5 reasons why we will win on Saturday

[Snipe Watson]

Weather looks fine. Mostly cloudy.

Not the first time I've said it on this forum this week but Ulster are defo favourites in my eyes (saying that they always are!)
Bookies have Leicester 4/7 and us 11/8

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weat ... 1390003200
This is the one to watch Pip. Forecasting rain at the moment.

[pip14]

Cheers Snipe, of course every other day is fine like

[Spiffsson]

We need a little reality check in this thread. Leicester have a powerful pack and their backs are nowhere near as bad as many cyclopean regulars here make out. On form, players like Youngs, Flood, Allen, Tait, Morris etc. are pretty good. With the home draw, Leicester will be going into this game as favourites, and I think they should be. I think Ulster can nick it, but they will have to play out of their skins and increase the level of intensity significantly from the past few games, especially up front.

[againstthehead]

Ulster 26 Tigers 18

Some of your post is not bullshit, however, your propensity for always posting a scoreline is moronic. An unkinder man than I would be keep a record of your wide of the mark scorelines to taunt you with, call you a ninnyhammer, a featherhead , a mooncalf or a jackanapes.

I trust you will accept this as sound advice not to make stupid predictions & thank me for not call you ninnyhammer, etc. etc.

Dearest baggers
Can't remember the exact numbers but of late I've called 2 BP wins over treviso, a narrow win over zebre, a 6 pt defeat to leinster and I think I had the munster scoreline at 32-15 or something. I was also the only person in the UK/Ireland that thought Ireland could possibly beat the All Blacks in November. I'm on a roll laddie.... If you have a few bob, slap it on 26-18.....

[kingofthehill]

We need a little reality check in this thread. Leicester have a powerful pack and their backs are nowhere near as bad as many cyclopean regulars here make out. On form, players like Youngs, Flood, Allen, Tait, Morris etc. are pretty good. With the home draw, Leicester will be going into this game as favourites, and I think they should be. I think Ulster can nick it, but they will have to play out of their skins and increase the level of intensity significantly from the past few games, especially up front.

Who from their backline would get in the ulster team?
Flood?

Pack is strong and I fear it could be too much for ours.

[Russ]

We need a little reality check in this thread. Leicester have a powerful pack and their backs are nowhere near as bad as many cyclopean regulars here make out. On form, players like Youngs, Flood, Allen, Tait, Morris etc. are pretty good. With the home draw, Leicester will be going into this game as favourites, and I think they should be. I think Ulster can nick it, but they will have to play out of their skins and increase the level of intensity significantly from the past few games, especially up front.

Who from their backline would get in the ulster team?
Flood.

Pack is strong and I fear it could be too much for ours.

Flood would not get in our team.

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[kingofthehill]

We need a little reality check in this thread. Leicester have a powerful pack and their backs are nowhere near as bad as many cyclopean regulars here make out. On form, players like Youngs, Flood, Allen, Tait, Morris etc. are pretty good. With the home draw, Leicester will be going into this game as favourites, and I think they should be. I think Ulster can nick it, but they will have to play out of their skins and increase the level of intensity significantly from the past few games, especially up front.

Who from their backline would get in the ulster team?
Flood.

Pack is strong and I fear it could be too much for ours.

Flood would not get in our team.

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I edited that to include a question mark.

Tuilagi if fit?

[BaggyTrousers]

Ulster 26 Tigers 18

Some of your post is not bullshit, however, your propensity for always posting a scoreline is moronic. An unkinder man than I would be keep a record of your wide of the mark scorelines to taunt you with, call you a ninnyhammer, a featherhead , a mooncalf or a jackanapes.

I trust you will accept this as sound advice not to make stupid predictions & thank me for not call you ninnyhammer, etc. etc.

Dearest baggers
Can't remember the exact numbers but of late I've called 2 BP wins over treviso, a narrow win over zebre, a 6 pt defeat to leinster and I think I had the munster scoreline at 32-15 or something. I was also the only person in the UK/Ireland that thought Ireland could possibly beat the All Blacks in November. I'm on a roll laddie.... If you have a few bob, slap it on 26-18.....

Ninnyhammer, by your own hand you confirm that your scores are invariably wrong yet as always you seek to make a virtue of being wrong - confused mooncalf.

[Snipe Watson]

Cheers Snipe, of course every other day is fine like

It has improved a bit today.

[Cockatrice]

my worry is that they will maul us to death… hopefully we have lulled them into a false sense of security.

[Neil F]

If Ulster play the way they did against Montpellier in Montpellier, they will win. Of that I have no doubt. Leicester's defence looks porous at times; look at their performance at Welford Road against Montpellier, for example. Ulster have the backs to exploit that and a forward pack that won't be bullied the way Monpellier let themselves be at the start of that game.

I can't be the only person who has been distinctly unimpressed with Leicester, right? But for three scores in the last few moments, we'd be looking at a team with five fewer match points than they actually have. Some might say that is the sign of a great team and, in part, I agree that the ability to play with to the 80 is a hugely admirable trait and a sign of the quality Ulster will face. But, a better team would not have been in those positions, repeatedly. The simple fact is that Ulster haven't been in such perilous positions in the same group against the same teams and, certainly away to Montpellier, they beat (and beat well) a significantly better Montpellier team than the Tigers limped home against.

Past form, on the day, means nothing, of course. There are far too many variables that can influence the outcome of a rugby game to draw any meaningful inference here. That said, I think many Ulster fans are in danger of seriously over-estimating what we've observed from Leicester this season. It'll be a tough game. The outcome isn't certain but Ulster, sure as hell, can win this one. And I will say that if Ulster play as well as we've seen them play at other times this season, then they will win. If Ulster put in the kind of performance they did in Montpellier, the Tigers can no more live with Ulster than Pells could.

If I was a betting man, the Ulster shades would have a tenner on Ulster to win by a score.

[tigerburnie]

If I was a betting man, the Ulster shades would have a tenner on Ulster to win by a score.

According to the bookies they'll take your tenner and keep it, they have us odds on to win.

[Gary]

the ENGLISH bookies I assume

[Windeos]

As always, it'll come down to who wins the forward battle.

Our forwards have lost their battle in the last 3 games, Leinster, Munster & Montpellier in my opinion. So we've under performed for quite a while now.

We have to lift our game big style because everyone knows what we are capable of, it's just a question of producing it on the day.

Stating the obvious I know.

[Jackie Brown]

If I was a betting man, the Ulster shades would have a tenner on Ulster to win by a score.

According to the bookies they'll take your tenner and keep it, they have us odds on to win.

No brad pitt

You're at home and champions of the world, of course you'll win.