The Final Series Of Games! Its been some season and Q1 will enjoy the company of 2 new clubs from Q2! One Q1 will be in AIL next season, hats off to Coleraine who have achieved an astonishing position given their start to the season, and Academy. The other seasoned Q1 clubs will play to […]
Donaghadee’s First XV are notorious for slow starting in almost every season – but not this year. After their ten-week unbeaten run in league and cup this season they went last Saturday to Ballymoney for what looked like their biggest test so far. Full of confidence from the series of good victories, the visitors threw […]
Four teams were in action this week at Ballyclare RFC. 2 at home winning in spectacular style and 2 away losing in fairly spectacular style. The home sides proved unstopable! Both 2’s against Clogher Valley 2’s and 4’s against Academy 3’s scoring almost at will. The two away sides on the other hand did not […]
Ballymoney II 37 v Enniskillen II 3 Enniskillen Seconds made the long journey to Ballymoney last Saturday and despite putting in a lot of effort returned home pointless having been defeated by a very accomplished home team. ‘Skins had early pressure but could’nt make it count and the hosts opened the scoring and followed it […]
Ballymoney 4th XV travelled to Lurgan for their second league match on Saturday 25th September. Ballymoney got off to a great start dictating the terms in the lineouts, scrummaging and loose play. The forwards set up a great platform, which allowed Aidy White to cut through Lurgan’s back line untouched to score underneath the posts. […]
Saturday saw Ballymoney travel to Barban Hill, Dromore, in unfavourable conditions for the flowing rugby we have come to expect from the team. The men from The Toon would not be disheartened by the weather and emerged as victors 24-16 although neither side were able to show their true potential under the poor conditions. The […]
The University of Ulster, Coleraine Rugby Club (UUC RFC), continued their pre-season preparations with a hard fought cup win at the City of Derry Rugby Club on Saturday. They entered the George Tee’s Cup for the fourth year in a row and won the tournament after four very competitive matches. UUC started their challenge with […]
The draw was made this week by chairman Andy Collins and Vice Chairman Addie Patterson. Group A Group B Balllymoney Grosvenor Ballymena Lurgan Carrickfergus Hollywood Bangor Ophir Randalstown Civil Service As ever the burger stand will be in full swing and refreshments will be available in the clubhouse throughout the day. Robert de Niro and […]
Randalstown fielded 2 teams on Saturday in controlled training games. The 1st XV travelled to Ballymoney to play a mixture of the home sides 1st and 2nd XVs. Despite being on the end of a 42-12 defeat, coach Michael Stevenson was happy that his players were put through a hard physical session against a side […]