This season’s Rosie Stewart Cup sees a record number or teams competing with eleven Ulster sides taking part with guests Sligo taking the total to twelve.
The draw has certainly thrown up some interesting encounters in the opening rounds with the match between AIL Division 2 pacesetters City of Derry against the experienced AIL Division One side Cooke being the pick of the bunch. It’s a match too close to call at the minute but home advantage, the return of talented out-half Rachael Fleming and the likely inclusion of South African internationals Mandisa Williams and Fundiswa Plaatje may give City of Derry the edge. It could all rest on the call up of players to the National side with Derry’s Kennedy and Cooke’s Porter both in the running as both are hugely influential players but at the end of the day I think Cooke will have just too much experience.
The second round should pit improving sides Belfast Harlequins against Enniskillen with Quins eager to avenge an early season league defeat and the addition of South African out half Zenay Jordaan, who should free up talented youngsters Caughey, Baxter and Templeton, I’m predicting Quins to . . .
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