Ophir not so Civil at Stormont<\/p>\n
Ophir first XV, sponsored by Biffa and MCW Properties travelled across Belfast to take on Civil Service for the first time in 2 years.<\/p>\n
Bolstered by the return of a number of key players, a strong Ophir team took to the impeccable Stormont pitches ably lead by club captain, Karl Davis.<\/p>\n
Ophir kicked the game off and a strong kick chase resulted in the Civil Service catcher being tackled into touch.<\/p>\n
The resulting Ophir line out was a carbon copy of last week’s scores, with the tried and tested combination of Flood finding McCabe in the middle of the line-out. This week, veteran number 8 Neil Gray was at the back of the maul, dotting the ball down over line no more than 2 minutes into the game. It was evident as the game progressed that Gray has not lost any of his class ……. CLICK HERE<\/a> for the full report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ophir not so Civil at Stormont Ophir first XV, sponsored by Biffa and MCW Properties travelled across Belfast to take on Civil Service for the first time in 2 years. Bolstered by the return of a number of key players, a strong Ophir team took to the impeccable Stormont pitches ably lead by club captain, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":134909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1953],"tags":[14964,5680,17287,4702,5681,4280],"class_list":["post-134908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","category-ophir","tag-1s","tag-civil","tag-ophir","tag-report","tag-service","tag-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134908","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=134908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}