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Dad Richie won his second game of the season, the second at home following the opening day win over Glasgow.
“It was a little bit of fun, back and forth on the phone. But other than that it was just similar; a big game for him and a big game for us as well,” said Ben. “I suppose just trying to play with your heads up. I saw a gap and was kind of expecting it. I just opened up and trusted my instincts to go through.For Connacht head coach Pete Wilkins, it was a battle between the glass half full of two bonus try points, and the dropped three points by not pushing on when they had a chance.
Undoubtedly, Connacht’s efforts were harmed by the late red card awarded to Josh Murphy with his unnecessary and dangerous hit on James McCormick. The extra gap helped Nick Timoney record his match-winning try on his 150th cap.“It hurt our chances of getting the result from that point onwards. I think we managed to tackled Doak in behind him, he wriggled out and some of those little pressure moments, Ulster handled them better than us. No doubt it was costly.
“I thought the commitment was there from the start, physicality was right up, the guys were really going for it from early on. Midweek, he was coming home from a friendly game of padel with his wife when their son called. It was tight lips all round prior to this game, but few know the son quite like the father and Richie insists he could see Ben’s try coming.
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