Roots & All is a project where we pick a few teams that don’t normally make the spotlight week in week out and feature them regularly throughout an entire campaign.
It’s been a busy a few weeks on the rugby front with training and games coming thick at fast, up until last weekend that is, when the torrential rain meant all rugby activity had to be abandoned.
The U13’s have suffered more than most with the recent conditions and have had scheduled games cancelled twice in the last two weekends. The 13’s have now a number of league games left to complete in the next few weeks before a date with Corinthians in the Connacht U13 cup on the weekend of February 10th.
The 14’s are still flying high and have guaranteed themselves top spot after an excellent away win in Connemara the weekend before last. This was a top of table clash and it was the hosts who started brighter and were 12-0 up at the half time break. The second half was a real treat for all as the teams shared 7 tries between them. Thankfully for us a last minute try secured a win us 29-24. There are a couple of more league games to play before its then onto the semi-finals, quickly followed by a Connacht cup clash with Monivea.
The 17’s rounded off their league campaign with an excellent win over Ballina. In what was a very close game our boys were 12-7 up a half time. Two more quick fire in the second half meant we clung for 24-19 win. It’s now onto the league semi-finals in early February. Before all that though we play Corinthians in round 1 of the Connacht U17 cup which is due to take place this Sunday 27th.
Our mini rugby players have had a real bad run of luck when it comes to blitz’s with yet another one called off last weekend due to the weather. Hopefully the weather gods will be kinder to us this weekend as we are due to play host to some local clubs.
It was a huge weekend for all our girls as they had the honour of playing at half-time during the Heineken Cup clash between Connacht and Zebre. Despite the rain our girls battled on bravely and did the club proud. It was a brilliant night and well done to all the coaches involved. Their highlight of the night was without doubt meeting Dan Parks once the game was over. He was a big hit with all the girls.
For the next few weeks we will be concentrating on getting the final round of the leagues completed and the start of the cup games with our youth teams. Our mini rugby players will hopefully have an exciting weekend of rugby in our first home blitz of the season.
