Cooke snatch a late draw against Larne 2’s.by Stephen Johnston Saturday 5th October saw Larne 2nds travel to Cooke in fairly contested 18-18 draw. Both sides opened the game with early penalty chances with Cooke converting 1 of 2 chances to take a 3-0 lead and Larne missing 2 chances to level or lead the […]
KUKRI QUALIFYING ONE Donaghadee 18 Ballymoney 39 (by Jonathan Martindale) Donaghadee returned to Donaldson Park last Saturday after a fiercely battled league contest against CI at Belmont where they left taking their fair share of positives from a bonus point loss. Indeed, with a number of key personnel still missing from the forward pack it […]
Armagh travelled to Musgrave Park in Cork to play Sundays Well in AIL2B hoping to continue their excellent start to their league campaign and after an extremely physical match which produced five yellow cards , four of which were awarded against the home side, Armagh deservedly won by 23pts to12. Armagh kicked off into the […]
Local derby at the Palace grounds. Armagh seconds played their Dungannon counterparts in a 2nd xv league game at the Palace grounds last Thursday night. With the ground conditions being very wet, and even though handling was difficult, this was to prove to be a very entertaining game. Shortly after the kick off, Armagh lost […]
Highfield 8 Ballymena 40 Highfield’s repeated attempts to stop Ballymena winning quick ruck ball incurred the wrath of the referee to the extent that they gave away four penalties, all converted by Tim Small, and had two players consigned to the sinbin in the first twenty minutes. The first half was dominated by Ballymena, playing […]