Head coach Richie Murphy feels the province will quickly “see the blessing” of Angus Bell’s arrival at Ulster
The Wallaby prop made his Ulster debut off the bench in Friday night time’s 61-7 win over Racing 92 within the Problem Cup and can spend the remainder of the season in Belfast.
The loose-head’s first outing for his new aspect got here after he began all 4 of Australia’s Take a look at matches in November and following only one week of coaching together with his new team-mates.
“It has been very fast,” stated Murphy of Bell’s transition.
“Due to our Friday night time sport, we actually solely educated on Tuesday. A walkthrough on Monday, he educated Tuesday, there was a captain’s run [on Thursday], then we performed. For him to come back in and slot in actually shortly was good.
“It was all the time kind of a case the place we wished to get him that 25, half-hour in order that he understood what it is prefer to play for us right here. Over the following couple of weeks and months, we’ll in all probability see the blessing.”
Murphy added that the 25-year-old is already becoming in properly with the enjoying group at Affidea Stadium.
“It is nice to have him right here. He is a high quality participant,” he added.
“[He has a ] bubbly persona, works exhausting and matches in properly with our group so we’re actually wanting ahead to seeing him kind of develop into his Ulster jersey over the following variety of weeks.”
Bell’s debut for Ulster got here in a second half the place his new aspect outscored their opponents 40-0.
Racing 92 closely altered their line-up for the journey to Belfast and, regardless of trailing simply 14-7 at half-time, had been shortly overmatched after the flip.
Murphy opted to subject Ulster’s strongest accessible aspect for the sport however acknowledged “there needs to be rotation” by way of this key interval of his aspect’s season the place they face 10 video games in 10 weeks together with 4 European video games and three interprovincial derbies within the United Rugby Championship.
“You simply cannot choose the identical crew each week, so we’re attempting to steadiness that out and guarantee that we’re sturdy sufficient each week, that we’re placing out a crew that we predict we will win a sport with.”
