City of Derry Rugby Club travelled to Dublin on Saturday last to play Seapoint who were sitting a point behind them in the league in third position in what promised to be the game of the day in All Ireland League Division 3. Derry came away with a narrow loss with the game living up […]
1st XV – In a highly competitive game Ards started stronger than their more illustrious opponents and should have taken the lead after 12 minutes when they failed to convert a penalty, following a Ballymena infringement. Ballymena claimed the first points after 17 minutes, when, against the run of play Fisher converted a penalty, following […]
City of Derry Rugby Club marked their return to the Ulster Senior League after an absence of two years with an emphatic victory away to Banbridge on Saturday last. Derry scored eight try’s in total and were fourteen points in front with less that ten minutes gone. City of Derry Coach Bevan Lynch said after […]
In 3 weeks time 52 Clubs in ulster will embark on the 2010-2011 season. The effort and work being put in across Ulster is massive in the preparations, the pre-season friendly encounters are taking place each weekend in the run up to the first competitive league games in early September. Coaching, training, skills, strategy, mind-set, […]
Friendly games at this time of the year are an essential peice of any teams pre-season strategy and City Of Derry travelled to Belfast Harlequins to assess their readiness for AIL Rugby. The visitors came out of the stalls fighting in the first half with a succession of tries and conversions. The home side rallied […]