Leinster Schools Rugby

no probs mate, just making doubly sure

and it was an awful display by belvo, pack aint bad but what backline was up to ill never know,

got a bit of shape on it when we changed outhalfs - sub threw the try scoring pass

a typical start to any belvo campaign, slow to gain momentum

but my god we cut it close there

agreed: serious improvement needed if belvo wish to make any serious headway this year

yeah psychology in belvo may well have been ''we're a lot better than them, don't need to play too hard to win'' and the nure needed to work hard to win

at sct level the work ethic is definitely somethin thatll win matches, superstars will only get you so far (rob kearney dragged his clongowes team pretty far with some individual tries i recall, but not enough to win)

yeh a wake up call and a mentality of putting up a score on the opposition is needed, too often in belvo we do just enough to win - we can scrape wins against the other big teams but often only win by a score or two against much weaker sides

and watchin the game i was very impressed by terenure defence, one missed tackle would probably have leaked a try, they could have been a little smarter with their defence as they had a few opportunities to turnover the ball but didnt (like when belvo scrum half picked up ball from back of ruck before looking outside him, looked up saw out half was out of position, looked other side, no winger, turned a full circle and only one terenure guy realised ball was live and fair game as scrumhalf had it in his hands!)

- hope we improve cos theres talent there such as 3 lovic and 7 sinnot and ben woods at 11 so this should scare them into better work ethic and less showboating - we gave up quite the number of overlaps because some selfish idiot got hands on the ball first and stuck his head down to go it alone!

and unfortunately we can do a lot of wrong seein as we have won the cup once in the last....36 years! but guys in school now have seen lot of success with a couple of junior cups and a senior cup so prob have inflated heads and do the usual thing of being completely unrealistic about their sides strengths and weaknesses

TheVoodoo wrote: »

Any score from the Pres game? Heard Micheals were 26-10 up..

Yeah that was the final score...

roscrea 5 - andrews 0, anhdrews by far the better side, early try in first 5 mins, and then few bad decisions from the ref on the crea 5 tho. good defence by dem tho, who is the andrews 14? he was ****in class is a represntative? he took nearly every up and under and his pace was sick... cremens were class too, didnt see much of marshall

Watching the Micheals Pres Bray match, half time now. Pretty sure the commentator is gonna go off and have a quick toss over Noel Reid during the ad break?

EDIT: Michaels fans screaming during a conversion, doing yourselves proud there lads!

Funkstard wrote: »

EDIT: Michaels fans screaming during a conversion, doing yourselves proud there lads!

Yea, really representative of the total school Funkstard - ffs.

Looking forward to the next round now and this much lauded CBC side. Should be a good game.

Funkstard wrote: »

Watching the Micheals Pres Bray match, half time now. Pretty sure the commentator is gonna go off and have a quick toss over Noel Reid during the ad break?

hes a lot better than Fred Cogley , my wild prediction , is zaga to turn over Marys.

what say what? wrote: »

want to put your money where your mouth is?

you probably have better info than me , i'm going more on a hunch , where theyve been unlucky before , particularly last year against rock

RickyHatton wrote: »

Simply not guna happen. Marys are the most underrated team in this comp. They have by far the best backline and their forwards are impressive to say the least containing two of the best players in their postion at provincial level Richard Brent and Jack Mcgrath.

CBC and Belvodere are so overrated it is beyond ridiculous I dont know if it is just these forums but all the talk is of belvo n CBC

Clongowes, Blackrock or Marys will take the cup

Clongowes from what I can gather are looking amazin
Blackrock look strong as usual
Marys can play some brilliant rugby and have the passion

all this is coming from a terenure supporter [We were robbed by the way]

I thought Terenure's defence was good too, but you can't expect to win without a good pack. Belvo outmuscled you.

To say that Belvo and CBC are overrated is ridiculous. Nure couldn't beat either this year, i heard CBC beat Nure 36-0 and I know both teams were missing a couple of players. Rock will walk it next year.

Its ridiculously open this year anyone of about 6 in the Q's could take it. If you are rating Clongowes from what you hear you can't really rate them, can you? They are good though but all this talk of silently slipping through this year is laughable, typical Clongowes way of trying to take pressure of.Don't discount Gonzaga btw. They have been poor all year but seem to be improving and have some good players.

After the 1st round Marys won most convincingly I think. Its great the way its so competitve, if only the H cup format was introduced this year!

I was at the Pres v Michaels match. Cracking game. Ive got a few mates on the Pres team and i was gutted for them at the end but really they didnt play as well as they could have. Delighted to see John Breslin's intercept try. But really they didnt threaten in attack.

Shocked Roscrea beat Andrews. Now im worried they might beat Gerards in the Vinnie but hopefully they will be concentrating on Belvo.