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Probably a reasonable comment although, even if we had played our best game, we would have lost. Not many sides could have lived with La Rochelle today, monstrous forwards, slick handling and cool heads.

Watching the second half. That's how I've wanted Ulster to play for years

That wasnt just size and technique. That was passion and team work particularly in their pack

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I reffed 2 games this weekend, saw nothing. Just home.

How were we??

Dublin4 wrote:That was my first time watching La Rochelle.
They remind me of Clermont with the fans on top of the pitch and the noise. It must be a fantastic place to go to a game.
LR are probably one of the best teams in Europe and it's no disgrace to lose over there. I guess they must have a sugar daddy funding the operation. There isn't a history of rugby in Charente and I doubt they have any local players.

They will run away with the pool but Ulster can still edge out Wasps for second place if you put the Quins to the sword in December.

D4, I may as well pick on your post as well as any other.

Can anyone explain why everyone is calling Stade Rochelais, La Rochelle?

By the way, Stade Rochelais, as far as I know, is owned by its fans under the banner of Association Stade Rochelais, no sugar daddy. They are over one hundred years old, 3 generations of the Elissalde family have played for them - all scrum-halves and they sell out EVERY home game (15000) and have done for a few seasons.

Gary wrote:Good Ulsterman that I am, I've been at 5 of the 3 games they've lost in France

That doesn't surprise me, Gary, I thought it sounded a hell of a dodgy stat.

222toHounslow wrote:Magnificent trip to Montpellier, we should have won the whole bloody competition that year.

Also witnessed Mike McComish rip Toulon apart with a hat trick

Well, two thirds of one anyway.

The sausage butties were good though.

A couple of soft trys given away in the first half with a failure to recognise LR are not a team to kick to or at with a disorganised defence they run it back and find their support .

Having watch some of LR last week it should have warned Ulster of their ability to counter attack and the score line and difference is much as I expected the only real surprise was that it took Ulster so long to score the second try having scored in the first half I thought they might have got another 2 while giving away 5 or 6 .

Nice to see Gilroy back in Acton for the A’s because both Bowe and Trimble are starting to show their years and losing their snap -their ability to react as quickly as they did in previous years it may be only half a second but it’s the difference between a tackle and a missed one a try and being caught .

The honesty of effort is still there it is the reward of the effort is missing.



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A dutchman plays for La Rochelle. Nobody knows that.

It's allbout Tam MacVissere here.

Vive Kieft

BaggyTrousers wrote:
Can anyone explain why everyone is calling Stade Rochelais, La Rochelle?

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Same reason we routinely refer to Toulouse, etc.

I'd have more complaints about the use of Bordeaux (which is at least geographically correct) and the one that troubles me the most - Stade.

Gary wrote:Good Ulsterman that I am, I've been at 5 of the 3 games they've lost in France

Call yourself a supporter?

Baggy
thanks for the info on Rochelle or whatever they are being called.
I had a couple of family holidays in the area with the kids in the 90s and have fond memories but don't remember a rugby pitch . Good to see the game spreading.

Dublin4 wrote:Baggy
thanks for the info on Rochelle or whatever they are being called.
I had a couple of family holidays in the area with the kids in the 90s and have fond memories but don't remember a rugby pitch . Good to see the game spreading.

Try walking around central dublin and seeing a rugby pitch

Words fail me with you sometimes

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Dublin4 wrote:Baggy
thanks for the info on Rochelle or whatever they are being called.
I had a couple of family holidays in the area with the kids in the 90s and have fond memories but don't remember a rugby pitch. Good to see the game spreading.

I don't have the answer to that D4 but I do know it was the owners/fans, ASR, who came up with a 5-year plan and that included building their new 15000 stadium, now whether it's on the site of the old ground I have no idea.

Russ
"Try walking around central dublin and seeing a rugby pitch."

You don't have to try too hard. College Park in Trinity College has had a rugby pitch used by Dublin University Football Club (to give them their official title) for 150 years. You can't get more central than that.

the Irish Rugby team played a French Barbarians team in La Rochelle in the late eighties