Last Saturday Donaghadee continued their unbeaten run this season at Carrickfergus in rugby’s Qualifying League 2. Playing into a fairly brisk westerly breeze the forwards and backs went through much of their repertoire of tactics before some overly desperate defence by the home side in front of their posts gave outside-half Paul Blewitt the easiest […]
The University of Ulster Coleraine Rugby Team (UUC RFC) are introducing a new initiative this season to build on their success of last season. The Performance Development Squad (PDS) will allow new and existing players to improve their abilities and skills whilst receiving top quality coaching. The Performance Development Squad will be introduced to the […]
The University of Ulster Coleraine travelled to Omagh RFC to play them for the second time in a week, this time for league points. UUC fought hard for the 80 minutes but Omagh came out on top this week, winning 12:9. UUC started strongly against a different Omagh team. Lee Murphy made Omagh pay for […]
A big crowd at Belmont enjoyed a thrilling game of rugby on Saturday, played in the best of spirits, which saw CI emerge as deserving winners in a hard fought game. Grosvenor started nervously and while they enjoyed an advantage in territory could not convert it into points as several chances went abegging. CI on […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV lost their League match with unbeaten Donaghadee at Woodlawn on Saturday 2 October by 23 points to 17.The visitors picked up a four try bonus point but Carrick came back strongly at the end to claim a losing bonus point. This was a match which the visitors dominated pretty much […]
Ophir U17’s can count themselves unlucky to have come up against an Instonian side that, even this early in the season, know they are going to be hard to beat. So it was to prove with Instonians running out comfortable 67-6 winners. Ophir have some big strong, skilful, ball players but they lacked the experience […]
Enniskillen – 12, Ballynahinch II – 5 Enniskillen continued the momentum gained on their travels a fortnight ago in Belfast by beating a well organised ‘Hinch second string, in a tight tussle. ‘Skins got off to a great start in a game played with a lot of pace, running the ball at the visitors and […]