Former Eire Below-20 head coach Murphy, who was given the Ulster job in Could following an interim spell in cost, has presided over an up-and-down begin to the marketing campaign with a gap URC win over Glasgow adopted by back-to-back defeats by the Lions and Bulls.
Regardless of a few adverse leads to South Africa, Murphy says the squad is in “good spirits” forward of a testing encounter in opposition to a Connacht facet who secured spectacular wins over the Sharks and Scarlets after an exhilarating 35-33 loss to Munster.
“We’re coming dwelling to the Kingspan the place all of the lads actually love taking part in,” mentioned Murphy, who will welcome centre Jude Postlethwaite again into the fold after he was launched from Rising Eire obligation earlier this week.
“It is a massive day they usually know that. Connacht are using excessive. Though they misplaced their first sport, they acquired a number of confidence out of that.
“They nonetheless managed to provide Munster the chance to win the sport, which they did, they went away and beat Sharks at dwelling and beat Scarlets away, performed very well though they did give Scarlets an opportunity to win that sport.
“They’re assured, we will see that with the best way they’re talking. We’re concentrating on ourselves and making an attempt to take care of our efficiency which is able to hopefully result in a constructive end result.”