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Heineken Cup: Northampton 23 Ulster 13

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John McMurtry

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Ulster had a nervy start to the game after Andrew Trimble knocked on deep inside his own 22 after the kick-off. An early engagement at the scrum from Ulster allowed Northampton to tap and go, which resulted in prop Soane Tonga’uiha crashing over the line. Fly-half Stephen Myler added the extras with just three minutes gone. Northampton 7 Ulster 0.

Five minutes later, an infringement from the Saints provided Ian Humphreys the chance to score his first points of the game with a 50m penalty. His kick was on target, narrowing the points’ gap. Northampton 7 Ulster 3.

With ten minutes played, Ulster looked certain to score a try as they sped towards Northampton’s line. Simon Danielli stormed through the defence to touch down but the side was called back after his pass from Humphreys was deemed forward.

The visitors were awarded another penalty on 15 minutes after the Saints’ tacklers failed to release the player. Humphreys was again on target to bring the points’ deficit to one. Northampton 7 Ulster 6.

Both sides battled it out for the following fifteen minutes with Ulster being penalised at the lineout and at the breakdown. It was only on . . .

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2 responses to “Heineken Cup: Northampton 23 Ulster 13”

  1. rekinek

    up to 60th minute Ulster looked the better team, but they were giving away many penalties, which caught up with them at the end.

    after scoring the try that took them 7 points clear in the second half saints seemed to catch wind in their sails.

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  2. the mote

    It was all in the Mcglock comment afterwards “they (the Saints) do what they do – well”
    The Ulster front row are not as bad as the match made them look. The Ulster line out is not as bad as the match made them look.

    Best was not a happy man in the scrum- thus I conclude that he was being bored by both the tight head and hooker. English front rows do one of two things either drop the scrum or bore.

    Unfortunately Ulster found themselves being refereed by someone who didn’t consider boring in the scrum to be illegal.

    They the Saints are also very astute in the line employing a nudge here and there to disrupt the line out jumpers.

    But as Mcglock said they do it well .

    Another day another ref things might have been different at the set piece.

    I said before the Internationals that Lewes it is an impressive forward and England would miss him he is without doubt the best second row in the NH .

    The Ulster players who impressed were the Back Row and Trimble the front five had a hard time and defensively the backs stood up well to the power pounding of the Saints mid-field.

    I feared we would be humillated but considering the nature of the Saints forward play which went unpunished the Ulstermen can stand tall and proud.

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