Leinster Schools Rugby

Yeah was at the game myself, absolute cracking game!! Nure full back was superb, and their backline in general had ability to break from anywhere, best seen in breaks deep inside their own half which ended with their try and another which ended in the Belvo 22 when the ball must have been offloaded in the tackle on about 6 or 7 occasions at break neck speed.

Belvo pack were massive and a really physical side! Some massive hits were going in from both sides, but Belvo's pysichality along with nure's inability to clear their own lines meant about 80% of territory went belvo's way.

Great finish to the game with a try in the last phase of the game to win it, but I think the better team won and nure were unlucky with the tough draw, were a good side who deserved a bit of a cup run.

Belvo discipline cost them a lot in the game and as favourites for the cup, will need to knock out a lot of the errors that cost them if they are to have any chance and change the line up, with their 2 best backs being players who came off the bench. (20 & 21 I think they were) Also belvo No.3 was like Chabal, massive player who walked through tackles and put in a hit that left a nure player on the ground for about 5 minutes, although he went off injured himself just before the end with an arm/shoulder injury.

Also belvo no.7 was superb, aswell as being the penalty/conversion kicker which im not sure I've ever seen a flanker doing before.

Belvo's discipline was pretty bad and they'll need to sort it out if they want to win the cup. They were lucky to win it today after all the penalties they gave away, so they really need to sort it out.

Also; how old was Belvo's tighthead prop? lol.

Actually watching the match on Setanta and it's half time. I strongly disagree about Belvo being the better team. I don't define the better team as having the ball for the first 25 minutes, and after two strong attacks they're 7 points down. For their whole first half out of all the possession the had (which was a lot more then Terenure's), they didn't get any points. They couldn't beat Terenure's defence.

I was there at donnybrook today. Great match nure had an excellent defence but belvo's forwards were amazing. Belvo prop nermin lovic made a massive hit on some nure guy who was down for like 5 minutes. Nure 15 was real good. Kind of ironic that belvo 15 michael keating gets the winning try just like three years ago in the jc final against nure.

Yesterday will stand to belvo, the first game in the cup is a real stomach churner no matter who the opposition is.

Kudos to the gick for giving them a battle, i think a replay would have been the fairest outcome.

It just shows that this years competition will be hard fought, there's a lot of talent in this generation (schools interpro champs at 18's and 19's)

Does anyone know how nerm's shoulder is?, it ruled him out of the xmas u-19 game so it must be a recurring injury (probably all that athletics stuff is catching up)

IMO rob duke and terry jones reallly stood out on the gick side , i don't know how duke hasn't been capped by leinster at schools level, he is a terrier.

As for belvo synnot was immense, its good to see a forward doing the goal kicking, reminds me of John Eales (i know - he was a lock not a flanker)

Still, I know it wasn't a pretty game but it was honest and hard fought and showed all thats good about schools rugby.

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34-7, 4 missed conversions - need to improve that big time. 8 points is too much to throw away.
The castleknock try was an intercept, apart from that they never threatened.

Can't really read to much into the result, Marys looked good, their prop is made from strong stuff, he came off for stitches and then went back to murdering knock in the scrums as if nothing had happened

nermin lovic is the props name , and no- the whole team were in belvo since 1st year...

yeah dislocated or so ive heard... a huge blow since there arent that many props who would be up to that standard in the school

knock havent won the cup since 1965, last final was 1983 and 1976 before that, in recent times semi finals in 2001 and 2002 is the best run in competition since 1995.