Ulster suffer another dose of the Blues

Leinster 19 Ulster 6

This loss wasn’t nearly as seminal as the defeats inflicted on the northern branch in the 2012 Heineken Cup and 2013 RaboDirect Pro12 finals but, in its own way, it demonstrated again just how far the pretenders still have to go.

Expanding the depth of his squad was a stated aim for Mark Anscombe when he arrived in the country 18 months ago and, though he has gone some distance towards doing just that, he is a way off matching Leinster’s.