Ulster vs Glasgow

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Ulster Rugby v Glasgow Warriors
Saturday 11 October 2014
KO 17:05
Kingspan Stadium

Live on Sky Sports

Referee: Nigel Owens(WRU, 114th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Nigel Correll, Paul Haycock (IRFU)
Citing Commissioner: Murray White (IRFU)
TMO: Simon McDowell (IRFU)

A. Teams:

Ulster Rugby

15 Louis Ludik
14 Andrew Trimble
13 Jared Payne
12 Stuart McCloskey
11 Tommy Bowe
10 Ian Humphreys
9 Paul Marshall

1 Andrew Warwick
2 Rory Best (Captain)
3 Wiehahn Herbst
4 Alan O’Connor
5 Franco van der Merwe
6 Robbie Diack
7 Chris Henry
8 Nick Williams

16 Rob Herring
17 Callum Black
18 Bronson Ross
19 Lewis Stevenson
20 Roger Wilson
21 Michael Heaney
22 Stuart Olding
23 Craig Gilroy

Glasgow Warriors

15. Peter Murchie
14. Sean Maitland
13. Mark Bennett
12. Peter Horne
11. Tommy Seymour
10. Finn Russell
9. Henry Pyrgos

1. Gordon Reid
2. Fraser Brown
3. Euan Murray
4. Tim Swinson
5. Leone Nakarawa
6. Rob Harley
7. Chris Fusaro
8. Josh Strauss (Captain)

16. Dougie Hall
17. Jerry Yanuyanutawa
18. Zander Fagerson
19. Jonny Gray
20. Adam Ashe
21. Niko Matawalu
22. James Downey
23. Sean Lamont

B. Form - head to head:

29 Played 29
15 Wins 13
13 Losses 15
1 Draws 1
49 Tries 47
31 Conversions 33
78 Penalties 68
2 Drop Goals 7
547 Points 526
26 Avg. Age 26

C. Form - last season:

Friday 13 September 2013  
Ulster Rugby 12 - 13 Glasgow Warriors
Ravenhill Stadium

Friday 18 April 2014
Glasgow Warriors 27 - 9 Ulster Rugby
Scotstoun Stadium

The only prediction I'm going to make is that Glasgow fans will be complaining about Owens on the poor refs thread on Sunday.

The Great Aukster wrote:The only prediction I'm going to make is that Glasgow fans will be complaining about Owens on the poor refs thread on Sunday.

Theres guaranteed to be whinging about the ref. Thats a hobby for many posters.

I'll only complain if Nigel "I'm the referee" Owens doesn't say something priceless.
p.s. Anyone got a link for the Skyless paupers?

Hopefully with Nigel Owens in charge it'll make for an open entertaining game of rugby that results in a win and TBP for Ulster but no points for Glasgow

If Glasgow lose with a 4-1 points split we'd still be two points ahead of Ulster and you'd still have to come to Scotstoun. Really anything less than 5-0 and you're facing a struggle to catch us.
Still, if the MFL lose today they're having their end of season dinner dance next week.

Not been paying as much attention to Ulster as i should this season. that does not look to me like the strongest of teams they are putting out.

The only area that is weak is the halfbacks.

Just a lot of names I am not aware of:

Ludik and McCloskey in backs then both props and locks.

All good players though.

16200 tickets sold for tonight- I'll be heading over soon. Only victory will do.

jimbopip wrote:I'll only complain if Nigel "I'm the referee" Owens doesn't say something priceless.
p.s. Anyone got a link for the Skyless paupers?

Jimbo - I'll PM you as soon as I have something that works.

GC
We have "people coming for dinner" so I can't slope to some other establishment: at least if it's on in the study I'll see most of it. Oh the joys of the married life.

Fancy Ulster for this one. Will be happy if Glasgow can get a LBP

Naughty, Nick Williams. Lucky to still be on the field.

Game is shaping up to be very good.

jimbopip wrote:GC
We have "people coming for dinner" so I can't slope to some other establishment: at least if it's on in the study I'll see most of it. Oh the joys of the married life.

Check your inbox, feller.

i have link if anyone wants pm me

Owens: no penalty for that collision which is proof enough Ulster got robbed last year against Saracens.

Completely correct decision and fair play to Owens for not giving in to the crowd who of course will still be hurting after the red last season.

If anything these air collisions are actually more dangerous because players are seizing up when they reach the ball. Players are afraid to challenge and it is just making things even more messy. It has never been this big an issue.

VinceWLB wrote:Owens: no penalty for that collision which is proof enough Ulster got robbed last year against Saracens.

Oh give over and lose that chip. Marshall was the main reason that Ulster full back was upended.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Completely correct decision and fair play to Owens for not giving in to the crowd who of course will still be hurting after the red last season.

If anything these air collisions are actually more dangerous because players are seizing up when they reach the ball.  Players are afraid to challenge and it is just making things even more messy.  It has never been this big an issue.

There are similar situations every week and often this isn't even a penalty, Ulster got robbed this is now clear as water.

Thank god for N. Owens and common sense. Nothing in that.

How is Nick Williams still on the field?

Stuart Barnes does talk some nonsense.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Stuart Barnes does talk some nonsense.

Only some?

Ulster definitely got the edge in the scrum

Silly by Fusaro - wait until your 9 tells you that the scrum is over rather than popping up.

We clearly don't need to add any more pressure on ourselves.

This game is made for Matawalu to break up.

Does anyone know whom Glasgow has on the bench now due to Murchie's call off and Schlong being forced to start?

All that from a bad pass!

Bad kick to miss though, should be tightening the screw here.

Stuart McCloskey is really putting his hands up for a starting place in the Champions Cup.  I'd love to see him given a chance at 13 actually.

George Carlin wrote:Silly by Fusaro - wait until your 9 tells you that the scrum is over rather than popping up.

We clearly don't need to add any more pressure on ourselves.

This game is made for Matawalu to break up.

Does anyone know whom Glasgow has on the bench now due to Murchie's call off and Schlong being forced to start?

DTH on the bench

George Carlin wrote:
Does anyone know whom Glasgow has on the bench now due to Murchie's call off and Schlong being forced to start?

DTH

Glasgow should not be trying to play fancy rugby at the moment. That should have been kicked right down the Ulster end.

Didn't see the Naka sinbinning but it's that sort of thing that loses teams tight games.

I actually think that we need to break the game up. The second half is made for guys like Gray, DTH and Matawalu.

IHumph is nailing his kicks, so we need to score tries as Ulster don't seem set to make that many mistakes.

Glasgow up against it here if they want to get anything from this game. I like the way they played the last 5 minutes but mistakes and turnovers are killing us. Bench is going to be crucial here. We will see JG and Niko sooner rather than later. Fusaro is not having one of his better games so expect to go for the bigger more direct back row

Glasgow are being outmuscled so far and Ulster are well on top at scrum time which is not a surprise as the Glasgow's scrum has been back pedaling all season. Welsh, Cusack as well as Grant are being sorely missed.

I just noticed Marshall put Nakarawa onside with his 5m run, yellow card absolutely undeserved.

Okay now Nick is very lucky to be on the field..

Nick Williams is sailing very close to the wind!

Glasgow back to 15 now, so sin bin ended even

Better from Glasgow though, this is what we need to do

Glasgow need to bring Matawalu NOW

Here's Johnny!

Ulster scrum was creaking there

For the next game:

12) Olding
13) McCloskey

BigGee wrote:Ulster scrum was creaking there

Jonny and Hall have helped Glasgow's scrum greatly.

Here comes Niko

The amount of time its taking to get him off the field is worrying. Thoughts with Bennett.

Looks like a bad one for Mark Bennett, hard to see what happened there

Still a one score game. Who is going to be effected by the delay. Glasgow seemed to have the edge prior

Craig Gilroy is back!

That should be the winner - great run from Gilroy