Ulster Rugby Annual Report 2015 - 2016

APPENDIX H: INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES RUGBY WORLD CUP 2015 PREPARATION MATCHES Head Coach Joe Schmidt Team Manager Michael Kearney Assistant Coach Les Kiss V WALES 8th August 2015 – Won 35 - 21 A Trimble (Ballymena RFC), D Cave (Belfast Harlequins RFC), 56 P Jackson (Dungannon RFC), I Henderson (Ballynahinch RFC) Replacements: R Best (Banbridge RFC), D Tuohy (Ballymena RFC), C Henry (Malone RFC) V SCOTLAND 15th August 2015 – Won 28 - 22 T Bowe (Belfast Harlequins RFC), J Payne (Ulster), D Tuohy (Ballymena RFC), C Henry (Malone RFC) Replacement: P Jackson (Dungannon RFC) V WALES 29th August 2015 – Lost 10 -16 I Henderson (Ballynahinch RFC) Replacement: P Jackson (Dungannon RFC) V ENGLAND 5th September 2015 – Lost 13 – 21 T Bowe (Belfast Harlequins RFC), J Payne (Ulster), R Best (Banbridge RFC) Replacements: C Henry (Malone RFC), D Cave (Belfast Harlequins RFC) RUGBY WORLD CUP 2015 Head Coach Joe Schmidt Team Manager Michael Kearney Assistant Coach Les Kiss V CANADA 19th September 2015 – Won 50 - 7 J Payne (Ulster), R Best (Banbridge RFC), I Henderson (Ballynahinch RFC) Replacement: C Henry (Malone RFC) V ROMANIA 27th September 2015 – Won 44 - 10 T Bowe (Belfast Harlequins RFC), J Payne (Ulster), D Cave (Belfast Harlequins RFC), C Henry (Malone RFC) Replacement: P Jackson (Dungannon RFC) V ITALY 4th October 2015 – Won 16 - 9 T Bowe (Belfast Harlequins RFC), R Best (Banbridge RFC), I Henderson (Ballynahinch RFC) Replacement: C Henry (Malone RFC) V FRANCE 11th October 2015 – Won 24 - 9 T Bowe (Belfast Harlequins RFC), R Best (Banbridge RFC) Replacements: I Henderson (Ballynahinch RFC), C Henry (Malone RFC) V ARGENTINA 18th October 2015 – Lost 20 - 43 T Bowe ( Belfast Harlequins RFC), R Best (Banbridge RFC), I Henderson (Ballynahinch RFC), C Henry (Malone RFC)

RBS SIX NATIONS Head Coach Joe Schmidt Team Manager Michael Kearney Assistant Coach Simon Easterby & Greg Feek V WALES 7th February 2016 – Drew 16 - 16 A Trimble (Ballymena RFC), J Payne (Ulster), R Best (Banbridge RFC) (Capt) V FRANCE 13th February 2016 – Lost 9 - 10 A Trimble (Ballymena RFC), J Payne (Ulster), R Best (Banbridge RFC) (Capt) V ENGLAND 27th February 2016 Lost 10 - 21 A Trimble (Ballymena RFC), R Best (Banbridge RFC) (Capt), S McCloskey (Ballynahinch RFC) V ITALY 12th March 2016 – Won 58 - 15 A Trimble (Ballymena RFC), J Payne (Ulster), R Best (Banbridge RFC) (Capt) V SCOTLAND 19th March 2016 – 35 - 25 A Trimble (Ballymena RFC), J Payne (Ulster), R Best (Banbridge RFC) (Capt) SEVENS (MENS) Head Coach Anthony Eddy Assistant Coach Stanley McDowell Team Manager Sinead Bennet V RUSSIA 18th July 2015 – Drew 19 - 19 A Cairns (Ballynahinch RFC), D McGuigan (Ballynahinch RFC) V GEORGIA 18th July 2015 – Won 21 - 17 A Cairns (Ballynahinch RFC), D McGuigan (Ballynahinch RFC) V ITALY 18th July 2015 – Won 33 - 15 A Cairns (Ballynahinch RFC), D McGuigan (Ballynahinch RFC) V LITHUANIA 19th July 2015 – Won 17 - 0 A Cairns (Ballynahinch RFC), D McGuigan (Ballynahinch RFC) V RUSSIA 19th July 2015 – Lost 10 - 24 A Cairns (Ballynahinch RFC), D McGuigan (Ballynahinch RFC) V GEORGIA 19th July 2015 – Won 15 - 7 A Cairns (Ballynahinch RFC), D McGuigan (Ballynahinch RFC)

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