{"id":16931,"date":"2011-10-05T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:00:41","slug":"enniskillen-rugby-club-notes-ii-xv-31-v-instonians-rugby-club-iii-xv-20-iii-xv-v-cavan-rugby-club-ii-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/enniskillen-rugby-club-notes-ii-xv-31-v-instonians-rugby-club-iii-xv-20-iii-xv-v-cavan-rugby-club-ii-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Enniskillen Rugby Club Notes: II XV 31 v Instonians Rugby Club III XV 20 & III XV v Cavan Rugby Club II XV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enniskillen 2nd XV – 31 Instonians 3rd<\/strong>
\n XV – 20
\nEnniskillen seconds played their third league game of the season at home to Instonians last Saturday, and
\nhaving lost their first two games needed a good performance.
\nIt was the visitors however who took the initiative and driven by some storming play by the evergreen Brian
\nWallace the visitors scored two quick tries. ‘Skins were simply not putting in the tackles and were kicking
\naway possession too cheaply.
\nA further Inst penalty gave them a 15 – 0 lead before skipper David Taylor began an inspired comeback with
\na try after a storming run.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nIn the second half ‘Skins played much better rugby with the forwards driving at the Instonians defence and
\nonly at the right time releasing the backs. Scrum-half Dale McMaster kept ‘Skins on the front foot ably
\nsupported by Taylor, Parke, Auterson and Leitch.
\nFurther tries followed from Parke and Donaldson, and in the end Skins were worthy winners despite losing
\nRichard Willis to injury<\/p>\n

Enniskillen 3rd XV were beaten by Cavan 2nd<\/strong><\/p>\n

XV on Saturday, however the defeat was not all
\nCavan’s making and had a lot to do with some atrocious refereeing, with both teams questioning
\nwhether they were even playing rugby union or some other unknown game.
\nCavan started the game the brighter showing that they had a dangerous backline, however the
\nEnniskillen front five comprising Adi Breen, Steven Frazer, Noel McCusker (all in the front row),
\nJim Kathro and Dave Tyson (in the second row) dominated the scrum, driving the much larger
\nCavan pack back on every scrum. In addition ‘Skins showed some excellent defence, which held
\nfirm, forcing the hosts to knock-on and turn the ball over, keeping the score 0 – 0 at half time.
\nEnniskillen started to dominate at the start of the second half however a poor refereeing decision
\nawarded Cavan a penalty in front of the posts which they duly converted to lead 3 – ). This did not
\nget ‘Skins down and straight away they went to the other end of the field and scored a well worked
\ntry. Keith Hurst made the break offloading to Gavin Warrington who was tackled close to the line,
\nthe ball was quickly recycled and passed out the backline to the impressive Zach Charlton who
\nshowed his pace to beat the Cavan winger and score in the corner to give ‘Skins a deserved lead, 3 –
\n5.
\nEnniskillen, with their noses in front, continued to dominate the scrum, not allowing the Cavan
\npack an inch. The result being a Cavan prop going off \u201cinjured\u201d resulting in uncontested scrums,
\nwhich hindered Skins progress.
\nCavan would then score their first try on 55minutes. The Cavan prop was held up over the line, but
\nafter a 30 second delay the referee decided that the try had been scored, which Cavan converted to
\nretake the lead, 10 – 5.
\n‘Skins were furious and this showed with a lapse of concentration resulting in the only missed tackle
\nof the game by a ‘Skin, allowing Cavan to score their second try which was converted to stretch
\ntheir lead to 17 – 5.
\nThis was the final score of the game and ‘Skins trudged off the field hugely disappointed at the
\ninjustice of the decisions that went against them. However it was a much changed team that
\nshowed huge improvements from the opening defeat to Omagh the previous week, in particular the
\ndefence.
\nSpecial mention must go to the \u201cMoment of the Match\u201d when Peter Fee smashed one of the Cavan
\nbacks and roaring \u201cYeah, lets play rugby now!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enniskillen 2nd XV – 31 Instonians 3rd XV – 20 Enniskillen seconds played their third league game of the season at home to Instonians last Saturday, and having lost their first two games needed a good performance. It was the visitors however who took the initiative and driven by some storming play by the evergreen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,482,361],"tags":[7346,6557,7345,17193,4719,17237,4276,4277,1224,5304,3959,4280,4281],"class_list":["post-16931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cavan","category-enniskillen","category-instonians-rugby","tag-7346","tag-6557","tag-7345","tag-cavan","tag-club","tag-enniskillen","tag-ii","tag-iii","tag-instonians","tag-notes","tag-rugby","tag-v","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931","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=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16932,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}