Match Thread: Scarlets v Ulster, Heineken Cup Match Thread, 7:45 BT Sport 3

awec

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McNicholl|Ludik
Prydie | Speight
Davies | Addison
Fonotia | McCloskey
Evans | Stockdale
Patchell | Burns
Davies | Cooney
Evans | O'Sullivan
Owens | Best
Lee | Moore
Rawlins | Henderson
Bulbring | Treadwell
Boyde | Reidy
Davies | Murphy
Cassiem | Coetzee
Replacements | Replacements
Elias | Herring
Jones | McCall
Kruger | O'Toole
Cummins | Rea
Davis | Timoney
Hardy | Shanahan
Jones | McPhillips
Parkes | Cave

Preview

It's day 4339 post-Brennangate and Ulster travel to Scarlets in their third Heineken Cup fixture of the season, naming what is probably the strongest lineup they have named all year. Will Addison returns to the centre after his November exploits, Henderson and Treadwell make up the engine room. Stockdale and Speight will be dangerous on the wings.

Scarlets look alright but I don't really care about them.

Prediction
Ulster by a score. Quietly confident we'll get this job done.

Burkie1203

awec wrote: »

Prediction
Ulster by a score. Quietly confident we'll get this job done.

Have you been drinking?

awec

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Have you been drinking?

Yes.

awec

Hidalgo-Clyne onto the bench for them

awec

That’s a yellow card ffs

thomond2006

awec wrote: »

That’s a yellow card ffs

That's borderline for me. He tried to use both hands.

Diabhal Beag

Sexy grubber from Addisson. He's utter class.

awec

STOCKDALE IS A BEAST. TRY!

awec

Addison is also the man.

thomond2006

Oh very nice!

Buer

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Sexy grubber from Addisson. He's utter class.

Lovely grubber but thought he should have moved it before that.

Classy try. Stockdale with a powerful finish but they almost made a mess of it by not holding their lines with the overlap. Stockdale should have been taken down.

Nice from Addison but bad miss from Scarlets on him.

Buer

Incredible strength from Henderson.

Stout Warrior

That's the second hold up turnover for Henderson

corny

Two lads trying to get to ball to ground. Henderson nonchalantly looking at the ref. Brilliant.

Buer

Addison is great to watch. Burns deserves credit for actually taking that offload though which was not exactly sympathetic. Ulster are going to go from everywhere, it seems. They want a BP.

Diabhal Beag

I know Scarlets are fairly ****e this season so far but Ulster have been really good so far. That Hendo defense was immense.

Squidgy Black

That was a huge scrum from Moore.

awec

We’re actually playing well.

Squidgy Black

Scarlets are giving away a ridiculous amount of penalties

Buer

Eh, on first viewing....if Cipriani was a red card, Reidy could be in trouble. Haven't seen a replay though.

Replay....could be in trouble here.

awec

Ouch.

awec

This ref is very good.

Squidgy Black

The chants of "off, off, off" are pathetic.

Buer

Thought he was lucky to get away without a yellow. Happy enough with the decision on a personal level but calls into question the consistency yet again.

corny

Farcical.

Dave_The_Sheep

Squidgy Black wrote: »

The chants of "off, off, off" are pathetic.

You get that everywhere.

On the tackle, quite lucky to get away without a yellow there given some of the cards we've seen.

Ulster have been in control and had Scarlets under a lot of pressure and coughing up penalties.

That's a poor score to concede against the flow of play and a pressure release valve for Scarlets.

Buer

That was a fantastic read from Speight not to bite in and trust the cover inside to get across before forcing the penalty.

Speight > Piatau

Massive error from Patchel.

Diabhal Beag

Tidy stuff from Besty

awec

Another great try. Good beef shown by the pack.

Buer

Jesus, that really is a shocking crowd for a do or die European match on a Friday night.

Amazing awareness from Davis there.

awec

awec wrote: »

Another great try. Good beef shown by the pack.

Bullying Scarlets.

When's the last time an Ulster pack bullied anyone!

awec

Almost away again there.

Buer

Slightly kinder bounce and Stockdale was away there.

Burns mixing the great with the ghastly.

Kevski

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Amazing awareness from Davis there.

He’s doing my head in :pac:

Peregrine

Score?

awec

Peregrine wrote: »

Score?

10-13 to ulster

Buer

13-10 half time.

If the Scarlets moved the ball there on their final phase before half time, they were away. Popped a short ball in midfield with big overlap of backs on the far side.

Ulster throwing themselves into this. Some pretty hard tackling and plenty of effort on and off the ball.

Nice to see the forward pack building decent gainline, still reliant on Addison, McCloskey and Stockdale taking on ball against forwards to maintain tempo but a big improvement on seasons past.

Synode

Good half from Ulster. Hopefully they can keep up the intensity

awec

There are four points on offer here tonight if we can just put in another 40 mins performance, and it would be a huge four points in the context of our season.

Buer

Best I've seen from Marty Moore since he wore a blue jersey. He's popping up around the field, slowing ball down, carrying and doing a tidy job at the set piece.

awec

No chance he was on his feet

Stout Warrior

Henderson is having a massive game

Buer

awec wrote: »

No chance he was on his feet

Don't think Henderson was either when he ripped it a minute earlier so evens out.

Squidgy Black

awec wrote: »

No chance he was on his feet

Looked like he was lying sideways on the ruck.

Utah_Saint

awec wrote: »

No chance he was on his feet

At no point was he on his feet...he was lying horizontal. And the red called it after 2 seconds !!!

Buer

Ulster need to calm this down and go through some phases. No way do they want to get into this loose, shoot out style game against the Scarlets or they'll be thumped.