Category: Cooke RFC
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Women AIL: Cooke 0 Suttonians 44
I finished off my Saturday with a trip to Shaw’s Bridge for the All Ireland Women’s match between Cooke and Suttonians. Unfortunately for the home team it was pretty much one way traffic on the scoreboard as Suttonians wrapped up the bonus point before half time. The visitors went over for the first try after…
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Women AIL: Cooke 14 Ballincollig 24
I caught up with the Women’s AIL match between Cooke and Ballincollig late on Saturday afternoon at Shaw’s Bridge. It was a bit of a scrappy match initially but Ballincollig enjoyed a golden spell midway through the first half when Michelle O’Driscoll burst through the Cooke defence to open the scoring 13 minutes in. Allison…
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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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Championship 1: Cooke 33 CIYMS 15
I caught up with my favourite league on Friday night as cooke entertained, one of our featured clubs, CIYMS in the opening round of Championship 1. The opening exchanges were a bit stop start as the teams adjusted to the new tackle heights, however the changes do look as though they will benefit the game…
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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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Touring Friendly: Cooke 20 Severn River RFC 31
On Saturday afternoon, at Newforge, after the Schools Interprovincial, Cooke Women entertained the Severn River RFC, touring side, from the shores of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA. As Cooke contributed a number of players to the Ulster side, they fielded a scratch team, of young players, recently retired players and guests. Even, at that, they started…