{"id":25514,"date":"2025-03-23T00:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dragons-30-34-ulster-scott-wilson-rescues-game-for-irish-province-in-urc\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T00:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:45:35","slug":"dragons-30-34-ulster-scott-wilson-rescues-game-for-irish-province-in-urc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dragons-30-34-ulster-scott-wilson-rescues-game-for-irish-province-in-urc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons 30-34 Ulster: Scott Wilson rescues game for Irish province in URC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster responded well after the restart and Herring, perhaps lucky to be on the pitch after his earlier yellow was not referred to the bunker for review, crossed for his second try of the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doak converted, but just like in the first half, the Dragons had an immediate response as Reed landed his second penalty of the match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A big turning point came on the hour mark, when Ulster pressed the Dragons line and looked to have burrowed over for a try but some superb Dragons defence won the penalty turnover. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That moment was only compounded when Reed kicked the Dragons nine points clear with a penalty, before replacement Cooney swiftly responded with a kick of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reed had another opportunity to restore the nine-point margin but his kick came back off the post. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That miss was punished as Wilson stole the ball at a ruck in the Dragons&#8217; 22, spun away from a tackle and showed tremendous power to cross, and Cooney converted to give Ulster the lead for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Andrew thought he had added a fifth try in the final minute but it was ruled out for obstruction, but play was brought back for a penalty and Cooney landed a simple kick to help Ulster over the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dragons: <\/b>Huw Anderson, Rio Dyer, Joe Westwood, Aneurin Owen (capt), Ashton Hewitt, Will Reed, Rhodri Williams; Rodrigo Martinez, Elliot Dee, Chris Coleman, Matthew Screech, George Nott, Shane Lewis-Hughes, Harrison Keddie, Aaron Wainwright.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements:<\/i> Brodie Coghlan, Dylan Kelleher-Griffiths, Paula Latu, Steve Cummins, Taine Basham, Dane Blacker, Josh Thomas, Jared Rosser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ulster:<\/b> Stewart Moore; Michael Lowry, James Hume, Stuart McCloskey, Jacob Stockdale; Jack Murphy, Nathan Doak; Callum Reid, Rob Herring, Tom O&#8217;Toole; Alan O&#8217;Connor (capt), Matthew Dalton; David McCann, Nick Timoney, James McNabney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements: <\/i>Andrew, Crean, Wilson, Treadwell, Crothers, Cooney, Morgan, Ward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Referee: <\/b>Griffin Colby (SARU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Assistant referees: <\/b>Rhys Jones (WRU), Gwyn Morris (WRU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">TMO: <\/b>Morne Ferreira (SARU)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx20jq1qeglo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster responded well after the restart and Herring, perhaps lucky to be on the pitch after his earlier yellow was not referred to the bunker for review, crossed for his second try of the game. Doak converted, but just like in the first half, the Dragons had an immediate response as Reed landed his second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[5741,155,1850,9202,1559,1259,8626,6038,6102],"class_list":["post-25514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-dragons","tag-game","tag-irish","tag-province","tag-rescues","tag-scott","tag-ulster","tag-urc","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25516,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25514\/revisions\/25516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}