Ulster Rugby v Scarlets

IAIN HENDE Last week's bonus point win over the Scarlets in Llanelli was one of the best performances of the season, with Henderson leading from the front with a barnstorming outing. After some up-and-down displays, and results, opponents in the second game of their Heineken Champions Cup back-to-backs. Having been part of the teams that did the December double over Harlequins last season, Henderson knows how to come out on the right side of the results. However, he also has experience of being on the other end.

over the international period - including a reversal to the Scarlets only three weeks previous - the full 80-minute performance had been coming, and Henderson was delighted to see it. "It was great," grins the 26-year-old. "It was good to see some really hard work being done on the training pitch coming together and us getting the reward for it. "I still think there's plenty more to come, the lads have spent a huge amount of time trying to get small improvements on the pitch and internally I've seen them getting better and better, and that's starting to come to fruition on the pitch. "There's many more steps to be taken forward, and I don't think we're nearly halfway done, but we're getting there. We've shown we're capable of producing performances now, the challenge is to do it week-on-week because that's what the top teams do." A good place to start would be following up last week's result with a similar one at Kingspan Stadium tonight over the same

"We've looked back at a few historical games, with Quins being one of them, but we've also talked about Northampton back in 2012 when we went away and picked up a bonus point win and then it was 10-9 in the return game they beat us here," the lock explains. "That week we got complacent, we got the bonus point away and at that time Northampton were one of the powerhouses of European rugby, so we just assumed the Ravenhill crowd would bring the atmosphere and we wouldn't have to add much, and it was complacency was the reason we lost. "That's something that group then was susceptible to, but this group is aware that's not how it's going to be. If anyone would be complacent and say the Scarlets are coming to Kingspan and we're going to beat them, they're definitely not in our squad anyway." The game itself is sure to be a hard-fought battle, with the Scarlets eager to get revenge for their defeat last week on their home

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