Les Kiss well aware Ulster must step it up

Ulster’s coaching team are only too well aware that they will need to improve their overall game if they are to get their Champions Cup venture off to a winning start at Bordeaux-Begles on Sunday.

Director of rugby Les Kiss was fairly scathing of his side after they lost 30-25 to Connacht in Galway after not turning up in the opening quarter of the game.

Kiss says it is the one very potent part of playing in France in that you hit the opposition hard in the opening minutes and let them know you are there.