Rúaidhrí O'Connor
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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.
Back row of Pendergast, Hurley Langdon and Jansen was really powerful again.
Top Ben Murphy was very exciting.
Harry West at 13, when the teams were names, I was intrigued.
I was like, oh, I wasn't expecting that.
He had one really mazy run when he just looked so threatening.
And it showed me a side of him I hadn't seen before.
Yeah, what did you make of them?
I was just very, very impressed.
And obviously Edinburgh away is a tricky fixture.
I know it's a dead rubber for Edinburgh, but they've won three in a row in the league quietly.
And we saw they caused Leinster a few problems, albeit with a couple of intercepts.