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Ulster Team Talk Thread IV... Go On My Henderson...

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    #4802
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,655 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    This is boys against men stuff unfortunately now.


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    #4803
    Utah_Saint
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Utah_Saint


    Basically played 30mins against 14 men and being beaten easily...what a waste of a carry out...


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    #4804
    launish116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭launish116


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    This is boys against men stuff unfortunately now.

    Elephant in the room on show for all once again!


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    #4805
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,655 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Much better start so far. Hopefully they can keep this tempo and intensity


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    #4806
    Garda Kenny
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 108 ✭✭Garda Kenny


    Tackling is shocking.....


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    #4807
    realhorrorshow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭realhorrorshow


    Awful defence from Lowry, biting in on Tuala who had already been tackled and was on the way to the deck. He hasn't been good tonight, reminds me a bit of Jordan Larmour a few years ago trying to do far too much every time he gets the ball.


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    #4808
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,762 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    That was really poor from Lowry. Ulster have been much better this half but need to find a score from somewhere.


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    #4809
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,762 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    molloyjh wrote: »
    That was really poor from Lowry. Ulster have been much better this half but need to find a score from somewhere.

    You're welcome folks! :pac:


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    #4810
    clsmooth
    Registered Users Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    Is it just me or has Jordi Murphy put on a bit of beef over the past year?


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    #4811
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,655 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    That's the Stockdale we all know and love.


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    #4812
    launish116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭launish116


    Who is this Andrew Warwick?


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    #4813
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,762 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    This is the Ulster I was expecting. Saints look shot and Ulster look like they could play for another hour.


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    #4814
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,375 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    Ulster doing a Leinster here. :)


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    #4815
    Locke_Lamora
    Registered Users Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭Locke_Lamora


    Hume with some lovely lines tonight and I've enjoyed Baloucoune deciding that he's good in the air all of a sudden.

    Lowry was poor, and the team has been a bit awful as well tbh. Backrow needs upgraded, no turnover threat or carrying apart from the odd game from timoney


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    #4816
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,762 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Locke_Lamora wrote: »
    Hume with some lovely lines tonight and I've enjoyed Baloucoune deciding that he's good in the air all of a sudden.

    Lowry was poor, and the team has been a bit awful as well tbh.

    Its a game Ulster could have lost but didn't. That in itself is good enough, especially at this stage of the season.


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    #4817
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,375 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    clsmooth wrote: »
    Is it just me or has Jordi Murphy put on a bit of beef over the past year?
    He has that John Travolta return to the big screen thing going on alright. :D


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    #4818
    realhorrorshow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭realhorrorshow


    Tom O'Toole was really good off the bench.


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    #4819
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,655 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Second half was like watching a completely different team.

    Thought Timoney had a decent game, he's just that bit too light though, if he had an extra 10kg on him I reckon he'd be exactly what Ulster need as a Coetzee replacement


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    #4820
    Utah_Saint
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Utah_Saint


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    Second half was like watching a completely different team.

    Thought Timoney had a decent game, he's just that bit too light though, if he had an extra 10kg on him I reckon he'd be exactly what Ulster need as a Coetzee replacement

    Player size obviously makes a difference but Ulster pack aren't lightweight. I honestly believe it's a mix of coaching and most importantly Attitude. Leinster aren't a massive pack but you never see them give less than 100%. Their 1st, 2nd and 3rds are relentless. We need to bottle some of that


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    #4821
    awec
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    clsmooth wrote: »
    Is it just me or has Jordi Murphy put on a bit of beef over the past year?

    He definitely has. Looks a bit overweight to be to be totally honest.


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    #4822
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    awec wrote: »
    He definitely has. Looks a bit overweight to be to be totally honest.

    His hair alone probably weighs about 5 kilos

    Timoney is a lot more powerful than he used to be.

    Was that Hume's best game for Ulster tonight? I thought he was really good.

    Ulster played very well in the last quarter, before that it was pretty ragged.

    Not perfect, but beating a strong Northampton away from home by more than a score and not playing at our best is a pretty satisfying night's work.

    No doubt we'll get Montpellier away in the semi final...


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    #4823
    sydthebeat
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    If only every overweight player got motm every game, I'd double my size on medals....

    Jordi was class tonight.... hungry, effective, solid..... he wouldn't have been out of place starting 2.5 hours earlier.

    Ulster have the attacking prowess of a top European team, but a defence more a kin to French team than Irish.


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    #4824
    Paul Smeenus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Paul Smeenus


    The definition of "a game of two halves".

    We lose the first half, when the Saints have three yellow cards, and are down to 13 men at one point.

    The second half, which is resolutely 15 v 15, we mince them, initially with the same pack that looked positively soft in the first 40.

    Frenetic and frantic when they'd players off, methodical and clinical in the second half.

    Lowry wasn't great - a bit too determined to make something happen when nothing was on - and our backrow was outplayed.

    MOTM was Hume, by a distance. Also,Marty Moore was great, which he often is for us.


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    #4825
    Utah_Saint
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Utah_Saint


    If we get more than one brief mention on Off The Ball tomorrow morning then we know we have made it to the top table of Irish rugby...


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    #4826
    Paul Smeenus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Paul Smeenus


    Utah_Saint wrote: »
    If we get more than one brief mention on Off The Ball tomorrow morning then we know we have made it to the top table of Irish rugby...

    Running order:
    Leinster's amazing comeback
    Ronan O'Gara's La Rochelle (c)
    Where are Munster players going on their holidays - anywhere nice?
    Connacht A Vs Leinster A
    Women's Six Nations


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    #4827
    KaneToad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,337 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Paul Smeenus wrote: »
    Running order:
    Leinster's amazing comeback
    Ronan O'Gara's La Rochelle (c)
    Where are Munster players going on their holidays - anywhere nice?
    Connacht A Vs Leinster A
    Women's Six Nations

    An interview with the new groundsman from Clontarf RFC...


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    #4828
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,236 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    KaneToad wrote: »
    An interview with the new groundsman from Clontarf RFC...

    Sounds like someone hasn't seen the state of the back pitch. Questions need to be answered.


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    #4829
    Paul Smeenus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Paul Smeenus


    Having said that, I think some kind of thorough, hard-nosed journalistic investigation into some of the haircuts in that Exeter pack is definitely called for.


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    #4830
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Utah_Saint wrote: »
    If we get more than one brief mention on Off The Ball tomorrow morning then we know we have made it to the top table of Irish rugby...

    Last week Keith Wood did discuss Ulster for a bit on the AM show. Interestingly it wasn't Ger Gilroy presenting, it was the other guy Eoin. Not sure if that's a coincidence or not.


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    #4831
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Paul Smeenus wrote: »
    Lowry wasn't great - a bit too determined to make something happen when nothing was on - and our backrow was outplayed.

    MOTM was Hume, by a distance. Also,Marty Moore was great, which he often is for us.

    Agree with all that. Hume was excellent, but Marty Moore was everywhere. Agree Lowry didn't have his best night.

    I see Dan said they hoped to have a couple of players back for the semi final. I wonder if Addison is one of them. Hopefully him, Hendy and Carter are available. Not sure where we are with McGrath and Marshall?


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