The UAFC

I don’t see much evidence of progression in the last 5 years, or even not since Humphreys was DoR, 9 years ago now. Money talks, but be careful what we might wish for, because even if we could afford to buy in a top coaching ticket, do we have the homegrown players to succeed? If we could, and were ...

Sobering stat: in the last two away games against English teams, Sale and Bath, exactly one year apart, Ulster lost cumulatively by 76-14. Split this up between the four halves, we won one 8-14, and lost the other three by a cumulative score of 68-0, Romanian level losses. Really hard to see any pro...

Just a word about Bath, well deserved, great fans, nothing over the top, won absolutely fair and square, cracking wee ground. Imagine how good they'd be if they get a 3G pitch.....

Finn Russell post match interview, he could easily play another 80, BB injured, holding his arm (again). Physicality and fitness, worlds apart.

29 nil second half, no more need be said.

Pick the bones out of that! Just grim. Ulster can just bate any optimism outta ye. We're even going full Trump fakenewsy on the official website, "Ulster surged to get 2 points...narrow win by Edinburgh...". My notes to editor: Edinburgh stuffed us for Christmas, outmuscled us and had a co...

Some more general, positive observations after round 6: The league is getting better, some cracking games, four countries represented in the top eight, any of which could beat the others on their day. Wales a worry but Cardiff even won. In the regular season, Ulster need, outside of finishing in top...

Awful weather, awful game, plain daft decision at end not to opt for another scrum rather than tap a ball in such weather, and would someone please buy Jacob a pair of Velcro gloves ffs, moving on….

One thing everyone who posts on the forum shares is a wish that Ulster do well, and I’m assuming most of us (I was a ST holder for 20+ years) put our hands in our pockets to do this as well. I try to make constructive posts, but equally I have no issue with some who feel the need to make more critic...

Agree with the sentiment on here. No shame getting a LBP in Galway, especially with the side we picked. Real heart and guts display in defence for 60mins, although started to tire towards the end. It wouldn't be an Ulster game without a few brainfarts, and McIlroy's pass and McCann's offside top th...

There was fight in them, and that’s good to see. Hard to draw conclusions, McCann would have been MotM if we’d won, despite the dumb offside (and why didn’t someone tell him to stop chasing). Flannery great until he flagged, went within his shell again, completely went missing for Forde’s try and he...

Well, worth a lash, because basically for nearly 20 seasons now, the common, consistent theme has been that we fail in knock out games in April and May. When we worked our arses off to come second, in order to line up home matches for the quarter, semi and final, we decide to adopt a strategy of act...

Happy with a lot of that, it looked like they cared, had a bit of the dawg in them, and that’s all I ask to be honest, some fight! Better sides will crucify the silly mistakes, Lowry’s attempt at a catch and Addison’s howler standing out, Stewart is playing on a different level, definitely no surpri...

Totally bizarre decision by Zebre, who deserved a win imho, to opt to tap the ball rather than reset a scrum at the end after French was put out of his misery, and 95% guarantee a pen try. Some promising attack moves, plus encouraging games from Treadwell, Stewart, Stockdale and subs Timoney/Uzuchuk...

Trimby said on his podcast though that winning is everything, citing Toulon as a case in point. If we had won something, would we be complaining? At a time under Schmidt Ireland were winning with the high ball catching game and most were happy enough. For myself I go to the games to watch open rugby...