Edinburgh V Ulster

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Edinburgh V Ulster

Friday 20th February 2015
KO 19:35
BT Murrayfield
Live on BBC Sport Scotland & BBC Northern Ireland

Referee: Leighton Hodges (WRU, 48th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Sam Grove-White, Mike Adamson (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: Paul Minto (SRU)
TMO: David Changleng (SRU)

24 Played 24
8 Wins 16
16 Losses 8
0 Draws 0
37 Tries 61
27 Conversions 40
47 Penalties 69
5 Drop Goals 3
395 Points 601
25 Avg. Age 26

Teams

Edinburgh

15 Jack Cuthbert
14 Dougie Fife
13 Sam Beard
12 Phil Burleigh
11 Tim Visser
10 Tom Heathcote
9 Grayson Hart

1 Rory Sutherland
2 Neil Cochrane
3 W P Nel
4 Anton Bresler
5 Ben Toolis
6 Roddy Grant
7 Hamish Watson
8 Mike Coman (captain)

16 Stuart McInally
17 Grant Shiells
18 John Andress
19 Ollie Atkins
20 Hugh Blake
21 A N Other
22 Jade Te Rure
23 Andries Strauss

Ulster

1. Callum Black
2. Rob Herring
3. Wiehahn Herbst
4. Franco van der Merwe
5. Iain Henderson
6. Roger Wilson (c)
7. Mike McComish
8. Nick Williams

9. Ruan Pienaar
10. Ian Humphreys
11. Michael Allen
12. Stuart McCloskey
13. Darren Cave
14. Craig Gilroy
15. Louis Ludik

16. John Andrew
17. Andrew Warwick
18. Bronson Ross
19. Lewis Stevenson
20. Clive Ross
21. Paul Marshall
22. Luke Marshall
23. Peter Nelson

Notch is right

GLove39 wrote:Right 13 men.
If you can't win then quit playing rugby

Its still 14!

This has become about who can make the stupidest error to hand the game to the opposition and when it comes to stupidity, we're the undoubted kings.

2 man advantage! Edinburgh have no excuses now

EWT Spoons wrote:I can only assume Solly has a soft spot for Ulster, the man didn't even know he had a bench for most of the season, now he's brought on Hilterbrand when Cochrane was on form, Strauss when we have advantage in midfield and Blake, and he must have drugged Heathcote or changed his boots for 3x sizes too small.

My thought too.

Its 13 now!

This is embarrassing..

Criminal by edinburgh

If Edinburgh somehow don't win this, they'll kick themselves so hard they'll not be able to field a team next week for broken legs.

Third time and you should be doct weeks pay

Notch wrote:If Edinburgh somehow don't win this, they'll kick themselves so hard they'll not be able to field a team next week for broken legs.

Heathcote would miss his

Repeat after me, go wide!

I said I wanted to win this anyway possible, but we do not deserve the four points. It's been a competition to see who can self-destruct faster.

If we lose this 2 men up it'll be an absolute embarrassment .

Unbelievable result if we win this. A near miracle. We've been appalling!

Two teams trying their very best to not win a match

Oh dear! Neither team deserves to win this!

Solly looks like he is about to explode!

Edinburgh are killing themselves here, game was there for the taking!

Pienaar laying down the law to the front row... g'wan.

Ed boys are thick wasting time with 3 mins to go, sound familiar

What a joke. Losing this is a total joke.

You have to play the scrum Jim ffs

Why go blind, it was the only wrong option!

Neither team deserve the points

Maddog wrote:Oh dear! Neither team deserves to win this!

Yes, a draw would be fair because no-one deserves four points from this.

Hilterbrand will be getting a lot of flak but for me Heathcote and Hart have been pathetic.

Dreadful from Edinburgh. Scottish sides lack composure. Fact.

Hahaha. If you didn't laugh you would cry

Well that is unbelievable. Truly unbelievable.

Utterly embarrassing.

Pathetic.

I have no idea how we won that match, no idea at all. I feel sorry for Edinburgh we didn't deserve to win that we were so bad.

Utter mugs.
Fair play Ulster. Edinburgh, barn doors, paper bags etc

BigGee wrote:Why go blind, it was the only wrong option!

Unbelievable. 2 man advantage and we attack the one place where they outnumber us. Hart was great against the Ospreys, but poor tonight.

Well probably fair to say Edinburgh lost that, rather than Ulster winning!

Well done anyway Ulster, always good to win against the odds!

RDW_Scotland wrote:Utterly embarrassing.

Pathetic.

A sentiment shared by the opposition fans, believe me!

Commiserations.

How on earth did we get away with a win?!!!

Awful game from Ulster. Didn't deserve the win, but I'll take it! McCloskey was brainless in picking up the red, although it did look a little harsh. The ref.................

Anyway, job done.

This is a joke league.

Ulster deserved it, purely on the basis that Edinburgh didn't

No not challenging that last maul I do believe ulster showed a flicker of a briancell. I'm bamboozled. You could say both teams deserved no points in fairness

funnyExiledScot wrote:

BigGee wrote:Why go blind, it was the only wrong option!

Unbelievable. 2 man advantage and we attack the one place where they outnumber us. Hart was great against the Ospreys, but poor tonight.

Hart had a mare. Wont miss Heathcote much next season.

BigGee wrote:Well probably fair to say Edinburgh lost that, rather than Ulster winning!

Well done anyway Ulster, always good to win against the odds!

I'm not too happy because of that performance... I can't believe we played that badly and got away with it. It was a terrible game!

I only caught the last 15 - is it worth watching the rest of the game??

Totalflanker wrote:Ulster deserved it, purely on the basis that Edinburgh didn't

The paradox is, we didn't deserve it either! What happens when two totally undeserving teams collide? Someone has to win no matter how bad the game is. Bemused.

I disagree with Paddy Wallace he was head at the bottom feet at the top with no control over what would happen next so there was every danger to the player there. The law says Red and it was a red, fair decision

Still baffled. Scottish sides & Edinburgh have served up some right old dross over the years but that was something else. The ineptitude shown by Edinburgh was breathtaking.

Half backs poor from Edinburgh, a shame as it knocks the good momemtum of recent games. I was always a big Heathcote fan, but not tonight, a poor game, hart as well. Lets not even mention Hilterbrand, three squint throws, unbelievable!

Absolutely not worth rdw. For me the only thing to take is the four points and keeping ulster in the top six for Heineken cup rugby next season with (hopefully) a decent coach in charge

RDW_Scotland wrote:I only caught the last 15 - is it worth watching the rest of the game??

Edinburgh got worst as the game went on, so you certainly missed the best bits