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

Think his caps total is low because he got injured at precisely the wrong time on a few occasions

Is Sexton on a senior deal. His pace is something Ulster need to embrace.

Fantastic bit of business from Ulster signing their young guns on long term deals early.

Shows a lot of faith in them which can only benefit both parties.

But there is also a culture build going in there. It wasn't too long ago Ulster were fielding a majority starting 15 that were developed elsewhere. Now they've young local poster boys coming left right and centre and it's fantastic to see and hopefully will benefit them all the way down to grass roots.

Well, we've got young Sean Refell arriving from Saracens next season (and he's IQ).

Ulster team to play Toulouse, Heineken Champions Cup Round of 16 Second Leg, Saturday 16 April at Kingspan Stadium, 8pm kick-off, live on BT Sport, beIN Sports, and Sky Italia:

(15-9) Mike Lowry, Rob Baloucoune, James Hume, Stuart McCloskey, Ethan McIlroy, Billy Burns, John Cooney

(1-8) Andrew Warwick, Rob Herring, Marty Moore, Alan O’Connor, Iain Henderson (Capt.), Marcus Rea, Nick Timoney, Duane Vermeulen

Replacements: Brad Roberts, Eric O’Sullivan, Tom O’Toole, Kieran Treadwell, Jordi Murphy, Nathan Doak, Luke Marshall, Rob Lyttle.

STADE TOULOUSAIN (6-2 bench split)

15. Thomas Ramos, 14. Dimitri Delibes, 13. Tim Nanai-Williams, 12. Pita Ahki, 11. Matthis Lebel, 10. Romain Ntamack, 9. Antoine Dupont (c), 1. Rodrigue Neti, 2. Peato Mauvaka, 3. Charlie Faumuina, 4. Rory Arnold, 5. Richie Arnold, 6. Rynhardt Elstadt, 7. Anthony Jelonch, 8. Selevasio Tolofua.

Replacements:

16. Guillaume Cramont, 17. David Ainu'u, 18. Dorian Aldegheri, 19. Emmanuel Meafou, 20. Thibaud Flament, 21. Antoine Miquel, 22. Baptiste Germain, 23. Lucas Tauzin,

HAVE AT THEE!!!!!

This is just my opinion and it may be unpopular but I think people are going very easy on Ulster. I personally think Ulster have a better team and a better coach than Munster, but if Munster lost that tie from the position Ulster were in, they'd get absolutely slaughtered. Whereas Ulster are getting patted on the back for a brave effort.

They should have won that tie. Toulouse weren't particularly good in either game and had 14 men for the vast majority of the first game. They've not had a good season and their away form is awful. Ulster put themselves in positions of great strength in both games but allowed Toulouse back into it in both. There was some braindead errors and decisions from experienced, key players like Henderson and Cooney. O'Toole's red card was stupid and very avoidable. Toulouse were on the ropes and completely rattled, a team with a killer instinct would have finished them off. And until Ulster develop that they won't challenge for trophies.

100% this. It's our only focus; we go hell for leather for URC silverware.

The Ulster medical staff trying to make him to play on looks pretty bad now.

It was the independent match doctor. The Ulster staff were trying to get him to play on after he'd been clearly knocked out cold. You could see them arguing with the independent doctor on TV.

Whoever tried to let him play on should lose their job.

Why were they arguing with the independent match doctor wanting to remove a player who'd been clearly knocked out from the field?

No matter how you spin it, it looks terrible. Especially in the current climate.

For the Dupont try, watch Treadwell over to the left of the shot stumble around the pitch, clearly with no idea where he is, struggling to even stand up before collapsing to the ground when Dupont scores.

There was then a time-off while the ref talked to Henderson, then the conversion was taken. Then about three minutes after being knocked out and not being able to stand, the game is about to restart and Treadwell is still on the field ready to resume and not only have the Ulster medical staff failed to remove him from the field, but they're arguing with the independent match doctor who wants him removed (which the Ulster medical staff should have done 3 minutes ago).

It was disgraceful and I'm amazed it hasn't gotten any media coverage. But then Ulster do always get an incredibly easy ride from the media.

Exactly. For all any of us know, the independent doc was saying one of the two players wasn’t out cold and the Ulster doc was arguing that he was and needed to come off. Or maybe they weren’t even arguing at all but just looked like it. We don’t know.