Ferris: We’re a team to fear

NOT many people speak fondly of Milton Keynes with its endless array of identical roads and roundabouts.

Stephen Ferris’s memories are mixed at best.

He speaks wistfully when he recalls the balmy temperatures pitchside in Buckinghamshire last April. The sun was shining, the mercury touched 22 degrees — maybe even 23 — and Ulster and Northampton knocked heads for a place in the semi-finals of the Heineken Cup.