Richie Murphy has named four different centre partnerships across Ulster’s opening five URC games.
ACROSS THE OPENING five games of Ulster ’s URC campaign, Richie Murphy has named four different centre partnerships as a testing start to the new season has resulted in a midfield merry-go-round.
While all the provinces have been managing their resources to some degree across the early weeks of the season, Ulster’s midfield has been a revolving door. Last weekend’s home win against Connacht saw Postlethwaite return to partner Moore as McCloskey remained sidelined. Yet there was further disruption from that 32-27 victory, with Postlethwaite only lasting 31 minutes and Moore subsequently joining the injury list with a sterno-clavicular joint problem. Postlethwaite had been a doubt for tonight’s game but is named on the Ulster bench.
Even when consistency has been a problem for Ulster over recent years, their home record has remained impressive. That hasn’t changed under Murphy. It helps that Ulster’s early-season injury troubles are finally easing. As well as welcoming McCloskey back, loosehead Eric O’Sullivan has recovered from a shoulder injury while the return of Emerging Ireland players Cormac Izuchukwu and Harry Sheridan is a further boost.
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