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I'm proud of this team. A season from hell, we sacked a coach and the CEO.

We are not lying down against Leinster.

SUFTU

We are profligate. Have had some decent possession in dangerous positions.

Our defensive tackling is atrocious.

The ref is Tom Kite - but we knew that.

So my sister, who means more to me than you can imagine, is getting married on Saturday, in Northampton, so we have Ulster Rugby fans and Northampton Saints fans in reasonable numbers, with a final and a quarterfinal running consecutively from 3pm to 7pm. What were the chances of that? Choice betwe...

Oh, I didn't calculate our losing BP

Leinster it is

Bulls I think

Well that's that

29 - 24 with 2 mins to go

26 - 24 Munster

Their bench (and our bench woes) the big difference

As usual, the ref is clueless at scrumtime.

Ollie Jager steps outside and pushes on the angle, ref penalises us

21 - 24

Munster turn the screw...

Munster put the pressure on us, score a try.

We hit back immediately with a try. Cormac was the creator with a barnstorming run.

14 - 24

Goodness: the ref suddenly gives a PK for disruption at the tackle. Did he read my post at half time?

Half Time

Munster 7 - 17 Ulster

McCann with a forward's try from 1m thanks to some profligate Munster play.

Shhhhhhh... we are in this game.

Timoney: what a hit!

7 - 10

PK Cooney

I don't know what's changed in the elite game, but when I was refereeing we were drilled on not allowing tacklers to leave the tackle area "north or south" - they must leave '"east or west" Now I see all manner of tacklers simply kiling the game with north/south movement. Get in ...