When you see to guys walking about with baseball caps turned backwards and cardboard signs hanging at their front + dark shades and tailored matching jackets, its time to realise you are at the Carrick Sevens bank holiday weekend – #woofwoof – Foam party followed. The official line is that we interviewed the Big Dogs […]
As part of the huge success of the 41st Guinness Carrick Sevens, several charities were supported over the weekend. These included £1000 split between the NI Cancer fund for children and the Oscar Knox appeal and in addition £1000 was raised for the Wooden Spoon charity, which helps disadvantaged children. Pictured Carrickfergus RFC President John […]
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The 41st Guinness Carrick Sevens took place over the week-end of 3rd – 5th May at Tom Simms Memorial Park with, as last year, over forty teams competing. While the cross-channel entry was again smaller than in earlier years, there were four Scottish and two English teams and the Ulster Fijian community again entered three […]
On Sunday 5th May, the Manvik Qualifying Sevens and the Abbey Insurance Ladies 10’s were both keenly contested affairs. In the Ladies competition, the semi-finals brought victory for defending Champions Queen’s and five times winners Cooke. In the final, Cooke started well and scored the first try but, as the game wore on, Queen’s gained […]
The Manvik Qualifying competition was dominated by defending champions CIYMS and Bangor in the pool stages although hosts Carrick, after a poor start against Bangor in their pool game came within one converted try of causing an upset and, had their handling and ball retention been better in the closing stages, they might well have […]
The Quigg Golden Open on Saturday 4th May was dominated from start to finish by the NGN 7s team organised to honour the memories of Noel, Graham and Nevin Spence. The team, based around Ballynahinch RFC for which Graham and Nevin played, ran in a feast of tries in pool victories over Hawick Linden, Jack […]