Glasgow Warriors v Ulster Rugby, 25 March

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Glasgow Warriors v Ulster Rugby
Friday 25 March 2016
KO 19:35
Scotstoun Stadium

Live on BBC Alba/NI/TG4

Referee: John Lacey (IRFU, 51st competition game)
Assistant Referees: Graeme Wells, Cammy Rudkin (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Montgomery (SRU)
TMO: Neil Paterson (SRU)

A. Head to Head

28 Played 28
13 Wins 14
14 Losses 13
1 Draws 1
518 Points 524

B. Form

12 February 2016
Ulster Rugby 13 - 10 Glasgow Warriors

22 May 2015
Glasgow Warriors 16 - 14 Ulster Rugby

16 May 2015
Glasgow Warriors 32 - 10 Ulster Rugby

C. Teams

Glasgow Warriors 

15. Stuart Hogg
14. Tommy Seymour
13. Mark Bennett
12. Alex Dunbar
11. Sean Lamont
10. Finn Russell
9. Henry Pyrgos

1. Gordon Reid
2. Fraser Brown
3. Sila Puafisi
4. Jonny Gray (Captain)
5. Leone Nakarawa
6. Rob Harley
7. Chris Fusaro
8. Josh Strauss

16. James Malcolm
17. Jerry Yanuyanutawa
18. Zander Fagerson
19. Tim Swinson
20. Ryan Wilson
21. Grayson Hart
22. Duncan Weir
23. Taqele Naiyaravoro

Ulster Rugby

15 S Olding
14 C Gilroy
13 L Marshall
12 S McCloskey
11 R Scholes
10 P Jackson
09 R Pienaar

01 C Black
02 R Herring (C)
03 R Lutton
04 A O'Connor
05 F van der Merwe
06 I Henderson
07 C Henry
08 N Williams

16 J Andrew
17 K McCall
18 A Warwick
19 R Diack
20 S Reidy
21 P Marshall
22 S Windsor
23 D Cave

He's even missing accidental offside now

Oooo. Just saw Bennett! Never knew he was even on the field

Scholes has been good tonight.

That pitch is miserable.

Glasgow should be playing at Rugby Park instead.

Forward?

That pass looked a bit dodgy!

That was forward.

That was forward

Ehhhhhhh. That pass was forward

Looked flat too me and a good try.

Russell's kicking hasn't been up to scratch this season.

If the ref asks any reason not to award the try surely you look at the last pass to make sure its ok?

tigertattie wrote:Ehhhhhhh. That pass was forward

You know I honestly don't mind that decision. I hate this going back and analysing every try in forensic detail. Make a judgment call and keep the game flowing.

It might be the difference between us winning and losing this specific game, but in the long run I'd rather the TMO could only check the grounding anyway.

And Seymour kills the game. Good win Glasgow. Well done.

Now that was classy

Superb try!

I have the NI feed and the commentators are furious about the pass.

Scholes should have jumped and caught that

RDW_Scotland wrote:Russell's kicking hasn't been up to scratch this season.

You were saying?

Very important conversion

You have to say... Glasgow deserve to be winning. And Ulster deserve to be losing. Some awful Ulster play.

tigertattie wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Russell's kicking hasn't been up to scratch this season.

You were saying?

One good kick doesn't forgive two bad misses!

George Carlin wrote:I have the NI feed and the commentators are furious about the pass.

They are the most one eyed commentators i have ever heard in rugby.

George Carlin wrote:I have the NI feed and the commentators are furious about the pass.

Take it they were quiet about Pieenar's kick not being from the mark?

I'd call it even!

VinceWLB wrote:

George Carlin wrote:I have the NI feed and the commentators are furious about the pass.

They are the most one eyed commentators i have ever heard in rugby.

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What, you never read the Scottish threads on here?

The thing I don't get is you hear Lacey say he wants to check the pass but then it was never looked at!!!

Notch wrote:

VinceWLB wrote:

George Carlin wrote:I have the NI feed and the commentators are furious about the pass.

They are the most one eyed commentators i have ever heard in rugby.

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What, you never read the Scottish threads on here?

We're not paid professionals!

I'm not disappointed at all that Scholes is leaving. He's a balanced runner, sure, but the last few matches he has barely looked like he's even trying. Lazily strolling after kicks, not challenging for the high ball. It's like he's just on autopilot until he gets to Edinburgh.

Notch wrote:

VinceWLB wrote:

George Carlin wrote:I have the NI feed and the commentators are furious about the pass.

They are the most one eyed commentators i have ever heard in rugby.

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What, you never read the Scottish threads on here?

Another classic remark from the commentators.

"It's a sellout crowd tonight. That's about a third of the capacity of the Kingspan Stadium".

I'd like to say well done to both fronts rows. All the scrums have been fair contests and there's been no messing about with resets and playing for penalties. Made for much better viewing

Looks like Lacey has forgotten the final warning he gave Ulster!

tigertattie wrote:I'd like to say well done to both fronts rows. All the scrums have been fair contests and there's been no messing about with resets and playing for penalties. Made for much better viewing

Yeah it's been great.

I don't see us beating this Glasgow team in a playoff game, or Leinster either for that matter. We've got some real quality to come back but there's too much dead wood in this squad. Carrying too many average players up front.

Maybe will get lucky and nick a draw here but we just need to get as high up the table as possible and forget about silverware for another season.

Glasgow have been ruling the breakdown since i turned the game on 20 mins ago!

Surely a yellow coming now finally??

RDW_Scotland wrote:Surely a yellow coming now finally??

To be fair, it doesn't really make sense why he's not given it yet.

Beshoked really needs to watch this game given his comments about Jonny Gray earlier in the week - his ball carrying has been outstanding as always

Jim Neilly; "Ulsters hearts will remain unbroken"

That would be a first coming into this stage of the season!

Russell's kicking gash again!

Good grief this has been some bad officiating

RDW_Scotland wrote:Beshoked really needs to watch this game given his comments about Jonny Gray earlier in the week - his ball carrying has been outstanding as always

I read his comments in the international section, poor stuff.

Who voted Russell as MoM? Quite a few better players out there.

Ulster will be pretty pleased with a LBP - Glasgow should have been clear winners!

Marshall basically got to ground then was dragged up and Lacey calls maul really the icing on the cake there

Ulster at the breakdown have been horrendous tonight. Shamefully bad. Every man who makes a two yard run risks being overturned when he's tackled.

Well done Glasgow. Super tries!

RDW_Scotland wrote:Ulster will be pretty pleased with a LBP - Glasgow should have been clear winners!

Yeah we got 14 points which was not based on territory or dominance. We weren't made to work for those scores.

Hogg puts the icing on the cake and we leave with nothing.

Stop it Hogg. Just stop it

FML

Spoke too soon!

What a kick and Ulster don't get the LBP.

clivemcl wrote:Ulster at the breakdown have been horrendous tonight. Shamefully bad. Every man who makes a two yard run risks being overturned when he's tackled.

Well done Glasgow. Super tries!

Players running expecting a line break then when line breaks are made supports lacking