Couple of newspaper clips about John Hayes’s return for the upcoming game against Clermont Auvergne on Sunday.
Emerald Rugby – Hayes named in Munster Squad for weekend
Independent.ie – Hayes & Dowling included in Squad.
ireland.com – The Irish Times – Wed, Nov 14, 2007 – Hayes gets all clear for Munster
The lads made the trip to Donnybrook last Saturday with a healthy contingent of supporters and came away with another win and bonus point to put them into second place on the table, one point behind Instonians who have gained three bonus points and one point ahead of Queens. This is a great early run in the league and puts us into a far stronger position than this time last season.
Five tries as follows: Máirtín O’ Rourke (8 mins), John Shine (29 mins), John Shine (36 mins), Brendan Deady for the bonus (45 mins) and Finally Cathal O’ Regan for the killer (64 mins).
Scrum was on top form, Lineout was working well, Defence was awesome as usual (It looks like we are yet again looking like having the best defence in the AIL, only 17 points against us in three games only Young Munster in division two are matching that so far).
Good Games :
Relative newcomer Paul O’ Brien had a stormer with some very strong running and savage tackling. A major turning point with one instance early in the second half where he fielded a long punt, returned the favour into the opposition half, chased it up, made a savage tackle and blew the ball out of the Old Wesley centres hands thereby gaining a scrum for Bruff inside the Wesley Half instantly turning defence into a strong attacking position.
Máirtín was good in the tight great first try, Alan Bourke had a stormer as well, great lineout work and some very strong straight line running, coupled with some great breaks, Shiner was in top form with great lineout work, fantastic fringe running and carries coupled with two tries, Some savage running by the Cahills as usual, Tony with a couple of nice box kicks. Gearóid, Cathal and Davy were in mighty form in the scrum and the breakdown, Brendan was a tower of strength and safety at Full Back and a great try for the Bonus point, another Shaun Payne in the making here. Cathal in particular seemed to lead from the front, he seemed to be everywhere, involved in all of the tries including his own great run for the last.
All in all an awesome display, the difference this year seems to be a hunger to bury and kill off teams which we didn’t have for a while. Link to photos below, Be warned, if you don’t have broadband don’t go there! It’ll be as slow as Christmas, the photos are huge files.
In keeping with the trend, here’s a link to this weekends fixtures.
I’m away off tae the big smoke tomorrow , working, trying to get to Planexpo and Finally seeing if’n I can make it to the big boys toy show before the game on Saturday.
Johnny had a nice piece in last weeks county edition, here’s a link to it on the Leader Website
Always known as a club that continuously strives to move forward, It’s quite fitting that the 200th post on the revamped website is about club development.
Following on from the appointment of Abacus Lighting and John Keane Electrical as the lighting contractors for phase 1 of the floodlighting works at the club, we can confirm that preparatory works took place at the grounds over the weekend.
Alan and Gearoid from the Development committee and some subbies put in some Trojan work getting the concrete bases for the new Floodlighting system prepared on one side of the main pitch.
The Holes were dug, pipes and drains were diverted, trunking was laid, cables were rearranged, Post holding bolts were fitted and twenty four cubic metres of concrete were poured, using an elevator for one base and a half tonne dumper for the other two, all on Saturday, continuing while the U20’s game against Cork Constitution was underway on the front pitch. It was completed finishing in near darkness at around Seven O’ Clock, when the footpath around one of the bases was finally re-instated and made good by Gearóid.
All of this work was down in a manner that while extremely slow and painstaking, allowed for minimal damage and disruption. The footpath under the main viewing stand and the stand itself remained undisturbed albeit with over 8 cubic metres of concrete (Over a truckload) being placed underneath to support the central lighting column. All machinery work and Everything else was done in the 5m space between the touchline and the railing on the Pavilion side of the pitch, thereby ensuring that there will be no down time for the pitch itself. This was the most awkward of the work as it involved the only bases that intrude onto any pitch and even more sensitive as it was the Main Pitch. The timing of course was important as the first home AIL game will take place there in a fortnights time. The remaining three bases to the main pitch will be on the side of the training area and will be much less troublesome to work on as there will be much more room.
The Bases to the front pitch will be situated in the car park on the front side and between the Leylandii Cypress trees on the away side of the pitch.
Thanks guys, a great days work.
Link to the Planning application on the Limerick County Council Website