Edinburgh v Ulster, 21 March

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Edinburgh v Ulster

Friday 21 March 2014
KO 19:45
Murrayfield Nematode Nursery

Referee: John Lacey (IRFU, 33rd competition game)
Assistant Referees: Neil Paterson, Bob Nevins (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Kirk (SRU)

Massacre Not Televised

A. Teams:

I. Edinburgh

15 Jack Cuthbert
14 Dougie Fife
13 Sam Beard
12 Andries Strauss
11 Tom Brown
10 Carl Bezuidenhout
09 Grayson Hart

01 Alasdair Dickinson
02 Ross Ford
03 Willem Nel
04 Grant Gilchrist
05 Izak van der Westhuizen
06 Mike Coman CAPTAIN
07 Roddy Grant
08 Cornell Du Preez

16 James Hilterbrand
17 Wicus Blaauw
18 Ewan McQuillin
19 Ollie Atkins
20 Tomas Leonardi
21 Sean Kennedy
22 Harry Leonard
23 Nick De Luca

II. Ulster

01) Tom Court
02) Rob Herring
03) John Afoa
04) Johann Muller (c)
05) Iain Henderson
06) Stephen Ferris
07) Sean Doyle
08) Roger Wilson
09) Michael Heaney
10) Paddy Jackson
11) Craig Gilroy
12) Luke Marshall
13) Darren Cave
14) Tommy Bowe
15) Jared Payne

16) Niall Annett
17) Andrew Warwick
18) Ricky Lutton
19) Dan Tuohy
20) Nick Williams
21) Robbie Diack
22) Paul Marshall
23) Stuart McCloskey

B. Form - head to head

28 Played 28
9 Wins 18
18 Losses 9
1 Draws 1
49 Tries 69
36 Conversions 47
62 Penalties 86
6 Drop Goals 3
521 Points 706
25 Avg. Age 26

C. Form - last season:

Fri 2 November 2012, 19:05
Ulster Rugby 45 - 20 Edinburgh Rugby
Ravenhill

Fri 22 March 2013, 19:30
Edinburgh Rugby 14 - 8 Ulster Rugby
Murrayfield

This game isn't on TV?   

Is it not even on BBC Alba?

Onto the Rennie point, I can't think why a coach of Solomon's credentials wouldn't rate him. That sounds a bit daft.

No the Glasgow game is on Alba instead (for a change...)

Agreed on Rennie - if you have a pack of behemoths you can accommodate a smaller more skillful 7 perfectly well.

The Rennie situation is kind of weird, maybe it's just that Rennie needed a new start?
Grant and Rennie aren't the biggest players but i think Grant is more abrasive which could be why Solomons prefer him over Rennie.

I remember the same fixture last year wasn't supposed to be on tv, yet BBC NI ended up showing it, maybe more of the same please.

If anyone is looking for free tickets Ghillie Dhu are running a competition on Facebook - I seem to be the only one that has entered so far and there are 2 pairs of tickets up for grabs!

They are asking how many pipes they have in their organ in the auditorium and, having looked on their website, I reckon it is 30.

And I won the tickets!   

RDW_Scotland wrote:And I won the tickets!   

well done.

Had I not been living in the frozen north I might have applied.

Is there some App on your phone RDW that automatically informs you of all ticket competitions!!?

Hopefully the weather will improve before tomorrow. Not sure the kickers will much fancy trying to play with this wind, and it won't make for a great game.

Nah, I wasn't going to go but thought I would check around for competitions, Ghillie Dhu regularly has one and hardly anyone enters it - I think this is my 4th pair of tickets from them now!

The weather is minging just now but is meant to die down by this afternoon (I hope so for rugby training tonight!)

Forecast for tomorrow is overcast and a moderately high wind.

Well Bezzy is a pretty competent kicker, whereas Paddy Jackson never seems to handle Murrayfield particularly well (and I'm told Pienaar won't be playing), so hopefully we'll do well out of that exchange.

Ulster team named;

1) Tom Court
2) Rob Herring
3) John Afoa
4) Johann Muller (c)
5) Iain Henderson
6) Stephen Ferris
7) Sean Doyle
8) Roger Wilson
9) Michael Heaney
10) Paddy Jackson
11) Craig Gilroy
12) Luke Marshall
13) Darren Cave
14) Tommy Bowe
15) Jared Payne

16) Niall Annett 17) Andrew Warwick 18) Ricky Lutton 19) Dan Tuohy 20) Nick Williams 21) Robbie Diack 22) Paul Marshall 23) Stuart McCloskey

With Best, Henry, Trimble and Pienaar all looking to come back next week we are in a strong place! Very happy with that team, only concerns are the lack of cover at tight head and out half.

Thats a seriously physical pack we've named- gonna be a really tough game but we can find a way to win it, I think.

Both delighted and terrified at the same time to see Ferris starting.

Very strong team - good thing my tickets are free!

Callum Black on the bench? thought he was out for a few weeks at least.

theshanker wrote:Callum Black on the bench? thought he was out for a few weeks at least.

Sorry! I made a mistake when I was quickly transcribing the team. Callum Black is injured and Andrew Warwick replaces him. Thats what happens when you don't proofread

Thanks for that Notch thought I was going senile there for a minute 

Edinburgh Rugby team v Ulster
Murrayfied Stadium

Friday 21 March (kick-off 7.45pm)

15 Jack Cuthbert

14 Dougie Fife

13 Sam Beard

12 Andries Strauss

11 Tom Brown

10 Carl Bezuidenhout

9 Grayson Hart


1 Alasdair Dickinson

2 Ross Ford

3 Willem Nel

4 Grant Gilchrist

5 Izak van der Westhuizen

6 Mike Coman CAPTAIN

7 Roddy Grant

8 Cornell Du Preez


Substitutes: 16 James Hilterbrand, 17 Wicus Blaauw, 18 Ewan McQuillin, 19 Ollie Atkins, 20 Tomas Leonardi, 21 Sean Kennedy, 22 Harry Leonard, 23 Nick De Luca

Our pack will hopefully hold our own, with several big units in there, but it is very much advantage Ulster in the backs.

5 of that starting backline are new signings this year, and a lot of them only have a handful of games. They are decent players by the look of things, but have no where near the same experience as that Ulster team.

Good thing the Murrayfield pitch is a bit of a leveller then!

That's a mighty Ulster lineup and a big woooohhoooooooo for 1F's first start in toooooo long.

On that issue, a question for Edinburgh folks, does Grayson Hart have some immodium handy because Stevie Ferris likes picking on scrum halfs

I say picking......I mean picking up and running with them

Very much looking forward to Cornell Du Preez and Ferris giving it hammer and tongs!

Woah - the Mad Dog from Maghaberry is back with a first team start. Hope he doesn't get injured again - 15 months was a long, long time to be out. Agreed that if he and Du Preez collide, I'll hear the smash from here.

Edinburgh need to replicate what they did against the Ospreys - they were worthy winners. Coman People and Bezzy looked like quality products. Strauss and Beard also looked very good but they're going to get a serious test this time out.

as a neutral up to watch my first game in murrayfield i am hoping for some excellent rugby and an exciting match....will be in the ground with me dragons jersey on so anyone sees me say hello!

GavinDragon wrote:as a neutral up to watch my first game in murrayfield i am hoping for some excellent rugby and an exciting match....will be in the ground with me dragons jersey on so anyone sees me say hello!

Great to hear you're coming along, and prepare yourself for people making jokes about you getting your dates wrong if you wear your Dragons top!

Definitely recommend the pitch side standing, unless sitting in a sparse, empty stadium is your kind of thing...

GavinDragon wrote:as a neutral up to watch my first game in murrayfield i am hoping for some excellent rugby and an exciting match....will be in the ground with me dragons jersey on so anyone sees me say hello!

My dad is over in Edinburgh and he's got a ticket so feel free to go over and say hello, he'll be the other spectator there on the night.

  

Nah, I'm going too with work. I'll be quiet and sober so as to not make a scene in front of my boss...

highland_scot wrote:Nah, I'm going too with work. I'll be quiet and sober so as to not make a scene in front of my boss...

You'll fit in well with the rest of the crowd then!  

Yep. I will sit quietly in the corner and tut disapprovingly and anyone showing emotion.

Was in the West Stand at the Scotland v Japan match, having thought that the prawn sandwich brigade stereotype was a caricature... Absolutely not.

highland_scot wrote:Yep. I will sit quietly in the corner and tut disapprovingly and anyone showing emotion.

Was in the West Stand at the Scotland v Japan match, having thought that the prawn sandwich brigade stereotype was a caricature... Absolutely not.

It was an artisan baguette actually......

An artisan langoustine baguette...

RDW_Scotland wrote:

highland_scot wrote:Nah, I'm going too with work. I'll be quiet and sober so as to not make a scene in front of my boss...

You'll fit in well with the rest of the crowd then!  

Never forget the HC group match when the Edinburgh fans complained about us being too loud

Also the Ulster players have said that when we played Edinburgh in the Celtic Cup Final at Murrayfield the match was won before kick off.
All the teams could hear was the Ulster fans and they reckoned it made them a foot taller and the Edinburgh players a foot shorter   

geoff998rugby wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:

highland_scot wrote:Nah, I'm going too with work. I'll be quiet and sober so as to not make a scene in front of my boss...

You'll fit in well with the rest of the crowd then!  

Never forget the HC group match when the Edinburgh fans complained about us being too loud

Also the Ulster players have said that when we played Edinburgh in the Celtic Cup Final at Murrayfield the match was won before kick off.
All the teams could hear was the Ulster fans and they reckoned it made them a foot taller and the Edinburgh players a foot shorter   

Edinburgh players have got used to hostile opposition fans being noiser - and that's just the home games!

You sure the Edinburgh fans weren't just getting annoyed with the SUFTUM chants over and over again??

Ulster aren't noisy. It's the Munster fans who really make the noise...

funnyExiledScot wrote:Ulster aren't noisy. It's the Munster fans who really make the noise...

Just look at any thread about Irelands selection policy if you want to see the truth of that   

Keyboard warriors!

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:Keyboard warriors!

Is that what they are going to call the third Scottish team?

Bit similar to your lot surely?

Notch wrote:

GavinDragon wrote:as a neutral up to watch my first game in murrayfield i am hoping for some excellent rugby and an exciting match....will be in the ground with me dragons jersey on so anyone sees me say hello!

My dad is over in Edinburgh and he's got a ticket so feel free to go over and say hello, he'll be the other spectator there on the night.

  

while i was on the city bus sight seeing tour today went past an ulster branded bus full of fans, wonder if he was on there?

Nah, he wouldn't be he's doing some work over there on Friday and he's going to pop along once he's finished. Good to know there are plenty of Ulster fans going though.

GavinDragon wrote:

Notch wrote:

GavinDragon wrote:as a neutral up to watch my first game in murrayfield i am hoping for some excellent rugby and an exciting match....will be in the ground with me dragons jersey on so anyone sees me say hello!

My dad is over in Edinburgh and he's got a ticket so feel free to go over and say hello, he'll be the other spectator there on the night.

  

while i was on the city bus sight seeing tour today went past an ulster branded bus full of fans, wonder if he was on there?

Haha. Saw your photos on facebook, looking well.

Personally not sure if I would go see Edinburgh even for free, but then again I did pay to go see the Blues when they played at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Have a good time lad.

Gavin, get yourself along to the Presidents Suite about 7 and I'll buy you a beer. Assuming I can spot the guy in the Dragons top. Will be in the Roseburn Bar earlier btw.

JayMaster3000 wrote:

GavinDragon wrote:

Notch wrote:

GavinDragon wrote:as a neutral up to watch my first game in murrayfield i am hoping for some excellent rugby and an exciting match....will be in the ground with me dragons jersey on so anyone sees me say hello!

My dad is over in Edinburgh and he's got a ticket so feel free to go over and say hello, he'll be the other spectator there on the night.

  

while i was on the city bus sight seeing tour today went past an ulster branded bus full of fans, wonder if he was on there?

Haha. Saw your photos on facebook, looking well.

Personally not sure if I would go see Edinburgh even for free, but then again I did pay to go see the Blues when they played at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Have a good time lad.

haha cheers buddy yes having a great time up here. certainly am doing well - working behind a desk is not helping my waistline mind! speaking of pics cant believe how quick your little one is growing!

justified sinner wrote:Gavin, get yourself along to the Presidents Suite about 7 and I'll buy you a beer. Assuming I can spot the guy in the Dragons top. Will be in the Roseburn Bar earlier btw.

cheers fella hope to see you there!

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby/latest/rugby-fans-can-get-a-wedge-of-murrayfield-turf-1-3348752

You can take home a wedge of the Murrayfield turf tonight. Great. Apart from the fact that you're breaking up my family    although you'll help multiply our population   

 We dont want any of your bugs on our hallowed turk thank you very much.

So all you Ulster fans going to the match make sure you have a good wash shortly after leaving the ground just in case some of the blighters have attached themselves to you

Nematode wrote:http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby/latest/rugby-fans-can-get-a-wedge-of-murrayfield-turf-1-3348752

You can take home a wedge of the Murrayfield turf tonight. Great. Apart from the fact that you're breaking up my family     although you'll help multiply our population    

You can come live in my back garden if you want? The dog might pee on you though...  

IS the game not on telly?

clivemcl wrote:IS the game not on telly?

According to the Rabo tv schedule, it's not on TV.

Rabo TV schedule

When BBC says

Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio Ulster 1341 Medium Wave, BBC Radio Scotland MW and BBC Sport website

Does that mean commentary only on BBC Sport Website? Or video stream?

It'll just be radio.

Sometimes they have done a live video stream with Jim Neilly commentating from a broom closet for Ulster games that aren't on TV. We'll have to wait and see.

Its all Sport reliefs fault.

In saying that, how do they expect rugby to thrive in Scotland if they can't figure a way to show a match like this.