Colours and Crest
Ulster's home kit is traditionally white with hints of black and red. Their away kits are mostly black and red, although from 2010 to 2012, their third kit was blue with hints of black and white. Traditionally, the Red Hand of Ulster is shown on Ulster's crest. For years, the red hand was only used to present the crest. However, in 2003, Ulster renewed their crest. The red hand is in the centre of the crest with two black and red rugby balls highlighting it. The provincial Flag of Ulster is the official flag of Ulster Rugby and it is used by the Ulster supporters at home and away games. Other flags are also used at home and away games, like the Flag of Northern Ireland because the team is based in Northern Ireland and most of the fans are from there, the Flag of South Africa, because they have players from South Africa, including first choice kicker Ruan Pienaar, the St Patrick's Saltire flag, a red and white checkered flag and many other flags, mostly red and white.
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Famous quotes containing the words colours and, colours and/or crest:
“The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, or any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.—”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Your wits can’t thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You’ve no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
It was a crest ere thou wast born;
Thy father’s father wore it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)