Having been deprived of a game last weekend, Ulster’s Harry Sheridan is looking forward to a “massive fixture” against Stade Francais on Saturday at Affidea Stadium (13:00 GMT).<\/p>\n
Second place Ulster take on pool leaders Stade Francais in a top of the table clash in the European Challenge Cup. <\/p>\n
Ulster, who won their opening game against Racing 92, were awarded a 28-0 win and five points last weekend following the weather-enforced cancellation of their game against the Cheetahs in the Netherlands. <\/p>\n
Sheridan says the squad are hoping to bounce back from the frustration of last weekend even though they have already qualified for the next round. <\/p>\n
“We were going over there expecting to do a job. All we wanted to do was go down and play the game and obviously the game was called off last minute, it was unfortunate,” said the 24-year-old second row, who has started nine games for Ulster this season. <\/p>\n
”But we’ll take five points every day of the week and change our focus now to Stade Francais. It’s a massive fixture for us at home in front of our fans. I’m really looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n
Sheridan’s parents were part of Ulster’s travelling support in the Netherlands last weekend and he is hoping Richie Murphy’s side can produce a top performance to make up for last weekend’s disruption. <\/p>\n
”We’ve got to put an even better show on this weekend and really deliver,” added Sheridan. <\/p>\n
“We’re looking to really show them and put in a performance that they can be proud of this weekend. <\/p>\n
”We’re aiming to get the maximum points against a tough opposition. That would put us in a great position to get home, round of 16, quarter, semi-finals going into this Challenge Cup competition, which is so highly revered.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having been deprived of a game last weekend, Ulster’s Harry Sheridan is looking forward to a “massive fixture”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-417722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}