Edinburgh Rugby will write a new chapter into Heineken Cup history when they clash with Toulouse at Murrayfield in the opening Heineken Cup quarter-final on Saturday. But while Edinburgh will have the honour of staging the first tournament knock-out match on Scottish soil, they have no intention of that being the end of the story […]
Queen’s against Ballymena are always tight games whether home or away, and this was no exception. The visitors pressed hard in the Queens 22 for the opening 10 mins and only resolute defence from Queen’s and a few handling errors by the visitors prevented Queen’s from going behind. The resolute defence set the pattern for […]
Randalstown made the journey to Monaghan on Saturday knowing it was a must win situation to ensure they remained on track to finish top of Qualifying 3. The nerves told especially in the first half and they turned round 12 – 6 down to a determined Monaghan side who effectively thwarted all their attempts to […]
Cooke emerge narrow winners in an error strewn and bad tempered affair at Chambers Park. The visitors, who had several positional changes, started the game anxiously, conscious of the fact that a bonus point win was essential to stay in the reckoning for league honours. It was Portadown however who had all the play in […]
Armagh travelled deep into Munster on Saturday to play their twelfth game in the Ulster Bank All-Ireland League. They played this fixture against Nenagh Ormond who sat in the sixth in the league whereas Armagh were seen to be in eleventh spot. This was always going to be a difficult fixture considering the long journey […]
Writing that headline took 3 seconds. Achieving the result was 80 minutes of total dedication to the basics, the build up of phases, the magical off load, the solid scrum, it was 80 minutes of relentless pressure and the will to victory! Click Here for 233 Action shots (more to follow from Charles Henderson!) RAINEY […]
Armagh Rugby 19 Belfast Harlequins 12 The conditions could not have been better for open rugby as the game kicked off at The Palace Grounds on Friday evening. After strangely mild weather the playing surface at Armagh had firmed up following the horrendous conditions last Saturday when Armagh soundly defeated Ards in the AIL League. […]
1st XV vs Banbridge (45 – 14) Ulster Senior League With two games to play, Dungannon are now just one point short of retaining the Stevenson Shield. For the eighth time in nine outings Dungannon lifted a full compliment of points in their 45-14 win over Banbridge at Rifle Park. With Armagh doing their near […]
Bangor – 10 Enniskillen – 11 Enniskillen made the long journey to Bangor last Saturday looking to avenge the defeat in the opening match of the season and were delighted to come away with the points after a narrow win. In very difficult conditions ‘Skins had first use of a biting wind, but it was […]