Ian Madigan

It's a killer for Ulster, the injuries to the key guys that Rudd has spoken through.

Montpellier are a good side.

They're coming second in the top four teams, which is no mean feat.

When you're analysing Montpellier, there's not a whole lot there.

It's power, mull, they have raw speed, good offloading game.

Ulster will be confident that they'll be able to unlock them defensively.

as in unlock their defence and Ulster's attack has been their real strength this season and even you look at against top opposition over the last few weeks Stormers, Glasgow they've done enough with their attack to win those games and then even their attack against Leinster now I know the game was largely lost before the Ulster attack clicked into gear

They played some really nice rugby and then the second string team that went down to Munster also put together some really good attacking passages of play.

The issue for Ulster is defensively.

And when you're coming up against these powerful French opposition and you don't stop them dead on the first, second phase, they just roll on.

And before you know it, it's gone five, seven, nine phases.

You're in behind your posts.

And no one has made a glaringly obvious missed tackle, but it's just soaking up yards, pressure.

You're on the back foot.

You can't get reset.

You can't get off the line.

So for Ulster to win this game, I think they need to change what they're doing defensively and fire some shots on those first few phases to really shock Montpellier.

And they're going to need to do that as well for 80 minutes because their attack...

it is a tiring system to run, and then that's leaving them kind of fatigued when they're defending.

So that's a big area of improvement for this Ulster team, both for this final, but also as they progress next year.