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The Pat Lam era begins in earnest on Saturday (5pm) when Connacht Rugby host Zebre in the first Rabodirect Pro 12 fixture of the 2013/2014 season.

New Connacht Rugby coach Pat Lam has added a strong Kiwi flavour in completing his squad for next season.

With European rugby taking centre stage this weekend, Connacht and Treviso are locked into a battle of their own in their refixed RaboDirect Pro 12 clash in Italy tomorrow evening.

Galway turned on its best weather for incoming Connacht coach Pat Lam who arrived in the city on Monday evening.

After a successful sequence of four RaboDirect Pro 12 games, Connacht take a rest for two weeks before heading into a vital interprovincial clash with Munster.

Connacht must maintain their momentum when they return to the Galway Sportsground tomorrow evening (7.45pm) to host Italian visitors Zebre.

Super Rugby winning co-captain Craig Clarke is Connacht’s latest and most significant signing for next season.

Connacht will hope that the debut of Dan Parks for the province this evening in the first inter-provincal of the season will be able to give them a springboard to success against Leinster. In the pre-game media build up, Connacht coach Eric Elwood said he was “hopeful” that Parks would make his debut saying, “Dan did some conditioning last week and came through ok, but we will have to see how he backs that up over the week.” But come yesterday’s team announcement Parks made the starting 15 at out-half.

Connacht are still waiting final fitness testing on new signing Dan Parks ahead of tomorrow evening’s first interprovincial fixture of the season.

Connacht Rugby’s away form will be tested this evening when an injury-hit squad faces the Warriors in Glasgow.