Leicester Tigers vs Ulster - Welford Road ERCC

Think this match deserves its own thread.

Leicester Tigers: Mathew Tait; Blaine Scully, Manu Tuilagi, Owen Williams, Vereniki Goneva; Freddie Burns, Ben Youngs (c); Marcos Ayerza, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Fraser Balmain, Brad Thorn, Graham Kitchener, Jamie Gibson, Julian Salvi, Jordan Crane
Replacements: Harry Thacker, Michele Rizzo, Tiziano Pasquali, Sebastian De Chaves, Robert Barbieri, David Mele, Sam Harrison, Miles Benjamin

Ulster: L Ludik; T Bowe, J Payne, S McCloskey, C Gilroy; P Jackson, P Marshall; A Warwick, R Best (c), W Herbst, L Stevenson, F van der Merwe, R Diack, C Henry, N Williams.
Replacements: R Herring, C Black, D Fitzpatrick, C Ross, R Wilson, M Heaney, S Olding, D Cave.

Hard to call. Hope our scrum and maul is enough to pull us through.

No worries Notch we have this one sorted.......I hope.

May the best side win, good lick Tiggers, good luck my Ulster!!!

Well it's that time already. A must win for Leicester, and a win for Ulster will go a long way to help ensure we get out of the group.

Come on Ulster!!!

SUFTUM!!

Notch wrote:Hard to call. Hope our scrum and maul is enough to pull us through.

Thing is, Tigers have a potential match for Herbst at loosehead. Herbst has done a number on every scrum hes come up against in the Rabo. Ayerza, however I would rate as one of the best looseheads in the world. He took the Australia scrum apart recently in the RC in Buenos Aires. Its going to be a great battle between them 2. Kitchener has been great in the lineout as has Van der Merwe - another big battle there.

I have it pretty even up front on paper, Tigers form before their last game was poor so they need a big performance. My concern for Ulster is that our backline hasn't been that fluent and we have had a lot of different half back partnerships with Pienaar out and Jackson out for periods as well. Need Jackson to have his kicking boots as well.

It's Andy Warwick my hopes rest on. If Herbst can hold his own, we need him and Bestie to target Balmain. Big if with a guy of his class but this is a good scrummaging front row.

We really need to be nailing those kicks.

If your Cockerill, that would annoy you so much. Massive hit, great tackle, they just didn't need to use their hands.

Huge blow for the Tigers if that is a permanent substitution.

Wrong question from Poite.

Ffs not Manu Huge loss

Notch wrote:Wrong question from Poite.

Got the penalty wrong before hand too against McCloskey, went through the gate and cleared the man out but took out the scrum half

Right decision. Would have been a ridiculous card.

only just tuned in, for some reason i thought it was on tomorrow.

Hows the game been so far? Are we still poo?

Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:Right decision. Would have been a ridiculous card.

If anything Benjamin was looking for the penalty, the ball was his but jumped at the last minute to get the contact

Sorry, not buying that at all. I think he just didn't track it well and had to jumpnat the last second to get it.

marty2086 wrote:

Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:Right decision. Would have been a ridiculous card.

If anything Benjamin was looking for the penalty, the ball was his but jumped at the last minute to get the contact

no chance, he jumped to catch the ball which is perfectly normal. Just a pen is the right decision though.

Where was the white knock on ?

Poite did see it being grounded and wanted to double check, which makes his question fair enough.

As for the Bowe thing, handled well Benjamin jumped late and Bowe wasn't expecting it- it happens. Nothing in it. Penalty and play on. Good reffing.

Ulster very hard done by by that knock on call though. Very frustrating.

No knock on there, no advantage. Flip sake Poite.

glamorganalun wrote:Where was the white knock on ?

It came off his head. Frustrating it was a chance for seven

great kick by burns.

The ref is France s revenge for Clancy

What the hell was that Marshall- brain fart to end all brain farts.

Marshall..

Why did Poite tell Thorn to get away and when he didn't gave nothing?

Good awareness from Young

Oh for god's sake. This is a disaster. What the hell was that? And after the Payne thing last year? Unforgivable.

I think we might to coach wings and fullbacks how not to take men out in the air.

Bring on Williams for the kicking and move him to 10

who are we playing in the centres if Manu is off?

Whats wrong with Ulster tonight? They're determined to shoot themselves in the foot.

Burns get in

Game over!

This is completely dreadful from Ulster.

Three very soft tries and an incredibly stupid yellow card. Couldn't be doing much worse.

Goneva at 13 Nathan. Miles on the wing.

marty2086 wrote:Game over!

No it isn't, did you not see the Munster game earlier?

Get in! Great to see Youngs having a good game.

That's disgraceful from Gilroy a cynical tackle in the air with Benjamin landing on his upper shoulder. Should have been red. I hope he gets a big ban for that he's only going to get back on because Benjamin didn't stay down for treatment.

Nice to see Tigers turning it on. Youngs and Kitchener have been outstanding.

nathan wrote:who are we playing in the centres if Manu is off?

I'd guess Goneva with Benjamin to the wing

Burns making up for his poor kicking from the tee. I love him again

Good try, Ulster need to sort out their play and fast

formerly known as Sam wrote:I hope he gets a big ban for that

So much for Tigers don't cite.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

marty2086 wrote:Game over!

No it isn't, did you not see the Munster game earlier?

To be fair I think the starting Tigers 15 are not that bad, barring the centers situation. The bench doesnt look good at all

That's twice the receiving player has jumped into the opposition purposely going for the penalty and you still get eejits calling for red cards????????

Jeez - not an Ulster team that I recognize at the moment.

Gilroy just cost his team at least 7. Ulster players clearly all very frustrated.

Notch wrote:

formerly known as Sam wrote:I hope he gets a big ban for that

So much for Tigers don't cite.

??

A fan saying he hopes that he gets a good ban is the same as the actual tigers team citing someone?

Pete330v2 wrote:That's twice the receiving player has jumped into the opposition purposely going for the penalty and you still get eejits calling for red cards????????

Pathetic.

formerly known as Sam wrote:That's disgraceful from Gilroy a cynical tackle in the air with Benjamin landing on his upper shoulder. Should have been red. I hope he gets a big ban for that he's only going to get back on because Benjamin didn't stay down for treatment.

Nice to see Tigers turning it on. Youngs and Kitchener have been outstanding.

Grow up it wasn't that bad.

Pete330v2 wrote:That's twice the receiving player has jumped into the opposition purposely going for the penalty and you still get eejits calling for red cards????????

Thats not what happened the second time, Gilroy was an idiot and was lucky. He won't get banned though, and what he did was so much worse than Paynes from last season.