CLICK HERE FOR 100+ PICTURES FROM WWW.GLENOPHOTO.COM On Saturday Ballyclare 1st XV had to make six changes for the key clash at home to Donaghadee in Qualifying2. Unavailable were Steve Morrow,Ian Russell,Paul Morrow,Gary Clotworthy,Darren Montgomery and Graeme McKinstry. This meant several changes both positional and personnel had tobe made against a Dee side which fielded […]
As the two teams lined up for the start of this match, the referee was asked to wait a minute because a letter posted from the Branch on Tuesday had just arrived five minutes earlier informing the Donaghadee club that Chris Hamilton was not eligible to play. By great good fortune Craig McCoy was able […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV finished their League programme on Saturday 9 April with a 31 points to 28 away win against Lisburn. The victory means that, as well as completing the double against Lisburn, Carrick finish the season with nine League wins out of eighteen matches, a better record than seemed likely before Christmas. […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV beat Enniskillen by 23 points to 18 at Woodlawn on Saturday 2 April, reversing the result from the away fixture in late February. On a day when the wet and windy conditions were not conducive to good rugby, Carrick held on grimly when conditions were against them in the first […]
It’s a bad sign when a ‘Skins match report starts with reference to the weather and this is no exception. On a day that swung from beautiful, spring, “T” shirt and sunglasses weather to a total downpour, so ‘Skins performance swung from early total dominance to the almost abject surrender that resulted in Carrick’s winning […]
After two wins in the previous week, the Carrick 1st XV lost their away fixture with Grosvenor at Belmont by 27 points to 7 on Saturday 26 March. It was another one of those days for the Maxol-sponsored Carrick side when very little went right and everything, including the refereeing decisions, seemed to happen for […]
A result that will probably have most Qualifying League followers within the clubs stunned, as ‘Skins toppled the unbeaten League Two leaders, and in the process battered them for seventy-five minutes. Much like Ireland’s demolition of England the previous week many were heard wondering where did that came from, but just like the Carrick game […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV followed up their mid-week victory over Grosvenor with a 26 points to 14 bonus point win against Ballyclare at Woodlawn on Saturday 19 March. This avenges the away defeat to their local rivals earlier in the season and consolidates Carrick’s position in mid -Table. After a hard fought first half, […]
A bumper crowd turned out to watch this local derby last Friday night, a match that ‘Skins should have gotten more from, especially given their domination of both possession and territory in the second half. It was Enniskillen who opened the scoring after ten minutes, when James McIntyre made up for an earlier miss by […]