When Mark Anscombe took over the reins at Ulster at the start of the season, people weren’t sure what to expect. To be 10 points clear top of the RaboDirect Pro 12 and thus far unbeaten entering the last week of November would surely have been beyond most fans expectations. Yet after Ulster’s latest win there will undoubtedly be some grumbling.
In the run up to the game, Ulster were buoyed by the return of Andrew Trimble and Paul Marshall to the fold, with neither being retained for Irish duty this week against Argentina. I feel that both will consider themselves slightly hard done by, and would have liked strong performances against Treviso to show what they were capable of.
Ulster started positively looking to move the ball early on, and signs were good when they took an early scrum against the head. However after only 7 mins they were found wanting defensively when the ever dangerous Loamanu made the first of many line breaks and was able to flick a skilful one handed pass out of the tackle creating a try for Brendan Williams in the corner duly converted by Di Bernardo.
From the restart Ulster were under . . .
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