Ulster v Connacht Saturday September 17 7.35pm UK Time Premier Sports / BBC2NI / TG4

[Dave]

Baggy and fleg posting in the one day.

It's happening.

[Cornerfleg]

D'ya miss me?

... I took a 4 year sabbatical into the real world ... d'ya know what Dave ... it sucks. At least you know the quality of headers in this place, take the baul Rum for example ... say what you like about him, he might have run drills passing a brick and tackling lampposts in Isoline Street ... but as far as I know he didn't eat an under cooked bat 3 years ago.

[Soda]

Wonder if Carter will get picked ahead of Big Frank?

Gotta be the tallest set of locks Ulster have ever had!

Is Carter our 6th choice lock?

1 Henderson 2 Strangler 3 Treadz 4 Izzy 5 Big bad Bradshaw 6 Carts?

Yes (imho anyway) but only because we only have 6 locks

Utter waste of an NIQ spot


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[nonplussed]

BIG FIGHT ... BIG FIGHT ... BIG FLEG FIGHT!

oh FFS, the Kraken awakes!

[SUFTUM_19]

So judging by the A team announcement for Friday night, Sheridan, McDonald, Flannery, Lyttle, Telfer and O’Brien won’t be in the team for Connacht, they they were the only ones with a realistic shout tbh.

[justinr73]

The Ulster Rugby Show was pulled in favour of a random TOTP episode from 1987.

Mental as Anything were at number 3 but didn’t feature sadly.

Janice Long (RIP) and Mel (RIP) and Kim were on.

Gary Davies didn’t seem to realise that Moonlighting by Al Jarreau (RIP) was from the TV show.

Good to hear The Christians again.

The hugely underrated a-ha performed Manhattan Skyline. Their new album True North is out in October pop pickers.

Anyone hear me do The Sun Always Shines on TV at Robinsons?

[Cornerfleg]

Wasn't Sam Carter on the bench for Milli Vanilla that episode ... Just in case they needed someone to cover pretending to be a rugby player on stage with them?

[Dave]

He did such a good job pretending that they renewed his contract

[Neill_M]

Ulster team to play Connacht, BKT United Rugby Championship Round 1, Saturday 17 September at Kingspan Stadium (KO 7 35pm), live on BBC 2 NI from 7 15pm, TG4, Premier Sports & URC.tv:

(15-9): Stewart Moore, Rob Baloucoune, Luke Marshall, Stuart McCloskey, Jacob Stockdale, Billy Burns, Nathan Doak;

(1-8): Eric O’Sullivan, Tom Stewart, Marty Moore, Alan O’Connor (Capt.), Sam Carter, Matty Rea, Marcus Rea, David McCann.

Replacements: John Andrew, Callum Reid, Jeff Toomaga-Allen, Cormac Izuchukwu, Jordi Murphy, David Shanahan, Angus Curtis, and Aaron Sexton.

The following players were not considered for selection due to being in the Graduated Return to Play process, on the IRFU Player Management Process, or on international duty:

Andrew Warwick; Rob Herring (IRFU PMP); Tom O’Toole (IRFU PMP), Iain Henderson; Nick Timoney (IRFU PMP); Duane Vermeulen (SA Rugby); John Cooney; James Hume; Ben Moxham; Jude Postlethwaite; Will Addison; Ethan McIlroy; and Mike Lowry (IRFU PMP).

[Neill_M]

CONNACHT RUGBY MATCHDAY SQUAD VS ULSTER RUGBY
Saturday 17th September 2022, 19:35 @ Kingspan Stadium

Number/Name/Caps ( * denotes uncapped)
15. Tiernan O’Halloran (206) 14. Byron Ralston * 13. Tom Farrell (79) 12. Tom Daly (61) 11. John Porch (59) 10. Conor Fitzgerald (53) 9. Kieran Marmion (209) 1. Peter Dooley * 2. Dave Heffernan (165) 3. Jack Aungier (31) 4. Gavin Thornbury (63) (C) 5. Leva Fifita (15) 6. Josh Murphy * 7. Conor Oliver (41) 8. Paul Boyle (73)

16. Dylan Tierney-Martin (6) 17. Denis Buckley (208) 18. Sam Illo (2) 19. Niall Murray (35) 20. Shamus Hurley-Langton * 21. Caolin Blade (150) 22. David Hawkshaw * 23. Oran McNulty (9)

[Dave]

A lovely backline right there. Carter and Matty Rea? I despair.

[Thelaw]

Carter? Why? Is there no one else fit?

[StandUp]

A lovely backline right there. Carter and Matty Rea? I despair.

Just why? Don’t they want to win the first game?

[jean valjean]

Connacht will fancy us up front (what's new) but we have the quality in the backline to do serious damage with some decent ball. Parity up front and we have enough to win this.

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[Big-al]

Connacht backrow will be dangerous.