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Ref absolutely busting himself to penalise ulster

Ref is a shocker but ulster are worse. Turnover almost every time we carry into contact. Hard to watch.

It's going to be a night for the forwards and whilst the front rows look even enough, we have a clear advantage in the second and back rows. From the connacht backline the only players I'd swap are carty and hansen and even then the latter would be harsh on baloucoune. Should be a comfortable ulster...

Neill_M wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 11:06 am

jean valjean wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 11:01 am Is Warwick going to convert to THP then? Or where are we getting a 3rd from.

At a guess, Warwick will double job & dip into the academy.

God that's grim. Would have thought we need one more senior prop at a minimum. Would even have kept milo.

Reckon it’ll be Sutherland, Herring, JTA, AOC, Treadwell, McCann, Timoney, Vermeulen, Cooney, Burns, Stockdale, McCloskey, Hume, Baloucoune, Lowry Subs - Stewart, O’Sullivan, Warwick, Carter, Sheridan, Doak, Moore, Gilroy I think that'll be pretty close but for my money I'd have Marshall for Hume a...

We might need Reid and Sheridan for the QF surely it's a bit of a risk to play them in an A game?

Dan hopeful Warwick, Sutherland, McCloskey will be fit for quarter final according to tonights fan forum. Was Warwick a HIA? He mentioned 4 HIAs and name checked those 3, so hopefully all who went off are available. My interpretation was the three named checked were not HIAS, the 4 HIAS have a stan...

So, just 2 points of disagreement, ICE-GATE. Where were the FIRFUCs in insisting, as they should in backing their province, that the laws of rugby were applied to the game? An inspection of the pitch on the day, as required by World Rugby, was not done, the decision was taken the day before. I don'...

Columbo wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:57 pm Moore aiming to be back end of July, so in time for pre-season!

Great to hear that's a relief.

Atmosphere? It's a joint effort, team and supporters. ... It is a fact that the eternally stupid, like the poor will always be with us. I've heard estimates between 700K - 850K as the hammering the coffers of UR took thanks to this act of treachery to which the FIRFUCs were complicit. What level of...

We very rarely get turned over by connacht at home so bookies will have us as heavy favourites. It's about the best qf draw we could have hoped for. Big stu will shore up midfield defence. If Marshall recovered I'd start him too, his presence in defence was a big improvement over Hume who sadly is r...

In prendergasts case there would be the advantage to early promotion to a senior contract at ulster versus his academy contract at leinster or whatever he's on. There's a big financial difference especially for a young cub.

So slight correction, tomorrow will be his 8th, but yes he is 1-6 in URC when playing for Edinburgh this season. I don't read too much into this. HW was working back from injury and took a while to get up to fitness. By the 6N he was starting to be his usual nightmarish self and he is in good fettl...

Bookies have Ulster -11 / Edinburgh +11, seems a lot given the two sides. They had Ulster -16 earlier in the week. I think both are generous especially now we have seen the team sheet. It would have been really good to have stu for this one and the embra team is loaded with threats. They'll murder ...

After his heroics in the last Leinster game I would bite your arm off for Prendergast. We are never getting a NIQ 10 (doubt any province ever will again unless theyre dressed up as a utility back). Prendergast looks like he has the potential to be outstanding and is def worth a punt. Would prefer hi...