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Longford RFC win €5,000 in Texaco Support for Sport.
Longford Rugby Football Club is to receive €5,000 funding under this year’s Texaco Support for Sport initiative hosted and organised by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited, the company that markets fuel in Ireland under the Texaco brand. The application was submitted by our Mini/Youth Chair Gerry Carthy and the winning of the prize is testament to the hard work going in that section, from Gerry and all the many Coaches/Volunteers and most importantly players in the Section. Longford field upwards of 20 underage teams from U6 right through to U18 both Male and Female and to keep that show on the road requires a mammoth amount of work and funding. Well done, we sure the funds will be put to excellent use!
Senior Men
Longford Senior Men are now finished league action and were knocked out of the Provincial Towns Cup last week versus Carlow as reported last week. They now await the draw for the Provincial Towns Plate, which is for all teams knocked out in the Provincial Towns Cup 1st and 2nd Rounds. After having an away match in the first round hopefully Longford will get a more favorable home draw to start off their Plate Campaign.
Longford 2nd XV are still in the Provincial Towns Cup and were drawn away to play Division 1B rivals Cill Dara on March 26th.
Senior Women
Longford Senior Women were due to play a double header away to Garda/CYM on Sunday but unfortunately the match was conceded by Garda/CYM. This was the last match of the league for Longford Senior Women, who finish an excellent third place in the standings, after being promoted last season. It has been a great season so far for Longford Senior Women, winning the pre-season Paul Cusack Plate and reaching the final of the Midland League. They now turn their attention to the Paul Cusack Cup where they take on Portlaoise this Sunday at 1 PM in the first round. All support would be appreciated. Best of luck Ladies!.
Finally, well done to Women’s Head Coach Nuala McGoey who was featured in an article on Female Volunteers on the Leinster Website recently. You can read the article at the following link; https://www.leinsterrugby.ie/female-volunteers-leading-way/
A Curates Egg and a Bonus Point Win in Twickenham
Even two days after, its hard to know what to make of the match in Twickenham. The match seemed over as a contest after less than two minutes when England second row Charlie Ewels was rightly given his marching orders for a high hit, which concussed James Ryan. Ireland than conjured a great try from James Lowe and looked they were prepared to run riot when Caelan Doris touched down soon after, only for it to be called back for a knock on. From here England gradually scrapped their way back into the match. They destroyed the Irish scrum, although Ellis Genge was not scrummaging straight and took the game to Ireland, who looked like they were the team playing with a man down for much of the match. However, whenever it got into broken field play, Ireland looked dangerous and could have scored a lot of tries were it for not forcing the last pass. Irelands bench eventually made a big difference, scoring two late tries to win to secure a bonus point win and keep their championship hopes alive going into the last weekend. This was very much old school set piece based England versus the new all singing and all dancing Ireland. While Ireland will not be happy with their performance, especially at scrum time, having the courage to emerge with a bonus point victory from Twickenham, is a big step up from the moral victories of the past. Bring on the last weekend, where for once all Irish supporters will be behind Englandd, hoping that they can do as a favour versus Les Blues, assuming that Ireland can see off the challenge of Scotland. Interestingly, going into the last day the Ireland U20s will be going for the Grand Slam versus Scotland after securing a superb 27-42 win way to England on Saturday night, which augers very well for the future.
6 Nations 2022 Round 4 Fixtures
Saturday March 19th Wales v Italy 14:15
Saturday March 19th Scotland v Ireland 16:45
Saturday Match 19th France v England 20:00
Sin Bin
The Sin Bin is back open this week from Wednesday January 20th, as per Government Guidelines. Superb food and drink are available across the weekend (Friday to Sunday) and lunch on Wednesday/Thursday.
Phone 087 346 4914 for bookings or email sinbinbookings@outlook.com. Check out the Sin Bins Facebook page for update, specials and updated opening hours; www.facebook.com/sinbinlongford/
