Alan Quinlan: Connacht's fairytale season looks set for a happy ending

May 2000. We hadn't expected to get this far. Nor had anyone else. Our first Heineken Cup final. Along the way, we'd beaten Saracens (twice), Stade Francais and Toulouse and here, the night before the final, as we sat down for a group meeting, we were excited about what was up ahead, not thinking about what could go wrong.