No regrets on starting Jackson, says McLaughlin

Had Ulster won, it would have been a storyline squeezed for space by its subplots.

In Brian McLaughlin and Paddy Jackson it had two of the mostintriguing characters — a coach with an uncertain future who put faith in a youngster for the biggest game in the club’s history.

Jackson started only his second Heineken Cup game at Twickenham two days ago and it showed. The ten-minute spell before the break when he failed to tee up a two-man overlap and skewed a simple drop goal wide summed up his afternoon.