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Ulster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread.

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    #5402
    awec
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    Rumour has it that Olding was due to start at 10 tomorrow, were he fit for the game.


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    #5403
    Glass Prison 1214
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    awec wrote: »
    Rumour has it that Olding was due to start at 10 tomorrow, were he fit for the game.

    Thats a shame, it would have been very interesting to see what he's like as a 10.


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    #5404
    bilston
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    awec wrote: »
    Rumour has it that Olding was due to start at 10 tomorrow, were he fit for the game.

    Think we play Edinburgh at home on the 22nd November so provided Jackson gets the No.22 shirt for Ireland Olding will hopefully get a chance to play 10 in that match.

    That said everything I've seen from Olding screams centre, be it 12 or 13. I think he has the skills to play 13 but it's at 12 where he has excelled and as things stand I imagine that's where he will star in the future.


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    #5405
    awec
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    If he can placekick that'd be excellent though. Would take some pressure off Jackson.


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    #5406
    Sinbad_NI
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    Shame Olding is out, he was starting to shine again this year with his couple of appearances.

    Hopefully we can keep some level of continuity.


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    #5407
    awec
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    Bilston is lucky his missus put him to bed early this weekend. :(

    What a disastrous weekend for us, Munster, Leinster and Glasgow all winning and us getting our arses will and truly pillaged.


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    #5408
    bilston
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    awec wrote: »
    Bilston is lucky his missus put him to bed early this weekend. :(

    What a disastrous weekend for us, Munster, Leinster and Glasgow all winning and us getting our arses will and truly pillaged.

    Yes I recorded it but had heard the result so didn't bother watching it, sounds like I saved 2 hours of my life...must thank the wife...


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    #5409
    awec
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    bilston wrote: »
    Yes I recorded it but had heard the result so didn't bother watching it, sounds like I saved 2 hours of my life...must thank the wife...
    Imagine really, really bad rugby that is unbelievably dire. Poor rucking, poor passing, lots of pointless kicks that either went out on the full or invited a counter attack.

    We were even worse than that.

    The single bright point was our defence of 30 phases early in the first half right on our try line. Maybe that knackered us for the rest of the game, if we had a better team out we'd have ended it much earlier.

    Pienaar missed some kicks that would have seen Paddy Jackson crucified had it been him.

    Payne will never be captain material.


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    #5410
    Swan Curry
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    Being beaten up front by a Scarlets pack is never a good sign.


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    #5411
    awec
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    Yes, very bad. I think Stevenson was pretty awful - he always looked good last year I thought but that may be because he was always playing beside someone better than him. McComb will never be good enough.

    Roger Wilson is also not a flanker - that experiment should be consigned to the bin.


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    #5412
    former legend
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    Swan Curry wrote: »
    Being beaten up front by a Scarlets pack minus Faletau is never a good sign.

    Yeah, Faletau has been key for Scarlets.

    ummm....


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    #5413
    Swan Curry
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    former legend wrote: »
    Yeah, Faletau has been key for Scarlets.

    ummm....

    I knew that didn't look right when I was typing it :o

    That's the second time I've had to use that tonight,think it's time for some sleep.


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    #5414
    Logie-1
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    Hi Folks,

    Im new to this thread so forgive me if I talk nonsense.:confused:

    The game was still on until Pienaar missed that penalty, the heads went down after that, and I do agree, Paddy Jackson would have been hung out to dry by the pundits for missing that. Then Wilson's moment of madness, wtf!!!!

    Anyway, still only 6 points of the top, a two week rest before the next game, time to recharge, regroup and come out wanting to win.


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    #5415
    awec
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    Yea, the miss right in front of the posts just knocked us altogether. Had that gone over we may have went on to get some undeserved points from the game - though you couldn't see at all where a try was going to come from.

    Welcome by the way! Stick around, we need more Ulster fans in these parts! :pac:


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    #5416
    launish116
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    awec wrote: »
    Roger Wilson is also not a flanker - that experiment should be consigned to the bin.

    harsh based on playing openside maybe, but i've been impressed with him playing blindside


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    #5417
    Sinbad_NI
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    Wasn't great viewing, RP had a terrible game and not just from the tee... and don't even start me on the "tactical" kicking game.


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    #5418
    niallerm
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    Noticed Dominic Gallagher is back playing rugby for Ballynahinch. Still only 22, was always surprised he never made it into the Ulster academy when he was at u20 level wonder how much it had to with him going to college in dublin?

    Also much concern about Paddy Mac and his injury proneness, any word when he will be back?


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    #5419
    irishbucsfan
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    Good to hear Gallagher is about. He was always an impressive guy.


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    #5420
    phog
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    I heard a rumour that Tom Court is off to LI, any truth in it?


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    #5421
    awec
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    phog wrote: »
    I heard a rumour that Tom Court is off to LI, any truth in it?

    Was talk of him leaving before today.


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    #5422
    niallerm
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    3 year contract.

    I wonder what that means going forward, black to 1st choice LH? Paddy Mac hasn't been healthy in years, fear he he gotten too big.


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    #5423
    thomond2006
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    Humphreys leaving sort of made sense because he had been dropped for Jackson. However Court is first choice and it doesn't look like that will change for the forseeable. Why on earth would he leave for London Irish? Court could win a competition in a year or two with Ulster, he's not going to with LI.


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    #5424
    bilston
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    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Humphreys leaving sort of made sense because he had been dropped for Jackson. However Court is first choice and it doesn't look like that will change for the forseeable. Why on earth would he leave for London Irish? Court could win a competition in a year or two with Ulster, he's not going to with LI.

    Court leaving is being treated with scepticism by reasonably well respected posters on uafc so I wouldn't bank on it yet.


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    #5425
    Buer
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    3 year deal for a 33 year old, if true. It would be hard to turn down.


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    #5426
    RobbieRuns
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    I do not think that is an accurate rumour..... Court is not going anywhere


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    #5427
    niallerm
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    Buer wrote: »
    3 year deal for a 33 year old, if true. It would be hard to turn down.

    it would be stupid to turn down, realistically it's his final contract


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    #5428
    ssaye2
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    RobbieRuns wrote: »
    I do not think that is an accurate rumour..... Court is not going anywhere

    Its confirmed by GT in the Irish Times though


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    #5429
    jamiedav2011
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    Would be a loss for Ulster. Some young guns to step up, but Court is a good scrummaging LH at HEC level.


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    #5430
    niallerm
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    jamiedav2011 wrote: »
    Would be a loss for Ulster. Some young guns to step up, but Court is a good scrummaging LH at HEC level.

    agree, if Paddy Mac wasn't so brittle they could probably afford to let him leave..

    Callum Black is solid, and Paddy looked like a future international before his knee injury.. behind that there is McCall who has impressed me from what little i've seen.. think the rest of their props are TH's..

    Ulster could be looking at losing both Afoa and Court it seems..


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    #5431
    awec
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    Tweeted by Richard Mulligan now too, and saying it's definite.

    Seems like it's a done deal.


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