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Randalstown travelled to Portadown for this rearranged Butler Shield semi-final but any hopes of progressing to the final were quickly dispelled by a strong experienced Portadown side. Two tries on 11 and 14 minutes detracted from the early promise the ‘Town lads had shown and with the aerial bombardment from the excellent Portadown outhalf pinning […]
The Randalstown faithful made the short trip to Eaton Park on Saturday afternoon. Bolstered further by the Ballymena based Randalstown support, friends, neighbours and relations meant there was a sizeable crowd to watch what was a tense, entertaining semi-final between the teams. CLICK HERE for the shottss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Randalstown started nervously and made a couple of […]
Ballymena 5’s hosted Randalstown 2’s in the semi final of the Forster Cup. The home side won With both teams fielding their strongest sides this was going to be a great game of rugby. Ballymena who play a league below Randalstown therefore started the match as underdogs. CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Ballymena started the […]
Ballymena 4’s who where struggling for players due to injuries and work commitments turned to the Ballymena under 19’s for help. This saw Paul Rainey, Richard Bamber and William McCooke play their first senior game of rugby. In addition to these youngsters Maury McDowell and Stuart Gilmore were also making their debut for the 4’s. […]
From the first whistle both teams showed their intent on winning. This led to a great game of attacking rugby shown by both sides. Coleraine drew first blood when their 10 and 12 combined to create space to send their winger over for the opening try. The conversion was added by the try scorer, 0-7. […]