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:
“I should need
Colours and words that are unknown to man,
To paint the visionary dreariness”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)