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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 1h

The potential ability of my posts to frame the policy debate are exactly why I'm on social media, of course!

🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 3h

I'm exactly the same. I can usually dress for the cold as long as there's something to sit under to keep the rain off. Something liberating about it, I think.

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 3h

Just to prove that we're out in autumn!

(Actually, it was just lying there on the table because the Biergarten is under old chestnut trees and, honestly, you could do with a helmet about this time of year!).

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 3h

Is his name "Jordie"?

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 5h

They shut the Biergarten and sent us inside… 😂

A picture or the Biergarten photographed through a window.

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 6h

“Baby Byrne” was right there…

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 7h

Does this mean we might have to sit through him repeatedly this year? Fuck sake. Bring back Robbo. All is forgiven.

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 7h

Last Biergarten day. 12 degrees. Drizzle. Only folk stupid or hardy enough to be here.

A glass of beer and a chestnut beside it to prove its autumn.

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 8h

I think it happens everywhere and every team does it. Sport as a whole far too tolerant of actions that never stood a chance of influencing the game.

🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 10h

That little knock on McCloskey looked unnecessary but not a patch on the fella who headbutted Cormac’s ankle!

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, drop off in crowds in both games so far this season, against even recent averages, has been very noticeable. Hope a few decent performances contributes to a change, there!

🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 11h

I enjoyed some of the stuff Ulster put together but, bloody hell, Bulls were a scrum reluctant to do anything else.

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 13h

Been quite a while since I heard the crowd as loud and as engaged as last night! Great to see.

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

The good news is there’s no risk of having to watch fucking Big Jim or Andy Goode for five minutes before kick-off!

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

Sounds painful, not least since Paul Marshall’s on-screen persona is about as lively as a watching grass grow! Can only imagine what his regular offscreen personality must be like…

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

Ach, there’s plenty of time over the season for Ulster to Ulster!

🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks to the URC.tv steam being cut about two minutes after full time, I never get to see the post-game interviews ☹️

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

Last season or not, I'd be delighted for him if this carries on. Has just seemed wrecked for the last two seasons or thereabouts. Shaking that off and putting together a few performances would be a great way to go out (or to lead into a new contract).

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

Favourite moment of the game, mind, was Mike Adamson looking at a replay and then going, “Nah, that pass was way too weak for that not to be a deliberate knock-on,”… #ULSvBUL

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

First time in a long time I’ve seen him hitting the ball at pace and blasting a couple of tacklers!

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

The backs moving the ball; shifting the point of attack; effort and line speed in defence. Oh no, what’s that? No. No. Not Hope. Anything but that!

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 23h

Really poor from the Bulls. Some atrocious individual performances and a frankly bizarre malfunctioning line out but… you can only play what’s in front of you, and Ulster looked a lot better, on both sides of the ball, since I don’t remember when! #ULSvBUL

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 1d

Missed the first 20 getting the kids to bed. Tuned in just in time to see the two tries and then a whole lot of nothing…

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🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I’m doing Ulster a disservice but we have form for choosing stuff like this and not really many natural clashes in white through the season. Had just assumed it was Ulster’s call.

🎃Neil Pfeart🎃 @dasneilpferd.bsky.social · 1d

Massive opening 20 in this half from Ulster. The rugby looks good. The team looks motivated. I’ll never shake the feeling there’s an Ulstering in every game, still but jeez, this has been more than decent #ULSvBUL

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