Match Report

  • Ulster 20 Cardiff Blues 3

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    Ulster 20 Cardiff Blues 3 A minutes silence was respectively observed at Ravenhill for the four miners who died while trapped underground in a flooded Swansea Valley colliery earlier in the evening. The Blues and Ulster had both recorded two wins in the first two matches of the season and the match started with Ian […]

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Match Stats

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Match stats

Summary

Stat. Home team logo Ulster Rugby Away team logo Cardiff Rugby
Tries Darren Cave (29), (33)
Conversions Ian Humphreys (31), (34)
Penalties Ian Humphreys (4)
Paddy Jackson (77)
Ceri Sweeney (66)

Match Stats

Stat. Home team logo Ulster Rugby Away team logo Cardiff Rugby
Posession First Half 0% 0%
Posession Second Half 0% 0%
Territory First Half 0% 0%
Territory Second Half 0% 0%
Tries 2 0
Conversions 2 0
Yellow Cards 0 1

Player Stats

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Match Line-up

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Line-up
  Home Team Logo Ulster Rugby Away Team Logo Cardiff Rugby
1 Declan Fitzpatrick Sam Hobbs
2 Andy Kyriacou T.Rhys Thomas
3 Jerry Cronin Scott Andrews
4 Lewis Stevenson Michael Paterson
5 Dan Tuohy Paul Tito
6 Pedrie Wannenburg Ma'ama Molitika
7 Chris Henry Martyn Williams
8 Robbie Diack Xavier Rush
9 Paul Marshall Lewis Jones
10 Ian Humphreys Ceri Sweeney
11 Ian Whitten Tom James
12 Nevin Spence Gavin Evans
13 Darren Cave Casey Laulala
14 Craig Gilroy Alex Cuthbert
15 Jared Payne Chris Czekaj

Replacements

  Home Team Logo Ulster Rugby Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby
16 Nigel Brady Rhys Williams
17 Paddy McAllister Nathan Trevett
18 Adam Macklin James Monck
19 Neil McComb James Down
20 Michael McComish Thomas Young
21 Ian Porter Richie Rees
22 Paddy Jackson Rhys Patchell
23 Adam D'Arcy Dafydd Hewitt

Match Preview

  • Scott Andrews confident going into Friday’s match

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    The Blues top the RaboDirect PRO12 table after two rounds courtesy of two bonus point wins against Edinburgh and Treviso and aim to make it three wins in a row in their opening three games for the first time since 2007/08. However, Ulster have won ten of their last eleven regular season matches in the […]

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Team Stats

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Team stats

The season so far

P: Played . W: Won D: Drawn L: Lost F: For A: Against Diff: Difference BP: Bonus Points Pts: Points (Total)

No.   Team Name P W D L F A Diff BP Pts
6 Team Logo Ulster Rugby 22 12 0 10 474 424 50 8 56
7 Team Logo Cardiff Rugby 22 10 0 12 446 460 -14 10 50

Form Guide

Ulster Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Cardiff Rugby Home 20-3 Win
Aironi Rugby Away 19-25 Win
Glasgow Warriors Home 28-14 Win
Leinster Rugby Away 18-3 Loss
Cardiff Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Ulster Rugby Away 20-3 Loss
Benetton Rugby Home 33-18 Win
Edinburgh Rugby Away 15-38 Win
Scarlets Away 38-23 Loss

Past Meetings

Fri 25th Feb 2011
KO 19:05 GMT

Kingspan Stadium

Europe/Dublin

Celtic League

Ulster Rugby

32

V

13

Cardiff Rugby

Sun 21st Nov 2010
KO 15:45 GMT

Cardiff City Stadium

Europe/London

Celtic League

Cardiff Rugby

15

V

37

Ulster Rugby

Sat 3rd Apr 2010
KO 19:30 IST

Kingspan Stadium

Europe/Dublin

Celtic League

Ulster Rugby

24

V

33

Cardiff Rugby

Head-to-head

  Home Team Logo Ulster Rugby Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby
Played 18 18
Wins 8 10
Wins at home 6 7
Wins away 2 3
Draws 0 0

From data since 2003