Rúaidhrí O'Connor

I think their first six visits to the 22 they came away with either five or seven points and it was mostly seven-pointers and some of their finishing was exceptional.

You're right, their pack got on top.

Not from the off, because Ulster had these three minutes where they could dare to dream when Nick Timoney scored a try and they won loads of collisions.

But I'm sure we'll have talked about it when it comes to the Champions Cup final, but the conditions last night here at San Mami Stadium were stifling.

And while it didn't seem to affect Montpellier that much, they seemed to thrive really in them.

You could see, after that opening salvo, the energy levels of the Ulster team

were just affected completely by the stifling temperatures.

There was fireworks at the start and the smoke lingered, the smell lingered within the stadium.

It was so oppressively hot and that has to have had an effect.

Yeah, and I think when they really have the overall reflection, and Murphy made the point that no one, was it 54 points they got in the URC?

And no one's ever not made the playoffs with 54 points, and it's an improvement on last year.

I think he was right to highlight the number of players they had in the Ireland camp.

It has been a season of some progress,

But to finish it as it has, it's a real damn squib.

And it's really those three games against well-shot position in mid-season when they kind of lost their way in the URC, as well as that Leinster game where Leinster sent up a second string and bullied them for 50 minutes.

And Ulster rallied, but it was all too late.

We saw the best of Ulster in some of the tries that they scored.

The Balakun score was an exceptional try.

kind of the one bright spark.

Isachukwu had his moment, a lovely kind of gamble through the middle of the Montpellier defence, just showed that Montpellier were gettable if you got your lines of running right, but too often there was just a lack of fizz about the way Ulster carried.