{"id":19633,"date":"2011-12-12T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=19633"},"modified":"2020-10-22T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T18:09:13","slug":"letterkenny-rugby-club-notes-strabane-academy-rugby-i-xv-v-letterkenny-rfc-u15-i-xv-report-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/letterkenny-rugby-club-notes-strabane-academy-rugby-i-xv-v-letterkenny-rfc-u15-i-xv-report-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Letterkenny Rugby Club Notes: Strabane Academy Rugby I XV v Letterkenny RFC U15 I XV: Report & Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally an end to the drought of training and playing! With waterlogged pitches and freezing
\nweather, the optics for a game this weekend weren’t good. Never mind white line fever, good old
\ncabin fever was starting to set in on saturday mornings! In stepped Strabane Academy, and a
\nfriendly fixture was arranged, so the under-fifteens assembled gladly at nine-fifteen.
\nThe game kicked off punctually at eleven, and with the home side scoring a try within ninety
\nseconds, it felt like Letterkenny might be looking at a very long morning. From the kick off,
\nLetterkenny knocked on (no blame here \u2013 it was a cold morning and everyone’s hands were cold)
\nand from the resulting midfield scrum, Strabane fed smartly out to the left and crossed the line
\nbefore much of the field were aware the ball was out. Well played!
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The Letterkenny boys were rattled, but from the re-start there was distinctly more wide awake feel
\nto the game. A second and ominous surge from the Strabane boys was held up by some fine tackling
\nby Ben Kavia, and the ensuing ruck saw Brendan Haley arrive with customary promptness and
\naccuracy. Dermot Dunleavy also made it his business to ensure there would be no repeat of the easy
\nroute up the centre field. Recovering now from the early set-back Letterkenny began to push deeper
\ninto the Strabane twenty-two. A number of attacks were stopped in their tracks. Two promising
\nattempts out wide on the left-hand side saw winger Oisin Rafferty run twice in a solid defence that
\nwas up immediately the ball moved out the line. Reverting to the centre, Daniel Faulkner receiving
\na feed from a ruck just outside the five metre line went on a charge that saw him cross the line
\nalmost under the posts. The game was seventeen minutes old and the sides had a converted try
\napiece. It was starting to turn into a good game of rugby.
\nCLICK HERE then click on match report FOR MORE PICTURES
\nThe rest of the first half saw the two sides see-saw into each others halves, but largely staying out of
\nthe twenty-two, except when, agonisingly close to the line, Strabane were perceived to have
\nhandled (or held on?) in the ruck and lost possession at the last minute. Letterkenny cleared their
\nline and brought play back to the other end of the field. A surge by Eoin Ferry almost saw him over,
\nand laying the ball back from a try-saving tackle, Ben Kavia picked up gratefully and crashed over
\nfor the half’s third try. Ben Mortimer made no mistake from in front of the posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally an end to the drought of training and playing! With waterlogged pitches and freezing weather, the optics for a game this weekend weren’t good. Never mind white line fever, good old cabin fever was starting to set in on saturday mornings! In stepped Strabane Academy, and a friendly fixture was arranged, so the under-fifteens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[17276,4719,4275,17259,5304,4374,4702,5816,3959,17314,4445,4281],"class_list":["post-19633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letterkenny","tag-academy","tag-club","tag-i","tag-letterkenny","tag-notes","tag-pictures","tag-report","tag-rfc","tag-rugby","tag-strabane","tag-u15","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633","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=19633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632104,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633\/revisions\/632104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}