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Heineken Cup: Ulster 31 Aironi 10

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John McMurtry

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Ulster did what they needed to do on Friday night with a comfortable win against Aironi in the third round of the Heineken Cup. Tries from Stephen Ferris, Adam D’Arcy, Andrew Trimble, Paul Marshall and Patrick Jackson put gloss on the win and secured the necessary bonus point but it was a somewhat laboured performance for most of the game.

Thanks to Mr Heineken there was a little man inside my head relentlessly chipping away at the decaying brain cells just above my right eyebrow for most of Saturday having overindulged for most of the game so this will be a somewhat sketchy report but you can read most of what you need to here over on Scrum.com.  The after effects of one too many and a server upgrade, which caused the site to crash on Saturday morning, saw me stumbling for the sofa and a bit of a lie down on Saturday so apologies for no updates yesterday!

Friday night started a little earlier than usual . . .

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2 responses to “Heineken Cup: Ulster 31 Aironi 10”

  1. BHS Die hard

    Marshalls passing is just as good as pienaars

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  2. the mote

    John I eat alittle humble pie in so far as I doubted Ulster to be able to score the trys for the bonus point . Which they did . I would put this down to the fact the forwards took on the Aironi pack and deprived them of a cover defence, That is not to depreciate the fact that Pienaars longer and faster provided IH with additional time and space which thankfully he did not waste with his normal diagonal runs to the touch line..

    By the time Marshall came on the Aironi back row was a spent force . The only negative would appear to be the rib injury to Spence and having been there and done that bruised ribs are mighty sore and can take at least 2 weeks to mend.

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