Head coach Richie Murphy says Ulster must try to “get back to where we were pre-Christmas” before Friday’s United Rugby Championship [URC] trip to Edinburgh (19:45 GMT).<\/p>\n
Ulster have had promising season, but their momentum has stalled with two defeats in their past three games.<\/p>\n
Friday’s game is a rearranged match after the 3 October fixture was postponed because of Storm Amy.<\/p>\n
“I still think it’s key to mention that we’re still very much a work in progress. We still have quite a young squad, developing and learning,” Murphy told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n
“Our performances here at home have probably been better than some of our performances away. <\/p>\n
“We focus on ourselves and trying to tidy up our set-piece and also get back to where we were pre-Christmas. Once we were getting into the 22, we were really efficient and scoring a lot of tries. So that’s where we need to get back to.”<\/p>\n
Edinburgh sit 12th in the table, 13 points behind sixth-placed Ulster, but the Scots boosted their play-offs hopes with victory over Scarlets last time out. <\/p>\n
Friday’s hosts have won the past two meetings with Ulster, including a 47-17 victory last season. <\/p>\n
“[It’s a] tough task at the weekend, to go away to Edinburgh, they’re scrapping for points as well,” added Murphy.<\/p>\n
“The great thing for us is we’re back on to a nice firm surface, which suits the style we want to try and play.<\/p>\n
“I suppose it’s a prequel to the main event maybe, on Saturday afternoon [when Ireland face Scotland], and what a game that will be. It’ll be really exciting to see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Richie Murphy says Ulster must try to “get back to where we were pre-Christmas” before Friday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}