View from the Sofa: The Great Escape!

I probably spent more time trying to decide on the title and picture for this piece than I actually spent writing it and, don’t tell me, I know,  it shows! I just couldn’t decide if it was a “Great Escape” or a “Daylight Robbery” by Ulster so in the end I decided on a bit of mix and match.

I truth it was a dour match with neither side doing enough to deserve a win. There will be plenty prepared to write the many handling errors off as down to the conditions,  but to me the error count was down to the fairly limited game plans that both teams displayed. Game plans so limited and predictable that both defences were able to arrive with the ball.

There were some flashes of enterprise with Sean Lamont performing well for Scarlets and Jackson, Spence and Gilroy giving us a glimpse of things to come but if Pienaar hadn’t slotted the ball over in the dying seconds, this would have been regarded as a shockingly bad performance by Ulster.

Once again the pack failed to perform as a unit. OK there were one or two good individual displays of technical competence . . .