{"id":54651,"date":"2013-09-19T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=54651"},"modified":"2013-09-19T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T08:26:59","slug":"gordon-west-cup-review-saturday-21st-september-2013-george-millar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/gordon-west-cup-review-saturday-21st-september-2013-george-millar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon West Cup Preview Saturday 21st September 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By George Millar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening group matches in the Gordon West Cup for Qualifying three and four leagues &#8211; take place this weekend. Current holders Holywood along with Larne, PSNI, Ophir, Donegal and Newry will be the main challengers.<br \/>\n<strong>Group A<\/strong><br \/>\nArmoy v BHSFP at Limepark. Armoy to win.<br \/>\nOphir  v PSNI at Magowan Park.  Ophir have already opened their league campaign with an emphatic 55 &#8211; 11 win over BHSFP.  PSNI to win.<br \/>\n<strong>Group B<\/strong><br \/>\nCivil Service v Holywood at Stormont. Local derby with Holywood favourites to win.<br \/>\nLurgan v Larne at Pollock Pk. Lurgan opened their league programme with a defeat to Newry 23 &#8211; 20. Larne will want to bounce back from relegation last season. Under the guidance of coach Laurence Kelly they have already won the Randalstown xv a side tournament and suffered a recent narrow defeat to neighbours Carrick 23 &#8211; 22.  Larne to win.<br \/>\n<strong>Group C<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the All Donegal derby at the Dave Gallagher Memorial Park, Letterkenny entertain Donegal Town. On paper you would predict a home win for Letterkenny. Donegal sent out a strong message last Sat when they defeated Monaghan 68 &#8211; 0 in their opening league game. Donegal to win.<br \/>\nWith only three teams in this group Londonderry YMCA have no game.<br \/>\n<strong>Group D<\/strong><br \/>\nFascinating Cavan v Monaghan fixture at Swellan Park. Monaghan will want to bounce back from their league defeat last Sat.  Cavan neighbours Virginia play the in form Newry at Deerpark. There is a resurgence in rugby in the South Down club. Newry to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening group matches in the Gordon West Cup for Qualifying three and four leagues &#8211; take place this weekend. Current holders Holywood along with Larne, PSNI, Ophir, Donegal and Newry will be the main challengers. Group A Armoy v BHSFP at Limepark. Armoy to win. Ophir v PSNI at Magowan Park. Ophir have already opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[5890,5519,6477,5632,6590,6478],"class_list":["post-54651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gordon-west-cup","tag-5890","tag-cup","tag-gordon","tag-review","tag-round","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54651","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=54651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54655,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54651\/revisions\/54655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}