My goodness, how did they get out of that?
As I sat down to watch this one, slightly pissed off at not being able to make it to Ravers with the rest of the brethren, I must admit that I thought we were in for a bit of a hammering as Ulster struggled in the opening exchanges.
Ulster looked at six’s and sevens, bumbling and fumbling and struggling to throw two passes together, Clermont looked as though they could score at will. Lee Byrne looked imperious, slicing through the Ulster defence contrasting sharply with Danielli who looked under pressure and out of place.
A fumble by Danielli is cleared by Marshall but Byrne fields, slices through the defence, passes to Nakaitaci and Ulster are down by 5. The only glimmer of hope is Parra, his conversion attempt going the way of his earlier penalty. After ten minutes Clermont are leading by 5 and have left 8 points on the pitch with a Skrella drop goal attempt also going wide.
The Ulster . . .
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