Few silver linings for Stephen Ferris after latest Ulster loss

Former Ulster and Ireland back row Stephen Ferris admitted it was increasingly difficult to unearth any positives from the province's performances after they made it three defeats from three in the Investec Champions Cup on Saturday.

Ulster raced into a 10-0 lead over Leicester Tigers but ultimately wilted thereafter as the home side ran in six tries to seal a 38-10 victory at Welford Road.

The result leaves Richie Murphy's side without a point from their three pool games so far and needing a sizable points difference turnaround to snatch fourth place in Pool 1 even if they beat the only side below them, Exeter Chiefs, on Friday.

Speaking to RTÉ 2fm's Game On, Ferris outlined the sense of despondency he felt in seeing the province slip to defeat again up close.

"It's starting to get a bit difficult to actually work on the games and commentate on them most weeks," he admitted.

"And I know they got a pretty good result against Connacht in their last fixture - probably in my opinion, Connacht took their eye off the ball and just thought they'd get the job done and Ulster sort of turned up.

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"On Saturday night, they had a Leicester team, they were pretty physical, they matched them in every facet of the game in the first half.

"Handre Pollard, just before half-time, there was a penalty given, he kicked to the corner. (Leicester) ended up going through a few phases and (Josh) Bassett got in on the corner to go in 12-10 at half-time and then Leicester came out in the second half,