Fixtures January 20/21

Saturday 21st January 

Senior

(All League)

Senior 3rds V Trinity Away Santry 2.30pm

Senior 4ths v Clontarf Away 2.30 Castle Avenue 

Sunday 22nd January 

Senior 1 & 2 v Tullow Away Black Gates 3pm.

Biggest game of the season so far for squad. With Tullow just ahead of us in the table, a win here would guarantee a playoff berth. A big ask but after last weeks win on the road by both teams v North Kildare, there is momentum building within the squad and they are more determined than ever to get a result here.

A win here before the seasonal break for cup fixtures would put the Senior 1sts in a great position with a tough fixture away to league leaders Wicklow in early March when the league re-starts and the last league match of the season vs Mullingar on 12th March. 

Best of luck lads!

Coolmine Pumas 

No match - training as normal 12.30

Youths 

U13A v Seapoint Home 10.30

U13B v Donnybrook Home 10.30

U14s v Skerries H 12 noon Ashbrook (League)

U15s v Clontarf St Catherine's Park (Friendly)

U16s v Greystones H (League)

U17 v Skerries Away (Friendly)

U18s No Match 

Minis

U7's Home Blitz from 9.30

U8s v Greystones Away 9.30

U9s no match - training as normal

U10s v Westmanstown Home 9.15am

U11s no match - training as normal 

U12s vs DLSP Home 12 noon

Best of Luck to all teams, coaches & parents !

Please forward on any reports or images to coolmineinfo@gmail.com

#hardworkdedication 

Results weekend 15th January

League Results weekend 15th January. 

Almost all teams were on the road this weekend with mix of great wins and contentious losses. 

But with mid season mark behind us, the shakedown for league semi-final places across Senior and youths is heating up. 

All games are important from now on and no more so than today's fixtures. 

Seniors 

Our firsts and seconds were away to North Kildare in a daunting task of taking maximum points and edging into playoff position. 

Both came away with valuable wins with the 2nds recording a decent 39-15 win and the 1sts getting a hard fought 26-13 win to keep the prospect of playoff places open. 

Next week sees both teams host Tullow who are three points ahead of us having lost to second placed Clondalkin today. This game will be a turning point and we've got to get as many people down to support as possible next weekend.

Senior 3 & 4 - no games 

U18s 17 - Portlaoise 35 lads made plenty of chances to closee this game but they left it behind them. A good tough game which they can only learn from and keep up the work in the training. 

U17s v Seapoint - game cancelled- no ref available 

U16s 19 Barnhall 24 - this was a fractious affair and a contentious result according to those present. A speed bump no doubt on the way to for this group and plenty left in these guys to power on towards a tilt at the league title. Keep the Faith. 

U15s 36 Ratoath 21 - second victory away on the road for the Well done to Nick & David and crew. Keep it up lads!

***Win of The Week****

U14s 31 Old Belvedere 20 in a an epic battle as is always with these two teams away in Angelsea Road. 

Coming off the back of a narrow loss to Blackrock last week they looked to make amends by taking on the current league leaders and stormed into a 19-5 lead by half time. But a combination of injuries and high spirits conspired to let Belvo back into the fray, launching a spirited comeback in the second half. Coolmine put the game out of sight with 10 minutes to go and despite a late score from the southsiders, the lads claimed the points. Next up is Skerries in two weeks and with all of these Premier Division sides now having won and lost a game, it makes all results crucial from here on in. Great work lads.

U13s no game

Great work by players, coaches and all those who travelled to support the club.

#hardworkdedication

****3rds win Madden Cup****

Match report

Senior 3rds 17 - 15 Tallaght: Club's first cup this season thanks to Ken, Peter, Bernard, Richie & crew. Really tight tense affair. Penalty try to Tallaght at the start left Coolmine chasing this for most of the game. A superbly worked move saw Colin Durkan cross for a try in first half after Tallaght had gone 10 clear after an earlier penalty. Tallaght crossed again with a powerful maul from a lineout from 10m but missed the conversion to put it 15-10. Absolutely no quarter given by either side particularly in the respective packs for most of the second half with Jeremy, Kerr, Rob Mulligan and the two Richies putting in some big hits. Tallaght's scrum half was red carded for kicking his tackler on the ground (Ciaran Costello- who got sin binned for taking a size 10 in the

mush for his troubles)

with 20

Mins to go. After some strong breaks by Coolmine got them into the Tallaght '22, Tallaght gifted them a penalty 5metres out which the Ken Condon locomotive barrelled over the line with. A difficult angle from 5 metres in from touch made it a tough and pressurised task to convert but the ice cool Stephen Hanley made no mistake, splitting the posts with a perfect kick and nudging Coolmine ahead for the first time. Big Ber, who had tormented the close defence of Tallaght all evening made an unbelievable break that would have put the game out of sight but was hauled down just short. But Tallaght fought back and edged into the Coolmine '22 and with little on the clock to the dismay of the Coolmine support and team were given a penalty for what I still can't figure out, five metres from touch on the '22. He missed - but a Coolmine player, who ... ahem... shall remain nameless to spare his blushes decided to rush the penalty taker a là a conversion (not allowed btw). Of course ref said take it again. Queue the longest 30 seconds ever .... he missed again. Woo hoo. Welcome back John Madden. 

Way too many standout guys in this squad to mention in the day. All made this happen. Respect to Tallaght for a great game who look like they'll win their league and gain promotion & best of luck. 

Fixtures Update

Youth Fixtures Sunday 20th November 2016

U18.5s vs Malahide (H) 12

U17s vs North Meath (H)12 noon

U16s vs Navan (A) 12 noon

U15s vs Balbriggan (A) 12 noon 

U14s vs Blackrock (A) 12.30 noon

U13s x 2 vs Terenure (H)

FIXTURES UPDATE 12th/13th November

Club Fixtures Update

Busy weekend ahead.

Be sure to get down and support all the teams.

Bar open Saturdays and Sundays.

Saturday 12th November

Senior 3rds vs Tullamore (A) 2.30

Senior 4ths vs DCU Trinity (A) 2.30

U13s vs St Senan's (H) 2pm (touring friendly)

Sunday 13th November

U8s vs DLSP (H) 9.30am

U17s vs Barnhall (A) 12 noon

U16s vs Old Wesley (A) 12 noon

U14s vs Old Belvedere (A) 12 noon

U12s vs Ratoath (H) 12 noon

U18s vs Boyne (A) 12 noon

Senior 2nds vs Wicklow (H) 1pm

Senior 1sts vs Wicklow (H) 14.30

COOLMINE RFC HOSTING SCHOOLS RUGBY

This season Coolmine RFC has undertaken a programme to host schools in the locality that would normally not have rugby as one of their main sports. St Vincents Primary School from Glasnevin paid a visit to the club and boys from 4th-6th class participated in a full contact training session in the club.The very talented young men started off their training session with a variety of general movement games to warm up and finished with a full contact match. Throughout the session, the boys went through some passing and tackling technique drills which the very eager St Vincents' lads got to grips with ease. As a result the full contact match at the end was great, bringing all the factors they have learned from the drills in to the game which saw a great standard of rugby. Speaking with Coolmine CCRO Mikey Russell added, “Firstly, it’s great to see St Vincents Primary School down at the club playing rugby. To see the lads improve in such a short space of time is amazing. The future is definitely bright for both club and school.”

Coolmine RFC has hosted a number of local schools recently looking to develop a wider rugby-playing base in the area. Both Junior and Senior teams from Castleknock Community College recently played Ardgillan in the Secondary Schools Cup. If anyone is interested in getting involved in rugby in the Coolmine/Castleknock area, contact Mikey Russell at CoolmineCCRO@leinsterrugby.ie or on 0830051956.

Fixtures Update

Fixtures Update

Saturday 1st Oct

Coolmine 3rds vs St Marys A 1pm

Coolmine 4ths vs Parkmore H 1pm

Sunday 2nd Oct

Coolmine 2nds vs Clondalkin

1.30pm A

Coolmine 1sts vs Clondalkin

2pm A

U12's (2005) - Coolmine v Lansdowne A (Irish Town Stadium) 11am. 

Three Teams Playing.

U14s vs Barnhall H 12.15