Toulouse v Ulster match thread.

TRC10

Burns off the hook big time there

pickarooney

Who needs 50-22 when you can just claim the lineout anyway?

crisco10

Ulster should tap this penalty ??

Edit. What do I know

awec

Very smart by Jordi Murphy to just shift that on.

Shehal

Try! Game is definetly there for the taking for Ulster.

TRC10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903379#Comment_118903379

It's not the throws. Arnold is reading Henderson's calls to a tee.

crisco10

Please ulster, don't **** the bed.

Barnes is letting Toulouse away with an awful lot. Might suit Ulster in the end as these long plays will surely take the legs out of Toulouse

corny

Is the co-commentator saying cereal Baille?

AbusesToilets

Get in!

Shehal

Gwan Baloucoune!!!!!!!!! Hat-rick!

corny

French director trying hard to influence the decision.

ongarite

He could be offside.

Got to be the most toxic home crowd I've heard in a while

AbusesToilets

got away with that one

Clegg

Toulouse are a bit of a rabble tbh. They've struggled badly in the last few months. This will be their 9th loss in their last 13 matches.

They're incredibly inaccurate in their play and make so many mistakes.

OldRio

Sweet. Hat trick it is.

Former Former Former

That is the freakiest of freak injuries. Jesus

TRC10

Baloucoune you fukcing beaut. He's been absolutely phenomenal today. His tries will get the headlines, but defensively he's been brilliant too. He reads the game so well, such an intelligent rugby player. Combine that with electric pace and you've got some player.

Dupont has had an absolute mare today, it has to be said.

stephen_n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903468#Comment_118903468

Think I’d still far rather Ulster than them in a knockout game.

letowski

Toulouse have been very poor this evening. Ulster should look for the juggler and they can extend this lead even further.

Strumms

Never a penalty

stephen_n

Warwick very lucky not to be pinged for holding on.

Dupont is ridiculously skillful.

Clegg

Wow

Toulouse bottled winning that game

awec

Tried our best to throw that away.

AbusesToilets

Ulster barely scrapped that. Very poor overall given the advantage they had.

A-Train

Ulster nearly lost it at the end.

Great result. And I think Ulster would have been right in it even without the red. Set up beautifully for next week.

stephen_n

As poor as Toulouse have been Ulster have absolutely failed to put them away. Against 15 men I can’t see them beating them.

crisco10

Ulster just kept kicking the ball to toulouse there. Was infuriating, they felt their way into the game via all the possession.

TRC10

Very poor result for Ulster.

14 man Toulouse were dreadful, that tie should be done and dusted. Ulster needed to make hay there in in the last 20. But Toulouse could very easily win by 6 next week. Ulster would really have you pulling your hair out.

corny

Both sides gave everything to that. Credit to them.

Ulster should win next week. The influence of the crowd on that game can't be understated.

letowski

Still to win in Toulouse is an achievement. Though a 6 point advantage feels a little like a pyrrhic victory.

Clegg

Interesting that the away side has won every game in the round of 16 so far.

Up to Munster to keep the run going.

awec

I’d have taken a 6 point advantage before the game. No question!!

Well beat them in Belfast IMO.

pickarooney

There are some giant Aussie locks playing in France. Does anyone know the current rules about playing for the Wallabies?

Thrashssacre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903569#Comment_118903569

They changed it recently so Skelton and Arnold have been playing for them the past year.

AbusesToilets

For a team with such physically large centers, Ulster really struggle to commit defenders. They weren't consistently compressing Toulouse's defensive line.

bilston

I can't believe the negative narrative about Ulster in this thread (well.I can actually because it always happens), but it just baffles me.

Great to take any kind of lead back to Belfast.

The other Irish wingers must be sensational to be keeping Baloucoune out of the team.

Great result.

bilston

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903542#Comment_118903542

Absolute nonsense.

Any win in Toulouse is a fantastic outcome.

clsmooth

Excellent result for Ulster. Great opportunity next week 😀

vienne86

Who got MOTM?

pickarooney

Baloucoune

A-Train

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903725#Comment_118903725

Baloucoune did I think

TRC10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903639#Comment_118903639

When you put it like that it sounds lovely, but that's not the full story.

Against 14 men playing terribly, in the first leg of a two-legged knockout game, a 6 point lead is a poor return, especially when they had a 13 point lead at one stage. This tie should be over, but Ulster have allowed Toulouse a chance next week.

I still think Ulster will go through, but they've made it difficult for themselves.

crisco10

Balacoune is class. So athletic.

Paul Smeenus

I'll take that. Would have been nice to prevent that Ntamack try at the end, but we have it all to play for now.

Just need to resource our rucks better, sort out lineout and try to bring Lowry onto the ball more.

Well done on the scrummaging as well - I thought we'd be toast there. All four props - most significantly EOS and O'Toole - held their own. Did we march them back in one and earn a penalty as well?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903542#Comment_118903542

Very poor result for Ulster.

WTF am I reading. Total nonsense.

Paul Smeenus

Fairly typical nonsense. I think Ulster can be happiest with their position out of all the provinces. That's the current champions we're talking about, with a six point win away from home for us. I wish we'd made more out of it, but bloody hell - this is a team that just got ten players back from an international side that won a Six Nations Grand Slam. It's an ask to win anything away to them.

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118906607#Comment_118906607

Even their non internationals are freakishly good. Those 2 Arnolds and that absolutely massive aussie lock they have were pests all day.

That lock is possibly the biggest unit I've ever seen.