{"id":57876,"date":"2013-11-11T20:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=57876"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:07:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:07:24","slug":"ballymena-rfc-reports-xv-21-v-old-wesley-6-xv-31-v-city-armagh-rfc-xv-13-braidmen-notch-fourth-successive-ail-league-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ballymena-rfc-reports-xv-21-v-old-wesley-6-xv-31-v-city-armagh-rfc-xv-13-braidmen-notch-fourth-successive-ail-league-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymena RFC Reports on I XV 21 v Old Wesley 6 + I XV 31 v City Of Armagh RFC I XV 13 + Movember &#038; Braidmen notch up fourth successive AIL League Win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Armagh 13 Ballymena 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game against Armagh, which could not be played when the Ulster Branch failed to provide a referee, was played at the Palace Grounds on Saturday. Ballymena were pushed hard by a determined Armagh side, and with the score at 17-13 in Ballymena&#8217;s favour, it was beginning to look a bit tight. Two late converted tries by Johnston out a better gloss on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Six Nations International Tickets &#8211; Order Now!<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the home fixtures in the 2014 Six Nations Tournament are available and can be ordered through the club. To download an order form, click here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ballymena 21 Old Wesley 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four AIL games played, four victories, two try bonus points, only three tries conceded and top of the 2A table. Not a bad position to be in as we go into the break for the Autumn Internationals. For the second week in succession the elements played a major role in events on the field, with most of the game played in torrential rain. Ballymena scored two tries in the first half through Entwhistle and O&#8217;Hara, both converted by Small, and turned round at the break 14-6 ahead. All the team&#8217;s defensive qualties were needed for a good part of the second half, which remained scoreless until five minutes from the end, when Connor Smyth scored a try from close range, again converted by Small. The heady days of running with the ball in the sunshine seem but a distant memory.<\/p>\n<p>follow ythis link for Ballymena Times story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenatimes.com\/sport\/local-sport\/braidmen-notch-fourth-successive-league-win-1-5645606\">http:\/\/www.ballymenatimes.com\/sport\/local-sport\/braidmen-notch-fourth-successive-league-win-1-5645606<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the players are also supporting the Movember initiative whereby men grow mustaches to support various mens health charities, Roo MCcudden is pictured below<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/roo-mccudden.jpg\" alt=\"roo mccudden\" width=\"199\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57877\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please give generously to this worthy cause, no doubt more mustache development pictures to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armagh 13 Ballymena 31 The game against Armagh, which could not be played when the Ulster Branch failed to provide a referee, was played at the Palace Grounds on Saturday. Ballymena were pushed hard by a determined Armagh side, and with the score at 17-13 in Ballymena&#8217;s favour, it was beginning to look a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7894,6248,17191,17197,5226,17347,4373,5816,3959,13166],"class_list":["post-57876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballymena","tag-7894","tag-6248","tag-armagh","tag-ballymena","tag-league","tag-movember","tag-reports","tag-rfc","tag-rugby","tag-wins-ail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57876","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=57876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57880,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57876\/revisions\/57880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}