Ulster vs Clermont Auvergne, Sat 12 Nov 3:40pm

thomond2006

Ulster:

15 Simon Danielli, 14 Andrew Trimble, 13 Darren Cave, 12 Paddy Wallace, 11 Craig Gilroy, 10 Ian Humphreys, 9 Paul Marshall, 8 Pedrie Wannenburg, 7 Chris Henry, 6 Stephen Ferris, 5 Dan Tuohy, 4 Johann Muller (capt), 3 John Afoa, 2 Rory Best, 1 Tom Court.

Replacements: 16 Andi Kyriacou, 17 Paddy McAllister, 18 Declan Fitzpatrick, 19 Lewis Stevenson, 20 Willie Faloon, 21 Ian Porter, 22 Nevin Spence, 23 Adam D'Arcy.

Clermont:
15 Lee Byrne, 14 Wesley Fofana, 13 Aurélien Rougerie, 12 Regan King, 11 Noa Nakaitaci, 10 David Skrela, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Elvis Vermeulen, 7 Gerhard Vosloo, 6 Julien Bonnaire, 5 Julien Pierre, 4 Nathan Hines, 3 Davit Zirakashvili, 2 Benjamin Kayser, 1 Lionel Faure.

Replacements: 16 Ti'i Paulo, 17 Clément Ric, 18 Mattheus Kotze, 19 Jason White, 20 Julien Bardy, 21 Kevin Senio, 22 Brock James, 23 Jean-Marcel Buttin.

Date: Saturday, November 12
Kick-off: 15:40
Venue: Ravenhill
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)

CIARAN_BOYLE

Big game

A few of Clermont's players playing their first game for Clermont this season

Some absolutely excellent Movember efforts on show too

pappyodaniel

Stream?

CIARAN_BOYLE

http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=132470&part=sports

Humphries receiving attention to his shoulder after 1m, Parra misses a kick that he'd usually walk.

LeeroyJones

Parra missed a straight forward enough Pen there.
IHumph picked up a knock, up on his feet again now though

CIARAN_BOYLE

Danielli struggled the first time he was tested with a high ball

EDIT Ulster won an early scrum penalty

Humphries looks nervous

****

ambid

Oh boy...! Andy Trimble - bad missed tackle.

LeeroyJones

Try Clermont

Clinical break

LeeroyJones

In the event of an iHumph injury, what are we likely to see?
Wallace to 10, Spence on at 12?
Would have liked Paddy Jackson to be on the bench

CIARAN_BOYLE

LeeroyJones wrote: »

In the event of an iHumph injury, what are we likely to see?
Wallace to 10, Spence on at 12?
Would have liked Paddy Jackson to be on the bench

Yep thats the only situation no other player with 10 experience in the 23

EDIT Ulster scrum is dominant so far 2 penalties from 2 scrums

Ulster scrum phenomenally solid

pappyodaniel

What a terrible chant from the Ulster men.

totallegend

That last penalty was dubious, looked like Afoa was pulling down rather than binding straight

Big Nelly

pappyodaniel wrote: »

What a terrible chant from the Ulster men.

Didnt hear the chant? what was it?

Clermont have some team!!!

Marshall has been really really good.

That's a devastating interception

LeeroyJones

Ah humph!
That pass was incredibly telegraphed

thomond2006

Score?

LeeroyJones

thomond2006 wrote: »

Score?

Ulster 3-8 Clermont 26mins

8-3 to Clermont, they've missed a few kicks and a DG faded wide too.

Ulster had a 3 v 2 overlap 10m from the line and iHumph threw the ball straight to the Clermont winger.

whatawaster

Marshall looks really good, haven't seen much of him though. He must have a fatal flaw in his game, as lots don't seem to like him much

Edit: from wiki

Paul Marshall (born 26 July 1985) is an Irish rugby union footballer who was educated at Methodist College Belfast. He currently plays Scrum-half for Ulster and is a former captain of the Ulster U21 rugby team. He has also represented the Ireland U21 and Ireland A rugby teams. He was also notable the recipient of several wedgies during his high school life. These may have caused the distress that caused him to vent his anger on the rugby pitch.

Best having a good game. Has been in great form since the start of the WC.

Afoa is a more than suitable replacement for Botha too.

LeeroyJones

Skrela Pen

Ulster 3-11 Clermont 39mins

great restart from Humphries and Trimble forces a turnover, Clermont infringe on next breakdown and iHumph has a chance to bring them back to 11-6 for half time.

Duly dispatched

LeeroyJones

Silly stuff from Clermont

After going beyond a score from Ulster they hand back a penalty in fron of the posts

Humph slots it

Ulster 6-11 Clermont

profitius

Ulster need to cut out the mistakes. They're playing alright except every move usually ends with a wild pass to nobody or the opposition.

LeeroyJones

Nice touch found by Humph. This game is there for the taking for Ulster but there are silly errors which need eradicating

shuffol

I'd have thought Gilroy would be better off on the right wing, Trimbe is equally comfortable on either wing. Whenever Gilroy gets the ball he seems to want to put the brakes on and move inside. Also he carries the ball almost exclusively in his right hand.

CIARAN_BOYLE

A Yellow Card probably has to be coming if there are many more Scrum penalties

Hard luck Humphries

LeeroyJones

46mins

Ulster pen missed right by Humphreys

LeeroyJones

50mins

Ulster pen in front of the posts

Slotted

Ulster 9-11 Clermont

MungBean

That pisses me off something terrible, seen it in the Leinster game a couple times too. Ball was out, Trimble got his hands on it but wasnt released by Clermont player on the ground. Knock on and Clermont ball ?

CIARAN_BOYLE

Danielli off D'arcy on

MungBean

Some kick

What a kick.

:pac:

James gonna James!

MungBean

I think his boots are on the wrong feet.

LeeroyJones

Come on Ulster

Byrne knock-on on his 22. Ulster scrum down 2 points behind with 15mins on the clock

I hate Barnes' interpretation there. Has happened twice, the pitch is cutting up, and the scrum needed to be reset there.

CIARAN_BOYLE

The Clermont scrum has been turned around since the two props came on

Ulster are trying the same brining on Paddy Mc and Deccie Fitz

SUFTUM

LeeroyJones

Fitzpatrick and McAlister on for Court and Afoa

GTFI!

MungBean

Shoulder charge no ?

CIARAN_BOYLE

D'arcy and Humphries combine to score a wonderful try

SUFTUM

16-11

LeeroyJones

TRY HUMPHRIES

made by D'arcy. He must have greased himself up good before he came on! No-one could touch him

MungBean

Brilliant try !!

profitius

Great try out of nothing!

LeeroyJones

Conversion slotted

71 mins
Ulster 16-11 Clermont

Big Nelly

They should take the mic away from in front of that fan:D