{"id":75489,"date":"2014-11-03T22:10:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=75489"},"modified":"2014-11-03T22:10:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:10:24","slug":"report-strabane-2s-v-finn-valley-1s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/report-strabane-2s-v-finn-valley-1s\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Strabane 2s v Finn Valley 1s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd XV travelled to Finn Valley on Saturday to play on the Ireland\u2019s smallest pitch. The Strabane team eventually coming out on top with a scoreline of 19-15. Early possession and territorial dominance was rewarded with an early 3 point lead, Strabane however were shocked when the home team registered the first try. A mix up in defence from a ruck allowed the Valley\u2019s ball carrier to go under the posts to give them a 7-3 lead. Both outhalves exchanged penalties meaning a half time scoreline of 10-6. Strabane were disappointed at this scoreline having played all the rugby but were unable to turn the pressure in to points.<br \/>\nStrabane started off the second half with a slightly different game plan and attempted to play with the wind and rain a little more. Early pressure was rewarded with another penalty which brought the gap between to just 1 point. Strabane now had their tail\u2019s up further pressure was rewarded with a try of their own through John Blair, pressure on the Finn Valley line resulted in John finding himself outside centre Clive Allen, who drew a defender and popped it off to JB and that man can\u2019t be stopped from 5m. The try converted meant Strabane now had 6 point lead&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; see more at :- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StrabaneRugbyClub?fref=ts\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StrabaneRugbyClub?fref=ts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd XV travelled to Finn Valley on Saturday to play on the Ireland\u2019s smallest pitch. The Strabane team eventually coming out on top with a scoreline of 19-15. Early possession and territorial dominance was rewarded with an early 3 point lead, Strabane however were shocked when the home team registered the first try. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4086],"tags":[7958,5960,4702,17314,4280,5961],"class_list":["post-75489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strabane-clubs","tag-2s","tag-finn","tag-report","tag-strabane","tag-v","tag-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75489","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=75489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75490,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75489\/revisions\/75490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}