Connacht shocked League leaders The Ospreys this evening when they travelled to Wales and against all the odds picked up a hard fought victory. It was only the Ospreys second loss of the season and was their first at home.
In a dark and dreary conditions in Landsdowne Road this afternoon, Ireland’s second string team, saw off the US with a 55 points to 6 victory over the visitors. Ireland were very poor especially in the first half, which they only won by 13 points to 6. The US managed to keep them in touch until Ireland began to pull away in the second half.
Munster are now four points ahead of third placed team, Newport-Gwent Dragons, following their impressive six try victory over The Borders tonight. While the Scottish side provided far from the toughest opposition in the league, Munster still looked impressive racking up six tries in their eight sucessive win.
Ulster coach Mark McCall will be breathing a sigh of relief tonight, as his team finally seem to have got their season on track. Last weekend they ended a poor run of form, and this week they won again this time at Ravenhill, their first Celtic League win there all season.
Ulster coach Mark McCall has been forced into making a number of changes ahead of his side’s Celtic League match with Cardiff tomorrow night. Number eight Campbell Feather will lead Ulster for the first time.
Having opted out of the IRB Sevens tournaments last year, this year Ireland have chosen a very youthful side to travel to Dubai to take part in the first of this year’s tournaments. The squad contains a number of Ireland’s impressive U-21 side and some of the up and coming stars of the provinces also.
With many of his first choice players unavailable for selection due to International duty, Alan Gaffney has made many changes to his side ahead of Friday’s match against The Borders at Musgrave Park.
With Ulster’s influential captain Andy Ward, out for at least a month with another injury, coach Mark McCall has announced that South African openside Gavin Pfister will be joining the province as a replacement.
Eddie O’Sullivan, in keeping with expectations has named an experimental side for this weekend’s match against the USA in Landsdowne Rd. The side features two new caps, Denis Leamy, who comes in for Johnny O’Connor and Tommy Bowe, who replaces Denis Hickie on the wing.
Following on from Ireland’s historic victory over South Africa at the weekend Eddie O’Sullivan has increased his squad to 30 for the match against the USA next Saturday.