Ulster vs Cardiff Blues

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Ulster v Cardiff Blues
Kingspan Stadium, Belfast
Friday 27th March 2015
19.35 Kick Off
Live on BBC 2 NI and BBC 2 Wales

Team News
Ulster- (15-9): L Ludik; C Gilroy, D Cave (Captain), S Olding, M Allen, P Jackson, R Pienaar; (1-8): C Black, R Herring, W Herbst, D Tuohy, F Van der Merwe, I Henderson, C Ross, N Williams;
Replacements (16-23): J Andrew, A Warwick, B Ross, R Diack, A N Other, P Marshall, I Humphreys, R Scholes.

Cardiff Blues- 15 Rhys Patchell, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Cory Allen, 12 Gavin Evans, 11Lucas Amorosino, 10 Gareth Anscombe, 9 Lloyd Williams; 1 Sam Hobbs, 2 Matthew Rees (c), 3 Adam Jones, 4 Jarrad Hoeata, 5 Lou Reed, 6 Josh Turnbull, 7 Ellis Jenkins, 8 Josh Navidi

Replacements: 16 Kristian Dacey, 17 Taufa'ao Filise, 18 Scott Andrews, 19 Macauley Cook, 20 Manoa Vosawai, 21 Tavis Knoyle, 22 Gareth Davies, 23 Tom Isaacs

A discussion point for everything related to the game on Friday. Ulster should have Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding available start the game after injury.  Roger Wilson is unavailable after suspension due to personal reasons and Iain Henderson returns at blindside after coming off the bench for Ireland at the weekend.  

Ulster have next weekend off as they aren't in any European competition and will be looking to take a maximum 5 points from this before that ummm let's call it tricky run of fixtures we have coming up as we try and head for a home Semi Final.

Cardiff have The Dragons after this in the Challenge Cup Quarters and will want to win this for form and also to help avoid being the last placed Welsh team in the Pro 12.

Should be a cracking fixture

MrsP - In true Arsene Wenger style " I didn't see it" I've been switching between -

E3 Harelbeke
Leinster v Glasgow
Saints v Wasps
Ulster v Blues

IF a player takes another by the hair it's simple - OFF

George North unconscious again penfro?

Aaaaaaaand forward pass
Skin of teeth stuff and Blues looking much much better

Phew

RISCA - kicked (accidentally it looked to me) in the head whilst scoring. Meanwhile - Geraint Thomas looking good

What channel is the Leinster v Glasgow game on ?

Risca Rev wrote:George North unconscious again penfro?

North would need to be rested for some time if that's the case. Too many hits too close together. His safety must be paramount

LordDowlais wrote:What channel is the Leinster v Glasgow game on ?

BBC2 Scotland (970 on Sky) and TG4 for those with 'special' channels

I am watching BBC NI, they are defending what Nick Williams has done, pathetic.

PenfroPete wrote:

LordDowlais wrote:What channel is the Leinster v Glasgow game on ?

BBC2 Scotland (970 on Sky) and TG4 for those with 'special' channels

Cheers.

LordDowlais wrote:I am watching BBC NI, they are defending what Nick Williams has done, pathetic.

As per the Profumo scandal - Well he would say that, wouldn't he?

Go BIG G !!!! - sorry watching cycling

What did they say about Stuart Olding's injury there?

LordDowlais wrote:I am watching BBC NI, they are defending what Nick Williams has done, pathetic.

Nobody defended it but you went full on drama queen as usual so wise up you yappy little girl

Doing well Blues...

PenfroPete wrote:RISCA - kicked (accidentally it looked to me) in the head whilst scoring. Meanwhile - Geraint Thomas looking good

Bad and great. Worried about North (and Halfpenny), delighted for Thomas

Yessssss no more Jack Cuthbert

YES !!! - Geraint Thomas wins E3 Harelbeke

Cave rucked out with a headlock there, interesting way to ruck

Darren Cave grabbed by the neck quite badly there.

Seems a harsh red. Maybe Northampton fans influenced it. Good finish by him really, but what a worry

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It's a wonder dowlais isn't crying about that too

Leinster coming back at Glasgow 17 to 27 yellow for Glas 9

I've stopped watching the Blouse now. They're garbage and it's frustrating as firstly, they'll beat us next week in the CC and secondly, they'll finish above us again.

Risca Rev wrote:Seems a harsh red. Maybe Northampton fans influenced it. Good finish by him really, but what a worry

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Poor George. Seems really reckless from Hughes though tbh.

Risca Rev wrote:I've stopped watching the Blouse now. They're garbage and it's frustrating as firstly, they'll beat us next week in the CC and secondly, they'll finish above us again.

Don't leave yet, Ulster are falling asleep and Blues are taking advantage, Granted it was the Blues who put them to sleep

Only 3 points in it in Dublin now too

RHYS PATCHELL UPDATE - in hospital, but showing positive signs

Risca Rev wrote:I've stopped watching the Blouse now. They're garbage and it's frustrating as firstly, they'll beat us next week in the CC and secondly, they'll finish above us again.

Agreed.

PenfroPete wrote:RHYS PATCHELL UPDATE - in hospital, but showing positive signs

Jeez. What happened??

Cuthbert could play in the back row....beast he is

So delighted to see Henry back.

The Saint wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:RHYS PATCHELL UPDATE - in hospital, but showing positive signs

Jeez. What happened??

SEE ABOVE IN THE THREAD

Great to see Big Chris back it was so worrying when it all happened to him so it's fantastic to finally se ehim back on the field

Jeeees Ulster need to buck up the ideas here and here's the man to do it HEEEEENRYYYYYYYY!!!!

Henry that time being rucked with a neckhold clearly Mr Mitrea is missing these

PenfroPete wrote:

The Saint wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:RHYS PATCHELL UPDATE - in hospital, but showing positive signs

Jeez. What happened??

SEE ABOVE IN THE THREAD

I can't be fu**ed to go LOOKNIG FOR IT. Okay?

Get in Cardiff!

Strange that Blues are allowed to hold on in the tackle but hey, Blues are wanting this much more. It's a clear roper doper. They looked comical in the first half but anything but now.

Ulster catatonic now. If we lose this it's ourselves to blame......and Doak

Allen off injured HUmphreys on will go to 10, scholes to wing and Jacko to 12

I hope iHumph won that bet!

The Saint wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:

The Saint wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:RHYS PATCHELL UPDATE - in hospital, but showing positive signs

Jeez. What happened??

SEE ABOVE IN THE THREAD

I can't be fu**ed to go LOOKNIG FOR IT. Okay?

IMHO - Nick Williams led with the shoulder and made sure, by lowering the shoulder, that it made contact with Rhys' head

The amount of high tackles there!

Great kick by Humphreys! Wonderful!

PenfroPete wrote:

The Saint wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:

The Saint wrote:

PenfroPete wrote:RHYS PATCHELL UPDATE - in hospital, but showing positive signs

Jeez. What happened??

SEE ABOVE IN THE THREAD

I can't be fu**ed to go LOOKNIG FOR IT. Okay?

IMHO - Nick Williams led with the shoulder and made sure, by lowering the shoulder, that it made contact with Rhys' head  

What??
Williams went in upright and made contact with the forearm/elbow. How can you possibly think it was his shoulder? It was a typical Williams brainfart of a cheap shot but honestly.

Brilliant Henderson and pickup from WeeP

Perfect result so far with 34 all in Dublin

Iain Henderson - what a flipping player.

Not to miss the good work done by Herring there too and in fact he has played well all night

Whats with Hump's hair????

I think you need to be balanced about it.

The injury (though potentially very serious) has to separated from the incident.

The tackle by the hair by a Cardiff player was just as bad and could have caused a serious neck injury too, but did not so it the Blues player walks away.

Not defending Williams but some balance would be good.

Great bonus point win but my goodness didn't we make it hard for ourselves, I have a new theory that Ulster are trying to kill off all the older fans so they can get the young fans into the stadium lol
Great heart shown by Cardiff to come back after being 21 points down but good leadership at the end to make sure we didn't bottle it
Great performance from Jacko, Pienaar, SCholes and Herring
Nick Williams is free to leave in my opinion too much of that from him.

That'll have to do. Down to 14 for a quarter of the game and went to sleep for 30 mins or so and still a bonus pointe, happy days if a little shakey.

A draw in Dublin will be perfect for us. Come on both sides