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by Big Smoke Culchie
Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:03 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Pre Season Games 2022/23
Replies: 162
Views: 22871

Re: Pre Season Games 2022/23

Pity Whitten isnt coming over.
by Big Smoke Culchie
Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:26 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Are we allowed to talk about KINGSPAN
Replies: 313
Views: 59371

Re: Are we allowed to talk about KINGSPAN

Lurgan Lad wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:01 pm Can't imagine there are too many in England care about Ulster tbh
If you wany blue chip sponsors to pay big bucks to stick their brand all over your kit and stadium, you've got to give them something their marketing department can sell across the UK and beyond.
by Big Smoke Culchie
Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:23 pm
Forum: International rugby
Topic: 6 nations 22
Replies: 528
Views: 42106

Re: 6 nations 22

The sooner Carbery gets injured and Cartey comes on the better it will be for Ireland. Carbery is a showboating £anny. Cartey is a proper outhalf who I'd have at Ulster in a heartbeat. That said, screw em. If a team sitting top of the table and 4 from 4 in Europe cant even have a single starter, you...
by Big Smoke Culchie
Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:20 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Are we allowed to talk about KINGSPAN
Replies: 313
Views: 59371

Re: Are we allowed to talk about KINGSPAN

The problem UR have is that this is really tainting them over in England. If a media campaign starts to roll they are going to struggle to get a replacement for Kingspan. I think the contract is up in 2023. Is it worth taking the reputational beating they are going to get just for 1 year? When a gov...
by Big Smoke Culchie
Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:58 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Contract Situation
Replies: 1680
Views: 641926

Re: Contract Situation

New management at Worcester. Not a particularly friendly handover either by the looks like it. Could unsettle the players and the remaining management team. We should be heavily targetting Annett. Johnny Bell could be much more amenabe to a move as well. He's always said he'd be back coaching at Uls...
by Big Smoke Culchie
Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:50 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Heineken Cup 2021/22
Replies: 313
Views: 37467

Re: Heineken Cup 2021/22

Just read an article in the Times previewing theHieniken Cu p matches for this weekend. Obviously the so called Journalist hasn’t Seen any of Ulster’s games nor done any research as he majors on the absence 5his weekend of Stockdale and Addison. He very obviously lives on a diet of the Gallagher Pr...
by Big Smoke Culchie
Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:00 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Bye Jared
Replies: 32
Views: 4922

Re: Bye Jared

Jonny Bell always said he'd be coming home some day. >EW
by Big Smoke Culchie
Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:58 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Munster v Ulster Sat Jan 8th 7:35pm KO RTE/Premier Sports
Replies: 226
Views: 18606

Re: Munster v Ulster Sat Jan 8th 7:35pm KO RTE/Premier Sports

Burns inability to control a game without Cooney really shows how much Cooney controls the game. Either we need a new quality OH or we need to start giving Lowry a lot more game time there, becuase Burns has already shown he cant play outside Doak with any real authority.
by Big Smoke Culchie
Fri Jan 07, 2022 5:58 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Munster v Ulster Sat Jan 8th 7:35pm KO RTE/Premier Sports
Replies: 226
Views: 18606

Re: Munster v Ulster Sat Jan 8th 7:35pm KO RTE/Premier Sports

Ulster team to play Munster Rugby, United Rugby Championship Round 10, Saturday 8 January at Thomond Park, 7.35pm kick-off, live on RTÉ and Premier Sports: (15-9) Mike Lowry, Craig Gilroy, Ben Moxham, James Hume, Ethan McIlroy, Billy Burns, John Cooney; (1-8) Jack McGrath, Rob Herring, Tom O’Toole,...
by Big Smoke Culchie
Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:19 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Are we allowed to talk about KINGSPAN
Replies: 313
Views: 59371

Re: Are we allowed to talk about KINGSPAN

It's got to be damaging them commercially. You couldnt put an ulster shirt on in London if it had the Kingspan branding on it. I really hope they have a plan B that they can use prety quickly becuause this is going to get a lot worse before the Grenfel inquiry is over. The association with Kingspan ...
by Big Smoke Culchie
Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:16 am
Forum: Stand Up fer the Ulstermen
Topic: Stand up fer the Ulstermen in London
Replies: 1651
Views: 130872

Re: Stand up fer the Ulstermen in London

Philomena's in Covent Garden used to be the place to go. Its got a Northern Irish manager. I dont know if there's a group. I've not come across them recently if there is.
by Big Smoke Culchie
Tue May 11, 2021 10:10 am
Forum: Provincial an' aither teams
Topic: Munster 2020/21
Replies: 87
Views: 19209

Re: Munster 2020/21

Dave wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:17 pm Zeebs will bring the razzle. Joey brings the dazzle. Sweetnam is not on their benefactors radar. You can't boast to yer mates in Dubai about signing bloody Sweetnam. Does he even own any gucci?
Its probably a stupid question, but who is their benefctor?
by Big Smoke Culchie
Sun May 02, 2021 6:23 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Ulster in the Challenge Cup
Replies: 525
Views: 53542

Re: Ulster in the Challenge Cup

I may be a bit naive in the understanding of forward play, but I am a bit bemused at the concentration on this thread of the limitations of the Ulster forwards. I didn't see that forwards was our weakness over the 80 mins. It was tactics and strategy after the regrettable loss of Cooney. Our weakne...
by Big Smoke Culchie
Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:41 pm
Forum: View frae thae Hill
Topic: Ulster v Leinster Sat Mar 6th 7:35pm KO
Replies: 316
Views: 27781

Re: Ulster v Leinster Sat Mar 6th 7:35pm KO

I think it is somewhat disingenuous to label Methody and Davy Wells with that glass ceiling mindset. I too had the privilege of being coached by Davy and his primary goal was getting the best from each individual. Of course the School’s Cup was a major focus (just beneath beating Inst.!!) but you h...