Summary

  • Ulster v Ospreys (19:35 BST)

  • McCormick and Stockdale both score tries in each half

  • Marcus Rea score brings up bonus-point for Ulster before half-time.

  • Ospreys, who have 18 players unavailable for the trip to Belfast, score through Parry and Giles

Live Reporting

Glenn Kelly

  1. Ulster 24-7 Ospreys

    Now it is the Ospreys with a lineout on Ulster's 22 after a fantastic kick from Dan Edwards.

    Can they punish the home side?

  2. Ulster 24-7 Ospreys

    Ulster break from the lineout maul and there is a fantastic line from Ben Carson to get the home side to three-metres out.

    However, Alan O'Connor's subsequent drive is turned over and Ospreys clear a penalty away to touch.

    Chance missed.

  3. Ulster 24-7 Ospreys

    First scrum of the half goes to Ulster.

    Dan Edwards fails to gather a grubber kick from Stuart McCloskey.

    Ulster get the shove and win the penalty. Thirty-metres out and another great attacking opportunity as Aidan Morgan kicks deep into the 22.

  4. Kick-off

    Ulster 24-7 Ospreys

    We are back underway at the Kingspan as Ulster's Aidan Morgan kicks deep into the Osprey's half

  5. Half-time

    Ulster 24-7 Ospreys

    One-way traffic at half time at the Kingspan as Ulster hammer home four tries and the bonus point.

    However, Sam Parry's try on half-time just gives the Ospreys the slightest of sniffs if they can score first in the second period.

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    Try - Ulster 24-7 Ospreys

    Sam parry (try) Sam Edwards (conv) - 40 mins

    This time the Ospreys do make it count. After a lineout maul slows, Parrypowers onto the ball from close range and crashes over.

    Sam Edwards ads the extras

  7. Ulster 24-0 Ospreys

    Ulster infringe at the lineout and it is another penalty for the Ospreys and another kick into the corner.

  8. Ulster 24-0 Ospreys

    Ulster now concede an offside penalty and the Ospreys kick into the corner, big chance now for the Welsh side to get on the scoreboard.

  9. Ulster 24-0 Ospreys

    Ulster really trying to get Cormac Izuchuku on the ball at pace.

    This time however, Aidan Morgan's pass to the big no.6 is adjudged to have gone forward.

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    Try - Ulster 24-0 Ospreys

    Marcus Rea - 33mins

    The backrow goes over.

    Ulster again showing a ruthless streak close to the line and even though the lineout maul failed, a number of big rucks sends Rea over from close range.

    John Cooney gets his kicking boots on and nails a tough conversion from out wide left.

  11. Ulster 17-0 Ospreys

    Phase after phase for Ulster who are camped back on the Ospreys' line.

    Rather predictably a penalty is conceded under pressure for offside and Aidan Morgan kicks to the corner one more.

  12. Ulster 17-0 Ospreys

    Close again for Ulster.

    After a charge-down, Cormac Izuchukwu plays a fantastic kick off the ground that bounces into the Osprey's in-goal area and John Cooney gives chase, but full-back Jack Walsh does just enough to get to the ball first.

    No try, goal-line drop out.

  13. try

    No Try

    Ulster 17-0 Ospreys

    Just like the music in the Kingspan, it is samba stuff on the pitch now from the home side.

    No sooner have the Ospreys restarted the game than Ulster attack up the left-hand flank.

    Tom O'Toole and Mike Lowry both showing flair with one-handed offloads befire Jacob Stockdale races home, but alas the referee pulls the game back for a forward pass from O'Toole, no try.

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    Try - Ulster 17-0 Ospreys

    Penalty (try) - 24mins

    It is a penalty-try and Ospreys scrum-half Kieran Hardy is off for 10 minutes.

    But wait there is more...

  15. Ulster 10-0 Ospreys

    Kieran Hardy in from the side, could be a penalty-try here

  16. Ulster 10-0 Ospreys

    It comes to nothing as Ulster force the Ospreys all the way back towards the halfway line. The Welsh team are then pinged and Aidan Morgan bangs the penalty into the corner. How quickly the game can change ends.

  17. Ulster 10-0 Ospreys

    One apiece on the scrum-penalty front as the Ospreys now push the home pack backwards.

    The visitors kick into the Ulster 22.

  18. Ulster 10-0 Ospreys

    Chance wasted for the home team as the referee blows for crossing in the lineout.

    Ospreys clear towards halfway.

  19. Ulster 10-0 Ospreys

    The Welsh side just cannot put more than a couple of passes together, constantly turning over the ball as if it is a wet bar of soap.

    Ulster only too keen to gather and head back towards the visitors' 22.

    Another penalty won for the home side and Aidan Morgan kicks into the right-hand corner.

  20. Ulster 10-0 Ospreys

    Sloppy stuff from the Ospreys on halfway. A loose pass to the left misses two teammates and allows Werner Kok to scoop up and pass back.

    Mike Lowry then kicks ahead towards the visitors tryline and Kok gives chase.

    However, rather naively the South African drops on the gathering Keelan Giles and concedes a penalty two yards out fro the Osprey's line.