Ulster travelled to Dublin more in hope than expectation on Friday night and, despite a dogged enough display from the Ulster tyros, Leinster had enough class to take the game reasonably comfortably in the end.
Ulster created few scoring chances against the Dublin outfit but our Mexican cousins were left to count the cost of this bruising encounter with several front line players pulled early with injury concerns ahead of next weeks European Cup Final. Indeed if the match hadn’t been an all Ireland encounter the aftermath could be worse, with O’Driscoll looking to have landed a punch on Henry, though I expect the IRFU citing commissioners will fast forward through that one.
Missing Ferris, Trimble, Wallace and Tuohy, Ulster were always going to find this one difficult, especially having been bullied out of the previous two encounters this season, but they set about their task in a determined fashion bringing a physical game to the RDS, but with Leinster enjoying the lions share of posession the question was how long could Ulster hold out.
Despite Leinster coming close on a few occasions it was the 25th minute before they crossed the line to add a McFadden try to . . .
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