Ulster 2015/16

Ruckedtobits · Post by **Ruckedtobits** » October 30th, 2015, 6:49 am

If the Ulster front five can dig in and Chris Henry joins them soon after h-t, that backline can grab the points. Cave, McCloskey, Gilroy and Trimble have enough class and gas to put tries on that Munster team

Oldschoolsocks · Post by **Oldschoolsocks** » October 30th, 2015, 7:19 pm

Why is the rucking so passive?

Dave Cahill · Post by **Dave Cahill** » October 30th, 2015, 7:24 pm

I don't think either side will be troubling the engravers this year

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 31st, 2015, 12:57 pm

Dave Cahill wrote:I don't think either side will be troubling the engravers this year

in the words of Matt Williams I agreee mate

think theyll be top 5 but their pack especially front 5 dont look up to it

jezzer · Post by **jezzer** » November 4th, 2015, 1:07 pm

Ulster backline looks potent, but the pack got bossed by a league-average Munster pack (minus their big hitters). I'm a huge Lewis Stephenson fan, Herring was good and Williams played his heart out, but the rest were average to poor.

For Munster, Cronin looked in top form and Stander basically won the game for them. Chisholm was OK-ish, as was Sherry. Others poor.

Keatley and Hurley is a puke-inducing 10-12 axis though. Sorry, but it's a vortex into which good attacking opportunities are sucked and reduce to a size the Higgs Boson would point at and laugh. Keatley has individual moments, but he was a very poor second behind Jackson in the battle of the 10s.

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » November 4th, 2015, 2:06 pm

jezzer wrote:Ulster backline looks potent, but the pack got bossed by a league-average Munster pack (minus their big hitters). I'm a huge Lewis Stephenson fan, Herring was good and Williams played his heart out, but the rest were average to poor.

For Munster, Cronin looked in top form and Stander basically won the game for them. Chisholm was OK-ish, as was Sherry. Others poor.

Keatley and Hurley is a puke-inducing 10-12 axis though. Sorry, but it's a vortex into which good attacking opportunities are sucked and reduce to a size the Higgs Boson would point at and laugh. Keatley has individual moments, but he was a very poor second behind Jackson in the battle of the 10s.

Dan Tuohy seems to have gone to the dogs speaking of locks

rooster · Post by **rooster** » November 5th, 2015, 8:00 am

simonokeeffe wrote:
jezzer wrote:Ulster backline looks potent, but the pack got bossed by a league-average Munster pack (minus their big hitters). I'm a huge Lewis Stephenson fan, Herring was good and Williams played his heart out, but the rest were average to poor.

For Munster, Cronin looked in top form and Stander basically won the game for them. Chisholm was OK-ish, as was Sherry. Others poor.

Keatley and Hurley is a puke-inducing 10-12 axis though. Sorry, but it's a vortex into which good attacking opportunities are sucked and reduce to a size the Higgs Boson would point at and laugh. Keatley has individual moments, but he was a very poor second behind Jackson in the battle of the 10s.
Dan Tuohy seems to have gone to the dogs speaking of locks

Touhy' s form is gash, really don't know what has happened to him, Stevenson always gives his best but gives away some really stupid penalties, as for Browne he is the best ruck inspector since Franno retired.
Herring is a fantastic worker heading towards international standard

Oldschoolsocks · Post by **Oldschoolsocks** » November 5th, 2015, 8:27 am

rooster wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote:
jezzer wrote:Ulster backline looks potent, but the pack got bossed by a league-average Munster pack (minus their big hitters). I'm a huge Lewis Stephenson fan, Herring was good and Williams played his heart out, but the rest were average to poor.

For Munster, Cronin looked in top form and Stander basically won the game for them. Chisholm was OK-ish, as was Sherry. Others poor.

Keatley and Hurley is a puke-inducing 10-12 axis though. Sorry, but it's a vortex into which good attacking opportunities are sucked and reduce to a size the Higgs Boson would point at and laugh. Keatley has individual moments, but he was a very poor second behind Jackson in the battle of the 10s.
Dan Tuohy seems to have gone to the dogs speaking of locks
Touhy' s form is gash, really don't know what has happened to him, Stevenson always gives his best but gives away some really stupid penalties, as for Browne he is the best ruck inspector since Franno retired.
Herring is a fantastic worker heading towards international standard

Loving the Franno line

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » November 5th, 2015, 11:38 am

rooster wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote:
jezzer wrote:Ulster backline looks potent, but the pack got bossed by a league-average Munster pack (minus their big hitters). I'm a huge Lewis Stephenson fan, Herring was good and Williams played his heart out, but the rest were average to poor.

For Munster, Cronin looked in top form and Stander basically won the game for them. Chisholm was OK-ish, as was Sherry. Others poor.

Keatley and Hurley is a puke-inducing 10-12 axis though. Sorry, but it's a vortex into which good attacking opportunities are sucked and reduce to a size the Higgs Boson would point at and laugh. Keatley has individual moments, but he was a very poor second behind Jackson in the battle of the 10s.
Dan Tuohy seems to have gone to the dogs speaking of locks
Touhy' s form is gash, really don't know what has happened to him, Stevenson always gives his best but gives away some really stupid penalties, as for Browne he is the best ruck inspector since Franno retired.
Herring is a fantastic worker heading towards international standard

well if he wasnt starting that much for London Welsh...

speaker of Ulster hookers Niall Annett is thriving over in England, no point in him coming home unless he wants to go to Connacht and no point going home home until Herring or Best retire

goreyguy · Post by **goreyguy** » November 5th, 2015, 1:02 pm

simonokeeffe wrote:
well if he wasnt starting that much for London Welsh...

speaker of Ulster hookers Niall Annett is thriving over in England, no point in him coming home unless he wants to go to Connacht and no point going home home until Herring or Best retire

Once Best goes, which will be soon enough Ulster will need someone unless John Andrew really steps up.

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » November 5th, 2015, 1:06 pm

goreyguy wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote:
well if he wasnt starting that much for London Welsh...

speaker of Ulster hookers Niall Annett is thriving over in England, no point in him coming home unless he wants to go to Connacht and no point going home home until Herring or Best retire
Once Best goes, which will be soon enough Ulster will need someone unless John Andrew really steps up.

best has at least this season and next in him as a starter

Ruckedtobits · Post by **Ruckedtobits** » November 5th, 2015, 7:28 pm

Ulster didn't fancy Annett when he was there. Rumoured that Clarke had blackballed him from way back at an U 20 tournament. Few agreed with his assessment and players said he was a good player and leader

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » November 5th, 2015, 7:55 pm

Ruckedtobits wrote:Ulster didn't fancy Annett when he was there. Rumoured that Clarke had blackballed him from way back at an U 20 tournament. Few agreed with his assessment and players said he was a good player and leader

he was behind 2 good players in Best and Herring so he was always going to struggle to get games

rooster · Post by **rooster** » November 5th, 2015, 9:12 pm

Ruckedtobits wrote:Ulster didn't fancy Annett when he was there. Rumoured that Clarke had blackballed him from way back at an U 20 tournament. Few agreed with his assessment and players said he was a good player and leader

simonokeeffe wrote:
Ruckedtobits wrote:Ulster didn't fancy Annett when he was there. Rumoured that Clarke had blackballed him from way back at an U 20 tournament. Few agreed with his assessment and players said he was a good player and leader
he was behind 2 good players in Best and Herring so he was always going to struggle to get games

Yip that was the problem, he only got a chance from the bench when Best was on Ireland duty and the lad just wanted to play rugby

rooster · Post by **rooster** » November 5th, 2015, 9:13 pm

Oldschoolsocks wrote:
rooster wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote: Dan Tuohy seems to have gone to the dogs speaking of locks
Touhy' s form is gash, really don't know what has happened to him, Stevenson always gives his best but gives away some really stupid penalties, as for Browne he is the best ruck inspector since Franno retired.
Herring is a fantastic worker heading towards international standard
Loving the Franno line

Yea think he is an even better inspector than Franno was and he was pretty good.

neill_m · Post by **neill_m** » November 6th, 2015, 12:47 pm

Dragons team to face Ulster - Sunday 2:30pm ko

Carl Meyer, Ashton Hewitt, Adam Hughes, Adam Warren, Nick Scott, Dorian Jones, Sarel Pretorius; Boris Stankovich, Elliot Dee, Shaun Knight, Cory Hill, Rynard Landman ©, Ed Jackson, Ollie Griffiths, Taulupe Faletau.

Replacements: Rhys Buckley, Phil Price, Brok Harris, Matthew Screech, Lewis Evans, Charlie Davies, Jason Tovey, Ross Wardle.

Ulster Team

McCall, Herring, Herbst, Tuohy, FVDM, Diack, Henry, Mulholland, Marshall, Jackson, Arnold, McCloskey, Cave, Scholes, Nelson

Lutton, Best, Ross, Stevenson, Reidy, Pienaar, Humphreys, Gilroy.

Ulster have rotated their squad this week. Some key players on the bench to come to the rescue, if needed. Don't have a great record at Newport only 2 wins in last 5 visits there.

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » November 6th, 2015, 1:37 pm

who is this Mulholland character?

Ulster should still have enough in that team (herring, FVDM, Henry, Jackson, McCloskey) to win

neill_m · Post by **neill_m** » November 6th, 2015, 2:21 pm

simonokeeffe wrote:who is this Mulholland character?

Ulster should still have enough in that team (herring, FVDM, Henry, Jackson, McCloskey) to win

Stephen Mulholland, plays for Ballymena in AIL 1B.

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » November 6th, 2015, 5:36 pm

neill_m wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote:who is this Mulholland character?

Ulster should still have enough in that team (herring, FVDM, Henry, Jackson, McCloskey) to win
Stephen Mulholland, plays for Ballymena in AIL 1B.

Big small pretty young old giant headphones pashun?

johng · Post by **johng** » November 6th, 2015, 6:07 pm

simonokeeffe wrote:
neill_m wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote:who is this Mulholland character?

Ulster should still have enough in that team (herring, FVDM, Henry, Jackson, McCloskey) to win
Stephen Mulholland, plays for Ballymena in AIL 1B.
Big small pretty young old giant headphones pashun?

Picking words out of a hat and arranging them into a sentence now SYmo?

Babbling 'brook

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