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Article: BRADLEY RISES TO CHALLENGE; Wests awake: Michael Bradley (far right) has steered Connacht towards Heineken Cup qualification through the Challenge Cup, but the Magners League presents their best opportunity; Andrew Farley (above) and Gavin Duffy (right) have helped take them four clear of Ulster.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2008
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Byline: SHANE McGRATH
THE bells were supposed to be tolling for Michael Bradley just six weeksago, with Connacht anchoring the Magners League and a local newspaper in Galwayclaiming the province was enduring lows it had never previously known.
For a team who had narrowly escaped being pitched into the nether world of adevelopment province five years previously, they were doomed words. But theirexcitable nature were of a piece with the great swings between optimism andgloom that sway over Connacht rugby.
A month and a half on, and a fourth appearance in five seasons in thequarter-finals of the Challenge Cup is within their grasp: defeat Brive at ...