Ulster v Munster

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Ulster team and replacements to play Munster, Friday 28th October, Kingspan Stadium (kick-off 7.05pm):
(15-9): C Piutau; T Bowe, L Marshall, D Cave, C Gilroy, P Jackson, R Pienaar;
(1-8): C Black, R Herring (capt), W Herbst, D Tuohy, F van der Merwe, R Diack, S Reidy, R Wilson;
Replacements (16-23): J Andrew, K McCall, A Warwick, C Ross, C Joyce, P Marshall, B Herron, J Stockdale.

Munster XV: Andrew Conway; Darren Sweetnam, Jaco Taute, Rory Scannell, Ronan O'Mahony; Ian Keatley, Duncan Williams; Dave Kilcoyne, Niall Scannell, John Ryan; Donnacha Ryan, Billy Holland; Peter O'Mahony - capt., Tommy O'Donnell, Jack O'Donoghue.
Replacements: Vincent O'Brien, Brian Scott, Stephen Archer, Darren O'Shea, Robin Copeland, Abriel Griesel, Alex Wootton, Dan Goggin

Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU, 139th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Gwyn Morris (WRU), John Carvill (IRFU)
Citing Commissioner: Murray Whyte (IRFU)
TMO: Tim Hayes (WRU)

Miss number three by Keatley. That's 8 points gone.

Pot Hale wrote:Miss number three by Keatley.  That's 8 points gone.  

Conversion was tough, other two should be 6 points no problem though.

Very poor by Munster there. Another let off when they had the pressure.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Keatley's confidence is just gone. That is a shocking miss, it really is.

Hes a player who seems to almost do better when hes undisputed number 1 but give him competition he see seems to be more shaky than usual

Ronan O'Mahony is a good tackler.

Has anyone from either team put their hand up to be involved next week?

Ulster should have went wide one phase earlier there, poor decision to go back inside

Did Taute run at 2 miles an hour when he got the ball and open space there?

Oh Poopie, is that another head knock for Marshall?

Pretty poor execution from coming off that maul by Munster.

Bit of a depressing drab derby for a full house attendance.

Well played Liddle. Nice clearing kick.

I don't think Herring knew anything about that, but again we'll take it.

Jeez - don't tell me Conway has got injured again?

Edinburgh losing 6-0 to Zebre at home???

Pot Hale wrote:Jeez - don't tell me Conway has got injured again?

He took a hard landing there

Well now, this is going to be interesting for the last 15 minutes. We need to be playing way down in Munster territory at this stage

Make that 9-0.

Munster get another deserved score somewhat against the run of play. And Scannell kicks conversion over.

14-12 with 15 mins to go.

Jackson tweaked his leg with that kick there I think.

I hope Jackson didn't just do a hamstring.

Well he seems to be going to take this kick so hopefully it ain't too bad for him

What bumhole did that in the crowd, throw him out

Chance for Ulster to widen the gap with a penalty kick. Jackson lines it up and misses. Jeez. Was that a firework going off?

Was it definitely in the crowd, I'm a mile and a half from the stadium and they are all over the place.

Liddle looks a good live wire down the wing. Hope he gets more game time.

It could have been outside off course but that seemed just too perfect timing and sounded like it was in the crowd

Pot Hale wrote:Liddle looks a good live wire down the wing.   Hope he gets more game time.

For sure, one thing I would say is Lyttle's defence is weak at the minute but that will come other than that he looks like a cracker prospect

Sweetnam has some boot on him. That was a fine relieving kick.

neilthom7 wrote:

Pot Hale wrote:Liddle looks a good live wire down the wing.   Hope he gets more game time.

For sure, one thing I would say is Lyttle's defence is weak at the minute but that will come other than that he looks like a cracker prospect

Apologies. I misheard the name. Lyttle.

Pressure on in the last six minutes. Is this going to come down to a kick? Keatley has gone off.

And what do you know?

Sweetnam fires a,droppie over!

oh dear, C'mon ulster now you need to up it again, one last big push needed now we are behind

And Jackson tries one in reply! But it's wide.

Tommy, tommy, tommy. Not the greatest pass but you should have caught that. That should be that then

One big last scrum.

Smart play by Munster and they win.

Well done Munster. Commiserations Ulster.

Well played Munster you are starting to get too comfortable up here now. Ulster should not have lost that though.

Very frustrating.

Sorry what the hell was with that firework that put Jackson off the easy penalty

Again, too much of a 'we've done enough' attitude. This result was coming if you look at the last gasp wins against Ospreys and Exeter. Not only should we have saw that out, we shouldn't have had to.

toml wrote:Sorry what the hell was with that firework that put Jackson off the easy penalty

If its in the stadium I hope the culprit has been identified. I find it difficult to believe that Munster fans travelling up here would have smuggled stuff into the stadium though.

Artful_Dodger wrote:

toml wrote:Sorry what the hell was with that firework that put Jackson off the easy penalty

If its in the stadium I hope the culprit has been identified.  I find it difficult to believe that Munster fans travelling up here would have smuggled stuff into the stadium though.

More than likely just really bad timing by someone locally

marty2086 wrote:

Artful_Dodger wrote:

toml wrote:Sorry what the hell was with that firework that put Jackson off the easy penalty

If its in the stadium I hope the culprit has been identified.  I find it difficult to believe that Munster fans travelling up here would have smuggled stuff into the stadium though.

More than likely just really bad timing by someone locally

Yeh I think so, there are a lot of them going off sporadically this time of year.

Not sure how we won that. We were like a eunuch at a roman orgy for 90% of the game..

The Facebook critics are at it again, the Kiss out comments are beginning

Question. Would any opposing team put up an argument if the ref had allowed a retake of that kick? Rugby is a fair sport. I was surprised Owens didn't offer it again. Im sure he heard it.

The forwards worked admirably. I feel the backs have been badly misfiring after a good start to season. So much chopping and changing I'm sure doesn't help. Let's not get carried away with Lyttle. We really could have done without that forced replacement. Yea he scored, but to be fair, he didn't really break the tackles. He was tackled by Kearney and Munster forward and they clashed heads in the process.

This week and last week has saw a crazy increase in innacurate passing, and even from Pienaar and Jackson. Some poor hands too, and also felt perhaps tonight Piutau was trying to take on too much. In fact, most of our back play was about nothing tonight. Nothing overly creative, and when we did try that we failed miserably.

We did boss Munster about for large parts of the game, but just couldn't convert it to points....

It wasn't a classic but we'll take the win. Ulster pack looked tired after 60 min.


Munsters attacking problems are well documented but Ulster have problems too. They have the talent but they don't attack as a team. It's more like they hope for individuals to create something.

Lot I could say about Ulster right now. Too much... Might just leave it until Monday!

Congrats Munster

Got to say, seriously worried about our game next week. We'll be without Jackson, Marshall and Gilroy- Cave came off injured too. We're likely to drop out of the Top 4 today. And heading to Edinburgh with a depleted back line I can see three consecutive Pro12 defeats on the horizon.

Notch wrote:Got to say, seriously worried about our game next week. We'll be without Jackson, Marshall and Gilroy- Cave came off injured too. We're likely to drop out of the Top 4 today. And heading to Edinburgh with a depleted back line I can see three consecutive Pro12 defeats on the horizon.

Edinburgh will certainly be in need of some redemption after their capitulation to Zebre last night!

Just watched Kiss's post game interview. He did not look like a happy man...I wonder if he is starting to feel the heat and wondering what he needs to do to get the team playing like they can and should.

On a different note, can't help but wonder of they are putting too much pressure on themselves to send Ruan off with some silverware.