Andrew double helps Ulster scrape past Kings

Ulster overturned a 12 point deficit at half time to run out 43-36 winners against Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth. The result sees Ulster move into second spot in Guinness PRO14 Conference B.

Les Kiss’ men started the game poorly and went two tries down inside 8 minutes. Failure to secure kick offs has been a recurring theme for Ulster in recent seasons and poor communication allowed Kings to gain momentum which resulted in a try. Their second score came four minutes later when Yaw Penxe gathered an Oliver Zono grubber.

Ulster tried to play too much rugby from deep in the first half and if it was not for handling errors from the Kings, Ulster would have been staring down the barrel of a huge deficit inside the first 20 minutes. Too often in matches over the years Ulster have started poorly and left themselves too much work to do in the second half.

The away side were under the pump for all of the opening quarter of the game but Sean Reidy converted a super . . .

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