posted Oct 6, 2007

Rhys Thomas is one of the best young props in the World, he should have been at the World Cup, would have added some mobility to the tight forwards!!! Gwent by 10 i reckon!!!

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posted Oct 6, 2007

cracking win, Morgan was outstanding, turner is making a case to be part of the new welsh coaching set up

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posted Oct 6, 2007

Turner has already turned down a chance to become Jenkins's replacement. Wish he hadn't though. He's doing a phenomenal job with Wales's weakest region, having now lead them to victories over Ulster, Munster, Ospreys and a stunner over Scarlets earlier this season. Hope Larkham joins too. He could add experience and create some marvellous opportunities for a squad full of youngsters.

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posted Oct 7, 2007

Another fine show by the Dragons youngsters. This is what regional rugby was supposed to be about. Bearman was on fire once more, can't wait to see him and Charvis paired up in the back row.

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posted Oct 8, 2007

Can anyone explain why the returning WC players were not in the side???? Apart from Rory, it's not as if they were burnt out after playing 4 full matches (thanks a bunch Eddie...fool destroying our proud heritage)

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posted Oct 8, 2007

I really don't understand why welsh teams got their internationals back and we didn't get ours, I mean EOS didn't even get grass on the Ulster players' boots.

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posted Oct 8, 2007

It is fair enough that the players in the squad weren't allowed to come back this week. Even though they weren't playing for Ireland they were still away from home, training and breathing rugby for the past three months. There will be no break for the next five months so having a couple of weeks away from the game has to be good for them.

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posted Oct 8, 2007

Im not taking anything away from the Dragons they deserved the win but I cant be the only person who thought the ref didnt know what he was doing. Ulster played pretty badly but they didnt stand a chance with some of the poor decisions that were made. If a player plays badly he is dropped for the next game there has to be review of the current refs in this league and if they ref badly they should be dropped down to ref at lower leagues until they prove themselves capable of the challenge, this is not sour grapes because even with a good ref we wouldnt have won but these poor ref performances are too common now and something needs to be done!!

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posted Oct 9, 2007

George Clancy's interpretation of the breakdown was hard to understand, especially as he's a munster man.

The first half penalty count of 8-1 in favour of the Dragons says it all. How can there be so much disparity? To the naked eye it looked as though both sides were pretty much even with their approach to the breakdown, but obviously Mr Clancy didn't see it that way.

Well done to the Dragon's who took the chances that came their way, Ulster didn't deserve to get anything from the game, irrespective of Mr Clancy.

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posted Oct 9, 2007

I agree Sandy, one example was Tommy Bowe tackling a Dragon's player, getting immediately to his feet and going for the ball which the Dragons player clung onto. A penalty was given against Tommy and even the commentary team were confused as to why it wasn't in Ulster's favour. That was one example of a few strange decisions but I still think the Dragons deserved the win. Ulster looked clueless at times and the Dragons were by far the better team.

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