{"id":55698,"date":"2013-10-07T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=55698"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T09:50:32","slug":"city-armagh-rfc-notes-ii-xv-22-v-dungannon-rfc-ii-xv-20-report-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/city-armagh-rfc-notes-ii-xv-22-v-dungannon-rfc-ii-xv-20-report-live\/","title":{"rendered":"CITY of Armagh RFC Notes: II XV 22 v Dungannon RFC II XV 20 REPORT LIVE HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local derby at the Palace grounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Armagh seconds played their Dungannon counterparts in a 2nd xv league game at the Palace grounds last Thursday night. With the ground conditions being very wet, and even though handling was difficult, this was to prove to be a very entertaining  game. Shortly after the kick off, Armagh lost possession and conceded an early unconverted  try when the ball was moved quickly by the Dungannon  backline with their winger scoring  out wide. 5 -0 to Dungannon. Armagh replied with a penalty conversion by Andrew Knipe  shortly after to reduce the arrears to 3-5. As the game progressed, the Armagh backline were beginning to gel and on 24 minutes Robert  Straghan cut through the centre to score  a fine try at the posts. With  Knipe\u2019s conversion, Armagh now led 10-5 which was fair reward for the team\u2019s  efforts. Armagh\u2019s  advantage in the scrums was negated by the withdrawal of Dungannon\u2019s prop through injury. This resulted in uncontested scrums being played for the remainder of the game.  The home side\u2019s back 3 of fullback Timmy McNeice and wingers, Robbie Faloon and John McDonagh were keen to run ball at the Dungannon backline, however sound defence from the visitors limited any significant territorial advantage. Early in the second half, the forwards led by Bassett, Andrew Morton and Jamie Haughey  upped the ante,  and after  taking play into the  Dungannon 22, captain Joe Clarke powered over at the posts for another converted try to bring the score to 17-5 to Armagh. If the home support  thought that the seconds  would pull away to comfortably  win the game, Dungannon  had other ideas.  A penalty was quickly added to their tally followed by two tries by the visiting fullback to put Dungannon into an unlikely lead with 10 minutes to go. 20 \u2013 17 to Dungannon. Even though halfbacks David Spratt and Robbie Magowan were combining well to give the team a platform in the visitors 22, Dungannon repelled several Armagh forays through determined tackling.  With time running out Armagh had a lineout on the 22 and with the  ball won, the home  pack set off on a rolling maul right up to the visitors line with prop Andrew Morton claiming  the crucial match winning try.   Full time score,  Armagh seconds 22, Dungannon seconds 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local derby at the Palace grounds. Armagh seconds played their Dungannon counterparts in a 2nd xv league game at the Palace grounds last Thursday night. With the ground conditions being very wet, and even though handling was difficult, this was to prove to be a very entertaining game. Shortly after the kick off, Armagh lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11461],"tags":[7894,17191,5774,4719,17190,4276,7227,4702,3959,4281],"class_list":["post-55698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-armagh-clubs","tag-7894","tag-armagh","tag-city","tag-club","tag-dungannon","tag-ii","tag-october","tag-report","tag-rugby","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55698","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=55698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55700,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55698\/revisions\/55700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}