Grounds for excitement at Ravenhill

Shane Logan and David Humphreys are overseeing a radical overhaul of Ulster rugby and its future ambitions — the physical manifestation of which is a €40m refit of Ravenhill, writes Rod Nawn.

Tomorrow evening, Ulster will meet Saracens in yet another Heineken Cup quarter-final at Ravenhill.

The province has hurried in the last decade to match the successes — on and off the field — which it has envied and admired in Leinster and in Munster. As testament to its ambition, the stadium which welcomes the English Premiership leaders is unrecognisable from the forbidding ground of old.