Dragons vs Ulster Friday 6th May at 7.05pm S4C

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Ulster Team :
(15-9): A D'Arcy; C Gilroy, D Cave, N Spence, S Danielli; I Humphreys, R Pienaar;
(1-8): T Court, R Best (capt), D Fitzpatrick, J Muller, D Tuohy, P Wannenburg, C Henry, R Diack;
Replacements (16-23): A Kyriacou, P McAllister, J Cronin, T Barker, T Anderson, P Marshall, I Whitten, C Gaston.

Newport Gwent Dragons
Stefan Jones, Adam Hughes, Tom Riley, Pat Leach, Aled Brew, Jason Tovey, Wayne Evans; Phil Price, Lloyd Burns, Dan Way, Luke Charteris, Adam Jones, Danny Lydiate, Gavin Thomas, Toby Faletau.

Replacements
Tom Willis, Hugh Gustafson, Ben Castle, Andrew Coombs, Joe Bearman, Matthew Watkins, Jon Evans, Mathew Jones.

Referee: Alan Lewis
Assistant Referees: Tim Hayes, Sean Bricknell

Ulster need at least 1 point to qualify for ML play offs. Dragons home form has been outstanding recently so hard game to call. Bit surprised that an Irish referee has been given the nod. I know Alan Lewis will be totally impartial but for such a crucial game in Wales I thought a Scottish/Italian referee might be picked.

icdg

Worth noting that due to coverage of the Stormont general election on BBC Two NI, coverage of this from BBC Northern Ireland has been shifted to the Red Button and bbc.co.uk.

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icdg wrote: »

Worth noting that due to coverage of the Stormont general election on BBC Two NI, coverage of this from BBC Northern Ireland has been shifted to the Red Button and bbc.co.uk.

If you have Freeview it is listed for 301 (red button channel) from 7.00pm. Satellite viewers can use either red button or if you want to record it's easier accessing S4C (134 Sky/120 Freesat).

irishbucsfan

Can you get that red button channel on Sky? Or is there a way of recording broadcasts like that on Sky +?

padser

Is Wallace injured?

CatFromHue

wallace and trimble have broken bones in their hands.

they high fived each other too hard after gilroy scored againsu leinster in th rds

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irishbucsfan wrote: »

Can you get that red button channel on Sky? Or is there a way of recording broadcasts like that on Sky +?

You can access red button on Sky (English commentary) but it is a pain to record from as you cannot use Sky+ facilities - there is no EPG for red button on satellite (unlike Freeview). Basically to record you have to do a manual recording with your Sky box tuned to the red button channel all the time of the recording so you cannot set a recording in advance of the start of the programme. Easiest way to record Dragons vs Ulster on satellite is to do so using S4C (Welsh commentary).

CatFromHue

only the scarlets and leinster have beaten the dragons in the dragons this season. surprisingly leinster got some stick over this win!

ulster have only won twice at the dragons in seven attempts.

ulster have a good record in wales this season though with 2 good wins in lanelli and cardiff and only lost to the ospreys by a point.

ulster are playing for a semi final spot.

the welsh management have said that a couple of dragons players might get picked for their game against the barbarians so they will have plenty of motivation to put in a good performance tonight.

should be a good game and i hope ulster get what they need

gilroy has 8 trys this season and he is up against aled brew who has 12. thats a nice little square off there.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Ulster lead at half time 20-3
2 tries from Spence and 1 from Wannenberg

jacothelad

Final score 13 - 20. Tuohy gets what looks like a shocker of an injury. Even though Ulster have made the semis, they have lost Botha, Tuohy, Faloon, Wallace and Trimble from the starting 15. As if things weren't difficult enough at the RDS. Likely starting 15 / 23 would be:

1.Court
2.Best
3.Fitzpatrick
4.Muller
5.Barker
6.Wannenberg
7.Henry
8.Diack
9.Pienaar
10.Humphreys
11.Danielli
12.Spence
13.Cave
14.Gilroy
15.D'Arcy

16.Kyriacou
17.McAllister
18.Cronin
19.McComb
20.Anderson
21.Marshall
22.Whitten
23.Gaston

wixfjord

jacothelad wrote: »

Final score 13 - 20. Tuohy gets what looks like a shocker of an injury. Even though Ulster have made the semis, they have lost Botha, Tuohy, Faloon, Wallace and Trimble from the starting 15. As if things weren't difficult enough at the RDS. Likely starting 15 / 23 would be:

1.Court
2.Best
3.Fitzpatrick
4.Muller
5.Barker
6.Wannenberg
7.Henry
8.Diack
9.Pienaar
10.Humphreys
11.Danielli
12.Spence
13.Cave
14.Gilroy
15.D'Arcy

16.Kyriacou
17.McAllister
18.Cronin
19.McComb
20.Anderson
21.Marshall
22.Whitten
23.Gaston

Are all those deffo out Jaco?

jacothelad

wixfjord wrote: »

Are all those deffo out Jaco?

Yes. Hope there are no more. It's been a hellish season for injuries.

wixfjord

jacothelad wrote: »

Yes. Hope there are no more. It's been a hellish season for injuries.

Jaysus that's a bad run of luck. You heading down next week?

thomond2006

What happened to Tuohy?

jacothelad

wixfjord wrote: »

Jaysus that's a bad run of luck. You heading down next week?

Yes. Wife and I going for the weekend.

thomond2006 wrote: »

What happened to Tuohy?

Got a leg injury and couldn't walk. Went off dragging his left leg as if it was broken between David Irwin and one of the Ulster staff. No assistance given by the Dragons organisation. Totally crap.