Larne men progress well in Gordon West Cup The Larne 1st XV made the short trip up the road to Greenisland where they would face Belfast High School Former Pupils in the Gordon West Cup. Having made an undefeated start to the season the Glynn men travelled with confidence but knew that complacency could be […]
After the departure of respected coach Les Kiss the current Ulster Rugby coach Neil Doak’s 1st game in charge resulted in defeat to the Leciester Tigers and Ulster are now on track to exit the Heineken Cup at the commencement of the pool stages. When Paddy Jackson missed a conversion under the posts all of […]
Will Greenwood pool by pool guide Leinster possess the power and experience to win inaugural European Champions Cup, writes Will Greenwood in his analysis of the group stages which begin this weekend…… POOL BY POOL GUIDE It does not get any bigger than this. Three of last year’s four semi-finalists find themselves together in one […]
A list of people and techniques that have been game changers. For the generations that witnessed their achievements it must have seemed as if they were defying gravity, rewriting rules, bucking trends that were unbuckable. A unique moment that became the norm. After last Saturday, when Ireland beat Australia, we have another couple of names […]
No less than having the offices in Dublin, there’s little doubt that five Irish Heineken Cup wins in a seven-year period (2006 to 2012) did not go down well in the upper echelons of England and French club rugby, and one of the spin-offs of the Anglo-French European coup was to assert their dual pre-eminence. […]
Both sides fielded depleted squads in this First Round of the First Trust Senior Cup, but in the end it was Ballymena who ran out comfortable enough winners against the student side which had little to offer in attack, but defended manfully for most of the game. The first fifteen minutes followed that pattern – […]