Image: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO Image: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO DAN MCFARLAND HAILED the excellence of James Hume’s performance on Friday night, placing the quality of his young centre’s defensive work in the ‘world class’ category.Yet you can see why he is using it now. Hume’s maturation this season has been a stand-out feature of Ulster’s season, the improvement of his decision-making leading to an international cap and now, almost certainly, a place on the plane for this summer’s tour to New Zealand.
“The area of his game that he’s been working on and needs to work in is his distribution skills, his ability to be able to move the ball. “He always has an answer for everything you could ask him and I don’t stop asking him questions because I know he’ll have the answer. “We managed to back up games over the Champions Cup and I’ve never seen backing up games as an issue for us.