Cheetahs v Ulster MotM

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Cheetahs vs Ulster MOTM?

Peter Nelson
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Henry Speight
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Darren Cave
12
43%
Stuart McCloskey
3
11%
Angus Kernohan
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Billy Burns
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Dave Shanahan
10
36%
Eric O'Sullivan
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Rob Herring
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Wiehahn Herbst
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Alan O'Connor
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Kieran Treadwell
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Matthew Rea
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4%
Sean Reidy
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Marcell Coetzee
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John Andrew
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Andrew Warwick
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Tom O'Toole
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4%
Jean Deysel
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4%
Nick Timoney
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Jonny Stewart
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Angus Curtis
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Johnny McPhillips
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An exciting game for the neutrals.... but I was disappointed. The Ulster report card would say, "could do better...!"


But!, who was yer man of the match? :fleg:
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I don't believe it myself but I'm going for Shanahan.

A night and day performance from last week. Ran great support lines for his two scores, notable improvement on his box kicks and his decision making when running the game was methodical / logical evidenced by his pass distribution to ball carriers and when shipping out to Burns.

Well done weeD, prove me wrong and back that performance up.
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Matty Rea for me.

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DC with another sublime performance.

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nonplussed wrote:Matty Rea for me.

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I thought Rea was really physical and looks to have bulked up. A few penalties given away but he is probably a tad rusty.
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Dave wrote:
nonplussed wrote:Matty Rea for me.

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I thought Rea was really physical and looks to have bulked up. A few penalties given away but he is probably a tad rusty.
Rea is 25 he would need to kick on this season.
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UlsterNo9 wrote:
Dave wrote:
nonplussed wrote:Matty Rea for me.

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I thought Rea was really physical and looks to have bulked up. A few penalties given away but he is probably a tad rusty.
Rea is 25 he would need to kick on this season.
He kicked on last year.
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UlsterNo9 wrote:
Dave wrote:
nonplussed wrote:Matty Rea for me.

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I thought Rea was really physical and looks to have bulked up. A few penalties given away but he is probably a tad rusty.
Rea is 25 he would need to kick on this season.

Rea did well last year until he got injured. In fact whilst many people thought he did not look up to it early on, the coaches last season stuck with him and he started to justify the faith in him. Needs more gametime to allow him to kick on.
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Bart S wrote:
UlsterNo9 wrote:
Dave wrote:
nonplussed wrote:Matty Rea for me.

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I thought Rea was really physical and looks to have bulked up. A few penalties given away but he is probably a tad rusty.
Rea is 25 he would need to kick on this season.

Rea did well last year until he got injured. In fact whilst many people thought he did not look up to it early on, the coaches last season stuck with him and he started to justify the faith in him. Needs more gametime to allow him to kick on.
I'd agree with that, he's currently behind Coetzee, Murphy, Reidy and Timoney in no particular order. Progress / kicking on would be to get ahead of one of them come end of season.
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Reidy looked ballixed
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Unlike the Boss, I was far from disappointed, I thought they would lose and could well have been pointless, so an excellent result for my money meaning the safari ends with a points haul to reflect the performance - if slightly generous for there is much to improve - but 7 out of 10 is a result.

As for MOTM, quite easy really, Shanahan a last played decently, though of course never quite looking authoritative behind ruck or maul, but yet again Cave proves his worth. In a team that often lacks rugby intelligence Cave has it in spades and the usual linebreaks and perfect timing of his passes to Shanners made a big difference to what has been a fairly stuttering attack in the early games. His tackle count, and strangely, breakdown work, continues to impress.

I know (have been told) that Dan had his teams selected for the first 6 games before the season started, though injuries will always make that provisional, so I was never reading anything much into "Cave dropped", I think Cave has to convince Peel but Soper & McFarland are fans.

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Given the circumstances, that was a disaster avoided.
There was no stand out performer for Ulster, too many areas that need tightened up: lineout, set piece fringe defence, breakdown, kicking from hand and composure.

I'll go for McCloskey this week, him and Cave were solid as I'd expect from two senior players in a youthful team.
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