Anscombe: We’re now their equal

A year ago, Brian McLaughlin sat in a Twickenham media briefing trying to process a defeat to Leinster in a Heineken Cup final.

Two days ago, his successor did something similar.

That Mark Anscombe was filtering through the ashes of a RaboDirect Pro12 loss rather than that of the European variety suggests that, at first glance, Ulster’s graph has begun to turn in the wrong direction.