AIL 2021-2022

Chico Flores

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117858203#Comment_117858203

Danny Kenny, ex pro for Ealing and over in Italy in with Greystones as player coach

Conor Dean gone back to St Marys

The Sligo captain from last few seasons, Shane Hehir, has joined Belvo

Ian Cassidy is back at Wesley from America and Nathan Randles from Shannon has joined them (but think that happened in 2020 for the Community Series)

Chico Flores

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117858203#Comment_117858203

Few more for your list, asked a few lads I went to college with who are in different clubs, some you might know already

Corey Reid: Buccaneers to Lansdowne

David Moran: UCD to Lansdowne

Kyle Cahir: Nenagh to Belvo

Robbie Deegan: Shannon to Belvo

Dominic Day (recent ex UK Pro) to Malahide

William Fay: Lansdowne to Old Wesley

Sean Goodburn: Barnhall to Wanderers

Purple Fox

Terenure have signed a centre from UCC Peter Sylvester

sydthebeat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117861163#Comment_117861163

what brings dominic day to malahide? i thought injury forced his retirement

Chico Flores

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117861805#Comment_117861805

A glance on Social Media shows he is married to that Irish model one Nadia Forde, assume they are living here now

Don't know much on the Munster clubs, other than watching them play, but got these too for your list Stainalert

Bailey Faloon: Garryowen to Young Munster

James Kendrick: Cashel to Garryowen

Lsdrugbyfan

UCD side for last weekend: 15 Harry Donnelly; 14 Ross Deegan; 13 Jack Ringrose (Capt); 12 David Ryan; 11 Alex O’Grady; 10 James Tarrant; 9 Robert Gilsenan; 1 Chris Hennessy; 2 Bobby Sheehan; 3 Evin Coyle; 4 Jack Gardiner; 5 Bobby Leahy; 6 Dan O’Donovan; 7 JJ Landers; 8 Ronan Foley. Replacements (all used): 16 Richie Bergin; 17 Rob Byrne; 18 Alec Byrne; 19 Simon Burke; 20 Tom Foley; 21 Niall Carroll; 22 David Heavy

full game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRc-0WV5MI&ab_channel=DeclanCassidy

Bobby Sheehan is a battering ram. still not sure i'd have taken McKee over him last summer. Moved to 6 in the 2nd half too. 

Sheehan and Gilsenan combine to score a try here: https://youtu.be/kXRc-0WV5MI?t=3982

Gilsenan gone off, thought he played well.. hopefully he can stay healthy and get a good run at it

Bobby Sheehan very impressive too, along with Foley.

sydthebeat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117861824#Comment_117861824

thanks

i dont do social media :D

Stainalert

This weeks Leinster League fixtures:

Saturday

1A

Clontarf v Old Belvedere

UCD v Old Wesley

1B

Trinity v Terenure

St Marys v Lansdowne

2A

Greystones v Enniscorthy

Naas v Blackrock

2B

Wanderers v Skerries

2C

Tullamore v Barnhall

Lost Ormond

Buccaneers v Corinthians and Ballina v Galwegians this weekend in Connacht league

Sligo are unbeaten at top but not playing this weekend. Lead Ballina by 3 so win for Ballina in their final game puts pressure on Sligo though if Ballina were to lose it could open door for Corinthians

arsebiscuits1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117862091#Comment_117862091

Great game of rugby. Surprised to see how dominant Belvo were in the scrum. I think the ref was extremely generous to UCD on a few of those scrum calls too. Front 5 had no answer at times.

Belvos lineout was an absolute shambles until they started throwing to the front. I think they lost 5 on the bounce? UCD very impressive in that area. Good movement and excellent jumpers.

Belvo probably deserved winners on balance. They left some absolute sitters out there. Need to work on the last pass. 3 times I counted one last pass to score.

Strand1970

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117866737#Comment_117866737

The Buccs v Corinthian game should be a good game as both teams will be ramping up for AIL and neither club will want to lose this game. Ballina are flying at the moment and galwegians will be hammered again if they don't play their best players

Chico Flores

John Sutton, the hooker, has signed for Naas. Superb signing

Stainalert

Trinity 16 Terenure 22

St Marys 15 Lansdowne 41

UCD 17 Old Wesley 19

Clontarf 38 Old Belvedere 29

Naas 24 Blackrock 26

Greystones 29 Enniscorthy 12

Lost Ormond

Old Crescent 17 Kilfeacle 14

Bruff 25 Clonmel 12

Nenagh Ormond 20 Midleton 7

Sundays Well 7 Highfield 51

UL Bohs 24 Dolphin 21

UCC 12 Garryowen 42

Young Munster 19 Cork Con 12

Cashel 18 Shannon 17

Stainalert

Friday

1B

Lansdowne v Trinity

Saturday

1A

Clontarf v UCD

Old Belvedere v Old Wesley

1B

Terenure v St Marys

2A

Enniscorthy v Blackrock

Naas v Greystones

2B

Skerries v Navan

2C

Malahide v Tullamore

Lsdrugbyfan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117850937#Comment_117850937

any ideas on where these are playing?

Lost Ormond

Cookies and Bohs play tonight in Cup. Shannon play Midleton in plate

tomorrow in cup Nenagh host Cashel, Garryowen travel to Bruff and Old Crescent play Highfield while in the Plate UCC are in Clonmel, Cork Con host Dolphin and Sundays Well travel to Kilfeacle

Stainalert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117902572#Comment_117902572

Conor Duggan(Scrumhalf) MU Barnhall

Diarmuid Mangan(Lock-Blindside) UCD

Fionn O'Hara(Outhalf) AFL contract

Lost Ormond

Cookies far too strong for Bohs tonight

34-15 final score and probably should have been more.

cgq300

Lansdowne 13 - DUFC 7

Terenure 33 - St Mary's 17

Clontarf 27 - UCD 26

Old Belvo 20 - Old Wesley 15

Lansdowne and Clontarf finished top of their groups winning all 3 matches each. Final TBA

Chico Flores

Bar a ropey 15 min at the start of the game. Very strong from us today v Marys

Colm De Buitleir made his debut.

Team was

1- Adam Tuite

2- Connor McCormack

3- Andrew Keating

4- Stephen Caffrey

5- Matthew Caffrey

6- Harrison Brewer

7- James Connolly

8- Jordan Coughlan

9- Tim Schmidt

10- James Thornton

11- Sam Coughlan Murray

12- Caolan Dooley

13- Stephen O Neill

14- Craig Adams

15- Jack Swaine

Chico Flores

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117850937#Comment_117850937

Fionn Gibbons UCD

Rory Maguire UCD

Berti Newman - Bristol

Aitzol King Clontarf

luke9311

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117909397#Comment_117909397

pity berti Newman went overseas (well great to see him push on I guess in a way) but always thought he would be a good prospect in the pro game here with one of the provinces based on his skill set I seen him in sct cup games all be it he’s a tad bit small…

luke9311

Dunno if it’s been posted here or not already regarding player movement… but noticed Bennie is been mentioned on the nure Twitter page now.

Lost Ormond

Mad game in Rosbrien today. Highfield went 22-0 up. Crescent got try back so half time was 22-7 and then second half they went up to 31-22 lead but Highfield got 10 points in final few minutes to win by a point. 32-31

Cashel deserved 10-7 winners over Nenagh

Results: Bank of Ireland Munster Senior Cup: Bruff 10, Garryowen 48;

Nenagh Ormond 7, Cashel 10;

Old Crescent 31, Highfield 32;

Young Munster 34, U.L. Bohemian 15;

Bank of Ireland Munster Senior Plate: Clonmel 15, U.C.C. 33;

Cork Constitution 55, Dolphin 10;

Kilfeacle 14, Sunday’s Well 20;

Shannon 49, Midleton 12;

The Semi Final line up

Bank of Ireland Munster Senior Cup: Cashel v Garryowen, Highfield v Young Munster,

Bank of Ireland Munster Senior Plate: Shannon v UCC, Sunday’s Well v Cork Constitution.

Stainalert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117908879#Comment_117908879

The final is scheduled for 2pm this Saturday in Energia Park, Donnybrook

cgq300

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117915694#Comment_117915694

Cheers Stainalert.

Lsdrugbyfan

LH Prop

Ben Popplewell (Wexford RFC/Lansdowne)

Oisín Michel (Cill Dara RFC/Lansdowne)

George Hadden (Gorey RFC/Clontarf)(u19)

TH Prop

Rory McGuire (Blackrock College/UCD)

JJ Hession (St. Michaels/Lansdowne)

Dylan Lynch (Boyne RFC/Clontarf)

Hooker

Howard Noonan (Greystones RFC-Temple Carrig/Old Wesley)

Barry Gray (Carlow RFC/Clontarf)

Lock

Mark Morrissey (Blackrock College/UCD)

Conor O'Tighearnaigh (St Michael’s College)

Sean Walsh (Seapoint RFC/Lansdowne)

Ruairi Clarke (Cill Dara RFC/Lansdowne)

Lock-Blindside

Paul Deeny (Wexford RFC/Clontarf)

Fionn McWey (Portloaise RFC-Roscrea)

Diarmuid Mangan (Newbridge College/UCD)(u19)

Backrow

Donough Lawlor (Newbridge College)

Luke Callinan (Castleknock College)

Dylan Ryan (St Michael’s College/DUFC)

James Culhane (Blackrock College)

Scrumhalf

Conor Duggan (Castleknock College/MU Barnhall)

Oisin Devitt (ClongowesWood College)

Michael Moloney (Blackrock College)

Culann Carbery (Athy RFC)(u19)

Outhalf

Charlie Tector (Kilkenny College/Lansdowne)

Sam Prendergast (Newbridge College)(u19)

Outside Backs

Fionn Gibbons (Castleknock College/UCD)

Conor Gibney (Mullingar RFC)

Ben Brownlee (Blackrock College)

Daniel Hawkshaw (Belvedere College)

David Dooley (Tullamore RFC/MU Barnhall)(u19)

Back Three

Dylan O’Grady (Belvedere College)

Aitzol King (Balbriggan RFC-CUS/Clontarf)

Callum O’Reilly (St Michael’s College)

Scott Milne (Tullamore RFC)

Shane Mallon (Longford RFC-Roscrea/UCD)

Chico Flores

Thanks for that LSD. Anyone in particular to watch for?

I'm fairly sure that George Hadden is playing for Clontarf too

Lsdrugbyfan

Sam Prendergast, Diarmuid Mangan and Donough Lawlor are all big prospects.. other than that Charlie Tector has a big reputation as does Rory McGuire.

Stainalert

Ben Popplewell is Lansdowne not Blackrock

Lsdrugbyfan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117922553#Comment_117922553

thought so, leinster website had him as Blackrock.

Lost Ormond

Right. harder than ever for any predictions for the league. So will we see a finalist other than Con, Clontarf or Lansdowne as last time we saw someone other than these 3 as the top two was the 2013/2014 season

Will Navan be able to stay in 1B after having struggled initially in the uncompleted 19/20 season after going straight up from 2C/2B/2A in the previous seasons.

All Connacht clubs bar Buccaneers are in 2B will we see one of them promoted and start the push back to getting a western club in division 1?

Lsdrugbyfan

Leinster Senior League Final(Lansdowne vs Clontarf) to be streamed on youtube at the weekend

Chico Flores

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117922671#Comment_117922671

Navan openly wanted to go down after cancelled season to try and rebuild.

One of their players moved to us. They are expecting to have a tough season and probably go down.

Chico Flores

I think Div 1A will be between

Lansdowne, Cork Con and Terneure

1B

Wesley, Belvo, Highfield

2A

Queens, Barnhall, Old Crescent

Don't know enough beneath that bar the lads in Greystones are very very confident but they always are.

Stainalert

Transfers (inclusive of 20/21 season) – I’m sure there are loads more so any omissions / mistakes please add

Terenure

IN : James Connolly (France); Jordan Coughlan (UK); Cathal Marsh (RUNY, US); Alex Thompson (Ulster); Alan Bennie (NZ / Lansdowne); Andrew Keating (Garryowen); Peter Sylvester (UCC) ; Harrison Brewer (Panasonic Wild Knights); Colm de Buitléar (Corinthians)

OUT: Peter Claffey (Corinthians); Paddy Thornton (Wicklow)

Clontarf

IN: Max Kearney (Trinity); Ben Griffin (Trinity); Alex Soroka (Trinity); Neil Reilly (Ardee); Martin Maloney (Old Belvedere); Aziz Naser (Trinity)

OUT: Ben Murphy (Old Wesley)

Lansdowne

IN: Dan Murphy (Barnhall); David Moran (UCD); Andy Marks (UCD); Corey Reid (Buccaneers); Michael Fitzpatrick (Clontarf); Luke Thompson (Old Wesley); Peadar Collins (Garryowen); Shane Hourihane (Navan); Ed O'Keeffe (Old Wesley); Clive Ross (Ballynahinch); Cormac Foley (St Marys)

OUT: Tadgh McElroy (Ealing Trailfinders); Ntinga Mpiko (Richond); Martin Mulhall (Wales); Danny Kenny (Greystones); James Rael (Old Crescent); Will Fay (Old Wesley); Mark O'Keeffe (Atlanta); Tim Murphy (Naas); Craig Ronaldson (Naas)

Trinity

IN: Marcus Kiely (Naas)

OUT: Max Kearney (Clontarf); Ben Griffin (Clontarf); Colm Hogan (Old Belvedere); Alex Soroka (Clontarf); Johnny McKeown (Old Belvedere); Aziz Naser (Clontarf)

Cork Con

IN: Shane O'Hanlon (Cork Con)

OUT: Brian Scott (Retired)

Garryowen

IN: James Kendrick (Cashel)

OUT: Andrew Keating (Terenure); Peadar Collins (Lansdowne); Bailey Falloon (Young Munster)

Young Munster

IN: Bailey Falloon (Shannon); Colm Skehan (overseas); Pa Ryan (Shannon)

OUT:

UCC

IN:

OUT: Shane O'Hanlon (Cork Con); James Taylor (Highfield); Ryan Murphy (Highfield); Peter Sylvester (Terenure) ; Alex Molloy (Old Wesley)

UCD

IN:

OUT: Jonny Guy (Overseas); Andy Marks (Lansdowne); David Moran (Lansdowne); Steve McVeigh (Monkstown)

Ballynahinch:

IN: Bradley Roberts (Rainey); Joe Dunleavy (Malone), Conor McAuley (Belfast Harlequins)

OUT: Clive Ross (Lansdowne); Conor Rankin (Malone)

Division 1B

Naas

IN: John Sutton (Naas); Tim Murphy (Lansdowne); Craig Ronaldson (Lansdowne)

OUT: Marcus Kiely (Trinity)

Highfield

IN: James Taylor UCC); Ryan Murphy (UCC)

OUT:

Old Wesley

IN: Will Fay (Lansdowne); Alex Molloy (UCC); Ian Cassidy (US); Nathan Randles (Shannon); Ben Murphy (Clontarf)

OUT: Luke Thompson (Lansdowne); Ed O'Keeffe (Lansdowne)

Old Belvedere

IN: Colm Hogan (Trinity); Tom Sexton (Suttonians); Johnny McKeown (Trinity); Shane Hehir (Sligo); Kyle Cahir (Nenagh); Robbie Deegan (Shannon)

OUT: Martin Maloney (Clontarf); Roman Salanoa (Munster)

Malone

IN: Tommy O'Hagan (Rainey)

OUT: Joe Dunleavey (Ballynahinch)

St Marys

IN: Conor Dean (Connacht academy)

OUT: Cormac Foley (Lansdowne)

Shannon

IN:

OUT: Nathan Randles (Old Wesley); Pa Ryan (Young Munster)

Chico Flores

Brill - thanks Stainalert

Conor Gaston, ex Ulster and Aurillac player, is playing for Old Wesley

Chico Flores

James Hickey Trinity To Monkstown

Rudhan McDonnell Naas to Monsktown

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117926030#Comment_117926030

Strange to drop down to j1a from AIL 1A/1B

Chico Flores

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117926199#Comment_117926199

Cash Money.... gonna make it rain. Danny Riordan didn't drop there from Belvo to Leinster League 1B for the fun of it either.

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117926402#Comment_117926402

knew the answer should probably added an emoji or two...

Last weekend before league is back. leinster league has playoffs this weekend. final division 1/playoff division 2.

Ulster league continues with 4th round of games.

Nothing in Connacht or Munster but some clubs may be playing friendlies though most will have weekend off.

Purple Fox

According to Ballinas' twitter they have qualified for the Bateman Cup this year. Great to see after they were a Junior club a few years ago. Winners of all the other senior cups will meet them.

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117928295#Comment_117928295

Yeah they won the Connacht League. winner of league won right to be Connacht representative in Bateman Cup and gets a bye into senior cup final as well

real good club and have done well since coming back senior 3 years or so ago

realhorrorshow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117928649#Comment_117928649

They were struggling hugely in 19/20 weren't they? As far as I remember they were dead set to go down. Watched all the highlights on YouTube, they play some lovely rugby and have some cracking players.

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117929682#Comment_117929682

Yeah would have been relegated back to 2C if covid hadnt stopped the season but theyd went straight through 2C in their first go but yeah they play decent brand of rugby. Kiwi outhalf theyve had, lindsay is a cracking player. couple of forwards they have are very good as well and have a very good age grade set up to boost that as well as have a few guys who go away for school who are coming back to play with them instead of playing elsewhere like they would have when the club was junior

Stainalert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117923375#Comment_117923375

I think Young Munster have to be a major contender for 1A - seem to be flying under the radar a bit. Have already beaten Con this season

Chico Flores

Thats fair on Young Munster, I just forgot about them.

Did anyone watch the Tarf and Lansdowne stream, was it as dominant as scoreline suggested?

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117932309#Comment_117932309

I saw them play Bohs. who to be fair werent great and it was 1A v 2A but Cookies were very good. yeah they'll be contenders

Stainalert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117943043#Comment_117943043

No certainly not - Tarf were beaten up towards the end and had a load of injuries - I think they finished with 14 men.

Good performance from Lansdowne but a heap of work still to do to get to proper AIL standard.