Ulster v Sharks
Kingspan Stadium, kick-off 7.35pm
It comes down the final round of regulation season games to ease the congestion at the top of the URC table where five teams, including Friday’s combatants, are vying for the three available slots.
With Leinster already assured first place quite the scramble awaits to finalise the league’s top four – one point separates Munster in second from fifth-placed Ulster – with its accompanying reward of an all-important home quarter-final.
Both Ulster and the Sharks can copperfasten a last-eight tie in front of their own supporters should they prevail on Friday evening which almost brings to this first meeting between the sides a sense of knockout rugby about it.
Ulster have not lost to a South African team at the Kingspan over the course of five previous visits being made to Belfast by either the Kings, Cheetahs or Lions but they have not had to deal w …
- May 20, 2022
