{"id":24286,"date":"2012-03-25T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=24286"},"modified":"2012-03-25T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T16:16:12","slug":"carrickfergus-rfc-notes-u15-i-xv-cruise-to-cup-quarter-final-on-a-glorious-morning-tom-simms-memorial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/carrickfergus-rfc-notes-u15-i-xv-cruise-to-cup-quarter-final-on-a-glorious-morning-tom-simms-memorial-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrickfergus RFC Notes: U15 I XV Cruise to Cup Quarter Final On A Glorious Morning @ Tom Simms Memorial Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CRFC U15s -74 Armagh U15s -0.<br \/>\nOn a glorious morning for running rugby at Tom Simms Memorial Park Carrick U15s put on a show of great running rugby to comprehensively beat Armagh U15s.<br \/>\nWith several positional &#038; personnel changes due to illness injury &#038; availability it fell to John Stewart to captain the side &#038; he responded tremendously weighing in with a quartet of tries. CLICK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/gallery\/\">HERE<\/a> FOR THE ALBUM OF PICTURES<br \/>\nEarly pressure resulted in Carrick being awarded penalty 10 metres out &#038; a quick tap allowed Stewart to stroll in unopposed Sam Wallace converted. The same player burst away from a ruck minutes later to notch up his brace.<br \/>\nA delightful passage of running &#038; handling followed with Matthew Fisher recognizing a 3 on 2 situation ,his well timed pass allowed Dylan McDowell to scorch in from 30 metres Wallace again converting.<br \/>\nSome good buildup work by Daniel McBurney Corey Kelly &#038; John Turner put Rory Magill in position to blast over from a ruck of players.<br \/>\nThe Carrick back row of Jordan Devenney Jake Gardener &#038; debutant Owen Hunter created quick ball for scrum half Connor Cambridge to jink over for a try before a touchline sprint by Stewart saw him cut inside to score at the posts.<br \/>\nWallace converted to bring the halftime score to 36 \u2013 0<br \/>\nThe second half began with replacements being made &#038; before too long the team was completely changed but not before a Fisher three try blitz in the space of eight minutes.<br \/>\nWallace tacked on all three conversions before he &#038; Fisher were withdrawn.<br \/>\nThe greatly changed Carrick XV stuck to their task &#038; Jake Gardener was rewarded for a very tidy performance with a well crafted try.<br \/>\nAt this stage Carrick were playing total rugby with forwards linking in the backs &#038; backs doing the heavy duty forwards work at times. Aaron Rea Andrew Campbell &#038; Michael Whittal combined well with their defensive work &#038; several strong counter attacking run backs.<br \/>\nDylan McDowell ran in for his second once again created by awareness &#038; good passing before Stewart got his final try with Jamie McCracken converting.<br \/>\nAll told this was a convincing display from Carrick, achieved without several regulars &#038; the entire bench being used from half time.<br \/>\nA quarter final tie is now the reward for topping the pool with a record 216 points for &#038; 7 against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRFC U15s -74 Armagh U15s -0. On a glorious morning for running rugby at Tom Simms Memorial Park Carrick U15s put on a show of great running rugby to comprehensively beat Armagh U15s. With several positional &#038; personnel changes due to illness injury &#038; availability it fell to John Stewart to captain the side &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1060],"tags":[5042,6971,5519,4773,9445,4275,6348,7457,5304,5950,7212,5816,6744,6518,4445,4281],"class_list":["post-24286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armagh","category-carrickfergus","tag-carrickfergus-2","tag-cruise","tag-cup","tag-final","tag-glorious","tag-i","tag-memorial","tag-morning","tag-notes","tag-park","tag-quarter","tag-rfc","tag-simms","tag-tom","tag-u15","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286","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=24286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}