Standings

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pct
Dublin City Quetzals	2	1	1	0	12	36	.500
Dublin Bay Raptors	2	1	1	0	40	39	.500
Dublin Rebels	2	1	1	0	69	40	.000

Playoffs

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Extra Half-Game Decider
29.08.2020	Dublin Bay Raptors	22	Dublin City Quetzals	12

Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1		Palmerston RFC
08.2020	Dublin City Quetzals	0 #	Dublin Rebels	30
	Week 2
15.08.2020	Dublin Rebels	39	Dublin Bay Raptors	40
	Week 2		Booterstown Park
29.08.2020	Dublin Bay Raptors	6	Dublin City Quetzals	12

Report

In the absence of the start of the American Football Ireland Flag League in August 2020, Dublin Rebels and Dublin Bay Raptors played a scrimmage game in De La Salle Palmeston RFC, which the Raptors won with a last second Touchdown and two-point conversion by Jimmy English, received from Quarterback Joe Grey. [Reference: 2] Dublin City Quetzals had earlier pulled out of a game with the Rebels.

In the second game at Booterstown Park, the Dublin Bay Raptors lost 6-12 to the Dublin City Quetzals. a third quarter was played which was treated as a second half game with the Quetzals Raptors winning 22-12.

The League was cancelled on and the Results declared null and void due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic. They are presented here as an unofficial Provincial Conference, as with the Pandemic the League was rearranged into self-contained Conference with no inter-conference play before the government restrictions meant the cancellation of the league.

References

Click on the links in the References section to be brought to the original reports or images.

Images

[1] American Football Ireland (2020) AFI-Flag-Football_white [Internet] Available from: https://www.americanfootball.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/AFI-Flag-Football_white.png [Accessed 24 August 2020]

Social Media

[2] Eirball Facebook (2020) Post, August 15, 2020 [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2550630115249342&id=2226857640959926 [Accessed 24 August 2020]

[3] Dublin Bay Raptors Whats App Conversation (18 August 2020) Photo Uploaded by Jimmy English at 15:46 .

[4] Dublin Bay Raptors What’s App Conversation, (29 August 2020) Comments by Enda Mulcahy at 13:26

[5] American Football Ireland (2020) 2020 Flag Football Season Cancelled [Internet] available from: https://www.americanfootball.ie/2020-flag-football-season-cancelled/ [Accessed 28 October 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Joe Grey, Todd Zboyan, Bart Barden, Steve Hearn, Jimmy English, Al Timmins, Dieni dos Santos and Dublin Bay Raptors 2020-21.

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Last Updated: 26 January 2021

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