Friendly: Ulster 21 Exeter Chiefs 22

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The new regime at Ulster didn’t exactly kick off in style, sartorial or otherwise, as a purple clad Ulster went down by a point to Exeter Chiefs at the newly named Kingspan Stadium.

Despite the scoreline it was a pleasing enough outing for Ulster’s largely second and third string players against a strong enough side from the Chiefs. Nice touches from Ian Humphreys, Louis Ludik and Rory Scholes in the back line and good scrummaging efforts from all three front row variations were big plusses for Ulster but the second row, including new signing Franco van der Merwe, and the back row combinations looked fairly lightweight against what is hardly the toughest opponents they are going to face this season!

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I hardly recognised any of the starting Ulster XV until I realised they were the one’s playing in the purple! (Yet another change to proud Ulster tradition – heads will eventually blow if this continues! 🙂 ). However once I found my bearings I started to check off the new players . . .

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