which Jarad Butler scored was ominous for Edinburgh. You felt the clock beat him to a card. "That was our best performance of the season.

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Blade treble helps clinical Connacht to fifth win on the trot (Irish Examiner)

Stand-in skipper Caolin Blade scored a hat-trick as Connacht made it five wins on the spin to greatly strengthen their claim for a place in the URC knockout ...

Emiliano Boffelli converted to cut the gap to 15-7 after 34 minutes. Cons: E Boffelli (3). Jarrad Butler secured the bonus point with a try after 45 minutes and while Connacht lost Conor Oliver and Oisin Dowling to the bin and conceded tries to Bill Mata and Glen Young when Edinburgh had a numerical advantage to cut the gap to 27-19, Connacht regrouped and pushed on when full-back Boffelli joined Dowling in the bin.

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Blade shines as Connacht claim bonus-point win (RTE.ie)

Caolin Blade scored his second hat-trick of the season as Connacht maintained their push for a top-eight finish in the BKT United Rugby Championship with a ...

Tom Farrell led Connacht's charge back downfield and Blade sniped over from a ruck. An opportunist late try from Blair Kinghorn gave Edinburgh a bonus point of their own. Having watched Jarrad Butler go over, Edinburgh hit back through Viliame Mata and replacement Glen Young.

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United Rugby Championship: Caolin Blade hat-trick inspires ... (planetrugby.com)

Scrum-half Caolin Blade scored a hat-trick for Connacht in their 41-26 bonus point win over Edinburgh on Saturday. The hosts led 20-7 at the break after ...

A well-worked lineout move involving Sam Parry and Ethan Roots put the visitors’ defence on the back foot with Smith capitalising by powering over from close range. [Connacht](https://www.planetrugby.com/team/connacht/), and Edinburgh responded through Vilame Mata and Glen Young, but it was not to be for the Scottish side. Tom Farrell led Connacht’s charge back downfield and Blade sniped over from a ruck. An opportunist late try from Blair Kinghorn gave Edinburgh a bonus point of their own. The try added to five-pointers scored by Cathal Forde and Conor Oliver. from Rabz Maxwane turned the game on its head and secured a third victory in a row for the South Africans. Minutes later, Walsh was on the receiving end of a late challenge from Moriarty, which saw the Dragons’ flanker sin-binned and immediately the hosts looked to have capitalised. Two minutes after the restart, Moriarty returned in time to see Morris take advantage of some weak defence from the visitors to score before Tomkinson was sent off for a high tackle in the same passage of play. [Ospreys claim bonus point win in Welsh derby](https://www.planetrugby.com/europe-united-rugby-championship-ospreys-vs-dragons/2023-03-25/2201766/overview) [Ospreys](https://www.planetrugby.com/team/ospreys/) began strongly to take a ninth-minute lead. [Blade](https://www.planetrugby.com/tag/caolin-blade/) plucked down a Kinghorn pass and scooted clear from his 22 to give the Irish province a decent interval cushion. Mata thundered over on the back of a Mark Bennett break, and Young took advantage of Oliver’s yellow to reduce the arrears to 27-19, just four minutes later. A David Hawkshaw penalty – following Oran McNulty’s charge-down on Boffelli – made it 8-0, and Connacht built from a scrum for flanker Oliver to crash over in the 20th minute.

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RUGBY: Connacht 41-26 Edinburgh (United Rugby Championship ... (Galway Bay FM)

Captain Caolin Blade scored a hat-trick as Connacht ran in six tries. Cathal Forde, Conor Oliver and Jarrad Butler also crossed over the whitewash. Afterwards, ...

Galway Bay FM’s Rugby coverage is brought to you in association with… Afterwards, Caolin chatted to Galway Bay FM’s William Davies. Connacht have strengthened their top-8 position in the United Rugby Championship after a 41-26 victory over Edinburgh in the Sportsground on Saturday (25th March).

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Caolin Blade hat-trick helps Connacht keep play-off bid on track (BreakingNews.ie)

Caolin Blade scored his second hat-trick of the season as Connacht maintained their push for a top-eight finish in the BKT United Rugby Championship with a ...

Tom Farrell led Connacht’s charge back downfield and Blade sniped over from a ruck. An opportunist late try from Blair Kinghorn gave Edinburgh a bonus point of their own. Having watched Jarrad Butler go over, Edinburgh hit back through Viliame Mata and replacement Glen Young.

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Pollard helps Leicester to big win (EPCRugby.com)

We've taken a look at the best of Saturday's domestic action involving EPCR Challenge Cup Round of 16 clubs, with Scarlets stunning a star-studded Cell C.

In the TOP 14, RC Toulon came out on top of a re-run of last season’s EPCR Challenge Cup final as they triumphed 27-23 at Lyon. Steff Evans, the leading try scorer in the EPCR Challenge Cup after the pool stage, crossed twice as Scarlets outplayed a team featuring a host of South Africa internationals. The Welsh region warmed up for their EPCR Challenge Cup Round of 16 encounter with CA Brive next Friday with a brilliant 32-20 victory over Cell C Sharks in the United Rugby Championship (URC).

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