{"id":23361,"date":"2012-03-07T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:28:57","slug":"ireland-rugby-club-team-named-for-ulster-bank-club-international-go-the-team-ulstermen-rodger-mcburney-james-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ireland-rugby-club-team-named-for-ulster-bank-club-international-go-the-team-ulstermen-rodger-mcburney-james-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Rugby Club Team Named For Ulster Bank Club International! Go The Team & Ulstermen Rodger McBurney & James Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Ireland Club team to play Scotland Clubs in the Ulster Bank Club International for the \u2018Dal Riada\u2019 cup contains five new caps.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clontarf\u2019s Simon Crawford will Captain the side with Cork Con\u2019s influential scrum half Gerry Hurley named as Vice Captain.<\/p>\n

The five new players to be capped at this level are all in the backline with Lansdowne\u2019s Craig Ronaldson named at ten outside the experienced Hurley.<\/p>\n

Mike Kelliher of Young Munster will form a new centre partnership with the previously capped Killian Lett.<\/p>\n

There is an all new back three with Cathal Quinn of Cork Constitution and Lansdowne\u2019s Cian Aherne named alongside Ballymena\u2019s Rodger McBurney.<\/p>\n

The side is coached by UCC\u2019s Conor Twomey, assisted by David Murphy of De La Salle Palmerston.<\/p>\n

The Ireland Club side captured the inaugural \u2018Dal Riada\u2019 trophy in a thrilling 32 \u2013 30 win in Scotland last season.<\/p>\n

The Ireland Club side will also face the England Counties in Preston Grasshoppers RFC on March 16th.<\/p>\n

IRELAND CLUB Team & Replacements (v Scotland Club XV, Ulster Bank Club International, Anglesea Road, Old Belvedere RFC, Friday, March 9, kick-off 6.30pm):<\/p>\n

15. Rodger McBurney (Ballymena)*
\n14. Cian Aherne (Lansdowne)*
\n13. Killian Lett (Clontarf)
\n12. Mike Kelliher (Young Munster)*
\n11. Cathal Quinn (Cork Constitution)*
\n10. Craig Ronaldson (Lansdowne)*
\n9. Gerry Hurley (Cork Constitution)
\n1. Rob Sweeney (St. Mary\u2019s College)
\n2. Ger Slattery (Young Munster)
\n3. Christy Condon (Dolphin)
\n4. Philip Donnellan (Cork Constitution)
\n5. Fergal Walsh (Shannon)
\n6. Simon Crawford (Clontarf)
\n7. Barry O\u2019Mahony (Clontarf)
\n8. Hugh Hogan (St. Mary\u2019s College)<\/p>\n

Replacements:
\n16. Hugh McGrath (Young Munster)*
\n17. Risteard Byrne (UCD)*
\n18. Liam Og Murphy (Young Munster)
\n19. Frank Cogan (Clontarf)
\n20. Brian Slater (UCC)*
\n21. Barry Keeshan (Dolphin)
\n22. James Thompson (Ballynahinch)*<\/p>\n

*Uncapped Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many Thanks TO Greers Of Antrim Volvo Dealership For Sponsoring This Section Click Here The Ireland Club team to play Scotland Clubs in the Ulster Bank Club International for the \u2018Dal Riada\u2019 cup contains five new caps. Clontarf\u2019s Simon Crawford will Captain the side with Cork Con\u2019s influential scrum half Gerry Hurley named as Vice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5726,4719,5764,4050,7132,3229,6332,9202,3959,4979,7752,1997,6824],"class_list":["post-23361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-bank","tag-club","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-james","tag-mcburney","tag-named","tag-rodger","tag-rugby","tag-team","tag-thompson","tag-ulster","tag-ulstermen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361","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=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683316,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions\/683316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}