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| City of Armagh 3rd XV (60) vs. Newry 2nd XV (08) |
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Saturday 13th January 2012
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Photos by Graham Crozier
Sport the Ball - Harry Boyd converts a penalty for City of Armagh 3XV
City of Armagh 3rd XV started their pursuit of the Forster Cup with an emphatic victory on a glorious afternoon at the Palace Grounds.
After a five week break, Armagh appeared a little rusty and started slowly making simple mistakes and gifting the opposition possession. However, after 10 minutes, Harry Boyd’s converted a penalty after the opposition crumbled under intense Armagh pressure.
Armagh then started to put some flowing rugby together and Boyd’s cross field kick was collected by Simon Beckett who sent Adam Brennan through to score.
Beckett then finished from 30 yards after some slick movement from the Armagh pack. From the restart, Armagh gathered momentum and Christopher Wallace cruised through a gap to score. Newry then came back at Armagh and forced the home team to make more errors. Further tries from Jude Parr and Rory Hanna left Armagh with a comfortable 32-0 lead at half time.
City of Armagh 3XV driving towards the Newry line
Armagh took the foot off the pedal in the second half but still managed to put together some stunning moves resulting in Wallace and Brennan scoring their second tries while Mark Laverty showed his pace to score in the corner. All credit to the Newry side who didn’t give up and their reward was a dubious penalty and then after some weak tackling by Armagh, Newry scored.
Funko and the boys prepare to scrum
With five minutes remaining Armagh composed themselves and their free flowing rugby helped Mark Curley used his agility to score in the corner. Boyd having kicked 6 out of 8 conversions missed this one as the referee blew his whistle to leave Armagh victors by 60 points to 8.
Armagh are back to their league battle next week as they travel to Monaghan but will be glad of this game to get rid of the excess Turkey as they push for promotion from Junior league six and a good run in the cup. |
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