Magners League: Glasgow v Ulster – It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye!

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Ulster’s outrageously successful season continued with another smash and grab raid, this time in Glasgow on a Friday night, with Ulster snatching a 19 – 22 win with yet another last gasp penalty from Ruan Pienaar.

It was a remarkable double for Pienaar as, for the second time this season, he recorded all the teams points in a game – a fact made all the more extraordinary as both games were against Glasgow! (Boy, they must be sick of him. 😆 ) This time round the Springbok landed five penalties, a try and conversion in his 22 point haul.

The game itself was a dour affair with neither team performing well and for large portions Glasgow looked the better team. Ulster struggled at the breakdown, the back-row didn’t function as a unit until Faloon appeared that is, and slow ball was shuffled along the line with no one having the space or timing to inject any pace into the game. For the third game in a row Ulster looked like a team thrown together for a trials game and really, for the third game in a row that’s exactly what they were.

OK, it all could have been better, and . . .

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2 responses to “Magners League: Glasgow v Ulster – It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye!”

  1. Moyletra

    Heart attack?

    To my chest my
    Hands I clasp
    I deeply breathe
    I wheeze and gasp
    My temples throb
    My mouth is dry
    My heart beats fast
    I’m going to die
    My voice has gone
    My throat is sore
    My hands both shake
    I can take no more
    I lay my head
    Upon my knee
    Now blow the whistle
    Referee!

    Author unknown

  2. the mote

    It always had the look of an unbalanced backrow with 3 number 8s Similiarly on occassion when Ulster had obtained width in the pitch the feed was to a forward running in field taking the width out of the pitch before the ball was released to the backs thus the wings had little room to try and beat their opposite number

    The ABs go open -open – blind- blind to suck the forwards in and create space space for the backs . Openning the ball to the backs on the third or fourth phase. we are phasing the ball infield and then releasing the ball to the backs.

    Glasgow are not as poor a side as their league position they lack inventiveness in the backs to reward the work of the forwards

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