Cian Tracey

If they took a while to get the bonus point and if they hadn't, it would have been a travesty from a Connacht point of view because

They were just head and shoulders above them.

And yeah, like I was down in Galway twice last week, Joe, for their press day on the Tuesday.

Chatted to Dennis Buckley, who's played his last game for Connacht and was at the game on Saturday.

And like to say the vibes are good down there, even on the Tuesday, I was sitting in the reception of the of the high performance center.

And there was people coming in, renewing their season tickets like genuinely while I was sitting there.

I saw Connacht have said that over 91% of their season tickets for next season have been sold.

The match they experienced, it was my third time down at the Dexcom since they've done up the clan stand.

I was there in the opening night against Leinster.

I was there for the women's Six Nations game a few weeks ago and I was there on Saturday as well.

The match they experienced, now granted I am in the press box, I'm not down amongst it, but

It's just an amazing job.

It just it's worth bearing.

It's worth repeating again.

It's the job they've done is absolutely fantastic.

So they've sorted out their house off the pitch and on the pitch.

It's going really well as well.

There wasn't a ticket to be got last week for the Munster game.

Like I said, season tickets are going really well.

and yeah like there are good things happening like you said they're paying the price a little bit but I think that's understandable to a certain degree because when Stuart Lancaster came in we know that he coaches both sides of the ball and defence was clearly Connacht's issue for the last couple of years so he came in and he definitely put more of his focus on the defence and that's