Ian Madigan

Performance against Connacht fell way below their kind of average standard from this year.

granted they had a few injuries like McCluskey was a big loss James Hume another big loss and you're ending up like with you know a bit less experience than the likes of Ben Carson in the centre Stockdale in the centre as well yeah which I don't know if he'd ever played centre before I don't remember it anyway no he's played there a little bit but not yeah probably a good few years ago but

But yeah, look, they were poor that day.

At least they've bounced back.

And look, that's Zebra away fixture.

The way Zebra play, they don't really contest the breakdown.

They fill the field.

They just really frustrate you.

They don't engage you defensively.

So you'll always see a few teams trip themselves up over there in Zebra.

But this is a game that Ulster really should be winning and they'll be eyeing up going all the way in this competition.

Yeah.

No, the gas thing is with the Challenge Cup, everyone will say, oh, have a crack at it.

Everyone wants to win it.

You're in it.

And winning that competition, you see a lot of the teams that have won the Challenge Cup in previous years have gone on to be Champions Cup contenders the following year.

Winning is a habit.

When Munster were in the Challenge Cup and they lost to Harlequins, they wanted to win that competition.

When I was in it with Ulster and we lost to Leicester away, we wanted to win that this year.

We were beating Ferran Square.