Ulster’s outrageously successful season continued with another smash and grab raid, this time in Glasgow on a Friday night, with Ulster snatching a 19 – 22 win with yet another last gasp penalty from Ruan Pienaar.
It was a remarkable double for Pienaar as, for the second time this season, he recorded all the teams points in a game – a fact made all the more extraordinary as both games were against Glasgow! (Boy, they must be sick of him. 😆 ) This time round the Springbok landed five penalties, a try and conversion in his 22 point haul.
The game itself was a dour affair with neither team performing well and for large portions Glasgow looked the better team. Ulster struggled at the breakdown, the back-row didn’t function as a unit until Faloon appeared that is, and slow ball was shuffled along the line with no one having the space or timing to inject any pace into the game. For the third game in a row Ulster looked like a team thrown together for a trials game and really, for the third game in a row that’s exactly what they were.
OK, it all could have been better, and . . .
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