Heineken Cup 2013/14 Pool 5, Round 6 (Leicester v Ulster, Montpellier v Treviso)

[Peat]

I'd just like to add that I have a full-on mancrush on Chris Henry.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Leicester backline / Flood have been poor.

Flood doesn't seem to pay attention to the actual positioning of his backline. He is technically good in his Positioning, good at straightening up and drawing a defender. But he doesn't have "time" on the ball as some seem to, and then he spins a pass to his centres by which time they have virtually already been tackled. I'm really starting to reconsider my statement that Flood is currently still our best 10.

Tactically, Leicester need to quit with shipping the ball to lone forward runners in the backline - Ulster tackling is great and they're putting the man down instantly and then competing for the ball.

Allen and Goneva looking good.

 

[UlsterRugby2012]

Pienaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrr you beauuttyyyy

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Seriously, Tigers could have 100% possession for an hour in the backline and they would barely advance a metre. It's really very poor to be honest. I'd lay much of this at Floods door - he just seems to have slowed down 20% in the last 2 years and he now just ships on problems to his backs.

Generally speaking, it's a shame for English rugby that Tigers are no longer seemingly capable of producing big performances in these type of games.. They should be renamed the Domesticated cats

 

[Jaguares]

Ruan Pienaar = Man of the match?

 

[munstermuffin]

TMO got that wrong, kick wasn't touch in goal

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Wrong call that.

 

[lynam1104]

That was a ****ing scrum

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

I want Ulster to win now - it's simply the right result. Rugby done well from them. This Leicester side simply do not have it in them to create anything against a team as well drilled and organised in defence as Ulster.

 

[UlsterRugby2012]

So ****ing over the moon. What an effort, what a team.

Edit: Fair play Leicester, still an outstanding squad who could still make the semi's.

 

[Aristodemus]

Well deserved win for Ulster, Pienaar was outstanding.

 

[big ginger 8]

We'll done Ulster now revenge coming up in Ravenhill.

 

[Maverick1987]

I want Ulster to win now - it's simply the right result. Rugby done well from them. This Leicester side simply do not have it in them to create anything against a team as well drilled and organised in defence as Ulster.

Not helped by the fact our go to man is injured along with our best winger and Allen, smith and tait have been injured all season to be fair .

Ulster were brilliant though

 

[Maverick1987]

I can't get my head around when the ball went dead (which I though was in touch btw) Leicester had 2 scrums which went down whilst Leicester were going forward and Nigel reset them then 1 goes down with ulster on top and they get a penalty ? Not sure even the god of referees knows what's happening at scrum time

 

[Jaguares]

F*cking Flood !!!!

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

We need Manu to break the defence, he was our missing clog today.

Great game to watch.

Got to save some money for a trip to France then.

 

[UlsterRugby2012]

Just seen what happened in the scrum on 78 minutes since I left the room as I couldn't bare to watch the rest. Every time I criticize Afoa, like last week, he does something like this. (like the try last week)

It's a great achievement to go 6/6 from probably equal hardest group in the competition. Can't wait for revenge at Ravenhill like BG8 said.

 

[Peat]

I want Ulster to win now - it's simply the right result. Rugby done well from them. This Leicester side simply do not have it in them to create anything against a team as well drilled and organised in defence as Ulster.

Except their try, Kitchener's break, couple of other occasions they got close too. Not many teams can create against Ulster, we had the best defence in the tournament coming into this competition and the second best defence in any of Europe's top leagues. At full strength we must be a horrible, horrible team to play attacking rugby against. And it all starts at the breakdown, once we've slowed down the ball it's really difficult to make yards. Everyone knows that. Blaming Flood and co for that it's a bit unfair. There's not a lot of options for a fly-half when you're receiving slow ball with the defence rushing up outside. One of them's the kick, he created a try out of that. Maybe he should have told the forwards to rumble it up more? Mindyou, that didn't work when they tried it either. It's not like Jackson didn't have the same problem for quite a bit of the game.

Maybe that would have been different with Croft and Tuilagi, without Kitchener and Tait having to leave early. I thought no Tait was definitely very helpful. There's no doubting Leicester aren't the force they are - but this Ulster side bullied Montpellier around their patch like a dog with a flock. I was sweating in that game. Still a bloody good team. Hard luck guys.

 

[Maverick1987]

Lol you know it's bad when the 2 choices you have is Clermont or Toulon away haha

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Lol you know it's bad when the 2 choices you have is Clermont or Toulon away haha

We can take them.