Ulster Women slumped to their heaviest defeat, in recent years, at the Sportsground, Galway, with Connacht running out winners by 39 – 5 on Saturday afternoon.
Ulster’s sole try came from a combined effort by Sorcha Chipperfield and Ilse Van Staden, with the latter getting the final touch, and, apart from a late disallowed try in the final minutes, that was about it from Ulster.
I must say, in my eight years of covering Women’s rugby in Ulster, Ireland and beyond, it’s one of the hardest women’s matches I’ve had to watch but I guess the truth is it’s a fair enough marker as to how far women’s rugby in Ulster has fallen behind the other provinces in recent seasons.
Ulster were, once again, completely outgunned at the breakdown with poor technique in contact providing Connacht an almost continuous supply of ball – and that’s basically the story of the game.
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