A slender silver trophy sits proudly on the mantlepiece, framed neatly between the broad shoulders of Niall Murray and Finlay Bealham.
The duo, working hard on their comedy routine for the long flight to Cape Town via Doha, almost a full day in the air, are in mischievous mood as they chat to reporters via Zoom on Monday.
Their spirits are boosted by a famous win in Belfast, where three days previous they shook up the BKT URC playoffs by beating Ulster to earn a shot at the defending champions DHL Stormers in tomorrow's semi-final.
The talk is of Bealham's moisturiser, chicken burgers, Mack Hansen's Wolverine beard, kids' plasters and St Brigid's football.
There is also confirmation that the prize in the background is indeed the Pro12 trophy that was held aloft by John Muldoon in Murrayfield on that unforgettable day seven years ago.
Well, unforgettable to a degree.
The Connacht camp, appeared to have discussed the topic and decided that it's not going to be used as a driver this week.
Ireland prop Bealham was among the five players from the win over Ulster to be on the field when they beat Leinster on an unflattering scoreline of 20-10 for the most incredible championship win.
"There hasn't been a whole lot of chat about that to be honest," the 31-year-old, who alongside Murray was named in the URC team of the year, tells RTÉ Sport.
"We’re a really focused group and we know the challenge ahead of us this Saturday. Look, 2016 is a bloody long time ago now.
"We’ve a really great bunch of coaches and players here and they know what a big game this will be at the weekend.
"You recognise the occasion, it's a semi-final in South Africa against the defending champions. Lads don’t need any extra motivation for that.
"We will play the game and not the occasion and come up with a good game-plan and it is on us to deliver it."
Murray, the regular season's top lineout thief with 16 steals to his name, then tries to trump his partner by confessing, that as a 16-year-old at the time, he was more interested in Roscommon and St Brigid's football.
"I didn’t actually watch it [live], I watched it back. I wasn’t a rugby fan at the time. I don’t remember what I was doing.
"I’m a Roscommon man. Karol Mannion and all them boys, St Brigid’s. I was a Gaelic [football] man growing up. I played midfield or full-forward, mostly midfield.
"I just remember hearing after the game that Connacht won but I didn’t really know much about Connacht, to be honest."
"Christ!" says Bealham in fake disgust, "you should have watched it."
It's less of a surprise that Hansen, who moved to Galway in 2021 and has since become an Ireland regular, wasn't up in the early hours in Canberra taking in the match, but he knows the legend.
"I remember hearing about it because people were showing what an accumulator would have cost for Connacht and Leicester City to win the Premier League at the time
"It was like put on €10 and win a couple of hundred thousand," recalls the 26-year-old, who has scored six tries in 14 caps and is on the shortlist for the players' player of the year award.
"So it was definitely a big talking point around the world, I didn't know too much about Connacht at the time but yeah, you knew it was a bit of a fairytale story."
Head coach Pete Wilkins, who joined the club a year after the Pro12 triumph under Pat Lam, says its use now is to stand as experience for the likes of Bealham, Tienran O'Halloran, Dave Heffernan, Kieran Marmion and Bundee Aki.
"They've not referenced it specifically," said the English man.
"There's probably a respect that this is a fresh challenge and it's different now.
"It's not something they've drawn on. It's certainly something the supporters have drawn on. There were lots of guys meeting us in the car park on the way out of Kingspan on Friday night that were bringing it up.
"In house, there's not been any mention of it. I think where the value in it comes from is those players have that experience of being in the sharp end of competitions and there's not that novelty value or over-excitement from being here.
"There's a real focus in knowing there is more work to do so if anything it probably helps ground the group, looking to some of those guys who have been there before helps everyone and that's their value in this sense."
Looking ahead, even with such a glorious victory to look back on, might just be the best course of action, especially with a storm on the horizon.
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