So we’re ten games in…

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We’re ten games into the new season and Ulster are sitting in second position in Conference B, but have a difficult run of fixtures coming up. Where do Ulster currently stand and are we on course for a relatively successful season?

In short, this season is just a trial and error for Dan McFarland. He took over Ulster in an ‘official’ capacity just 12 days before the opening Guinness PRO14 fixture against Scarlets, however in that short space of time, we can see how the Englishman is wanting Ulster to play.

Whereas last season we were promised that we would see Ulster ‘rip-up the playbook’, after a brief glimmer at the start of the season, the style of play reverted back to Ulster’s usual predictable self.

This season has not been the case however. We’ve seen McFarland’s men place more of an emphasis on a fast tempo as well as plenty of offloads. Stuart McCloskey, Marcell Coetzee and Will Addison have all offloaded 14 times while McCloskey and Coetzee are in the top . . .

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