Pete Wilkins has promised a shake-up in Connacht's approach next season after this one fizzled out in disappointing fashion at the RDS on Friday night. Coming into the final weekend of the regular season in 10th place, making the top eight play-offs was a long shot as the westerners needed a bonus point victory over Leinster and hope that results elsewhere went there way on Saturday. However Connacht's head coach wasn't happy that instead of throwing the kitchen sink at it his side found themselves 21 points adrift with just 23 minutes on the clock and gave "young Sam Prendergast an armchair ride for 40 minutes" in Leinster's out-half position.
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"That side of it is pretty stark when you look at that. For us, any time you've won more games than.