A mixture of the White and Dark Green teams played St Brigids home and away on successive Sundays 8th and 15th January.

Match 1

Played in Greystones and the home team welcomed our visitors St Brigids on a fine but cool Sunday Morning to Dr Hickey Park. The match began at a ferocious pace and Greystones were immediately on the attack and moved the ball into the opposition half.  From a scrum won against the head Joe Phelan broke and split the defence to score. From the restart the Greystones forwards gathered the ball and drove upfield in a series of rucks resulting in the ball being moved wide by the backs and Jeremy O’Donovan beating his man on the outside to score. Greystones added another score after some fine interplay between backs and forwards resulted in Callum McNulty breaching the St Brigids defence. St Brigids kicked off and having won back possession, were rewarded when they crossed the line from close range. Greystones went on the attack from the restart and following a series of thrusts from backs and forwards the ball was moved left quickly resulting in Greg Doyle crashing over to complete the first half scoring.

The intense pace continued into the second half and Jeremy O’Donovan outsprinted the cover to open the scoring, Tommi Happonen then added another score with some direct running after the backs moved the ball quickly. Charlie Byrne then forced his way over to add another score for Greystones. St Brigids then scored after some fine approach play down the left hand touch line. Mike Hayes then added another score for Greystones working his way through the defence from the fringe of a ruck to score. St Brigids then replied with another try in the left-hand corner. From the restart Greystones moved upfield and Ollie Haydock sliced through the defence to score. Mike Hayes then added another fine try crossing on the blindside unopposed following a series of rucks. The scoring was completed when Ollie Haydock crossed the line after some quick handling by the backs.

Match 2

Played at St Brigids home ground in Cornelscourt and the home team established an early lead scoring 3 unanswered tries before Greystones woke up. Strong rucking and counter-rucking by the forwards saw Greystones reply when Harry Begley ran over from a short distance. This was quickly followed up by Ben Webster driving over for Greystones' second. A sniping run from scrum half Joe Phelan saw Greystones level the score 3 a piece, before St. Brigids re-established their lead with a further 2 tries before half time.

The second half was a case of picking up where the first had ended with St Brigids continuing to keep the scoreboard ticking over with 3 unanswered tries. Greystones' forwards again stepped up their play in the loose to allow Conor Doyle to notch up further two tries. Again St.Brigids' backline ran strongly to score 2 tries before Conor Doyle went over for a late consolation try for Greystones.

All in all, 2 enjoyable games with lots of tries and honours even.