Schools Rugby 2017 2018 Thread SEE MOD WARNING POST #1773

irishfan9

Sudolife wrote: »

Bell unlikely to play cup, injured at the moment.
Gerard Hill will likely be in the second row, Harry Beggy will be at 6 not 7.
Interesting to note that 5 of the 8 players you included in that pack are in 5th year too.

backline will be something like this:
9 Ted Walsh
10 David Hawkshaw
11 Sam Barry
12 John Meagher
13 Cailean Mulvaney
14 Matt Grogan
15 David lacey

disaster for Bell, what will the pack look like then?

Lacey & Grogan playing rugby? thought both had quit for GAA.

Union123

irishfan9 wrote: »

disaster for Bell, what will the pack look like then?

Lacey & Grogan playing rugby? thought both had quit for GAA.

Lacey back training I've heard on the back of a great minor campaign for Dublin

irishfan9

Union123 wrote: »

Lacey back training I've heard on the back of a great minor campaign for Dublin

Lacey was a talent at JCT level, interested to see how he goes for Belvo..

Probably easier these days to make leinster academy than Dublin seniors...

Ayewserious

Sudolife wrote: »

Bell unlikely to play cup, injured at the moment.
Gerard Hill will likely be in the second row, Harry Beggy will be at 6 not 7.
Interesting to note that 5 of the 8 players you included in that pack are in 5th year too.

backline will be something like this:
9 Ted Walsh
10 David Hawkshaw
11 Sam Barry
12 John Meagher
13 Cailean Mulvaney
14 Matt Grogan
15 David lacey

Will there be any fourth years involved?

Rugby boi

St Gerrads v Castleknock tomorrow, top of the table clash , lots of exciting players from both teams should be a good game

Ally Bren 92

Rugby boi wrote: »

St Gerrads v Castleknock tomorrow, top of the table clash , lots of exciting players from both teams should be a good game

Wow,wouldn’t miss that ,surely these 2 will be battling it out at the RDS on March 17th

Rugby boi

2 dark horses for the cup

irishfan9

Rugby boi wrote: »

St Gerrads v Castleknock tomorrow, top of the table clash , lots of exciting players from both teams should be a good game

Fancy gerards..

Stronger pack lead by Baxter.

FrannoFan

Ally Bren 92 wrote: »

Wow,wouldn’t miss that ,surely these 2 will be battling it out at the RDS on March 17th

nice contribution from the man in his mid 20's who still wonders what teenagers are playing preseason friendlys for his alma mater.

Cody OHare

8 - 6 to Knock at 1/2 time

Cody OHare

8 - 6 to Knock at 1/2 time

irishfan9

Cody OHare wrote: »

8 - 6 to Knock at 1/2 time

teamsheets?

irishfan9

Heard Newbridge have a very talented 9/10 who is in 4th year.

Rugby boi

Gerrads won 20-15 cracking game , knock the much stronger pack , went the whole pitch in about 40 phases scoring right at the end to get a bonus point

irishfan9

Rugby boi wrote: »

Gerrads won 20-15 cracking game , knock the much stronger pack , went the whole pitch in about 40 phases scoring right at the end to get a bonus point

What players impressed? Watson the gerards 10 was at ireland u18 trials last week afaik

Union123

Rugby boi wrote: »

Gerrads won 20-15 cracking game , knock the much stronger pack , went the whole pitch in about 40 phases scoring right at the end to get a bonus point

Is this an exceptional rugby year for Gerard's?

irishfan9

Union123 wrote: »

Is this an exceptional rugby year for Gerard's?

Have some very good talent. Probably best year since Conans year.

Rugby boi

Personally I thought castleknock played very well , dealt with gerrads throughout, gerrads got 2 trues from knock mistakes , knocks pack will lead them strong 2 second rows and back row probably strongest area as well as at 10

Ayewserious

irishfan9 wrote: »

Heard Newbridge have a very talented 9/10 who is in 4th year.

Sam Cahill. Excellent at jct level

leinster_rugby

Great to see St Fintan's qualify for the cup for a second year running. A lot of people, myself included, wrote them off but it's great for the area and testament to the work being done in the school, Clontarf and Suttonians.

Ayewserious

leinster_rugby wrote: »

Great to see St Fintan's qualify for the cup for a second year running. A lot of people, myself included, wrote them off but it's great for the area and testament to the work being done in the school, Clontarf and Suttonians.

Pres bray qualified for the first time in 6 years as well

milosh

Ayewserious wrote: »

Pres bray qualified for the first time in 6 years as well

Not yet. Need a couple of more points from their last 2 games but look very likely. Pres on 9 points with 2 games left so both teams below them can mathematically overtake them. The CUS results in that group don't count as they withdrew before the league began so the table looks a little skewed. Gonzaga, Roscrea and Andrews have qualified with Pres odds on to join them and finish either 2nd or 3rd depending on how the Gonzaga game goes next week.

The other group is done and dusted with a game to spare with Gerards Newbridge Fintans and Castleknock qualifying.

Ayewserious

So cbc and Kilkenny the most likely to come through the Vignny Murray

urbanchick

Rugby boi wrote: »

Gerrads won 20-15 cracking game , knock the much stronger pack , went the whole pitch in about 40 phases scoring right at the end to get a bonus point

Castleknock and Gerards very impressive: Gerard's managed not to get at least 2 yellows, great game : the final try by Castleknock was immense. Standard of rugby at league level improving year on year.

urbanchick

leinster_rugby wrote: »

Great to see St Fintan's qualify for the cup for a second year running. A lot of people, myself included, wrote them off but it's great for the area and testament to the work being done in the school, Clontarf and Suttonians.

I agree it's great for them, but maybe less of the screaming and shouting about it all over social media - have a bit of decorum this year maybe?

irishfan9

urbanchick wrote: »

I agree it's great for them, but maybe less of the screaming and shouting about it all over social media - have a bit of decorum this year maybe?

Ah stop.. all that social media is spreading the game.

Rugby boi

It’s spreading that Fintains are something there not , good against average sides this year crumble against the big teams and at the end of the day it’s school boy rugby the losing team have to go to school next day with the embarrassment of seeing all that sh€t spread on social media , it’s not rugby and not right especially at this level

irishfan9

Rugby boi wrote: »

It’s spreading that Fintains are something there not , good against average sides this year crumble against the big teams and at the end of the day it’s school boy rugby the losing team have to go to school next day with the embarrassment of seeing all that sh€t spread on social media , it’s not rugby and not right especially at this level

Its promoting rugby in a non traditional school.. hardly crumbled last year..

Rugby boi

I agree last year was great for them but putting that nonsense online is uncalled for imagine rock or belvo put up a video after they had come back the uproar that would be caused but it seems alright as it’s “spreading the game ” bollox

irishfan9

Rugby boi wrote: »

I agree last year was great for them but putting that nonsense online is uncalled for imagine rock or belvo put up a video after they had come back the uproar that would be caused but it seems alright as it’s “spreading the game ” bollox

Sounds like sour grapes from a knock supporter

Rugby boi

Actually a neutral from the north side try attend most of belvo or knock games. Fintains were fully deserving last year as knock had no bottle but this year knock blew them out the gate , just don’t like the way Fintains go about there business extremely unsportsmanlike

The Lost Sheep

urbanchick wrote:

I agree it's great for them, but maybe less of the screaming and shouting about it all over social media - have a bit of decorum this year maybe?

what they did was fine. Is what other schools like michaels do on social media also an issue or is it just the smaller schools??

Rugby boi wrote:

It’s spreading that Fintains are something there not , good against average sides this year crumble against the big teams and at the end of the day it’s school boy rugby the losing team have to go to school next day with the embarrassment of seeing all that sh€t spread on social media , it’s not rugby and not right especially at this level

They're not going too far. You could criticise Michaels more for what they put up on social media which is far more ott than anything really that other sides have put online.

The Lost Sheep

Clements limerick got to final of Munster schools senior and junior qualifiers today. Will play colaiste pobail bantry in final of each. Winner then into main cup draws

Ally Bren 92

FrannoFan wrote: »

nice contribution from the man in his mid 20's who still wonders what teenagers are playing preseason friendlys for his alma mater.

Can’t say much yourself pal#SWORDS

urbanchick

irishfan9 wrote: »

Its promoting rugby in a non traditional school.. hardly crumbled last year..

Not good enough for purposely setting out to humiliate teams - everyone knows the grueling schedule of schools rugby : that deserves respect, win with dignity, do they not realize leinster schools laughing at them.

irishfan9

urbanchick wrote: »

, do they not realize leinster schools laughing at them.

Oh the horror

irishfan9

SCT League results:
Gonzaga College 33 V 3 CUS
Kilkenny College 0 V 19 Cistercian College Roscrea
St Andrews College 5 V 10 Presentation College Bray
CBC Monkstown 7 V 17 St Fintans High School
St Gerards School 20 V 15 Castleknock College
The Kings Hospital 0 V 10 Newbridge College

JCT League results:
Cistercian College Roscrea 24 V 17 Kilkenny College
CUS 0 V 12 Gonzaga College
Presentation College Bray 0 V 19 Temple Carrig
Castleknock College 14 V 0 St Gerards School
Newbridge College 34 V 21 The Kings Hospital
The High School 0 V 40 CBC Monkstown

FellasFellas

Kilkenny College looking poor at Senior Level, shipping heavy defeats at home this year, same at Junior level. Even with Swanepoel swapping to Kilkenny, CCR looking the better side in both competitions.

irishfan9

Gonzaga, Castleknock & CBC Monkstown are undefeated at JCT league level.
Pres Bray, Gonzaga, and Gerards are undefeated at SCT league level.

irishfan9

FellasFellas wrote: »

Kilkenny College looking poor at Senior Level, shipping heavy defeats at home this year, same at Junior level. Even with Swanepoel swapping to Kilkenny, CCR looking the better side in both competitions.

Had a very strong JCT team last year, hopefully they can develop and carry on through in years to come.

CCR have more talent at senior, so not surprising they are better at SCT level.

The Lost Sheep

irishfan9 wrote:

Had a very strong JCT team last year, hopefully they can develop and carry on through in years to come.
CCR have more talent at senior, so not surprising they are better at SCT level.

Kilkenny actually playing quite a few of their juniors from last year at senior level. This year may be a write off but they will learn a lot for next year and year after.

irishfan9

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Kilkenny actually playing quite a few of their juniors from last year at senior level. This year may be a write off but they will learn a lot for next year and year after.

makes sense..

Granny15

irishfan9 wrote: »

St. Michaels have produced at least 1 pro rugby player in each class through it's school since 2010.

2010
Cathal Marsh(Outhalf)
2011
Luke McGrath(Scrumhalf)
2012
Dan Leavy(Backrow)
Rory O'Loughlin(Centre-Wing)
2013
Denis Coulson(LH Prop)
Ross Molony(2nd Row)
Josh Murphy(Backrow)
Nick McCarthy(Scrumhalf)
Ross Byrne(Outhalf)
Cian Kelleher(Back Three)
2014
Adam Leavy(Wing)
2015
James Ryan(2nd Row)
Max Deegan(Backrow)
2016
Oisin Dowling(2nd Row)
Ronan Kelleher(Hooker)
Jack Kelly(Outside Back)

That may be so but nobody in Michael's will be taking anytihng for granted re pros.

I suppose you went to Rock and are currently hyping Michaels up for a fall?

Granny15

Ally Bren 92 wrote: »

1st.michales beat Belvo 19-12
2nds Belvo won 31-29

Belvo firsts looked to be the better team with 2 try’s to 1 but michales used the boot for 4 penalty’s.both teams missing players

Wouldn't read anything into this. Michaels have bottled it in the Cup the last 2 seasons to Belvo. Belvo have more bite at Cup time much like Clongowes.

Granny15

irishfan9 wrote: »

Zaga might surprise

Zaga have a snowballs cchance in hell of going on a cup run.

Intelligent players but lacking bite.

irishfan9

Granny15 wrote: »

That may be so but nobody in Michael's will be taking anytihng for granted re pros.

I suppose you went to Rock and are currently hyping Michaels up for a fall?

Who said they'd be taking anything for granted?

If anything history has proven they shouldn't.

Michaels aren't favourites and deservedly so.

And no I didn't go Rock nor Michaels.

irishfan9

Granny15 wrote: »

Wouldn't read anything into this. Michaels have bottled it in the Cup the last 2 seasons to Belvo. Belvo have more bite at Cup time much like Clongowes.

Belvo also had the best player on the field in both games and will do so again this season if they meet.

irishfan9

Granny15 wrote: »

Zaga have a snowballs cchance in hell of going on a cup run.

Intelligent players but lacking bite.

they went on one last year, what will prevent them from doing so again this year?

Granny15

irishfan9 wrote: »

they went on one last year, what will prevent them from doing so again this year?

A decent Top 6 school with some decent forwards.

irishfan9

Granny15 wrote: »

A decent Top 6 school with some decent forwards.

possibly, what happened last year then?