No respite for flu-hit Connacht

Connacht 9 Toulouse 37

Making Connacht’s task all the more difficult against the European superpower was a flu virus which had swept through the squad and hampered their preparations for the visit of the French aristocrats.

On this occasion the result went according to form book: the visitors’ ambition evident from the first whistle with devastating speed and precision in attack, particularly from the returning French international Maxime Medard.