Andy Friend calls for Connacht to 'front up and start winning games'

THE PICTURE FACING Connacht isn’t a pretty one. With 11 rounds of URC action under their belts they sit 13th in the league table, Sunday’s 41-12 loss at Leinster their seventh defeat of the season.

It’s quite a lot of pressure on the squad at this stage of the year, and while the second half of Connacht’s season looks kinder that the first half of the fixture list, they are now desperately scrambling for points. “The lineout, our set-piece stuff. Some of our defensive stuff was very good, some of our attack was very good,” Friend continued.“Some areas where I thought we let ourselves down – we get on top of a team and it’s a drop, a knock-on. We don’t get numbers to the breakdown, we get a jackal against us. But, you’ve also got to pay compliment to Leinster. It’s the reason they haven’t lost a game all season, because they’re a damn-good footie side.

“We were asked before the game tonight what is the standard of the URC, well it’s a tough competition and a good standard. There’s no easy games.

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