Cardiff Blues v Ulster Friday 17th February, Cardiff Arms Park (kick off 7.05pm):

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Ulster Match Day Squad to face Cardiff, Friday 17th February 2012, Cardiff Arms Park (kick-off 7.05pm)
(15-9): S Terblanche; C Gilroy, N Spence, P Wallace, I Whitten; I Humphreys, R Pienaar;
(1-8): T Court, N Brady, J Afoa, L Stevenson, D Tuohy, C Henry (capt), W Faloon, R Diack;
Replacements (16-23): A Kyriacou, P McAllister, A Macklin, T Barker, M McComish, P Marshall, S Danielli, A D'Arcy

Unavailable due to injury: Jared Payne (achilles), Declan Fitzpatrick (neck), Darren Cave (foot), Pedrie Wannenburg (foot), Johann Muller (calf), Ali Birch (knee)

Cardiff XV: 15 Ben Blair 14 Richard Mustoe 13 Gavin Evans 12 Gavin Henson 11 Tom James 10 Dan Parks 9 Lloyd Williams 8 Xavier Rush 7 Josh Navidi 6 Michael Paterson 5 Paul Tito (c) 4 Cory Hill 3 Scott Andrews 2 Ryan Tyrell 1 John Yapp

Replacaments: 16 T Rhys Thomas 17 Nathan Trevett 18 Ryan Harford 19 Maama Molitika 20 Martyn Williams 21 Richie Rees 22 Ceri Sweeney 23 Chris Czekaj

There's just no intensity from the Blues. Need more aggressive forwards

How has Wallace been playing?

gowales wrote:There's just no intensity from the Blues. Need more aggressive forwards

Playing with 13 men doesnt help - Anyone seen the Blues centres?, they gone off for a coffee?

wales606 wrote:

bsando wrote:That prop for Blues is having a good game, made a lot of ground + solid ball carrier. Are there any Blues fans who can tell me who he is?

Scott Andrews the welsh international who gave away a stupid penalty in the first scrum and can't scrummage in any case.

Haha missed that one! Cheers for that. GH looks pretty sharp

Ha Ha! Andy Ward thinks Clancy is penalising Ulster at the breakdown unfairly..... keep on their feet and stop sealing off I would've thought.

bsando wrote:

wales606 wrote:

bsando wrote:That prop for Blues is having a good game, made a lot of ground + solid ball carrier. Are there any Blues fans who can tell me who he is?

Scott Andrews the welsh international who gave away a stupid penalty in the first scrum and can't scrummage in any case.

Haha missed that one! Cheers for that. GH looks pretty sharp

Clearing up scraps for the floor, and trying too hard with silly kicks.

If he gets into the game and gets his hands on the ball then he may prove useful

eirebilly wrote:How has Wallace been playing?

Ok, he hasn't seen much ball and what he has hasn't been great but he's pretty much the only Ulster back to consistently cross the gainline.

wales606 wrote:

bsando wrote:

wales606 wrote:

bsando wrote:That prop for Blues is having a good game, made a lot of ground + solid ball carrier. Are there any Blues fans who can tell me who he is?

Scott Andrews the welsh international who gave away a stupid penalty in the first scrum and can't scrummage in any case.

Haha missed that one! Cheers for that. GH looks pretty sharp

Clearing up scraps for the floor, and trying too hard with silly kicks.

If he gets into the game and gets his hands on the ball then he may prove useful

It's the Desparate Dan influence!

Notch wrote:

eirebilly wrote:How has Wallace been playing?

Ok, he hasn't seen much ball and what he has hasn't been great but he's pretty much the only Ulster back to consistently cross the gainline.

Cheers Notch

Some guy just put a Dan Parks mask on and scored a try!

Dan Parks = Try Machine

WHAT JUST HAPPENED!

Wow that pass by DP was awesome!

gmclachl wrote:Some guy just put a Dan Parks mask on and scored a try!

Who says Dan Parks cant pass!

DP's on fire! haha

Suddenly Dan Parks becomes MOTM!!!

bsando wrote:Wow that pass by DP was awesome!

Don't be silly

Right, let's get this new emerging talent Parks into the Sotland team!

Seems like DP is playing with a great del more freedom

Its a shame to hear chants of KARDIFF. Can't see Ponty supporters relishing going to watch the Blues at the CAP.

Good grief - what happened in the Blues change room at HT?

I like the chants of "Allez Le Bleur"

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:Right, let's get this new emerging talent Parks into the Sotland team!

Nah I can't see AR making selecting him, his selections are always bad

gowales, forgive my ignorance, I know a little of the sensitivity around Welsh regional team names, but does it really matter? What would you rather, 2,000 fans cheering Blues or 10,000 cheering Cardiff? Pls don't take this as antagonism cos I do understand the issues, and I know that Wales is somewhat unique for having new pro team catchments foisted upon it, but isn't it just great to be back at the Arms Park?

Suddenly become a very exciting games

Great scramble by the blues, saved a certain try.

Blues passing has gone to &$(* again

Beautiful kick by Parks again - On fire.

Can we please leave the arguement about the Cardiff in Cardiff Blues elsewhere and enjoy the game? There's been two threads on it already

Wales - it has hasn't it? Something happened at HT...

I have to say i've been impressed with Mustoe today, hes had some good runs.

Ulster driving on for a try now...ooh that was close.

gowales wrote:I have to say i've been impressed with Mustoe today, hes had some good runs.

Mustoe always gives 100%, even when the rest of the team are day-dreaming.

Cari wrote:Can we please leave the arguement about the Cardiff in Cardiff Blues elsewhere and enjoy the game? There's been two threads on it already

Wales - it has hasn't it? Something happened at HT...

Sorry, Cari, have managed to ignore those, don't mind waiting till after the match for a reply. Don't want to interrupt your viewing pleasure...

Ohhhhhhh........

Ooh I thought Charlie Hodgson was playing for a minute

I'll say it now. George Clancy is really on his game tonight

Bloody hell Clancy is a rubbish reff

Asbo - no worries. Just a bit bored with it all, it's been discussed at length already.

Tom James in!!!

Hensons pass was class. Try for Tom James

Cari wrote:Asbo - no worries. Just a bit bored with it all, it's been discussed at length already.

Tom James in!!!

Right oh, I'll leave it up to you to share the collective wisdom with me at the end

18 - 11 James try

Gavin still got it!

Good try! Now Ross Rennie, if you're watching that is how you complete a final pass!

I'll take back what I said about the wind....it's got pretty windy outside since I came home. by the sounds.

18 - 11.

Finally Henson shows his class for the Blues.

FFS Ulster... this is sub-standard.

TRThomas is on - Dont know why he didn't start, he's our best Hooker.

Czekaj on too, not much lost.

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

Cari wrote:Asbo - no worries. Just a bit bored with it all, it's been discussed at length already.

Tom James in!!!

Right oh, I'll leave it up to you to share the collective wisdom with me at the end

You can read about it for yourself - I think they started a discussion earlier on in this thread about it, and also here:

https://www.606v2.com/t24140-scrum-v

I hope I don't come across as being funny, but I personally find it tedious as a Cardiffian who's lived up the valleys.

Hump in the bin!!! I wish I'd gone now, I would've kept him warm....

Penalty missed from right in front of the posts!

That's better Dan!

21 - 11.

Painful to watch from an Ulster perspective, awful performance, pack really missing Muller, Ferris and Wannenburg, back row in particular have been awful.

Cardiff are totally reliant on their foreign players. Ulster are just terrible tonight

Hate watching Humphreys try and tackle. He was particularly gutless at times tonight.

Can the Welsh viewers confirm if I heard right when Ben Blair was asked in that interview there about being back at CAP, he said "Aw, it's like having an old Sheila...you just get back in there..."

Yes - the missed tackle on Henson was an absolute shocker, made Henson look good.