Jack Aungier eyeing upset against 'inconsistent' Stade Francais

Jack Aungier knows the desire at the Sportsground to become the first Connacht team to make the knockout stages of the Champions Cup but also that there is so little room for error.

ack Aungier of Connacht. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Nearly half of Connacht’s 13 wins in the Heineken Champions Cup have come against Zebre. That hardly sets the pulses racing, but the other seven are something else.

Wins over Toulouse (home and away), Harlequins, Wasps, Biarritz, Gloucester, and Montpellier make up an impressive list of conquests and proof, as head coach Andy Friend emphasised several times this week, that they belong in the competition and can more than hold their own.