PRO12: Connacht 3 Ulster 10

Connacht (0) 3
PEN: AJ MacGinty.
Ulster (3) 10
TRY: Nick Williams. CON: Paddy Jackson. PEN: Paddy Jackson.

Ulster made it four from four in December with a hard fought, but ultimately inevitable, win against near neighbours Connacht at the Sportsground on Saturday evening.

The visitors left it till the closing minutes to wrap this one up, with a try from Nick Williams securing the points. However it was a poor game from both teams. Ulster reverted far too easily into the low risk tactics of old and this played right to the strengths of their generally less talented opposition. In fairness though, any effort to open up wasn’t aided by the weak officiating from Fitzgerald and Co. who closed down the space for both teams with their liberal interpretation of the offside laws.

I’d said at the game that there would be a big ten minutes from Connacht and then Ulster would take over and, at the time, I did expect a comfortable win for our boys. We did get the big ten from the . . .