Category: Club Rugby Friendly Men
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Junior Friendly: Cooke II 26 Academy II 31
Our trip to Shaw’s Bridge on Saturday gave us the chance to catch up with another of our featured clubs as Academy 2nd XV made the trip to play Cooke 2nd XV in a junior friendly match. It was another high scoring game with 9 tries though this one evenly contested. Cooke took an early…
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Junior Friendly: Belfast Harlequins 33 Dromore 19
On a sunny, warm Saturday afternoon, Belfast Harlequins hosted Dromore, in a preseason friendly, played over 3 periods, at Deramore Park. Both teams were willing to throw the ball around, from kick off. Luke McGarrity found himself, in space, out on the right, before dotting down, on 9 minutes. Johnny McCracken’s conversion made it 7-0…
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Junior Friendly: Instonians I 22 Instonians II 10
After the meteorological excesses of Friday evening, Saturday morning was sunny and warm, with a gentle breeze. Instonians 1st and 2nd XVs met for a hit out, played over 3 x 20 minute periods, at Shaw’s Bridge. From kick off, the 1s ran the ball, creating the space for Matthew Keane to dive over beside the posts…
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Junior Friendly: Queens 12 Cooke 24
On a dank, driech Friday evening Queens met near neighbours, Cooke, in a friendly, at The Dub, Upper Malone. A driving cross wind, coupled with rain, which only got heavier during the evening, made for challenging handling conditions. We managed the first half, before the gathering gloom and the swirling wind, which blew the rain…
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Junior Friendly: Academy 5 Grosvenor 19
I caught up with the junior friendly at Roughfort between several Academy sides and Grosvenor on Friday evening. The match was played over three 25 minute periods with Academy fielding a different side for each period as they gave their firsts, seconds and thirds squads an early season hit out. Grosvenor played the same tem…