The guys have ammassed over a thousand views in only a week or so, and have begun with a fresh new take on the idea of squad profiles – everyone has introduced themselves by youtube clip – Awesome, and from the looks of it they had a great time – great ot see so many […]
Lisburn Overcome Students The TATA Steel sponsored Lisburn 1st XV recovered from their defeat by Omagh in the previous week by overcoming the students of Queens 2nd XV at Blaris last Saturday. In a game of fast moving rugby, Queens opened the scoring in a blurr of passing which saw their youthful scrumhalf pop through […]
Queen’s 3XV travelled to Roughfort for what turned out to be a closely contested game against the Academys 2nd team. The match started at high tempo with both sides making some strong runs and crunching tackles. Early on the contrasting styles of play became obvious, the home side had the upper hand in the set […]
Malone defeated Queens in their Ulster League encounter by 31-7. Both sides did not field full strength teams however Malone had way to much firepower espically upfront and Queens were always playing catch up. Malone lead at the break by 7-0 through a try by Josh Pentland which he converted. The second half saw three […]
Queen’s ladies got their Ulster Development league campaign off to a great start last Sunday with a convincing 35-0 win away to Ballymoney RFC. Despite the strong winds making conditions difficult in the first half the women put on an impressive attacking performance, with Cathy Craig at Out Half leading the effort and producing the […]
Queen’s University hosted their first ever ‘Inspiration in Sport’ event for Rugby on Monday 31st October 2011. This event was essentially a high performance Master Class, with 40 of the top male and female School Rugby players in Ulster attending a series of workshops on enhancing performance, as well as receiving a tour of Queen’s […]
To a man, utterly superb open lightning paced rugby in attack and defence. One phrase sums it up ~ “The Basics”, ruck, pass, off load, line break, line break, line break, organised defence, commitment, hold the line, feed in, feed out. The basics laid the platform and the massive bursts of creative play, practising the […]