Swansea vs Ulster

[thelowerthebetter]

Really? I think we will win the next two but Leinster will be a hard one to call to be honest. We may not be playing Champagne rugby at the moment and our last outing against the Scarlet's on Saturday was, well the less said about it the better but we can put in a performance, we have it in us to do that!

[Dave]

We go the Ospreys with most likely the same team and same tactics. I find it hard to believe on that basis that we will win. The connaught match will be tight as well. Two six day turn arounds and then Leinster. It could be a bleak mid winter.

[rumncoke]

Same tactics Play open rugby in the opposition half when the defence is disorganised kick when necessary to try and get out of your own half and keep the penalty count down .


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[Dave]

Same tactics Play open rugby in the opposition half when the defence is disorganised kick when necessary to try and get out of your own half and keep the penalty count down .


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I'd like to see some variation in tactical play. Our penalty count was horrendous against the Scarlets.

[Setanta]

Seven of that horrendous penalty account were scrum penalties, two of which were shown on the big screen to be plain wrong and three extremely harsh. It was also said several were called by the assistant referees. Point being if the referee starts to ping your scrum human nature means he'll soon start sub-consciously refereeing only the one team. Personally I thought this was self-evident during the first-half last week and I only watched on TV. If the same thing happens this week we're dead in the water before kick-off!

[rumncoke]

Doyle is an ego with a whistle and a total sucker . 5 penalties against one player for a technical offence when what was actually happening was the Scarlets had a player smaller than Deccie who went low and down without any assistance from Deccie . You don't drop or force your own scrum to drop on your own put in . 1/3 of penalties against Ulster were for the alleged same offence


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[rorybestsbigbaldnoggin]

Bronson Ross and Ricky Lutton for this one, please.

[Russ]

Do what the All Blacks do

Honestly, it's not a difficult game plan

[Dave]

Deccie was binding on body but the bind moved up to the arm every time. It was as plain as day. He should have been subbed off before the card.

[mea97mb]

TWO CHANGES FOR OSPREYS MATCH

Ulster Head Coach, Neil Doak, has made two changes to the starting XV that lost narrowly to Scarlets at Parc y Scarlets last weekend for tomorrow evening’s Guinness PRO12 clash against Ospreys.

Michael Allen is named on the left wing and replaces Craig Gilroy who is rested for the match.

Andrew Warwick, who signed his first senior contract with the province this week, starts at loosehead with Callum Black selected on the bench.

Ireland centre, Stuart Olding, has recovered from injury and is named on the bench. Sean Reidy and Peter Nelson are also selected as replacements.

Ulster are fourth in the Guinness PRO12, level on points with Ospreys and a point behind leaders Munster.

The province’s next home match is against Connacht on Boxing Day. There is limited availability for the game. To purchase a ticket click here.

The game is live on Sky Sports and on BBC Radio Ulster.

Ulster XV & Replacements to play Ospreys, Guinness PRO12, Liberty Stadium, Saturday 20th December, kick off 17:15 (15-9): L Ludik; T Bowe, D Cave, L Marshall, M Allen, I Humphreys, R Pienaar; (1-8): A Warwick, R Best (Capt), D Fitzpatrick, D Tuohy, F vd Merwe, R Diack, C Ross, R Wilson; Replacements (16-23): R Herring, C Black, B Ross, A O’Connor, S Reidy, P Marshall, S Olding, P Nelson.

http://ulsterrugby.com/News/LatestNews/ ... atch-.aspx

[mea97mb]

Ospreys: Dan Evans; Hanno Dirksen, Ashley Beck, Josh Matavesi, Eli Walker; Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb; Marc Thomas, Scott Baldwin, Dmitri Arhip, Rynier Bernardo, Alun Wyn Jones (Capt), James King, Justin Tipuric, Tyler Ardron#

Replacements: Sam Parry, Gareth Thomas, Daniel Suter, Dan Lydiate, Sam Lewis, Martin Roberts, Sam Davies, Andrew Bishop

[Rovi Snave]

Feck me sideways - what the feck does Deccie have to do to get dropped - smack Doak in the mouth?

Doak's taking the p1ss!

[Cornerfleg]

So how long before Deccie gets:

Subbed

Yellow carded

Red carded

Breaks


Never before have the words... Stay warm Bros' been so fundamental...

[Rooster]

Referee: Neil Paterson (SRU, 65th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Nigel Owens, Chris Williams (both WRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Charles (WRU)
TMO: Tim Hayes (WRU)

Be better off if they sent Paterson to the pub and let Nigel ref the match

[thelowerthebetter]

I bet Deccie will have a cracking game! And I'll be there cheering him on all the way!