‘As dark a changing room as I’ve been in’: Billy Burns gutted after Ulster implosion

Ulster’s Stuart McCloskey at the end of the match. Picture: INPHO/Billy Stickland

‘As dark a changing room as I’ve been in,’ was how fly-half Billy Burns summed up the mood in the Ulster dressing-room after they conceded a stoppage-time try and crashed to a costly 38-34 Champions Cup defeat.

Ulster put themselves in a winning position, recovering from two first-half yellow cards to score 24 unanswered points in the second half to go 10 points in front of Gloucester, before it all went wrong in the closing minutes.