HERE<\/a> FOR THE ACTION SHOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
\nMalone opened the scoring on 7 minutes when out half Niall O’Connor kicked a penalty after Bruff infringed.
\nMalone\u2019s first try came on 13 min when from their own 22, O\u2019Connor put in a cross field kick which winger Chris Leathem caught and he started the attack, Robbie Diack attacked up the centre before the ball was moved wide and winger Michael Barked showed great pace and power to cut inside and score under the posts. O\u2019Connor added the conversion. Malone ahead 10-0.<\/p>\nOn 13 min Malone were awarded a penalty after a great break by Chris Leathem and once again Niall O\u2019Connor found the target. Score now 13-0.<\/p>\n
Malone were unfortunate not to score ahain when they turned over a five meter scrum, Diack attacked from the base of the scrum and it took several Bruff defenders to bring him to the ground, he managed to off load the ball to Connor Joyce who was also brought to ground the play broke down when Malone were penalised by the referee for going off their feet.<\/p>\n
Bruff were unlucky not to score when Josh Pentland was robbed of the ball, the ball was hacked forward and a foot race ensued , however the ball rolled over the Malone dead ball line. Bruff were awarded a penalty after Malone were penalised for hands in the ruck and Brian Carroll scored the subsequent penalty.<\/p>\n
Malone ended the first half with their second try when after a great line out number 8 Diack went on a storming run, the ball was moved wide through O\u2019Connor to winger Chris Leathem who set down in the corner, once again O\u2019Connor added an excellent touchline conversion to give Malone a 20-3 half time lead.<\/p>\n
Malone made a strong start to the second half and on 43 min they scored their third try when Bruff kicked and failed to find touch Malone ran the ball back through Barker, and O\u2019Connor kicked over the Bruff defence and Robbie Diack won the footrace to score close to the posts to leave O\u2019Connor an easy conversion to take Malone ahead by 27-3.<\/p>\n
Winger Chris Leathem scored the bonus point try on 50 min when O\u2019Conner took a quick tap penalty moved the ball to Pentland who made a great break before putting Leathem away to score in the corner, once again O\u2019Connor added the conversion. Score now 34-3.<\/p>\n
Michael Barker claimed his second try on 56 mins when after a poor kick from Bruff the ball was collected and moved along the back line for Barker to have an easy run in.<\/p>\n
Barker had the final say and claimed his third try of the day on 79 mins when after a fine break by centre Pentland the ball was moved to Alcorn who fed the final pass to Barker to score in the corner, O\u2019Connor scored a superb touchline conversion to leave Malone winners by 46-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
6 of the Best for Malone as they defeat Bruff RFC Malone made it 3 wins from 3 outings claiming yet another bonus point win against Bruff. Malone are sitting 2 points clear at the top of the Division 1B table after another superb performance against Limerick visitors Bruff RFC. Malone outscored Bruff by 6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4719,17199,3959],"class_list":["post-35062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malone","tag-club","tag-malone","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35062","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=35062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35069,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35062\/revisions\/35069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}