Although the pitch was in excellent condition the very strong wind straight down the pitch and the intermittent rain made this a difficult game for both teams. City of Derry kicked off with the wind in their backs needing a comfortable lead by half time to stand any chance of willing. From the kick off […]
Coming from an excellent corporate lunch sponsored by Stevenson-Reid Plumbing Supplies hosted by Mr.Billy Stevenson,a large crowd were treated to an afternoon of tremendous end-to-end open running rugby when Donegal visited ‘Fortress Neillsbrook’ ! Randalstown with a reformed front row allowing John Adair back from injury and Paul Laverty, standing in for an injured John […]
Randalstown chalked up an impressive victory against High School on Saturday afternoon which was hopefully sufficient to see them through to the knock out stages of the Gordon West Cup. The first score came early in the game after backs and forwards combined well and Daryl McGarry raced over the line. Then with barely 6 […]
Name: David Millar Position: Prop Loose & Tight Height: 6 4 Weight: 18 Stone Club: Randalstown RFC, Cambridge House Grammar Captain I XV 2008-9, Included tour to Rome Italy & honoured to be part of the Randalstown 15 A Side Joint Winning Team 2011 When did rugby start for you: 1st Year @ Cambridge House. […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV went down to their second League defeat when they lost by 18 points to nil to Omagh at Tom Simms Memorial Park on Saturday 5 November. While it would be stretching the truth to say that Carrick should have won this game, they certainly could had they taken their chances, […]
Both Randalstown 1st and 2nd XV faced their Lurgan counterparts on Saturday afternoon and happily both returned solid victories. The 1st XV travelled to Lurgan for a top of the table clash against an unbeaten and much heralded outfit under a new coach, and strengthened this year by the addition of Armagh AIL number 8, […]
ARMAGH 20 SLIGO 14 Having lost two of the recent three games played against neighbouring Banbridge Armagh were keen to make amends and score some league points from this fixture especially when the home venue gave them a slight edge. It was at Strandhill last season that Sligo narrowly beat Armagh in the All Ireland […]
After a flying start to the season Randalstown firsts hit the buffers on Saturday afternoon turning in a poor performance and suffering their 1st defeat. Randalstown took to the park in their brand new Power NI sponsored shirts today for a cup match that on paper should have seen them run out easy winners, but […]
Randalstown 2nd XV 27 Ophir 2nd XV 0 Randalstown 2nds entertained their near neighbours Ophir at Neillsbrook on Saturday afternoon and ran out convincing 27 nil winners. The game was played in wet greasy conditions which suited the visitors, being a bigger more experienced side, and gave them a chance to hang on against the […]
Big games and big performances. The guys stepped up, the crowd were delighted and the coaches, the home turf felt the victory and it was a pleasure to cover .We got the tries and build up play + interviews with coaches, 100s of pictures and looking forward to covering Dungannon RS. Thanks for excellent games. […]