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Review of Round 1: 2026 Sligo Homeland & Connacht Gold Club Championships · On The Edge Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: We're back.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's episode two of our Sligo Club Championship mini-series here with the On the Edge podcast with myself, Brendan Tierney, and Darren Kearns is back here.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, your local Sligo Club Championship guru.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm learning as I go along, Darren.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: We did our first ever live commentary at the weekend.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: I have to say it was uh in at the deep end, it was a buzz.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and as I was saying to you before, and I said, like, I'm not a guru on Sligo, I'm a golem man, you know what I mean?
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm here long enough.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: But uh I will then one thing I will say, I went out to watch the Friday game, uh, Collir and Ron Cliff, and then obviously we did our own game.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I wouldn't have always gone to loads of club championships, but like there's a great standard in Snygo.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: We two great games, uh, and I I think it's it's definitely teed up for a real exciting championship.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: It has indeed.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look at we were uh baptism and fire for myself and yourself doing the commentary on Saturday evening, but yeah, we got we got uh treated to some very good football over the weekend, yeah.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um probably expected as well because of the conditions, uh especially on Saturday evening.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: I know Friday night out in Caes, the weather turned.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: Turned it happen.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: But I can I just say, well, I mean, the facilities in Caesar blown away, the clubhouse, the whole pitch, and the stand, like they've really amazing facilities out there.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I had never been there, and they'll stop notch at the moment.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was like a carpet.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: It was, yeah.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it was so picturesque to just watch it in the sunshine.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: So, as you said, the conditions were perfect, like uh, but yeah, so we we'll kick off with the game we were at, uh, and uh it turned into a real ding dong.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: No goals, no goals, uh, but 14 points apiece for Eastern Harps and Shamrock Ales.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, that was nine to one before the game, and I was seeing a few people on the chat board saying, Oh, yeah, that's well worth backing.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: So uh it probably was what people thought, but I suppose beforehand, Shamrock Ales were obviously the favourites.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they were the favourites, and look at justified because obviously they're the holders of the championship.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and Eastern Harps are coming in, you know, as we said, you know, kind of the young pretenders, very young team.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, a couple of elder states went there with Michael Clark and Kyle Cosgrove, probably being the oldest players on the team, and they're not old either, you know what I mean.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, but in the modern football, yeah.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but look at I suppose Shaman Gills are missing a couple of players, you know.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: Shane Degnan didn't play, um, obviously a county player when you're missing the likes of that, and then on the flip side of that, Freeston Harps, Calen Hunt, who was one of their best players, also, he wasn't playing.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, you know, kind of levels itself out to a certain extent, and yeah, look at it was a ding-dong battle.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: It was up and down the field, Harps went into the lead.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: Shamar Gates clawed it back, they got four on the bounce just after halftime.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: Lee Dagnan really kicked off the second half.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: He did, yeah.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: And it looked for all the words who were going to run away with it.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then Harps got a foothold again in the middle third um from the kick outs to gain possession from it, got a couple of scores from it, and look at a draw is probably a fair result overall.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean I was watching again, I was learning all these players because I wouldn't have known them all.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: But like uh Jim Malloy, 15, was out on the middle, he did an awful lot of work.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: James Kiernan seemed to be on the ball every uh seven or eight seconds, he was everywhere and work.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: But like I was really impressed by uh Matt Matt Henry, yeah, full forward.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Excellent.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: So he was winning ball there, and I mean he was up against Evan lines, and again, uh I know like he's only back from injury, but tough day at the office for Evan.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Very, very tough man to mark.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: But like he did get the shackles on him then in the second half.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he did look at, and I suppose the the ball wasn't coming in as fast as it was in the first half, but Matt Henry really hit the ground running from the very get-go.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: And Evan had his hands full with him, but look at it, it's great to see Evan back on the pitch coming back after a broken ankle first championship game.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, you have the summer he missed Sligo's championship campaign, but I'm sure like that game will bring him on in leaps and bounds.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: But like Matt Henry is an awesome forward, yeah.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: He really was very impressed now, yeah.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: And like he had seven points at the end of it, three from freeze, four from play, and I think he had a wider two thrown into the mix as well.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: And we said he was quiet enough in the second half.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: So not that I think he got half the scores at that point.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he did.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: But he was actually humble enough off camera saying, Oh, look, well, Evan was only back too.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: So he was uh no, not good, good lad.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: But like there's there's lots of lots of good uh performances throughout.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and the two keepers, you know, they done their job like they really did.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: Alan Davy right at the debt there, he stopped an attempted fist point, he came out and closed down Johnny Quinn, who was after coming on the pitch.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and kick out-wise, there was a lot of piggery in the middle of the field, as McGeanie would say, but like there was a lot of times that I suppose if the teams are looking back at it, there was a lot of clean possession got from short kick outs, and when the teams were getting that, it seemed that they were getting down the field.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: Now, look at both teams will have a lot of work to do going forward, but it's the open round of the championship, and that's the time for it, you know.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, and there was a good few kick outs as well, with misplaced, you know, straight to the opposition as well.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: So they added to the excitement, that's for sure.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: And at the end, like Shamrack Ails had a chance maybe coming in there.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: He had a couple of chances late on.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, yeah, David Quinn had a couple of shots, you know.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: On another day, they go over on another day, probably take a little bit more patience with it.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, Lee Degan had one at the end as well.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: And there was a couple of times there, right at the debt when uh the last kick out, the ball broke to the Eastern Harps.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: Defender was in the berade, they were gone and Barry Judge blew it up.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: But again, look at time was up.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: It was, it was well over that point.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and in fairness, I have to say, Barry Judge let the game flow.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: He did use a few kind of questionable tackles.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: I thought maybe people might get more than they got, but uh no, it was a good flowing game overall.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like when I said it was end-to-end.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: And back to Friday night, the uh well, champions of of two years ago, Kaliras Stranthill against Drumcliffe.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: And again, uh like I was I was uh really impressed with Keen Lally.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my first time really seeing him of closing.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: He was awesome, he was awesome.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he just reminded me of a now God help if he's watching now, but it was uh this the build of him, the speed of him, uh of a very like a David Clifford style style of player.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was unmarkable on Friday night now.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: So impressive.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um like Kulera at their hands.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, look at every everybody knows what Keen Lally is about in Sligo.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, it's just he's gonna take you on.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: He ended up with 10 points on the night.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: He could have scored probably 112.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: So from defensive point of view, Kulero will be looking at that as if to say, We're this is can't be happening.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if we do meet in the latter stage of the championship, which you know could happen the med in the semi-final.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, missing one of those as far as there were, of course, yeah.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like hit Sean Murphy was missing in the back line as well, like you know, and obviously Sean Taylor, who got injured 12 months ago.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: Player team of the year, that right, John.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: So he's he's coming back to fit as well.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: But again, on the flip side of that, Drumcliff are missing a few players as well from their side, like Adam Ryan didn't play for them.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: They had a couple of guys that come in, like young Michael Carroll there, who was on slide going in her twenties, clipped over a couple of two-pointers.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: James Donlin clipped in with a two-pointer.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: There was seemed to be a real like aim at let's get two pointers.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like I don't know how many were scored in total in the game.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: I think Drumcliff ended up with six, and I think Kuler ended up with five in the second half.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and look at Drumcliffe got us went ahead, and I think they ended up 10 points ahead or 11 points ahead, and Kuler came back, clawed it back, brought it back to two at the end, but time was up when Keelan Hart kicked a monster two-pointer near the death.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: But look at it, it was it was a real championship affair, like it was like you go back to twelve months ago, Shamrack Gales bet Kulera by a point out in Cash and they open a night as well.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: Drum Cliff clipped their wings on Friday night.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: So look at it's it's it sets it up.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: It really does.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, it really opened it up, and as you said, Kaleira were favourites, Shamrack Gales are favourites, and and either got the win on the day.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean that leaves group two.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, if you're watching, we'll hopefully put up our graphics here for you so you can see everything we're looking at.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Milash Gales and two points from Cliff on two, and then Kalani, Kalira, and Iski, no points.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: And Kalira have no game this weekend as well.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: We'll get to the fixtures in a minute, but next time they go on the pitch, they could be four points ahead behind.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a couple of teams.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: A little bit of a mountain there to cover the room.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's so you when you lose your opening game, you put yourself in the jeopardy of you can't lose the next one, really.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so that's where it comes at.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now, obviously, there's quarterfinals this year in the in the championship.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, third place, which was originally going to be um your season was finished, now it's gonna be a quarter final slot.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: So a lot of them teams are going to be looking at second and third because the team that wins in the opening weekend they can nearly take off because another they know another couple of wins would put them top of the table and straight into a semi-final.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: So and there's a couple of teams maybe in each group where you know it's kind of like sometimes we're looking, well, maybe the they've they'd be games that we can see as win about it.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely like one of the bigger dogs that's got to be.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, you're talking in the group two, they're saying Milash Gales had a big win over Easy yesterday in Kent Park in atrocious conditions.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: But look at Easy, you're missing an awful lot of players.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: Milash missing a few players themselves like that are probably gone for the season, you know.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: Young Carl Hearn there, Jack Davitt, they're out for the season.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: But they have a lot of under-20s there that came up to the mark yesterday, and like putting up 321 is huge scoring in the conditions or in the conditions.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: But Easky, look at Eiskey, we said it last week, you know, they're punching above their weight, they're you know fighting against all the odds, and they're missing they have a small panel, and when you're missing players on a small panel, it just makes life an awful lot difficult, you know.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: It really is.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: But and then you go back then to the other game in group one with St.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's and Torres Strand, yeah, which was on Saturday evening as well.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: Say Mary's were hot favourites for this, ends up winning it by four points.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: There were double scores at half time.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: Double scores at half time, yeah.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and then Tour de Strand hit the ground one running at the start of the second half, and all of a sudden the game is level.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: We got it through on the on the mics.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: We were getting ear from Rory Edge.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: We were like, What?
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Is it getting really tight?
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and uh well I and like look at the one thing it is always kind of tricky to find out exactly all these games.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well I suppose for much back from the same area side of things.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you know, you had the the elder statesman and Stephen Cohen racking in with one two there.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: Love to hear he's told me plenty of over the weekend, and but Kyle Cawley there ended up kicking two four.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um like county players after getting who played this year with Sligo, was gone for a couple of years, and he's look at he's in serious form at the moment, and like kicking two four at any level is fair going, like you know, and Eli Rooney got minutes on the pitch who's coming back after ankle surgery as well.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: Now he's a huge player, one of the best that Sligo have at underage, under 20 level.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: And great to see him coming back on as well and getting minutes on the Torestrand side.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: We had said that they don't win championships without having a bit of pride in themselves.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: So, like that performance that they put up on Saturday night will you know they'll be looking at it.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: If we can build on this going forward, we might get a win or two in the championship and it might keep us out of the bottom two.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: You never know what could happen.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, away from that, the dreadful yeah, yeah, you know, the trapdoors there if you end up in the bottom two.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: And but yeah, look at they died with their boots on, kicking 312 is fair scoring as well at championship level.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I mean look, they'll be building, I'd say, and they'll be kind of going, right, this is this has gone the way we wanted it to go.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: At least that you know it wasn't uh, as I said, it wasn't uh a big score they lost by, but uh a lot of positives in that.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: And they play this weekend moving on to this weekend on Sunday in group two.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: Will you do group two first?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Easty play Drumcliff, and that is in Kilcoyne Park in Tobercurry at two o'clock on Sunday, and Tour Lestrande plays Shamrock Gales, and that's out in Kent Park, I'm in town here, uh, at two o'clock on Sunday.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: So they're both two o'clock.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, would you call them?
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, look at I'd say again it could be after watching Drumcliff, I was very impressed with Drumcliff on Friday night, and after watching them, I'd say it's going to be a long day at the office again for Easy this weekend.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um now obviously if they get a few players back, like you know, there we mentioned that they have the hurlers crossover and a couple of them haven't come back yet to the fold.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: So they're they're gonna need everybody back, but I think Drumcliffe will just be flexing their muscles again and have too much for them.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: On the flip side of that, Torestran and Shamrack Gales.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: Shamrock Gales will be looking to get the win after draw on on Saturday evening.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: Torestran will be thinking, look at we might be able to catch these boys on the hop.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they're coming in from Torestran probably needed that game last week as well, you know, to let them know that they can still compete at this level.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: And Shamrack Gales will be looking to get the win just to put a bit of daylight between themselves and them, you know.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then moving on to uh group two, um Tubra Curry and Mary's is on Saturday evening, actually, at five o'clock out in Bun and Adam Community Park, and Kulani Mulnebrina, this will be their first game of the championship.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: They'll be playing Melosh Gales, that is Conley Park in Callooney at five o'clock on Sunday.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: So five o'clock on Sunday and five o'clock on Saturday.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: So where are you seeing the results coming there?
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I suppose Kulani Mulnabrina against Malosh Gales.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's a little bit of a step into the unknown because uh Kulani Mulnabrina, as I said, uh they didn't get out of division two.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, now they were missing a lot of players throughout the year, but when you're missing them a few players throughout the year, you're relying on them coming back and hitting the ground running for championship.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: Opener against Milash Milash obviously got their win on Sunday against East Key.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: So they'll be looking at you know keep the momentum going.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's a very, very difficult task for a team coming in after winning intermediate last year to be playing a team of Milash's caliber.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now, they have great players all over the field, Kulani Mulabrina.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: They really have.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: So they'll be looking at looking if we can start the game, stay in the game.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: 15 minutes to go if we're still in the mix.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: Let's test Milosh and let's see where they're at.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's see where they're at, yeah.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: On the Saturday evening game, then between Tubber and St.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: Again, this is going to be Tubber's opening game.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so they've had a couple of weeks to iron out the injuries.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: We said about Eddie McGinnis being back.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you have they have players there that are capable of you know game changers on their day, but like St.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's just have an abundance of talent.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: They have you know, they have fellows on the bench there that didn't play at the weekend that would make an awful lot of teams in the county.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you know, and then with the likes of Eli coming back, I'm Ronin Island is not too far away either.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: They're getting stronger as they're going.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: So again, they'll be looking at if we can get a win this Saturday evening, they'll be saying, right, we have one step in the knockout stages.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so and and you get that vital extra.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: You do, of course, you do, of course, yeah.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: I suppose uh as the club championships, because of the long or sorry, the compact county seasons now, you're probably at club stage going, Yeah, we need to break anywhere we can get it.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: So like I mentioned that with Shamark Gales playing this weekend, like they have four on the bounce, four weeks in a row before they get a break.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas, you know, you know, you'd sooner you're by halfway through the group stages, you know where you're at, you can iron out a few creases, you can get the injuries cleared up.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: But when you're playing four weeks in the trot, you know, your panel is going to be tested no matter how many fellas you have in reserve.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: And especially when you have you know junior teams in the club as well, which are McGails have you know, them players are you pulling them players back into the senior setup?
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: You might be giving them a couple of minutes here or there, and then they're not able to play junior for the rest of the season.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll play one game and that's it.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's and it's the same with Samaris, they have a junior team operating as well.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think the three teams are in the world.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they probably do, yeah.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: We'll know in a minute, we'll go to the intermediate and junior.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: So look at it's it's it's all it's a balancing act really into group stages.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: It really is like you you know, obviously, your best foot forward would be win the games at the very start of it and put a bit of daylight between yourselves and the bottom two, yeah.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: And whether you end up in top, which goes straight to the semi-final, or second and third, which are going to a quarter final, time will tell how that will play out, you know.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean that that wraps up our the senior section.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: We'll just quickly go through the intermediate and the junior.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: Again, it can be tricky to to get all the information on some of the games and that.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: But I'll just go through the results there.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: The round one results, uh, Ines Gron, Killed Glass, 10 points, Bun and Adden 113, that was out in St.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: Brennan's Park.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then on Saturday, St.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Farnon's same group, yeah.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: St.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Farn's 116, St.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: Pat's 13 points.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's again uh then on Sunday, then the group won.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Curry uh beat Ballymoat 215 to 15 points.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: Castle Connor had a comprehensive win over Clunicul, 418 to 2.8.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: So again, I mean, you no more know this where me now, maybe where where the lay of the landers are there.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: And like uh Adrian Marin playing for Curry, yeah.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even know he was still playing.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: I guess and he did well.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: I heard some parts of the commentary.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, eight points.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: I think he finished with it on the day, like you know, which is fair clipping.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: But again, look at Curry and Ballymota, probably two of the hot favourites for the intermediate championship.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Ballymote went ahead in the game, out in Budden Adden, and Curry clawed their way back into it.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Curry hadn't had a game in a good few weeks.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they were close enough to get into the division one final.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: Were you know, so they were you had good form, and then they tailed off towards the latter stage of the league.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas Ballymota coming into it a little bit, you know, they have a few guys in with the county as well, don't know where they're at.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: It was probably a good test for both of them yesterday.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: Both that game would bring both teams on, but again, Curry probably they're favourites for a reason, you know, and they probably justified favouritism by winning that comfortably in the end.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: You go to Castle Connor and Clunacool, you mentioned Castle Connor, huge win for Castle Connor, and again Sean Carabine back for Castle Connor, started yesterday.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he's one of the top forwards in Sligo in Connacht when he's on his form, you know, he's after coming back from a serious knee injury, and again, he played a few minutes of Sligo's last Talton Cup game against Fermanagh, which was great to see him coming on the pitch, and massive to see him back for Castle Connor.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: For the other teams in the group, not so good, it mightn't be so good.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: But you're covering that exactly waited till yeah.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: But no, look at it.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's good to see him bouncing back on the pitch in a scroll, you know, getting bet to Bud Nadden on Friday night.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: I think that was, you know, Bud Nadden with Aiden Rooney managing them there.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure he left them well organised, well set up in a scroll, missing a few players from last year when they got the intermediate final.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: And again, look at their Bud Nadden.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: I think in a scroll and had gone ahead in the game, missed a few chances, but Nadin kept at it, kept at it, and you know, got the win in the end.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: Towards the end of the game, they pulled away, and then with St.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Farn's beating St.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's their local derby out in the west.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: There, Pat's are missing a lot of players.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: They had a poor enough league.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: It seems to be a running team, isn't it?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: But they're but they're they're missing players that are actually gone.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's not true injury.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think there's three guys that was on their team for the last few years that have transferred away from the club, you know, and again, rural club with small numbers.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas Farnans, there, you know, it's a good win for Farnance, local derby, you never know what is going to happen.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: But obviously, intermediate, there's three or four teams that have serious ambitions of winning that, and no more so than Curry and Ballymote who tested themselves out.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then you're gonna run through the fixtures.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: The fixtures, yeah, this um group one this weekend, Saturday um at five o'clock on Torlestrand, Castle Connor play Curry, and the other game in group one is Giva obviously playing Clunacool, and that's Sunday, five o'clock, and that's at uh Scarden here, the centre of excellence.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: So again, Giva, any insight track on Giva there first?
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, look at no, there's no no hidden secrets.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: And look at the Clunacool after getting betted the weekend will be they you know they'll have to get back on the horse this weekend.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas Giva, after not playing, you know, they had Division II final last week against Zomer Gales that went to extra time, got pipped on the at the post towards the end of the game.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, small panel again.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, if you're missing a couple of players for whatever reason, you know, you gotta you when you're going down into the depths of the panel, you know, you can find yourself getting tight very, very quickly.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: But it'll be a battle against Clunakul, guarantee you, Downs Garden.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, they'll be looking to get on track, you know.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: And Clunacool, after you know their defeat to Cassiconor, they didn't see that coming, you know what I mean?
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like they're coming up from junior, but like I know there's not an awful lot of difference between junior and intermediate, you say, until you're actually you meet the force, you know what I mean?
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh yeah, the passive.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's just just uh just a step up, like you know, and then Cassakonor and Curry, that's I think that's going to be a cracker because Curry flying high, favourites with the championship, Cassakonner coming in under the radar a little bit.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: And he said the big win then as well.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: And but a big win, like, and that's it, like Barnes Kelly's doing good work out there with them, you know.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: And obviously with Caribine back on the pitch, that brings the game to a leveler.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: And it'll be interesting just to see how that'll go.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'd expect Curry to win, but maybe not as tight as or it'll be a little bit tighter than people might think.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, and then in in group two, then we've Collery St.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Joseph's their first game.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's in Clunacool Community Park at nine or nine o'clock, at seven o'clock on Saturday evening, and on Sunday then in Scrooge versus St.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Farn's, and that's out in Curry at two o'clock.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: So two o'clock on Sunday for that one.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And again, Cullery, after winning the league this year, like uh where do they fit?
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is where you're on this show.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they know more of this than I do.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, well, like I see I see I seen Colery playing intermediate championship last year, and I was impressed with them, to be honest.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, they have a lot of good players, like they've like they've county players and nearly every line of the pitch.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, you go from Maiden Giovanni all the way through to we'll say Brian Cox there, who played for Sligo for years, like you know, and then they have a couple of younger fellas coming up through it that are you know, right good footballers, like you know, and they have Ian McKelly in manager them this year with George Leach coaching them, you know.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but like again, they probably don't know where they are themselves because Division III football, there was a lot of games that they were winning very, very comfortably, and that they won the league in the end.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta you have to win it.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: You're there for a reason, you know, whatever happened over the last few years, but yeah, they won it comfortably, right?
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: So they're coming into intermediate championship and they'd be looking at okay, we're playing Budnaden who have a game under their belt.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like a game at championship level brings a team on leaps and bounds.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: You learn a lot as you said, like they're just after coming in together, maybe some of them are coming in from you know, like other uh playing in other uh competitions in slow or county or whatever, or maybe travelling or godness what.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: So you go now, we know where everyone's at, or now yeah, but like but but even I guarantee Aiden Rooney's gonna be saying to Budnaden, you know, we win this.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: We're very, very close to being in the quarterfinal, you know, even with a couple of games left in the group.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas Collery'll be looking at we can get the W on the board here, and we can just see we can take off from there and leaves it wide open.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then obviously in a scroll, and Farnans, you know, a local derby out there again, in a scroll after losing the weekend, you know, they'll be looking to get back on the horse, and Farnans will be looking at the exact same as what Budnadden and Curry and Casicana are doing, get a second win and have one foot in the knockout stages already, like you know.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: I if I'm not, you might know better than me.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: Now the intermediate is it the same as the seniors that uh first goes straight to a semi, yeah, second and third, and then the fourth and fifth play revelation semi-finals.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: So and I think fourth in one group plays fifth in the other, that kind of thing.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Second plays third in the other group.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: So it means that all the games will count towards again towards the latter stages of the competition.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Jeez, we could have loads of commentators.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see how we'll go, yeah.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: And finally the Sligo Junior A Championship.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: And again, I said, you know, again, it's obviously very difficult to find uh some of the details in some of the games, and we we can't go to every game.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh on Saturday, um St.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: John's had a comprehensive win over Shamrock Gales, 119 to 1.8.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, also on Saturday in group two, Drumcliff Ross's point.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh well, they're a big loss to St.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: Miloche Gales, who uh it's Melash are scoring this weekend and all that, you know.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: So three fifteen to Melash Gales to Drumcliff's nine points.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then in group one on Saturday, um sorry now, the Kalira two ten, St.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's one fifteen, and lastly then Owenmore Gales, another big win over St.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: Michael's three sixteen to two ten.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: So by all accounts.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people saying Owen Moore, one of the favourites for this division.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well look at they're after winning division two.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, got them playing junior A.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: They got promoted to Division One this year.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: They were in the intermediate final two years ago.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: They got relegated last year, and they find themselves back in junior.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: So it's obviously not where they want to be.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: So they know that look at we let's put our best foot forward and let's just get to the knockout stages, get to the semi-final, let's see where it goes.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, look at it, they should be winning it.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure the likes of St.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: John's are going to have a say in that because you know they've been down there for a few years now and they're going to be thinking, look at, let's try and clip their wings here.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: And they're a big win over Shamrock Gales, but and I'm saying like they actually missed a lot as well.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: So they're creating enough scores.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: And then like you go into St.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's beating Kulera, St.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's have a strong enough junior team because you know, a lot of a lot of players in the club, and again, Malash beating Drumcliffe.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, them second teams might have a say in it, but realistically, it's you know, you're probably talking that Omer Gales and St.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: John's, if they avoid each other, they should be meeting in the final and see how it goes after that.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And again, look at obviously I play a bit of the junior B with St.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: John's.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I've I just know this year there's been a nice bit of momentum within the club, which with Barton, Ian Roster, and Sean Brown, the guys there.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, it'll be an interesting championship.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: It will, of course, and like you know, like I I know St.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels were up at one stage in the Omer Gales game.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was getting the updates there, um, but Omer Gales like it no more than anything else.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: They were after playing a league final the week before that went extra time, they're missing a couple of players from that uh that didn't play at the weekend.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: So again, look at it, it's at this stage of the championship, it's only about winning, you know, win the win them games and momentum going.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: Find where lads' farm's at and all that, you know.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I suppose for anyone just to know the next weekend's fixtures.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: And again, hopefully these graphics are going up for us while we're chatting about them.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh on Saturday, that's 8th of August, in group two, Eastern Harps will play Shamrock Gales in Curran Park at half four.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Also on Saturday in group one, you have Tour Lestran vs.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: St.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Michaels, and that's in Father Kevin Breheny Park at seven o'clock.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Also on Saturday, Von More Gales versus Kalira Strand Hill in the in Scarden, the GA Centre of Excellence, that's at seven o'clock.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh finally in group two uh on Saturday also, yeah, these are all on Saturday, uh St.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: John's will play from Cliff Ross's point at half seven out in Shamrock Gales Park.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: And again, if you're looking in here and you want to find out all the pictures, the Sligo GA app has a Sligo GA.ie.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: We as of going to uh as of recording, I should say, we don't know what games are going to be streamed or on the radio, but Ocean FM will have I'm sure plenty of the games and Sligo G8 TV.ie.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: If you go there, you'll find out the next game's coming up there.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we won't be commenting this weekend now, uh Farsi.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: We're both uh doing other things in Farsi.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I'm looking forward to getting back behind.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: It was good fun, I enjoyed it, and thank God you were with me because it was it was uh as we said a baptism fire.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: But no, I was really um as I said, uh I'm I'm a blow-in and it was the first time I really kind of went to you know group games, senior championship, maybe back when John's were in it years ago.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: But like really enjoyable football, and I mean anyone at home, I'm like if you haven't gone to too many games regularly, go out and see, and like there's the season pass for 100 euro.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: You can get every game in junior A, B, C, Intermediate, yeah, look at it, and the hurling knockout sections of the game.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look at it, it's and there there's there's an interest, there's an interest in club football in Sligo at the moment, which it which is good, and you can see it like there was a big crowd in Turbucurry on Saturday evening.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: I heard there was a massive crowd in Caluny also for the same Aries game, and you've seen what the crowd was like in Cash and on Friday night for the opening game.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: So look at it, and the crowds are coming out, and the football is good, and there's no teams running away with the the games.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: I know, yeah, there's no hot favourite.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: As we said, two of the favourites didn't get wins the weekend as well in the senior.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so yeah, it's all playful.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: So look at sure we'll uh we'll be back every week.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: We've decided there we'll do it every week.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: We're maybe going to wait till the quarterfinals, but we're having too much fun.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: And if there's anyone watching in and you're at the games or you want to comment on any of our social media videos, please let us know.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: We'd love to hear more what happened at the games as well.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe each week before we do the pod, we might put it out after the matches saying any any interesting stories or anything you can give us a bit of information on.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: We'd only love to have your interactions with us.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, so tune in next week and uh we'll see how the next round goes and where it's all building from there.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: Darren, thanks again, and uh sure we'll see you soon.