Ulster look to learn from Gloucester

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"We can go into work on Monday morning at look at it and see how we can be more like Gloucester," admitted Trimble.

"There is a lot of truth in saying that we admired them, we will look at it and struggle to get much out of what we did. We can look at how powerful an clinical Gloucester were in the first 25 minutes.

"After that they took their foot off the pedal and we managed to get ourselves back in a bit, but in the second half we felt as though we were banging our heads against a brick wall.

"We made little mistakes in their 22 and it was seven points at the other end, it is soul destroying when that happens.

"I do not think we have come up against anything like that before, we made mistakes and then it was not even a phase later - it was the same phase that they scored.

"I take my hat off to them, they had an awful lot of pace in their back three and a fair bit of power on the left wing as well."

Ulster forwards coach Steve Williams admitted his players were low on confidence going into the game, but was pleased with the way they bounced back from the early onslaught.

"As a group of players they stuck together well and salvaged a couple of tries," said Williams.

"Playing into the wind and the rain second half was always going to be too much. You cannot make mistakes at this level, you get punished by a side of the calibre of Gloucester."