Ulster hit new heights

IT was meant to be tight, it was meant to be edgy. It was nothing of the sort.

The dreaded rain held off but this was one of those classic Ravenhill evenings in every other sense as the home side claimed four tries and five points whilst all but eliminating the vaunted Tigers from the reckoning in Pool 4.

Eight years ago, Leicester were tamed here when conceding 33 points and scoring none themselves but this trumped that even when the absence of players such as Toby Flood, Manu Tuilagi and Louis Deacon from the travelling XV is factored in.