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.