Pythons Slay Lurgan The Pythons travelled to Lurgan with high hopes and these hopes were raised during the warm up when Marty Gault decided to bleed all over the pitch and had to pull out of the game. This led to Roly Coey doing the honourable thing and pulling on a shirt and filling in. […]
KQ3A Londonderry YM 14 Lurgan 32 Junior League 5 Lurgan II 15 Grosvenor 45 Londonderry YMCA 14Lurgan 32 Lurgan got back to winning ways with an important and impressive display at Drumahoe last Saturday, Writes Paddy Allen. Having suffered an opening day home defeat (18-19) back in September to YM Lurgan knew that this was […]
It was back down to earth with a bump for Grosvenor following their heroics against the Dee last week. They were forced to make a few changes in personnel, including a last minute call up for Taylz for an errant Peter McKeown who had gone AWOL. Despite the bright, mild weather, conditions were sticky underfoot […]
GROSVENOR 22 – DONAGHADEE 17 Last Saturday Donaghadee went to Belmont for their return League game against a Grosvenor team that they had demolished 49-10 in October. Almost from the kick-off it seemed that the memories of losing to Ballymoney in the Towns’ Cup in the final seconds after being the better side all day […]
The scene was set for a good game. Conditions where perfect for running rugby in this clash between Grosvenor and Donagadee. Donagadee coming into the match unbeaten and full of confidence against a Grosvenor side who had not had the same success as their last season. The odds were stacked against them. Grosvenor started well […]
Ballyclare 1st XV had another outstanding win in Qualifying2 on Saturday when they defeated Lisburn 43-3 at the Cloughan. This was the eighth consecutive victory in the league for Willie Logan`s side–in fact the last loss was away to Lisburn on 23rd October.The win also brought another bonus point–the Clare side now has accumulated more […]
Belfast Harlequins II XV 48 v Randlastown I XV 8 Randalstown 1sts travelled to Deramore on Saturday afternoon to face Quins 2nds in the conference section of the qualifying league. The final score probably flattered Harlequins slightly as Randalstown had good periods of possession throughout the game, but a combination of errors meant they were […]
Ballyclare 1st XV produced a powerful performance on Saturday at the Palace Grounds against Armagh in the second round of the Towns Cup and were actually ahead with eight minutes remaining only to go down narrowly 20-17. Considering that Armagh have only lost oncethis season (to Portadown) and are one of three sides in Qualifying […]
STIRRING COMEBACK BY RAINEY After being completely outplayed for almost half an hour at Rifle Park,Rainey Old Boys showed remarkable character in hitting back to beat Banbridge 20-15 in the Ulster Bank League.A week after staging an unbelievable comeback to pip Greystones,Banbridge will be asking themselves how they managed to lose this one,a result which […]