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It's the ultimate day in Ulster colleges football. There are the | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
students, the players. They've been here just once before in the final. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
St Patrick's Maghera have been here so many times, aiming to where the | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
15th cup. It is about the families and the supporters. Welcome to the | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
2016 McRory cup final in the splendid sunshine of the athletic | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Grounds. St Paul's Bessbrook and St Patrick's Maghera. You may be | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
watching on BBC television or right across the world on the World Wide | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
Web. You can get in contact. We would love to hear your thoughts and | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
opinions. It is not just about the McRory cup, there is also the | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
MacLarnon Cup. Highlights at half-time. Everybody here in the | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
beautiful athletics Grounds. We have Ryan McCue here. Let's talk about, | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
what shall we talk about? Your suit, you are looking the part. It is a | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
special occasion, isn't it? Great occasion with the sun shining. We | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
had a great MacLarnon Cup final beforehand, and I am looking forward | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
to this. People might think of Armagh when they think of you, and | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
the 1994 cup final. I hope they don't because we were beaten on that | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
day but it was a fabulous occasion. That defeat did me no harm because | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
you learn a lot of lessons. Somebody will have to lose and somebody will | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
have a great journey ending in winning the final. If you are | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
playing colleges football, this is where you want to become a leading | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
out your team and St Patrick's Maghera eight in the MacRory Cup | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
final. That is the trophy they want, particularly Saint Pauls, they've | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
never lifted that trophy. They have played in the competition for times | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
in total and been here just once in the final in 2013. They lost on that | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
day, and they lost against today's opponents. | :02:54. | :03:16. | |
It was very sad to see the boys cry. Even though we lost the game on that | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
day, that team inspired another generation of young fellows. Even | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
though we didn't recognise it at the time it was success in that sense. | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
The different year, a different thing. Key to success is the care. | :03:44. | :03:59. | |
He is dreaming about winning the MacRory Cup, most of the time. We | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
don't put too much pressure on ourselves. You may not play great or | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
something like that but it will be special, my family will be talking | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
about this. It's a really big game for me so hopefully we can do it. If | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
they do it will be the man on the left lifting the precious cup. You | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
might not recognise him but you probably recognise his dad. If we | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
can win Paddy 's day, the first one is always the hardest one to win, so | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
it will be unbelievable. It will just be another one for them but for | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
us it will be very special. So, Saint Pauls ready for action but one | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
of those players of St Patrick's Maghera, their supporters are | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
hearing their thousands, and varies the team led by Conor Glass. They've | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
been here so many times before and won the competition 14 times. | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
There's the trophy they want to get their hands on. They are led by that | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
man in the middle, Conor Glass. He is off to play Australian rules in | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the near future. His fourth MacRory Cup final and he is leading them | :05:15. | :05:15. | |
this afternoon. The first thing I did was go to see | :05:16. | :05:52. | |
the sports team. Baby faced. Lost my head a few times, especially after | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
losing. Made friends with most of the players. What was it like when | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
you were brought in as a fourth-year? Amazing. I watched it | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
about ten times over and over again. Something to be proud of. One of the | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
main things I got out of being thrown in the deep end, I have been | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
able to mature as a person. Talisman in the group but carries a | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
tremendous modestly as well, and a good sense of responsibility. He may | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
be spoken about the same terms as Jim McKee, Darren Nicholls. How many | :06:45. | :07:04. | |
games have you lost? Not many. There is a fierce rivalry between all | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
those players. I was one of those people who looked up to an athlete | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
from a young age. People will be looking up to me hopefully in the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
next couple of years. Just being a good role model. I've played enough | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
games to understand what I have to do. It is no different. It is | :07:27. | :07:37. | |
something to look forward to. He will be a massive loss to Caylib | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
football when he takes up a professional contract in Australian | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
rules. Dermot but Nicholl played in five MacRory Cup finals, it sounds | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
incredible, but the fact that young man is playing in his fourth final | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
is a staggering accomplishment. When he was only a fourth-year he looked | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
very comfortable and like a grown man. He has developed into a superb | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
player. It can go one of two ways, if you have too much success early | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
in your career. In fairness to, glassy has kicked on and moulded | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
himself into a leader of this team. He has accomplished players around | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
him. At the same time you have to give it to the light, even though he | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
has had so much success he still looks as hungry as ever. He | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
certainly has one big game left in him for today. Let's talk about | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
Saint Paul's. What they lack in pedigree probably doesn't matter | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
much for this site. I imagine they will not be bound down by history as | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
a new team. Will they care that their opponents have won so many and | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
they've won so few? Definitely not. In schools football it is a | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
different team every year, coming up against different players. They just | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
need to enjoy their football and play the best they can. You made | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
your championship debut for Donegal at the age of 18, in front of a big | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
crowd, that must have had a big impression. For those young players, | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
live on television, with a massive crowd, will they be bewildered? It | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
will be tough and there will be nervous. Everyone is going to be | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
nervous. There is great support here from both sides. Take it all in, and | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
once it is thrown in, the first two or three minutes, the nerves will | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
get underway. Thank you. Splendid sunshine here, absolutely baking, | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
but the boys are looking well in their 3-piece suits. Thomas always | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
dresses well and he is with a few interesting supporters. If the area | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
behind the goals is dominated by Saint Paul's, the section behind me | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
is all blue and white for St Patrick's Maghera. Fantastic buzz | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
around the stands here, and there are number of fans, parents, | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
spectators. If we come down here, two of the best seats in the house | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
are dominated by a few very familiar faces. We've got the former St | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Paul's Bessbrook pupil Steve McDonald. Two years ago, how much | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
will that benefit them this time? They've got the experience of being | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
to the final before. It should stand them in good stead. Who will be the | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
key players? You have to look at their captain, Burns. But the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
problem is he's coming up against Conor Glass. For me he is the best | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
player in this age group. This is the trophy both sides are playing | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
for sitting around here. Who will get their hands on that famous | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
MacRory Cup? Just behind Stephen Lee of the principle of St Patrick's | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Maghera. First year at principle, what is it like to be involved in a | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
MacRory Cup decider? Nerve wracking at the moment but amazing. Great | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
feeling. Everybody has been getting ready for a week so we are up for it | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
today. It is not just about the players or the teachers, it is about | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
the pupils in the school. How have they embraced this occasion once | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
again? It has been like this all week in school, our support is | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
renowned across the whole area. It's not just about the players, it is | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
about the school and wider community and everybody is urging everybody on | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
to bring this home. You could hardly get closer to the action, how will | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
you feel? If we win, immeasurable, it will be an absolute delight, | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
especially in my first year as principal of the college. MacRory | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Cup is massive to the school so it is an important occasion to me | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
particularly in my first year as principal. There will be a lot of | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
nerves on the pitch and in the stands as well. Thank you very much. | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
There is just a cacophony of noise, amazing atmosphere. Hard to think | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
that someone so young, the 16 and 17-year-olds here, I will not call | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
them boys but they are certainly very young man. Always a danger the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
occasion could get to them. When you look back at 2013, the first | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
occasion for St Paul's in the final, you could say the occasion got to | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
them. The more the game and on, the more St Paul's came into it, and | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Maghera were sort of hanging on. For the first half-hour St Paul's were | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
finding their feet, today will be different. It is about coming out | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
and concentrating on playing the game. It is a game of football the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
same as any other except there is a massive prize at the end of it. Who | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
do you expect to win? That's a hard one to call, watching the two | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
semifinals, they were both good games. Maybe the team who gets off | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
to the better start will win. Maghera may make it with their | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
experience. Just about Maghera. This Saint Paul's team are finding their | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
feet in the competition. They have been a breath of fresh air, but I | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
just think Maghera look like big physical units. We look forward to | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
your thoughts through the course of this afternoon. Let's get to the | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
action. COMMENTATOR: This beats the | :13:54. | :14:07. | |
classroom any day of the week. The sunshine of the MacRory Cup final. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Martin Clark was a finalist here a decade ago, man of the match on the | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
day even though your school loss. Does it feel like ten years ago? It | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
doesn't, but the experience from the journey was fantastic. These fellows | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
are starting their careers, exciting for them. And right now moment for | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
reflection as we remember a former Maghera player who passed away this | :14:37. | :14:37. | |
week. A beautifully observed minute's | :14:38. | :15:39. | |
silence for Sean Conway from dairy, former MacRory Cup player who passed | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
away this week. This is the moment they've been | :15:44. | :16:53. | |
working for. St Paul's Bessbrook may be relative newcomers but in four | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
years they've reached two finals in the semifinal. In midfield, Burns | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
was a substitute in the final two years ago, he is the team leader | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
today. Much will depend on the scoring power of Liam Kerr, who got | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
eight points in the semifinal win. As for St Patrick's Maghera, going | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
for the third success in four years, if they are going to win it they may | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
think their goalkeeper Shaun Cassidy who made three great semifinal saves | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
in the win over Dungannon. Shea Downey continuity a proud family | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
tradition. Up front they will look to Shane McGrath in, scorer 1-6 in | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
their narrow victory. high standard referee, still playing | :17:46. | :18:02. | |
club football with his club. And here we go. St Patrick's Maghera in | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
blue. St Paul's Bessbrook in the familiar maroon and white. | :18:08. | :18:31. | |
An early opportunity for Maghera to launch their attack with their | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
captain, AFL man in June, Conor Glass takes it quickly. A lovely | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
start by St Patrick's Maghera. Winning the free kick, and that | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
finish from that angle, a phenomenal start. France's Kearney, one of the | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
twins from the club in Derry. That is nice start. Almost an early | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
summer 's day rather than a mid-March day on St Patrick's Day. | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
Maghera look hungry, look eager. Here is the son of the school | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
principal, feeds the ball neatly to Conor Clarke. An early opportunity | :19:17. | :19:26. | |
for Richard Keenan, a late addition to the St Paul's team. It is a | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
family day, of course, and they are enjoying themselves. Here is the | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
late call-up, Richard Keenan of South Armagh. St Paul's will be | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
looking for him as a source of scores in this MacRory Cup decided | :19:49. | :19:49. | |
today. Glass the target, and again he is | :19:50. | :20:04. | |
the recipient. That is a man that St Paul's will have to watch today as | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Maghera come forward, looking confident in the opening exchanges. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
Jack Doherty, previous MacRory Cup winner. They are the midfield | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
combination for Saint Pat 's Maghera. | :20:21. | :20:34. | |
Enterprising play by St Patrick's Maghera. A chance for Shane | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
McGuigan! There is the goal! The start gets better and better! 1-1 | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
and some fans have yet to take their seats, less than three minutes | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
played! France's Kearney just turned inside, went off the left shoulder, | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
and the awareness to flick it across, took out three defenders. A | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
relatively simple finish. He is deadly from there, it is a brilliant | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
start from Maghera. You fear the worst for Bessbrook. They call him | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
we Shane even though he is six foot two in height. If Maghera were | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
accused of starting slowly in earlier rounds of the MacRory Cup, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
that cannot be a criticism levelled at them today. | :21:30. | :21:58. | |
The tackling and carrying is ferocious from Maghera in the early | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
moments. Conor Glass is central and pivotal to much of what they are | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Another chance for Shane McGuigan, thinking again about the goal. The | :22:10. | :22:35. | |
movement inside from Shane McGuigan and Francis Kearney has been | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
delightful. They were providing options. It was an intelligent | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
option for Shane McGuigan to take his point because to go five up is a | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
big score. It was a more difficult opportunity than the one he has just | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
taken, very smart play. Maghera are dominating. | :22:56. | :23:16. | |
Glass fouls, another free. Taken quickly. Ryan McSherry will keep the | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
ball in play. This will be a scoring opportunity | :23:26. | :23:39. | |
for St Paul's, and, boy, do they need it, just to steady the ship, | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
settle things down. It is interesting that Conor Glass and | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Jonathan Byrd have matched up with each other. I had a feeling that, | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
given their strengths lie in their attacking ability, both boys are | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
doing a lot of damage going forward, so it is great to see them going | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
head-to-head. First scoring opportunity from Shea | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
Loye, not one of his better ones. Drifts wide. Could that be nervous? | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
It wasn't the easiest free you will get, though I was down on the pitch | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
beforehand and the ground was immaculate, the conditions are | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
perfect, so you would expect in two kick that in. Bessbrook will just | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
have to rely on their experience, they will have to try and settle, | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
though Maghera have shown phenomenal start here. Two wides for St Paul's | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
Bessbrook so far. He is judged to have over carried | :24:44. | :25:03. | |
the ball, St Paul's have the free. Aaron Boyle is the man to take it, | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
scored an important goal in their semifinal a few weeks ago. | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
Plenty of composure at the back, Maharaj don't do panic. They fell | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
behind to the Academy Dungannon in the semifinal but they were not | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
fazed and found a way back into the game. They have started like a steam | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
locomotive here. Another opportunity for Tierney. And the ball is in the | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
net again! It is a dream start for St Patrick's Maghera. It is becoming | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
a quarry nightmare for St Paul's. -- a MacRory nightmare. It was a fairly | :25:52. | :26:04. | |
simple finish but the space they are getting, the quarterback make a | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
great run up the ground, knew his limitations, David after the forward | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
and before you know it is in the back of the net. It will be a long | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
way back for Westbrook. 2-2 to know school. -- no score. Even with just | :26:18. | :26:31. | |
eight minutes played the alarm bells now are ringing. | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
At last, Bessbrook have a badly needed school. McGuinness knocked | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
that one over the bar. Badly needed, and John Rafferty knows it. Into the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
ninth minute now, it was good to see him come through and feed it off, a | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
lovely finish as well. No need to panic just jet, still a lot of game | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
to play and hopefully that will settle this St Paul's team down. A | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
mountain to climb, if not an insurmountable one, but it has | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
certainly been some start by St Patrick's Maghera. | :27:12. | :27:24. | |
Well intercepted by Rory McCann the St Pat's. | :27:25. | :27:34. | |
Ryan Gaskin, also a member of the McCrory 2013 St Paul's panel. | :27:35. | :28:02. | |
Conor Glass was not as intense, that was a fantastic school, dead centre | :28:03. | :28:11. | |
but 40 metres out. He knows this ground well, being an Armagh boy. It | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
is good to see St Paul's showing this courage so early in the game. | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
They have steadied things with those two scores in the last few minutes. | :28:23. | :28:42. | |
A bit more purpose now from St Paul's. Maybe they have decided to | :28:43. | :28:51. | |
let the shackles of a bit, having conceded those two early goals. | :28:52. | :29:04. | |
Lori was trying to do what he could, but his options were limited there. | :29:05. | :29:12. | |
-- Loye. A lovely side footed ball and, | :29:13. | :29:28. | |
almost nonchalantly, a third St Patrick's goal. Brilliant, not an | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
easy path to take. He had to spin round his man, the ball in wasn't | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
ideal but the way he caught it, held off his opponent, and that finish | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
was absolutely brilliant. Those two boys upfront are causing absolute | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
havoc. The way he won the ball, protected the space, took it in, | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
strong enough to hold off the defender, and that finish is so, so | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
good. He made it look easy, if it was to a good it was called us and | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
calmness personified. A third St Patrick's Maghera goal and the gap | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
is nine points already in this MacRory Cup decider. If the first | :30:06. | :30:14. | |
two goals did not reach the Bessbrook crowd, that one certainly | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
has. It is a big ask now, even at this early stage. | :30:19. | :30:29. | |
You can see his influence, he pops up everywhere, little linking moves. | :30:30. | :31:03. | |
Even at this early stage you wonder where the initiative to turn the | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
game is going to come from for St Paul's. Still a long way to go. | :31:09. | :31:28. | |
Under pressure, the shop was Holyrood. -- hurried. | :31:29. | :31:54. | |
Damian O'Hagan, that is more like it, shot straight through, third | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
score the St Paul's. A very clever flick down there from Aaron Boyle. A | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
lovely finish, didn't try to kick it too hard, just floated it upon the | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
wind. Maghera, their two semifinal and quarterfinal opponents, titanic | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
struggles against them, it looks like they have freed up playing | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
against a more familiar opponent, it seems as if they are playing with a | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
lot of pre-med and -- freedom and sometimes that can happen if you | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
have had a difficult path to the final. | :32:28. | :32:47. | |
The sun in their eyes, but it has not distracted them so far. | :32:48. | :33:03. | |
The Maghera team is peppered with links to the 1993 All-Ireland | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
winners. Good tackling from Loye. A free out | :33:10. | :33:37. | |
for St Paul's. It is about keeping their composure, too, St Paul's, | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
making sure their heads don't drop. Yes, it is about not being too | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
concerned with the scoreboard, sticking to the process and the game | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
plan that has taken you this far, and the score will look after its | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
self. It is when you start thinking about what will happen here, I will | :33:53. | :33:55. | |
do something different, that is when it gets dangerous. They need to have | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
the composure to do that and trust themselves they can claw this back | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
one point at a time. The problem for St Paul's, however, is that all of | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
Saint pats schools have come from two players. I was going to say that | :34:12. | :34:21. | |
is about to change but that effort drifted to the right and wide from | :34:22. | :34:22. | |
Paddy McCormack. This is Michael Murphy. His club has | :34:23. | :34:46. | |
a strong representation in this MacRory Cup panel in 2016. Little | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
things not working out for St Paul's in these early exchanges. Eamon | :34:55. | :35:04. | |
O'Neill and Ryan Gaskill combining. Loye again. Nile McGuinness showing | :35:05. | :35:19. | |
well when he gets on the ball. Maghera have plenty of numbers back. | :35:20. | :35:26. | |
That was not one of his best attempts. | :35:27. | :36:00. | |
St Patrick's Cavan were heading for the third MacRory Cup success, | :36:01. | :36:09. | |
remember. Another chance here, and another goal! Another nail, you hate | :36:10. | :36:16. | |
to say it at this early stage, but Paddy Crick has found the net for St | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
Patrick's Maghera, four goals and two points for the Derry men, three | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
points for St Paul's. The movement inside, it is hard to point fingers | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
at the defence because the movement is such high quality, but they have | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
lots of space to work in front of them to move on these passes. You | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
would expect St Paul's Bessbrook to have rectified that by now, put some | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
defenders back to stem the flow for a little bit, because every time | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
Maghera go forward they are capable of scoring goals. Four goals in 80 | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
minutes. A great run around the keeper, you still have to get the | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
ball onto your boot under pressure so not as easy a finish as it may | :36:55. | :36:56. | |
have looked. A great no mistaking his influence | :36:57. | :37:10. | |
in this match, he is causing havoc in the forward line. The Martin | :37:11. | :37:16. | |
stretches again for Maghera. -- the margin. It's a big ask. This is Liam | :37:17. | :37:28. | |
Kerr. Scored eight points in the semifinal win but has yet to | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
register in this final, this is his first opportunity. And it's good. | :37:32. | :37:41. | |
They are going to need lots more from him if they will turn this | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
particular contest around. An accomplished free taker. His club | :37:49. | :38:00. | |
has celebrated through the years. -- a celebrated history. Dinky kick | :38:01. | :38:14. | |
out. Patrick Kearney. Able to mobilise free men very quickly. Time | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
and playing with plenty of confidence on the ball. Thought he | :38:20. | :38:28. | |
was fouled but play continues. Nice enterprising ball into McGuigan, | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
toying with his man once again. He will try to get it on the left foot, | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
his preferred kicking foot. On this occasion may be too much one way and | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
then the other. The referee is going to have a word with McGuigan. , a | :38:43. | :38:53. | |
lot better. Hard to ask players to be playing one-on-one this level. I | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
feel sorry for the two boys in there. What should they try to do? | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
Put a halfback in just in front. It is bouncing and they are able to get | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
it on the turn. Just clog it up for a few minutes so they can get a | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
foothold in the game. They are being ruthless, Maghera. I would expect | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
them to look at that before they move completely out of this game. | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
Trying to get Liam Kerr on the ball a bit more, St Paul's. He has been | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
dispossessed. Swarm of blue shirts. Here they come again. Keen to get | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
that ball forward as quick as they can. McGuigan is one of the man who | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
has been doing much of the scoring so far. Not one of his best passes | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
and Konta class will do well to keep it in place. | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
He heads to Hawthorne in June after his A-levels are completed. Looking | :40:00. | :40:15. | |
for an option inside. Shane Lowry has done well to hold onto it. Over | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
the top. Slowly but surely they are beginning to find the range. That | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
was a great move and he took it well. Very unlucky, just over the | :40:26. | :40:35. | |
bar. They will take that point. And full credit for their start, | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
Maghera. To come out of the box and score 4-2 is absolutely brilliant. | :40:41. | :40:51. | |
Saint Pauls are struggling to get the pace of this team the minute. | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
There is the bench of the St Paul's Bessbrook panel. Maybe a little | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
shell-shocked but there is still a fair distance to go. More danger | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
here from St Patrick's Maghera, and an opportunity for Williams to | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
increased the lead. From that sort of distance he'll make no mistake. | :41:11. | :41:22. | |
They have clearly been working on it and have corrected it today. They | :41:23. | :41:30. | |
are determined to try to rectify it and they have certainly done that. | :41:31. | :41:39. | |
Smart option to take the points. Aaron Boyle, whose goal in the early | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
moments of the second half in the semifinal really swung the game | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
decisively St Paul's way. They could do with one of those goals today. | :41:49. | :41:56. | |
And another scoring opportunity for St Paul's, albeit from a fair | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
distance held. Within the range of Liam Kerr. Perhaps sensibly he | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
decides to go short. Sprinting forward, under pressure. Picks out | :42:07. | :42:14. | |
Shane Lowry. Combination plays nicely, execution of the shop not as | :42:15. | :42:22. | |
convincing. The chances gone. Some inexperience, tried to brush the | :42:23. | :42:25. | |
shot before he had the ball completely under control. Of course | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
he was under good pressure by Maghera defenders. But the shot was | :42:29. | :42:39. | |
not the best option. He's got to be happy, Paul Hughes. Joint manager of | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
St Patrick's Maghera. Highly experienced. He has led so many | :42:46. | :42:56. | |
college teams over the years. His team have defending to do here. That | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
effort from Aaron Boyle not one of his better ones. That is the worry, | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
if some panic sets in and things go wrong. Heads might start to drop. | :43:07. | :43:13. | |
Those whites are often the thing that deflate young players more than | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
conceding. The goals so far have been of real high quality. You would | :43:18. | :43:30. | |
expect somebody of Aaron Boyle's quality to put that away and he has | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
been doing that all season. These two have contested 26 Ulster College | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
football finals between them. The difference being Maghera have been | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
in 24, this is the second for St Paul's. History tells you there is a | :43:46. | :43:52. | |
big gap in experience and knowledge of showpiece deciders like this. It | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
will be a big test of character, how they manage this game and get back | :43:57. | :43:58. | |
into it. Maghera with McGuigan. No panic if the initial avenue | :43:59. | :44:19. | |
doesn't work out, they will change it and try another route. Patrick | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
Kearney's long ball in, looking for the brother and finding him. Turning | :44:25. | :44:32. | |
inside his man again. This is nice. He may have won the 45. He is their | :44:33. | :44:40. | |
target man. Those balls, they are not precision passes. Extremely | :44:41. | :44:51. | |
intelligent play, here. To win himself the 45 for his team. Lovely | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
piece of showboating. To think to do that in that space of time shows you | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
what sort of head he has on his shoulders as well as being such a | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
smooth mover. Still hard to credit this is his fourth MacRory Cup | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
campaign. He wore the number two jersey when they last met in the | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
decider three years ago. He is renowned as a man marker but | :45:14. | :45:28. | |
he can score, too. And then I give him the commentators curse. Move it | :45:29. | :45:39. | |
up. Nice combination play with McWilliams. Just look so comfortable | :45:40. | :45:47. | |
on the ball, St Patrick's Maghera. Men running off the shoulder and | :45:48. | :45:55. | |
into space. Not always precision passes but more often than not they | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
can make something of the. Started from a long ball out, and Maghera | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
had a spare defender back, they were able to mop up the danger. That is | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
exactly what I suggested potentially Saint Paul's could have done to help | :46:12. | :46:14. | |
their insight defenders out a little. He's gone short. Francisco | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
who was the target. Great vision, simple but effective | :46:19. | :46:32. | |
play from Maghera. Bessbrook have it back. Aaron Boyle combining with | :46:33. | :46:41. | |
Declan Loye. They need the ball up the other end, St Paul's. They will | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
have to work very hard even to get the ball out of their own half. | :46:48. | :46:56. | |
Richard Keenan feeding Conor Clarke. Kurt tries to turn inside but Feeney | :46:57. | :46:58. | |
got a hand to it. Ryan Gaskin is fouled, couple of | :46:59. | :47:19. | |
hands in, there. Jarlath Og Burns, the team captain. | :47:20. | :47:38. | |
Bessbrook try to work an opening from a long way out. Conor Clarke | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
with the effort. It was speculative at best. I know he is a team-mate of | :47:44. | :47:53. | |
yours. Yes, he was working hard to get back after knee injury. He just | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
dropped his head after that shot. The defence has been fairly compact. | :48:00. | :48:08. | |
One minute of additional time in this first half. They will try to | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
finish the half with another flourish. McGuigan and Kearney | :48:17. | :48:28. | |
utterly dominant. They've scored 3-2 in this first half and that's been | :48:29. | :48:38. | |
the main reason that the gap in the scoreboard is so big. McGuigan | :48:39. | :48:48. | |
combine. Patrick Kearney, and the unmarked man is, McAllister. It's | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
almost leisurely at times. Shane McGrath and will look up, and when | :48:57. | :48:59. | |
he gets a roommate that there will only be one outcome. Shane McGrath | :49:00. | :49:13. | |
in is enjoying himself out there. -- showing McGuigan enjoying himself. | :49:14. | :49:27. | |
1-24 McGuigan in the half. St Patrick's Maghera utterly in control | :49:28. | :49:30. | |
in just about every sector of the pitch. And it's the long road back | :49:31. | :49:37. | |
even at this early stage for St Paul's Bessbrook. France's Kearney | :49:38. | :49:45. | |
finding the net. Key to so much of what they created. McGuigan and | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
Kearney scoring 3-3 of the first half tally for St Patrick's Maghera, | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
that is why they are in charge. It will need to be a special half-time | :49:58. | :50:00. | |
talk from John Rafferty. They say that goals win games, and | :50:01. | :50:13. | |
they also say that if you take your points your goals will come. It | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
seems as though Maghera have been the polar opposite to that. | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
Phenomenal start. Looking at McGuigan. Two wonderful goals. We | :50:24. | :50:31. | |
said before, the team that got off to a better start would have a | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
greater chance of winning. Kearney winning the ball, taking on his man, | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
but being very unselfish and passing it. Was that a throw? Debatable, | :50:40. | :50:46. | |
hard to know. Saint Paul's probably will not be happy. Next goal, Feeney | :50:47. | :51:01. | |
finds great space, doesn't panic. Kearney has a shot, and it bounces | :51:02. | :51:04. | |
four McGuigan, easy task of finishing in the back of the net. | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
Kearney made the first goal and made no mistake with the third goal for | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
Maghera, wonderfully taken shot. He's been very impressive. Had a | :51:16. | :51:22. | |
hand in all the goals. His finish for his own goal was good. He has a | :51:23. | :51:31. | |
very acute angle, he is able to slide it under the goalkeeper. Up | :51:32. | :51:40. | |
front between Kearney and McGuigan, invariably they will win it, the two | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
big and strong men. They have the physical edge. With the | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
opportunities they are able to take them. That's why Maghera are so | :51:49. | :52:03. | |
comfortable. We were almost thinking it was over before it started, and | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
then another hammer blow. Another well taken shot. Absolutely. They | :52:09. | :52:14. | |
built from deep, slightly different to the other goals. Making the run | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
on the blindside the invariably Kearney wins it. Seven or | :52:19. | :52:31. | |
eight points up, you think they will just knock it over the bar for | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
another score. But they went for the jugular. In those five to six | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
minutes they completely finished off this game as a contest. The key | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
question, what does the management team of St Paul's Bessbrook say to | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
their players? They are young men, inexperienced, and going by this | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
scoreboard, it does not look good, what can they do? Their heads will | :52:57. | :53:04. | |
be down. You just have to take a minute and don't forget there is | :53:05. | :53:11. | |
another whole half of football. They are such big man, great site, some | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
excellent players. You've just got to do your best. There's a great | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
battle in midfield between, class and Jarlath Og Burns. People talked | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
about the Armagh element, one thing they all have in common is the | :53:34. | :53:41. | |
ruthlessness. The minute Maghera have the ball, they go for the goal. | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
Yes, they will go for the goal every time. The battle in the middle of | :53:46. | :53:52. | |
the field, Maghera will have fancied themselves before the game. In | :53:53. | :54:01. | |
actual fact it is about 50-50. But they are able to build from the | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
back. And when St Paul's get an opportunity, it is not a simple | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
opportunity and they have to work so hard to get that score. That is one | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
thing you can notice from afar. Comprehensive first half from | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
Maghera. What about the MacLarnon Cup? It was played before the | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
MacRory Cup final, and we can get highlights now. | :54:26. | :54:35. | |
Charging through, passed back, find the debt, Andrew Woods with the | :54:36. | :54:49. | |
finish. All the hard work by Keane. Well one by Finnegan. Clinical from | :54:50. | :55:05. | |
across. That is a super school. Holy Trinity Church really need to score. | :55:06. | :55:24. | |
That is a super point opened the second half. Well taken. Options off | :55:25. | :55:48. | |
the shoulder with O Conor. He taps sitting. David Garland with the | :55:49. | :55:56. | |
finish. -- taps it in. After O'Connor's shot, it rebranded to | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
Garland. He does not miss opportunities like that. | :56:03. | :56:14. | |
An inspired score from Garland, he has been terrific. Back with Devlin. | :56:15. | :56:28. | |
He has been very impressive for midfield, James Devon. Garland, | :56:29. | :56:37. | |
high, over the top. Holy Trinity really need a goal. | :56:38. | :56:46. | |
Finnegan goes himself. Carrick across Harvey champions, defeating | :56:47. | :56:59. | |
Holy Trinity. Raising the McLarnon cup in front of | :57:00. | :57:16. | |
the rest of the players. A fantastic individual performance from Garland, | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
the real star of the show for the team. He hit one goal and eight | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
points to win this very famous trippy. To give you an idea of how | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
in demand this team is, they have been raced back for a parade, they | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
are being brought up on stage, they could not hang about to be | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
interviewed by us! They are superstars now. One man trying to | :57:41. | :57:50. | |
keep his feet on the ground is the headteacher of the school, how | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
significant is this? It is very significant, we are delighted to be | :57:54. | :58:02. | |
the holders of the McLarnon cup. We were beaten by a very strong team | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
last year and it ran deep through the school, throughout the football | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
fraternity, the Gaelic fraternity and the school itself, so we had to | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
make amends today. We had a plan in place, it was executed perfectly | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
today, and we have some superstars but a super team and we hope they | :58:20. | :58:22. | |
will go forward now and represent the colleges in the decider to see | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
who represents all Star in the All-Ireland series. The school is | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
also going very well overall, success has filtered down? | :58:33. | :58:37. | |
Absolutely, all the young lads want to play ball, but on the jersey, be | :58:38. | :58:45. | |
part of the setup, of what is the highest Gaelic tradition. We are a | :58:46. | :58:48. | |
small school, we don't have the best facilities, local cover have been | :58:49. | :58:52. | |
helping us out, I will sponsors, etc, and all the young lads want to | :58:53. | :58:56. | |
come and play ball, they are talented, committed, and very well | :58:57. | :59:02. | |
coached. It worked for us today and we are delighted, I couldn't be more | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
proud of the school, the teachers, parents, supporters, and in | :59:08. | :59:10. | |
particular the team mentor is today because they put a plan in place, | :59:11. | :59:13. | |
followed it perfectly, played the games start to finish, it was a | :59:14. | :59:18. | |
mature, level-headed, brilliant performance and we are absolutely | :59:19. | :59:22. | |
chuffed, and I offer a debt of gratitude to those guys, their | :59:23. | :59:26. | |
families and the school. They should be on stage in Carrickmacross in | :59:27. | :59:36. | |
about half an hour, it might be a bit tight for you to make it down | :59:37. | :59:38. | |
but congratulations to the school and two of the happiest men inside | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
the Athletic Grounds. Some very, very proud people today. | :59:42. | :59:49. | |
Congratulations to Patrician haulage in Carrickmacross. They looked | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
brilliant. -- Patrician college. To win it today must be redemption for | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
a lot of the players who were involved last year. What does John | :00:01. | :00:07. | |
Rafferty said to his troops at half-time? It looks like Mission | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
impossible from the outside looking in. He has a difficult team talk. | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
One thing is to leave everything on the field, they have not done that | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
so far, they have been poor on the back. The chances of friends they | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
have not taken -- the chances upfront. | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
St Paul's need to get a period of dominance in the second half, get | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
three or four goals, make a game of this. You would expect Mahabharata | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
kick on and win the game but we talked about the experience of the | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
St Patrick's Day MacRory final, you don't want it to be unhappy because | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
that is not a great experience for a young blood to take into the next | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
round of his football career. But St Paul's will feel they have not | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
performed defensively and when you get those opportunities upfront, to | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
visit maybe, they need to take them. We will wait to see whether St | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Pauls' Bessbrook can make a comeback in the second half. The MacRory Cup | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
is about the players on the pitch, but also about the fans. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Yes, fantastic atmosphere amongst the supporters, and many of them | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
have made a lot of effort today. Let's get a quick run through of | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
some of the supporters. Some of the best dressed supporters inside the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Athletic Grounds! I am dressed as St Paul's bus, I have supporters, the | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
manager, the mascots. Go on, St Paul's! They are projected on the | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
big screen as well! Pick up your drum, give us a beat of that! I'm | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
the bass player of St Paul's, come on St Paul's! We will try to get | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
some crowd interaction in a moment, find out who they think is the best | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
dressed of all. Next up, you are live on BBC, can you see?! Tell us | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
about your outfit. I'm a blue person! Next up, it wouldn't be | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
March the 17th without this man, said Patrick. Tell us a bit about | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
this, because you don't find these things just in your wardrobe! No, my | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
name is Liam, I support Saint pats, I thought, it is Saint Patrick | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
State, go for Saint Patrick. -- Saint Patrick's Day. Let's try to | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
find out, as the players come back on the pitch, who people think is | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
the best dressed. Is it the pair from Bessbrook? | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
The drama? The blue man? | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
Or Saint Patrick? And the winner is... Said Patrick! | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Who else?! Congratulations! Thank you very much. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
It looks like Saint Patrick in more ways than one. Certainly dressed for | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
the occasion! The worrying thing is then Patrick 's Maghera looked | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
almost as if they were just in cruise control in that first half, | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
almost as if there is more to come, is that reading it wrongly? It was a | :03:47. | :03:58. | |
phenomenal performance. If there is more to come, I am looking forward | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
to seeing it. Hopefully St Paul's can come out here now and making | :04:03. | :04:03. | |
game of it. I am looking forward to the second | :04:04. | :04:21. | |
half, hopefully St Paul can make a game of it. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Let's rejoin our commentary team for the second half. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
COMMENTATOR: 11 point margins have been hauled back before but it is a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
big ask for St Paul's high school of Bessbrook. | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
They won't give up without a fight, any side prepared by John Rafferty | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
and Barry Shannon will contest this to the very end. This is Liam Kerr, | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
the man of the match in the semifinal. That is more like it, the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
outside of the boot, the sort of start Bessbrook badly needed in this | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
half. We have heard a lot about his place in the build-up to the game, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
you showed it there, 20 seconds after half-time. Up into fifth gear | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
and a fantastic finish as well. The psychological advantage of getting | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
the first school so early. His second point of the afternoon. | :05:20. | :05:34. | |
Loye is in there, trying to win it back, but well recovered by Conor | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
McAllister. Conor Glass and Jack Doherty in full | :05:38. | :05:54. | |
flow, it is a hard partnership to curtail. | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
Declan Loye needs to be careful here, under pressure from Shane | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
McGuigan. But there are enough St Paul's shirts to help out. | :06:13. | :06:27. | |
Nice combination play, this is better. The captain tries to go | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
inside Conor Glass, he is fouled by Conor Glass, wins the free. The two | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
number eights combining. I contest worth watching, on that occasion | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
last adjudged to have fouled his man. This should be straightforward | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
for Shane Lowry. -- Shea Loye. And it is, and the first two scores of | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the second half go to St Paul's. That is what the neutrals wanted to | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
see, what the St Paul's fans wanted to see. Come out and get those first | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
two scores, they were able to stop Maghara's first attack and school as | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
well. Nine points, three goals, who knows? Still 30 minutes left. As | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
well as the MacRory Cup, the prize awaiting the winners is a Hogan cup | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
semifinal next Wednesday against Summerhill College. St Pat's and | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
Bessbrook went been thinking about that now, it is about taking the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
main Ulster prize here on St Patrick's Day. | :07:45. | :08:20. | |
Eamon O'Neill's ball is long. Under pressure that time round but they | :08:21. | :08:35. | |
have got the sideline ball. St Paul's will try to get this man on | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
the ball wherever they can. High tackle from Ryan McSherry. The | :08:38. | :09:00. | |
referee just having a quick word, nothing major. | :09:01. | :09:16. | |
A perfect example there of not giving the easy first ball. A great | :09:17. | :09:28. | |
run, delayed it. Now McGuinness sprinting forward for Bessbrook. | :09:29. | :09:41. | |
Potentially that last attack from Maghera could be making them think | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
they have this in the bag. You saw the wide count a moment ago, | :09:48. | :10:04. | |
six for Bessbrook, John Rafferty knows changes need to be made and | :10:05. | :10:05. | |
here is one of them. That foul produces a free. St Paul's | :10:06. | :10:29. | |
need to try to turn the tide here, can this man provided, Stephen | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Finnegan? Waiting for his opportunity to come in. | :10:33. | :10:57. | |
Bessbrook can make their change and introduce Finegan. And the man | :10:58. | :11:09. | |
making way is Richard Keenan. A pat on the back from his manager. Worked | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
hard, but, as has been the case for so many St Paul's players today, not | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
everything they have tried has come off. | :11:21. | :11:36. | |
Another opportunity here, polite argy-bargy between Dame Linda Hagan | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
and Conor Glass, good-natured, I think. -- Damien O Hagan. | :11:45. | :12:06. | |
Conor Glass one that free, he was outnumbered but used his body was to | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
set up the team again. Bessbrook have not given up the | :12:11. | :12:22. | |
ghost by any stretch of the imagination. | :12:23. | :12:39. | |
McWilliams is fouled by Ryan Gaskin. Such a fantastic win on that ball, | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
really bailed his team out, helped the St Paul's attack. Great to see | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
two younger lads putting their bodies on the line for the school. | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
Uncle Henry will be proud! They looked like they can move up a | :12:56. | :13:09. | |
gear or two if they need to. This particular move in danger of | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
breaking down and becoming untidy. Shane Lowry is back to help out. The | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
referee spotted an infringement. Lots of trophies in his cabinet at | :13:17. | :13:37. | |
home, Dermot McNicol. Umpteen MacRory Cup titles both as a player | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
and a manager. Joint managers when they won back in 2002. Receiving | :13:43. | :13:54. | |
treatment for this challenge, McGuinness coming down on him, | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
there. Saint Paul's will make another change in the moment. He is | :14:01. | :14:11. | |
up and OK. 13 maybe behind but plenty of voice and noise from the | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
St Paul's supporters. They've brought so much colour to this St | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Patrick's Maghera cider. Josh Durnin comes in. -- this St Patrick's | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
Maghera decider. Declan Loye under pressure. | :14:28. | :14:43. | |
McGuinness. Showing a good clean pair of heels. Bearing down on goal, | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
chance here. And that's more like it from St Paul's. They needed a spark, | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
and they've got one now. Absolutely fantastic response from St Paul's in | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
this half. What a great goal. Great run from Conor McGuinness, and he | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
gave it to the right man. Directed into the roof of the net. Phenomenal | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
goal. And the catalyst was the McGuinness to win combining and | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
setting it up. And the finish was deadly. Suddenly the margin is down | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
to six points. And still St Patrick's Maghera are waiting for | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
their first score since the restart. You mentioned it was important they | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
got one. It was that one piece of play, simple past not given, I | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
thought it might come back to haunt them. They need that score to settle | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
them. A little question or two being asked right now, is this going to be | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
the response? The answer is no. The effort from McWilliams is wide. Very | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
surprised that St Paul's don't have a football behind the goal. The big | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
teams would have three or four, you need to get it moving as quick as | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
you can. Thankfully somebody in the crowd threw it back out to young | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Michael Murphy to get the ball moving against quite a little over | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
18 minutes to go. Can they do it? Let's see. | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
Maghera in possession, leading by six. This is good play by Francis | :16:35. | :16:47. | |
Kearney again. The kick from Patrick Kearney, the radar is off in the | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
second half. The key thing is St Paul's had bodies down there, | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
throwing themselves on the line. That did not happen in the first | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
half. That was a crucial part. St Paul's putting them under pressure | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
and the result is a wide. That is one thing that John Rafferty | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
rectified in the dressing room at half-time. Maghera had lots of it up | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
front in the first half, not so much in the second half. Murphy's kit in | :17:24. | :17:38. | |
towards his captain. The bounce may deceive Declan Loye. Bit more | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
purpose and intensity from St Paul's since the restart. Getting forward | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
to get into whose goal-scoring positions. McGuinness's control | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
can't prevent that ball from drifting out. McGuinness from South | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
Armagh, one of three McGuinnesss. Patrick Kearney's ball looking for | :18:12. | :18:29. | |
the twin brother, if he can keep it in, and he has. Kearney, right | :18:30. | :18:41. | |
footed. Again he was under pressure. That helped to skew the chance. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
That's all it takes. The bit of defending by Declan Loye before | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
that. Those boys took a hammering in the first half. The character they | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
are showing now, they are making them earn their scores more this | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
half. They have not got any yet so they are doing a great job. St | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Paul's ball once again. Josh Durnin wants to get on with it quickly but | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
the referee wants him in the correct position. Another switch being made | :19:11. | :19:22. | |
by Saint Pauls. Looks like now McGuinness is making way. The man in | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
is Ryan Hughes. Conor Clarke trying to gather it, in | :19:26. | :19:45. | |
the end Shane Lowry does. He has been working tigerish lay in the | :19:46. | :19:46. | |
second period. Maghera win it back. Combine well | :19:47. | :20:02. | |
again. This is nice play by St Patrick's Maghera. McWilliams goes | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
for the score and now they have their first score, could that be an | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
important one for Maghera to settle it all down? And the gap is seven | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
points again. Great team score. We talked about the importance of that. | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
You can see from the reaction, he knew how big a score that was. You | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
expect them to go on now. And misses an opportunity for Paddy quick, they | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
will take the point. Could have gone under, it's gone over. McGuigan | :20:44. | :20:55. | |
again. It's as if that score has released Maghera and let them | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
release. Doing the sensible thing and popping it over. Might have got | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
the touch, glanced up over the bar off the goalie. He's got a powerful | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
drive online. But it's still a point, another one that St Paul's | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
need to get back. Here is Ryan Hughes, just on a moment ago. This | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
could be an opportunity to cut the deficit back to six. That wasn't an | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
easy angle but it was a beautiful score from Shane Lowry. | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Whatever was said at half-time by the two managers, it's as if they | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
almost have nothing to lose now, they are enjoying the occasion. | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
Perhaps the pressure got to them. Now we are seeing what they can do. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
It is turning into a fantastic game of football. The supporters may be | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
asking why they couldn't do this in the first. But this is much better | :22:11. | :22:24. | |
from the South Armagh school. Still going forward. This is Liam Kerr | :22:25. | :22:36. | |
territory. And if it goes over it will cut the deficit back once again | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
to six points. Very distinctive style and | :22:39. | :23:01. | |
preparation. Why change it if you can do that? These fans still hope | :23:02. | :23:13. | |
their team can applaud this final back. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Just over 11 minutes ago in the MacRory Cup final. Jack Docherty | :23:19. | :23:39. | |
under pressure. McGuigan the target. Declan Loye policing him. | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
McWilliams's kit is off target. Six points the advantage, it's a | :23:46. | :24:00. | |
comfortable lead. Relatively comfortable. But in this half St | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
Paul's have outplayed Maghera big-time, and the scoreboard | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
suggests that. If St Paul's still believe, and they look like they do, | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
and their fans are creating a great atmosphere. St Paul's are still in | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
this as long as they believe it. No sign of any head struggling, least | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
of all the use, although he's under pressure. This is an opportunity for | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
Ryan McSherry. It's a 45. He went for it but that's a fine save by one | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
of the unsung heroes of the St Pat's team, Sean Cassidy, getting a hand | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
to that, and what a vital says it may prove to be. McSherry went for | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
the near post. Nice height for the keeper but fantastic reactions. Much | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
every new it was a big shock to take on. He has provided so much in this | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
competition already and has done so again. Great quality by Bessbrook, | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
definitely not out of this. Quite good off the deck but it is a big | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
kick on the athletic Grounds. From County Down. Conor Clarke to try to | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
cut the deficit to five points, doesn't quite have enough meat on | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
it. You do feel that every chance is going to have to count now for Saint | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Paul's in the remaining nine minutes. | :25:44. | :25:55. | |
Paddy McCourt mug. Turner continued his run. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
Good tackling from Conor Magennis. The St Pat's supporters thought it | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
was a foul. No question it was a free kick. They can feel very hard | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
done by on that particular occasion, Maghera, but it was not given. And | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
they come forward with Conor McDonald, Liam Kerr gathers it. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Knocks it on to Eamon O'Neill. He's got a bit of space. O'Neill on hand. | :26:31. | :26:46. | |
Laid off to Josh Durnin. It is wide. They need to be good in these last | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
few minutes. The last two chances have gone begging. Snatched that it | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
little. He had Liam Kerr screaming for it up front, probably should | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
have passed it. He took it on himself. And it was one he probably | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
should have put over. Sean Cassidy's save so important. He is a hurler by | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
trade, he became a football goalkeeper by accident. Maghera make | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
more changes. The lead is six points. A pat on his back from his | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
manager. Coming forward now, Maghera looking | :27:28. | :28:03. | |
to extend the advantage. Gives it back to McGuigan. With that trusty | :28:04. | :28:11. | |
left peg, he makes no mistake. These two boys have been so dangerous | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
upfront. They give them a simple task every time. Great finish, he | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
knew how important that score would be. He's very happy. Didn't try to | :28:23. | :28:32. | |
kick it too hard. You would have to think that the MacRory Cup is going | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
back to Maghera. Two goals and four points for McGuigan so far. Seven | :28:38. | :28:49. | |
points is the Maghera league. St Paul's will not give up, it is not | :28:50. | :29:01. | |
in their ethos. A little discussion over who the line ball should go to | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
on that far side. Declan Loye arguing his case with the match | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
referee. Bessbrook want them to get on with | :29:08. | :29:36. | |
it. Declan Loye has gone into the referee's notebook. Rarebit of space | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
for Ryan McSherry. Feeding it in nicely. Hughes has shown well since | :29:43. | :29:51. | |
being introduced but that particular pass is intercepted by the captain, | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
Konta class. Jack Doherty sprints forward making | :29:54. | :30:26. | |
himself available. Shane McGuigan, the two men causing more damage. | :30:27. | :30:33. | |
McGuigan turning illegally, according to the referee. | :30:34. | :30:43. | |
He almost had to many options. They seemed telepathic in the way they | :30:44. | :30:51. | |
are linking up with each other, a massive part of why Maghera have | :30:52. | :30:53. | |
such a big lead. That was not one of his best | :30:54. | :31:12. | |
efforts. While the heads are not dropping, as such, I think the | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
realisation is beginning to set in the sum of these players that this | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
MacRory Cup is slipping away. It is, it is not a nice feeling, I played | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
in a lot of semifinals and lost them, it is a horrible thing to have | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
to be out there and play until the final whistle, knowing that you will | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
not be taking the cup back to your school and county on this occasion. | :31:38. | :31:59. | |
The noise and thinking is coming from the St Patrick 's Mahavira | :32:00. | :32:22. | |
fans, they sent a 15th MacRory Cup title is imminent now. | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
Francis Kinney has been so influential today. | :32:30. | :32:47. | |
I thought that was going to be a free in but McGuigan is adjudged to | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
have carried the ball illegally there. Perhaps he took too many | :32:53. | :33:02. | |
steps. The challenge put him under severe pressure. Conor Glass gets | :33:03. | :33:13. | |
some running repairs. More changes for St Pat's Maghera, Conor | :33:14. | :33:25. | |
Mulholland coming into the fray and Conor McAleny to have played his | :33:26. | :33:32. | |
part, he is the man to make way. How do you think Conor Glass will fare | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
down under when he goes there in June? He is obviously a phenomenal | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
athlete, he has got pace and a great size for someone of his age. I was | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
skinny and small at that age but he had a busy of a man so he will have | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
no problem, he is going to a great club. He has every chance of making | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
it providing he can pick up the pace of the game and the skills. The | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
thing I like if he doesn't try to do too much, he plays his role. He is a | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
really intelligent player, I wish all the best. Playing a captain's | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
Park today, as St Paul's have a free to move ten yards forward for | :34:16. | :34:16. | |
dissent. You can feel the belief losing | :34:17. | :34:31. | |
finally out of the St Paul's players now as we are deep in the last | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
minute and added time beckons. This is some pats -- some pats Maghera's | :34:37. | :34:46. | |
24th MacRory Cup final appearance, they have won 14 of them previously | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
and are on the another milestone today. Three minutes of added time | :34:50. | :35:07. | |
on the referee's clock. I think the notes will be, this is our day. | :35:08. | :35:15. | |
Maybe he is thinking about the Hogan cup semifinal next week. Can St | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
Paul's finish with a flourish of their own? Well caught out at the | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
back by Conor Glass, he pops up everywhere! I see he is holding -ish | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
older. He has had a history of shoulder injury, it is a shallow | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
joint. He has taken himself back at this stage of the game, it is that | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
type of play that will be inspirational. He knows it is a | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
matter of playing at the game, it was a great interception. You have | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
to say Mahavira deserved the win but great character by St Paul's | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
Bessbrook in the second half. Another goal opportunity, this is | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
going to be a penalty. An opportunity for St Patrick's Maghera | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
to add a touch of class to this MacRory Cup final from a Derry point | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
of view. Colonel Darrel got in there and caused the opening. I don't | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
think Bessbrook can have too many quibbles about that particular | :36:20. | :36:29. | |
challenge. Trying to dispossess him. St Paul's could have the argument | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
that the initial contact was just outside the 40 metre line but it was | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
very, very close call, certainly a free kick, and this stage will not | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
make much difference to the score. The man who was fouled will take the | :36:43. | :36:44. | |
kick himself. It is the icing on the cake for St | :36:45. | :36:59. | |
Pat's Maghera. He has enjoyed himself today, and so have they. | :37:00. | :37:08. | |
Perfect penalty, such a leisurely run-up for a schoolboy to come and | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
hit a penalty like that. I know it is almost the last kick of the | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
MacRory Cup Final, but such skill and closure no doubt he will join | :37:19. | :37:26. | |
the celebrations in few minutes time. It was composed finish. | :37:27. | :37:35. | |
Textbook illustration in goal-scoring. Another illustration | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
of the prowess of St Patrick 's Maghara in Ulster colleges Gaelic | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
football because for the 15th time in the school's history they are | :37:44. | :37:48. | |
champions of Ulster, the MacRory Cup heading to St Pat's once again! Lets | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
joint Thomas Kane with the man of the match. | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
The pitch has been invaded by an army of blue and white. | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
Congratulations, you are man of the match. How does it feel to win the | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
MacRory Cup? After last year, it was a big end last year and we knew we | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
had to get by them, we were right up there, we knew we had a chance. What | :38:15. | :38:24. | |
was the key to the victory? Francis and Shane McGuigan, they couldn't be | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
handled. They are unstoppable. How special is it to enjoy this moment | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
with your brother? It is good to have someone out there. Is there a | :38:34. | :38:42. | |
Hogan cup in this team now? Oh, definitely. How important was it not | :38:43. | :38:53. | |
to become complacent after the early goals? We made sure we were not | :38:54. | :39:04. | |
going to do that. The same happened with another team who were 11 points | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
up at half-time, we knew that could happen to them. Patrick Tierney, you | :39:09. | :39:17. | |
are the man of the match. I think there is a celebration, you had | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
better get involved down their! Congratulations to Patrick and St | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
Patrick's Maghera, for the 15th time the MacRory Cup champions. Paul | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
Hughes joins me, you never seem to get tired of winning these | :39:32. | :39:38. | |
competitions, do you? I might not see too many more of them but it is | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
tremendous for the school, tremendous for the clubs, there is | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
great enthusiast for MacRory Cup football in St Patrick's, there has | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
been for years. We are torchbearers, we are trying to pass this other | :39:52. | :40:01. | |
people. We are passing this on to another generation, another group of | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
kids who want to do this thing. Really embrace it and love it, | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
because it is special, MacRory Cup football is special. This may be too | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
soon for one generation, it is a sweet success? We have won the | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
MacRory Cup, cannot get better than this, doesn't get better than this. | :40:20. | :40:26. | |
Can I talk about the forward line? St Pat's Maghera seemed to bring out | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
these great things throughout the years. We were looking at the | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
McGuigans and Tierneys, phenomenal. We stopped using the ball and | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
playing as a team... I will have to stop you there. We will do in the | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
commentary team. COMMENTATOR: It doesn't matter how | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
often you win it, these are the scrapbook moments for every young | :40:55. | :41:04. | |
footballer. The current Ulster colleges chairman introducing the | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
presentation of that shiny MacRory Cup, which will be handed to Conor | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
Glass. One of the real Ulster Gaelic football talents. He heads on a | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
professional Australian rules contract Down Under in June after he | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
completes his A-levels. He will be missed but he will favour this | :41:27. | :41:33. | |
particular moment. The man of the match award is presented to Patrick | :41:34. | :41:46. | |
Kearney. This is a special moment. Whatever level of success these | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
young players have had. Yes, it is the most exciting time, or both hard | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
work they have put in from November time, training over Christmas, this | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
is the reward. MacRory Cup number 15 For St Patrick's College Maghera | :42:02. | :42:12. | |
resented to Conor Glass. Let's hear from the man himself, the | :42:13. | :42:14. | |
captain. Congratulations to St Patrick's | :42:15. | :42:38. | |
Maghera and Conor Glass, phenomenal footballer, we wish him all the best | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
with his career. Did the best team win? Definitely, the best team on | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
the day one. St Paul's came out in the second heart and made a game of | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
it. But definitely St Pat's Maghera, the best team won. Just to let | :42:53. | :42:58. | |
everyone know, there is an important programme coming up on BBC One on | :42:59. | :43:06. | |
Monday night at 9pm, it has been following the Crossmaglen team for | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
two years, that is on Monday at 9pm. Congratulations to St Patrick's | :43:13. | :43:14. | |
Maghera, thank you to both of the boys for joining me today. Time now | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
for the Schools' Cup Finals. Congratulations to St Pat's Maghera | :43:19. | :44:27. | |
on their MacRory Cup success. The focus switches to Ulster rugby | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
headquarters and the 140th Schools' Cup Finals. It is RBAI against | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
Campbell College. Hello, welcome to the Kingspan Stadium, it is that | :44:39. | :44:41. | |
time again, St Patrick's day wouldn't be the same without the | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
Schools' Cup. Alongside me this afternoon, two men with plenty of | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
experience, a finalist of Ballymena Academy in 99 and 2000, Ian | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
Humphreys, and Ulster and Ireland centre Darren Cave. The pain of | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
defeat in the final, have you got over it after all these years?! Not | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
really! It was a long time ago, but two of the best days of my rugby | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
career. As a county school we were not expecting to do too well but we | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
got to two finals, which will ultimately lost. But it lives longer | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
the memory. How important was schools rugby to you, Darren? It was | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
massive. When I was coming through, we were in the quarterfinals two | :45:24. | :45:26. | |
years in a row, it wasn't a bad result, but I still look back, | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
despite what I achieved in my career, on those days very fondly, | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
and some regret that the teams I was part of have not been able to click | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
to a semifinal never mind an occasion like this. It is an | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
occasion that stands out in Ulster Rugby? It is, over the few weeks a | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
lot of us who have managed to play in the Schools' Cup Finals have | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
talked about it. As a school play this is the pinnacle, it is what you | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
prepare all year for, it is a great occasion, great crowd. You can hear | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
them building up now. A lot of history between two big Belfast | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
schools today? Yes, it was great to see die rider coming to the | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
semifinal but at the end of the day these two are incredibly | :46:14. | :46:16. | |
competitive, two good prep schools feeding them. Some of these players | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
will be building potentially 14 years for this, it is where it all | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
culminates. Some of them might not play rugby ever again, some of them | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
might play for Ireland, but either way and massive occasion for them. | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
And it is coping with that occasion, as well? They will not be used to | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
crowds and atmospheres like this and the whole school will be watching, | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
but they have to feed of the pressure and any nerves they have | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
once the whistle goes, they will have to be forgotten about. They | :46:45. | :46:45. | |
played here a fortnight ago in the semifinal, had a bit of experience, | :46:46. | :47:00. | |
the RBAI boys winning last year would have experienced it as well. | :47:01. | :47:03. | |
The focus will be on the two teams taking the field but off the pitch | :47:04. | :47:06. | |
the excitement has been building. We sent our star reporter and a | :47:07. | :47:09. | |
familiar face to get a sense of what this day means at Campbell and Inst. | :47:10. | :47:18. | |
One of the biggest disappointment of my rugby career is never making the | :47:19. | :47:21. | |
Schools' Cup Finals. The BBC have sent me out to Campbell and insert | :47:22. | :47:25. | |
to find out about the pre-match atmosphere and the build-up to the | :47:26. | :47:27. | |
big-game -- Campbell and Inst. I have just come from the school | :47:28. | :47:42. | |
assembly and now I'm in the sixth form centre to chat to a few of the | :47:43. | :47:52. | |
players and the school band. Show me what you've got. Riding high, up in | :47:53. | :48:08. | |
the sky! Flying high, up in the sky! Daly ago, nice to meet you, thank | :48:09. | :48:09. | |
you very much! -- there you go. Whenever I was in school we | :48:10. | :48:22. | |
literally had about two of these machines. We didn't do any gym work. | :48:23. | :48:33. | |
Did you start last year? Yes. Unbelievable. I was not that nervous | :48:34. | :48:42. | |
last year compared to this year. I think it takes the pressure off. | :48:43. | :48:50. | |
Thanks very much, best of luck. We had look behind-the-scenes, now we | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
are at Campbell College to see what these guys have got to offer. Hello, | :48:56. | :49:08. | |
boys, how are you? Good morning. Any songs you will be singing for them? | :49:09. | :49:18. | |
CCB! CCB! You are scaring me with that, so you are. I feel sorry for | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
the other team with you guys cheering them on like that. Good to | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
see you, how are you getting on? All right. You must be excited, are you? | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
It's been a dream for ten years. Unbelievable. It's only half the | :49:36. | :49:41. | |
dream. Of course it is, corset is. And what is the atmosphere in the | :49:42. | :49:48. | |
school I? Buzzing. Really? Yes. Huge excitement. Well done, lads. That's | :49:49. | :50:03. | |
pretty impressive. They were showing me their drum as well, so you are | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
going to be up against it. Not just the noise on the pitch, you lads as | :50:08. | :50:14. | |
well. Right, lads, what are we having, I think I'm going to be | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
serving. Two sausages or one? I'll give two, she's not watching. | :50:20. | :50:28. | |
Anything else? Good man. It's been brilliant to be given the | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
opportunity to look round both schools, two very ambitious teams, | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
two incredible sets of support. It all comes down to the day on the | :50:38. | :50:39. | |
pitch, made the best team win. He is a rock star, Tommy Bowe, but | :50:40. | :50:49. | |
you get the feeling from the two schools of the is floating about the | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
place. Oh yeah. Both sets of teams look really up for it and excited. | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
You saw how times have changed. The gym is state-of-the-art, many clubs | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
would be pleased with it. When I was at school there were no gyms or | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
weights lifted. Great for rugby that the schools are getting this kind of | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
development from an early age. I imagine not much schoolwork has | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
done, atmosphere building. Surprise that the Campbell supporters are | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
only arriving now, it means they must have been in class. The | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
standard of facilities is completely different from when we were playing | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
at school. It is professional. At the end of the day this is what it | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
is about, we cannot rely on Ulster consistently signing these World Cup | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
winners from South Africa and New Zealand. We need to become more like | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
Leinster. Certainly a different ball game. Let's soak up some of the | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
atmosphere and noise. He's not Tommy Bowe but he's the next best thing, | :51:55. | :52:01. | |
my foster. I wouldn't say that. It's a quiet and sombre atmosphere, pitch | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
side... Not. This man lifted the schools cup 50 years ago today. | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
Captain of Campbell College in a famous 3-0 emphatic victory over | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
Coleraine. What are your memories of that special day 50 years ago? My | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
main memory is that it was a horrendously bad weather day. The | :52:23. | :52:30. | |
gale was howling up and down the pitch. In those days there were no | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
stands at either end. Just a big stand here. I'm afraid it was not a | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
great spectacle to watch. But an amazing game to play in. Any | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
schoolboy who plays rugby, this is where they want to end up. And when | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
they get here they certainly don't want to lose. So we were very | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
fortunate to come out 3-0 at the end. Special day today, 11 members | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
of that team are here to take in the class of 2016. How special is that | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
bond you made all those years ago? We have kept in touch one way or | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
another. And it's very nice to have them back after 50 years. One boy | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
has come from Canada, three have come from England. One has come from | :53:15. | :53:22. | |
Dublin. And the rest are all local. It's a big thing to get them all | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
here. Two boys sadly died very young and they are no longer here, but | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
that's the way life goes after 50 years I'm afraid. We will let you | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
enjoy the rest of the game with the rest of those team members. Special | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
day for John Dixon and the Dixon family, John Junior is part of the | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
RBI team. How special is this occasion? Great excitement in the | :53:50. | :53:58. | |
family over the last week or so. Same as last year, we enjoyed it | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
very much, and this year will be no different. Are you as nervous as | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
your son John when the match starts? Excited is more the word. I was with | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
him this morning, took him to school and he was very confident and | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
relaxed and looking forward to today. Thanks for your time, I hope | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
it goes well. For a bit of fun on St Patrick's day, you can guess how | :54:22. | :54:29. | |
many pictures he's going to take, I'm going to guess 1987. It's all | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
about family. The crowds have filled the place. How will the players be | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
feeling? Probably a little nervous, a bit excited. They will have done | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
their pre-match routine. Both like to throw the ball about a bit. | :54:47. | :54:49. | |
Hopefully we will see exciting rugby. There were some good tries in | :54:50. | :55:00. | |
the semifinal. Rory Scholes, Ulster winger, how important is it that the | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
ex-players give a little bit back? Its key that the players now | :55:08. | :55:10. | |
understand that this is a massive occasion and a massive game, but it | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
is a game, and they have to treat it like any other. Think about how many | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
times they have executed their skills in training and other | :55:19. | :55:20. | |
matches, commonly times they have performed. You just have to deliver | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
like you have every single day in training. The team that does it | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
better will win. And enjoy it as well? Absolutely. These are some of | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
their biggest games and they are playing with their mates which will | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
not necessarily happen again. Just enjoy the experience. Your | :55:46. | :55:53. | |
prediction? The backline are very dangerous and will possibly score | :55:54. | :56:00. | |
more tries. Just to make it interesting I will go with Campbell. | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
We can cross to the commentary team. COMMENTATOR: Good afternoon. It | :56:05. | :56:22. | |
really is a good afternoon. Certainly turned up the warm side of | :56:23. | :56:30. | |
the stone for this. Only the London hospitals cup has been going longer. | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
Longest running rugby trophy in Ireland. Only the 14th final between | :56:36. | :56:53. | |
these two great sites. Between the three they have wanted more times | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
than anybody else. When you played here against Dalriada, it was | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
probably one of the biggest games of your life. Yes, one of the best | :57:05. | :57:11. | |
games of my life. At 17 or 18 years old, like these guys, this is by far | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
and away their biggest sporting occasion. They are really living for | :57:16. | :57:27. | |
this. The captain of the Campbell side 50 years ago, it was a good | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
side. Some future internationals in the side. They contained the great | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
Ken Goodall. In those days everybody played rugby after school. Alas that | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
is not the case today. Certainly not. If you had the pleasure of | :57:42. | :57:47. | |
seeing the clips involving Tommy Bowe earlier, you see the | :57:48. | :57:50. | |
preparation that goes in, and for the members of staff as well. No | :57:51. | :57:56. | |
stone left unturned in terms of player recruitment and their | :57:57. | :58:05. | |
physical conditioning. I talked to a number of finalists who said even | :58:06. | :58:08. | |
the thrill of playing for Ireland could not be surpassed by the thrill | :58:09. | :58:15. | |
of walking out here on Saint Patrick stays. Definitely not, and we have a | :58:16. | :58:22. | |
privileged position here on the halfway line. The moment has | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
arrived. They are simply champing at the bit. | :58:29. | :58:38. | |
It is Campbell College against the Royal Belfast academical | :58:39. | :58:41. | |
institution. They have a number of players back | :58:42. | :58:57. | |
from last year. Campbell are led by James Boyle. | :58:58. | :59:44. | |
Call 02 arrived from Australia at the start of the season -- Paul 02. | :59:45. | :00:11. | |
The referee during his first schools cup final. His great, great | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
grandfather played in the very first Irish team that played international | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
rugby against England at the Kennington Oval in 1875. This game | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
is underway, and Inst playing towards the warmer Morrill end. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Looking to establish field position. Well disciplined Campbell pack has | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
made sure of the ball. Good kick taken in by Laurie. Research on all. | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
This is what Inst are good at. Strong pace. Almost got the float | :00:55. | :01:06. | |
away. -- the float. If they play with this kind of attitude we are in | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
for a cracking afternoon. Pace in both sides. Inst on this occasion | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
well fielded. Moved sweetly from the right-hand side to the left. Justin | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Savage just forces the intercept. It came off a Campbell hand. But more | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
is very pacey. Well set up by the lower six scrum-half. Once again all | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
the pressure coming from the holders. | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
Set up for Dixon. Good strong run by the tight head prop. Inst get the | :01:50. | :02:05. | |
penalty. John Dixon very involved as the main photographer. O'Donnell set | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
it up. Nice sidestep. Good pressure by Inst. Yes, good pressure by Inst. | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
The Campbell number eight giving away the penalty. Inst will look to | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
soften up the Campbell pack around the edges. And unleashed this | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
potentially devastating backline. All he will be caring about our the | :02:32. | :03:04. | |
first points in this cup final. Yes, he's got right underneath it. Right | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
between the posts it goes. Good start for the holders. And we've | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
played less than three minutes. Just the start that Inst were looking | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
for. Never looked like it was going anywhere. Took them a long time | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
before they met in their first final in 1960. Of the 13 times they've | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
met, Campbell have had the edge. Winning seven. Couple of games have | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
been Though Donald pulled it in field a | :03:40. | :03:58. | |
little bit. Taken by Ben Webb. This is the big fellow himself, Tom | :03:59. | :04:17. | |
O'Toole. This time last year a member of the Queensland Academy. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Not allowing much in the way of room, once he gets up ahead of steam | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
he is very hard to stop. There goes go tool again. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Not a bad kick but straight into touch. Pragmatic approach from both | :04:42. | :04:54. | |
teams. Fantastic chase from Charlie Friars for Inst, making the | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
turnover. Tom O'Toole weighing a mere 115 kilograms. That's about 17 | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
and a half or 18 stone. He is trimmed with it at the same time. | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
Taken well at the back by the number eight. Again they take it forward. | :05:17. | :05:28. | |
Back inside, great chance, this. He's got it away, and the past two | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
O'Donnell just couldn't quite be held by the scrum-half. That really | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
would have made it difficult to Campbell but they've got it away. | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
Good clearance. Fantastic tackle again. There is the ball inside | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
coming through. Just stripped the ball down. All the pressure and | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
possession with Inst. They have really started quickly. So close for | :06:03. | :06:03. | |
Rhys O'Donnell. Across the Campbell 22. It's been | :06:04. | :06:19. | |
all yellow and black so far. There is the switch to Joe Finnegan, who | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
played on the wing last year. Lost his footing but Inst still have | :06:22. | :06:41. | |
the impetus. They give away their first penalty. Give them a bit of | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
breathing space. Campbell looking slightly shell-shocked. No | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
possession, just defending inside their 22, just hanging on manfully. | :06:59. | :07:13. | |
Good clearance kick by Campbell. Coming up to seven minutes played, | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
3-0 to the holders. For their 31st out right wing. | :07:25. | :07:52. | |
That looked high, the referee has a hand-out. Touch judge indicated on | :07:53. | :08:11. | |
this side there was a high tackle. Wonderful break, awakens Jamie | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
Macartney. Inst's defensive line, I think they were waiting for the | :08:19. | :08:19. | |
penalty. They have got the penalty but I | :08:20. | :08:31. | |
think the referee will have a word with the Inst tackler who put in the | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
high one. James Hume on this occasion. | :08:35. | :08:46. | |
Super feat by Jamie Macartney. A good piece of officiating, there was | :08:47. | :09:00. | |
no malice in that, the referee sent to be saying to James Hume, keep it | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
down. He stepped back inside, a swinging | :09:03. | :09:28. | |
arm, good work by Jack Howard, whose dad I saw earlier. | :09:29. | :09:40. | |
Campbell have a useful line-out, but not if they lose the ball like that. | :09:41. | :09:54. | |
Good tackle by Callum Reid on Jack Barry-Glendinning. | :09:55. | :10:09. | |
Good defending by Inst. Invented by both teams, keeping the ball alive. | :10:10. | :10:25. | |
We are seeing depth, some nice running angles outside, Tom O Toole | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
standing in the first receiver position. | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
Good line-out by Inst, well away. Callum Reid has been named on the | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
Irish schools three Nations side. Another good kick by Rhys O'Donnell. | :10:47. | :11:06. | |
Good strike by the Inst's scrum-half whose dad Keith played here it the | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
losing side in 1980 against Campbell College. His dad played in a winning | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
side against Campbell College in the 40s. | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
Great steel by Inst, good work by Charlie Fryers. | :11:31. | :11:51. | |
Inst might have thought about releasing the speedy Mark Keane on | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
the left wing but they will be happy with that. Slick handling, good wits | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
on the past as well. At this stage they are happy to pay the possession | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
game, just get into the Campbell 22 and turned the screw. Quick ball, | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Rhys O'Donnell has a beautiful pass on him as well. | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
Good challenge by Inst but Campbell have done a pretty good job | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
defending their line. That is well struck by Corrie. Good tackle by | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
Justin Savage. He has overcooked that one. Not much | :12:38. | :12:55. | |
in the way of a breeze down there. Michael Lowry, who played a year ago | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
as a fifth former, he has had injury problems this season. He is | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
tenacious, highly regarded by the academy system that Ulster have. | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
Good communication, one would have to say that is the first mistake | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
that Inst have made in these opening 15 minutes. | :13:18. | :13:56. | |
Good acceleration by O Toole, good strength and nice presentation as | :13:57. | :14:08. | |
well. Good continuity now by Campbell probably for the first | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
time. It has gone into touch, cup final nerves? Yes, in the last | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
minute they have both made simple errors, noticeable from Inst | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
whenever Campbell have the ball, not committing. First man making his | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
tackles, puts his opposite number to ground, and Inst don't compete, they | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
fan out. Campbell go looking for speed to unleash the backline. 45 | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
minutes each way in schools would be so coming up to the halfway point in | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
this first half, Inst still in the lead. | :14:48. | :15:06. | |
No advantage to Campbell from the knock forward by Inst. The first | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
Campbell scrum of the afternoon, nearly 50 minutes gone. Lowry unable | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
to get that pass over his shoulder. Never before in the history of | :15:25. | :15:41. | |
schools rugby has a side completed what is known as the double double, | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
winning the Schools' Cup and medallion Shield competition in | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
successive years, Inst did that last it, they have retained the medallion | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
shield having kept it three years in a row, and now they are hoping to go | :15:53. | :16:05. | |
one better. Nobody has ever made it a double double, if we can call it | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
that. Campbell with the chance to make up | :16:08. | :16:39. | |
a bit of territory. Great covering tackle. Switch play, that is him | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
with the number four on his back, holders line, thesis which, picks up | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
James Hume inside. He bears a proud name, Nelson. | :16:53. | :17:04. | |
All of these guys are so well conditioned now, almost verging on | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
semiprofessional, even though they are still at school. They are | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
looking for these guys to appear potentially in an Ulster shirt in | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
the pre-5 years. James Nelson has appeared for the underage teens. He | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
is in lower fixed at Campbell. -- lower sixth. | :17:35. | :17:48. | |
Not the sort of ball from the line-out that most half-backs like | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
but he did his best, well tackled by Jamie Macartney from Campbell. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Again, the Campbell line-out, a bit of nonsense. What a charge by the | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
tight head prop, still another year of school, still in lower sixth. | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Play-on, says the referee. Campbell will be ruined not able to get the | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
ball back quickly enough -- not being able to get. | :18:24. | :18:35. | |
Joseph Finnegan has plenty of time and has made a decent touch. Now in | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
the second half of the first half. Only 3-0 to Ulster, Campbell have | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
come back into it, it is fair to say. But the line-out play from both | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
teams have been scrappy. They have had the intent to throw to the back | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
of the line-out but the lack of accuracy for both in the throwing. | :19:01. | :19:23. | |
Ben Webb does well to get across the halfway line. | :19:24. | :19:39. | |
A rare mistake by La Roux. -- by Michael Lowry. Michael Lowry looking | :19:40. | :19:51. | |
to move across the pitch rather than taking it flat, but from a Campbell | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
perspective Tom O'Toole is definitely the go to man, carrying | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
ball, doing a lot of damage but sucking Gynt two or three defenders | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
at one time. Eventually that will take its toll. Good work at the | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
breakdown by Campbell. This is the younger of the Crowther | :20:13. | :20:33. | |
Brothers, Matthew, in lower sixth. John Crowther, the elder of the two, | :20:34. | :20:53. | |
his dad was a fine flanker in the day. Inst give away another penalty. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Inst committing a lot of offences at the breakdown. In this occasion, | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
nowhere near behind the back. We have seen Campbell go round the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
corner, John Dickson trotting back, tries to kick it through, nowhere | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
near the back foot, and the referee in a perfect position. The | :21:16. | :21:25. | |
interesting option Campbell may have, it looks like it will be John | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
Crowther, the openside forward, who will be handed the duties 1st of | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
August afternoon. The last fellow wearing number seven I can remember | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
kicking goals was way back in the early 70s, John Taylor, who kicked a | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
monumental conversion at Murrayfield to give Wales a grand slam. That was | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
before your time, Tony! A fine player in his own regard. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
From straight in front, directed between the Inst posts. Terrific | :22:01. | :22:22. | |
kick by John Crowther. After soaking up a lot of early Inst pressure, | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Campbell have come back after 22 minutes of the first half at the | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
Kingspan Stadium. It is even, 3-3. A great strike by John Crowther, took | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
his time, kept his head down. Probably had a few more metres in | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
that as well. Campbell facing a very strong low spring sun. | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
That has gone straight into touch, that should not happen. Careless by | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
James Hume, I'm sure he knows that. The ball clipped the line, it is | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
out, that is what happened. There is the great Brian Francis | :23:06. | :23:22. | |
Robinson, former Ireland number eight, scored four tries against | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Zimbabwe in the World Cup in 1991, a rare feat for a back row forward. | :23:28. | :23:47. | |
Finegan with lots of time and what a good reply. It is the sort of kick | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
that forwards like to see. Better as a forward if you have two initially | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
turned to go back after a kick to see your full-back picked it up and | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
kick it well over your head, more importantly getting it into touch. | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
It buys you a few seconds of respite. | :24:07. | :24:30. | |
Campbell took it to ground. Inst will get the put into the scrum. | :24:31. | :24:46. | |
Robinson will not be happy with that as a forward. Winning the line-out, | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
you need to transfer that to the back of the maul as quickly as you | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
can. Campbell will be disappointed with that. Put in for Inst. Against | :25:01. | :25:20. | |
Matthew Russell. Quick pick-up from the back. Nicely done. Good little | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
break. Presented it nicely. O'Donnell gets it away quickly. | :25:31. | :25:45. | |
Could support yet again by Charlie Friars. Lowry. Ben Webb has to run | :25:46. | :25:57. | |
and cover and does really well and gets it away. Terrific piece of | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
play. Hasn't found touch, but found Finnegan. We bit of room on the near | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
side. Inst kept it in play on the far | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
touchline. We thought they had, but the touch judge's flag is up. | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Somebody in black and yellow in touch. Coming from left to right. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Mark King from the left wing making that incision. Putting pace onto it. | :26:33. | :26:44. | |
One-handed flick out the back door. Sensational play by these 17, | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
18-year-olds. Great skill level. Good take and drive. O'Donnell has | :26:53. | :27:04. | |
to dig it out himself. Good ground made by Inst. A little | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
overcomplicated, perhaps. Away goes Jack Hart, but he runs into the even | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
bigger James Hume. That's good work by John Crowther, the kicker of the | :27:25. | :27:34. | |
penalty. James Nelson met by Dixon. Good looping round by Ben Webb. | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Justin Savage looking for a bit of work. The referee has told Inst to | :27:42. | :27:53. | |
release and they haven't and again they've been penalised at the | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
breakdown. I think he's going to have a wee word with the skipper | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
about the consistent nonsense going on at the breakdown. Think you | :28:03. | :28:11. | |
landed awkwardly on his shoulder. Couple of Inst guys down as the | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
water comes on. They are starting to get ragged around the edges. One, | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
two, three offenders hanging off him. Saps the energy of the | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
defenders seeing somebody of that size coming at you. Three or four | :28:26. | :28:36. | |
stone is a big weight advantage. Anxious times for John Dixon. | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
Terrific support for both these schools. | :28:41. | :28:52. | |
I used to like the chance from the Methodist College, when they said | :28:53. | :29:02. | |
you've got no girls are your school. Great support here from both | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
schools. In the family stand, if you know it, here. A cacophony and great | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
deal from both sets of fans. Credit to the schools. John Dixon seemed to | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
have a problem with his left leg. Don't think it is cramped, but it | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
might be his knee. Couple of useful prop forwards on the bench. Jake | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
Chambers been demoted because of progress made by Carol Reed. | :29:33. | :29:47. | |
He doesn't look too comfortable. Carries a lot of experience. One of | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
their leaders in the front. Captained the side a few times. He | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
is tackling, in your face. Sure he's not short of a word or two. Knowing | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
his father quite well, he's not short of a word or two, either. The | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
clock will start again, coming up to half an hour played, Honours even. | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
What a great competition it has been down the years. Great players have | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
raised this crown. Here come Campbell again, this is great stuff. | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
Chip and chase, this could be the opening try. Just cleared by Inst. | :30:30. | :30:45. | |
That was so close. Beautiful. The Campbell centre, loads of gaps down | :30:46. | :30:55. | |
the right side. Fence off my glory. Defended superbly, there. | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
Short and chunky but plenty of pace. Very nearly got to it. Because the | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
ball was in play when it was kicked that it will be a five metre scrum | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
to Campbell, the closest they have been to the Inst line. About half an | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
hour played. Crucial scrum, particularly with John Dixon | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
struggling a bit in terms of his fitness. Try scorer in the | :31:24. | :31:32. | |
semifinal. Low centre of gravity, very strong. If he can get across | :31:33. | :31:39. | |
five or six metres he will be more than happy. Campbell have dominated, | :31:40. | :31:47. | |
but now they have a great chance. Good squeeze in the scrum. Well | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
covered by the men in black and yellow. Here is the Campbell number | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
eight, taken around the ankles so he cannot move. | :32:00. | :32:07. | |
That's knocked forward. The referee playing advantage to Campbell, can | :32:08. | :32:18. | |
they take advantage? Again Inst have him by the ankles. Still therefore | :32:19. | :32:26. | |
Campbell. That's good defending in the middle of the park by Inst. But | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
they conceded a penalty. So what do you do here with half-time | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
approaching? Quite simply take the points. I think Patrick Beverley Mr | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
point on the play before that. Last defender inside the uprights. | :32:40. | :32:49. | |
Justin Savage was in acres of space. Unable to read the situation. | :32:50. | :32:56. | |
James Hume again. What a decision by the Campbell skipper, James Doyle. | :32:57. | :33:12. | |
Pops it into touch. His dad Charlie was the outside-half when Campbell | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
won the final in 1980. Richard Kennedy was the skipper. In the | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
front row was one Gordon Hamilton. Big line-out, this, for the Campbell | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
skipper. And it did not work out for them. What an awful pass by Inst. | :33:32. | :33:41. | |
Great chance now for Campbell. Wonderful tackle. What a terrific | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
piece of tackling by the left wing Mark King. Still Campbell have it. | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
Corrie has a little guard himself. Need somebody to play scrum-half. | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
Skipper James Doyle obliges. Keeping that black machine churning forward. | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
Bevel and again. Good pass. Here comes Howard. Inst may have stolen | :34:08. | :34:22. | |
that one again. The tackling from Inst is good, preventing the big | :34:23. | :34:29. | |
fellow from going forward. Here is Nelson. Campbell edging ever closer. | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
Looking for the first try of what has been a pulsating final here. | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
Play on, says the referee. Again Inst do not clear it particularly | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
well. All the way back was Ben Webb. He has got away. Good transfer to | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
Justin Savage, who can scamper a bit. They have managed to steal it. | :34:55. | :35:04. | |
Reese O'Donnell gets it away for the holders. That's a knock-on. I think | :35:05. | :35:12. | |
the sun in the eyes was responsible for that rather than a lack of | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
ability. A bit unfortunate for Jack Hart who knocked it forward. He's | :35:18. | :35:26. | |
had a good half as well. Two really tired sets of players out here. A | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
fast and frenetic opening 35mm. And look at that tackle. Driving his | :35:34. | :35:39. | |
opposite number into the ground and quickly back on his feet trying to | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
get the turnover. I always hope for three things in the schools cup | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
final, that nobody gets injured, that we have a great day out, and | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
that we see as many of these young men as possible carrying on with | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
rugby at whatever level after the schools cup final. A lot of these | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
young men have put a lot of time and effort into rugby. Different | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
situations can arise for tertiary education. The academy system Ulster | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
have in place is as good as anything out there. Player retention is | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
something they know is of paramount importance. What concerns me is that | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
they are not scooped up by the academy and go on to development, | :36:28. | :36:29. | |
don't play rugby for the fun of it. Some clubs are struggling to get | :36:30. | :36:48. | |
second and third teams. A little glimpse of Rory Scholes, cup winner | :36:49. | :36:55. | |
for Campbell five years ago. Heading off to Edinburgh next season. Just a | :36:56. | :37:08. | |
few seconds remaining the first half with no tries. Both sides had their | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
chances but couldn't quite take them. So a penalty apiece. James | :37:12. | :37:24. | |
Hume and Jack Crowther. Quick pick-up by Inst. This is better. | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
Half a chance here if this can be shifted. Needs to get it away and he | :37:30. | :37:38. | |
does. Spilled forward, though. That was Konta field. He missed the final | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
last year because of injury. Had a few injury problems. Lorry again, | :37:43. | :37:53. | |
threading the past. Jack Howard makes a good tackle. There's been no | :37:54. | :38:02. | |
lack of invention. 3-3 is hardly flattering scoreline the level of | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
rugby and the quality has been befitting of any final. This may | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
well be the last piece of this entertaining and energetic first | :38:14. | :38:20. | |
half, Campbell scrum. Bit of a squeeze by the holders. Back inside, | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
that's a charge down but it's going to go dead. That was something of a | :38:28. | :38:37. | |
chance. The referee has decided it is a 22 drop out. By our timing | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
device we have played more than a minute of the normal 35. I think the | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
referee has been told he is into extra time. Inst could have scored | :38:49. | :38:58. | |
quite easily. Very prosperous afternoon so far in the number seven | :38:59. | :39:05. | |
shirt for Inst. Good in the turnover and on that occasion putting good | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
pressure on the kick chase. That has gone to nobody in particular. Taken | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
in by Carol Reed who has had a quiet game by his own standards. Medallion | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
shield winner couple of years ago. We bit isolated. Charlie Friars | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
takes it forward into the Campbell half. Inst putting some width on it | :39:27. | :39:35. | |
and losing possession, that it went backwards. Good defending by | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
Campbell. Lowry has done terrifically well. | :39:40. | :39:57. | |
The ball has been stripped forward and Inst have got the penalty. | :39:58. | :40:04. | |
That's better, taking the ball flat, trying to commit some of the | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
opposition defenders. Perhaps in the first half he has been guilty of | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
sliding across the pitch to easily. Some utterly unforced errors. In the | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
last 15 to 20 minutes he has been full of inventiveness. Keeping the | :40:18. | :40:27. | |
backline very honest. The Inst skipper has asked his goal-kicking | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
centre James Hume to try to give Inst the half-time lead. Bit of | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
attention being given to Carol Reed, I think he will be fine. | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
Done really well to survive a couple of nasty bangs. | :40:43. | :41:11. | |
This for a half-time lead. He has given that a fair belt. Needs to | :41:12. | :41:20. | |
come in. What a kick. He got it right when it mattered most, at the | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
end of the first half of the schools cup final. He has given his side the | :41:25. | :41:34. | |
lead, just by three points, but that will give them a real Philip. Beast | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
of a kick by James Hume. I am sure Ian Humphreys will have plenty to | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
say about that. Great first half of rugby with both teams showing plenty | :41:47. | :41:52. | |
of invention. STUDIO: That's the best 6-3 I have seen in quite a | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
while. Have we got our money 's worth? As you said, 6-3 does not | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
reflect how good a game it has been. Both teams have shown plenty of | :42:04. | :42:05. | |
ambition but been unfortunate with the final pass. They are both trying | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
to throw it about. They have been showing their skills with nice | :42:12. | :42:14. | |
off-loads, hopefully the same in the second half. Have you been | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
impressed? We have seen some good play, particularly from Inst. | :42:21. | :42:23. | |
Campbell have been building through the phases nicely. This was one of | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
many carries. Unfortunately there has also been a lot of soft errors. | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
There we are seeing one of them. All in all a lot of positive rugby being | :42:37. | :42:38. | |
played. Not many tight head is art that | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
mobile and involved? No, he is a big fella! Another good break there, | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
just a shame it could not be finished off, the story of the half. | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
But O2 has carried well and the Inst defence have been sucked in by him. | :43:01. | :43:07. | |
There have been a few mistakes but a lot of good defence, both teams will | :43:08. | :43:14. | |
be happy with how they have defended, just disappointed with the | :43:15. | :43:17. | |
couple of mistakes they might not have made on a different occasion. | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
If either team can get rid of those small errors they could go on and | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
score a few tries here because we have seen ambition and enterprise. | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
Campbell had a decent opening about five minutes from the end of the | :43:31. | :43:38. | |
half. Yes, we had a similar move at Ulster, just an over read there. A | :43:39. | :43:46. | |
great option to chip in, a fantastic run across, great play all round. | :43:47. | :43:49. | |
That is what you want to see on days like today. They were unlucky not to | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
finish it but it was great ambition and good pigeon from the centre to | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
put the kick through. The inside pass was covered well. Two back Bill | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
with us today but set piece in schools rugby is always a big | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
factor. It is, Inst have been good of first and second phase. | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
Unfortunately here for Campbell the line-out went awry. | :44:17. | :44:23. | |
They have been unlucky, it has been good defence by Inst. If they can | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
sort that out in the second part I'm sure they can make in dent into the | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
defence. Is it a game that is calling for a cool head, maybe even | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
at half-time the coaches having a quiet word? I have seen Campbell go | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
to the five or six man line-out using a tall. We might see more of | :44:45. | :44:51. | |
that in the second half. As I said before the game, Campbell have had a | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
successful line-out all year, they have executed many in training. They | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
have got to get their head around the fact there are a few people here | :45:00. | :45:10. | |
watching the game. As ten, does the game need someone to dictate the | :45:11. | :45:18. | |
pace? I think it is a case of, towards the end of the line they | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
were attacking well, getting space. I think if they can manage the game | :45:22. | :45:33. | |
well they will win it. Have you been impressed with the skill level? | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
Absolutely, apart from a couple of small errors, we have seen some | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
incredible off-loads, particularly from a couple of Inst backs, some | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
lovely play and hopefully more to come in the second half. The boys | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
have been impressed, I wonder about the Ulster director of rugby. | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
What did you make of that first half? I'm loving it. Some | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
interesting happenings. The line-out under pressure for Campbell, they | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
are fighting hard. Some lovely breaks but great defensive play by | :46:05. | :46:13. | |
the 11 and 12. Inst have made nice inroads but have not been clinical | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
enough to take the points. Worthy of a final. What sort of platform is | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
the schools cup Finals for these lads to impress people in the Ulster | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
management structure? It is massive, we want to improve this area of the | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
game so that we can target players to come forward into the systems and | :46:31. | :46:33. | |
what we are seeing today is indicative of what we are after, | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
good "A great day, seeing some talent. With your Australian hat on, | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
how is this competition beauty in the outside world? In every major | :46:44. | :46:53. | |
rugby area deep schools competition is important. In Sydney similar | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
crowds come to a competition like this. I'm glad the weather is like | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
this today, and that we are seeing two teams that are willing to back | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
their skill sets. Still in the balance, 6-4 it, it will be | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
interesting. There is an Australian line-out on the pitch today, what | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
have you made off in safe? Tom is doing well, he has made some good | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
surges. If they get the line-out right Campbell can be back tonight | :47:22. | :47:25. | |
but the backline of Inst have thrown some nice plays in there. It is | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
going to go down to the wire. Thank you for your time. Back to you. Good | :47:31. | :47:40. | |
to see the Ulster director of rugby here. How important is it that | :47:41. | :47:51. | |
Ulster are generating young players? We have said before, they cannot | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
keep buying World Cup winning players, it starts at 15, 16, and we | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
have seen plenty of talent on show today. Players don't have to be the | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
finished article at the stage, they have to have areas of skill they can | :48:06. | :48:08. | |
develop, and if they showed those skills today they could get into an | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
academy and the world is their oyster. Thank you very much, I think | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
the boys are ready, let's join our commentary team of Tony McWhirter | :48:20. | :48:21. | |
and Jim Neilly. Come on label it will be the | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
Campbell centre Nicolai Koplewsky who will get this underway. His dad | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
played for Stade Francais, if my reckoning is right, and got a B | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
international cap. Blair Robinson has come on for | :48:37. | :48:49. | |
Pierce McLernon. In Steve Waight the first penalty. | :48:50. | :49:31. | |
-- Inst give away the first penalty. Nick Campbell will feel if he can | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
sort out the set piece which malfunctioned badly in the first | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
half they certainly will have another opportunity in the second | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
half to potentially win this game. From a Inst perspective, it is clear | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
to see what their game plan will be, they will try to stretch Campbell | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
and look to unlock their defence with quick outside backs. Consider | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
that we haven't mentioned Conor Field in the first half, he has bags | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
of place and potential, he will look to get himself involved a bit more. | :50:03. | :50:14. | |
John Dickson puts in south into a strong tackle. -- puts himself. | :50:15. | :50:32. | |
Jack Barry-Glendinning, well set up by Campbell's number eight. James | :50:33. | :50:47. | |
Boyle making inroads into the Inst defence, which has been pretty solid | :50:48. | :50:49. | |
so far. That was rather unfortunate for | :50:50. | :51:31. | |
Malcolm Corry. Mixed feelings in the Corry household because his dad is a | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
member of the Inst Board of Governors. He is supporting his son | :51:38. | :51:47. | |
this afternoon, you would not blame him. Surgeon by profession so if you | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
need to have your need done he will do it for you in the blink of an | :51:54. | :52:03. | |
eye! There have not been many scrums in this game, which is pretty | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
indicative of the skills level and the interned by both teams. | :52:08. | :52:31. | |
Inst get it back to loosehead prop Callum Reid. Off the bench in the | :52:32. | :52:43. | |
final last year. Away goes the Inst skipper Conor Field. | :52:44. | :53:02. | |
Clever by Ben Webb, he saw a bit of space, here goes Justin Savage and | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
again Inst's defence is good. Bob tool in there quickly. -- Tom Hoge | :53:10. | :53:20. | |
tool. Again, Justin Savage trying to create mayhem in the middle of the | :53:21. | :53:22. | |
park. This is better by the men in Black. | :53:23. | :53:46. | |
Good switch by Martin Corrie. -- Malcolm Corry. | :53:47. | :54:15. | |
Beverland has a go, this is good stuff, here comes Ben Webb, looking | :54:16. | :54:25. | |
for the first try. Campbell pressing as they did in the first half, to | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
Riddick start to the second half will stop -- terrific start to the | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
second half. A real chance here if they can shift | :54:36. | :54:46. | |
this, it has to go. Good recovery by Inst. A genuine chance there, well | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
read by Inst. Inst's defence was struggling there, they were trying | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
to plug the holes very quickly, Campbell getting repeat possession, | :54:59. | :55:01. | |
stretching the pitch from side to side. Good defence by Inst. | :55:02. | :55:15. | |
Inst seems to have enough defenders in the right place at the right | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
time. It has been a great start to the second half by Campbell, they | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
have asked a lot of questions. The referee having a word with the Inst | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
captain. REFEREE: We have had a couple of | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
incidents of foul play with your site, the next may go for impaired | :55:37. | :55:45. | |
and is. Being told there will not be a penalty this time, a bit of foul | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
play there. -- may go for an impediment. The referee had played | :55:51. | :56:01. | |
an advantage and Inst will get a line-out. It was John Dickson who | :56:02. | :56:04. | |
invoked the tackle. Inst warming up another replacement. | :56:05. | :56:28. | |
Not a good time or place to be losing your own line-out. Tom | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
O'Toole, headgear firmly back on his head. | :56:34. | :56:42. | |
Numbers one and three in black have been outstanding, here is number | :56:43. | :56:50. | |
three. Good footwork. Martin Corrie again -- Malcolm Corry again. Surely | :56:51. | :57:00. | |
Campbell will benefit from this? Tom oh tall pile them. Jack | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
Barry-Glendinning, what a wonderful tackle by instant -- Tom O'Toole | :57:07. | :57:18. | |
piles in. Wave after wave of black attack. | :57:19. | :57:25. | |
A chance now, this could be it, Campbell are going to get it, no, | :57:26. | :57:35. | |
they are not, terrific tackle. Inst have somehow kept their line intact | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
and have somehow managed to get a defensive scrum. How many times have | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
we mentioned this afternoon in terms of scrambled defence. Just does | :57:47. | :57:54. | |
enough, more importantly stays on his feet. Inst really hanging on | :57:55. | :58:08. | |
here. Replacement in the front row, Corrie Barrett is going to be coming | :58:09. | :58:11. | |
on, John Dickson, who has battled and weathered a few injuries, goes | :58:12. | :58:18. | |
off. On comes number 18, Corrie Barrett. John Dickson will have to | :58:19. | :58:30. | |
sit and wait and see to see if you will get a second successive schools | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
cup winners medal, unless of course something happens and he has to come | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
back on again. It will be interesting to see how the coaches | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
decide to use the bench. There has been plenty of open play, I'm sure | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
there will be lots of guys out there who are tired. Guys will pick up | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
cramp and potentially injury in the second half. It could be the | :58:52. | :58:59. | |
substitutes and the strength of the bench that decide the outcome of the | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
game. Campbell making a replacement in the front row. John McKee is | :59:04. | :59:11. | |
coming on, the Campbell tight head prop. | :59:12. | :59:22. | |
They said the tight head prop is now the cornerstone of the crumb. Inst | :59:23. | :59:30. | |
have got that away. That is called a good exit strategy, | :59:31. | :59:53. | |
I believe. Outside centre coming in a short line, beat the first | :59:54. | :00:01. | |
defender. Beautiful. Inst have made another change, flanked at Yasser | :00:02. | :00:09. | |
Omar, only a lower sixth, has come on for Charles Cloke, who was | :00:10. | :00:10. | |
struggling a little bit. That was not backwards. A big gap | :00:11. | :00:30. | |
opened up but there was some obstruction in the middle. Inst will | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
be relieved to get a penalty. Perhaps just miss read, don't think | :00:35. | :00:52. | |
he did too much wrong. My glory Reddit and peeled off in quite | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
simply, but the intent was there. Bolster schools under 17 and under | :00:55. | :01:13. | |
18, and he has been selected for the Irish schools under 18 for the | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
forthcoming championship. Here is Niall Salters, whose grandfather | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
John was instrumental in funding the lights here. Inst have gone through. | :01:30. | :01:45. | |
Campbell have secured it. Looking for something to chase. Not a bad | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
kick. Very clumsy by Inst. Playing with a | :01:47. | :02:04. | |
degree of anxiety at the moment. Taking their right off the ball. It | :02:05. | :02:17. | |
was the right call. Clever box-kick. Inst had a two or three man | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
advantage. Taking his eyes off it and Campbell pick-up in midfield | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
scrum with options aplenty. Eight minutes played in the second half. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
Still 6-3 but under pressure. Better scrum on the back foot. Got it away | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
well. Into contact. Barry Glendinning. Wonderful tackle by | :02:44. | :02:59. | |
Inst. Four men outside him. For the first time his call was not the | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
right one in terms of passing. Oh, Cory has made a break. And again | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Inst need to be good at the tackling. Campbell get on the front | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
foot. Ben Webb into the line. Inst have stolen that. They have done it | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
illegally, it would seem. The penalty count against Inst is | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
getting very high. The referee has had a word with the young skipper | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Conor Field about that and may well think about going to the pocket. He | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
doesn't want to but he may be left with no choice. Persistent | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
infringement, no matter what game, the yellow card will come | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
eventually. He reads him and get on the blindside of him. Campbell are | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
getting the first man over the ball. Campbell have got their foot on the | :03:54. | :04:12. | |
gas, on the front foot as well. Inst are struggling for inspiration. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Campbell have decided their skipper James Boyle has asked his flanker to | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
kick a penalty in the first half to bring the sides back on level terms. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Played about nine minutes in the second half. | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
Tough enough kick, and the angle is pretty narrow. Well it looked as if | :04:37. | :04:51. | |
it was going out then it looked as though it was going in, and it | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
didn't fall between the two. It went to the far side of the posts as John | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Crowther was kicking. Somehow Inst have survived a lot of Campbell | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
pressure and it stays at 6-3 for the holders. 15 minutes gone in the | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
second half and Inst taking their time, trying to get the game plan | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
back in operation. Clearing the lines well. Inst will be looking for | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
a good kick chase. He has put that long and put it directly into touch, | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
and that's the second time James Hume has done that. Well may he hang | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
his head, but he shouldn't do that. One hastens to say a schoolboy | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
error, but it was. Given the circumstances, straight up the | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
middle of the park would do nicely. One of those nothing kicks, not long | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
enough to cause any problems, not short enough to catch. Not sure what | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
sort of kick he thought he was doing. They will not be happy. They | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
may well be bathed in sunshine and leading but they will not be too | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
happy. It was attired kick. They are rocking. Nicely away. | :06:17. | :06:35. | |
Taken above his head by O2. Nicely done. | :06:36. | :06:49. | |
A little readjustment. It is still in play. | :06:50. | :07:04. | |
Defending well. Campbell thundering in. Rhys O'Donnell has come away | :07:05. | :07:22. | |
with it for Inst. Nobody on this nearside. The kick is charged down. | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
James Hume is having a bit of an afternoon to forget. He is | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
struggling in the second half. Campbell are on the front foot, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
everything is going their way bar the points on the board. The tackle | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
by young Mike Laurie on Tom O'Toole, absolutely flattened him. Campbell | :07:50. | :08:01. | |
applying all the pressure. Hoping to emulate his dad, the much loved | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Charlie, schools cup winner. Hard to believe it is 36 years ago since he | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
and Gordie Hamilton played in the team captained by Richard Kennedy. | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
That was 3-0. Not much difference between them here actually. That was | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
an awful day, if I remember. This is the point in the match we have seen | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
over the last few years, 15 or 20 minutes to go, a big occasion for | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
these young men, lots of nervous energy spent before the game starts. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
What we tend to find in the second half is a degree of injuries and | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
cramps. Any space that can be attacked can be a real source for | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
the opposition. Unfortunately for Campbell James Nelson their second | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
row forward is going off. He is replaced by number 20, Tom Brady. | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
Nelson has had a good game, out of touch, carrying the ball. A tower of | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
strength in the cab or pack this afternoon. And he is a lower sixth, | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
so he has another year to play. Little bit of running repairs for | :09:30. | :09:30. | |
Rhys O'Donnell. What a glorious afternoon it has | :09:31. | :09:48. | |
been, here. Rhys O'Donnell on the Ireland under 18 squad with Johnny | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
Stuart from Wallace high school. Brilliant to see Ulster having two | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
quality scrum-half 's being represented at such a high level. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Malcolm Corry is in the Ulster under 20 squad as well so he is a useful | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
player as well. Still getting some treatment. Plenty of supporters from | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
all ages. Two draws between the sides in the 13 previous encounters | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
came in 1954 and a way back in 1960 when Robin Hope from Campbell and | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
the great John burst from Inst shared the trophy. Campbell had the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
distinction of having Freddie Cray, schools cup winning captain way back | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
in the early 60s, and Michael Gibson, has opposing captains in the | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
varsity game, Oxford and Cambridge. Only time in the history of that | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
particular fixture that it has happened with players from opposing | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
schools. Campbell Pozo scrum. It has been all Campbell in the | :10:52. | :11:09. | |
second half but nothing to show for it, will that change? | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Campbell need to get in quickly and recycle, they have done. This is the | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
replacement, Tom Brady. Fresh legs. Off-loaded to John McKee. Campbell | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
rumbling forward. James Boyle, the captain. Well tackled by Inst. That | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
was silly from a Inst player, about to put his foot in. All it needs is | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
one missed tackle. And Campbell are in for the game's first try. Their | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
discipline has been terrific. Particularly in the second half. And | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
they give away a penalty. Charlie Frye. Campbell just going back to | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
type a little bit. Looking for one-off runners. In some ways that | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
is easy to defend. Over the ball very quickly. Campbell able to get | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
him out of there. Once again good communication from the referee this | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
afternoon. The game has flowed for players on both sides. Makes the | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
game in awful lot easier. Huge amount of pressure on these boys. | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
There was some doubt about the fitness of Nicolai Koplewsky for | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
this final but he has come through pretty well. That might be the | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
Campbell skipper who is down injured. James Doyle, no relation to | :12:50. | :13:01. | |
the Dail who played number eight in the 1960s. This is the cramping | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
situation we have talked about. It has become more evident. The game | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
loses its ebb and flow. What has been a fantastic opening 54 minutes, | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the game just loses a little momentum and tempo as these injuries | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
start to pop up. Both schools have got strength and conditioning | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
coaches, isn't that extraordinary? Just another name for PE teacher, is | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
it not? Know, these are not PE teachers, they are employed as | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
strength and conditioning coaches. They've got directors of rugby as | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
well. It has been apparent from Ulster intends of the academy setup, | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
lots of development officers going out to the schools and doing some | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
coaching and giving their knowledge and time. Subsequently what we are | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
starting to see is the fulfilment of that product on the pitch for both | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
these teams and many other Ulster schools. Not sure how much longer | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
James Doyle will be able to keep going. He's going to give it a go. | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
Got a nasty bit of cramp, there. It's going to be cleared by Inst. | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
Still no decision yet, can't see anybody warming up on the far side. | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
If he is not OK there is no point in him continuing and he is not OK. And | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
that's rather sad, to see anybody leave the field. I think that has to | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
be the right call, he is struggling to walk never mind run. For the good | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
of his team and school he has done the honourable thing and decided he | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
cannot continue. Said Josh Campbell is on and it will be James Hume for | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
Inst to clear. Josh Chambers, I should say. They have their own | :15:07. | :15:18. | |
line-out put in, chance to get some possession, potentially. Still | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
inside their own half, though. If it stays like this they will be quite | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
ecstatic. Can Inst thunder forward from here? Vote on the narrow side | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
has another go himself. Counter integral by Tom O'Toole. | :15:40. | :15:52. | |
They need a scrum-half, there is nobody there at the moment. That's | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
pretty hopeless at the breakdown by Inst. There was nobody there to pick | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
up that ball. But they have regained possession. Callum read with the | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
handoff. Good defending by Tom Brady. Humour. | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
Set up perfectly for Ben Webb, and away goes Campbell's full-back. Good | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
linkup with John Crowther, the openside flanker. Good inside pass | :16:24. | :16:39. | |
by Glendinning. Not a good pass but well gathered in. That's a good | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
kick. Well taken by Jack Howard. Campbell get the penalty. I think | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Inst might have a man in the bin, here. The referee by his own | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
demeanour is not very happy about something. We will have to wait and | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
see. There are bodies all over the place. I think it is all just cramp. | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
You wonder what it is about this Ravenhill pitched that schoolboys | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
can't play on. Certainly a bit of an issue. Mark Keane takes it. Uses the | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
touchline, but the ball inside. Great cover by Jack Howard on the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
left wing. Maybe a bit of a head collision. Don't think there was too | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
much intent. Picked up the ball, looking to go to ground. Somebody | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
has been yellow carded. Not quite sure who it is. It may be a salt is. | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
We will have to wait and see. So many players down with clap, it | :17:53. | :18:08. | |
was reminiscent of Cheltenham this week -- down with cramp. Was it a | :18:09. | :18:18. | |
high tackle? I don't know what the yellow card was for, there was | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
nothing wrong with the tackle on the Campbell defender. Going over to his | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
other touch judge. I'm at a loss as to why anybody might be carded. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Destined to be having a discussion. I don't think anybody is going to | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
the bin yet but the referee is taking his time. Mark Keane is going | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
to go to the bin. Let's hear what he has to say. | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
REFEREE: Yellow card. He said it was a high tackle? I would like to have | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
another look at that. Only 15 minutes remaining, Inst down to 14 | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
man, one player gone because of cramp, Mark Keane after the bin. It | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
has all been very stop start after half-time. I don't think there was | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
anything wrong with that. Jack Hart has done well -- Jack Howard. I | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
don't think there was any intent there. Fair play to Jack Howard, | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
back on his feet, has not made a meal of it. Mark Keane coming | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
inside, Howard comes across, picks the ball up. I don't think that is a | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
high tackle. Nothing in that whatsoever. Inst have a player down | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
on the far side getting a bit of a bandage around his head, I think it | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
is the outside-half Michael Lowry. Still 6-4 recon as it was at the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
interval. Campbell looking the more likely to cross the opposition line. | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
-- Inst give away another penalty at | :20:09. | :20:35. | |
the breakdown, Lowry takes it quickly. Another Inst player down | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
with cramp. Koplewsky. Surely Campbell must take advantage. Inst | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
down to 14 men are another injured. Inst really digging in, defending as | :20:53. | :20:53. | |
hard as they can go. Here is a man who could cause Inst | :20:54. | :21:13. | |
problems. Campbell have meant out wide. Jamie Macartney, the flanker, | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
goes straight. Inst in quickly with the tackle. | :21:19. | :21:31. | |
Joseph Finnegan put in a very good tackle and the ball was knocked | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
forward by him but I thought Inst might be penalised, but just as | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Granta Campbell. Campbell looking the more likely to win the game. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Yes, they are applying pressure. Young Martin Corrie took the wrong | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
decision there, -- Malcolm Corry. Inst with a man in the bin and | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
another man down receiving treatment. The space was all down | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
the Campbell left hand flank but credit where it is due to Inst, they | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
picked up the tackles but one would say although Campbell are behind in | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
the scoreline one could only see the next points coming from the team in | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
black. It might be Charlie Fryers, the Inst brined side flanker -- | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
blindside flanker who is down injured. A lovely day here at the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
stadium, last year was pretty good, Inst just about came through that | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
one and no more, they will have to find something special to keep | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Campbell at bay, because the boys from Belfast are impressing. Another | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
cramp victim. I cannot see them going to much further. He looks in a | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
lot of bother there. Inst have brought on their second two Mane | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
back row forwards already, I'm not sure who Inst would bring on to play | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
if they lose this man. They have to make a decision soon, they cannot | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
leave him lying there for the rest of the game. He seems to be in a lot | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
of pain. It has to be grump, if it was anything else they would have | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
taken him off. If it is hamstring cramp, it is one of the worst out | :23:17. | :23:31. | |
there. I feel his pain! A lot of old boys from both schools here, it has | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
brought them out in their droves. Looking back down the years, some | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
great players from both schools have played in Schools' Cup Finals and | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
gone on to play for Ireland. Jimmy McKelvie, Jonathan Moffat, Brian | :23:49. | :23:49. | |
Marshall, Mike Gibson. More recently, Gordon Hamilton and | :23:50. | :24:09. | |
Paddy Wallace. And Inst have a great heritage in terms of producing Irish | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
rugby internationals, no fewer than 85 have played for Ireland, 13 | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
British and Irish Lions including Robbie Thompson and Sammy Walker. | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
Inst making another replacement. Charles Cloke coming back on again. | :24:26. | :24:37. | |
Looks like it. Off goes Charlie Fryers, on comes Charles Cloke. | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
Should Inst win this, I don't think he would get two medals. It is | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
unfortunate, that looks rather nasty. The clock. Again. 12.5 | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
minutes of normal time remaining, Inst handing on that 6-3 lead that | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
they enjoyed at the end of the first half -- the clock will start again. | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
The referee is just checking the substitutions here. We know Charles | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
Cloke went off in the first half and will potentially come back on. The | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
assistant touch judge on the far side drawing the referee's attention | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
to this. REFEREE: You cannot do that, you | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
must go off. Once it is done, it is done. They are telling him that he | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
cannot come on. He will check the nature of the injury. He may get a | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
bit of clarification. All kinds of controversy, it could be going on | :25:50. | :26:01. | |
tomorrow! He went off as a replacement, another player is down | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
with injury so he has gone off and I'm going to bring this guy back on, | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
tactical substitute. I can't have him once he has been tactically | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
substituted. You are happy enough? Something confusing about the finer | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
points of it all. Charles Cloke is not going to be allowed to come on | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
to replace his injured back row colleague Charlie Fryers. I think | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
that is fair enough. If there had been blood involved I could see the | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
reason. And it was a front row forward, of course, but he cannot | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
come back on when he has been substituted tactically. Subsequently | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
the refereeing team have done well to pick that up as well only on | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
before it has become a situation, because if he had been allowed to | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
stay on the pitch and Inst had won this it would have been a bone of | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
contention. Inst are bringing gone a replacement. More of that in a | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
second. They have lost two of the back row | :27:08. | :27:19. | |
forwards, they have lost both flanker is now. I Campbell scrum, | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
surely Campbell have the chance. A quicker ball by Campbell, which is | :27:22. | :27:44. | |
what they need. Terrific defending from Inst, Rhys O'Donnell should | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
have got that away. Campbell have swallowed up the Inst scrum half and | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Inst give away another penalty. I don't think I have seen a higher | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
penalty count against any side in the Schools' Cup Finals for quite a | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
while. A big chance there, Rhys O'Donnell, after the initial | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
turnover by Inst just to clear his lines. The second half, that it is | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
-- that is what it has been about four Inst. It has been all Campbell, | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
get they have had the inability to put any point on the board. | :28:19. | :28:34. | |
Do you think it says more about the lack of place kicking than the | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
line-out ability? Maybe, I think it does. We said the last scrum was a | :28:41. | :28:49. | |
crucial set piece, this is an even more crucial set piece for Campbell. | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Jamie Clarke, replacement prop, to throw. Inst have managed to squeeze | :28:55. | :29:02. | |
them into touch. That short ball to the front is the easiest to defend | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
against because once you catch it they have only got five metres to go | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
to touch. We talked about that at half-time, it happened in the first | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
half, in the second half -- in the second half they have gone short but | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
Inst have defended well. As soon as a man hits the ground they run it | :29:22. | :29:30. | |
into touch. Neal Foulds is has not put too many target men. An awful, | :29:31. | :29:38. | |
awful throw down in the scrum half, Inst have given away a penalty. Rhys | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
O'Donnell could do nothing with that awful ball. | :29:42. | :29:54. | |
The referee having a good look, they are not quite over the line yet. | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
Inst get the scrum and somehow, yet again, Inst keep Campbell out. The | :30:03. | :30:09. | |
important thing from a Campbell perspective, there is still ten | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
minutes to play. Inst are playing as if the next whistle is the final | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
whistle. Malcolm Corry, who took a quick penalty on this occasion, Inst | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
depended with tremendous commitment and drive. The team in yellow and | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
black once again keeping Campbell out. Inst still playing with 14 men. | :30:33. | :30:40. | |
Mark Keane, the winger, is in the bin. | :30:41. | :30:51. | |
That goes into touch and the pressure, albeit momentarily, is off | :30:52. | :31:01. | |
Inst. Inst looking now to wind down the clock, which is difficult with | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
14 men and with ten minutes still on the clock. They have to contain them | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
until they can at least get parity backwards numbers. Can Rhys | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
O'Donnell be a Schools' Cup winner like his grandpa, Des? Or will he be | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
a Schools' Cup runner-up like his father, Keith? That was not | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
straight, not the time to be throwing the ball like that. Perhaps | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
the loss of Campbell's Captain James Boyle is coming to bear a little bit | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
as well. On these days, experience can be everything. Inst now back for | :31:45. | :31:54. | |
the last little period of this game, back to 14 men. Mark Keane, who we | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
thought was sin-binned somewhat harshly, is back on, so the holders | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
of the 14 men. They have hardly been outside their own 22, never mind | :32:05. | :32:06. | |
their own half, since the second half of this game began. James Hume | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
sitting into outside-half for Inst. Campbell back to just outside the | :32:11. | :32:51. | |
Inst 22. They have taken both prop forward out of the Campbell | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
line-out. Russell and Tom O Toole in the middle of the park. Wonderful | :32:57. | :33:07. | |
tackling there by Inst. A heck of a tackle by Young Yasser | :33:08. | :33:30. | |
Omar there! Right underneath the knees, stops him at source. | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
Tremendous commitment. Great technique and even better | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
determination from the Inst replacement. He is just in the lower | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
sixth, and member of the medallion winning team a couple of years ago. | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
Inst still within touching distance of that first ever Schools' Cup and | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
medallion double double, two years in a row. | :33:55. | :34:10. | |
Campbell is starting to wind things up but can they finish it off? | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
Again, Inst hold it up. That should have been given, there | :34:18. | :34:29. | |
were three men outside Patrick Beverland. | :34:30. | :34:42. | |
How would trying to create a bit of a gap. -- Jack Howard. Plenty of | :34:43. | :34:56. | |
wits in that one, where is it going to go? This could be the clincher! | :34:57. | :35:04. | |
He is going to score, it is all the wafer Inst, and the holders might | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
just have snatched another victory from nothing whatsoever! Can you | :35:10. | :35:17. | |
believe it?! Inst had no ball in this second half, Campbell again | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
showing that little bit of desperation to pass. James Hume has | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
done some great things in this game of rugby, he has also made some | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
mistakes, but big players in the right place at the right time. He | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
showed plenty of pace and good attributes to go 50, 60 metres | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
underneath the Campbell post. The revelry is having a little work with | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
-- a little word with Mark Keane, who is still unhappy about being | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
sin-binned. Jack Hume had plenty of strength, he thought about the past | :35:52. | :36:01. | |
but he didn't need to pass, and he has scampered in for what could be | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
the conclusive try, although we still have a fair bit to go. | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
Campbell just couldn't get to him. And the referee has blown the | :36:10. | :36:15. | |
whistle and it is all over, it seems a bit on the early side by my | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
reckoning! I thought there was a fair old brick to play, I'm amazed | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
the whistle has gone so early, but it doesn't really matter as far as | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
Inst are concerned. They have won this Schools' Cup. I don't know what | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
else Campbell could have done today. Potentially they turned down two or | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
three opportunities but take nothing away from the team in gold and | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
black. They have been superb, great first half showing plenty of | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
invention in the second, they really held on. Great determination | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
defensively. Such will and desire, last effort tackling. James Hume | :36:53. | :36:58. | |
going the length, 50, 60 metres at the end, to win that the Inst. A | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
great final and a great spectacle by both teams. Fantastic commitment and | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
level of skill, no shortage of skill from both teams. | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
The second half was poor by any standard. A lot of injury, a lot of | :37:15. | :37:24. | |
chances not taken. One single chance in the second half and, my word, | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
they took it when James Hughton scooped it up and have the pace, | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
strength and sheer determination to get across between the Campbell | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
posts. No conversion but it didn't matter. We can go and speak to the | :37:37. | :37:49. | |
victorious Inst captain. You have completed the double, how does it | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
feel? Indescribable. I cannot describe this feeling. I'm so proud | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
of them. Fair play to Campbell, that was an unbelievable amount of | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
pressure. We really felt it coming. But we defended strong. After the | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
yellow card, did you feel like the game was getting away from you? I | :38:12. | :38:18. | |
knew we would have to work a bit harder. But that wasn't a problem | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
for us. The last-minute try, what was it like seeing that from the | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
other half of the pitch? Absolutely amazing. My heart goes out to the | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
Campbell lads, I know how much that would have meant to them. This man | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
here was the try scorer. How did it feel touching down? It was amazing. | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
Thoroughly enjoyed the game. Quite a turn of pace you have. I didn't even | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
know I had it. Turned out for the best. To complete the double is a | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
special occasion, how does it feel? Amazing. Last year, but it is | :38:54. | :39:03. | |
something else to do it this year. Over to your coach, Dan. The 140th | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
schools cup, two years in a row, how special is it? Listen, I am starting | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
to look old and I feel a lot older. That was a hell of the second half. | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
Campbell threw absolutely everything at us. I wasn't sure if we have the | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
resilience to defend as well as we did in the second half. Everything | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
was going their way. They played really well in the second half. But | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
we kept getting up and making those tackles. Pretty special to win it, | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
and as tight as that. What did you make of the yellow card? I'll have a | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
chat with Stuart afterwards about it. I don't know, it was a high | :39:45. | :39:51. | |
tackle I think. We will worry about that later. This man was so | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
influential in the winning try, how did it feel when it touched down? | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
Unreal. He latched onto the ball and got into a bit of space. I was | :40:03. | :40:10. | |
roaring, I was out of my seat. So yeah, look, I'm delighted for the | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
guys. And for James with his goal-kicking, he has worked really | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
hard on his goal-kicking. He made all three shots at goal which was | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
pretty crucial. Go and enjoy the celebrations. A very exhausted but | :40:25. | :40:34. | |
delighted Daniel Soper who came to RBAI from Ballyclare high school, | :40:35. | :40:36. | |
where he had done a particularly good job. What a season it has been, | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
retaining the schools cup and the medallion shield, winning the second | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
15 and third 15 Trophy. It's been more less a clean for the boys from | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
College Square East in the middle of Belfast. Bobby Stuart is saying a | :40:53. | :41:02. | |
few well chosen words, and the medals will be presented by Dorothy | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
Kingston, wife of Kevin Kingston, the chief executive of the sponsors. | :41:10. | :41:20. | |
It has been a terrific first half, and I guess for various reasons the | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
second half was not as good but you will not get a more dramatic finish. | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
And your heart goes out to Campbell College. In the second half they | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
could not have done much more. One thing that did not help them was the | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
nature of the game, lack of tempo. Campbell threw everything at them. | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
You have to take your hat off to Inst in terms of the last-ditch | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
defence, trust in each other. That's something they put together through | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
a lot of these guys over the years and the belief in which their | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
coaching staff hold them. They didn't panic, they made some | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
substitutions. I can count the number of tackles, they gave away an | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
inordinate number of penalties, but you can count the number of tackles | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
missed by Inst on one hand. Very much so, technically superb. Young | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
Yasser Omar and his tackle two or three minutes before the end, Tom | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
O'Toole was outstanding for Campbell College. Blatant disregard for | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
himself and just threw himself in there, giving everything for his | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
school and his team-mates. The rather sad looking, not | :42:39. | :42:41. | |
surprisingly, boys from Campbell College, who thought this might be | :42:42. | :42:48. | |
their year. Defeated last time out in 2011. A very close game. | :42:49. | :42:56. | |
Certainly in terms of finals against RBAI, it is now 7-5 and two drawn. | :42:57. | :43:06. | |
But they have a fair old number back for next year. They will get | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
together and be ready for yet another schools cup campaign. So we | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
will get the presentation of the medals for the winners first of all, | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
and then that all-important Trophy which Inst first won away back in | :43:25. | :43:26. | |
1888. In their fifth attempt. They have produced a remarkable | :43:27. | :43:44. | |
season, winning not just the cup but the medallion shield for the second | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
year in a row. Something no other school has ever done. I suppose one | :43:48. | :43:57. | |
person who wishes she were here is the school principal Janet | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
Williamson who is over in Melbourne on Churchill scholarship. Not a bad | :44:01. | :44:08. | |
place to play rugby and certainly not a bad place to visit. So the | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
Inst skipper who unfortunately missed it last year, the final, will | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
collect the schools cup this year. He's just guiding some of his | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
players through, the team and replacements coming through to get | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
their winners medals. Something they will treasure for ever and ever. We | :44:28. | :44:33. | |
hope to see some of them playing rugby at all sorts of levels. | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
Important for them and just for their social life as well that they | :44:39. | :44:41. | |
keep playing this game which means so much to so many of them, and has | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
done to so many generations of boys who have worn black and yellow. A | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
few words coming up from the skipper. Needless to say he will | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
thank the very gallant opposition. Absolutely. Nice to see Campbell | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
standing and watching and saluting the Inst team. Nothing more than you | :45:03. | :45:11. | |
would expect from the Campbell boys. To their credit they are staying | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
out. And here it is. Valerie Stuart Hine is over the oldest rugby trophy | :45:18. | :45:20. | |
in Ireland and the second oldest in the world. And for the second year | :45:21. | :45:27. | |
in a row it is the captain of RBAI lifting the Ulster schools cup. | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
Memories and photographs to be kept forever and ever. There are plenty | :45:33. | :45:42. | |
of old ones around, I have seen some that go back generations, and they | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
will be very happy. They were made to sweat for it by a Campbell side | :45:47. | :45:49. | |
that pushed all the way through the second half. Inst held on and right | :45:50. | :45:55. | |
at the end the breakaway try from centre James Hume gave Inst the | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
victory. So Inst, in their 56 final, have won the cup for the 13th time. | :46:03. | :46:09. | |
Eight double 44 a day they will never forget. We | :46:10. | :46:23. | |
have seen the whole spectrum of emotion out there this afternoon. I | :46:24. | :46:28. | |
am absolutely delighted for Dan Soper. I remember doing extras at | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
lunchtime with him when I was in fifth for many years ago. Shows you | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
how long he has been coaching. What a fantastic job he is doing at Inst. | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
Seem to be dominating all the age grades and charities. They were | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
successful when he arrived but they are absolutely dominating and I am | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
delighted for them. Came down to a breakaway try right at the death. | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
Yes, the second half Campbell had been dominating with all the | :46:59. | :47:00. | |
possession and territory. Here it is. James Hume showed good turn of | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
pace, he had the winger in support and realised he might as well run it | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
in. Three out of three kicks proved crucial. The advantage was massive. | :47:14. | :47:21. | |
In these big games having that lead, quick penalties proved vital. Some | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
stoppages in that second-half purely because of the pace. Yes, and I | :47:27. | :47:34. | |
think credit has to go to Inst. Campbell dominated large chunks of | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
the game. The line-out faulted a little. It didn't matter in the end | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
because they got more than three ahead. That try came from wave and | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
wave and wave of Inst defence. Campbell tried a long pass that was | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
not really on, the ball found a bit of grass and went straight up in the | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
air. It came from 20 or 30 minutes of solid defence before that. The | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
great joy of schools rugby, commitment on both sides. Yes, they | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
were throwing themselves in the tackles, especially down to 14 men, | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
their defence was exceptional. They were throwing everything at it, and | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
everything Campbell tried to throw at Inst, they repelled it. Very good | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
and enthusiastic, and you saw how much it meant to them, they were all | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
excited. Good to have Ulster rugby in safe hands? I think so. Plenty of | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
talent on show. Don't think they're right in the finished article is at | :48:32. | :48:34. | |
this stage but they don't have to be at that age, they just need to show | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
potential. Plenty of rugby to come here on BBC sport. | :48:40. | :49:04. | |
Thanks to my guests this afternoon. Inst add their name to the long list | :49:05. | :49:14. | |
of schools cup winners. A day both sets of players will never forget | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
and that is why we love it. From everybody here, goodbye. | :49:19. | :49:20. |