Ulster V Stormers Friday 27th 7.35pm

[nonplussed]

The Marcus Rea mystery deepens

Playing AIL, Ulster possibly supporting Hinch by releasing him and Izzy to cover injuries

[ulster32]

Heard relations between the coach and player are not good....

[nonplussed]

Heard relations between the coach and player are not good....

heard the same...

[Big-al]

Well, they should mend it. Marcus breakdown ability was key to ulster last season.

[StandUp]

Is Dan the type to hold a grudge, or are Izzy and Marcus a bad influence on each other?

[Dave]

any idea why they took so long to get sheridan into the team?

Dan McFarland.

[HammerTime]

Well, they should mend it. Marcus breakdown ability was key to ulster last season.

Can’t mind what game … was the last he played. Look closely and M Rea was extremely soft for I think 3 of their tries. Hasn’t been seen since. He was getting turnovers last season, not so much this year.

[Dave]

Well, they should mend it. Marcus breakdown ability was key to ulster last season.

Can’t mind what game … was the last he played. Look closely and M Rea was extremely soft for I think 3 of their tries. Hasn’t been seen since. He was getting turnovers last season, not so much this year.

Good info

[Neill_M]

Well, they should mend it. Marcus breakdown ability was key to ulster last season.

Can’t mind what game … was the last he played. Look closely and M Rea was extremely soft for I think 3 of their tries. Hasn’t been seen since. He was getting turnovers last season, not so much this year.

https://all.rugby/player/marcus-rea - According to this usually accurate website, his last game was down in Galway at Christmas.

[Columbo]

Heard relations between the coach and player are not good....

Add an ‘s’ to the end of ‘player’

[Columbo]

Is Dan the type to hold a grudge, or are Izzy and Marcus a bad influence on each other?

From what I’ve heard yes he very much is the type to hold a grudge.. eg heard he had a run-in with JTA in an early scrum session which is why he pretty much didn’t darken a team sheet until his hand was forced (and instead we had to watch Milo / our scrum get crumpled on multiple occasions…)

[So It Is]

How many Ulster backrowers have mysteriously disappeared over the last few seasons?

-Sean Reidy went missing for most of his last season.
-Marcus Rea currently missing
-Matty Rea and Greg Jones both thankfully missing(yet still collecting salaries . . . )
-Jordi missing most of the season (not sure if he was officially injured or just standard left out of the mix randomly for a few months)
-McCann missing for most of this season

Is there some sort of conspiracy afoot at Ulster rugby? Its like Dan McFarland's Stasi just load up players for fun and send them to reprogramming camps.

[Neill_M]

DHL Stormers: 15 Clayton Blommetjies, 14 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 11 Cornel Smit, 10 Jean-Luc du Plessis, 9 Stefan Ungerer, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Willie Engelbrecht, 6 Junior Pokomela, 5 Marvin Orie (captain), 4 Ben-Jason Dixon, 3 Brok Harris, 2 JJ Kotze, 1 Ali Vermaak.

Replacements: 16 Scarra Ntubeni, 17 Kwenzo Blose, 18 Sazi Sandi, 19 Ruben van Heerden, 20 Marcel Theunissen, 21 Herschel Jantjies, 22 Kade Wolhuter, 23 Juan de Jongh.

[big mervyn]

Well, they should mend it. Marcus breakdown ability was key to ulster last season.

Can’t mind what game … was the last he played. Look closely and M Rea was extremely soft for I think 3 of their tries. Hasn’t been seen since. He was getting turnovers last season, not so much this year.

https://all.rugby/player/marcus-rea - According to this usually accurate website, his last game was down in Galway at Christmas.

Tackle success this season 91%

The rest of the back row:

Vermuelen 96%
Timoney 96%
Reffell 95%
Murphy 95%
Matty 94%
Jones 93%
McCann 91%

[TheUlsterTruth]

Dan is more Jose Mourinho than Phil Jackson