Pete Wilkins says pride is his overwhelming feeling after Connacht staged a sensational second-half comeback to defeat Ulster at The Sportsground.
The province went top of the BKT United Rugby Championship table with their third win in a row, coming from 20-3 down early in the second half to win 22-20.
Connacht had dominated the opening 40 minutes of the game, but found themselves 13-3 behind at the break, before a Dave Shanahan try straight from the restart saw them fall 17 points down after just 41 minutes.
However, tries for Cathal Forde, Tom Farrell and Diarmuid Kilgallen saw the home side complete a brilliant win, and maintain their best start to the season in nine years.
"It's a fantastic result for us," Wilkins (below) said.
"We said to the lads downstairs, there are days when you play great rugby and are entertaining everyone and you earned he right to win in that way, and there are other days when you have to dig in and show a heck of a lot of character to come from behind, and that's what we did today.
"If we can do those things when they're required, the lads will be a good match for anyone.
"I'm really proud of the lads, and I think we deserved the win today, albeit in a different way to the previous weeks."
At times in the second half, it looked like the comeback might just fall short, with Cian Prendergast held up over the line, before Jack Carty saw a penalty attempt drift wide.
But Wilkins praised the resilience of his side as they dug deep to pull out the winning try in the final 10 minutes.
"I think the boys' composure and trust in the way we want to play the game is massive and I think that's when you do start to see momentum turn, I think if you're panicking and trying to pull tries out of nowhere and you're relying on one individual to spark a bit of magic, I think that's when you get those inconsistencies in games.
"For us, when we've clicked we've doubled down on what we're doing well. That shows a maturity about how the lads are approaching the game, but also real belief in how we want to go about it," he added.
Those thoughts were echoed by player of the match Conor Oliver, who said Connacht never panicked even after conceding that second try just after half time.
"Like Peter said, we trust our gameplan, and I didn't think we had to change much," the flanker said.
"The breakdown was a small bit of an issue, we chatted about that, and just said: 'look boys, we trust our gameplan, let's stick to the plan and keep chipping away at it'. It probably wasn't the start we would have wanted but the belief in the group, in everything we're doing here, is massive.
"There was no panic at any point. We believed we were going to win the game, it was just a matter of when."
It was a heartbreaking way for Ulster to lose, after what had been an impressive first 40 minutes from Dan McFarland's side.
The northern province had been depleted with 19 players unavailable before the game, a number that hit 20 just before the game when Will Addison pulled out with a hamstring injury.
"The first half, I thought we were excellent, defensively I thought we were excellent. We'll be gutted in the end that we had opportunities to win that game ourselves," the Ulster coach (above) said.
"We had 20 guys unavailable this week and we'd always decided that this was two six-day turnarounds in a row, so certain guys were going to be brought in to freshen things up and get opportunities, and also because they'd been doing well over pre-season.
"Coming into this game I watched Connacht, I thought they were playing some of the best rugby in the league at the moment. They had nearly as strong a team as they could put out, minus a couple of guys back from the World Cup. We knew it was going to be a big test for us.
"We've come up here in the same situation in previous years and won, and we were confident that that was possible, and proved that it was possible, we just didn't get it over the line."
