North Down Ladies’ 5ths travelled to Bangor Grammar to play Donaghadee 2nds in the Minor Plate. Missing Stevenson and West they still managed to take a squad of 13 players. Due to North Down knowing a few of the Donaghadee players, there had been a lot of ‘banter’ in the build up to the match,…
The North Down ladies 4XI squad travelled to Deramore on Friday night to play their return fixture against Belfast Harlequins 5XI. Without the leadership of skipper Jo Irwin, an eclectic mix of youth and experience took to the field. In the first few minutes, Harlequins threatened the North Down defence, but sweeper Maxine Taylor kept…
On Saturday the ladies 2nds made the short trip to Deramore Park to face Belfast Harlequins in a top of the table clash. With a very different team taking to the pitch the Comber girls knew it would be a tough encounter. The first half was dominated by quins using their speedy forwards, luckily player…
North Down Ladies’ 5ths travelled to Civil Service on Saturday to play against Pegasus. Due to the early starting time and school commitments many of the regular schoolgirl players were unable to make it, this resulted in an average player age of 41!! The Pegasus team were much younger, (and fitter!) so this week was…
The ladies 1sts welcomed Lurgan to Comber on Saturday for their first game of 2016. North Down knew that this would be a tough task with Lurgan pushing Harlequins hard at the top of the Premier League table. However North Down could take positives from their close 2-1 defeat in Lurgan back in October, when…
Two goals in the final 4 minutes gave league leaders Instonians a 4-2 home victory over a North Down side that fought to the final whistle last Saturday. This was an evenly fought contest with the league leaders being pushed all the way. Once the rain stopped the pitch quickly drained and the game was…
North Down ladies fifths had YET ANOTHER Friday night away match!!!! However, at least they only had to travel to Bangor to play their seconds and this time the captain Julie Fisher didn’t get lost or leave any players behind – her New Year’s resolutions are working!!! The pitch was beginning to freeze before the…
This week North Down ladies thirds hosted Civil Service seconds at Comber Leisure Centre. Having previously been beaten by them 4-0 at the start of the season the home team were hopeful that they could improve upon this. At the start of the first half Civil Service made their mark by showing how fast…
An exhausting 6-3 seeing to from newly appointed league leaders Inst 2s for the freshly deposed league leaders North Down 2s. They were there too early and with too many players (like Colour Sergeant Bourne said, “thousands of ‘em”) for a just made it in time and too few playered North Down side. Outnumber 16 to…
North Down travelled to Portadown on Saturday for a Premier League game. Their plans were slightly hampered by the late withdrawal of Andy McGimpsey leaving coach Rodgers with only 13 players at his disposal. The situation worsened when Jonny Linter received a nasty mouth injury after 10 minutes and was unable to take any further…