Our first game to cover since the senior cup final at Ravenhill after the worst weather in atleast 25 years. Belfast High School vs Portora – good game of rugby and great to see the enthusiasm from both teams. A fairly wet day led to some handling errors by both sides but overall some excellent […]
There were a number of games involving schools from Ulster played in the lead up to Christmas Day. The Ballymena Academy 1st and 2ndxv squads set of on Thursday 16th December on a short tour to the Enfield Hotel, Johnstown to make use of the rugby facilities available at the hotel as well as play […]
Campbell College and Belfast Royal Academy played in a midweek fixture at Malone Rugby Club on Wednesday afternoon. The Campbell College team scored an unconverted try, early in the game, through Shane Moffett to give them a 5-0 lead. Rory Scholes extended that lead to 8-0 a few minutes later when he converted a penalty […]
Ballyclare High School had to switch their scheduled midweek home fixture against Ballymena Academy to the Ballymena Academy grounds because of a frozen pitch at the Ballyclare High School grounds. This seemed to unsettle the Ballyclare team who made uncharacteristic defensive mistakes which enabled the Ballymena Academy team to score two first half tries. Callum […]
Despite the arrival of more extreme weather conditions which impacted on the games scheduled to take place on Saturday 18th December, a number of schools did manage to get games played either on tour to warmer climes or midweek prior to the onset of the extreme weather. The RS Dungannon team played two tour games […]
The traditional St Patrick’s Day Final of what is the second oldest rugby competition in the world after The Hospitals Cup, is one of the great occasions in the rugby calendar and eagerly anticipated by all followers of the game. The preliminary rounds of the 2010-11 Northern Bank Schools’ Cup competition have concluded, with Wellington […]
The fixtures scheduled for Saturday 18th December 2010 will be subject to weather conditions allowing the games to be played. With the approach of the end of term, schools with fixtures will hope to play to enable their players to get some game time, something that has been difficult to achieve in recent weeks due […]
With the onset of a thaw following the extreme weather conditions experienced throughout the province, a number of schools did manage to host games on Saturday 11th December. The thaw did not come soon enough for the majority of games to take place but six venues were able to cope. Ground staff had worked hard […]