{"id":15290,"date":"2011-08-26T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T09:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=15290"},"modified":"2011-08-26T09:17:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T09:17:33","slug":"rugby-returns-to-the-palace-grounds-armaghportadown-select-xv-v-orleans-rugby-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/rugby-returns-to-the-palace-grounds-armaghportadown-select-xv-v-orleans-rugby-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Returns To The Palace Grounds: Armagh\/Portadown Select XV v Orleans Rugby XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018winning together\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday evening saw the 2011-12 season kick-off with a bang as a combined Armagh\/Portadown select fifteen team entertained an Orleans side.<br \/>\n\tThis game was arranged to carry on a 34 year old fixture tradition arranged by Portadown. The French side was made up from four local clubs in the Orleans area.<br \/>\n\tAs the game kicked-off in beautiful conditions the local side stamped their authority on the game by scoring a fine try when the home centre touched down under the posts after only two minutes of play.<br \/>\n\tThis pattern of play was repeated throughout the full eighty minutes with the home side scoring six tries to the visitors one!<br \/>\n\tSome fine, open rugby was seen from both sides, however, and the large crowd went home well entertained. The final score of 47-7 was a little irrelevant as both teams enjoyed the chance to \u2018open the taps\u2019 and get the season under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018winning together\u2019 Wednesday evening saw the 2011-12 season kick-off with a bang as a combined Armagh\/Portadown select fifteen team entertained an Orleans side. This game was arranged to carry on a 34 year old fixture tradition arranged by Portadown. The French side was made up from four local clubs in the Orleans area. As the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,773],"tags":[6622,5707,6624,5706,5982,3959,6623],"class_list":["post-15290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armagh","category-portadown","tag-armaghportadown","tag-grounds","tag-orleans","tag-palace","tag-returns","tag-rugby","tag-select"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290","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=15290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15292,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions\/15292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}