{"id":12830,"date":"2011-05-08T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2011-05-08T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:10:07","slug":"instonians-rugbynewcastle-exiles-rugby-10s-team-win-the-rainey-tournament-report-included-pictures-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/instonians-rugbynewcastle-exiles-rugby-10s-team-win-the-rainey-tournament-report-included-pictures-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Instonians Rugby\/Newcastle Exiles Rugby 10s Team win the Rainey Tournament Report included &#038; Pictures To follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instonians\/Newcastle Exiles Rugby 10s Team win the Rainey Tournament<\/p>\n<p>A squad of players assembled from everywhere won the 3rd Rainey 10s tournament on saturday 7th may<br \/>\nThis squad contained:<br \/>\n1st XV players<br \/>\n2nd XV players<br \/>\n3rd xv players<br \/>\n4th xv players<br \/>\nA young French student who unfortunately works with Ken Keane and was forced to play.<br \/>\nA squad from our friends in South Down who call themselves the &#8220;Newcastle Exiles&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosportsdirect.com\/index.asp\"><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\/03\/rooooon21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"943\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSpecial thanks must go to Michael Sargent who encouraged us to put together a squad for this tournamnet, Al Green for sending up the squad from County Down and all the other players who extended their season into May to make themselves available.<\/p>\n<p>How they all got there in time was a miracle,it was like a scene out of &#8220;wiskey galore&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe newcastle exiles travelled by minibus from home, relying totally on their sat nav.<br \/>\nA motly crew from Belfast did the same by car.<br \/>\nThe French student gave a map to his grilfriend and left it all to chance &#8211; both of them have yet to master our native tongue.<br \/>\nAnother travelled from Enniskillen.<\/p>\n<p>More details will follow but enough to say they reached the final to win by 2 points.<\/p>\n<p>The event was well run by Rainey RFC and everyone was made most welcome.<\/p>\n<p>More details &#038; photos will follow.<\/p>\n<p>Rickety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instonians\/Newcastle Exiles Rugby 10s Team win the Rainey Tournament A squad of players assembled from everywhere won the 3rd Rainey 10s tournament on saturday 7th may This squad contained: 1st XV players 2nd XV players 3rd xv players 4th xv players A young French student who unfortunately works with Ken Keane and was forced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[17227,5312],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instonians-rugby","tag-instonians-rugby","tag-newcastle-exiles-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830","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=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12831,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions\/12831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}