The UAFC

To me the biggest question for the rest of the season is given he is only an interim will the players actually listen to him. If our culture was that toxic will the players and coaches overrelax, or will they be invigorated and get stuck into performing to their best. Interesting times, and a big ch...

Surely Stockdale is from Lurgan RFC, has that changed?

I'm assuming down to Competitions Management Committee is all about the amateur game, and those below are either professional and amateur, or both? Is there a Club Committee and a Clubs Committee, or is that a typo? If we have a finance committee, and A Robinson is an employee with the title Head o...

Can someone help me out, load of questions here but not sure splitting it into different posts would be beneficial. So I have something like 18 committees although I might be a few out (and out one or two in the numbers) as follows. Committee Amateurs Employees Branch Committee Club Committee 5 0 Cl...

Thought Larmour was our worst player, came on and seemed to make mistake after mistake. Nash appears to have taken his opportunity, but after him and Lowe there aren't many wingers putting their hands up. Also thought Byrne was poor when he came on. The Ulster guys played pretty well, if understated...

Who hires the CEO and the coaches,is it the same people who have should have sacked the CEO after the pitch debacle and making a fool of himself and Ulster Rugby.Can nobody make any hard decisions or is it too many people involved to call.Mismanagement thru player contracts,hiring a defence coach w...

But for the" blazers " most rugby clubs would cease to exist most are volunteers unpaid who devote many hours to enable the game to exist at club level -- many are competent networkers but there are a few who are there for the ego trip. Post matches dinners are either paid for in advance ...

But for the" blazers " most rugby clubs would cease to exist most are volunteers unpaid who devote many hours to enable the game to exist at club level -- many are competent networkers but there are a few who are there for the ego trip. Post matches dinners are either paid for in advance ...

While not absolving Petrie I think we need to look at quite a few others From looking at the articles of association for UR it seems that the Professional Game Board ultimately reports, or at least is under the supervision, of the Management Committee Management Committee Chairman P Terrington, Pre...

Willemse red a nonsense under current laws. We're just Killing the game- nothing malicious, purely offensive tackling. 20 years ago with these laws, each team would finish with 5 outside backs only. Change is needed, way too many yellows and reds in the game, it is ruining it as a contest. I've two...

The biggest question to me in the Annual Report is with regards to grant income, it was £4.6m made up of CVC £2.2m and IRFU £2.4m. Given we made a loss of £900k and this is the last year of the CVC income, how much do we need to cut spending by? On the assumption that £600k of the loss was due to pi...

Prop is clearly Ireland's biggest weakness. I get France are incredibly strong there, but Porter is a penalty machine and Furlong I can't say I noticed tonight.

Listed in the annual report under the heading of "Professional Game Board" are the following S Best M Boyd DMF Bryn P Magee D Millar C Small T Bowe Petrie Are these board members that have allowed the current shambles to develop? At present there is as much clarity around who exactly is i...

Anybody ever read the Annual Report, tonight is the first time I've ever seen it and it really is an eye opener. Never realised just how small our turnover is, no wonder we need to cut costs!

https://ulster.rugby/rugby-in-ulster/ul ... ual-report

I think the more worrying part of the report is that we are doing this as part of a cost cutting exercise. That means there will be no big money NIQ replacement. Or I think any replacement at all. If the Leinster players were moving they would go to Munster, just like carberry, though that was a lu...