Munster vs Ulster, Sat 28th April, 5:35pm; TG4/BBCNI/Sky

Clegg

Ulster have been woeful this half.

budhabob

Ulster

Woeful attempt of a drop goal.

budhabob

Ulster

Arnold has been class in support / defense today

Clegg

Ulster are so underpowered. They started that attack 10m from Munsters line and ended 5m outside their 22.

awec

That was pathetic at the end. Not a single metre gained in all those phases and then a crap line out.

bilston

BOD

Why didn't Hanrahan play on?

bilston

BOD

awec wrote: »

That was pathetic at the end. Not a single metre gained in all those phases and then a crap line out.

Lack of ideas. But to be fair we lost a lot of big players during the match. The lineout was a shambles.

Larbre34

Ulster

awec wrote: »

That was pathetic at the end. Not a single metre gained in all those phases and then a crap line out.

Did you have that pre-typed? Not that I blame you.

leakyboots

Grobler was fantastic the second half, would love to see him with us next season

MJohnston

Ulster

Not a hint of smart rugby at all from Ulster, just one out, one out, one out. To be expected perhaps when Marshall is on. Can't win on emotion alone.

Clegg

Munster looked just as poor though.

Under Foley, Erasmus and now Van Graan they still haven't developed an attacking plan that involves moving the ball.

leakyboots

leakyboots wrote: »

Grobler was fantastic the second half, would love to see him with us next season

Not a hope in hell with the media outcry unfortunately

Larbre34

Ulster

"If you can't f***in dominate your own set piece, you don't deserve to get anything out of the game" - Alan O'Connor, live to camera.

Indeed.

joseywhales

BOD

Clegg wrote: »

Munster looked just as poor though.

Under Foley, Erasmus and now Van Graan they still haven't developed an attacking plan that involves moving the ball.

Nah, consistently top four in europe

mfceiling

Didn't see the game as I was in town getting a massage.
Pretty similar outcome there as well....no happy ending.

Larbre34

Ulster

mfceiling wrote: »

Didn't see the game as I was in town getting a massage.
Pretty similar outcome there as well....no happy ending.

Theres a comment you'd never see in the Soccer forum.

Did your masseuse, Bruce, have a busy schedule or something?

Clegg

joseywhales wrote: »

Clegg wrote: »

Munster looked just as poor though.

Under Foley, Erasmus and now Van Graan they still haven't developed an attacking plan that involves moving the ball.

Nah, consistently top four in europe

That doesn't refute anything I just said.

Munster have an effective way of playing. But I think they're extremely poor at identifying opportunities to attack. Then when the bludgeon doesn't work, as seen against Saracens and Racing, Munster struggle.

Wegians89

How did Copeland get on?

joseywhales

BOD

Clegg wrote: »

joseywhales wrote: »

Clegg wrote: »

Munster looked just as poor though.

Under Foley, Erasmus and now Van Graan they still haven't developed an attacking plan that involves moving the ball.

Nah, consistently top four in europe

That doesn't refute anything I just said.

Munster have an effective way of playing. But I think they're extremely poor at identifying opportunities to attack. Then when the bludgeon doesn't work, as seen against Saracens and Racing, Munster struggle.

Yeah fair enough they are not the good enough to be the best team in Europe but I think that expectation is unrealistic given their resources, they might get lucky if they can remain consistent.

Bridge93

Wegians89 wrote: »

How did Copeland get on?

One of munsters better players again

Wegians89

Bridge93 wrote: »

One of munsters better players again

Good thing to hear

Tigerandahalf

Munster's backup is pretty poor. Too many sub standard players.
If Murray leaves for France after 2019 they will be very lacking in quality. Outside of Stander Conway and Murray they are very bare. Maybe Farrell will return and be a big player for them.

I have never been gone on their style of play. Too many one out runners and box kicks with the ball forever at the bottom of the ruck. S African coaches seem to fit in well with their style.

Whatever about coaching though they need a few other players to come in to add some quality. A couple of big ball carriers in the pack and a quality 10 especially is needed.

I see on bbcni they are saying Ulster have appointed a head coach - a big name apparently.

mfceiling

Larbre34 wrote: »

Theres a comment you'd never see in the Soccer forum.

Did your masseuse, Bruce, have a busy schedule or something?

Leeanne actually...

LuckyGent88

Well it turned out to be a fairly exciting and close contest. Our forwards were bullied in the first half but Archer made a huge difference in the second.

But it plain and obvious to see what Munsters issue is and that’s in the backs. We are just so disorganised and ineffective. Today you can put a good lot of that down to the players not being that familiar with each other but in saying that they were very poor.

The speed of possession, the standing still when receiving the ball, the poor lateral running lines and to me the most important part that is leading to the poor back play is the quality of passing. So many passes today were either the wrong height or behind our players.

A serious review of our attack is needed in the off season.

bilston

BOD

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Munster's backup is pretty poor. Too many sub standard players.
If Murray leaves for France after 2019 they will be very lacking in quality. Outside of Stander Conway and Murray they are very bare. Maybe Farrell will return and be a big player for them.

I have never been gone on their style of play. Too many one out runners and box kicks with the ball forever at the bottom of the ruck. S African coaches seem to fit in well with their style.

Whatever about coaching though they need a few other players to come in to add some quality. A couple of big ball carriers in the pack and a quality 10 especially is needed.

I see on bbcni they are saying Ulster have appointed a head coach - a big name apparently.

Bryn Cunningham said nothing about a big name. He said it was the person they wanted.

phog

For a game that the result didn't matter to Munster I was delighted to see us go for the draw and then defend those last few minutes as if it was life or death.

Ben Whitehouse has not developed as a ref - he was so poor on Saturday.

I hope Henderson is ok but he did look a tad uncomfortable leaving the field on Saturday.

leakyboots

Was I the only one disappointed to see us kick it out at the end? We're on our own patch, nothing to play for, we should have had a go

sydthebeat

BOD

thank god someone did, the quality of rugby up to then was dire......

leakyboots

Poor enough at times alright, but it was an exciting match to be fair

phog

leakyboots wrote: »

Was I the only one disappointed to see us kick it out at the end? We're on our own patch, nothing to play for, we should have had a go

Kicking it out was absolutely the right thing to do, one turnover and Ulster might well have scored their 4th try.

yosser hughes

phog wrote: »

Kicking it out was absolutely the right thing to do, one turnover and Ulster might well have scored their 4th try.

So what if they did? Kicking it out was strange. Losing or drawing made no difference. Might as well have a go and try to win.

phog

yosser hughes wrote: »

So what if they did? Kicking it out was strange. Losing or drawing made no difference. Might as well have a go and try to win.

Winning made no difference either so why should we play on risk an injury or give them the hope of getting into the playoffs by playing on after the 80th minute.


Wrapping it up as soon the clock turned 80 was 100% the right call.

No one ever

No one ever wrote:

I'll never understand why they didn't just kick it out at the 80. Earls never would have gotten injured if they had just booted it into the stands

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