Rúaidhrí O'Connor

Yeah, so the fixtures for this coming weekend, we'll discuss about last weekend and next weekend on tonight's show.

Friday night, kind of pretty interesting.

We have Ulster hosting Glasgow.

We have Cardiff hosting the Stormers.

And we've Connacht making the trip to Edinburgh.

And then the kind of the two key games to look out for then on the Saturday is Leinster hosting the Ospreys at quarter past five, I think.

745 Munster Lions that's the last game of the regular season so Munster at least will have an idea of what they need to do to improve their seeding or potentially just to actually remain in the top 8 come that point but going back to last weekend Luke let's go to Connacht Munster Connacht 26 Munster 7 when the teams were announced on Friday and there was no Crowley there was no Tyke Byrne amongst a few other players like Tom Farrell Michael Milne John Klein was out as well

It looked like it was an advantage, Connacht, and so it proved.

19-0 up at halftime.

They were never really threatened by Munster.

They played really, really well, scored some lovely tries.

Also defended very well, which has been a kind of a hallmark of their improvement in the back half of the season.

Just really impressive on both sides of the ball.

And then kind of another tick in the Stuart Lancaster, I suppose, rejuvenation of Connacht over the course of the season.

Yeah, and the defensive side of the road, like, you know, I've mentioned this game a lot, but like when they conceded 48 points to the Dragons on just like the Saturday before Christmas, it was kind of alarm bells.

You're like, Jesus, the Lancaster project really isn't going as people envisage.

And then like the leap they've taken since then has been very impressive.

Like Luke mentioned a couple of names there, but like

Every line of the team, like Billy Bohan and Sam Illo, so powerful.

A prop like Darren Murray, got through a lot of work there.