{"id":17739,"date":"2026-02-01T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17739"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:50:11","slug":"ulster-21-14-cardiff-it-wasnt-planned-from-angus-bells-broken-boots-to-wonder-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17739","title":{"rendered":"Ulster 21-14 Cardiff: &#8216;It wasn&#8217;t planned&#8217; &#8211; From Angus Bell&#8217;s broken boots to wonder try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">If a prop scoring a wonder try is enough to draw questions from the front row union, then doing so in a pair of coloured boots is surely cause for disbarment.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster&#8217;s Angus Bell, however, was keen to stress that neither his double sidestep nor fashion statement were pre-planned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With his province seven points to the good against Cardiff on Saturday night, the Wallaby loose-head collected the ball on the edge of the 22 and beat two players with a burst of pace and strength. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cam Winnett stood in his way, but the prop sat the Cardiff full-back down with a sidestep that any world-class wing would be proud of, and another followed to skip past wing Ioan Lloyd as he raced over to score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was an astonishing try from any player, never mind a front row forward, albeit an Australian international who has a history of bringing a bit of &#8216;x-factor&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was more drama to come as Ulster held the Welsh side off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c74wgd8ewxxo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in the 21-14 win<\/a>, but Bell&#8217;s try was the undoubted highlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was so good, in fact, Ulster back row Marcus Rea stood with his hands on his head after witnessing the run, while Bell was mobbed by his team-mates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was just lucky. When your boots break in the warm-up you have to make do,&#8221; a modest Bell said on Premier Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got different colours on at the moment so I have to fix that. It wasn&#8217;t planned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to say I know what I&#8217;m doing but I really don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t really remember it, but it was good fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cly9q0163reo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a prop scoring a wonder try&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}