Pro 12: Edinburgh Rugby vs Ulster Rugby Fri 16th Oct

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Edinburgh Rugby v Ulster Rugby
Friday 16th October 2015, KO 19:45
BT Murrayfield

TV - Live on Sky

Referee: Dudley Phillips (IRFU, 52nd competition game)
Assistant Referees: Sam Grove-White, Mike Adamson (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: Iain Goodall (SRU)
TMO: Iain Ramage (SRU)

Form:

Edinburgh
Last 3 Matches
2/10/15 Edinburgh 20 - 9 Ospreys
12/9/15 Treviso 24 - 27 Edinburgh
4/9/15 Edinburgh 16 - 9 Leinster

Ulster
Last 3 Matches
2/10/15 Ulster 48 - 7 Treviso
12/9/15 Scarlets 22 - 12 Ulster
4/9/15 Ulster 28 - 6 Ospreys

TEAMS:

Edinburgh Rugby

15 Greig Tonks
14 Tom Brown
13 Chris Dean
12 Andries Strauss
11 Damien Hoyland
10 Phil Burleigh
9 Nathan Fowles

1 Rory Sutherland
2 Neil Cochrane
3 John Andress
4 Anton Bresler
5 Fraser McKenzie
6 Mike Coman (capt)
7 Hamish Watson
8 Nasi Manu

16 George Turner
17 Allan Dell
18 Simon Berghan
19 Alex Toolis
20 Cornell Du Preez
21 Sean Kennedy
22 Will Helu
23 Jack Cuthbert

Ulster Rugby

(15-9): Louis Ludik; Craig Gilroy, Sammy Arnold, Stuart McCloskey, Andrew Trimble; Peter Nelson, Paul Marshall; (1-8): Callum Black, Rob Herring (captain), Wiehahn Herbst, Dan Tuohy, Franco van der Merwe, Roger Wilson, Sean Reidy, Nick Williams;

Replacements (16-23): John Andrew, Andrew Warwick, Bronson Ross, Lewis Stevenson, Willie Faloon, David Shanahan, Ian Humphreys, Rory Scholes.

Good start to the half from us, into the lead.

Burleigh showing his limitations as a FH, he is better a little bit further out.

I honestly don't understand what is going on in the breakdown in this game.

Glad to get the try though.

RDW_Scotland wrote:
Main talking point being the ref calling play back when Watson was through on the posts - still don't really know why.

Momentum switch that

As good as Watson as been, he's led to 3 maul turnovers

Roger Wilson off. His first mention of the evening. Mr. Anonymous!

Nice try - good input from Helu on his debut

Watson again. What a great try

Can't wait for the 77th minute when Du Preez comes on

Good try

Can't wait for the 77th minute when Du Preez comes on

Good try

Gilroy will not be happy with his defence there.

Ulster's kicking game has been superior

WHY TURN DOWN THE POINTS.

Penalty surely if it's truck and trailer?

Tearing my hair out.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Penalty surely if it's truck and trailer?

No, accidental offside.

Fair enough..

Very important kick from Tonks!

Bloody restarts!!!

If its a ruck, then Edinburgh win, a maul then its Ulster. You would have thought that they would have sussed by now that this ref blows very quickly!

Surely if it's an injury we can bring a player on and make it uncontested??

The ref is wrong on this one, should be aloud to sub the prop!

RDW_Scotland wrote:Surely if it's an injury we can bring a player on and make it uncontested??

No. The laws were changed due to teams feigning injury to get uncontested scrums, this removes the advantage of going to uncontested as you go down to 14. Now if you can't field a specialist front row and go to uncontested you can't bring on a replacement.

Big balls up by the ref!

Turner now plays loosehead apparently!

Really needed that from Tonks

BigGee wrote:The ref is wrong on this one, should be aloud to sub the prop!

I'm afraid he's not wrong. But if the hooker can play loose head he can come on.

Will be a travesty if we manage to somehow lose this - we've been the better team

Tonks was never really going to nail it

Notch wrote:

BigGee wrote:The ref is wrong on this one, should be aloud to sub the prop!

I'm afraid he's not wrong. But if the hooker can play loose head he can come on.

The hooker can barely play hooker!!

I can't see or listen to this. What's the score and time on the clock?

This is crazy and surely dangerous

Does this Embra 16 know how to play loose head? Because if not there could be a safety issue.

It should be uncontested, i have never seen that in my life before, hooker at loosehead? is this a joke

Really not looking forward to seeing how our scrum holds out ..

Notch wrote:Does this Embra 16 know how to play loose head? Because if not there could be a safety issue.

That's why its a crazy rule. The coach is bound to chuck anyone on rather than play a man down

Well done Strauss, much maligned but did a good job there

He held up ok those two scrums to be fair!

Spoke too soon!

Well done Embra, showed great character to win this.

Fantastic win Edinburgh against a very strong Ulster team.

4 from 4!

Well done Edinburgh, a really gutsy win. There is a lot of guts in this side, even if it still lacks a little finesse

Shoite performance from Ulster. Thank God for the World Cup!

Well done Edinbugh, better team, very hard to play against.

Awesome result. Really thought we'd struggle tonight. Sounds like a great team effort.

Other than Watson, who played well?

Will Helu made a real impact off the bench - provided some spark in attack.

The whole pack played well, Tom Brown the pick of the backs.

Still very much lacking creativity though!

As I thought might happen, Ulster lose.

Well done, Edinburgh. Well deserved.

Ulster

funnyExiledScot wrote:Awesome result. Really thought we'd struggle tonight. Sounds like a great team effort.

Other than Watson, who played well?

Pretty much the whole pack, Manu again showed some good touches. In the backs, Tom Brown looked good on the ball and chasing the ball and Will Helu made the Try and looked pretty good in his second half appearance, even Strauss made the final turnover.

Edinburgh clearly a hard side to beat now, but still not very fluent in the backs. Burleigh can do a job, but is not a natural 10.

Still 4 from 4, what's not to like!

It's frustrating because I think Burleigh is a top class 12, but he's also probably the best option we've got at 10 just now too.

Unfortunately I can't see us making the next step up as a club until we get ourselves a decent 10.

Blair Kinghorn may become that man, but he's desperately young.

Cheers! Zebre next so we should certainly be thinking about 5 before a tricky away game at Connacht.

Well done Edinburgh, you ahve become very very tough to beat. When you see a performance like that from Ulster you want to drop kick them. There was like no aggression, they just stayed off and didn't want to get involved in the fight at the break down. very poor indeed, how the back row still have jobs is beyond me

RDW_Scotland wrote:It's frustrating because I think Burleigh is a top class 12, but he's also probably the best option we've got at 10 just now too.

Unfortunately I can't see us making the next step up as a club until we get ourselves a decent 10.

Blair Kinghorn may become that man, but he's desperately young.

We should sign Foley, but only on the condition that he joins us immediately!

Amazingly, I don't think Du Preez even came on!