Evening and welcome, It’s a fine night for rugby and where better to do it on a Friday than Ravenhill.

We’re just awaiting the teams from the dressing room. Apart from that small matter, we’re ready to go.

There are 30 burly men on the field so it’s about time for a quick reminder on the starting XVs.

Ulster: A D’Arcy; C Gilroy, I Whitten, P Wallace (capt.) S Terblanche; R Pienaar, P Marshall: P McAllister, A Kyriacou, J Afoa, L Stevenson, D Tuohy, P Wannenburg, W Faloon, R Diack.

Replacements: N Brady, C Black, A Macklin, N McComb, M McComish, I Humphreys, L Marshall, C Cochrane.

Edinburgh: T Brown; S Visser ,M Scott, J Houston, T Visser; P Godman, C Leck; K Traynor, A Kelly, U Gamboa, G Gilchrist S Cox, S McInally, R Grant (capt) N Talei.

Replacements: A Walker, R Hislop, J Gilding, R McAlpine, H Watson, A Black, H Leonard, C Paterson.

Phil Godman kicks off for the visitors and a mistake from Terblanche gives them a lineout in the Ulster 22.

TRY: Bit of a lacklustre start from the hosts, and Edinburgh profit.

Some nice offloading on the left wing from Scott and Tom Brown drove at the line.

Without too much effort the black shirts spun the ball to the right where Seb Visser was only too willing to ground an easy chance.

Conversion missed.

From the restart, Edinburgh penalised for crossing and Pienaar has the chance to get the board ticking.

For him, it was an easy chance, 35 meters out on the left side, but he misses left of the uprights.

TRY: And with a flick of the wrist this classy Ulster outfit take the lead.

Adam D’Arcy began the move with a superb swerving run in his own half.

The pass found Pienaar on halfway and he found his half back partner Paul Marshall who sidestepped the defender to finish under the posts.

Pienaar evidently not feeling himself. The Springbok has just shunned two distant penalties in favour for a kick to the corner.

Ulster rumble close to the tryline for three phases and head for the backline where Paddy Wallace and D’Arcy combine to give Terblanche a finish in the corner.

The TMO is mulling it over.

TRY: Terblanche is awarded the score.

And to improve the mood Pienaar looks back to his metronomic best, dissecting the posts from the left hand touch line.

Oh, it really should have been Ulster’s third try there after a brilliant step from John Afoa.

This time, with men, over the back make a mess of it, releasing the pass too early and Ian Whitten knocks on.

While Nigel Owens is giving Ulises Gamboa a lecture on what is and is not binding, we’ll bring you news from Italy.

Ian Madigan has just kicked another penalty to bring the score to 6-12. Leinster lead with 10 minutes remaining.

Madigan had kicked three first half penalties to give Leinster a 9-0 half time lead.

Not one for the purists, then. Better stick with Ravenhill.

Now just as I said that the game hit a bit of a lull, but we’re back in full swing now.

Godman attempted a cross-kick and Tim Visser leapt to claim, but couldn’t.

On the follow-up Brown caught possession, but ran out of ground with Gilroy positioned well to defend.

TRY: Paul Marshall gets the home side moving again, sniping up the blindside of a five meter scrum.

Suddenly, that bit of invention has the white jerseys 80 meters up field and just as the move looked like slowing down D’Arcy found a gap right in the middle and it will be 21- 5 to the Ulster men with just over half an hour gone.

Marshall hits the try line / ©INPHO/Presseye/Darren Kidd

The game is still nice and open, Visser very nearly breaks free of Gilroy on the left wing, but is dragged back. Ulster penalised for holding on in the tackle.

Godman aims for the corner, five meter lineout for Edinburgh,

Ulster in fine fettle, they turnover that edinburgh attack on the ground and that reknowned scrumhalf (John Afoa) spins the ball wide and Paddy Wallace carries them back near halfway.

Over in Italy, Leinster have ran out eventual winners thanks to a try from substitute Noel Reid.

Madigan converts, adding to his five penalties to give Leinster the 22-6 win.

Godman has added a straightforward penalty for the visitors just before the whistle.

The half time score is 21-8.

Connacht are about half an hour into their match against Scarlets, they trail 7-3 at the minute.

The teams are just back on the field now in Belfast, Edinburgh look to have made some changes in the pack, but can they reel in Ulster in this form?

Paddy Wallace off his feet on the 22 and Godman has an easy chance to get the first score of the second half.

He takes it and Ulster’s lead is cut to 10.

Robbie Diack shows good awareness to collect a semi-blocked kick in the Edinburgh red zone.

Dan Tuohy does his best to bulldoze through two tacklers, unfortunately his offload is off target and out of play.

Mike McComish is in bad shape, he’s been laid out cold.

Must have been a clash of heads as Ulster attacked 10 meters out.

Fingers crossed he is ok, he’s barely moved and the stretcher is on.

Not a great angle on the replay looks like Paul Marshall was hit off the ball and his head snapped back into McComish laying him out.

Physios took no chances, but he’s holding his own oxygen mask as they stretcher him off. So that’s not too bad of a sign.

Back to the action and Neil McComb is on the field for a five-meter scrum.

Afoa has forced a penalty, forcing traynor to pop up.

We’ll go for crouch, hold engage one more time, please Mr Owens.

TRY: The bonus point comes in controlled, if unspectacular style.

Penalty try after the black scrum collapses under some serious pressure.

McAllister and Marshall make way, replaced by Callum Black and little Ian Humphreys.

Just hearing news that Mike McComish is sitting up and talking in the Ulster changing room. So all is well.

Getting him to stop talking is the trouble now.

Agonisingly close for Edinburgh, they breeze forward and a super step from Scott and a handoff to gilroyhas him five meters out.

Willie Faloon smashes him into touch and the off-load is forward.

John Afoa is really enjoying himself tonight. Ian Humphreys with the clearing kick to halfway.

A chip through from Pienaar evades the chasing white jerseys, but it’s no loss.

The awkward bounce forces Brown to collect on the fly and he carries it across his own line.

Another scrum v for the dominant side in white.

TRY: Edinburgh wilt again under pressure from John Afoa.

Pienaar quick taps the penalty and spins it wide to Chris Cochrane who sidesteps the challenge and grounds his second try for the northern province.

The Springbok, now reverted to scrum-half, misses his second kick of the night.

Whitten gets a big hit in on Visser and ulster attack down their own left flank.

Cochrane sees a chance to open up his stride again, but he runs out of room.

Ulster still playing the game in the right area.

Netani Talei tackled by Dan Tuohy and Paddy Wallace / ©INPHO/Presseye/Brian Little

Edinburgh by no means dropping their heads.

Watson, in particular has come off the bench to add some real impetus.

He and Talei have just driven the Scottish side into the Ulster 22.

TRY: Despite a hit from Gilroy Tim Visser looks to have proven his accomplished finishing skills.

The Dutch winger, kept his feet after the hit, avoided the dead ball line and grounded with aplomb.

That conversion, from the left touchline, was missed right.

TRY: Ian Humphreys has just rounded the night off nicely for the Ravenhill faithful after racing to the corner from the halfway line.

Pienaar’s conversion is a hair’s breath away from taking Ulster to the magic 40 point mark.

It was he who received the ball first from a turnover on halfway. Luke Marshall fed the ball to Callum Black and he wisely passed the buck to the fly-half.

On turnover ball, the littler Hump had a quarter of the field to aim for and his fresh legs took him all the way to the corner.

Well, that’s just about it from me. Another clinical and at times scintillating display from Ulster under those magic lights at Ravenhill.

A good night too for Leinster, winning 22-6 in Aironi.

Alas, Connacht are currently trailing 31- 10 away to the Scarlets.

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I’m off to see how Rory McIlroy is doing.

SUFTUM.