Nathan Johns

Finally, Ulster last night, look, we've kind of interspersed them into this conversation here and it was much hotter last night and Montpellier were probably a better side than anyone who's not been watching the top 14 would realise.

My main takeaway from that, perhaps with too much of a green tinted lens, was that Robert Balogun is just a Rolls Royce of a player.

Yeah, completely.

Yeah, couldn't agree more.

Attack, defence, aerial game, the works.

Thank God he's been fit this year.

They might have made the top eight, albeit Ulster are not shy of good wings.

They're letting Werner Koch go, actually, presumably with one eye on the amount of wingers that they have.

And what was your takeaways from that game last night?

A step too far for Ulster.

In hindsight, it might reflect interestingly on the decision to rest a few players last week for Glasgow because they obviously missed out on top eight as well.

Albeit any chances to go for trophy or dime a dozen, you have to go for them, I think.

But equally, where do they go from here?

Right, we'll leave it there.

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My name is Nathan Johns.

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Cheers.