Ulster showed enough of their class to dispose of an an energetic Munster 29 – 19 at a rocking Ravenhill on Friday night.
Ulster tries came from Jared Payne and Darren Cave with Ruan Pienaar chipping in with both conversions and five penalties to secure Ulster’s win.
I said in my preview that the visitors possessed an enthusiastic but limited backline and a bunch of seasoned Turnips up front and they showed the best and worse of both in a game of two halfs.
Ulster really should have had this game wrapped up by the 40th minute so cack were the Munster men. An early penalty from Pienaar, on the fourth minute was quickly followed by a Payne converted try, two minutes later, with the talented Kiwi dotting down a delightful grubber kick from Jackson.
Munster enjoyed a period of possession, going through fifteen odd phases, but the fact that they lost about fifteen yards during this period highlighted the gulf in class between the back lines and Ulster inched further ahead . . .
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