Aironi vs Ulster Discussion

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Ulster will be trying to follow up their win over Glasgow with an away win in Italy next Saturday. Brian McLaughlin has announced his 23 man matchday squad. Andi Kyriacou is available; his wife gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the week, a future Ulster forward no doubt. The only change in the starting XV from last week is Tim Barker coming in to the second row, where he partners Dan Tuohy. Lewis Stevenson is on the bench where he is joined by Declan Fitzpatrick who has recovered from a concussion sustained in pre-season. Callum Black remains unavailable with a neck injury but there is a return for Luke Marshall, who comes onto the bench at the expense of Peter Nelson.

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,19077_7160294,00.html

Ulster:

15 A D'Arcy
14 C Gilroy
13 D Cave
12 N Spence
11 I Whitten

10 I Humphreys
9 P Marshall

1 P McAllister
2 A Kyriacou
3 J Cronin
4 T Barker
5 D Tuohy
6 P Wannenburg
7 W Faloon
8 C Henry

Replacements (16-23): N Brady, D Fitzpatrick, A Macklin, L Stevenson, R Diack, I Porter, P Jackson, L Marshall

Unavailable due to injury: Callum Black (neck)

Aironi:

15 Ruggero Trevisan
14 Riccardo Pavan
13 Roberto Quartaroli
12 Gabriel Pizarro
11 Giovanbattista Venditti

10 Naas Olivier
9 Tito Tebaldi

8 Nick Williams
7 Nicola Cattina
6 Josh Sole
5 George Biagi
4 Joshua Furno
3 Fabio Staibano
2 Roberto Santamaria (cap)
1 Matias Aguero

Replacements:16 Davide Giazzon, 17 Alberto De Marchi, 18 Luca Redolfini, 19 Simone Favaro, 20 Frans Viljoen, 21 Giorgio Bronzini, 22 Alberto Benettin, 23 Gilberto Pavan.

Also traveling with the squad this week will be Jared Payne! The New Zealander arrived in Northern Ireland this week. He won't be considered for selection until next weekend, this is just a chance for him to get to know his new teammates and coaches and settle into the Ulster set-up. Unfortunately, it will have to be the radio for this one! If only there was some other televised rugby event this weekend.

Would appreciate any updates chaps am out at the moment.

Ian Whitten try in the corner!

Come on Ulster. Well done Whitten

0-5 Willy. Conv missed

Aironi 0-5 Ulster

Humphreys has missed two kicks; one from the touchline and one from far out. Aironi have also missed what sounded like a relatively easy kick.

Naas Olivier kick;

Aironi 3-5 Ulster

Dan Tuohy scores in the corner!

Aironi 3-10 Ulster, conversion to come.

Humphreys kicks it from the sideline! 12-3

3-12 Ulster. Get in! Lets not switch off. Keep the pressure up

Adam D'Arcy is having a big game with Jared Payne watching in the stands- loving the competition!

Ugh, Aironi try just before half time! Come on Ulster!

Aironi 10-12 Ulster

10-12 Ulster.

Nick Williams try. Come on Ulster!!!

Arghhh, too many penalties!

13 v 12

Aironi 13-12 Ulster

Come on Ulster! Territorial advantage and we turn around behind? Need to get our noses back ahead!

What is going on at the lineout? Sort it out Ulster.

Yes!! Humphreys kick from way out on the touchline!!

Aironi 13-15 Ulster

A real mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly from Ulster. Sort some things out.

Well done Humph.

13 v 15

Nervy, nervy, nervy.

Very nervy. Brady and Stevenson are on the bench anyway- we'll be using our bench in this heat.

That kick sounded like a fairly long one.

Anyones game at half time anyway. We need to make improvements and kiss. Keep It Simple, Stupid

Ahhh ffs!

Basic stuff going wrong for Ulster- sort out the set piece! 16-15

Anyone know what happened at the airport yesterday?

What was Jim Neilly talking about?

Paddy Mac forgot his passport.

Great work chaps keep it up.

Paddy McAllister lost his passport.

SORT OUT THE LINEOUT!!!

Make the changes McLaughlin!

Ooops!

Where's the winning mentality? Sort it out!

Come on lads!!!!

Try Gilroy!!!

Woooo Hoooo!!!

We give away another penalty at the breakdown and they kick it from 22 to 22. Story of our day!

COME ON ULSTER!!!

GILROY SCORES!

COME ON ULSTER!! Heads up, get those heads up and keep fighting!!

Ref over rules the TJs to say the conversion was good!

Bonus point time?

Just holding onto the ball for a few minutes would do for now- walk before you run!

A win would be nice Willy G.

Putting two phases together would be nice. A win would be great.

Stick this penalty over and make them chase the game.

Missed penalty by iHumph.

Still 16 v 22

Come on Ulster!!!!!

He misses! Bad miss from Humphreys

Apparently he's having one of those days were he kicks the ones you wouldn't normally even attempt and misses the regulation kicks.

Callum Smith? Oh Jim.

Ulster need to be far cuter in attack. I wouldnt be going near the scrum with the way the penalties have gone. Once again we lose field position.

My forehead stings. I'd better stop hitting it when Ulster screw something up.

Luke Marshall on for Spence.

Come on lads!!!!

Luke Marshall on for Spence. We need another kicking option. If we can play the game in the Aironi half the scores will come

So many penalties.

How many times have we been in their half/22 and conceded penalties?

Is it the heat?

Do our lads only function in wind and rain?

Jeez, I hope the game tomorrow morning is better than this!

Can't be too long left now?

Arrrggghhhh!!!!

Straight into touch!