The Night Is Darkest Just Before The Dawn

Hi All, dreadful cheesy title I know :)
But after my doom and gloom last night, suddenly things look brighter. Let me continue...

Horrible day at work today. Hectic all day, lots of phone calls, and testing. Not what you need on a Friday. I snuck out for a smoke at one stage, and decided to check Facebook on my phone, and I say this on John Muldoons page, "Good to see our old friend George coming back...!!"
I had to stare at my phone, and try to comprehend what I was reading. Does John have a good friend called George who is home from his Christmas holidays? I didnt want to let myself get my hopes up. Sure that's all I ever seem to do with Connacht, before having my hopes dashed. I ran back to my PC, and sent a mail to someone in the know. "Is George back?" I asked. I waited paitently for 5 minutes, (our internet is restricted you see) and then the reply came.
"The Beast is Back, Mooooo"
I was delighted, over the moon. This is what we need. This is how we shine. This is when Connacht move up a gear, and start winning games.
Our emails went back and forth. A 2 year contract. Re-joining in the summer. Oh, we signed two other players too.
What? Us? Who? Mark McCabe and Mark Morrison?
No, real players. Niall O'Connor and Mark McCrea.

I'll be honest now, I know as much about Niall O'Connor as the average rugby fan. But this is promising. Bar Duffy and Johnny O'Connor, we dont sign Irish players with good reputations. This is excellent news. We're actually been given an opportunity by the IRFU.
These two young Ulster lads have both also signed two year deals, and in my eyes anyway, have been signed as direct replacements for Ian Keatley and Fionn Carr.
I'm going to put some research into these lads before my next blog, unless something crazy happens, i.e. signing Jonah Lomu, David Campese and Keith Wood.

A quick few points about last nights game.
1. I think I'm getting too selfish. I see these wonderful performances, and I want victories.
I think the problem with this huge performance in victories, is that teams are now taking us more seriously. We're pushing teams close. Games like Edinburgh away this season. We lost, but not by much. I remember been over in Edinburgh a few years back, and we took some hiding. Think we lost by 50. We are improving. What we need now, is for the fans to keep supporting, and cheering the team on. We're going to win. We're going to move up the table.

2. Conor O'Shea made a great point last night, about Ian Keatley, Fionn Carr, and Sean Cronin. These lads are all expected to move on this summer. They should be the lads grabbing the team by the scruff of the neck, and showing the rest of the players why they're moving on.
At the moment, you can't say any of these players look any better than people like Brett Wilkinson, or Swifty. I expect an improvement from these lads fast

3. Cillian Willis was hugely impressive last night. Not sure why he came off for Frank Murphy. But Murphy did well why he came on though.

That's all for now.

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