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FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
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The clinch second spot in the URC table
Edinburgh stay 12th
Mike Blair's last game as Edinburgh head coach
Graham scores early try for visitors, converted by Boffelli
Stockdale and two Cooney penalties put Ulster ahead at break
Cooney with a try and conversion straight from the restart
Timoney try as Edinburgh's Young is sin-binned
Nel's try is only a late consolation
George O'Neill
FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
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FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
It was Mike Blair's final game as Edinburgh head coach Mike Blair and the former Scotland international was given nothing away about what his future holds.
"I've not given it too much thought, because I didn't want to get distracted," he tells Sportsound. "I'm disappointed with the season we've had, but I know I've given it everything I possibly could. I've made big sacrifices from a time point of view and from an emotional point of view.
"There was a really good tempo to the game tonight. I thought our execution was excellent early on, but we didn't come up with the points. The pressure that we had we needed to get more points out of it.
"Going in down at half-time was tough to take and then obviously giving away the intercept at the start of the second half meant we had a mountain to climb. It was our season in microcosm.
"We showed lots of good stuff, but we had too many occasions where we took our foot off the gas or made an error at a crucial time and that's not how you win games.
"Last season, we got momentum through victories and, when you do that, you're a different beast. We had a really tough period over Christmas this year and we didn't quite come through it. Lots to work on, lots to look back and reflect on, but we weren't good enough this season.
"There's a huge amount of effort going in. It was very physical tonight. I spoke to the players and thanked them for their efforts. I don't think it's an effort issue, it's a smarts issue."
FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
Rhona Lloyd
Scotland winger on BBC Radio Scotland
Darcy Graham can create something from nothing. He can do it all. It would be good to see him develop this recent form ahead of the World Cup with Scotland.
FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
Ulster number eight Duane Vermuelen has also been giving his thoughts to Viaplay.
"We're really pleased with the result and the effort the boys put in," he says. "We had a few injuries, so at the end, we had a back-row on the wing. Happy to have secured second place.
"We're getting it right, grinding it out and showing resilience. We were pretty calm at half-time. We spoke about what we could do better.
"They came in with nothing to lose. We expected them to throw the ball around, but I think we controlled it, got our kicks right and slowed it down a bit.
"There's still a couple of things we need to work on. We've got a week to work on that."
FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
First, though, more from the home camp.
FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
We'll hopefully hear from Edinburgh's departing head coach Mike Blair very shortly...
FT: Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
Ulster scrum-half John Cooney has been named as the URC player of the match.
"It was huge," he says on Viaplay. "We had to win - we knew four points would be enough and we said at half-time that we could do better.
"We need to be better again - I think we've got another level and we need to bring it. A home quarter-final is huge. It's cliched, but we try not to look past the next game.
"It is home. My mum loves it - she was here as usual in the crowd, she can't watch kicks, so I'll have to go home and show her every kick. Trying to make her proud, keep playing here - I try to give my all every week,= and it's just amazing to be here.
"My proudest moment this season, in the regular season, is that I didn't miss more than one kick in a game. It's all about mindset."
Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
Just as Peter mentions Edinburgh's inaccuracy, a Darcy Graham offload misses its mark, rolls into touch and brings Edinburgh's underwhelming campaign to an end.
Ulster do what they had to do and secure a top two finish in the URC.
Ulster 28-14 Edinburgh
Peter Wright
Former Scotland prop on BBC Radio Scotland
This whole game sums up Edinburgh's season - the lack of accuracy, lack of consistency.
They play some good stuff now and again but not enough to win games.
John Cooney
Ulster's scrum-half takes his personal points tally to 18 with a simple kick at goal.
WP Nel
Third time's a charm for Edinburgh.
It's all down to the forwards and WP Nel is on hand to dive over the ruck and get the ball down.
Emiliano Boffelli adds a simple conversion.
Ulster 25-7 Edinburgh
It's chalked off.
Referee Andrea Piardi deems that Jamie Ritchie never regained control of the ball after he fumbled it forwards.
I'm not sure what he was meant to do there - no Ulster player touched it and the ball never went to ground.
Ritchie has got steam coming out of his ears.
Charlie Savala
Blair Kinghorn takes the ball flat to the line and offloads to Jamie Ritchie. The Edinburgh and Scotland captain juggles two or three times before batting the ball on to the supporting Charlie Savala, who goes over to score.
Hang on, though, the referee does want to check whether Ritchie knocked on...
Ulster 25-7 Edinburgh
It's almost a wonderful try for Edinburgh.
Stuart McInally, eyeing a glorious end to his Edinburgh career, breaks down the side of a ruck and looks set to score from miles out.
Kieran Treadwell hauls him down just short, though, to the delight of the home crowd.
McInally is able to offload to Duhan van der Merwe, but the Scotland winger knocks-on before he can dot down.
Nick Timoney
Clinical.
Ulster's forwards go through the phases and Nick Timoney barges his way over from just a yard out.
John Cooney adds the extras and it feels like a long way back for Edinburgh now.
Ulster 18-7 Edinburgh
Glen Young is shown a yellow card after a blatant infringement with Ulster banging on the door.
They tap-and-go from close range...
Ulster 18-7 Edinburgh
This is brainless.
Mark Bennett chases Nathan Doak's kick back into his own 22 and is dragged towards touch.
From the resulting ruck, Charlie Shiel throws his pass with his left foot on the touchline and so Ulster will have a lineout deep in Edinburgh territory.
A completely unforced error.
Ulster 18-7 Edinburgh
It's gone a wee bit quiet out there, so here's a look at the only try of this second half so far...
Ulster 18-7 Edinburgh
Billy Burns steps off his right foot but runs into the giant figure of Duane Vermuelen.
A fortuitous moment for Edinburgh, who then win a penalty at the scrum.
WP Nel, as he so often does, wins the scrummaging contest.
Ulster 18-7 Edinburgh
Jamie Ritchie kills the ball and Billy Burns kicks the resulting penalty into the corner.