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Monaghan BioSciences sponsored first 15 improved their away record with a hard earned win in an exciting match in Mullusk on Saturday last. Monaghan had to show all their fighting qualities after a poor opening quarter of an hour saw them fall 14 points in arrears. OPHIR 24 Monaghan 27 Monaghan BioSciences sponsored first 15 improved their away record with a hard earned win in an exciting match in Mullusk on Saturday last. Monaghan had to show all their fighting qualities after a poor opening quarter of an hour saw them fall 14 points in arrears. The poor start could possibly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":175811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","category-monaghan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175810","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=175810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175812,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175810\/revisions\/175812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe poor start could possibly be put down to too many changes having to be made, changes which saw the Farney men field 4 prop forwards. As a result Declan Savage (resplendently bedecked in Man City socks!!) packing down in the second row. Young John Connolly (1 for the future) got a run out at prop and accounted for himself well against a seasoned and grizzled campaigner from OPHIR. The scrum did take a while to settle and the home side took advantage of this by pushing the Monaghan pack back over their own line for the opening score of the game after only 4 minutes……. CLICK HERE<\/a> FOR THE FULL REPORT !!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"