Scarlets v Ulster next Sunday

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How poxed lucky are Ulster? They get to play the 2nd place team in the league....away.....on the weekend that Wales play Australia.

On the other hand it is on a Sunday and their HC game v Northampton is on the following Friday.

So, a few swings mixed in with the roundabouts there. Especially considering Northampton have their game on the Friday.

I'm sure Ulster will cope. Better off having the 2 away matches in a row IMHO

Ulster Team:

P Nelson; A Trimble, D Cave, L Marshall, C Gilroy; P Jackson, P Marshall;
(1-8): C Black, R Herring, J Afoa, J Muller (c), N McComb, I Henderson, R Diack, R Wilson;
Replacements (16-23): R Best, T Court, R Lutton, D Tuohy, M McComish, M Heaney, N O’Connor, T Bowe.

Scarlet's Team:

15. Dan Newton 14. Kristian Phillips 13. Gareth Maule 12. Gareth Owen 11. Andy Fenby 10. Aled Thomas 9. Gareth Davies 1. Phil John 2. Emyr Phillips 3. Jacobie Adriaanse 4. Johan Snyman 5. Richard Kelly 6. George Earle 7. Johnathan Edwards (capt) 8. Kieran Murphy
Replacements
16. Kirby Myhill 17. Shaun Hopkins 18. Deacon Manu 19. Tomas Vallejos 20. Craig Price 21. Aled Davies 22. Adam Warren 23. Nick Reynolds

Ah Neily lad, he'll come on and score a corker of a try towards the end

I feel cold just watching this. It's freezing and raining there. That might make the pitch a bit slippery.

haha I feel cold watching it too but that's probably because my house is freezing lol

Ref making some 50/50 calls here. But regardless Ulster listen to him, when he tells you to move or use it, for dear sake or you'll get pinged. Bit of common sense please.

You can put the heating on...it is December now. I'm sat right by my fire with the laptop keeping my legs warm Good kick from the Scarlets there.

Evening William!

Agree Willy, use that age old Munster tactic play the ref not the rules lol
Nah it's worse than that Cari, the heating is on lol

The Scarlets are playing well. When I looked at the team sheets I was expecting Ulster to dominate, but I underestimated this young Scarlets team.

If it is close at 60minutes I fear that the Ulster bench will win it for them though.

Oh dear, you'll just have to put on some extra layers Neil. Or cwtch up to someone...or something

It's 3-3 after 21 minutes.

Scarlets unlucky from that drive, I thought Ulster brought it down.

That's a great scrum we have this year even when we don't start 3 Ireland internationals we can do damage, great to see that depth. Willy is right these calls by the ref are somewhat marginal

3rd offside call against Ulster now? Paddy Jackson hesitating before the kick

No way Cave/Trimble offside there. Regardless the kick went straight out.

Everything is falling the Scarlets way.

I wouldn't say that any of the refs call have been wrong, Ulster are making silly errors.

Oh dear... I hope that doesn't mean Ulster could be facing their first defeat of the season...not against the Scarlets please!

Great work from th Scarlets 7 there.

Trrrrrrrrrimmmmmmble

Wooooo! Gooooo Trimby! What an intercept!

3-8 after 28 and a half minutes.

That was lucky.

Ouch, that's not good

And it wasn't even Tommy Bowe with the intercept

Try Trimble

3 - 10

Unlucky for the Scarlet's who have been the better team so far

Ha yeah wales, that was Tommy-esque wasn't it? That intercept must have been annoying when the Scarlets have had the majority of possession so far.

Looks like Ulster are going for the kick-and-chase option now. Look out if Gilroy gets his mitts on the ball...

Scarlets getting Mullered in the scrum

3-13 after another Paddy penalty. Seven minutes to HT. Ulster could run away with this now...

ooh unlucky Cave. If he'd hung onto that...

Haha I read that the first time as 'I'd have hung onto that'

Scarlets looks beaten....

WillyGilly wrote:Haha I read that the first time as 'I'd have hung onto that'

Nooo....maybe if Tommy was carrying it!

Messy end to the first half here.

VinceWLB wrote:Scarlets looks beaten....

McCusker being interviewed now - even he sounds a bit defeated "We'll be glad to get to half time to be honest..."

Yep, HT and it's 3-13.

Cari wrote:

VinceWLB wrote:Scarlets looks beaten....

McCusker being interviewed now - even he sounds a bit defeated "We'll be glad to get to half time to be honest..."

No leadership on the field. Only Murphy looks like he wants it...

Well our most famous Politician rugby winger does like a wee intercept too.

neilthom7 wrote:Well our most famous Politician rugby winger does like a wee intercept too.

Nice one Dave!

Poor quality game. Quite happy with our organisation and composure so far, although we've slipped off a few tackles and made a few errors.

It's good there only appears to be 2 Marshalls on the pitch today not like 4 or 5 lol

Oh Cari is about to go nuts lol

Balls! I was in the kitchen...I heard the commentator say something about Tommy - is he on?!

Dan Tuohy and Tommy Bowe on now. Two planned substitutions.

Muller- good to see him get 40 minutes under his belt. What does the Gilroy sub say about his place in the pecking order?

Probably just resting and rotating himself and Tommy as they played in a big test match last week.

Cari wrote:Balls! I was in the kitchen...I heard the commentator say something about Tommy - is he on?!

Yes, number 23.

neilthom7 wrote:It's good there only appears to be 2 Marshalls on the pitch today not like 4 or 5 lol

They need alternate nicknames like I dunno, Fatty, Ginge, Speedy and Thingy

Paddy kicks again in the 42nd minute. 3-16.

Woooooooop! Go no.23

Notch - sounds like they're looking after Gilroy doesn't it? They can win this without him but the Heino will be a whole different kettle of fish next week...

Oh dear Thomas could've done with getting that. penalty goes wide. 3-16.

Jeez that was a long penalty.

Yeah I imagine he wants to give them all a chance to prove why they should be picked next week notch and maybe he think's Trimble has shown himself enough to stay on so far. I think we will see Trimble next week away because his defence is much stronger.
Ah Cari there is only 4 of them when the BBC commentators have no clue who is actually playing for Ireland or what they look like. There is only 2 of them but Paul is so quick he fools pundits into thinking he is 3 people lol

ooh Ulster 8 just warned for not rolling away. Twice that's happened now. Ulster don't want a binning!

Thomas kicks for the sticks and nails it.

6-16.

Neily - Well at least they can get away with saying Marshall this and Marshall that....could be on about any of them!

I think Scarlets' Aled Thomas looks a bit like Trimby...not as much as Liam Williams does though.

Scarlets on the attack now...and they get a scrum.

Ulster have switched off a bit. Need to score next, and cut out the penalties.

9-16 at 53 minutes after another Thomas penalty. Ulster need to watch their discipline...Scarlets could edge a lead at this rate.

We seem to be looking to Luke Marshall an awful lot to breaks he gainline. Nelson should have come in there though.

Ah good. Bit of experience on now.

And results in an immediate pen Willy so good call lol

Afoa takes down 2nd scrum in a row and the result is an Ulster penalty