Tears, Tantrums and Bedtime

Friday morning on the UAFC messageboard and the grown-ups plus the not so grown- ups couldn’t keep still in class due to the pending Magners kick off involving Ulster and the Ospreys.   Ways of wiling away the hours before kick-off were being discussed, invented and implemented, whilst others posted in [Read more ...]

Predictions League Week 2

You can view Week 1 Results here. There were a few full houses last week with several punters shrewd enough to know to bank on the home wins at this time of the season. Will it be the same this week? Our tip is that Ulster and Connacht will buck [Read more ...]

Inter-Pro: Munster U20 15 Ulster U20 20

Ulster U20′s got their Inter Pro series off to a flying start with a hard fought 20 -15 victory in Cork. The scores came form a Stephen Irvine try, a penalty try and Patrick Jackson added two conversions and two penalties. The win puts Ulster in a strong position for [Read more ...]

Downey bags a brace in Ireland win!

  Ulster and Ireland’s Eliza Downey bagged a brace of tries as Ireland finished of their Women’s World Cup Campaign with an emphatic 32 – 8 win over Scotland to claim 7th place in the World standings. It was a pleasing end to the tournament for a much improved Ireland [Read more ...]

View from the Prom: Ulster 27 Ospreys 26

Fan-flipping-tastic. I honestly didn’t see this one coming. Before the game I was predicting a 10 – 15 point defeat to Ulster and only expecting to pick up 6 to 8 points throughout September. I was fully expecting the team to kick on throughout the rest of the season and [Read more ...]

Press Release: Ulster sign Emerick and D’Arcy

Ulster Rugby has today confirmed that Paul Emerick (30) will be joining the club on a short-term contract (3 months) as a direct replacement for the injured Andrew Trimble. Trimble sustained a finger injury whilst on tour with Ireland earlier this summer and is not expected to return to rugby until [Read more ...]

More URSC Stuff! Biarritz and Treviso.

  Our friends at the URSC have asked us to highlight some of their latest correspondence! Consider it done. URSC has just received word that our guests of honour at the URSC tent on at the Ospreys match tomorrow night are: Ian Humphreys and Andy Kyriacou. For a chance to [Read more ...]

Team for Ospreys.

Ulster have released the team details: Ulster Coach Brian McLaughlin has named his side for Ulster’s Magners League opener against The Ospreys at Ravenhill this Friday night (KO 7.05pm). Trialist Adam D’Arcy retains his place at full-back after an impressive showing last week against Leeds. Tommy Seymour switches to the right [Read more ...]

Ulster U20′s kick off Interpro against Munster.

Ulster U20’s get their Interpro campaign off to a start this Friday night in Cork. KO. 7:00pm. I’d thought long and hard about going down and covering this game as I believe that this bunch of youngsters are going to be pretty special in the years to come but unfortunately [Read more ...]

Squad for Ospreys

Ulster announced the squad yesterday for the Ospreys match on Friday. The squad sees the return of Tom Court and Paddy Wallace who should see substantial game time, if not the full 80 minutes. Rather than an actual match squad it reads more like a list of who is available [Read more ...]