J4/J5 [Social Rugby] Season 2013/14

LeinsterDub

Onceawasp wrote: »

Is it right that I am still aching from Monday? Hoping tonight will shake it out of me!

Hopefully get a dry evening again tonight! I will get gum shield on the way home tonight. I will also invest in a pair of boots and get a pair of white shorts/ tarf socks! Anything else will have to wait.

Allez for now.....

Did you do anything yesterday? A light jog or swim will help get the blood flowing and shift the lactic acid... unless it's DOMS in which case you'll just need to grim and bare it

.ak

Yeah, I was at a fairly decent level of fitness before I started, or so I thought.... There's certain areas I found really got destroyed after the first day, mostly my hip flexors, glutes and groin, hammers and quads were a bit tender too. It's funny, you think you've got to a decent shape until you run around a rugby pitch a few times. :P

.ak

Also yeah those aches will go away straight away once you do a warm up I find. If you have a bike it's a good idea to get on that the following day.

I find jumping straight into a warm up game of tip before hand isn't the best idea unless you're used to playing a lot of sports. Stretching is key. It can be fun jumping straight into a game, but I reckon that's how I picked up my current niggle. Do a bit of a jog first, warm up, then stretch, really go after the areas that ache the most, your hamstring especially. You'll feel way more refreshed and loose afterwards as well. Takes 5 minutes and then you can join in.

LeinsterDub

DIVISION TEAMS DAY
1
1 Clontarf 2 Sunday
2 Dublin University 2 Sunday
3 Greystones 2 Sunday
4 Lansdowne 2 Sunday
5 Old Belvedere 2 Sunday
6 St Marys College 2 Sunday
7 Terenure College 2 Sunday
8 UCD 2 Sunday

2
1 Blackrock College 2 Sunday
2 Boyne 2 Sunday
3 Naas 2 Sunday
4 Navan 2 Sunday
5 NUIM Barnhall 2 Sunday
6 Old Wesley 2 Sunday
7 Seapoint 2 Sunday
8 Suttonians 2 Sunday

3
1 Bective Rangers 2 Saturday
2 Clontarf 3 Saturday
3 De La Salle Palmerston 2 Sunday
4 Lansdowne 3 Saturday
5 Skerries 2 Sunday
6 St Marys College 3 Saturday
7 Stillorgan 1 Saturday
8 Tullamore 2 Sunday

4
1 Bective Rangers 3 Friday
2 Blackrock College 3 Sunday
3 Lansdowne 4 Friday
4 Malahide 2 Friday
5 Old Belvedere 3 Friday
6 Old Wesley 3 Friday
7 Rathdrum 1 Sunday
8 Terenure College 3 Sunday

5
1 CYM 1 Sunday
2 Dublin University 3 Sunday
3 Greystones 3 Friday
4 NUIM Barnhall 3 Sunday
5 St Marys College 4 Friday
6 Suttonians 3 Friday
7 UCD 3 Friday
8 Wanderers 3 Friday/Sunday

6
1 Clontarf 4 Saturday
2 Guinness 2 Saturday
3 Lansdowne 5 Saturday
4 Monkstown 3 Friday
5 Naas 3 Friday
6 St Marys College 5 Saturday
7 Terenure College 4 Saturday
8 Wanderers 4 Saturday

7
1 AIB 1 Saturday
2 Clondalkin 3 Sunday
3 Coolmine 3 Saturday
4 Old Belvedere 4 Saturday
5 Old Wesley 4 Saturday
6 Parkmore 1 Saturday
7 Stillorgan 2 Saturday
8 Tallaght 1 Saturday

8
1 Blackrock College 4 Saturday
2 De La Salle Palmerston 3 Saturday
3 Dublin University 4 Saturday
4 Greystones 4 Saturday
5 NUIM Barnhall 4 Saturday
6 Seapoint 3 Saturday
7 Terenure College 5 Saturday
8 UCD 4 Saturday

9
1 Bective Rangers 4 Saturday
2 Gorey 3 Saturday
3 Malahide 3 Saturday
4 Millmount House 1 Saturday
5 Swords 2 Saturday
6 Terenure College 6 Saturday
7 Unidare 1 Saturday


10
1 Bective Rangers 5 Saturday
2 Clontarf 5 Saturday
3 CYM 2 Saturday
4 Emerald Warriors 1 Saturday
5 Monkstown 4 Saturday
6 Railway Union 3 Saturday
7 St Marys College 6 Saturday
8 Terenure College 7 Saturday

11
1 Clondalkin 4 Saturday
2 De La Salle Palmerston 4 Saturday
3 Kilkenny 3 Saturday
4 Normans 1 Saturday
5 RCSI 1 Saturday
6 Stillorgan 3 Saturday

Pudsy33

Tallaght in division 7. Not sure if I'm happy or terrified

LeinsterDub

.ak where is the cut off? Div 6 or 7? We need this to be an exclusive thread for the former J4/5 old boys :P;)

.ak

Div 6! Infact, Div 6 looks quite tough.... Here's to hoping I only make the Clontarf J5 team. :P

.ak

molloyjh wrote: »

No it's in Donnybrook. Not sure what time though.

You sure it's Donnybrook? Got a text saying it's home?

molloyjh

.ak wrote: »

You sure it's Donnybrook? Got a text saying it's home?

They def said Donnybrook on Monday. I didn't get a txt myself, but I'll double check this evening.

stephen_n

ColmH81 wrote: »

Boots are compulsory.. Shin pads are at your own discretion... VERY rarely have I seen players wear them.. I wore one for a game last season to protect an injury..

If you play front row I'd advise them. I got used to wearing them when playing hooker and would have shattered my shin in Guinesses the season before last against the pitchside railings if I wasn't wearing them.

delta_bravo

Only one Tallaght team? They had two or I think even three a few seasons back

Pudsy33

delta_bravo wrote: »

Only one Tallaght team? They had two or I think even three a few seasons back

We struggled to maintain both teams last year so we are just fielding the one this year.

molloyjh

.ak wrote: »

You sure it's Donnybrook? Got a text saying it's home?

Confirmed as Clontarf at 3. Will try and make it down, even though it scuppers my Craft Beer plans....

Teferi

.ak wrote: »

Div 6! Infact, Div 6 looks quite tough.... Here's to hoping I only make the Clontarf J5 team. :P

I'm in Div 6 too. What position do you play so I know who to flatten shake hands with after the match?

.ak

Teferi wrote: »

I'm in Div 6 too. What position do you play so I know who to flatten shake hands with after the match?

Ha! I'll probably end up in div11 tbh

Losty Dublin

.ak wrote: »

Ha! I'll probably end up in div11 tbh

If they are short :pac:;):p

.ak

Losty Dublin wrote: »

If they are short :pac:;):p

If the reserve's reserves are sick!

stephen_n

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We struggled to maintain both teams last year so we are just fielding the one this year.

That's a pity, Tallaght seemed to be growing strongly over the last number of years, was hoping you's would kick on with getting your own ground.

Pudsy33

stephen_n wrote: »

That's a pity, Tallaght seemed to be growing strongly over the last number of years, was hoping you's would kick on with getting your own ground.

We are in the process of building a club house, so we certainly are moving up in the world. This year, fielding one competitive team is far preferable to having two struggling. We have very high hopes

stephen_n

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We are in the process of building a club house, so we certainly are moving up in the world. This year, fielding one competitive team is far preferable to having two struggling. We have very high hopes

In the long term hopefully the youths will bring the club forward, a lot of schools playing rugby now in Tallaght, so the long term should be bright once you's have the clubhouse and pitch done.

Scobius90

shoutman wrote: »

Think this should be turned from J4/J5 thread into the clontarf thread (by the way there is a clontarf social rugby profile/page on facebook somewhere)

Tee hee hee

BTW for all the new Tarf guys complaining about pain and aches, its simply DOMS :eek:. Keep at it and this aspect will dissipate over the next few weeks.

Teferi

Scobius90 wrote: »

Tee hee hee

BTW for all the new Tarf guys complaining about pain and aches, its simply because they are puffs

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Suckfisher

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We struggled to maintain both teams last year so we are just fielding the one this year.

Thats a real shame in such a big catchment area even if its not a rugby hot spot.
The great thing about having two teams is everyone gets game time no matter what there ability.
Now your second team is going to ship lots of hidings but lads who maybe not god enough for j4 or are beginners can learn and play.
With an underage set up i think its poor not been able to have two teams.

Winters

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We are in the process of building a club house, so we certainly are moving up in the world. This year, fielding one competitive team is far preferable to having two struggling. We have very high hopes

Where abouts are you building the club house? Well done and best of luck.

.ak

How'd the clontarf bectiv friendly go?

jamesbondings

.ak wrote: »

How'd the clontarf bectiv friendly go?

Clontarf won 50-0 in fairness though we had 34 players at our disposal 12 debutants got a run out also. Was a good game bective only had a skeleton crew and got an injury during the game.

Pudsy33

Winters wrote: »

Where abouts are you building the club house? Well done and best of luck.

Up in kiltipper I believe.

We won our first game today 7-3 against Unidare

GiftofGab

So is there a J6 league now??

How are Stillorgan doing for numbers? Still have enough numbers to field 3 competitive teams?

The Lost Sheep

GiftofGab wrote: »

So is there a J6 league now??

How are Stillorgan doing for numbers? Still have enough numbers to field 3 competitive teams?

All junior grades from J1 to J6 are now interlinked in divisions of 8 teams. J6 will be the bottom divisions.
Post 205 has the divisions and who is in each division
Stillorgan fielding 3 teams afaik

Zuffer

Any rumors of a fixture list or first round of matches?

shoutman

Zuffer wrote: »

Any rumors of a fixture list or first round of matches?

I heard somewhere that fixture list is out this week and first round of matches are the weekend of the 28th of September.

Still sore after the first match at the weekend. Training again tonight and not feeling it at all at the minute.

stephen_n

shoutman wrote: »

I heard somewhere that fixture list is out this week and first round of matches are the weekend of the 28th of September.

Still sore after the first match at the weekend. Training again tonight and not feeling it at all at the minute.

Getting over the first match is always a bitch no matter how fit/unfit you are that first game always hurts, not looking forward to that feeling at all.

.ak

Was hoping to be back training tomorrow and hopefully get a preseason game in but physio wants me to leave it another week. Boo-urns!

dregin

Got a muscle spasm in my back in the first contact session a couple of weeks back. Only got it seen to by a physio yesterday. One shoulder was resting ~2 inches higher than the other, so have to spend about another week stretching the damn thing out again.

Go to training anyway, .ak. There'll always be something to be learned even just watching. Also, it's FAR too easy to get out of the swing of things and just not go to training once the injury's cleared up.

.ak

dregin wrote: »

Got a muscle spasm in my back in the first contact session a couple of weeks back. Only got it seen to by a physio yesterday. One shoulder was resting ~2 inches higher than the other, so have to spend about another week stretching the damn thing out again.

Go to training anyway, .ak. There'll always be something to be learned even just watching. Also, it's FAR too easy to get out of the swing of things and just not go to training once the injury's cleared up.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Although personally I'm dying to get back training, as I really enjoyed it. So don't think I'll be out of the swing of things yet!

Problem is the physio has me doing a lot of work every evening, 2 hours a day, so wouldn't really get the time to do both.

How'd the shoulder end up like that?? Over compensating or something?

Hopefully back next Wednesday!

kilkennym

so any idea when the fixture list will be out?

chris85

.ak wrote: »

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Although personally I'm dying to get back training, as I really enjoyed it. So don't think I'll be out of the swing of things yet!

Problem is the physio has me doing a lot of work every evening, 2 hours a day, so wouldn't really get the time to do both.

How'd the shoulder end up like that?? Over compensating or something?

Hopefully back next Wednesday!

Home friendly this Friday .ak so should drop in and have a look at the team playing if you get a chance.

.ak

chris85 wrote: »

Home friendly this Friday .ak so should drop in and have a look at the team playing if you get a chance.

Yeah gonna try and make that.

jamesbondings

.ak wrote: »

Yeah gonna try and make that.

any ideas if its home or away yet lads?

.ak

jamesbondings wrote: »

any ideas if its home or away yet lads?

Home, 7.30 ko.

jamesbondings

nice under lights love playing under the lights on the firsts pitch!

kilkennym

OHH get you!!!! LMAO

dregin

.ak wrote: »

How'd the shoulder end up like that?? Over compensating or something?

The muscle spasm caused the muscle to contract quite a bit and I adopted a posture to accommodate this. When the muscle went back to a relaxed state, it wasn't getting pulled back to it's proper position because of the poor posture, so now I need to work on it to get it stretched back to its full length.

This is what I took from the physio's explanation at least

kilkennym

so anyone know whats the skinny on the normans rfc?

LeinsterDub

kilkennym wrote: »

so anyone know whats the skinny on the normans rfc?

How you mean? They are a recently set up club last 3 or 4 years . I've played against them and they are a sound bunch of lads

Teferi

First night of full contact training tonight, in a hack now.

LeinsterDub

Teferi wrote: »

First night of full contact training tonight, in a hack now.

Jasus you're late back

Teferi

Nah, we've been back since mid-July. We never really do contact during the summer months.

kilkennym

LeinsterDub wrote: »

How you mean? They are a recently set up club last 3 or 4 years . I've played against them and they are a sound bunch of lads

are they any good?

cloneslad

kilkennym wrote: »

are they any good?

If they could get some people out to training and work on some moves then they'll do okay.

They were easily the best bunch of lads we played against all last season, I hope they keep going and can get a proper club up and running.