Connacht v Ulster Fri Dec 28 7:35pm TV (Premier Sport 1, Eir
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Surely common sense would have seen us play our strongest team tonight and our seconds only in Dublin a game we are sure to lose anyway. I really cannot understand where Ulster are going or where on earth we are going to end up. We are now the weakest team in Ireland with the biggest support in Ireland. My faith in Ulster rugby is fading fast even as a decades long supporter.
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FFS the club is rebuilding after the cluster fûck of the past few years, we are going in the right direction, give it a fecking chanceCracker wrote:Surely common sense would have seen us play our strongest team tonight and our seconds only in Dublin a game we are sure to lose anyway. I really cannot understand where Ulster are going or where on earth we are going to end up. We are now the weakest team in Ireland with the biggest support in Ireland. My faith in Ulster rugby is fading fast even as a decades long supporter.
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Gaz we have 1 true 15 in Ludik nowt more. Lowry can learn top flight rugby without the pressure of previous at 10. BB is a tidy 10, why risk breaking a talent in a transitioning team... Lowry is the future 10 undoubtedly... But not yetGary wrote:Maybe Nonplussed - but we're coming down with 15s while we have a useful journeyman and a club player at 10. Lowry is the real deal and he is older than Paddy Jackson was when he was playing as our first choice 10.
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I think the pressure would only be a good thing for him.nonplussed wrote:Gaz we have 1 true 15 in Ludik nowt more. Lowry can learn top flight rugby without the pressure of previous at 10. BB is a tidy 10, why risk breaking a talent in a transitioning team... Lowry is the future 10 undoubtedly... But not yetGary wrote:Maybe Nonplussed - but we're coming down with 15s while we have a useful journeyman and a club player at 10. Lowry is the real deal and he is older than Paddy Jackson was when he was playing as our first choice 10.
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Next season maybe ... He's only serving his apprenticeshiptherealspratt wrote:I think the pressure would only be a good thing for him.nonplussed wrote:Gaz we have 1 true 15 in Ludik nowt more. Lowry can learn top flight rugby without the pressure of previous at 10. BB is a tidy 10, why risk breaking a talent in a transitioning team... Lowry is the future 10 undoubtedly... But not yetGary wrote:Maybe Nonplussed - but we're coming down with 15s while we have a useful journeyman and a club player at 10. Lowry is the real deal and he is older than Paddy Jackson was when he was playing as our first choice 10.
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Sorry some of Cooney’s passing would have gone over Lowry’s head to night .
The problem was just McPhilips — some bad bounces — some terrible decisions —and not just by the players .
Watch the roll over block from the side for their first try Leo couldn’t have done it better .
In Belfast their third try would have been disallowed ( correctly ) the 10 was in front at the time of the kick .and got the luck of the bounce .
You win some you lose some it comes with the shape of the ball .
How can you penalised for wheeling when your not wheeling — they only wheeled it on their put in and only on their put did the scrum become farcical .
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The problem was just McPhilips — some bad bounces — some terrible decisions —and not just by the players .
Watch the roll over block from the side for their first try Leo couldn’t have done it better .
In Belfast their third try would have been disallowed ( correctly ) the 10 was in front at the time of the kick .and got the luck of the bounce .
You win some you lose some it comes with the shape of the ball .
How can you penalised for wheeling when your not wheeling — they only wheeled it on their put in and only on their put did the scrum become farcical .
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Re: Connacht v Ulster Fri Dec 28 7:35pm TV (Premier Sport 1,
Totally shiit, error-ridden game of rugby from two poor teams. Connacht were just about the better of a bad lot, never mind the ref's decision on Carty's try - he was clearly offside. Ulster lacking in brains, physicality, leadership and oomph. When everyone is fit and playing at his best, we can just about muster a competitive team. But we are sadly lacking in reserve strength and have no plan B. Sick watching McCloskey predictably bang everything up the middle and seeing attacking moves just fizzle out from lack of rugby intelligence. It's also hard to keep up a high level of support, enthusiasm and interest when there are about two native Ulstermen in the starting XV.
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FFS just move on, on a positive note, CEO watching the game in the stands, not w@lking around the pitch on his phone like the other clown, who put us in this position. Logan should always be remembered as the man who put us here, you wouldn’t listen would yasSpiffsson wrote:Totally shiit, error-ridden game of rugby from two poor teams. Connacht were just about the better of a bad lot, never mind the ref's decision on Carty's try - he was clearly offside. Ulster lacking in brains, physicality, leadership and oomph. When everyone is fit and playing at his best, we can just about muster a competitive team. But we are sadly lacking in reserve strength and have no plan B. Sick watching McCloskey predictably bang everything up the middle and seeing attacking moves just fizzle out from lack of rugby intelligence. It's also hard to keep up a high level of support, enthusiasm and interest when there are about two native Ulstermen in the starting XV.
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Where is this level of expectation coming from? Not a great night in Galway but no disaster either. Five months into a thirty six month project to even getting us competitive again.
Poor McPhillips if he'd played any deeper he would have been on the end terrace.
Poor McPhillips if he'd played any deeper he would have been on the end terrace.
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Re: Connacht v Ulster Fri Dec 28 7:35pm TV (Premier Sport 1,
Agreed. A win was never on the cards. After Mitrea was announced as ref I knew we were fcuked. That said, no excuse for all the missed tackles.UlsterNo9 wrote:Where is this level of expectation coming from? Not a great night in Galway but no disaster either. Five months into a thirty six month project to even getting us competitive again.
Poor McPhillips if he'd played any deeper he would have been on the end terrace.
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Never thought that McPhillips was the Messiah but last year he pulled us out of a hole when we needed it.. instead of him seeing his own development progress we went out and brought in Burns who to date appears little if any upgrade.. maybe he will still come good but at the same time look at how Addison has taken the opportunity to prove he is not an England reject... no doubt Burns was undoubtedly sold the come and see you might end up at the RWC carrot but I don't see that coming his way on present performance... in the meantime McPhillips has regressed and gets little if any game time to build any confidence and/or form.
Lowry some of us said a while back was the future yet criticism was levelled at our optimism at a player so young and not yet on the radar for many. Then along he comes and after taking his opportunity at 15 with both hands and showing signs of a very good player suddenly others start liking him to Kyle...
I hope that 15 is simply the way to get his game ready for the step up but at the same time he is effectively the same age as Jackson was and yet looked what happened there when given the chance. Of course he had Ruan inside him (excuse the obvious) and despite everything Cooney is no Ruan. For me a great addition to our side but still the 2nd best 9 in Connaught and the 4th best in Ireland.
As for Lowry I hope beyond hope that he will get his chance this year and dispel the line that I was recently fed that having committed to Burns the IRFU do not want to see Ulster change that situation before the RWC.
I thought Dundon's cameo on TV summed up his total lack of communication skills... along with a few others which explains some of the forward play. For the record I have bought into the 3-5 year plan as long as players get blooded and we move away from dependency on Leinster reserves and get back to a core of Ulster players if even a small core..
Lowry some of us said a while back was the future yet criticism was levelled at our optimism at a player so young and not yet on the radar for many. Then along he comes and after taking his opportunity at 15 with both hands and showing signs of a very good player suddenly others start liking him to Kyle...
I hope that 15 is simply the way to get his game ready for the step up but at the same time he is effectively the same age as Jackson was and yet looked what happened there when given the chance. Of course he had Ruan inside him (excuse the obvious) and despite everything Cooney is no Ruan. For me a great addition to our side but still the 2nd best 9 in Connaught and the 4th best in Ireland.
As for Lowry I hope beyond hope that he will get his chance this year and dispel the line that I was recently fed that having committed to Burns the IRFU do not want to see Ulster change that situation before the RWC.
I thought Dundon's cameo on TV summed up his total lack of communication skills... along with a few others which explains some of the forward play. For the record I have bought into the 3-5 year plan as long as players get blooded and we move away from dependency on Leinster reserves and get back to a core of Ulster players if even a small core..
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Re: Connacht v Ulster Fri Dec 28 7:35pm TV (Premier Sport 1,
It’s Treadwater.222toHounslow wrote:Treadmill is poor
Normal service was resumed last night perhaps, although he’s probably due a rest tbf.
If he’d gathered that er grupper kick then we may have sneaked something.
Great nod down at the back stick for our first try.
I was alarmed to hear on commentary on Premier that one of theirs had “two Ulsterman hanging out of him”.
No doubt the citing commissioner will be taking a look at that.
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Re: Connacht v Ulster Fri Dec 28 7:35pm TV (Premier Sport 1,
If Jackson could step up and cope with the pressure then so could Lowry. I've yet to see anything to suggest that any pressure would cause him problems.
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Re: Connacht v Ulster Fri Dec 28 7:35pm TV (Premier Sport 1,
Jackson got slated for years in Ireland after his Heineken final shambles and was constantly downplayed by many outside ulster. He may have coped over time but I reckon it significantly set back his international chances.Gary wrote:If Jackson could step up and cope with the pressure then so could Lowry. I've yet to see anything to suggest that any pressure would cause him problems.
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Heck if you watch him he looks to have a cooler head on his shoulders than Jackson did a few more years down the line.Gary wrote:If Jackson could step up and cope with the pressure then so could Lowry. I've yet to see anything to suggest that any pressure would cause him problems.