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Posted 740 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor
THE MAGNERS LEAGUE finalists will be decided this weekend with Ireland guaranteed at least one team in the season’s climax. Ulster visit Leinster on Friday night and the following evening Munster host defending champions the Ospreys.
It will be the fifth time the Ospreys have played Munster this season, with results currently 3-1 in the…
Posted 741 days ago
Brian O’Driscoll will make his 150th appearance for Leinster when they take on Ulster in the Magners League semi-final on Friday night. He will partner Gordon D’Arcy in the centre, in a team that includes six Ireland internationals in the backline alone. Fergus McFadden, who kicked 18 points against Glasgow last weekend, starts on the right wing while scrum-half Isaac…
Posted 773 days ago
NORTHAMPTON ARE excited about playing their Heineken Cup semi-final at stadium:mk.
The Saints beat Ulster 23-13 in front of more than 21,000 fans at the home of MK Dons to reach the last four and will return to the venue on Sunday 1 May to play Perpignan.
Northampton captain Dylan Hartley described the atmosphere as “electric” while Stephen Myler, who contributed 13…
Posted 783 days ago
Brian McLaughlin has named an experienced team to face the Scarlets in tomorrow night’s vital Magners League game at Ravenhill. BJ Botha and Ian Humphreys are drafted straight into the starting line up after spells out injured. Botha (elbow) has not featured since the Heineken Cup match against Biarritz in January, while Humphreys (hamstring) has not played since the end…
Posted 790 days ago
Brian McLaughlin has continued his rotation policy, bringing in six new faces for Friday’s trip to Glasgow for their Magners League match (KO 20.05). The return of Ulster’s international players is a timely boost as every point will count in the Magners League and the Heineken Cup Quarter-Final is just over two weeks away.
Ulster currently lie 4th in…
Posted 799 days ago
Ulster have named a 31-man squad, of which the starting xv will be picked to face Newport Gwent Dragons in a Magners league replay on Friday 18 March. Ulster’s game against the Dragons was originally due to be played at the beginning of December but fell foul to frosty weather conditions.
Irish Internationals Rory Best, Andrew Trimble, Tom Court and…
Posted 807 days ago
Ulster Rugby today confirmed that Callum Black and Michael McComish will join the squad in the summer, ahead of the start of the 2011-12 season.
Callum Black (25) is an Irish-qualified prop who is currently contracted with Championship side Worcester Warriors. Born in the USA and raised in England where he attended Hartpury College, Black is Irish-qualified through his paternal grandfather…
Posted 818 days ago
CARDIFF BLUES travel to Ulster on Friday having secured four successive Magners League victories and climbed from 5th to 2nd place in the table in the process.
However, they face an Ulster side whose only loss in their last five matches in all competitions was 22-23 at Ospreys in the Magners League in February. They have won three of their four games…
Posted 845 days ago
Stephen Ferris has become the latest Irish player to be ruled out of the trip to Italy in round one of the RBS 6 Nations, next weekend.
“It’s now looking as though I’m going to miss the Italy game,” said Ferris to BBC Sport.
Declan Kidney is already missing, for the trip to Rome, Andrew Trimble, Tommy Bowe, Shane Horgan,Jamie Heaslip, John Hayes,Rob…
Posted 849 days ago
As predicted Northampton’s Heineken Cup quarter-final against Ulster has been switched to Stadium:mk in Milton Keynes. The Saints sought special dispensation from European Rugby Cup organisers to keep the game at Franklin’s Gardens, even though it falls below the minimum 15,000 capacity.
But that effort was turned down and Chief executive Allan Robson told BBC Radio Northampton: “The regulation is clear…
