The sides clash this afternoon on the opening weekend of the Champions Cup.
Today's game begins at 3:15pm, with coverage being shown live on Premier Sports 1, with streaming available on the Premier Player. We will have full live updates from today's clash between Ulster and the reigning European Champions in our live blog below.
Thomas Ramos; Ange Capuozzo, Pierre-Louis Barassi, Santiago Chocobares, Matthis Lebel; Romain Ntamack, Antoine Dupont ; David Ainu’u, Peato Mauvaka, Dorian Aldegheri; Thibaud Flament, Emmanuel Meafou; Jack Willis, Leo Banos, Alexandre Roumat.Stewart Moore; Werner Kok, Ben Carson, Stuart McCloskey, Michael Lowry; Aidan Morgan, Nathan Doak; Andrew Warwick, James McCormick, Scott Wilson; Alan O’Connor , Harry Sheridan; Matty Rea, Marcus Rea, James McNabney.Sizzling try for Toulouse. Chocobares gets on the end of a fine move that began with Ulster losing a line-out in a promising position.Capuozzo gets caught ball watching. Morgan passes over him and Stewart moore strolls in under the posts. From the restart, Ulster drop it cold and Toulouse have an excellent attacking platform now.Dupont hands of Warwick and burns him on the outside. Toulouse held up near the line momentarily, but it's no issue as they get over a phase later. Another lovely strike from the boot of Ramos.Ange Capuozzo gets on the end of a fluid end-to-end move and dots down for the bonus point and surely, there is no way back for Ulster.Another excellent maul and strike play from Toulouse. Lebel knocks on in the tackle close to the line, and Ulster survive.Toulouse think they're in for a try from Ntamack off a scrum, however, luckily Ulster, Ntamack is offside. No try, but penalty advantage, so Toulouse still in an excellent position here.Meafu runs over a couple of Ulster defenders and touches down. Just as the Irish side looked to be back in the game, Toulouse score try number three.Much more like it from the Irish province. Tap and go with penalty advantage, and Wilson barrels his way over. The try is given after a TMO check, and the conversion is good.The hosts cross the line again. Once more, it comes off a set-piece. The reigining champions maul and a couple of phases later, Dupont pops it off to Ntamack who powers over from close range. Ramos nails the easy kick. Ulster under the pump big time here already.Lebel gets in the corner off a set-piece. Dupont heavily involved. Ramos' kick from out wide misses. Tough opening five minutes for the visitors.Toulouse are the reigning kings of Europe - they downed Leinster in last season's final 2024 Investec Champions Cup Final, Tottenham Hotspur - Leinster’s Ryan Baird dejected as he walks past the Champions Cup trophyRichie Murphy has named his Ulster side to kick-off the province’s Investec Champions Cup campaign against Toulouse at Stade Ernest Wallon this Sunday. In the front row, James McCormick retains his place at hooker, and is one of four players in the starting XV making their first Champions Cup appearance for the province, along with Ben Carson and summer signings Aidan Moran and Werner Kok.Lock, Alan O’Connor, will lead out the Ulster men, with Harry Sheridan starting alongside him in the second row. The back row sees Matty Rea at blindside flanker, with his brother, Marcus, on the openside. Development talent, James McNabney, is named at number eight. In an unchanged half-back partnership, Nathan Doak starts at scrum-half with Morgan leading the attack at fly-half. 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A few days later, and he wasn't even allowed to attend the event.The Eurovision star died surrounded by family at the age of 88 last Friday in St Vincent’s University HospitalGardai have issued an appeal for witnesses, particularly anyone with dash-cam footageCara Darmody, 14, was flown to Chicago to address an event organised by the Colin Farrell Foundation, an organisation which aims to support individuals and families living with intellectual disabilityThe former UFC champion took to social media to share his astonishment as Justin Watson made history in his bare-knuckle boxing bout in Georgia on Friday nightVanessa O’Callaghan died in Cork University Hospital on Wednesday after being attacked on Patrick Street on Sunday nightKerry's Dr Crokes face Tipperary's Loughmore-Castleiney at Mallow in today's Munster Football Final. 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