Ulster Women: Connacht Pre-season Friendly

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It’s not often that I watch an Ulster side outscored nine tries to one and come away from the match reasonably satisfied with the proceedings, but that was the case last Sunday down in Athlone when Ulster Women played a series of trial matches against Connacht Women.

To set the scene, Connacht are a settled side, two years in the making, and they already had a run out against Munster Women under their belts this season. Ulster, on the other hand, are on the first phase of their rebuild with, unfortunately, quite a few key players missing due to other commitments last weekend.

The trials consisted of three thirty minute “games” and what Ulster were looking for was an improvement over each game. To be fair, improvement is exactly what they got, conceding five tries in the first run out (with two chances for Connacht butchered) but they improved dramatically in each session to concede only two in each of the second and third matches. In truth the final session could have went either way with Connacht scoring with . . .

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