Superb game to watch. All the guile of age on the Carrick side and the agility of youth on the Queens side made for an excellent game all round. The pitch is on something of a gradient and both sides made good use of this. Conditions were perfect for flowing rugby and the lineouts, scrums […]
Ulster Rugby today confirmed that Callum Black and Michael McComish will join the squad in the summer, ahead of the start of the 2011-12 season. Callum Black (25) is an Irish-qualified prop who is currently contracted with Championship side Worcester Warriors. Born in the USA and raised in England where he attended Hartpury College, Black […]
Kilraughts road witnessed an epic encounter between two sides who made it extremely difficult for each other on Saturday. Ballymoney went through to the semi finals of their towns cup by defeating Banbridge 2nd XV 11-10 over 80 minutes. The game kicked off and in the opening minutes of the game Chris Watson was forced […]
This was a ferocious game. End to end rugby with players with the pace to chase up kicks and punish any mistakes. Excellent game to watch. Hotly contested Carrick took the victory. The veterans plying their trade with the youth makes for good rugby. We managed to get 22 pictures and video clips of play […]
A lovely morning on Saturday saw us at Grosvenor Grammar school for two Quarter Finals. One with Dromore High in the Medallion & the other with Ballyclare High School in the Plate. Pictures links from both games below and videos of play / interviews from Grosvenor / Dromore game Grosvenor / Ballyclare videos to follow […]
After last week’s great triumph in the League final, Carrick travelled for a scheduled friendly against an up and coming Lurgan at Toberwheney Lane. This was a great opportunity to relax after so many tough competitive league and championship games for the newly crowned Carrick team. Even so this was always going to be a […]
KQ3A Londonderry YM 14 Lurgan 32 Junior League 5 Lurgan II 15 Grosvenor 45 Londonderry YMCA 14Lurgan 32 Lurgan got back to winning ways with an important and impressive display at Drumahoe last Saturday, Writes Paddy Allen. Having suffered an opening day home defeat (18-19) back in September to YM Lurgan knew that this was […]
Donegal 1st XV 24 Randalstown 1st XV 15 Day and night is about the only way to describe the difference in the Randalstown 1st and 2nd half performances in Donegal on Saturday afternoon. Having started in determined fashion with only some stalwart Donegal defence preventing an early try ‘Town then imploded and for most of […]
A good afternoon for it. In the hotly contested series of games undertaken by Perennials each season this annual fixture is ferociously contested with a combined Cooke Rugby & Instonians Rugby side. Videos of play including interviews below report and pictures link including highlights of play from both sides and Geoff Goldsborough gives us an […]
Blistering pace at the start of this game, absolutely superb rugby from Ulster Rugby. Simply superb. Aironi disrupted consistently from about 15 mintues in, but Ulster settled themselves and notched the scoreline up further in the second half. Paddy Wallace was superb, obviously delighted to be playing. Great to see Tom Court & Declan Fitzpatrick […]