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forestial — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:29:14 +0000

One really minor thing I notice on the site is that when you post a reply, it asks you for a 'title' but then the title doesn't appear in the topic. Only the original thread title is seen and the reply just shows the body that you typed. (I said it was minor....)

Squad Update

forestial — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:24:13 +0000

Ulster Rugby have no fresh injury concerns ahead of the province’s BKT United Rugby Championship Round 5 fixture against DHL Stormers.

Players called up to the Ireland squad for the upcoming Nations Championship have left for national camp this week.

Tom Brigg, Sam Crean, Jed Findlay, Rob Herring, James Hume, Martin Moloney and Zac Ward have all joined the squad in Cape Town.

No new injuries!! I was worried about Devine because comms said he was off for an HIA. Also these SA games are usually very attritional because of the physical nature of the games, the climate etc. Great to see Herring and Hume, but overall we're definitely weaker this week than last. I suppose the Stormers may also lose quite a few to the Boks travelling squad.

You would think it would have been cheaper, even with additional hotel needs, to bring those lads out last week (at least the ones that were known to be fit) than to buy last minute air tickets. I suppose someone will have run the numbers.

URC Stormers vs Ulster Saturday Oct 31 12:45pm

forestial — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:16:50 +0000

(I might have the KO time wrong in the title; we're in the weird spot when daylight saving kicks in differently in different places).

Anyway another difficult game this. All of our Ireland lads are gone and a load of others (happily including the likes of Hume and Herring) are flying out to replace them.

RE: URC Bulls vs Ulster Saturday Oct 24 12:45pm

forestial — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:39:26 +0000

The familiar mixture of poor and very good there. Honestly we didn’t deserve 2 BP but still disappointing to have one taken away on the last kick. Bulls not as good as advertised.

RE: URC Bulls vs Ulster Saturday Oct 24 12:45pm

DS69 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:26:31 +0000

Strong bulls team, I fear we will get destroyed upfront. Can't keep knocking the ball forward and handing them a scrum.

Maybe the best we can hope fore is we get hockeyed in the first half and then they take the foot off the pedal so we can get a few trys for a bonus point. Would happy with anything more than a point, but would not be surprised with 0!

RE: Nations Championship Squad

DS69 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:27:56 +0000

@forestial Squad is too small to lose that amount of players in the sort term, but long term hopfully more players will get central contracts and free up some money to deepen the squad ( I get that central are only part funded now, but every bit helps)

RE: URC Bulls vs Ulster Saturday Oct 24 12:45pm

DS69 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:51:35 +0000

1. Tom O’Toole (144)

2. Tom Stewart (C) (79)

3. Keynan Knox (4)

4. Ben Donnell (3)

5. Cormac Izuchukwu (58)

6. David McCann (94)

7. Nick Timoney (185)

8. Juarno Augustus (20)

9. Nathan Doak (113)

10. Jack Murphy (39)

11. Michael Lowry (138)

12. Stuart McCloskey (218)

13. Jamie Benson (4)

14. Chay Mullins (1)

15. Jacob Stockdale (151)

Replacements:

16. Henry Walker (4)

17. Eric O’Sullivan (142)

18. Scott Wilson (58)

19. Eli Snyman (3)

20. James McNabney (23)

21. Matthew Devine (4)

22. Jake Flannery (44)

23. James McKillop (4)

I wasn't far off! Sheridan disappears again. McIlroy still injured then? Carson dropped for Benson. Interesting Stockdale and Lowry switch positions

PHP2Shell Update

DS69 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:43:35 +0000

You might have read about the critical PHP vulnerably PHP2Shell. The hosting for this site had implemented protections yesterday evening and as of now the official PHP security updates has been rolled out to the majority of the network. At this time no attack traffic related to this issue has been observed on the network.

RE: Nations Championship Squad

forestial — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:39:21 +0000

Izzy squeezed out by the return of Ryan Baird I think. Ireland view him only as a 6.

Still 9 players is a great contingent from Ulster (second most of provinces). If all 9 have to fly back after Bulls we won’t have a team for Stormers (this won’t happen, but we’ll still be depleted).

RE: South African rugby player Hyron Andrews found dead in France ahead of Champions Cup match

forestial — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:35:02 +0000

Terribly sad. Only 31, wife and two young kids left.