‘We’ve sent big French teams packing before’

ANXIOUS Ulster winger Andrew Trimble came through a last-minute fitness test on a hamstring twinge and is ready to tackle Biarritz at Ravenhill this afternoon.

Trimble features in an unchanged back-line in the season-defining game and hopes to help this Ulster team to shrug off the past and finally achieve glory of their own.

“To be honest I was (a) little anxious about my injury. I just felt the hamstring tighten against Treviso and came off. The scan showed there was no real damage, but you always wonder. Now I just want to get out there and allow people to forget about the triumphs of the Ulster side 11 years ago,” said Trimble, who is continually reminded of how the 1999 team defeated Toulouse twice, Stade Francais and Colomiers on their way to European glory.