Indomitable Connacht ready to achieve the impossible dream

They beat the Warriors, but can they repeat the dose when Glasgow return to the Sportsground on Saturday week?
Indomitable Connacht ready to achieve the impossible dream

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Munster made an art form of stealing the limelight from their provincial neighbours. Whatever heroics Leinster or Ulster pulled off in Europe on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon, Munster would rock up the following day and produce something even more stunning.

In those days, Connacht didn’t even enter the equation, ploughing a lone battle in the Challenge Cup while their more prosperous provincial colleagues accounted for the best the English and French could throw at them.

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