Alan O’Connor is preparing himself for a “weird” step into the unknown as Ulster do battle with Toulouse over two legs in the Heineken Champions Cup.
Mirroring the aggregate model that football has followed for many decades, rugby will enter a new dawn as the sport follows suit in this month’s round of 16 in Europe.
And that throws up a raft of new calculations as Ulster bid to either win or keep the scoreline close heading back to Belfast following Saturday’s first leg in France.
