PRO12: Teams up for Leinster v Ulster

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Teams are up for Friday night’s PRO12 Inter Provincial match against Leinster at the RDS. KO 7:35, live on BBC2NI.

The match will see “Ulster’s greatest import”, Ruan Pienaar, record his 100th appearance for his adopted Province and, to be brutally honest, the mercurial one owes us a big game. 🙂

Gone are the days when he single-handedly won us games but, while it’s a big ask to expect him to  continue to perform at that level, it would be good to see him, and Paddy Jackson, put a bit of pace and width into the Ulster back line.

They certainly have their chance tomorrow night against an out of sorts Leinster side, even if they do feature a fair smattering of Irish international incumbents, but, as always, this game is going to be won and lost in the front five and here it looks fairly even.

Well, even with one exception, that exception being Iain Henderson who, in a five minute burst at the start of the . . .

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