The UAFC

justinr73 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 12:31 pm

CIMANFOREVER wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 12:07 pm

justinr73 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 12:01 pm

TopPoster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:12 am A good win yes. Improved performances and showed some grit at the end.

But…..

Call me a miserable facker all you like but this won’t do UR any favours. Likely to get the usual tanking by Leinster in the last 16 to end another disappointing Hieny Cup. Ain’t going to be URC champs either.

A plucky draw or a LBP & 4TBP would have secured Challenge Cup qualification which might give a more realistic chance of silverware to break that duck.

I think you’re significantly underestimating the value of the win in terms of shutting up the noise around our recent run of form.

Justin, the "noise " is well justified. It's also a pathology...

It is and it isn’t.

If you weren’t at the wins in Limerick and Galway, then I can just about see how a last kick loss on NYD plus a few close defeats in tough away games can seem like a full blown crisis, if you’re prone to such hyperbole.

Winning a home game that we’d normally expect to win was important, however.

CIMANFOREVER wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 3:46 pm

justinr73 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 12:31 pm

CIMANFOREVER wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 12:07 pm

justinr73 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 12:01 pm

TopPoster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:12 am A good win yes. Improved performances and showed some grit at the end.

But…..

Call me a miserable facker all you like but this won’t do UR any favours. Likely to get the usual tanking by Leinster in the last 16 to end another disappointing Hieny Cup. Ain’t going to be URC champs either.

A plucky draw or a LBP & 4TBP would have secured Challenge Cup qualification which might give a more realistic chance of silverware to break that duck.

I think you’re significantly underestimating the value of the win in terms of shutting up the noise around our recent run of form.

Justin, the "noise " is well justified. It's also a pathology...

It is and it isn’t.

If you weren’t at the wins in Limerick and Galway, then I can just about see how a last kick loss on NYD plus a few close defeats in tough away games can seem like a full blown crisis, if you’re prone to such hyperbole.

Winning a home game that we’d normally expect to win was important, however.

Justin, I've been at many a choke since the start of the Pro Era, so I'm not some blow in Giants fan. First game Vs All Blacks 1978. This is a chronic condition within UR not just this season but from start of Pro rugby bar a couple of flukes. Even with RP, Muller Payne, Ferris etc we still blew our wheels off under pressure.
That's why I said Pathology

DWFinn wrote:What’s the verdict on Harry Sheridan’s performance last night? I was too engrossed in the scoreboard to notice who was doing what in the tight.

Perhaps some green shoots in our forwards production line with McCann, Sheridan and potentially McNabney coming through in the back row.

jean valjean wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:57 pm We still get isolated too often and allow the opposition to get over the ball. It either slows the ball or worse concedes a penalty. If Sheridan can keep hitting rucks well that's a good start but our ball security and ruck speed needs to improve.

justinr73 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 5:52 pm

jean valjean wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:57 pm We still get isolated too often and allow the opposition to get over the ball. It either slows the ball or worse concedes a penalty. If Sheridan can keep hitting rucks well that's a good start but our ball security and ruck speed needs to improve.

There’s a danger, of course, that the effectiveness of our driving maul means that stuff like that is missed.

If Doak is on field he should be sticking it into touch though.

There must have been four or five pens yesterday when we could have been another 10 or 15 yards further up the pitch.

promenader 2 wrote:Most encouraging to see Jacob Stockdale put in a half-decent performance. Still well short of his best, obviously, but better than he has been.