{"id":16498,"date":"2011-09-26T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=16498"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:57:57","slug":"inishownen-rugby-club-u13-i-xv-v-letterkenny-rugby-club-u13-i-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/inishownen-rugby-club-u13-i-xv-v-letterkenny-rugby-club-u13-i-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Inishownen Rugby Club U13 I XV v Letterkenny Rugby club U13 I XV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under Thirteens finally let the Hand-brake off and find Drive
\nAfter a two games that saw the under thirteen squad start the season a little uncertainly, the boys
\nfound their stride on Saturday morning in Carndonagh. A fine sunny morning on the peninsula, and
\nthe first dry Saturday since the season re-started. Twenty travelled. Twenty looking for a good
\ngame, and all twenty played well.
\nFrom the kick-off the team had a more confident feel about them than in previous weeks. A clean
\ncatch set up a ruck with the advancing Inishowen forwards, and the support players arriving on time
\nsignalled that lessons from the last two matches had been learnt. The ball came back cleanly to
\nTadhg, who started as he intended to go on \u2013 playing out of his skin \u2013 and was recycled twice,
\nbefore the first scrum of the day went to Inishowen.
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\nInishowen, not having seen much of the ball in the first five minutes were impressive in the scrum.
\nAn impressive front row gave the Letterkenny boys very little room to manoeuvre. However,
\ndespite being driven back Letterkenny were fast off the mark and fed the ball out to Matthew, who
\nalready accelerating, gratefully accepted the ball at speed and broke through the defence to sprint
\nhome for the first try of the match. From the restart Inishowen forced their way deep into the
\nLetterkenny twenty-two, and eventually crossed the try-line. Disciplined defence from Letterkenny
\nhowever made sure that the ball was held up and there was no score. Inishowen didn’t capitalise on
\nthe five-yard scrum and with both sides still a little unsettled, the game see-sawed back up to the
\nother end of the pitch. From a ruck about five metres out Tadhg, about to feed the ball out, spotted a
\ngap and dived over for a text-book scrum-half try. The boys in blue came back at Letterkenny more
\ndetermined, but strong tackling from the Letterkenny backs kept them at bay. Rhys, Lewi and James
\nRoulston proving particularly fierce in defence. Niall O’ Connor guarded his wing jealously. The
\nhandling by the backs showed enormous improvement from previous matches, and a midfield
\nturnover fed uninterrupted out to the wing saw Jack McGarvey touch down in the corner for the
\nthird try of the half. Joe Dunleavy was next with a herculean heave that brought him and what
\nlooked like half the team over the line with him. (see pic). Ten minutes before the break, our very
\nwelcome newcomer Noah came on as a replacement, in his first interclub match for the squad. What
\npace! Three tries before the half-time whistle!
\nThe second half was at a slightly slower pace as bodies tired on both sides with the constant and
\ngood tackling by both teams. While Inishowen continued to get the better of the scrums, it was
\nLetterkenny that made more of their possession with Matthew, James Roulston and Sean
\nMcGettigan notching up the first three scores of the half. After a number of attacks stopped just
\nshort of the line or bundled into touch, one of the Inishowen props finally crashed over for a try
\nafter fifteen minutes, .. something he had been threatening to do for some time. It wasn’t over yet, as
\nLewi took a break from tackling to add himself to the list of try-scorers. Noah then finished his
\ndebut with style showing fantastic speed so late in what was a very physical game, to sprint down
\nthe touchline and score in the corner.
\nInishowen RFC 5 Letterkenny RFC 60<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under Thirteens finally let the Hand-brake off and find Drive After a two games that saw the under thirteen squad start the season a little uncertainly, the boys found their stride on Saturday morning in Carndonagh. A fine sunny morning on the peninsula, and the first dry Saturday since the season re-started. Twenty travelled. Twenty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[902,889],"tags":[4719,4275,7145,17259,3959,4938,4280,4281],"class_list":["post-16498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inishowen","category-letterkenny","tag-club","tag-i","tag-inishownen","tag-letterkenny","tag-rugby","tag-u13","tag-v","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498","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=16498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}