GPro 12 - Ulster V Edinbrugh Rugby

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Ulster Rugby v Edinburgh Rugby
Friday 3rd October 2014
KO 19:35
Ravenhill Kingspan Stadium


Live on BBC NI/BBC ALBA

Referee: Claudio Blessano(FIR, 7th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Leo Colgan, Brian MacNeice (both IRFU)
Citing Commissioner: Eddie Walsh (IRFU)
TMO: Marshall Kilgore (IRFU)

Head to head:

29 Played 29
19 Wins 9
9 Losses 19
1 Draws 1
69 Tries 49
47 Conversions 36
89 Penalties 63
3 Drop Goals 6
715 Points 524
27 Avg. Age 25

Teams:

Ulster


15. Louis Ludik
14. Andrew Trimble
13. Jared Payne
12. Stuart McCIoskey
11. Tommy Bowe
10. Paddy Jackson
9. Paul Marshall

1. Ruaidhri Murphy
2. Rory Best (Captain)
3. Wiehahn Herbst
4. Alan O’Connor
5. Franco van der Merwe
6. Robbie Diack
7. Chris Henry
8. Roger Wilson

Replacements
16. Rob Herring
17. Andrew Warwick
18. Bronson Ross
19. Lewis Stevenson
20. Nick Williams
21. Michael Heaney
22. Stuart Olding
23. Darren Cave


Edinburgh


15 Greig Tonks
14 Jack Cuthbert
13 Sam Beard
12 Andries Strauss
11 Tim Visser
10 Phil Burleigh
9 Sean Kennedy

1 Rory Sutherland
2 Ross Ford
3 John Andress
4 Anton Bresler
5 Grant Gilchrist
6 Mike Coman (captain)
7 Roddy Grant
8 Cornell Du Preez

Substitutes
16 James Hilterbrand
17 Allan Dell
18 Willem Nell
19 Ollie Atkins
20 Tomas Leonardi
21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne
22 Tom Heathcote
23 Nick McLennan

Excellent steal by Best.

Edinburgh's attacking play is so slow.

Not sure what else Jackson could have done there. Hugely scrappy.

Cuthbert has a big boot, should have taken that kick against the Scarlets.

Great wee offload by tonks. Forward but still lovely

No agression from Edinburgh at the breakdown. They ease off too early for me..

We're just so flat in every facet of play - there's no zip about us!

Yaay! Trimble!!

Tackling really isn't Visser's strength is it

Oh FFS Visser.

I mean... bloody hell.

What a soft try, Kennedy and Visser both missed!

Forward to Trimble? But Visser...

Random question, but why is the Ulster mascot called Sparky?

Bit of luck with the ball bouncing all over the place, but desperately poor tackling there!

Visser giving a masterclass on how not to tackle

That's why Viss would not be my first choice for Scotland. Maitland and Seymour are just about as good with the ball but can both tackle so much better than that!

Excellent again from Best. Hope Jackson is ok.

Our rucking is so passive!!! We're practically just tickling them ffs.

Best is so good at the breakdown, you could afford not to play an out and out 7

BigGee wrote:That's why Viss would not be my first choice for Scotland. Maitland and Seymour are just about as good with the ball but can both tackle so much better than that!

Completely agree. Almost have Lamont in ahead of him.

We need to get some points soon - need to keep the gap close.


Ulster have many, many more gears to come yet.

Anyone remember Visser's turnstile impersonation when we lost to Zebre last season? My Dad's been calling him 'the doorman' ever since!

Absolutely no creativity from Edinburgh - attacking scrum, so we kick is straight to them!!!

Don't think Kennedy is having a great game!

Jackson back on? No complaining though

Kennedy really struggling - so slow.

Visser is becoming unselectable at international level. His agent will be watching from begins the sofa, every attempt at a tackle must knock a few grand off his starting price when it comes to contract talks.

Problem is he's being coached to do that.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Problem is he's being coached to do that.

Kennedy to be slow or Visser to tackle like a jessie?

Another sterling second half required then!

Argybargy wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Problem is he's being coached to do that.

Kennedy to be slow or Visser to tackle like a jessie?

Both maybe!

Argybargy wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Problem is he's being coached to do that.

Kennedy to be slow or Visser to tackle like a jessie?

Sam H-C said in an interview that they were being told not to make sniping runs or take quick taps because they need to rely on the set piece.


Says it all really!

Well I doubt Ulster's misty eyed view of Solomans will extend to inviting him back based on that half (unfortunately).

I missed the first 15 minutes but from what I have seen, Ulster are not going to lose this short of an Ebola outbreak in their changing room at half time

Edinburgh need a few changes and quickly or this game is going to run away from them.

Get S H-C and Heathcote on at half back and Burleigh out to 12.Two new props won't hurt either. Hopefully Gilchrist is just a blood injury, he looks like he is trying hard at any rate.

On the positive side at least the line out is better this week. I am trying hard to find any positives at all!

Hidalgo Kline needs to come on in the second half.
Hidaldo Kline needs to ignore Solomans.

Not disputing that Ulster should be ahead...................... but there were several Ulster players who made no effort to retreat 10 yards after the kick that led to the Trimble try.
Should have been an Edinburgh penalty.

Not overly promising to see a sub icing his leg!

Dorothy_Mantooth wrote:Visser is becoming unselectable at international level. His agent will be watching from begins the sofa, every attempt at a tackle must knock a few grand off his starting price when it comes to contract talks.

Sad thing is I'm pretty sure he was a flanker before he went to England. Probably says more about Dutch rugby than anything else though...

Kennedy has obviously been attending the Greig Laidlaw schooling of arm waving and slow service

RDW_Scotland wrote:Not overly promising to see a sub icing his leg!

Maybe he is trying to avoid coming on...

FFS can Edinburgh not get a Pro 12 ref in to their training sessions. Every week, we get pinged to hell in the scrums.

Captains log supplemental - so we bring on Nel who is the most penalised player at scrum time in the universe.

Yellow card!

Decent maul for Edinburgh - about time

Sweet Jesus

The refs sure do pick interesting times to start enforcing that law

Some how I knew that was going to happen...

Feeding?!!!! I hope the Ulster 9 will be scrutinized every feed now.


That wasn't even that bad relatively speaking!

Unbelievable Jeff

Great shot of Visser not even on the pitch...what was he doing? ..oh yes...not tackling...