Connacht in first European rugby fixture in Russia

Tomorrow’s historic first European rugby fixture in Russia is a new development in what might have appeared a one-sided relationship between Connacht and Enisei-STM.

The Siberian club has visited Galway on five occasions in the recent past, but Connacht had never returned the gesture until now, and that is only due to the roll of a dice when the European Challenge Cup fixtures were drawn.

The director of rugby for Enisei, Alexander Pervukhin, says it was meant to be that Connacht were drawn first out of the hat to play this fixture in Krasnoyarsk.