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Match report describes Ethan Graham as an ‘academy player’ Has he joined/is he joining or is this a typo- anyone know? Ethan Graham Zack Solomon Cameron Doak Jack Boal Jacob Boyd Josh Stevens Ben McFarlane Lukas Kenny Tom Brigg Mckillop and Ward miss out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Brigg no...

jean valjean wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:47 pm

Neill_M wrote:Ulster A won 26-19.

Tries by Moxham, Sexton, Shanahan and Ethan Graham. Madigan with two conversions, Flannery one.

Greg Jones mentoring working well. [emoji123]

Contract for life incoming! Invaluable The Mentor starts for the As and have McNabney on the bench.

Skimming off the best players not only from Leinster but from all over Ireland. This Leinster system is a joke (but equally brilliant for them). B@stids. We should just keep offering Leinster academy players senior contracts, if for no other reason than to make it more expensive for Leinster to kee...

Rob Lyttle is off [emoji22]. Also Gilroy So we keep Moxham, someone who has yet to show anything other than he's a big lad with a limited skillset, over Rob Lyttle who, while not being a 1st choice, has proven himself to be an excellent finisher and in the past, a decent goalkicker? Classic Ulster ...

I would disgree, front line players need to be training against skill and experience... pure muscle from the academy isnt enough. NFL teams have a non playing roster for just this purpose Or why not train against someone capable of challenging for your place! Not sure NFL & Ulster is a good com...

Ulster schools still play give it to " Fatboy "Rugby I use the term "Fatboy" because of my dislike of the standard of coaching it represents -- Watch the Leinster schools cup final -- and look at the standard of" Podding" --Rucking --and recycle of the ball --- They ar...

This wailing and gnashing of teeth rehgarding Jones etc is pash poor. He obviously offers a lot in training. Not every squad player is a match day player. C’mon surely we need to expect more than that - at a minimum someone who can push on to be a match day player rather squad trainer. Academy guys...

Is it not more that they aren’t interested in continuing to play rugby for a club etc. Doubt it applies to those who have the potential to go pro.

Ulster schools will never be able to compete. We don’t have the money the Dublin private schools do to throw at rugby programmes. Very hard for an Ulster kid to compete given that to go pro you effectively need to be Ireland U18/19 standard around 17/18 years of age. Those teams are getting swamped ...

Greg Jones contract tells us everything we need to know about who we are and what we want to be ….. Leinster cast offs are that for a reason they ain’t good enough to make the Leinster 23 Number of backrowers outside the Leinster 23 I’d take (Deegan, Connors, Ruddock …..) but no they are all happy ...

ljsulster wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:21 pm Greg jones. I despair

Nothing like a Greg Jones contract extension to lift the masses! Outstanding

Zero Ulster players in the u-18 schools SQUAD! Across the Ireland U18 Schools (26 named) and U18 Clubs & Schools (23 named) squads I make it: Ulster: Schools 0; Clubs & Schools 3; Total 3 Connacht: Schools 1; Clubs & Schools 5; Total 6 Leinster: Schools 17; Clubs & Schools 9; Total ...

Def. Easy to sink the boot into Ulster but they didn’t have a playable pitch even though a horrific period of weather was predicted 7-10 days in advance. Other organisations took serious precautions. Ulster did next to f all and only when it was too late. Question marks are on Cunningham and Petrie...

Potential Academy entrants? Prop James Mawhinney (U21/Ballymena/Ballymena RFC) Joe Charles (U20/Ballynahinch RFC) Cameron Doak (U20/Belfast Harlequins RFC) Jack Boal (U20/Queens RFC) Jacob Boyd (U19/RBAI) Flynn Longstaff (U19/Campbell College) Hooker Zac Solomon (U19/Campbell College/Belfast Harleq...

6 Ulster forwards involved in this second squad & when you add in Lee & Stevens from the first squad will mean that the full starting pack from last years interpros will have featured across the games. Bodes well but the cupboard is really bare in other areas at underage for Ulster - especia...