Provincial Schools thread 2012-2013 *MOD WARNING POST 1*

the baby bull elephant

ormond lad wrote: »

Good to see competitions like this but why not 7s. Surely with olympics etc it would be better to have a 7s competition.
Shame they will not have the A/B schools in same competition as C schools
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/domestic/news/11623.php

At least there's the Umbrella 7's in Terenure on Saturday.

ormond lad

Connacht semis today and thursday.
Garbally v Colaiste Iognaid and Marist College v Sligo Grammar
Iognaid and Marist probably favourites. Anyone disagree?

Munster senior semi finals are also being played today and thursday.
Rockwell play Munchins today in Tipp town while Crescent play CBC in Tom Clifford Park thursday.

RobbieRuns

ormond lad wrote: »

Connacht semis today and thursday.
Garbally v Colaiste Iognaid and Marist College v Sligo Grammar
Iognaid and Marist probably favourites. Anyone disagree?

Munster senior semi finals are also being played today and thursday.
Rockwell play Munchins today in Tipp town while Crescent play CBC in Tom Clifford Park thursday.

Jes and Marist should go through with Marist overall favourites.

What about Munster Schools?

ormond lad

RobbieRuns wrote: »

Jes and Marist should go through with Marist overall favourites.

What about Munster Schools?

Rockwell and Munchins 3-3 after 25 mins
Garbally beat Colaiste Iognaid 11-8

RobbieRuns

Fair play to Garbally, and with the players that they have lost to Roscrea, great win for the Ballinasloe boys

ormond lad

6-6 in munchins v rockwell
halfway through 2nd half

opinionatedfan

and we have kicked off. newbridge kick.

takes a touch of a micheals player and straight out for lineout 5m out.

opinionatedfan

ryan almost steals, bridge goes wide.

good defence though.

knockon, micheal's scrum inside 22

opinionatedfan

byrne with good clearance, lineout bridge.

goes wide sloppily and too deep.

and kick but goes dead. scrum micheals.

opinionatedfan

lovely wrap around by byrne, but penalty for bridge.

lineout on the 22.

territory and possession all bridge so far.

opinionatedfan

lineout disrupted by murphy, leads to scrum.

kick which leads to an accidental offside, scrum micheals.

great run by kelleher, leads to a lovely try by O'Hare

opinionatedfan

some wonderful off loads by the forwards, allen to penny to coulson to O'Hare.

some great passes there.

all came from Kelleher's lovely break.

7 - 0 to Micheals after 9 minutes.

great conversion

opinionatedfan

poor box kick by mccarthy lineout bridge on 22.

maul, making yards.

and wide, but driven backwards.

no advantage, penalty 10m out to bridge.

opinionatedfan

lineout 5m out to bridge.

but micheals able to shepard bridge player, lineout lost by micheals.

bridge attack again, advantage, goes wide.

penalty for no advantage, 5m out.

RobbieRuns

Thanks OF.............

opinionatedfan

bridge going for the points.

bridge dominated territory so far, so really need to convert this to have something to show for all their effort.

7 - 3.

Healy converts.

opinionatedfan

lovely kickoff, micheals claim. clever kick through by gilsenan just squirts out. lineout to bridge inside their 22.

not taken cleanly again., cleared but micheals lineout inside 22

opinionatedfan

penalty to micheals in from the side, byrne going for 3.

not the best angle for a right footed kicker and missed.

7 - 3 to Micheals.

opinionatedfan

17 minutes gone.

good work by newbridge, penalty just inside micheals half, healy going for 3 points.

very far out, just missed

7 - 3 to Micheals.

opinionatedfan

micheals penalty just outside their 22 for hands on the ground.

lineout around halfway to micheals.

and wide, micheals making yards easily, some passing releases kelleher

great play by newbridge 7 causes penalty and cleared by bridge for lineout.

opinionatedfan

overthrown and micheals have.

inside the 22 now, but again some good defence causes a penalty to be given away.

opinionatedfan

bridge number 8 off for blood sub.

bridge kick, fails to find touch.

byrne passing very flat and finally clever kick behind the defence leads to lineout to bridge inside their 22.

opinionatedfan

micheals disrupt and steal.

great drive by murphy and it goes wide again. 5m out.

byrne breaks a tackle and it keeps going.

mccarthy breaks, try.

12-3 to micheals.

ormond lad

Rockwell beat Munchins 13-6 in Munster semi. Try in injury time to win

opinionatedfan

27 minutes gone.. lovely offload again by coulson lead to try.

conversion to come

14 - 3 Micheals.

opinionatedfan

wrong thread by bad.

stuckintipp

ormond lad wrote: »

Rockwell beat Munchins 13-6 in Munster semi. Try in injury time to win

Was it a fair result? Hearing that Munchins were very upset about poor time keeping, any truth in this?

awec

Ulster Schools Cup this year is RBAI v Methody. Just for the sake of variety, y'know. :P

opinionatedfan

awec wrote: »

Ulster Schools Cup this year is RBAI v Methody. Just for the sake of variety, y'know. :P

any standouts?

awec

opinionatedfan wrote: »

any standouts?

I have no idea at all about schools rugby, I didn't go to any of the major rugby schools up home so never really cared.

Just saw the news on my facebook. Usually watch the final on tv on St Pats day if I have the time.

ormond lad

awec wrote: »

Ulster Schools Cup this year is RBAI v Methody. Just for the sake of variety, y'know. :P

opinionatedfan wrote: »

any standouts?

Looking at sides from previous games and players whove been looked at for international selection
Anderson, Atkinson RBAI and Kane, Lagan Methody are names that stand out

Munsters 19s for next season have a trial training session/game in Annacotty next monday night

ormond lad

Munster senior semi final
Crescent Comp 3 CBC 3
3-3 at halftime as well. Anyone at the game?
Match Report is below
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/domestic/news/11672.php

ormond lad

FIRA competition that the Irish Schools are competing in starts friday week. Irelands first game is against Georgia friday week. 2nd game is against the winner/loser of France v Italy. Opponent in 3rd game will depend on how we do in the first 2 games.

Squad will be expected to do well considering the Schools were not competing until a few months ago(because of the proximity of the competition to the Senior Cups campaigns and Leaving Certificate mock exams.) when it was decided that the Schools would replace the Youths in the FIRA.
Presume squad will be the same as the squad that beat the Irish Youths
B Dardis (Terenure); C Brennan (Roscrea), A Leavy (St Michael's), F Cleary (Clongowes Wood), S McMahon (Rockwell); R Byrne (St Michael's), J Fullerton (Campbell); M Lagan (Methodist), S McNulty (Rockwell), O Heffernan (Roscrea), D O'Connor (Blackrock), J Ryan (St Michael's), J Murphy (St Michael's), R Moloney (Roscrea), N Timoney (Blackrock).
A Roche (Terenure), G Reynolds (King's Hospital), L O'Connor (CBC Cork), O Jager (Blackrock), R Lalor (Terenure), P Thornton (Terenure); C Rock (Blackrock), M Courtney (CBC Monkstown), J Owens
(Campbell).

Also any news on the Ulster v Munster u19s fixture scheduled for saturday week?

Quint2010

ormond lad wrote: »

FIRA competition that the Irish Schools are competing in starts friday week. Irelands first game is against Georgia friday week. 2nd game is against the winner/loser of France v Italy. Opponent in 3rd game will depend on how we do in the first 2 games.

Squad will be expected to do well considering the Schools were not competing until a few months ago(because of the proximity of the competition to the Senior Cups campaigns and Leaving Certificate mock exams.) when it was decided that the Schools would replace the Youths in the FIRA.
Presume squad will be the same as the squad that beat the Irish Youths
B Dardis (Terenure); C Brennan (Roscrea), A Leavy (St Michael's), F Cleary (Clongowes Wood), S McMahon (Rockwell); R Byrne (St Michael's), J Fullerton (Campbell); M Lagan (Methodist), S McNulty (Rockwell), O Heffernan (Roscrea), D O'Connor (Blackrock), J Ryan (St Michael's), J Murphy (St Michael's), R Moloney (Roscrea), N Timoney (Blackrock).
A Roche (Terenure), G Reynolds (King's Hospital), L O'Connor (CBC Cork), O Jager (Blackrock), R Lalor (Terenure), P Thornton (Terenure); C Rock (Blackrock), M Courtney (CBC Monkstown), J Owens
(Campbell).

Also any news on the Ulster v Munster u19s fixture scheduled for saturday week?

How come they went back on the decision not to field the schools team? I'd expect Brewer and McCarthy to be in the schools squad too.

RobbieRuns

It still is the schools, don't think that he is saying that it changed again (just originally from the Youths).

Brewer and McCarthy will be there for sure, they were just injured at the Christmas and OL was just pointing out that the main squad was as listed for the game during that period. It will still be the bulk of the players, although cut down a bit for the tournament.

There will probably be a few other changes as well I am sure.

Good luck to them all, everyone expects them to do very well.

ormond lad

Munster Schools Snr Cup semi-final replay halftime score Crescent 0 CBC 0

ormond lad

ormond lad wrote: »

Munster Schools Snr Cup semi-final replay halftime score Crescent 0 CBC 0

Crescent won 7-6. Last minute try to win

mrpdap

ormond lad wrote: »

Crescent won 7-6. Last minute try to win

Fair play to Crescent for keeping going.
I hate to blame the Ref but the 'man' is an utter disgrace to humanity. 12 minutes of injury time in the second half alone.
He is the only one who understands why he did it and has to live with his decision.
That's it from me, a sad way to lose a game.
I will let MAR know my thoughts in writing
Good night and good luck to all

stuckintipp

mrpdap wrote: »

Fair play to Crescent for keeping going.
I hate to blame the Ref but the 'man' is an utter disgrace to humanity. 12 minutes of injury time in the second half alone.
He is the only one who understands why he did it and has to live with his decision.
That's it from me, a sad way to lose a game.
I will let MAR know my thoughts in writing
Good night and good luck to all

After the scolding the ref in the Munchins - Rockwell Match got for playing 5 min too little in the first half on a day where the wind was very strong and strongly benefitted the team with it. No wonder Munchins were furious, imagine an attacking scrum deep in the 22 and the ref blows for half time with 5 min left!!! Crazy.

How can such incompetence be accepted by MAR.

ozymandias10

Castletroy beat Ard Scoil Rís in the Munster Junior Cup semi Final.

ormond lad

Connacht senior schools final result
Marist College 23 Garbally College 11

Jackobyte

mrpdap wrote: »

Fair play to Crescent for keeping going.
I hate to blame the Ref but the 'man' is an utter disgrace to humanity. 12 minutes of injury time in the second half alone.
He is the only one who understands why he did it and has to live with his decision.
That's it from me, a sad way to lose a game.
I will let MAR know my thoughts in writing
Good night and good luck to all

Have heard from people at the match that it wasn't 12 minutes at all despite the reports that it was. The timer started the second half at 40:00 when the match was only 35mins a half, meaning when the timer read 82, it was really only gone to 77 minutes, which wasn't outrageous when considering the injuries(apparently).

ormond lad

Marist win Connacht Senior Cup
http://domestic.connachtrugby.ie/201303142457/marist-college-retain-the-connacht-schools-senior-cup

Any players stand out?
Was Meunargia injured as he seemed to do well with Connacht in Sept yet didnt start final.

Munster Final on Setanta monday before the Leinster final so with the Ulster final live on BBC NI the Connacht final last wed the only final not live on tv.

Preview of Munster final
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/domestic/news/11700.php

ormond lad

Any opinions on the Munster/Ulster finals due to be played tomorrow?
Think Rockwell and Methody will win

Attention will turn to the FIRA after tomorrows games unless there is draws and replays are required. How do people think the schools will do in this competition?
Results of some of some countries warm up games are below. Based on those Ireland and England will be the 2 favourites to make the final
Georgia 46-12 London Wasps u18s
Wales 29-27 France
England 57-13 Scotland
Scotland 25-0 Ireland Youths
England 44-7 Wales
Hartpury College U18 31-26 Georgia U18
Italy U18 14-27 Japan U18
Wales u18 12 Leicester Academy 22
England u18 28 Leicester Academy 27

Tox56

ormond lad wrote: »

Any opinions on the Munster/Ulster finals due to be played tomorrow?
Think Rockwell and Methody will win

Attention will turn to the FIRA after tomorrows games unless there is draws and replays are required. How do people think the schools will do in this competition?
Results of some of some countries warm up games are below. Based on those Ireland and England will be the 2 favourites to make the final
Georgia 46-12 London Wasps u18s
Wales 29-27 France
England 57-13 Scotland
Scotland 25-0 Ireland Youths
England 44-7 Wales
Hartpury College U18 31-26 Georgia U18
Italy U18 14-27 Japan U18

Have the schools not played any warm up games?

ormond lad

Tox56 wrote: »

Have the schools not played any warm up games?

Played youths round xmas but doubt they will have played any games recently because of the cups. First game next friday

RobbieRuns

Schools first game of the FIRA is against Georgia, who lost a warm up game to England U17 this weekend. They should win that comfortably. The next game will probably be against France who play Italy first (who drew with the Irish Clubs). France will always be tough. England probably await the winner of the Ireland France game to decide the overall winner. I would say that we have a great chance of winning the tournament.

its_phil

RobbieRuns wrote: »

Schools first game of the FIRA is against Georgia, who lost a warm up game to England U17 this weekend. They should win that comfortably. The next game will probably be against France who play Italy first (who drew with the Irish Clubs). France will always be tough. England probably await the winner of the Ireland France game to decide the overall winner. I would say that we have a great chance of winning the tournament.

Going by Bernard Jackman on Against The Head he was saying French underage rugby is in trouble and the production line is not strong. He says they are under conditioned and behind in the physicality ranks by about a year.

funtime93

its_phil wrote: »

Going by Bernard Jackman on Against The Head he was saying French underage rugby is in trouble and the production line is not strong. He says they are under conditioned and behind in the physicality ranks by about a year.

He compared their 18 year olds to Irelands 15 year olds in terms of skill level.

its_phil

funtime93 wrote: »

He compared their 18 year olds to Irelands 15 year olds in terms of skill level.

He said their S+C is way behind, which is their strength and conditioning too.