Fortress Sportsground may hold key to Connacht hopes

Connacht’s survival hopes in the Heineken Champions Cup may depend on a superb home record which has seen them lose just one of 14 games at the Sportsground in Europe in the past five years.

That loss, a 33-28 Challenge Cup quarter-final defeat, came against today’s opponents Gloucester at the tail end of Kieran Keane’s ill-fated season in charge of Connacht.