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Ulster début for Gilroy

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John McMurtry

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This is taken from the BBC site.

Bryan Young returns to the Ulster team for Saturday’s pre-season friendly at the Stoop (1430 BST).

The prop has recovered from a hip injury which led to his withdrawal from the squad ahead of last Friday’s 26-14 defeat by Bath at Ravenhill.

Ulster coach Brian McLaughlin has made nine changes from the line-up which faced Bath.

Darren Cave and Ian Whitten are the only survivors in the backs while Paul Marshall is out with a shoulder injury.

Queens’ player David McIlwaine replaces Jamie Smith, who sustained an eye injury, at full-back.

Craig Gilroy and Nevin Spence come in for Mark McCrea and Tommy Seymour on the wings and O’Connor and Porter come in at half-backs in place of Ian Humphreys and Marshall.

Declan Fitzpatrick retains his front row position while Andi Kyriacou is in at hooker for Nigel Brady.

Muller’s partner in the second row will be Ryan Caldwell while the only . . .

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5 responses to “Ulster début for Gilroy”

  1. glynncommando

    Hmmm – not sure i share your optimism Ed. Watched the youthful backline in training on Thursday and they looked far from impressive. However, the experience will do them no harm and a pre-seaon friendly is, no doubt, the ideal situation to throw them into the deep-end and see how they swim. Might just be a steep learning curve for some of them, but they have to start somewhere. Good to see young McIlwaine in the team. Good luck to them.

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  2. junty

    Phil – thats true. Although i must confess that the murphys was ok……. albeit not guinness but probably as good as a badly poured guinness and i’ve had afew of those at the beer tent in ravenhill

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  3. Raging Raven

    Junty …….. will do, at least you can get guinness in England if not at Ravenhill. 🙂

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  4. junty

    Yeah – good to see Mcglocks trying out a few of the potential future ulster players.
    I was talking to young David McIlwaine on fri night after the bath match and he was hoping to get a run out on one of the 2 remaining friendlies. Good luck to young Mackie and the other debutants and hope they have a good game
    John / Phil – pass on my regards to Joe snr & Joe jnr as no doubt you’ll meet up for a beer or two………. or in Joe jnr’s case maybe a shandy or two !!!

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  5. Ballpark

    Congratulations to the FRU for making the effort to support the lads and the boys on the pitch at der Stoop, wish I could join youse, but there you go.

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