The FRONT ROW UNION

If you love rugby in Ulster and Ireland we would love you to get involved with the Front Row Union. We received some great news earlier this season from an independent user survey carried [more]

Thanks to the players at Ulster Rugby we are pleased to offer a chance to bid for a Genuine Kukri XL Ulster Rugby Shirt signed by over 30 players of the [more]

Ulster’s season climaxes in a possible 3 game streak potentially culminating in a RABO PRO12 decider at the RDS. Notice I say potentially because there is still so much uncertainty. [more]

After all the jacks are in their boxes, And the clowns have all gone to bed, You can hear sadness staggering on down the street, In handprints dressed in red, [more]

 The Front Row Union are pleased to “sign” Ireland Women’s Forwards Coach Peter Bracken for a series of articles on the key games between now and the end of the season. This week the [more]

You could make this up, well perhaps not but if you had to find a suitable paradox for mollycoddling people and being bitten for it, then look no further than [more]

So much travelling these days that some of the main stories are passing me by so I thought I’d catch up, in the old FRU style, on what’s been happening [more]

A bloke I know, who’s one of the cycling cadre I hang out with these days, played for a very good CI rugby team in the 70’s and scrum half [more]

Due to unforeseen circumstances I was back at Ravenhill sooner than I had imagined, I mean, I was back this season for the Zebre game. The Terrace was sold out, [more]

Strange how the memory of the most mundane summer’s day assumes all the momentous significance, when your gripped to base of your soul by winter’s heartless grasp. It’s early February [more]

The 6 Nations cometh and for some the excitement rises with the anticipation of a trip to Rome, a journey to Wales or a short walk from the pub to [more]

The Men from the Burgh Do! Treading somewhat warily were the Helensburgh men on Friday night as they made their way to Ravenhill via Mount Merrion through a chocful of [more]

So we’re in a new year (by the way, happy new one etc), but more interestingly, we have passed the mid-way point in the domestic rugby season. How stand things, [more]

In case you haven’t the heart/willpower to read any further, I will take this opportunity to wish all my readers, (I think that’s about 3*) a very Happy New Year’s [more]

Everybody here, seems to like to laugh, look at Johnny King jivin’ across the floor. He can play the fool and make a few mistakes, but all the same he’ll [more]