{"id":10168,"date":"2011-02-28T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2011-02-28T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:49:25","slug":"impressive-win-for-newry-1st-xv-report-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/impressive-win-for-newry-1st-xv-report-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Win for Newry 1st XV: Report & Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ards were the visitors to Telford Park last Saturday for their Ulster conference league
\nmatch and found themselves up against a Newry First XV which was showing quite a few
\nchanges from the recent league wins over Randalstown and Ophir. The match saw the
\nreturn of Peter Jenkins to out-half and much local attention was focused on how various
\nnew combinations around the pitch would work out, given the need for strength in depth in
\nthe remaining but vitally important months of the season ahead.
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Playing conditions were good, with a bright sunny day and a rapidly drying turf underfoot.
\nNewry started off playing into the breeze with a strong winter sun in their eyes. The city
\nboys tried to move it wide in the early phases and a great break by Paddy Wentworth up
\nthe wing almost yielded a try on the 10 minute mark but for the Ards defence scrambling
\nback to stop what looked like a certain score. Newry soon got reward for sustained attack
\nwhen after a break by Marty Cunningham, Ards were penalised for the tackler not releasing
\nat the breakdown. Farrell slotted over the penalty to start the scoring. The lead was further
\nstretched when the Newry scrum-half tapped a quick penalty on the half way line and fired
\na long pass out Paddy Wentworth who made a good 40 yards before being hauled to the
\nground. The Newry attack followed in quickly so that several pick and goes later, man of the
\nmatch Cathal McNally barrelled over for a try which went unconverted. Ards, the pre-match
\nfavourites in many eyes, upped their game and scored a deserved penalty to leave the half
\ntime score 8-3 to Newry.<\/p>\n

The third quarter started with another Ards penalty to leave the match in the balance.
\nNewry then hit a purple patch and started to dominate in set piece and loose play, winning
\nball against the head in both scrum and lineout and forcing turnover ball in the ruck. Three
\nunanswered tries was their reward, with Sean Farrell, Andrew Stanley and McNally for his
\nsecond, all touching down in a 15 minute period to put the result beyond doubt. The final
\nquarter saw yellow cards apiece for both teams and Newry lost their tight head prop Neil
\nRobertson through injury. The home team played the last 10 minute with 13 men against
\n15 but still extended their lead with a last minute penalty converted by Gareth Madden.
\nFinal score Newry 26, Ards 6. Rhys Botha, the Newry Coach expressed his satisfaction with
\nthe result and with the improving standard of play shown all around the park. \u201cWe want
\npromotion this season, but to get it and sustain our progress into next season we need
\nstrength in depth and that is what you saw out there today\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n

Newry\u2019s next match is a vital home league encounter against Donegal next week. All
\nsupporters are encouraged to get out and support their team who are now unbeaten since
\nthe start of October.<\/p>\n

Newry XV: A Stanley, C Stewart, N Robertson, D Austin, P Haughey, R Gordon, S Farrell, C
\nMcNally, D Farrell, P Jenkins, D Doyle, G Madden, P Wentworth, M Cunningham, D Marshall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ards were the visitors to Telford Park last Saturday for their Ulster conference league match and found themselves up against a Newry First XV which was showing quite a few changes from the recent league wins over Randalstown and Ophir. The match saw the return of Peter Jenkins to out-half and much local attention was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,1197],"tags":[209,3610],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ards","category-newry","tag-ards-rugby","tag-newry-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}