NAME: Caolin Blade
DOB: 29/04/1994
POSITION: Scrum-half
DEBUT: v Ospreys (May 2014)
Blade enjoyed one of the best years of his career in 2023/24, scoring nine tries in 24 games, missing only two matches in total.
The scrum-half has scored 49 tries for Connacht, just nine short of Matt Healy's all-time record.
A Pro12 winner with the province in 2016, the Galway man has three Ireland caps, the most recent of which came on the summer tour of South Africa in 2024.
