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\nOutgoing Ards Rugby Club President Mike Spence performed one of his last official duties in presenting the awards.<\/p>\nThe presentation of awards took place after the Heineken Cup Final and those who attended had a good evenings craic.<\/p>\n
There were some notable absences in the awards winners due to their attendance at the Heineken Cup Final, but fellow team members readily volunteered to step up and take their awards in their absence…..most notably Matt McMullan who had had his hair specially cut and ”The Face of Ards Rugby’ (or should that be the gob!!) Trevor Devlin who stepped in for Assistant Coach Alan Benson.<\/p>\n
Awards winners were as follows:
\n1st XV
\nPlayer’s Player of Year – Rob McCausland
\nCoaches Player of Year – Scott Young
\n2nd XV
\nPlayer’s Player of Year – Conran Stewart
\nCoaches Player of Year – Pete Croan
\n3rd XV
\nPlayer’s Player of Year – Ashley Peden
\nCoaches Player of Year – David Chivers
\n4th XV
\nPlayer’s Player of Year – Andy Matchett
\nCoaches Player of Year – Andy Todd <\/p>\n
Club Top Try scorer – Stevie McKee (29 tries – new club record)
\nClub Top Points Scorer – Stevie McKee<\/p>\n
Young Player of Year – Kyle Agnew
\nClub Player of Year – Scott Young<\/p>\n
Club President Mike Spence then thanked the outgoing senior coaching and management team of Mervyn Tweed, Alan Benson and Robin Johnston for their dedication and commitment to Ards Rugby Club not just in the past 2 seasons but in previous seasons; Mike made a small presentation to Mervyn Tweed and Robin Johnston as a token of the Clubs thanks and Trevor Devlin accepted on Alan Benson’s behalf.<\/p>\n
Mervyn then thanked the current player’s for their commitment to him on both the training field and the match field; Mervyn encouraged all the players to stay together at Ards and commented that they were a young team, all locally based and had the potential to develop into a really good team.
\nMervyn endorsed the new coaching set up of Stewart Porter, Gerry Flynn and Scott Young and offered them his full support and good wishes for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Players, coaches and manager gather for Senior Awards presentation. Players, coaches and managers from Ards 1sts, 2nds, 3rds and 4ths gathered at Hamilton Park on Saturday evening. CLICK HERE for the pictures Outgoing Ards Rugby Club President Mike Spence performed one of his last official duties in presenting the awards. The presentation of awards took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[17210,4719,3959],"class_list":["post-47591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ards","tag-ards","tag-club","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47591","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=47591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47594,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47591\/revisions\/47594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}