There will be a first-time winner of the United Rugby Championship (URC) after Saturday’s final in Dublin and there will also be one team facing the reality that their status as nearly men in the battle for silverware is starting to become properly entrenched.

That there’d be a first-time winner became apparent when the reigning champions, Glasgow Warriors, were knocked out by Leinster in the first semifinal at the weekend, thus leaving the Bulls and Sharks to play it out at Loftus to see who would be heading to Croke Park this Saturday as rank underdogs...

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