J1's FALTER AT TEMPLEVILLE ROAD
Author: Dave O 'Siochain
2005-11-24
The J1's fell to their first defeat of the campaign at the weekend in a hard
fought battle with St Marys at Templeville Road. After recording
consecutive victories against Suttonians, Bective, Old Wesley, DLSP,
Terenure, Old Belvedere and Wanderers, they lost by two points in a contest
which saw the lead change hands several times.

St. Marys got off to a flying start scoring two break away tries from quick
tap penalties and found themselves 14 nil up within the first ten minutes.
But the Tarf side rallied and forced a penalty infront of the posts after
some concerted pressure on the Mary's defence. The penalty was missed but
from the ensuing restart Tarf created several phases of play which resulted
in Paul Mullen powering over for a try which Paul Ryan converted.

Marys' quickly reasserted their dominance and added to their lead with a
penalty. But again Tarf used their front five dominance to maul the ball
deep into the opposition half, the ball was spun wide and Paul Ryan touched
down in the corner and later added the extra two points. Just before half
time Ryan added a penalty to square the tie.

Marys regained the lead 20mins into the second half, taking advantage of
their numerical advantage following the unfair sinbinning of Andy Wood (a
case of mistaken identity). The J1's defended valiantly repelling the
confident attacking of the St. Marys side. Upon returning from his ten
minute sabbatical, the inspired Andy Wood scored a try to bring Tarf within
two points of the home side. Unfortunately, Ryan hit the post with the
conversion and the game ended in a two point loss for the Northsiders.

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