A NEW-LOOK Connacht kick off their first Heineken Cup season this evening (5.30pm) in Athlone’s Dubarry Park with a friendly against English premiership outfit Exeter Chiefs.

HAVING made their home in Athlone’s Dubarry Park, Ireland will be expected to step up to the mark and beat Scotland to clinch the Six Nations U20 title this evening (7.35pm).

THEIR senior colleagues may have struggled in Lansdowne Road and Murrayfield last weekend but neither the Irish nor the French U21s had much difficulty in recording wins over Italy and Scotland respectively.