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Ferris on SportsJoe pulls no punches.....last 4 minutes if you don't want to listen to the whole Podcast....https://www.sportsjoe.ie/rugby/stephen- ... ign=Buffer

bazzaj wrote:Suggestions to get more aggression/ anger out of the current Ulster pack.
1. Cattle prods.
2. Kidnap their families
3. Hard labour on a Ballymoney farm.
4.Ban lattes
5. Ban cappuccino
6.Ban coffee
7.Ban bridge
8.Train with live weaponry
9.Give Robbie Diack a Chinese burn / boot up the hole before kick off
10. Give Robbie Diack a Chinese burn/ boot up hole after the game.
11.Mispell their names on the match programme.
12.Make them park outside the stadium before kick offs.
13.And pay for tickets
14. Confiscate all electronic items and replace them with a phonecard ( 10 pound monthly limit).
15. Get primark knitwear section to make their sports casuals.
If they don't like it they can always feck off so it's win win.

16. get Fez involved in the set up

Give them Vauxhall's for company cars.
Too far?

Ladas.
You are what you drive.

My question for the panel this week is exactly the same as last week.
If you were in charge of Ulster Rugby what would you change?
Appreciate you have less than an hour long show

Ferris seems to be putting the blame at Logie's door

bazzaj wrote:My question for the panel this week is exactly the same as last week.
If you were in charge of Ulster Rugby what would you change?
Appreciate you have less than an hour long show

We need a special Q&A show.

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The only question this week can be about the defence and the DoR defence coach. The defence has been awful for two seasons or more.

Is it time to ditch the drift?

We had hendy last week in a wide channel drifting. Our most powerful forward drifting across the pitch, FFS. Result: gets stepped and they score an easy try.

I fear ruckie has become part of the clique now

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Russ wrote:I fear ruckie has become part of the clique now

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He was doing URPRTV interviews this week.

Baa Baas today employed an umbrella rush defence with a weeks notice and bar 10 minutes did a number on the All Blacks.
Pretty much the Lions did the same thing with success against the best.
Both were scratch sides with limited time together but they didn't vary their system and every player was all importantly on the same page.
That's the key to any defence.

How can they do it but a side like Ulster who train full time together concede tries galore against some of the most abject pro sides in rugby?

I'll answer that Dave no panel required.
Ulster play a reactive defence accordingly to what's in front.
That means some times they press, sometimes they sit and sometimes they drift.
Presumably it's so the oppositon can't adjust their attacking lines to a set defence.

Kiss did similar things you may recall in the world cup quarters v Argentina where Ireland sat off them and were destroyed in the first half hour when the game was effectively over.
Keith Earls should never be encouraged to sit off anyone!
Alarm bells should have been ringing then.

Pick a style preferably a press, hone it in and get everyone on the same page.
At this point in time no one has a clue what they are doing as they are even playing differing systems at the same time.
Direct simple play will continue to unravel us a consequence.

Its exactly the same point I made after the Treviso game and nothing has changed.
That's the worry and that is soley down to coaching.

bazzaj wrote:Baa Baas today employed an umbrella rush defence with a weeks notice and bar 10 minutes did a number on the All Blacks.
Pretty much the Lions did the same thing with success against the best.
Both were scratch sides with limited time together but they didn't vary their system and every player was all importantly on the same page.
That's the key to any defence.

How can they do it but a side like Ulster who train full time together concede tries galore against some of the most abject pro sides in rugby?

I'll answer that Dave no panel required.
Ulster play a reactive defence accordingly to what's in front.
That means some times they press, sometimes they sit and sometimes they drift.
Presumably it's so the oppositon can't adjust their attacking lines to a set defence.

Kiss did similar things you may recall in the world cup quarters v Argentina where Ireland sat off them and were destroyed in the first half hour when the game was effectively over.
Keith Earls should never be encouraged to sit off anyone!
Alarm bells should have been ringing then.

Pick a style preferably a press, hone it in and get everyone on the same page.
At this point in time no one has a clue what they are doing as they are even playing differing systems at the same time.
Direct simple play will continue to unravel us a consequence.

Its exactly the same point I made after the Treviso game and nothing has changed.
That's the worry and that is soley down to coaching.

Absolutely bang on Baz. Great bit of analysis. I do, however, feel that the journos need to be discussing this. It's largely been ignored. There is simply no other person to blame than Kiss. Of course some will blame the players for missed tackles but today there were only five missed tackles (ESPN).

Dave wrote:

Russ wrote:I fear ruckie has become part of the clique now

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He was doing URPRTV interviews this week.

I know
One of the establishment

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Watched two games today in which one team came within a score of taking something from the game... One game was enjoying the other plain shyte with a team that has as F1 is now making very clear has stood still or gone backwards for the best part of 5 years... Ian clearly didn't want to jump off the fence but as F1 said they were both in the room when the preacher took the sermon.. How long will the rot be allowed to continue I suspect a while for D4 will see no need to change anything soon...