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

That feed wasn't any more straight than Kennedy's

So that feed wasn't squint?

Thank Frak Kennedy is off

Why do I insist on watching the MFL and hoping that they'll do something to make me glad I did?
Manshamed, totally manshamed.

Taking nothing away from Ulster because they are clearly the better team and I think are capable of stepping up a level if needed, but Edinburgh are terrible.

I'm going to revise my Solly out by xmas chat, he is making our players worse. Remember when Kennedy was at Glasgow? He was actually pretty good, now look at the poor lad.

Oh Christ Hilterbrand has just come on.....doomed!!

Like the Irish commentary.. Unbiased and tells it like it is.

Why is the defensive line standing still and letting the Ulster attackers run onto them?

How was that pulling it down?!


Mauls just collapse often!

Ffs.

7 yellows in 5 games.

Look, we're pish but this ref is pish too!

And of course he gives another penalty straight away at the next maul - Edinburgh were just defending it ffs.

I'm done. I've switched over to Zebre v Ospreys, cheering like mad for the Italians.

Wait... didn't you guys know I was Italian? Well, I drink a Peroni on occasion.

Ok....at least it was side entry this time!

That's all folks.
It is just so disheartening watching the MFL. I'm switching off now.

IanBru wrote:I'm done. I've switched over to Zebre v Ospreys, cheering like mad for the Italians.

Wait... didn't you guys know I was Italian? Well, I drink a Peroni on occasion.

Silvio Ianbrusconi....?

It's been brutal. Edinburgh are an absolute disgrace.

What? No whistle for best being offside there???

Our defence is so passive it's embarrassing.

Williams holding Du Perez down right on front of the ref.

Yeah nice bit of cheating that the ref fell for

So, du Preez is held in by a headlock and gets penalised? This is disgraceful. In no way would a better ref change the results but this god awful referee performance makes matters worse.

If the standard of refs is not sorted in the pro 12 im just going to stop watching and just be content with local amateur rugby

Burleigh must be wondering what the hell he's doing here n not so long ago he was in the Super XV final

tigertattie wrote:So, du Preez is held in by a headlock and gets penalised? This is disgraceful. In no way would a better ref change the results but this god awful referee performance makes matters worse.

If the standard of refs is not sorted in the pro 12 im just going to stop watching and just be content with local amateur rugby

Well Edinburgh certainly have the amateur part!

We are truly gash.

RDW_Scotland wrote:

tigertattie wrote:So, du Preez is held in by a headlock and gets penalised? This is disgraceful. In no way would a better ref change the results but this god awful referee performance makes matters worse.

If the standard of refs is not sorted in the pro 12 im just going to stop watching and just be content with local amateur rugby

Well Edinburgh certainly have the amateur part!

Not sure they are that good to be honest....

It probably isn't coincidence that we have been on the wrong side of the refs ever game.

Man I wish we could actually pass the ball for a bit rather than hoofing it back to Ulster.

We're going to be nilled in this game and it's about all we deserve.

Not one player from Edinburgh can leave the field with any credit today, they are playing like a bunch of individuals who don't know what they are doing or how to do it. shambles. Actually I take that back Du Preez has actually been ok, but aside from him the rest are poor.

Ffs visser that was awful

YaaaY!!!! Bonus point from Trimbs

Lamest attempt ever at an interception there from Tim 'the doorman' Visser

Visser should be dropped. If needs be, my (retired) mum should start on the wing.

That was our first penalty since the crossing - 20 minutes ago!

Painful!

Argybargy wrote:Visser should be dropped. If needs be, my (retired) mum should start on the wing.

Sorry forgot.. She's scottish so doesn't qualify.

We're a pointless side

Well done Ulster, comfortable win for you, in what was probably no more taxing than a training match.

Visser has been terrible, but dropped for whom? Judging by our pick on the other wing, we apparently don't have anyone else...or at least that's what Sollomons seems to think. To be clear I don't disagree that if we're not going to bother attacking then our defense needs to be better and visser is fairly redundant at best then.

Delighted with a bonus point win, but a poor first 50 minutes from Ulster. Payne is not the answer at 13, and Paddy needs to find some form. Very impressed with McCloskey, and thought O'Conner had a great game. Between Best and McCloskey for MOTM. McCloskey takes it.

On twitter they were arguing at one point wither Edinburgh had one Scottish born player on the park or none at one point in the second half.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Williams holding Du Perez down right on front of the ref.

Ref was awful. Edinburgh were worse.

Dreading the next game. This is actually putting me off rugby.

Well done Ulster. Clinical bonus point in the bag. Sorry we couldn't give you a proper game.

Passive defence, poor tackling,blunt, slow, unimaginative attack, soft rucking, terrible kicking, weak set piece, dreadful individual performances.

Grim.

Munchkin wrote:Delighted with a bonus point win, but a poor first 50 minutes from Ulster. Payne is not the answer at 13, and Paddy needs to find some form. Very impressed with McCloskey, and thought O'Conner had a great game. Between Best and McCloskey for MOTM. McCloskey takes it.

Assume McCloskey was your 12? Absolute bull. Great prospect.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Passive defence, poor tackling,blunt, slow, unimaginative attack, soft rucking, terrible kicking, weak set piece, dreadful individual performances.

and those were the good bits!

RDW_Scotland wrote:It probably isn't coincidence that we have been on the wrong side of the refs ever game.

The only coincidence is Scots blaming the ref in every single game they lose/draw.

funnyExiledScot wrote:

Munchkin wrote:Delighted with a bonus point win, but a poor first 50 minutes from Ulster. Payne is not the answer at 13, and Paddy needs to find some form. Very impressed with McCloskey, and thought O'Conner had a great game. Between Best and McCloskey for MOTM. McCloskey takes it.

Assume McCloskey was your 12? Absolute bull. Great prospect.

Yep, he's some machine. Played a few games for us last year, and impressed. Seems to be improving each game he has. Some hands for a big lad!

No one is blaming the ref removed. His performance was awful which was plain for all to see, but that Edinburgh performance was utterly pathetic and we completely deserved to get stuffed. Probably should have been a wider margin had Ulster been sharper.

The Saint wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:It probably isn't coincidence that we have been on the wrong side of the refs ever game.

The only coincidence is Scots blaming the ref in every single game they lose/draw.

You've not been on the Glasgow forum yet I presume. On there "we" can blame the Ref BEFORE a 20 point victory. At the moment there's a thread slagging Nigel Owens ahead of next weeks game with Ulster.

Scots do it too often for my liking. Lost the last what 11 games to Wales? And whinged about the ref on every occasion, not that it had anything to with the opposition playing better...

funnyExiledScot wrote:No one is blaming the ref you removed. His performance was awful which was plain for all to see, but that Edinburgh performance was utterly pathetic and we completely deserved to get stuffed. Probably should have been a wider margin had Ulster been sharper.

Just ignore him fES. He is all butthurt from another thread and now trolls the Edinburgh/Glasgow threads, with these comments

Was that the ref who was reffing the u20 6n last year? I thought he did really well in that tournament so its dissapointing to hear he didn't have a good game.

He may just need experience at this level... Just like Mitrea did.

funnyExiledScot wrote:No one is blaming the ref removed. His performance was awful which was plain for all to see, but that Edinburgh performance was utterly pathetic and we completely deserved to get stuffed. Probably should have been a wider margin had Ulster been sharper.

The ref had quite a good game with the exception of missing Nick Williams holding the Edinburgh player at the ruck, even though he didn't seem too keen to move anyway