ULSTER’S home season closed 24 hours ahead of schedule on Friday, a positive Covid test within their ranks causing the cancellation of their Rainbow Cup tie against Scarlets. In declaring the match a 0-0 draw, the organisers could not have come up with a more appropriate score.
Somehow it seemed the perfect way of summing up Ulster’s season, much ado about nothing-nothing. The same old story now spans the 15 seasons since Ulster last won anything, a dismal track record made all the more so by the tub-thumping promises when Shane Logan landed at Ravenhill as chief executive some ten years a...