Ulster succumbed to their first defeat of the season as they lost 30-10 to a strong Leicester Tigers team at Welford Road on Saturday.

Tries from Niall Morris and David Mele before half-time, and then Anthony Allen and Sebastian de Chaves after the break sealed the win for the home side.

Chris Henry scored Ulster’s only try of the game in their final run out before the Pro12 season starts away to the Newport-Gwent Dragons next Friday.

This is the first of three meetings this season between...

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Ulster started their 2013-14 RaboDirect Pro12 season with a lacklustre defeat away to the Dragons in Newport last night, losing 15-8.

Despite being on top in the scrum in the first half and at the start of second, three missed kicks from Paddy Jackson left Ulster fans wondering about what could have been.

It was the Dragons who started the brighter, making inroads into the Ulster defence in the opening minutes and they were rewarded when returning fly-half Jason Tovey slotted over a delightful...

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Last week is a write off. Move on and forget about it.

A big response is needed this weekend. While nobody is saying that we must win tomorrow, at the same time nobody is denying that another loss would deal our top four dreams a massive blow. Four losses was all that was needed for us to take top spot last season – to have two in our first two matches would be psychologically a huge mountain to overcome.

Let’s not think about that though, shall we? On the other hand, a win would be an...

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Ulster slipped to their second defeat of the season as they conceded a last-minute try to lose 13-12 to the Glasgow Warriors in the first competitive match at Ravenhill since the two end stands were completed.

Complete with new big screens, an 11,000 strong crowd watched in dismay as Ulster, who completely dominated for the majority of the second half, could not score a single point in the second half, then see James Eddie cross in the final minute to seal victory for the visitors.

Before the...

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As Russ quite rightly pointed out earlier this week, someone once wrote a song about going west. I for one would be quite happy for somebody to write alternative lyrics to that song, especially orientated around a sports team…

So anyway, enough about singing – we head into this Saturday’s match with our record reading zero from two. Now that the bad news is out of the way, at least our performance last Friday was a lot better than that in Newport. Had we played like we did against the...

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