DEE HOLD ON TO TAKE POINTS<\/p>\n
Magnificent defensive effort wins the day at a cold & wintry Donaldson Park<\/p>\n
Winter arrived with a vengeance to Donaldson Park on Saturday with the game in some doubt due to the wet weather over the past few weeks. As it turned out though the pitch was in perfect condition by game time but the weathergear worn by the large Ballymoney and Dee support was testament to the cold. Once again the Dee made enforced changes to their line-up \u2013 with Jack Cooke still on the injury list & Sam Ingham unavailable the pack were further hamstrung by the loss of Richard Martindale to a broken finger sustained some weeks ago but only diagnosed after last week\u2019s game against Carrick. On the positive side both Andy Todd & Chade Gelderman returned from injury and another member of Regent House\u2019s successful Schools Cup side from last year, Conn Crawford, made his debut in the back row…… full report on >> http:\/\/www.pitchero.com\/clubs\/donaghadeerugbyclub\/teams\/101695\/match-centre\/1-1631613<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DEE HOLD ON TO TAKE POINTS Magnificent defensive effort wins the day at a cold & wintry Donaldson Park Winter arrived with a vengeance to Donaldson Park on Saturday with the game in some doubt due to the wet weather over the past few weeks. As it turned out though the pitch was in perfect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":133224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","category-donaghadee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133223","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=133223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133225,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133223\/revisions\/133225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}