{"id":10752,"date":"2011-03-11T18:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2011-03-12T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:56:34","slug":"northern-bank-schools-cup-preview-captains-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/northern-bank-schools-cup-preview-captains-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Bank Schools&#8217; Cup Preview: Captain&#8217;s Thoughts: + Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Creighton and Paddy Bell with the Northern Bank Ulster Schools&#8217; Cup<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/gallery\/?album=SchoolsCupCaptains2011\">CLICK HERE FOR A FEW SHOTS WITH THE CAPTAIN&#8217;S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Northern Bank Ulster Schools&#8217; Cup Final on 17th March, the Ulster Branch spoke to the captains of both teams to get their thoughts on the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Creighton, Captain of Campbell College Belfast:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my first experience of a St Patrick\u2019s Day Final so I\u2019m really looking forward to it. We know Inst are a very good side this year and have some great players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had really tough games against Methody but that has built up our fitness. There\u2019s a bit of tiredness but all the knocks should be shaken off by Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paddy Bell, Captain of Royal Belfast Academical Institution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to the game; the Schools\u2019 Cup Final is an amazing occasion. I played two years ago as a replacement which was a taster and I can\u2019t wait until Thursday.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rooooon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9533\" title=\"Click Here For Eurosports Direct E-Commerce Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rooooon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"943\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Our forwards are our strength and I think Campbell know that as well. Campbell have talented backs but you can\u2019t use them if you don&#8217;t have the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously Campbell have played more games recently but I don\u2019t think that will affect them. The three games they played against Methody were tough but we had two games against Armagh. We have done a lot of training over the last two weeks and now it\u2019s tapering off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the school are going and I\u2019m sure there will be a massive crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Creighton and Paddy Bell with the Northern Bank Ulster Schools&#8217; Cup CLICK HERE FOR A FEW SHOTS WITH THE CAPTAIN&#8217;S Ahead of the Northern Bank Ulster Schools&#8217; Cup Final on 17th March, the Ulster Branch spoke to the captains of both teams to get their thoughts on the game. John Creighton, Captain of Campbell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4453,229],"tags":[4011,4725,4727,4657,4724,4723,4726,426],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campbell-college-schools","category-schools","tag-4011","tag-captain-of-campbell-college-belfast","tag-captain-of-royal-belfast-academical-institution","tag-captains","tag-john-creighton","tag-northern-bank-ulster-schools-cup","tag-paddy-bell","tag-ulster-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","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=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}