Armagh entertained Dromore at The Palace Grounds on Saturday afternoon in the quarter final of the Powerade Towns Cup. Armagh have played Dromore on two previous occasions this season. Once away in the qualifying League when they won 10-26. The other game was when the teams met in the Junior Cup semi-final. This game was […]
With an injury crisis at Barban Hill Jacques Benade had a tough week at training preparing a youthful looking Dromore side to take on Coleraine in the League. Jamie Kirk, Adam McDonald and Bryan Davidson came into the pack and the backline was rearranged with Mathew Russell playing at 10 Lloyd McDonald, Andrew Graham were […]
Over the past ten days or so we have witnessed some very dramatic events which will influence end results of the qualifying one league race! Last Saturday saw the up and coming side in Ulster, Academy, come to the Palace Grounds with their intentions clearly to knock Armagh off their game. Academy only gained promotion […]
Clogher Valley 1XV – 3 tries, 2 conversions, 0 penalties, 0 drop goals. Dromore 1XV – 1 tries, 1 conversions, 0 penalties, 0 drop goals. Valley take the points at home Clogher Valley entertained Dromore at The Cran in the second of these back to back fixtures. Valley were keen to get back on the […]
The result of this game belies the manner of the win, which in truth, was laboured. Portadown struggled through the first ten minutes as Bangor took the game to the home side who were gifting possession and territory far too easily. Dale Black and Johnny Edgar did set up a promising attack, their link up […]
When Armagh travelled to Bangor, they had to put the league table to the back of their minds. Although Bangor had yet to win a game this season they had earned the reputation of always putting up a brave fight right to the final whistle. Following steady rain all Friday the pitch was in remarkably […]
Below is a short report on the evening followed by 4 video interview. Video 1 is Paul Brown a key organiser regarding the running of the night Video 2 is Naill Armstrong commenting on the overwhelming uptake of seats & numbers booking in Video 3 is Bob Montgomery a Cooke club man making a superb […]
On Saturday Armagh travelled to Clogher with a certain degree of trepidation due to the fact that the lousy weather had robbed the team of any match experience since beating Ballymoney on January 15th. This coupled with the reputation that Clogher has earned over the past few seasons – It’s always very hard to bring […]
Normal service resumed (eventually) following Freeze, thaw, burst pipes, too many pints, spuds, crisps and chocolates over the past 6 weeks or so since we had our last day our at Bangor. We tried and failed last week to play Cooke, so…..Take Two! This time in the League. We had a delay to our start, […]
Due to the persistent inclement weather rugby had not been seen at the Palace Grounds since the Junior Cup semi-final when, after extensive snow-clearing efforts, Armagh defeated Dromore on November 27th. For a variety of reasons, Armagh have now missed some four fixtures. This is almost certainly bound to cause serious fixture congestion later in […]