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The Chiel wrote:Really good effort - let down by conceding some good, but too easy, tries in the first half. And blowing at least one score.
As all have said much improved second half, and to carry on taking the game to Ulster with players dropping like flies was very praiseworthy. Got close enough for ifs / buts / maybes and shouting at O'wens, particularly on the last play when surely advantage was over.
Only fully consistent facet of play was the awful kicking game throughout.
Crichton Gunner wrote:Strange how we can see the same game so differently. I thought we ran the ball far more than we kicked it, even from around our own 22. When we did kick it was very poor, just handing the ball back to them, so it made sense to run it.
Oldsalt wrote:I thought Solomons was still in charge with the amount of possession we kicked away. 9,10.12 and 13 are just not good enough. In the first half Ulster just had to keep the ball, Edinburgh would fall off and they run straight at us.
I wish I had Martin's faith about being nearly there but if you don't put in a full 80 you will never get there.
Thought the pack put their end in and the back three contributed.
On the past couple of performances the current coaches are not up to the job, it's a "settled" side that loses.
doedin wrote:I think the game shows the limitations of the squad - Scholes for example was an awful signing and looked completely disinterested and very, very poor. Once you strip out, our very few, international class players like Ford, Nel, Watson, Del, Sutherland and Weir we are left with a mix of a few decent players and a large number of players who do not and never will be good enough at this level! TBH The lack of quality in our backs in shocking. I doubt any coach would be able to make a decent team performance out of what Hodge has to choose from last night.
doedin wrote:I think the game shows the limitations of the squad - Scholes for example was an awful signing and looked completely disinterested and very, very poor.
oldballs wrote:doedin wrote:I think the game shows the limitations of the squad - Scholes for example was an awful signing and looked completely disinterested and very, very poor.
As a pretty useful ex Ulster player who has been pretty poorly treated by Edinburgh and playing his old club at Kingspan you may think about reviewing your level of expectation. If there was one game NOT to play him it was this one. ( note the absence of Visser from the Harlequin's games.. smarter coaching possibly )
Friday Knight Lights wrote:doedin wrote:I think the game shows the limitations of the squad - Scholes for example was an awful signing and looked completely disinterested and very, very poor. Once you strip out, our very few, international class players like Ford, Nel, Watson, Del, Sutherland and Weir we are left with a mix of a few decent players and a large number of players who do not and never will be good enough at this level! TBH The lack of quality in our backs in shocking. I doubt any coach would be able to make a decent team performance out of what Hodge has to choose from last night.
Did it show the limitations of the squad? Because we were terrible one half and excellent the next. I don't understand how that shows the limitations of the squad? They showed they were capable but only for 40 minutes, that's on the coaches. For all the beatings the backs take on here they were quite good and the tries were all well taken.
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