Ibanez backs Ulster to join Euro big guns

HEINEKEN CUP winner Raphael Ibanez believes that three Irish provinces will create history by making it to the last eight of the tournament this year.

The ex-Wasps and French hooker reckons Ulster will join Leinster and Munster, who are six and five points clear in their pools respectively, in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals this time around.

“When they beat Clermont at home in round one, that must have given their confidence a massive boost and although Clermont have the potential to qualify they have so many injuries that it could play into Ulster’s hands,” says Ibanez.