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Connacht close their 2012/13 season this evening in what is expected to an emotional farewell to the province’s most significant personality of the last 24 years, coach Eric Elwood.

Connacht close their 2012/13 season tomorrow evening in what is expected to an emotional farewell to the province’s most significant personality of the last 24 years, coach Eric Elwood.

Connacht backs coach Billy Millard has confirmed he will be leaving the province at the end of the season. Millard, in his second season with Connacht, is taking up a position in the United States where his partner lives.

Connacht backs coach Billy Millard has confirmed he will be leaving the province at the end of the season.

Connacht’s most capped player Michael Swift has re-signed with the province for another year.

Pat Lam is expected to be named as Connacht’s successor to Eric Elwood in the next couple of days.

The sport of touch rugby, or touch as it officially called worldwide, is a mostly mixed gender, non-contact version of rugby aimed at people who wish to play for recreational purposes.

Greater expectations surround Connacht’s second Heineken Cup campaign which begins tomorrow with a return visit to Italian newcomers Zebre. Having already claimed a RaboDirect Pro 12 win in Parma, Connacht head to Italy knowing what is needed to open this year’s cup campaign is a win. Any thing else will be seen as a backward step for the Irish side which also faces Europe’s third ranked side Biarritz and English champions Harlequins in pool three.

Greater expectations surround Connacht’s second Heineken Cup campaign which begins on Saturday with a return visit to Italian newcomers Zebre.

It is a win that may mean different things to different people, but for the collective Connacht Rugby, it will go down in history.