Ulster 2015/16

rooster · Post by **rooster** » October 23rd, 2015, 10:00 am

simonokeeffe wrote:still works

At times, it's whenever the fullback has to turn and run back the problems really start!

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 23rd, 2015, 6:21 pm

Tommy Bowe out for 6-9 months with knee ligaments according to RTE

Sionnach · Post by **Sionnach** » October 24th, 2015, 10:47 am

simonokeeffe wrote:Tommy Bowe out for 6-9 months with knee ligaments according to RTE

Could that be it for him? He's 32 in February.

ribs · Post by **ribs** » October 24th, 2015, 12:49 pm

35 used to be the age, then 34. Now 32? Really? What age are you (20s, 30s, 40s)?

rooster · Post by **rooster** » October 24th, 2015, 2:30 pm

ribs wrote:35 used to be the age, then 34. Now 32? Really? What age are you (20s, 30s, 40s)?

Same knee as last time but different ligaments by reports and the older you are the harder it is to fix ligament damage

goreyguy · Post by **goreyguy** » October 24th, 2015, 3:08 pm

ribs wrote:35 used to be the age, then 34. Now 32? Really? What age are you (20s, 30s, 40s)?

35 used to be the age if you weren't injured. overcoming a serious knee injury, and not his 1st, at 31/32 is not guarantee.

then factor in his position and he is under the cosh to make it back to previous level of certain starter for Ireland.

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 24th, 2015, 3:52 pm

goreyguy wrote:
ribs wrote:35 used to be the age, then 34. Now 32? Really? What age are you (20s, 30s, 40s)?
35 used to be the age if you weren't injured. overcoming a serious knee injury, and not his 1st, at 31/32 is not guarantee.

then factor in his position and he is under the cosh to make it back to previous level of certain starter for Ireland.

Pace is key for him and Pitau is there next season too so serious competition for places
He misses 6n and summer tour he has a lot of ground to make up in a small window before they really have to start picking a team with 2019 in mind

Jackson being back made a huge difference

neill_m · Post by **neill_m** » October 24th, 2015, 9:34 pm

simonokeeffe wrote:Tommy Bowe out for 6-9 months with knee ligaments according to RTE

Other reports today have it as 2 months? So Who knows? Pretty ugly win for Ulster last night, got the BP by 50m, almost blew the win towards the end. Poor performance in general, lucky Cardiff were worse!

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 25th, 2015, 9:19 am

neill_m wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote:Tommy Bowe out for 6-9 months with knee ligaments according to RTE
Other reports today have it as 2 months? So Who knows? Pretty ugly win for Ulster last night, got the BP by 50m, almost blew the win towards the end. Poor performance in general, lucky Cardiff were worse!

seems to have been a recurring theme this season

rooster · Post by **rooster** » October 27th, 2015, 1:47 pm

Bowe out for the season and Henderson out for 6 weeks with hand operation

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 27th, 2015, 1:52 pm

rooster wrote:Bowe out for the season and Henderson out for 6 weeks with hand operation

Yup bad news, still no word on Payne yet either

enby · Post by **enby** » October 27th, 2015, 1:59 pm

Between Bowe, Payne and Henderson Ulster have had a shocking WC.

johng · Post by **johng** » October 27th, 2015, 2:03 pm

How did Leinster get so lucky with so many in the squad. Especially when Ulster and Toulon were so hard hit.

We must be due something awful

LeRouxIsPHat · Post by **LeRouxIsPHat** » October 27th, 2015, 2:15 pm

MOC's coming back? Jimmy to ten, Sexton to 12.

That's rotten luck for Ulster but at least they're well covered in the backs, much harder to replace Henderson though. They're seriously up against it in Europe now.

blockhead · Post by **blockhead** » October 27th, 2015, 2:58 pm

johng wrote:How did Leinster get so lucky with so many in the squad. Especially when Ulster and Toulon were so hard hit.

We must be due something awful

We had 19 players missing for the 1st 5 games of the season.
We've done our bit.

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 27th, 2015, 7:09 pm

johng wrote:How did Leinster get so lucky with so many in the squad. Especially when Ulster and Toulon were so hard hit.

We must be due something awful

knowing we spawned Neil Francis?

could be a nasty European campaign for Ulster

rooster · Post by **rooster** » October 27th, 2015, 11:32 pm

simonokeeffe wrote:
johng wrote:How did Leinster get so lucky with so many in the squad. Especially when Ulster and Toulon were so hard hit.

We must be due something awful
knowing we spawned Neil Francis?

could be a nasty European campaign for Ulster

I reckon we should throw it and concentrate on the league, Sarries plus Toulouse and you are depending on everyone beating everyone else at home and a few bonus points to decide resulting in an away QF anyway if we did scrape through, just really hate the thought of that hateful mob from Saracens beating us at home

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 28th, 2015, 11:46 am

rooster wrote:
simonokeeffe wrote:
johng wrote:How did Leinster get so lucky with so many in the squad. Especially when Ulster and Toulon were so hard hit.

We must be due something awful
knowing we spawned Neil Francis?

could be a nasty European campaign for Ulster
I reckon we should throw it and concentrate on the league, Sarries plus Toulouse and you are depending on everyone beating everyone else at home and a few bonus points to decide resulting in an away QF anyway if we did scrape through, just really hate the thought of that hateful mob from Saracens beating us at home

or dare to dream: Ashton drops the ball over the goal line attempting the Ass Splash or whatever its called in Ravenhill

rooster · Post by **rooster** » October 29th, 2015, 12:07 am

Flash Gordon wrote:Don't agree Ballyman. I think the player base is partially (though not totally) irrelevant. We have an elite system that protects and nutures top talent. Our advantage of England France is that we can call on these players whenever we want to, we can rest them, they are familiar with each other (less clubs) and we can keep them in Ireland because we pay massive salaries.
With the right coach, we would have won the grand slam last year. Drico says in his book that the attitude wasn't right for France and we totally choked the WElsh game.

We will give them a rough time anyway, they're as well thought of as a STD

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » October 29th, 2015, 1:52 pm

Ulster: Peter Nelson; Craig Gilroy, Darren Cave, Stuart McCloskey, Andrew Trimble; Paddy Jackson, Paul Marshall; Andrew Warwick, Rob Herring (captain), Wiehahn Herbst, Lewis Stevenson, Franco van der Merwe, Roger Wilson, Sean Reidy, Nick Williams.

Replacements: John Andrew, Callum Black, Ricky Lutton, Dan Tuohy, Chris Henry, Paul Rowley, Ian Humphreys, Sammy Arnold.

think Munsters pack will win this

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