Ulster's defiant Rob Lyttle: 'It's time we stepped up and won it ourselves'

Ulster under head coach Dan McFarland these last two seasons have undergone something of a culture shift that has been reflected by improved performances on the pitch

It was Rob Lyttle’s try that sparked an unlikely semi-final comeback in Edinburgh last weekend but the Ulster wing knows merely reaching the Guinness PRO14 final is only half the job, beating Leinster in Dublin tomorrow a stiffer challenge altogether.

For all the drama of Ulster’s comeback from a 12-0 deficit at Murrayfield last Saturday, sparked by Lyttle’s 53rd-minute dart in off his wing and completed by the goal-kicking heroics of Ian Madigan, the joy at defeating the Conference B winners 22-19 quickly gave way to the reality that the province’s nemesis were the team standing between them and a first trophy since 2006.