Kingspan men know they need a sharper edge, maintains Peel

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Ulster are still without the likes of Robbie Diack, Jean Deysel, Luke Marshall and long-term absentees Jared Payne and Marcell Coetzee.

Having only scraped by in recent wins over Benetton and Southern Kings, Peel is calling on his side to be considerably sharper in their first visit to his Welsh homeland this season.

“It’s the execution of many things,” he said when asked where improvements were required. “We have been making a lot of line breaks and it is about executing beyond that, we have looked at that as one thing. From last week’s game, the execution of our kicking game in the second half (was poor).

“(Benetton) kept us in our own half and it was our inability to exit that put the pressure on us.

“I didn’t think the decisions to kick at the time were a bad thing, it was the right call, but we had three or four kicks on the spin which put us under pressure.

“We could not release pressure and get out of our own half like we had done in the first half. I think if we had managed to do that we would have been able to exert a bit more pressure.

“There were three or four kicks on the spin that were not good enough. It does not take a rocket scientist to see that, and the players see that as well. They have worked hard this week as well. It is a case of saying, ‘yeah, we will do that better and we will go out and practice and work hard at getting that better’.”