Sam Gilbert

Like he's, it's, I know we've talked about, I think I've kind of talked about it once before this season already, like I was five games in, but still, I think we're going to just have a running thing of like, Ford is just a really good player.

You know, it's, and, he's a future international and I think this World Cup wasn't too early for him but once again really good game distributed well carried well tackled well I think Finn Tracy missed a few tackles aside was good and you know it's all those type of things that players individually had really good moments Frawley was kicking obviously I wonder was there a little phone call from Andy going Sam might be injured let him kick the bloody ball let him kick the bloody ball yeah

yeah he did most of the kicking I think Sam Gilbert took the last two kicks if I'm not mistaken Frawley was off at that stage yeah yeah so but yeah no he had a good like he decent from the tee like not perfect but decent from the tee and again he got better with more experience from that point of view and in fairness like Sam like Gilbert hasn't been as like metronomic from the tee this season you know as he has been in past seasons in that sense so yeah it'd be good to see I think for Frawley's Ireland hopes he needs to he needs to be the doing all the kicking basically for Connacht to get him that practice and get him into that position you know

I think he just backed the player knowing that he can do it like he's done it for Ireland from the tee so many times I think he's got to back the guy to know that he can do that yeah So I wouldn't be worried about that from his point of view.

No.

I actually think, like, I just want to go back to, like, talk about 10s, you know, Carby had a decent game, but you can tell he's a bit ring rusty at 10 because he got caught behind the game line quite a bit.

Quite a bit, yeah.

It's a game where if Sam was fit, I do think Leicester have a score next try or two, you know, like genuinely.

Harry West comes to mind.

the speed in that guaranteed the bonus point before half time from Kyle Ford getting one of those as well I think Sam Gilbert was the other as well so when we had the ball and when we got a foothold in the game we looked very very good

Yeah and Colm Reilly was superb at nine I thought and really drove it again we mentioned Frawley already but yeah Kyle Ford had a superb game as well really really good game and look he's He's sitting in that kind of gap where people are saying, why doesn't he get a bit more recognition with Ireland with the consistency of his form? And I guess that'll come at some point.

You'd like think, you don't know, there's always those players that fall between the cracks and maybe he's going to be one of those players.

By the 23rd minute, they had the bonus point wrapped up.

Finlay Beelham, Sean Jansen, Cahill Ford, who was superb throughout, and Sam Gilbert all had tries, with Ferrari converting three of them.

Connacht then should have really kicked on, but before half-time, Zebre hit back with two tries of their own.

One from Jacopo Bottori after a mistake from Connacht, and one brilliant try from Mirko Belloni, the full-back.

Then Cole Ford, Harry West making up the centre partnership with Finn Tracy.

Sam Gilbert making up the rest of the back line with replacements.

Dave Heflin making his first appearance this year with injury.

Jordan Duggan, Sam Elo, David O'Connor.