Good form continues at Portadown<\/p>\n
Bangor claimed another big league scalp at Portadown where they produced an excellent team performance to secure a bonus point win by 22-27.<\/p>\n
With the only change from last week\u2019s winning line-up against Clogher Valley being Oran McIlmurry \u2013 still recovering from a nasty blow to the head \u2013 hopes were high that the disappointments of last season\u2019s encounters could be overcome. For Portadown\u2019s part, they were anxious to keep up the pressure on Instonians at the top of the table \u2013 hence the scene was set for a fascinating game with much at stake for all concerned.<\/p>\n
The opening skirmishes were cagey affairs, with both sides sizing up their opposite numbers, but it was Bangor who had the initial territorial advantage. Rucks were being keenly contested, but after 8 minutes an over-zealous attempt by the Portadown scrum half to get the ball back with his boot resulted in a Bangor penalty in front of the posts. The kicking opportunity was successfully taken by Mark Thompson, giving Bangor an early 0-3 lead. See mote at :- http:\/\/www.pitchero.com\/clubs\/bangorrfc\/s\/match-centre-35649\/1-1031687<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good form continues at Portadown Bangor claimed another big league scalp at Portadown where they produced an excellent team performance to secure a bonus point win by 22-27. With the only change from last week\u2019s winning line-up against Clogher Valley being Oran McIlmurry \u2013 still recovering from a nasty blow to the head \u2013 hopes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,773],"tags":[14964,17216,7683,5904,7222,17256],"class_list":["post-74254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangor","category-portadown","tag-1s","tag-bangor","tag-continues","tag-form","tag-good","tag-portadown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74254","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=74254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74256,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74254\/revisions\/74256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}