Scarlets v Ulster Match thread

awec

Scarlets

15 Johnny McNicholl, 14 Liam Williams, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Hadleigh Parkes, 11 Steff Evans, 10 Dan Jones, 9 Gareth Davies, 1 Rob Evans, 2 Ken Owens ©, 3 Werner Kruger, 4 Jake Ball, 5 Tom Price, 6 Lewis Rawlins, 7 James Davies, 8 John Barclay

Replacements; Ryan Elias, Wyn Jones, Nicky Thomas, Joshua Macleod, Will Boyde, Aled Davies, Aled Thomas, Steff Hughes

Ulster
15-9): L Ludik, A Trimble (captain), L Marshall, S McCloskey, J Stockdale, P Jackson, P Marshall;
(1-8): C Black, R Best, R Kane, K Treadwell, I Henderson, C Ross, C Henry, S Reidy;

Replacements (16-23): J Andrew, A Warwick, J Simpson, F van der Merwe, P Browne, D Shanahan, B Herron, T Bowe.



Huge game for both teams, a loss would be absolutely disastrous for Ulster and put them 7 or 8 points behind the Scarlets. Scarlets won't want to be losing either.

No Pienaar for Ulster is a huge loss and Piutau seems to have been rested. Not too bad though because Ludik is quality and in the form of his life.

Prediction:

Scarlets to scrape a win, LBP for Ulster. Paul Marshall to screw up a few times and awec to be angry about it.

pickarooney

Any special event that has Trimble captaining Ulster?

Utah_Saint

He is joint captain with herring

awec

Oh wow, Jim Neily replaced by Michael McNamee?

awec

No way that's a try.

Utah_Saint

awec wrote: »

Oh wow, Jim Neily replaced by Michael McNamee?

Jim was making a shocking amount of mistakes with player names recently, more than usual.

awec

What a cracking try saving tackle from Jackson, but rubbish kick in the first place.

awec

6-0 Scarlets.

awec

6-3 , scrappy game really.

awec

TRY ULSTER!

Stockdale.

Ulster maul on left hand side, taken by Marshall who passes to McCloskey, breaks the line and offloads to Stockdale who runs in free.

LuckyGent88

Nice break and offload from McCloskey.

ScrubsfanChris

Thought the red was a bit trigger happy telling Marshall to use it as maul was still moving, good set price move though and lovely line for the offload and try.

awec

Marshall with a bollocks kick results in us back on our own 5 metre line.

captbarnacles

Christ. Can Marshall stop kicking away turnover ball

LuckyGent88

Good kick from Jackson. 13-6 to ulster at ht

irishbucsfan

Ulster winning? Marshall for Ireland

awec

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Ulster winning? Marshall for Ireland

Winning despite him to be honest, he's our worst player. We'd probably be further ahead if we had a good 9.

The Rape of Lucretia

Some good rugby from Ulster in fact, despite the conditions. And despite Marshall, I suppose its de rigueur to add.

moleyv

Ferris spews some sh te

Sinbad_NI

Some decent possession as the half went on. Hopefully they can keep that up in the second half.

Bazzo

I always get a laugh out of the ****e that gets thrown in as filler instead of ads on BBC NI. Ulster Rugby master chef. Seriously.

Zzippy

Utah_Saint wrote: »

Jim was making a shocking amount of mistakes with player names recently, more than usual.

He finally got them ALL wrong?!

irishbucsfan

Bazzo wrote: »

I always get a laugh out of the ****e that gets thrown in as filler instead of ads on BBC NI. Ulster Rugby master chef. Seriously.

I didn't see it, did they promote the cookbook (or would that even be allowed)?

awec

Mitrea needs to learn the rules of the maul.

awec

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I didn't see it, did they promote the cookbook (or would that even be allowed)?

No it was a puff piece about them teaching the academy lads about nutrition and they had a masterchef competition for them.

Zzippy

Marshall moving his team around at the speed of oh, I don't know, the Perito Moreno glacier...

pickarooney

The continental drift defence.

Sinbad_NI

Why are we kicking all the time.

Sinbad_NI

Pack can't seem to make a single yard with the ball though.

connachta

Mitrea. Sober, clean ref. Love that

awec

Marshall is the worst.

awec

Marshall off, Shanahan on.

cameramonkey

awec wrote: »

Marshall off, Shanahan on.

up the Dubs.

LuckyGent88

I don't think that should be given as high tackle as the scrum half is already going down

awec

Daft.

How can he give a yellow now but not to them in the first half?

Utah_Saint

These new tackle laws are shocking

awec

That all came from a Scarlets penalty that was never a penalty in a million years. Henderson perfect turnover, absolutely text book.

LuckyGent88

Can't say that was going to be a definite try either so don't think it should have been a penalty try.

Think these new laws are going to cause chaos.

Boscoirl

Reidy was fine imo but Trimble was lucky with his swinging arm

Sinbad_NI

Let's see what this one looks like.

Akrasia

Utah_Saint wrote: »

These new tackle laws are shocking

Basically guaranteed try when you get scrum or maul within 5 Metres

captbarnacles

Going to be some amount of yellows with these laws

awec

These new rules are dumb.

Boscoirl

Even less in that and I think Ball is a dirty player

Sinbad_NI

Consistent from ref at least.

Utah_Saint

That was never a yellow lol...they've destroyed rugby

LuckyGent88

Boscoirl wrote: »

Reidy was fine imo but Trimble was lucky with his swinging arm

That's what I thought too. Should have been Trimble in trouble if anything.

Ah, wtf. How is that a yellow. Such an over reaction these new laws

coco0981

Players are going to have to completely change their tackling technique to go low from now on

Zzippy

Farce

awec

No tackling from the waist up, just in case.

Utah_Saint

Being tall is now a disadvantage wen defending.