{"id":8911,"date":"2011-01-31T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2020-10-22T18:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:08:57","slug":"perrenials-i-xv-v-banbridge-president-select-xv-report-pics-interview-video-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/perrenials-i-xv-v-banbridge-president-select-xv-report-pics-interview-video-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Perrenials I XV v Banbridge President Select XV: Report, Pics, Interview & Video Of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday afternoon at 2.30pm is rarely quiet for Perrenials. After many of them have painted the town red the night before they assemble for a game of fiercely competitive rugby.
\nAs one commented “This is the age group that have played and know every trick and play in the book & how to execute it”.
\nSo it was the case when we witnessed some free flowing rugby. When they kicked it was precise.
\nClick Here for 66 photos from the game<\/a>
\nClick Here for photos from the game on the Perrenials Rugby website
\nThe game was won by the Perrenials and you will see in the video interview below that the Perrenials have an efficient well drilled team who play alot of rugby together. Banbridge it could be argued where slow starters and had assembled their team the week before.
\nNot to take anything away from The Perrenials who were sharp, focused and resolute in every aspect of play.
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\nA very entertaining game to watch with both sides displaying excellent spacial awareness, passing, rucking and lineout skills all in display.
\nThanks guys for another entertaining game and great to see Fusco nearly scoring in the last minute.<\/p>\n

OFFICIAL PERRENIALS REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perennials v Banbridge<\/p>\n

On a Spring type afternoon at Belfast Harlequins, a very disappointing turn out of only 19 players from the Perennials excelled in coming out on top by 5 tryies to 4, against a very strong Banbridge fifteen.<\/p>\n

With a starting back row with a combined age of 150 years plus and the IRFU\u2019s new fund raiser Gerry O\u2019Donnell packing down at wing forward, the Perennials threw its youth policy out the window. After a slow start in the first quarter they managed to recover, to use their considerable experience to turn the scoreboard around.<\/p>\n

Tries from the youth members in our team of George Neely,\u00a0 Kevin Simpson (a brace I have been told), Peter Sanford\u00a0and Ritchie Weir helped the Perennials\u00a0to their second win of the year (and season). <\/p>\n

The consensus after the game from the referees was that the Perennials\u00a0had found a great raw talent in their new wing George Neely.\u00a0They felt wing was his best position, as it was a position normally far removed from the action, that let the referees run the game without vocal interference.<\/p>\n

In a post match interview the Perennial\u2019s captain Willie Oakes emphasized that his team was undefeated in 2011 and things were looking up to finish the year still undefeated. When asked about results from the start of the season to the end of 2010 he declined to comment.<\/p>\n

A big thank you to referees Tim Lowry and Graeme Gibson\u00a0and a special thanks to Bernie McGrath\u00a0for again laying on a first class spread after the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday afternoon at 2.30pm is rarely quiet for Perrenials. After many of them have painted the town red the night before they assemble for a game of fiercely competitive rugby. As one commented “This is the age group that have played and know every trick and play in the book & how to execute it”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,4089],"tags":[190,3824,4287],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banbridge","category-perrenials","tag-banbridge-rugby","tag-perrenials-rugby","tag-presidents-select"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","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=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631883,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions\/631883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}