Stand Up Magazine - Issue 39 - Ulster Rugby Supporters' Club

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Kingspiel

Membership Numbers Many thanks to the 939 who joined the URSC this season – we appreciate your support!

Ireland supporters shirt and Ulster jacket respectively.

Piutau, Marcell Coetzee, Johnny Stewart, Adam McBurney, Andrew Trimble, Jared Payne, Iain Henderson, John Cooney & Christian Lealiifano - and Willie Anderson and Kieran Campbell from the Academy. Going to the Aviva – courtesy of URSC Being a member of URSC paid off for 120 fans who either won outright or had the opportunity to purchase 2 tickets for the Ireland matches against S. Africa, Fiji and Argentina in the Autumn; and Italy, Wales and Scotland this spring.

South Wales URSC

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner

We are delighted to lend our support to the fledgling South Wales Ulster Rugby Supporters Club. Well done Chris Brownfield & Co - Ulster am Byth! Goodbye Christian To mark the end of Christian Lealiifano’s stint at Ulster we ran a week of prize draws for CL signed memorabilia – over 1500 entries were received but there could only be 5 winners: Sandy McCord; Wendy Smith; Ian Cowell; Simon Kidd and Niall McSperrin.

All members signed up by 7 October were entered into a draw, with George Dowling being the winning name drawn. George got himself an original painting by local artist Lynn Steele of an All Black in all white Charles Piutau!

Jim Holmes received his FREE Ireland v Argentina tickets from Jared payne and Academy Player Caleb Montgomery (above) and David Hooper was given his FREE Ireland v Fiji tickets by Jared (below).

Big Yella Buses We ran big yella buses to Galway and Dublin either side of Christmas

unfortunately it was not only the turkey at got stuffed over Yuletide, however respect and thanks to all those who travelled. Another opportunity to travel on the URSC yella bus awaits - with the last match of the regular season being a trip to Limerick. We’ll be there. Will you? Full details to follow. Player of the Month(s) For September and October it was Jacob “Try, try and try again” Stockdale and for

Monday’s winner Sandy McCord could collect his Wallabies cap in person, but that doesn’t stop Jonathan when he’s in presenting mode.

Bar Passes Reminder: This season, URSC has again received 6 bar passes for the Spirit of 99 Bar for each home match at Kingspan. These are available FREE to URSC members on a match by match basis upon application. To apply for use of these, please email your request to info@ursc.co.uk stating the match you wish to receive for and the names of users and number of passes you would like. Please note, passes are to be used one per person and are not available to under-18s. To ensure equitable distribution of these, availability will not necessarily be on a first- come first served basis.

Big Ballot Once again a huge thank you to all those local businesses that provided prizes for our Big Ballot – we had a number of very happy winners. Thanks too to URSC favourite Darren Cave who pulled out the winning tickets. Meet the Players There’s nothing that URSC members like better than to get up close and personal with players and our Meet the Players events allow just this. Big thanks to Tommy Bowe, Wiehahn Herbst, Charles

Nigel received his nice new jacket from Chairman Jonathan Bill.

November and December it was John “Can he kick it? Yes he can!” Cooney. The lucky URSC PoM voters were Lawrence Fisher and Nigel McMahon who won a signed

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