Ballymena

Jim Irvine from locally from Shankill, and some might...

Steve Davis from Ballymena.

You know, um, wee Matty that won the, well, went the Puskás Award.

Yeah, yeah.

Even Steve Davis, uh, like every club wanted him.

No.

Nice humble lad from, you know, Ballymena.

Just went out as, was our hardest worker on our team, and he was a great lad.

Yeah, well, I think it was my dad, really.

First of all, he played for Ulster, played for Bangor, played for Ballymena.

And I sort of grew up in a rugby house where Saturday mornings and afternoons were dedicated to rugby.

So definitely that was a massive influence on me.

First year right the way up to their last day.

Yeah, absolutely.

As you say, Gareth, it's a big thing for an 11-year-old to come into Campbell or any grammar school in Northern Ireland, whether it be Inst or Methody or Ballymena Academy or wherever it is.

They probably all dream of lifting the school's cup, but that's only a pie-in-the-sky dream.

So, no, the ceiling's definitely high for that lad and any time I've seen him, his finishing ability's second to none.

Of course, I remember a 15-year-old scoring for Ballymena one time.

A big Matthew Shevlin at that point.

No, I think it's interesting.

So, look, I wouldn't worry too much about the Glens.

I think, as I mentioned, they've got players that can definitely, when they click, but it's one of the ones where, you know, you don't want to be dropping a lot more points, I suppose, at the early stages of the season.

So, We really have to go and dig a result out like they did at Ballymena.

Get a 1-0, 2-0 win.

Gough now moves to fifth place in the Road to Majorca standings thanks to this win.

Over to the European Legends Tour where it was the Northern Ireland Legends held at Galgorm Castle Golf Club in Ballymena, County Aintram, Northern Ireland.

Winning here was Steven Auker, a third straight successive senior title for Kiwi Steven Auker as he wins the Northern Ireland Legends following his two wins on the PGA Champions Tour over the previous two weeks.

Three rounds of 67, five under par saw Auker secure a win of 15 under par, two shots clear of Henny Otto in solo second place on 13 under.

He made his debut in the 22-23 season, so he's been there one season.

26-27, he's obviously alone moves to Ballymena, where he done really well.

Herbrof does really well.

The Partick-Fisher one didn't really work out.

What do you have coming up in terms of races or what's the next sort of target, what are we

building towards? I'm actually, I'm doing a wee sim now in Ballymena this weekend.

I haven't actually done anything High Rocks related since Morgans, so this will be fun.

And then...

He's got the technical ability and I had the aggression and stuff.

So yeah, I started off at Ballymena and then I was a ball boy.

So it was, yeah, the showgrounds and we trained, I'd say, the back of it.

It was a gravel pitch at the time.

Who could get second? We got second by 13 points.

and we still hadn't played a playoff against Port Down which I thought was ludicrous because we'd already beat them a couple of times this season 13 points clear and then we beat them 2-0 I scored and then we beat Ards in a two-legged playoff and it was just mayhem after that yeah it was

unbelievable one thing I have to ask you is see you whenever you initially and not to go back too far but way cursed so you've made a decision from going from first team at Ballymena to trying to get games which is it's quite a it's quite a mature way to look at things most people will be like well I've played first team now I need to go find another first team and try and stay in the premiership where you've actually probably dropped out and went down a few leagues were they based were they based now outside the showgrounds

Yeah, so where they actually played was Miola's pitch.

We've got Damian Mooney, Cameron Clarke, Gary Murphy and Peter Laurie.

Cameron Clarke is an interesting one actually because he's from Ballymena originally.

He moved to England with his family when he was young.

I think he moved to

England the same day he was born.

He came to Ballymena for a sniff of the place and then left.

I think

he was