When Ulster end their season with their play-off game for next season’s Champions Cup on Sunday, there is a sense that Jono Gibbes will make his way back to the southern hemisphere, pop a couple of beers and wonder what the hell his life had become in Belfast. Ulster’s most bizarre and odd season is lurching to a close with the visit of Ospreys this weekend and their head coach looks like a man who has enjoyed the rugby, but was entirely uncomfortable with the off-field situation, especially the trial in which Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding — now released by the club — were acquitted of all charges, including rape. At Wednesday’s briefing, he was asked a question about the banning of news reporters…

Source: The Times May 16, 2018 23:03 UTC