It’s hard to know where to pin the blame for this one. Yes some players made mistakes, yes the referee was well below the standard required, yes the team selection was poor, yes the use of subs was mystifying and yes the decision making was appalling over the last quarter but in my mind I’d place most of the blame on the IRFU and the Magners League for Ulster’s humping last night.
Well, I say humping, but it wasn’t really, as for sixty minutes Ulster outplayed a pretty piss poor Munster side and had Ulster taken their opportunities they could have been well ahead before pressing the self destruct button in the final quarter.
Yep, this young Ulster backline did a lot better than most people anticipated before kick off and the fact that they looked for long periods as though they were capable of grinding out a win made the eventual defeat and the one sided scoreline all that harder to swallow come the final whistle. If Ulster had converted Paul Marshall’s break in the first half and if the atrociously poor referee and his assistants had realised, or had the courage to realise, that . . .
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