Coach wants Ulster to nail down top four place

HISTORY, odds, and the venue will all favour a home victory when Ulster host Connacht in tomorrow’s penultimate Magners League fixture.

While Connacht coach Eric Elwood is approaching this game as a cup final to be won, his counterpart Brian McLaughlin is asking for a similar response from his team, having lost their last two matches in the league and Heineken Cup.

“We have to win the last two games, there’s no doubt about that,” says McLaughlin. “At the minute we are not even thinking about the second one. The most important thing for us is to make sure that tomorrow night at Ravenhill we get the result we need.”