{"id":44272,"date":"2013-03-25T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=44272"},"modified":"2013-03-25T12:47:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:47:24","slug":"enniskillen-rfc-notes-powerade-towns-cup-semi-final-report-richie-the-boot-beatty-achieves-100-kicking-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/enniskillen-rfc-notes-powerade-towns-cup-semi-final-report-richie-the-boot-beatty-achieves-100-kicking-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Enniskillen RFC Notes: Powerade Towns Cup Semi Final Report + Richie “The Boot” Beatty Achieves 100% Kicking Record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Towns Cup Semi Final City of Derry \u2013 13 Enniskillen \u2013 10
\nfor the points scorers tally CLICK HERE<\/a>
\nTo the great disappointment of the large travelling contingent of Enniskillen support ‘Skins went down 13 \u2013 10
\nin their Towns Cup semi-final at City of Derry last Saturday. Cup semi-finals are games to be won in
\nwhatever manner achievable and it seemed that the hosts had a better idea of how to do this.
\nDespite playing into the wind in the first half, City of Derry spent most of the time in Enniskillen territory and
\ngot the boost of an early penalty from their outhalf.
\nDespite having good set pieces, ‘Skins had trouble generating quick possession going forward ball as the
\nhosts side flooded the breakdown areas, with their openside flanker particularly prominent.
\n‘Skins suffered an early setback with the loss through injury of winger Ally Duncan but hard though outhalf
\nNigel Johnston tried, the line speed of the home defence prevented quick ball going wide, and it was the
\nhosts who went further ahead with a converted try, leaving ‘Skins with a lot to do to get back into the match.
\nA lot of credit must be paid to the City of Derry discipline as they did not give ‘Skins a shot at goal in the
\nwhole first half.
\nAt the start of the second half a great run by Gavin Parke almost brought a score and given what followed
\nwho knows what might have been. Unfortunately for the visitors It was City of Derry who got the next score,
\na penalty increasing their lead to 13 \u2013 0.
\n‘Skins stuck to their task and dominated possession in the final quarter of the game with the forwards
\nworking hard and driving forward with every possession, leading to a penalty from John Maguire to eat into
\nthe lead.
\nDespite all their efforts ‘Skins couldn’t make the crucial breakthrough as the home side’s defence was equal
\nto everything they threw at them. Allied to this an increasing error rate from ‘Skins meant that they
\nrepeatedly came up short.
\n‘Skins did have the last say in the game when a great 40-metre dash from the impressive Parke ended with a
\nconverted try, which proved to be the last act.
\nCity of Derry ran out probably as deserved winners as their gameplan proved to be the difference, but credit
\nto the ‘Skins players who to a man never gave up.
\nIt is frustrating for ‘Skins to have lost their third cup semi-final in twelve months, but the team learned a hard
\nlesson and hopefully this young team can use this experience to build for the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Towns Cup Semi Final City of Derry \u2013 13 Enniskillen \u2013 10 for the points scorers tally CLICK HERE To the great disappointment of the large travelling contingent of Enniskillen support ‘Skins went down 13 \u2013 10 in their Towns Cup semi-final at City of Derry last Saturday. Cup semi-finals are games to be won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[482],"tags":[4719,17237,3959],"class_list":["post-44272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enniskillen","tag-club","tag-enniskillen","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272","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=44272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44274,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44272\/revisions\/44274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}