{"id":180477,"date":"2023-12-15T11:48:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T11:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/2023\/12\/15\/match-preview-birkmyre-v-irvine-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:49:00","slug":"match-preview-birkmyre-v-irvine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/2023\/12\/15\/match-preview-birkmyre-v-irvine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview &#8211; Birkmyre v Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birkmyre Rugby Club host Irvine this Saturday in a top of the league clash.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Only 2 point separate the teams with Irvine currently holding the top spot. However, Birkmyre do have two games in hand and a superior points difference.<\/p>\n<p>The previously league encounter earlier this season resulted in a narrow 26-20 victory to the Kilmacolm side with extra points from the kicking tee being the only difference. It was also very combatitive fixture with three players in total seeing yellow cards.<\/p>\n<p>The kick off is at 2pm at Birkmyre Park in Kilmacolm and all are welcome to come along and show their support and watch what is expected to be a tough fought encounter.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-143495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223.png 1080w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223-310x310.png 310w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/League-Table-2324-V3-101223-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-143496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renfrewshire24.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Next-Match-v-irvine-Home.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Next-Match-v-irvine-Home.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Next-Match-v-irvine-Home-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Next-Match-v-irvine-Home-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Next-Match-v-irvine-Home-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Next-Match-v-irvine-Home-310x310.jpg 310w, https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Next-Match-v-irvine-Home-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birkmyre Rugby Club host Irvine this Saturday in a top of the league clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","joomsport-thmb-medium":"","rn-home-thumb":"","rn-home-rect":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Ricky Kelly","author_link":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/author\/mudricky\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/category\/rugby\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Rugby<\/a>","tag_info":"Rugby","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180634,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180477\/revisions\/180634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}