Following today’s news that All Black, Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, will soon call himself one of the Ulster men, the province can also announce that 24-year-old back, Angus Curtis, has signed for a further year, and completes the confirmed line-up for next season’s squad.
With thirteen months under his belt since a return from serious injury, Curtis has been involved in several of Ulster’s twelve wins in this season’s United Rugby Championship – including a try-scoring performance in a bonus point victory over Scarlets in-front of a home crowd.
This signifies the conclusion of business for the Heineken Champions Cup and United Rugby Championship campaigns in the season ahead, with a squad of 45 fully-contracted players and 2 Development players named, of which 44 are Irish-qualified – with 31 players having come through the Ulster Rugby Academy pathway or Ulster club system.
The four new Senior signings already named – Frank Bradshaw Ryan, Jake Flannery, Declan Moore and Sean Reffell – are set to bolster, alongside Toomaga-Allen, an already impressive squad, which saw 19 players re-sign in the past twelve months to continue on the path that Dan McFarland and his men are on.
While the two Development players – Shea O’Brien and Jude Postlethwaite – show that the pipeline of young talent continues from the Ulster Rugby Academy and provincial club game directly into the Senior squad.
Details of the Ulster Rugby Academy squad will be released in due course.
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Ulster Rugby Senior Men’s squad for 2022/23 season:
Will Addison
John Andrew\*
Robert Baloucoune\*
Frank Bradshaw Ryan
Billy Burns
Sam Carter
John Cooney
Angus Curtis\*
Nathan Doak\*
Jake Flannery
Craig Gilroy\*
Iain Henderson\* (Captain)
Rob Herring
James Hume\*
Cormac Izuchukwu\*
Greg Jones\*
Mike Lowry\*
Rob Lyttle\*
Ian Madigan
Luke Marshall\*
David McCann\*
Stuart McCloskey\*
Michael McDonald
Ethan McIlroy\*
Gareth Milasinovich
Declan Moore
Marty Moore
Stewart Moore\*
Ben Moxham\*
Jordi Murphy
*Shea O’Brien\**
Alan O’Connor\*
Eric O’Sullivan\*
Tom O’Toole\*
*Jude Postlethwaite\**
Marcus Rea\*
Matty Rea\*
Sean Reffell
Callum Reid\*
Aaron Sexton\*
David Shanahan\*
Tom Stewart\*
Jacob Stockdale\*
Nick Timoney\*
Jeffery Toomaga-Allen
Kieran Treadwell
Duane Vermeulen
Andrew Warwick\*
\*denotes players developed through the Ulster Rugby Academy or Ulster club system. Development players are in italics.