The Dragons will come to the Sportsground on St Patrick’s Day in the next in an exciting list of home matches for Connacht.
A huge crowd is expected for the 6.30pm kick-off on St Patrick’s Day as the Newport Gwent Dragons, fresh from their win over Munster, come to Galway.
Tickets will be on sale at the match, at a reduced rate, for the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final on Saturday, April 10.
Connacht’s regular supporters will have the option of buying tickets at the following prices at the game:
Ground Tickets        €20

Concession        €15

Child            €10

Supporters can buy a maximum of five tickets each.



On the 18th March remaining tickets will go on general release at the following prices:

Ground Tickets        €25

Concession        €20

Child            €10

Plus booking fee from Ticketmaster (postage and packing.admin etc)

UPCOMING MATCHES AT THE SPORTSGROUND

Wed, 17th March: Connacht v Dragons (6.30pm, Magners League)
Fri, 2nd April: Connacht v Edinburgh (6pm, Magners League)
Sat, 10th April: Connacht v Bourgoin (1pm, Amlin Challenge Cup)
Sun, 18th April: Connacht v Munster (5.05pm, Magners League)

Connacht 19 Glasgow 19

A try with the last play of the game denied Connacht victory at the Sportsground on Friday night.

Connacht seemed poised for victory but James Eddie crossed in the left corner in the dying seconds. The game ended in a draw when Colin Gregor was off target with the conversion.

Glasgow led 6-3 at the interval but opened up a 14-3 lead when DTH Van der Merwe crossed after 48 minutes.

But Ian Keatley landed his second penalty to reduce the margin and then kicked a third before Gavin Duffy crossed for an equalising try after 70 minutes, with Keatley's conversion edging them in front.

He landed another penalty to stretch the lead with three minutes remaining but Connacht were denied at the death.

The Connacht team to play Glasgow Warriors at the Sportsground on Friday (8pm) has been selected.
It shows five changes from that which played Ospreys with Aidan Wynne, Frank Murphy, Jamie Hagan, Mike McCarthy and Johnny O’Connor coming back into the side.
Niva Ta’auso, Liam Bibo, Andrew Browne and Ray Ofisa have been ruled out through injury.

15 Gavin Duffy
14 Troy Nathan
13 Keith Matthews
12 Aidan Wynne
11 Fionn Carr
10 Ian Keatley
9 Frank Murphy
1 Brett Wilkinson
2 Sean Cronin
3 Jamie Hagan
4 Michael Swift
5 Mike McCarthy
6 John Muldoon (captain)
7 Johnny O’Connor
8 George Naoupu

Replacements:
16 Adrian Flavin
17 Robbie Morris
18 Bernie Upton
19 Mike McComish
20 Conor O’Loughlin
21 Miah Nikora
22 Brian Tuohy

Eric Elwood will take over as Connacht’s Director of Coaching for the 2010-11 season.
The appointment of the former Irish international was confirmed at a press conference at the Sportsground on Wednesday morning.
He will take over from Michael Bradley at the end of the season and will confirm his backroom team in the coming weeks.
Connacht CEO Gerry Kelly paid tribute to the contribution made to Connacht Rugby over the past six and a half years by Michael Bradley.
Eric Elwood said he was really looking forward to the challenge and urged Connacht people to get behind the side as they continued to build the team.
Elwood, who made 168 appearances for Connacht, has been assistant coach for the past four and a half years.
Connacht will resume their Magners League campaign this Friday when they take on Glasgow Warriors at the Sportsground (8pm).