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Ulster Team Talk Thread IV... Go On My Henderson...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Baloucoune is such a classy player. I’d almost given up hope already.

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭Shehal


    Oh what a try, Baloucoune really is a player!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Brilliant by Ulster. Hopefully build on this now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Solid lineouts from Ulster so far. And what a fight back! Baloucoune involved again.

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Cracking offload from Baloucoune. Wow.



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  • Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭ Sky Happy Stratosphere


    Lovely try. Balacoune is so good.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    How Adamson got this game is beyond me. Ulster were lucky he didn’t penalty try and yellow card them for the Stormers first try. The maul collapsed because the player scored, nothing sinister.

    The knock on by Henderson where Fourie smashed him was a joke too, he was awarding a penalty and then stopped as the ball popped out. Knock on would have killed that advantage. Stormers score 3 minutes later.


    somewhat even after Moore’s pass but I’d hate to be a fan of either team with this game in the balance and him standing with the whistle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Are rugby players getting better or worse at drop-kicks? A woeful miss there.

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    What a performance by Ulster. They looked like they were going to be slaughtered after the two tries but kept their composure.

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭TRC10


    Very good half from Ulster. Defence absolutely superb.

    Lineout a bit shaky and need to resource the ruck a bit better. But a 5 point lead at the break is a great outcome.

    Wawrick and O'Toole standing up brilliantly to Kitsoff and Malherbe



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭Locke_Lamora


    I think the main improvements from the last time we played them are our scrum holding up and getting off the line and cutting them down before they can run at us.

    Surprised they haven't tried more contestable kicks so far, and I'm thankful their backline hasn't really got going yet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Baloucoune showed great hands for both tries. The second one also demonstrated the space he creates for players inside.

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭RichieRich_89


    Jacqui Hurley looking good in the RTE studio 👍️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    Jaysus, I hope Baloucoune hasn’t done something serious to himself.

    Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭testtech05


    Hopefully it's not serious but they need to take him off. He can't even break into a jog. Might only do more damage



  • Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "I didn't see what happened, but I don't want to see it again"



  • Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not what you want to see - hope he's available for next week and for the Summer tour.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭testtech05


    As usual Adamson is all over the place. How has he been picked to ref a semi final.....

    Really thought Ulster were going to make the most of that call when they went for the corner



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭Locke_Lamora


    Ugh we've had clean line breaks and lineouts on the five but only a five point lead to show for it. Have a bad feeling about that considering how poor we are at closing games out.



  • Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That should never have been advantage over without going into touch.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭Shehal


    Some of these Stormers back's are better on the deck than the Ulster pack...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭TRC10


    Getting turned over like that on first phase is just unacceptable



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭Shehal


    The sad part watching this is you just know Ulster are going to lose this...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭Shehal


    **** me that is a let off, ignore the easy 3 to go for the corner and then kick it dead...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭TRC10


    That's a let off



  • Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lenihan "Ulster lucky to survive there"

    Eh Ulster with incredible scramble defence, no luck about.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,122 ✭✭✭Shehal


    Surely a knock on from Jantjies in the previous ruck?



  • Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MASSIVE turnover.

    Great to hold the scrum, but that's a huge turnover.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭RichieRich_89


    Should be red.



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  • Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That's an absolute yellow for me - potentially a citing.



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