With a host of big names returning, tonight’s URC interpro against Munster can represent a new beginning for Ulster.
For Ulster Rugby , there has been a gradual deflation of expectations with a variety of excuses offered up in mitigation over the last 15 years. Until they landed on their most convincing one of all: that Leinster were the best club team in the world, and they were just behind them.
Among that number are cautionary tales. At the end of last season, Craig Gilroy was playing out his days for Bangor Rugby on bare sidelines with no stands, far from the Friday nights when he once lit up Ravenhill. Advertisement And yet, here he was at the end of last season, 32 years old, tropheyless and kicking around being starved of minutes.
“You could ask staff or other players, I was training the last couple of seasons as well as I ever had, but I wasn’t really seeing the return in game-time.”
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