Just have to say Anscombe has gone about everything very impressively and I hope it continues. The first game versus Glasgow set out the foundations on defense, that game was used as a 'go out there, do nothing spectacular but get the win' which essentially was what happened. Onto Ospreys, yet again not a spectacular result, we did what was needed and added a bit of excitement into attack, while keeping our shape in defense. Munster was impressive, attack varied a little bit more, there almost seemed an extra dimension in the play and real desire was shown to win, which is promising.
Last night, however, we really stepped up the gears. The past three games we have been guilty of being punished at the breakdown but last night we conceded few around that area, I don't know whether that was because Henry helped us or because work was down on the training ground, probably both. We showed a we can keep our shape in defense while played like men possessed in attack! Everyone seemed to want to get their hands on the ball, even Brady and Court made a few very nice run!
So I really do think Anscombe's work is coming together, and as someone has pointed out, we are starting to play almost like the All Blacks, scoring team tries, and keeping the ball under phases near the line and going from side to side, and offloading the ball very successfully in contact to build up to the try line. We have shown that we can win without our best players, (JM/RP) and under McGlocks I couldn't have seen us winning that game last night after seeing the teams, so the shouts of wanting to have the 'slotinability' of the Leinster squad seems to be a thing now. Call me over confident or cocky if you like, but if we get our big names back and a full team playing vs Castres in two weeks, and we play like that or even better, I cant see anyone but Ulster winning.
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