Well, as you might have heard by now it looks like a playoff place is almost definitely out of reach. Following a tough game at Kilballyowen Ballynahinch managed to scrape throuigh with a twenty two points to twenty win on Saturday to clinch their playoff place and consign us to fifth place in the table. [...]
What can you say about this? If you missed it you missed a cracking tight encounter. A last minute penalty from the touchline by David Maw giving Bruff the four league points on offer, Old Crescent having to settle for the Losing Bonus. The Limerick Derbies in Division two this year promised to be very [...]
1st XV: Saturday was what you might call a “Perfect Storm” from a weather point of view. An extremely strong Lansdowne team containing at least one contracted player lined out against the lads in the RDS. All the points came in the first half with Lansdowne slotting two penalties with a mini hurricane at their [...]
Quiet enough last week at home on the rugby front. First XV: On Friday night last The first XV took a trip up to Nenagh to play a friendly under lights up there. Nenagh ran out eventual winners by 12 points to 7. On Saturday the U20’s chalked up another win in a friendly against [...]
The first XV Bruff managed to keep their winning streak going when they managed to come away from their Division two clash with De La Salle Palmerston in Kilternan today. Bruff opened the scoring with a Garry Leonard try on 9 minutes, DLSP Scrum half Dustin Jinka slotting a penalty 7 minutes later to bring [...]
1st XV: The first XV had one of the tightest games of the season to date against the youngsters from the oldest club in the country. While Dublin University may have a tradition going all the way back to 1854, the oldest player on the pitch on Saturday was 22. This was a fractious game [...]
Adult Rugby: The first XV had a week off last week without any competitive rugby. J1 XV: Main Adult rugby last weekend was the Munster Senior Seconds League game against Shannon. The game was played through a constant drizzle but Bruff managed to take the two league points on offer with a 16 points to [...]
Bruff 19 Shannon 26, Gallant performance in poor conditions. Bruff U20′s lined out against a formidable Shannon side on Sunday in the latest round of the AIL U20′s League. Worsening conditions before the game ensured expansive rugby was not an option as ball had to be kept close. Shannon was first off the mark after [...]
Happy Christmas Harlequins. Well apart from the following: Question: How can a team with complete dominance in the scrum, complete destruction with any serious backline attacks against a basically non-existent defence, with 80-85% of the attacks (I’ll confirm when we check the stats but my gut says this is about right), lose a game???? Mind [...]
J1 Squad: The Seconds had their first game of the MSSL against Highfield yesterday. Highfield turned up in strength with Diarmuid “The Rock” O’ Sullivan playing on the wing. Bruff dominant in the pack but couldn’t translate it to scores on the board, final score of 20 points to 8 was well justified but not [...]