Pro 12 Edinburgh v Ulster BBC2 NI Fri 20th Feb 7.35pm

bilston

Ulster 7-5 up after 15 mins.

Ulster have had all the possession so far but Edinburgh scored a breakout try to take the lead. Pienaar scored and converted his own try to give Ulster the lead at 7-5.

bilston

Missed Edinburgh pen.

But niw they get another chance after Ludik was pinged for holding on in the ruck.

Bright start by Williams, Henderson and McCloskey

Edinburgh 8-7 Ulster after 18 mins.

awec

Pretty meh so far from Ulster.

bilston

Plenty of possession and plenty of territory but Ulster's ball retention is letting them down at key moments here.

bilston

awec wrote: »

Pretty meh so far from Ulster.

Some of Pienaar and Humphreys passing hasn't been quite on message.

awec

We are lucky Heathcote is so dodgy

bilston

That's 8 points missed by Heathcoate so far. For all the possession and territory we've had we should be 16-7 down.

bilston

This is a defensive muppetclass by Ulster. We are just standing off them. Edinburgh make the yards it takes us 10 phases to make in 3 phases.

awec

Stuart McCloskey is such a talent, pace, strength and can kick!

bilston

Silly penalty from Henderson. Didn't need to touch the 9.

bilston

11-7 Edinburgh after 30 mins

bilston

No intensity here at all. It probably doesn't help playing in a stadium 1/20th full.

bilston

Good kick by Pienaar

Edinburgh 11 - 10 Ulster 35 mins gone

FFS Edinburgh get a pen from the restart.

shuffol

That was pathetic by the Ulster forwards there, 3 of them failed to clear out an Edinburgh player.

awec

14-10

Terrible breakdown protection again .

bilston

Some scrappy play there. But great tackle by McCloskey and then breakdown play by Ulster.

shuffol

That type of play from McCloskey will have Schmidt rubbing his hands.

bilston

Just go away Humphreys.

Such an infuriating player. How we miss Jackson.

bilston

shuffol wrote: »

That type of play from McCloskey will have Schmidt rubbing his hands.

He is still a bit of a rough diamond but he looks like he is made for the Irish midfield.

shuffol

bilston wrote: »

He is still a bit of a rough diamond but he looks like he is made for the Irish midfield.

I'd love to see a McCloskey-Henshaw midfield at some stage.

bilston

shuffol wrote: »

I'd love to see a McCloskey-Henshaw midfield at some stage.

Could well see it at some stage, but most likely post WC. I don't think McCloskey is really on the radar for now.

awec

Yet another Cave try.

Ulsters best 13 by a distance.

awec

McCloskey red. What a total farce of a call. FARCE.

The amount of times Ulster get fcuked over by referees is becoming a joke.

shuffol

Hodges is a joke of a ref.

RuggieBear

what for?

awec

That has infuriated me. Yellow card sure but not a red ever and no doubt we'll see loads of that in the next year that all end in yellows.

Complete and utter disgrace of a call from Hodges.

matthew8

RuggieBear wrote: »

what for?

Tip tackle. Thing is it was a ruck and the player's head was pretty much on the ground already just lifted the legs.

awec

RuggieBear wrote: »

what for?

Rotated man in clear out.

shuffol

RuggieBear wrote: »

what for?

Tried to put a guy off his feet at the breakdown so lifted his leg and turned him beyond the horizontal. Player was in no danger though. Extremely harsh.

Henderson and McCloskey off the pitch. Time to switch over to Leinster.

razorblunt

Yellow for the tip tackle alright, should have been yellow for Williams too.
Detest that chop tackle.

awec

If what McCloskey did was supposedly a red then Pape should never play rugby again.

That is how ridiculous the call was.

captbarnacles

Wow this ref really does not like Ulster.

Sinbad_NI

How many penalties are we going to concede in this game. Few of them have been harsh but still far too many.

bilston

I could easily get myself banned for life from Boards right now...

awec

bilston wrote: »

I could easily get myself banned for life from Boards right now...

For the referee? I am biting my tongue.

Sinbad_NI

And there we go. All over now. 13 men aren't going to do much.

captbarnacles

Looks like Ref wants Edinborough to win but don't think they want to.

ongarite

Looks like they can hang on. Unreal if they do.

awec

Ulster win despite the best effort of Hodges.

ongarite

WOW

bilston

awec wrote: »

For the referee? I am biting my tongue.

Yep!

mfceiling

Right this is taped on the box.

Worth watching?

awec

bilston wrote: »

Yep!

That was one of the worst I have seen. Genuinely do Ulster have any recourse here?

Is there a way to put in a complaint?

Hodges is a total farce.

awec

mfceiling wrote: »

Right this is taped on the box.

Worth watching?

No.

First half crap, second half the Hodges show.

Sinbad_NI

How did we win that.

Edinburgh rubbish, Ulster not much better.

Ref truly awful.

irishbucsfan

Ulster can make a complaint. Hodges is pretty established so probably won't get far with it or much out of it.

shuffol

Amazing to think Hodges got to ref one of the semis last season. Consistently terrible ref with a poor demeanour too.

S12b

Didn't watch....how did Henderson and McCloskey go (red card aside)???

bilston

mfceiling wrote: »

Right this is taped on the box.

Worth watching?

Watch it for a laugh

awec

Hodges tried his best to give Edinburgh the win. Edinburgh not interested and turned down the chance.

Game summed up in two sentences.

CatFromHue

i'd like to see the red card

is there any vines or gifs or anything like that of it?