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ULSTER V NORTHAMPTON

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  • #102
    Digifriendly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭Digifriendly


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    northampton really upped it in the last 20 and ulster fell apart.

    the first half ulster were on top but had no answer to the power play from the saints in the second half.

    i think it would have been a different game had darcy not dropped the ball and put trimble in the corner.

    the thing that will most annoy ulster is that they did alot of very good things but through silly mistakes (the saints first try for example) let the game drift away from them! they lost their cool and their focus too.

    Think it was Danielli and not Trimble outside him.


  • #103
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Digifriendly wrote: »
    Think it was Danielli and not Trimble outside him.

    yeah i think you're right.


  • #104
    danthefan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭danthefan


    Jaysus with McIlroy imploding this is a rubbish day for Ulster sports.

    Ulster have too many ordinary players in their team imo, the better side won really.


  • #105
    JustinDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    danthefan wrote: »
    Jaysus with McIlroy imploding this is a rubbish day for Ulster sports.

    Ulster have too many ordinary players in their team imo, the better side won really.
    The difference is that those players, foreigners included, represent and ply for Ulster. McIlroy represents and plays for ... McIlroy.


  • #106
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,617 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    JustinDee wrote: »
    The difference is that those players, foreigners included, represent and ply for Ulster. McIlroy represents and plays for ... McIlroy.

    McIlroy has represented Ireland as both a professional and an amateur, both at World Cups and the Walker and Ryder cups.


  • #107
    JustinDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    copacetic wrote: »
    McIlroy has represented Ireland as both a professional and an amateur, both at World Cups and the Walker and Ryder cups.
    In the likes of the majors and Masters, players are playing for themselves to win honours and prize money and no-one else.


  • #108
    JustinDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    By the way, I don't mean that he does it selfishly. Just that in a competition like the Masters, where a player comes from is incidental.


  • #109
    funky penguin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    Very cynical way of looking at it tbh, an Irish player winning at the Masters is great to see for the country. Of course Irish people support him at tournaments like that purely for his nationality. We want to see our sports men and women do well. Encourages people here to take up teh sport etc.


  • #110
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    JustinDee wrote: »
    By the way, I don't mean that he does it selfishly. Just that in a competition like the Masters, where a player comes from is incidental.

    That's like saying, in the Heineken Cup Ulster players play for Ulster and just Ulster, the fact that they're from Ireland is incidental.

    Its rubbish. The Ulster players would have sat down and watched Leinster and Munster win in Europe this weekend and would have been looking to continue the Irish winning ways.

    Just as Rory McIlroy would have looked to Harrington and McDowell for inspiration going into today.

    Nationality is never incidental for Irish athletes.


  • #111
    Clara Clean Soy
    Posts: 0 ✭ Clara Clean Soy


    No, he's completely right. Today wasn't a team game. It was Rory vs The World.

    Its silly to compare allegiances of team sports and singular sports.

    When he played for the Ireland golf team, that was a completely different matter, same with the Ryder Cup teams.

    Its just how it works, nothing wrong with it!


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