Best: Ulster focused on ending French away-day blues

SKIPPER Simon Best wants Ulster to break the French hoodoo during Sunday’s trip to Toulouse to end a dismal Heineken Cup campaign on a high.

Fri, 19 Jan, 2007 - 00:00
James Matthews

Ulster have failed to win in any of their six sojourns to France, with the best a 70-point share of the spoils with the weekend’s opponents back in 2002.

Best will lead what is expected to be the same side that threw in the towel against Llanelli last week, although coach Mark McCall still believes scrum-half Isaac Boss has an outside chance to playing.

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