New half-back pairing

IT’S been a rough week for everyone involved in Connacht rugby and this game can’t start soon enough. Glasgow visit the Sportsground on a run of form like no other in the side’s history where they face a home team badly in need of a good news story for a change. These two games — against Ulster last weekend and the Warriors this evening — were earmarked by all and sundry as must win encounters if Connacht were to challenge this season. That’s why the fallout from defeat has been so strong but there is only one way of answering that and it’s with a victory here.Michael Bradley has made three changes to the side that lost that encounter with two of them in the half back area.Having sat on the bench for all bar one of the games this season, Conor O’Loughlin will start at scrum half with Andy Dunne making his first start at number ten.The third changes sees Darren Yapp replaces the injured Daniel Riordan (quad) at outside centre. On the bench John Fogarty and David Gannonreturn, while there is a welcome return for Matt Mostyn from long term injury.This season has…….