The UAFC

RIP Snipe. Through his valuable contributions to the forum alone, it was evident that he was both a loyal supporter and a thoroughly decent fellow. Best wishes to his kith and kin. +1. Snipe's posts were always thoughtful and considered, and showed his deep enthusiasm for both Ulster Rugby and rugb...

When not pontificating on this board, amongst other things, I sit on the management committee for part of the English hockey league system. A case came up the other month and I'd be interested in the views of board members. The situation Team A are playing Team B in a league match. At this competiti...

Am pretty sure this is an answer, rather than speculation, but citing, I believe is simply for anything which the citing official believes deserved a red card but didn't get one. If only worthy of yellow, irrespective of intent, then the citing officer ain't interested. And of course, just because ...

Fully agree that we need to be careful what we wish for - I recall the previous UR system was not as robust. However doing more arithmetic, 18,000 tickets @an average price of £30 * 10% booking fee = £54,000. That's a lot of money when 90% of customers either print their own tickets or put them on t...

25% discount soured somewhat by the outrageous £2.75 booking fee. Cnuts £2.75 ? It's £3.95 per ticket if you're a Grandstand S/T holder ! A different booking fee for the same ticket ? At nearly 11% those 'booking fees' are the worst I've seen in UR history - and according to TicketB*d are set by ne...

I know it was done to the letter of the law, but I don't really like that yellow card decision, I'd far rather see things refereed based on intent rather than outcome. What their player tried to do to Moore isn't any better because a good tackle by a team mate took Moore's head out of the way of a ...

The "Slogan memorial dog sh$tter" would be an appropriate choice. I'd pay for the signage myself. Dogs have feelings too. Not sure why memorial is needed either. 'The' in front of Slogan would do. Would we re-name the ground Fortress Tayto or perhaps Páirc Briosc ? The nearest semi-approp...

Dave wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:17 am Don't fancy the brown European away shirt though.

Perfect for the last 10 minutes of any Ulster game.... duration of wear dependent on bench composition.

I'd like to think that we'd draw the line at edible Ulsterwear though.....

Would jordi , Jack et al (o'connor) quit in protest at ulster choosing the yella nordie tayto ? (Even though it is vastly superior to the red frees tayto). Unlikely, since our red Real Tayto Ulster strip would be our one for European matches....(like it is now). And since there are other flavours a...

We play in white (mostly) so why not Real Tayto Ulster......?

When discussing the back row, lets not forget Sean Reidy - A Louis Ludik type of player (and that's an accolade in itself) - never a backward step and a real clubman - perhaps a "just not quite" type of player (big enough, quick enough etc..) for the next step but for the Ulster he always...

Murphy had flair, he just never really got the opportunity to show it for Ireland. For Leicester he operated between the tramlines and relied on the distribution from inside. For ireland that ball never came, and Murphy learned to play a game where if he wanted the ball, he would have to come looki...

Some ferocious match. Thank goodness Atonio plays for La Rochelle. He certainly showed up Andrew Porter very badly in the first half. Question for the micro-analysts: when looking back at the three stand-out moments of Hugo Keenan activity in the match 1. kicking the ball off the end of the pitch 2....

These people might be the ones though: https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... torm-arwen

but with Northern in the name, they're probably guaranteed to annoy someone somewhere....