In-form Connors timing run well as Leinster eye business end of season

The Kildare native played for the full duration of last weekend’s gruelling contest at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria.

OPTION: Will Connors during a Leinster Rugby squad training session at Northwood College in Durban, South Africa on Monday. Pic: Shaun Roy/Sportsfile

Leinster head coach Leo Cullen has said Will Connors is ‘timing his run’ nicely after the openside flanker picked up the player-of-the-match award in his side’s last-gasp 21-20 defeat to the Bulls in the United Rugby Championship on Saturday.

Owing partly to the head injuries sustained by his back-row partners James Culhane and Max Deegan inside the opening 10 minutes of the action – Alex Soroka and Scott Penny coming off the bench to replace them – Kildare native Connors played for the full duration of last weekend’s gruelling contest at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria.