The UAFC

From Ulster Branch Website

With last Saturday's quarter final Schools' Cup and Subsidiary Shield fixtures having been abandoned due to frozen pitches, these fixtures have now been arranaged for this coming week
NORTHERN BANK SCHOOLS' CUP- QUARTER FINALS:
Tuesday 23rd February-

Ballymena Academy v Friends' School
Ballymena Academy, ko 2.00pm

Wallace High School v Regent House
Wallace HS, ko 3.15pm

Wednesday 24th February-

Methodist College v Ballyclare High School
Pirrie Park Belfast, ko 1.30pm

Belfast Royal Academy v Dalriada School
Roughfort, ko 3.00pm

NORTHERN BANK SUBSIDIARY SHIELD- QUARTER FINALS:


Wednesday 24th February 2010-

Royal School Armagh v Sullivan Upper
RS Armagh, ko 2.30pm

Royal Belfast Academical Institution v Campbell College
Osbourne Park, ko 3.00pm

Saturday 27th February 2010

Coleraine Academical Institution v Omagh Academy
* Kick off 11.00am

Limavady Grammar School v Portora Royal School
* Kick off 11.00am

MCB v Ballyclare moved to this afternoon - not sure of the time. Probably because of the snow forecast for tonight/tomorrow.

Ah typical those College boys would try anything to interupt the game plan of the mighty Ballyclare

Come on you White Hares

MCB 15 - Ballyclare 0.

Red Hand Hero wrote:How truely disappointing.

In your opinion!

Wallace 6 - 0 Regent

BRA 8 - 0 Dalriada - one for the good guys!

Ballymena Academy 11 - 11 Friends. Another cracking match with Friends unlucky not to win.

I heard Friends should have won it. Missed conversion from just to the right of the posts proved crucial.

From Ulster rugby website

The semi final draws for the Northern Bank Schools' Cup and Subsidiary Shield competitions were made at Ravenhill this afternoon.
Michael Cole, Northern Bank Head of Business, Belfast and David Boyd, IRFU Ulster Branch Domestic Rugby Manager made the draw for the Northern Bank Schools' Cup and Subsidiary Shield competitions.
NORTHERN BANK SCHOOLS' CUP-SEMI FINALS

Belfast Royal Academy v Wallace High School
(Tuesday 2nd March 2010 at Ravenhill, ko 2.30pm)

Ballymena Academy OR Friends' School v Methodist College


(Thursday 4th March at Ravenhill, ko 2.30pm)

NORTHERN BANK SUBSIDIARY SHIELD-SEMI FINALS

Limavady Grammar School OR Portora Royal School v Royal Belfast Academical Institution OR Campbell College

Royal School Armagh v Coleraine Academical Institution OR Omagh Academy

(Both these games will be played on Saturday 6th March 2010)

As I predicted from the beginning......MCB will lift the honours again.....it will not be easy however as I think they havent hit true form yet and if they dont get out of 2nd gear against Ballymena/Friends it could run away from them. Its good to see a strong run from the Lisburn teams as well especially the Friends lads who have proved a handful this year. BRA V MCB will make for a cracking final.

Beattiespastie wrote:As I predicted from the beginning......MCB will lift the honours again.....it will not be easy however as I think they havent hit true form yet and if they dont get out of 2nd gear against Ballymena/Friends it could run away from them. Its good to see a strong run from the Lisburn teams as well especially the Friends lads who have proved a handful this year. BRA V MCB will make for a cracking final.

The final might as well have been their first match against RSA, MCB for cup and RSA for shield would be a reasonable bet.

Ballymena beat FSL yesterday with the last play of the game and apparently didnt deserve the win at all.

cjp wrote:Ballymena beat FSL yesterday with the last play of the game and apparently didnt deserve the win at all.

Having watched both the games I think the correct expression would be, "either team could have won". Friends unlucky and probably shaded it over the two games but Ballymena put in a huge effort to pull it out of the bag yesterday.

Great performance from both sides.

Dewi Barnes wrote:

cjp wrote:Ballymena beat FSL yesterday with the last play of the game and apparently didnt deserve the win at all.

Having watched both the games I think the correct expression would be, "either team could have won". Friends unlucky and probably shaded it over the two games but Ballymena put in a huge effort to pull it out of the bag yesterday.

Great performance from both sides.

I never thought I would say this but I have to agree with Fatty - sorry - Dewi Barnes. First half yesterday, Ballymena had more possession and presuure; second half it was all Friends' until the 34th minute when Ballymena broke out of their 22 to score the winning try in the very last play of the game. Ref said afterwards that fulltime was up before Ballymena scored but as there was not a break in play the match had to go on.

Great credit to Ballymena for keeping goin' to the end and best of luck against MCB.

PS DEWI, Leave the pies down and get the match report and photos posted on "Intouch"