Heineken/Amlin Cup Round 3 General Match Thread

thomond2006

This worked before so I'll start this one for Round 3.

http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/heinekencup/fixtures/team_line_up.php
- Lineups can be found here under "Round 3"

Just one game tonight, Glasgow vs Toulouse at beautiful Firhill, 8pm KO on SS1. :pac:

All times below are Irish time.

Saturday
1:30pm
Ulster vs Bath,
Perpignan vs Leicester,
Aironi vs Biarritz,

3pm
Scarlets vs Treviso,

3:30pm
Saracens vs Racing Metro,

5:45pm
Northampton vs Cardiff
Castres vs Edinburgh

Sunday
1pm
Munster vs Ospreys
Dragons vs Wasps (being played at Cardiff City Stadium)

3pm
Clermont vs Leinster
London Irish vs Toulon

5:45pm
Connacht vs Harlequins - Amlin CC

Moving away from the Irish provinces, there's some cracking fixtures. Perpignan vs Leicester and Northampton vs Cardiff should be very good. Hernandez is starting for Racing against Saracens.

LeeroyJones

For what it's worth - my HCup Gameweek 3 accumulator reads the following

Friday
Glasgow vs Toulouse - Toulouse

Saturday
1:30pm
Ulster vs Bath, - Ulster
Perpignan vs Leicester, - Leicester
Aironi vs Biarritz, - Biarritz

3pm
Scarlets vs Treviso, - Scarlets

3:30pm
Saracens vs Racing Metro, - Saracens

5:45pm
Northampton vs Cardiff - Northampton
Castres vs Edinburgh - Castres

Sunday
1pm
Munster vs Ospreys - Munster
Dragons vs Wasps (being played at Cardiff City Stadium) - Wasps

3pm
Clermont vs Leinster - Don't like betting against my side, but not confident we'll win, so a compromise of Leinster (+9)!!!
London Irish vs Toulon - Toulon

For those interested, that accumulator is worth 81/1 I think!!! Toulon, Leicester and unfortunately Leinster (+9) lengthen the odds a fair bit!

thomond2006

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12331_6566071,00.html

Euan Murray has left Northampton due to a lack of gametime. No indication as to where he'll go.

CouchSmart

thomond2006 wrote: »

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12331_6566071,00.html

Euan Murray has left Northampton due to a lack of gametime. No indication as to where he'll go.

Leinster, please.

In all seriousness though, Leinster really missed a beat with this because surely this has been coming since last season and when you look at all our emergency signing from earlier this year we could have done a lot worse than Murray.

Stev_o

CouchSmart wrote: »

Leinster, please.

In all seriousness though, Leinster really missed a beat with this because surely this has been coming since last season and when you look at all our emergency signing from earlier this year we could have done a lot worse than Murray.

Waste a Monday. What if the ML/HC Final was on a Sunday? A player that can only play 2/3 of your matches shouldn't have top bucks wasted on him.

basillarkin

I went with Clerc for first touchdown @ 9's

CouchSmart

Stev_o wrote: »

Waste a Monday. What if the ML/HC Final was on a Sunday? A player that can only play 2/3 of your matches shouldn't have top bucks wasted on him.

True. We don't need him now. Just thinking of all the average players we recruited while he was unhappy at the Saints. Surely we could have coaxed him out a few months back.

tolosenc

Saw the half time score from the match on the news, and said "about a point a minute, I'll flick over for the second half, should be good - plus we'll get the BP win."

The second half was 3-0 to Toulouse...

thomond2006

That's Toulouse through then IMO.

tolosenc

thomond2006 wrote: »

That's Toulouse through then IMO.

Surprise, surprise...

CouchSmart

CouchSmart wrote: »

True. We don't need him now. Just thinking of all the average players we recruited while he was unhappy at the Saints. Surely we could have coaxed him out a few months back.

Wouldnt be much use in a crunch match against Clermont. As an aside, its a fooking joke clubs give in to him.

Stev_o

He's the worlds most overrated prop. When was his last BIG performance? Saints are better off with what they have.

thomond2006

Pool 4:
Biarritz 9
Bath 6
Ulster 5
Aironi 0

Ulster:
15 Adam D'Arcy, 14 Andrew Trimble, 13 Nevin Spence, 12 Paddy Wallace, 11 Simon Danielli, 10 Ian Humphreys, 9 Ruan Pienaar,
8 Pedrie Wannenburg, 7 Chris Henry, 6 Stephen Ferris, 5 Dan Tuohy, 4 Johann Muller (captain), 3 BJ Botha, 2 Nigel Brady, 1 Tom Court.

Replacements: 16 Andi Kyriacou, 17 Paddy McAllister, 18 Bryan Young, 19 Tim Barker, 20 Willie Faloon, 21 Paul Marshall, 22 Ian Whitten, 23 David McIlwaine.

Bath:
15 Jack Cuthbert, 14 Matt Carraro, 13 Matt Banahan, 12 Shontayne Hape, 11 Tom Biggs, 10 Sam Vesty, 9 Michael Claassens (captain),
8 Simon Taylor, 7 Lewis Moody, 6 Andy Beattie, 5 Danny Grewcock, 4 Stuart Hooper, 3 David Wilson, 2 Lee Mears, 1 David Flatman.

Replacements: 16 Pieter Dixon, 17 David Barnes, 18 Duncan Bell, 19 Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe, 20 Ben Skirving, 21 Mark McMillan, 22 Olly Barkley, 23 Nick Abendanon.

You'd fancy Biarritz to get 9/10 points against Aironi over the 2 weeks so they will top the pool. Normally 20 points will get you through so Ulster really need to win their remaining games. A win and denying Bath a BP would put Bath out who still have to go to Biarritz.

I hope Grewcock behaves himself. :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHnnZkho5TM

Mushy

Bath going to go 10-0 up. And all from what should have been an Ulster try. Length of pitch run after interception.

crisco10

Delighted to see Spence starting. Here's hoping for a good solid performance from the young fella.

conf101

Missed the yellow card, what was it for?

thomond2006

I just started the stream, seemed to be playing highlights rather than real time. Terrible intercept to give away.

HT scores
Aironi 11 - 12 Biarritz, 2 tries for Biarritz
USAP 6 - 9 Leicester
Ulster 13 - 15 Bath

thomond2006

Ulster 13 - 18 Bath, Barkley penalty.

thomond2006

Ulster have only made 19 tackles so far! :eek:

How much ball did they have in the first half?

Ulster blow a certain try, they take a penalty in front of the posts after advantage was played.

16-18 now

thomond2006

Latest Scores:
Aironi 18 - 17 Biarritz
USAP 13 - 9 Leicester
Ulster 16 - 18 Bath

wonton

aroni 18 biarritz 17!

go on the italians!

conf101

thomond2006 wrote: »

I just started the stream, seemed to be playing highlights rather than real time. Terrible intercept to give away.

HT scores
Aironi 11 - 12 Biarritz, 2 tries for Biarritz
USAP 6 - 9 Leicester
Ulster 13 - 15 Bath

Perpignan got a try right before half time so it was 13-9 at half time. Ref also yellow carded both hookers at together when Perp had repeated scrums on the Leicester line.

Ulster match v. exciting! Ulster have made a few too many errors but still only 2 points in it!

copacetic

thomond2006 wrote: »

I hope Grewcock behaves himself. :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHnnZkho5TM

He did exactly the same thing again and got away with it this time.
Game full of mistakes, Ulster have thrown aaway two certain tries, one leading directly to 7 points for Bath. Bath handed Ulster their try via interception also.

Bath just murdered another run in by fly kicking directly into Trimbles hand. Good game though all the same.

Kickable peno chance now for Ulster to go a point ahead.

thomond2006

Humphreys penalty! Ulster 19-18 Bath with 20 minutes remaining.

Willie Faloon on for Ulster. Bath bring on three substitutes in the pack.

Mushy

copacetic wrote: »

Kickable peno chance now for Ulster to go a point ahead.

Pass before that did look slightly forward though. 19-18 Ulster now. Exciting end in prospect.

copacetic

conf101 wrote: »

Perpignan got a try right before half time so it was 13-9 at half time. Ref also yellow carded both hookers at together when Perp had repeated scrums on the Leicester line.

Ulster match v. exciting! Ulster have made a few too many errors but still only 2 points in it!

This was hilarious, Lewi warns both hookers to keep their heads down or he'll get 2 different ones. The next scrum pops up (looked like Schuter had nowhere to go but up to me due to pressure).

True to his word, yellows them both and asks for 2 new hookers for the reset scrum.

Which promptly pops up!

thomond2006

Aironi 18-24 Biarritz

Ulster pounding the Bath line atm.

copacetic

Nice finish by Porical for Perpignan after it looked to have broken down in midfield. Moody could have gone there for Bath imo, right in front of posts and off his feet. Still peno to Ulster 10 out. Kicked. Nice run by Ferris to get it going.

thomond2006

Ulster pen straight in front.

Humphreys scores, 22-18. 15 minutes to go.

Mushy

22-18 Ulster now.

bizarrely no yellow card there for the Bath player.

Ulster playing great pressure rugby.

Ferris is The Man. Capitalised

copacetic

Heh, nice shot of Ulster management team literally scratching their balls!

thomond2006

Latest Scores
Ulster 22-18 Bath
Aironi 25-24 Biarritz :eek::D (Biarritz have scored 4 tries)
USAP 18-16 Leicester

Also, where are all the Ulster supporters? All at the game would make sense. But I'm disappointed the game doesn't have its own match thread!

thomond2006

There's very few Ulster supporters who post here unfortunately.

Hence no Ulster team thread either.

wonton

they need to use ferris more often.

He is a bloody tank!

thomond2006

****, that could be a costly error.

thomond2006

Aironi 25-27 Biarritz.

Great defence from Ulster!

Who else would it be to make that tackle.

Ferris is one driven bastard. Just does so much right!

damianmcr

Ulster supporter here:)

Ulster's midfield defence has been pretty lucky, I think they're leaving huge holes as they press up, but Bath have dropped balls/made mistakes due to the pressure.

Bit more confidence, thinking and a pass sticking and Bath could've taken advantage two or three times.

That being said, the defensive pressure has been outstanding! They're making Bath make mistakes.

thomond2006

Why did Humphreys kick that? Hold onto the ball! Why do all Irish teams do this all the time?? :mad:

conf101

Ulster unlucky not to get the turnover there

thomond2006

damianmcr wrote: »

Ulster supporter here:)

Welcome to the forum! Now don't leave!

thomond2006

Ulster holding on here. Why oh why did Humphreys grubber that earlier?

Bath on the Ulster line!

Squeaky bum time

Trimble you strong and clever clever man!

Perfect decision

thomond2006

ULSTER SCRUM TURNOVER!! :D

Great hit on Banahan.

crisco10

Great defense from Trimble there. Hit Banahan and then held him up well....

conf101

Fantastic work for that turnover there!

thomond2006

Great shot of McLaughlin, he is close to tears.