Cian Tracey

He's 35 now.

He was talking about the days they used to train in port-a-cabins.

It's a bit like, you know, the Leinster stories when Chequot came in, kind of from rags to riches.

And it's very exciting because there's nothing like it in the sort of the west of Ireland.

So Connacht are hoping to tap into that.

And yeah, it looks fantastic.

And I suppose for the game itself, it's kind of now there's so much focus and attention.

Like this game has been circled in the calendar, you know, for a long time.

I think...

you're kind of hoping that the players can sort of embrace the occasion rather than getting led on top of them because the game itself is massively important at the weekend because they've obviously had a stuttering start under Lancaster.

that you want but when you're bussed over they couldn't get spaces that was the issue because all the proper diehard fans had been in and taken over the good spots so their corporate offering was very minimal and again I know I'm kind of reluctant to focus on the corporate element because we do spend so much time on the atmosphere of the Aviva and all things like that but this is a very important way for Connacht to generate money and like I said that could go into enhancing their squad and coaches over the next couple of years people

People get that.

A wedding?

No, they had a function between all their clubs and we actually met.

We met a couple of them who were coming in for a big meeting and they were being shown around, but...

yeah you can do anything they're going to have their player of the season awards in there I don't think what we were told yesterday was there aren't many spaces as big as that in the west of Ireland so again they're going to tap into places that they could never do before it's a massive win-win and it

There's really exciting things happening in Connacht at the moment.

I know this season, I think it will take a little bit of time for the Stuart Lancaster effect to properly kick in.

But you look at the new training facilities, you look at the new stand, you look at getting a big name.

They're starting to produce more and more young players.