Stuart Lancaster appointment gives Connacht a new lease of life

He is a huge coup for Connacht and the timing could not be better.

HUGE COUP: Incoming Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster. Pic: Tom Maher/Inpho

THE quicksand which Connacht’s campaign seemed to be sinking in all season took a bad nosedive in the second week in April when first head coach Pete Wilkins, on sick leave for several weeks, announced he was leaving.

Then their only hope of salvaging something from a term which promised so much initially, went by wayside when they went down to 14-man Racing 92 in the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup in Galway.