Les Kiss: Time to show real Ulster

Les Kiss, Ulster’s Director of Rugby, was asked yesterday if his targets for his side had changed, given the slide from table-toppers to fifth in the Guinness Pro12.

“Yes, I just want to beat Connacht,” he said with a smile, which admitted that three defeats in four had not set up what had seemed an assured top-four finish.

“Look, it is what is, and we have to adapt our targets in the short term, but it hasn’t at all deflected us from the primary aim of a place in the play-offs.