Cooney ready to grasp opportunity after injury-laden start to season

John Cooney scores Ulster's opening try during the Rugby Championship Quarter-Final between Ulster and Munster at Kingspan Stadium in Belfast. Photo by John Dickson/Sportsfile

The injuries that frustrated him at the start of the season are having a pay-off now with John Cooney feeling fresher than he has ever done in a knockout rugby environment.

The Ulster scrum half will run out in front of a sellout partisan home crowd in Cape Town this afternoon for a URC semi-final against the Stormers after declaring himself ‘full of running’.