{"id":18522,"date":"2011-11-15T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=18522"},"modified":"2011-11-15T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:52:49","slug":"intouch-rugby-tv-presents-skins-ladies-highlights-vid-report-interviews-with-referee-terry-mccartney-coach-ryan-cathcart-no-8-gemma-mccuthcheon-great-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/intouch-rugby-tv-presents-skins-ladies-highlights-vid-report-interviews-with-referee-terry-mccartney-coach-ryan-cathcart-no-8-gemma-mccuthcheon-great-game\/","title":{"rendered":"INTOUCH RUGBY TV PRESENTS: SKINS LADIES Highlights Vid, Report + Interviews With Referee Terry McCartney Coach Ryan Cathcart & No.8 Gemma McCuthcheon – Great Game!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enniskillen Ladies 17, Belfast Harlequins 24
\nIn Enniskillen\u2019s fifth match of the season they welcomed Belfast Harlequins a very windy
\nMullaghmeen.
\nAfter last week\u2019s disappointing performance, \u2018Skins knew they needed a confident start to this
\nmatch and it began with Enniskillen kicking into the strong wind and they immediately put the
\npressure on the \u2018Quins pack. \u2018Skins solid defence forced errors and ensured play was kept deep
\ninside the Harlequins half for the first 10 minutes providing \u2018Skins with the confidence boost they
\nwere looking for.
\nHIGHLIGHTS<\/strong>
\n[youtube ZXTZYbzk1Vw]
\nThe hard work paid off when Enniskillen were rewarded with a penalty in front of the posts which
\nouthalf Caoimhe Morris converted with ease to put the first 3 points on the board. However, during
\nthis phase of play Skins lost impressive prop Catherine Mallon to a broken nose forcing a reshuffle
\nat front row. \u2018Skins took this change in their stride and the scrums continued to impress and still
\nmanaged to turn over the \u2018Quins scrum on 2 occasions.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nThe restart saw some great defensive and attacking play from both sides. \u2018Quins aggressiveness in
\nthe ruck began to take its toll and provided their scrumhalf Zoe Templeton with clean ball and she
\nspun it out to the backs with Nikki Caughey taking full advantage of a gap in the ‘Skins defence to
\ndive in for \u2018Quins first points. Caughey converted her try with 7 minutes of the first half remaining.
\nFrom the restart Skins defended impressively to leave the score 3 – 7 at the break.
\n[youtube BqzWLdKbsNw]
\nThe second half disappointingly saw a very different Enniskillen team take to the field and the
\ntalented Harlequins back line easily took advantage of the non-existent defence, punishing the
\n\u2019Skins girls with 3 tries and 1 conversion in the space of 10 minutes, leaving Enniskillen on the
\nwrong side of a 3 – 24 score line.
\n[youtube T9wq3W6NDGw]
\nHowever, to their credit, \u2018Skins managed to regroup and find the intensity they were playing with in
\nthe first 40 minutes and they set the pace for the remainder of the game. The exceptional Gemma
\nMcCutcheon put pressure on the \u2018Quins pack and \u2018Skins began to play the rugby they are capable
\nof, once again keeping \u2018Quins pegged into their own \u201c22\u201d. Strong running from forwards Aisling
\nMaguire and Collette McMorrow created space for McCutcheon to pick and drive over the line for
\nher much deserved first senior try. Morris converted to narrow the gap to 10 \u2013 24, thus giving
\n\u2018Skins a glimmer of opportunity to force themselves back into this encounter.
\nImmediately the ‘Skins girls showed their determination in defence and the pressure was showing in
\nthe \u2018Quins side as their discipline continued to lapse, resulting in a Skins penalty and Sorcha
\nChipperfield being sent to the sin bin for the remaining 6 minutes of the game. Superb kicking
\nfrom Morris brought play back to near the \u2018Quins try line and consistent crash balls from the \u2018Skins
\npack created space for winger Alexa Grudging to cross in the corner. Morris who had a fantastic all
\nround game kicked the difficult conversion to put \u2018Skins a converted try away from snatching a
\ndraw with only a few minutes left on the clock.
\nThe girls did not give up and a terrific kick from prop Maguire unfortunately just sneaked the
\nwrong side of the corner flag and play was brought back to the halfway mark. \u2018Skins did manage to
\nsteal possession back but unfortunately the clock was against them and the final whistle was blown.
\nThe Enniskillen girls were disappointed as this was yet another game that they blew the opportunity
\nto take the points, however this relatively inexperienced side will be keen to take the many positives
\nfrom this match into their next fixture and keep continuing to improve.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Terry McCartney for filling in as referee at late notice. [youtube OJCVCQXHpeU]
\nThe Enniskillen girls continue their league campaign with another tough fixture away to Cill Dara
\non November 27
\nth
\n.
\nTraining continues each week on Tuesdays and Fridays at 6.3opm at Enniskillen Rugby Club.
\nLadies of any age and skill are encouraged to join. For more information please contact Noreen on
\n07853008860 or find us on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enniskillen Ladies 17, Belfast Harlequins 24 In Enniskillen\u2019s fifth match of the season they welcomed Belfast Harlequins a very windy Mullaghmeen. After last week\u2019s disappointing performance, \u2018Skins knew they needed a confident start to this match and it began with Enniskillen kicking into the strong wind and they immediately put the pressure on the \u2018Quins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,482],"tags":[7776,4592,7778,4830,5783,4720,7775,7779,7777,5565,3959,6705,5567,6148,5784,5455],"class_list":["post-18522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belfast-harlequins","category-enniskillen","tag-cathcart","tag-coach","tag-gemma","tag-highlights","tag-intouch","tag-ladies","tag-mccartney","tag-mccuthcheon","tag-no-8","tag-presents","tag-rugby","tag-ryan","tag-skins","tag-terry","tag-tv","tag-vid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522","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=18522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18536,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions\/18536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}