DONAGHADEE 1st XV 33 ENNISKILLEN 1st XV 7 After a very disappointing day in Coleraine last weekend Donaghadee were looking to reinvigorate their season with a home game against Enniskillen who had heretofore claimed some notable scalps in their own league campaign. Once injury & unavailability robbed the Dee of a clutch of players including […]
At wet and windy Donaghadee last Saturday the Smiley Monroe Lisburn 1st XV finally got just reward for all their hard work on the training pitch. On a heavy, wet ground Lisburn won the toss and opted to play up the hill and against the wind on what was quite a difficult day for playing […]
COLERAINE 43 DONAGHADEE 8 The Dee’s selection woes continued on Saturday with Mark Cooper unable to play in the centre due to an injury picked up against Lisburn last week, Andy McGrugan unavailable and then on, the morning of the game, influential back rower Chris Hamilton succumbed to sickness. Jack Cooke moved into the back […]
DONAGHADEE 1st XV 15 LISBURN 1st XV 20 Donaghadee welcomed Lisburn to Donaldson Park with conditions wet and windy & the pitch soft underfoot but very playable – testament to the efforts of the ground staff over the past few weeks. The home side rang the changes again with a couple of unavailabilities meaning Davy […]
IMPROVING TWOS BATTLE IT OUT IN LISBURN Young side make their mark in perplexing circumstances – reports John West TwitterFacebookMore Coming off the back of an improving performance last week in the Cup the Dee 2s travelled to their Lisburn counterparts. This season has proved a testing challenge for the 2nd XV after gaining promotion […]
NARROW LOSS IN THE CUP Twos just miss out to Ballymoney counterparts in wintry conditions at Donaldson Park reports John West TwitterFacebookMore After what has been a hard start to their league campaign Dee 2s got a break in the form of a Crawford Cup match at home to Ballymoney 2s. Both teams had already […]
DEE HOLD ON TO TAKE POINTS Magnificent defensive effort wins the day at a cold & wintry Donaldson Park Winter arrived with a vengeance to Donaldson Park on Saturday with the game in some doubt due to the wet weather over the past few weeks. As it turned out though the pitch was in perfect […]
CARRICKFERGUS 1st XV 25 DONAGHADEE 1st xv 13 The Dee made the trip around Belfast Lough to meet league pacesetters Carrick on an extremely wet November afternoon. The side had lost talismanic pack leader Jack Cooke during the week with an injury picked up during training and scrum-half Chade Gelderman in similar circumstances. To compound […]
CAVAN 1st XV 34 DONAGHADEE 2nd XV 3 The 2nd XV made the extremely long trip to County Cavan to play Cavan 1st XV who (in common with Virginia & Donegal) have made the drop to Junior Three from the Qualifying League this term on foot of last season’s Competitions Restructure initiative. This was always […]
PSNI 2nd XV 5 Donaghadee 3rd 21 It is often said that it is the forwards who decide who wins a rugby match, and it is the backs who decide by how much. This was one of those days. In a tightly fought encounter it was the Dee pack who put their bodies on the […]