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Round 3 Review of the 2026 Sligo GAA Championships · On The Edge Sports Podcast

0:15
SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome to another episode of On the Edge Sports Podcast.
0:18
SPEAKER_01: And this again is our Sligo Club Championship special.
0:21
SPEAKER_01: It's round three review and keeping you up to date on what's happened the last weekend.
0:25
SPEAKER_01: Before we get into it, Darn, here's the current odds in the Sligo Senior Club Championship.
0:29
SPEAKER_01: Shamrack Gales 5-2, Drum Cliff Ross's point five to two, Kalira Strand Hill three to one, Soar St.
0:34
SPEAKER_01: Mary's, and then it's Eastern Harps 13-2, Milash Gales 7-1.
0:39
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
0:39
SPEAKER_01: Where do you call it from there?
0:41
SPEAKER_01: You know, that tells you everything you need to know about this championship, that it is as close as you can get.
0:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's wide open for I suppose the teams that are there at the top of the betting.
0:50
SPEAKER_02: I think where St.
0:51
SPEAKER_02: Mary's were favourites before last week.
0:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the games.
0:55
SPEAKER_02: And then uh Shamrack Gale's in obviously the current champs.
0:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they come back into it.
1:01
SPEAKER_01: And do like, you know, what do you think has changed there?
1:03
SPEAKER_01: Oh, clear back or you you've seen that game now.
1:06
SPEAKER_01: I didn't get to see that.
1:07
SPEAKER_02: Look, there's probably a bit of everything, to be honest.
1:09
SPEAKER_02: Um, there was probably everybody was questioning them over the first two games because they'd only two draws got.
1:15
SPEAKER_02: Two draws, yeah.
1:16
SPEAKER_02: But as we said, it was like last weekend's game was about winning, and they turned on the style against St.
1:22
SPEAKER_02: Mary's and got their two points, so they go into the favourites now uh in the in the bookies' favour.
1:28
SPEAKER_02: Like you know.
1:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:29
SPEAKER_01: It was very hard to call.
1:30
SPEAKER_01: I'll quickly read out the results for anyone that hasn't caught up with them.
1:32
SPEAKER_01: So in group one, Mary's won ten, uh Shamrock Gales 117, and Eastern Harps had a massive win, 426 over Tupper Curry 1-8, which is again a surprise to me.
1:40
SPEAKER_01: We'll come back to it in a second.
1:42
SPEAKER_01: The group two results, uh, Kolira 4.18, they got back to winning ways, uh, Kalani Mulnobrina 15 points, Malash Gales 14 points, Drumcliff Ross's point 3.19.
1:50
SPEAKER_01: So look, we'll start at that game actually to go into a bit more depth because we were both commenting on that ourselves in Ocean FM.
1:55
SPEAKER_01: And again, like me and you were talking last week, I said, God, I can see a few draws this weekend, and I thought that one was kind of maybe prime for a draw.
2:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
2:03
SPEAKER_01: But Drumcliff, I mean, it was a it was a huge win, but the first two or three minutes, they could have they could have had another two or three goals at the post twice, Mr.
2:11
SPEAKER_01: Penalty, then not in the first two minutes, but a little later on.
2:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look, it was very impressive.
2:15
SPEAKER_02: It was probably we were everybody was thinking it coming up to the game that it was going to be a tight affair.
2:20
SPEAKER_02: Local Derby, we had mentioned it last week, and I'm sure they'd been talking about it in their own relevant camps as well.
2:26
SPEAKER_02: But nearly from the get-go, it was Drumcliffe just boom, went at it.
2:31
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
2:32
SPEAKER_02: And I don't think Miloche had any answer.
2:34
SPEAKER_02: Now, in Miloche's favour, like we would say that they're obviously missing a couple of their county players.
2:39
SPEAKER_02: So Luke Castley didn't start, yeah, and Luke Towy is missing.
2:43
SPEAKER_02: So arguably, you know, they're two best players.
2:45
SPEAKER_02: And then we we mentioned that they're missing some guys for long-term injuries, Jack David and Carl Hearn, and these guys that are.
2:51
SPEAKER_01: Well McLaughlin came in, and in fairness, when Luke Castley came in, he kind of showed up a little bit at the back, and then Alan McLaughlin got was it maybe three points, I think.
2:59
SPEAKER_01: So like you know what he started to crit.
3:01
SPEAKER_02: So maybe it was Drumcliffe have an embarrassment of Riches at the moment.
3:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like they're they had a like that a couple of changes before the start themselves to their starting team.
3:11
SPEAKER_02: Adam Ryan came in.
3:12
SPEAKER_02: We speak about him in more detail after a while.
3:15
SPEAKER_02: But he came in and he picked up Adam McLaughlin from the start.
3:18
SPEAKER_02: And I I've watched him over the last few years.
3:20
SPEAKER_02: He's a guy from Port Arlington in County Leash who's been playing for Drumcliffe for the last few years, and he's a right good footballer.
3:26
SPEAKER_02: But I never put him down as a man marker, and between the Drumcliffe management and whatever Adam McBarton came up with, but they decided to put him man marking Adam McLaughlin from the get-go.
3:36
SPEAKER_02: You could see it that he was picking him up, and the tactics was to put Adam McLaughlin going the opposite way.
3:42
SPEAKER_02: Don't let him get the ball and control it from the forward press and make him chase you.
3:47
SPEAKER_02: And Adam Ryan ended up kicking four points.
3:50
SPEAKER_02: I think three in the first half and one in the second half.
3:52
SPEAKER_02: But like he was he was off the shoulder all the time.
3:53
SPEAKER_02: He was just real hard running.
3:55
SPEAKER_02: So it was kind of a tactic that they had.
3:56
SPEAKER_02: You pick up this guy, but you make him mark you.
3:59
SPEAKER_01: Well, it definitely worked, as I said, I was talking to him after the match, and Fairness he gave us his time to chat, and so did Adrian McFartland.
4:04
SPEAKER_01: But I said it once said you were down the full back, but like he really was everywhere.
4:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was.
4:07
SPEAKER_01: And then, as you said, to go and score on top of that.
4:09
SPEAKER_01: Like again, my first time watching him playing like and uh like uh or sorry.
4:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like with Drumcliff, they seemed to they're they got their tactics right, so they went with two Giants in the full forward line with Keen Lally and Ali to watch, you know, and Paul O'Brien and they just let the ball in.
4:26
SPEAKER_02: Now Ballymoad is a smaller pitch than some of the pitches around the county, and from everywhere they let the ball in first time without thinking.
4:33
SPEAKER_02: And Malosh were all at sea in the full back line, and they were winning breaks, they were winning their own breaks, as you mentioned there.
4:39
SPEAKER_02: Like they hit the crossbar twice, which could have been two goals in the first few minutes.
4:43
SPEAKER_02: Then they got Keane Lally got taken down for a penalty chance, which was missed by James Donald and rebounded to him.
4:48
SPEAKER_02: Good save by John Gidson for the penalty who gets up and saves the rebound as well.
4:51
SPEAKER_02: So he deserves a bit of credit for that.
4:53
SPEAKER_02: And then they got their couple of goals there as well.
4:56
SPEAKER_02: Then, you know, like and they were they really flex their muscles, like they haven't like as I said, like their panel seems to be very, very strong like that.
5:03
SPEAKER_02: 36 togging and but they had subs coming in that were making a real impact.
5:08
SPEAKER_02: So when you're doing that, the likes of Keen Oates came on, he got a point with his first touch.
5:12
SPEAKER_02: Uh Ross Chambers came on, got a point with his first touch.
5:15
SPEAKER_02: You know, these guys are making an impact, and then you have Nike Kaleary, who was down to start it in tog on the night, and you had guys the likes of Michael Carroll, who has been shooting the lights out over the last couple of weeks, you know, and he he came up with another few scores the other night.
5:28
SPEAKER_02: Now, we mentioned that Keen Lalley was kept a little bit quieter in the second half because Luke Castle went on him.
5:32
SPEAKER_02: Obviously, you know that what Luke Castle will, you know, he'd probably county defender.
5:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, neutralise a lot of players.
5:39
SPEAKER_02: But I don't think Keenan Lalley had to do an awful lot in the second half either because the game was over for a long way.
5:43
SPEAKER_01: I think was it was it 10 up or eight up at halftime?
5:45
SPEAKER_01: 10 up and I mean against Kaleira they did lose that lead, but this they still won the game the two games.
5:50
SPEAKER_01: But like this time they just kept them at arm's length.
5:53
SPEAKER_02: They drove on, they didn't rest on their laurels.
5:55
SPEAKER_02: And it was interesting.
5:57
SPEAKER_02: I think we mentioned in commentary, it was seven five to Drumcliffe and Malosh had a 45, and it was ideal conditions for kicking football.
6:05
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, and Aaron Lang decided to go short and got caught for being too short.
6:11
SPEAKER_02: Ball went down the field.
6:12
SPEAKER_02: Malosh actually won the ball back, and it ended up with Paul Flynn kicking it wide.
6:16
SPEAKER_02: So like they obviously had two chances to bring it back to the minimum to bring it back to 7-6.
6:20
SPEAKER_02: After that, Drumcliffe scores 2-3 or 2-4 in the next five minutes.
6:25
SPEAKER_02: And that is like such a change, like such a swing.
6:29
SPEAKER_02: Momentum, like we're talking about momentum swings in games.
6:31
SPEAKER_02: That was a huge momentum swing.
6:32
SPEAKER_02: Like they go straight down the field, and instead of being one point down, then you're four down.
6:36
SPEAKER_02: You lose the next kick out, you're five down, and then another goal goes in.
6:39
SPEAKER_01: And they're two, the two wing backs, Key McBride and uh Stephen Regan.
6:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was again like you know, this is a lot of this is new to me, seeing a lot of these players, and you know, it's just certain players stand out.
6:48
SPEAKER_01: They were everywhere on the pitch, yeah, up and down, and they were always in the right place, it seemed to be, but they seem to be the real connector between they they've got the license to go.
6:56
SPEAKER_02: So obviously, you know, whether the wing backs and wing forwards, there's not a huge amount of difference in them in the modern game now.
7:03
SPEAKER_02: So they've got the license, just go all over the field, get handle as much ball as you can, yeah, and you know, there's no need to be taking pop shots yourself, you know, get it to the right man in the right position.
7:13
SPEAKER_02: And again, uh a little bit of credit has to go to Donicha O'Brien, the the keeper for Drumcliffe Ross's point, because Papa Dirks, one of the best keepers in Gaelic football over the last number of years, like he has stepped aside this year.
7:25
SPEAKER_02: He was in goals with Drumcliffe over the last number of years.
7:27
SPEAKER_02: He stepped aside, and Donica's come in and done.
7:29
SPEAKER_02: I've watched him over the last few games, and he's done a right good job.
7:32
SPEAKER_02: And like there was one stage of the second half, he came out to take a free and he put it on the deck, which you don't really see in in football nowadays.
7:40
SPEAKER_02: He put it on the deck and he drove it 60 yards down the field, which was fielded by Eamon O'Mahani, who in turn gave it straight into the full forward line, man off the shoulder, and it's a goal.
7:49
SPEAKER_01: Lovely move.
7:49
SPEAKER_02: Do you know what I mean?
7:50
SPEAKER_01: Like again, in both teams of fairness for a lot of the game, it was route one.
7:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it was lovely to watch.
7:54
SPEAKER_01: It was everything you want the new rules to be like.
7:57
SPEAKER_01: It was.
7:57
SPEAKER_02: And Losh Gates have a lot of soul searching to do after you know, you're losing to your rivals by that amount.
8:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
8:04
SPEAKER_02: You know, there's a lot of questions to be asked, and uh whether they come up with the answers or not, time's gonna tell.
8:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, well, I mean, uh Drumcliffe are now they're through to the semi-finals, uh, and just in the other game, uh, Kaleer Strand Hill in that group, sorry, Kalir Strandhill 418, Kalani 15.
8:18
SPEAKER_01: Now, I mean, I presume most people expected Kaleir to win that.
8:22
SPEAKER_01: They would have been the favourites, but was it that big a win expected?
8:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I I watched the game and I suppose Kaler needed the win.
8:30
SPEAKER_02: They really did to get back in the horse after losing their opening game because they'd the week off then, and that Fola, the new guy playing inside, or in the yeah, yeah, yeah.
8:40
SPEAKER_02: Long-winded second in, but he was a real handful from the get-go.
8:44
SPEAKER_02: Like he got a goal in the first couple of minutes.
8:45
SPEAKER_02: He ended up kicking 3-3.
8:47
SPEAKER_02: 3-3, yeah.
8:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, he like really he could have scored five or six goals himself.
8:52
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
8:52
SPEAKER_02: Do you know?
8:53
SPEAKER_02: And he was they just couldn't mark him.
8:56
SPEAKER_02: I think he ended up with three or four different guys trying to mark him.
8:59
SPEAKER_01: Because I watched him against um against from Clifford.
9:02
SPEAKER_01: Wasn't sticking from that day, you know what I mean?
9:04
SPEAKER_01: And you could see he's obviously playing that big full forward kind of role.
9:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, but they obviously it clicked the other day.
9:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like he got really confidence going forward.
9:10
SPEAKER_02: Definitely, and I'd say he is a confidence player, and he got the from the get-go, he scored the goal, so it gives him gives him huge confidence.
9:16
SPEAKER_02: But the Kaleir boys were giving him in the ball, and the game was out in Bud Naden there, and I suppose the first sight that you're touching on it there, um, that there when he was against Drumcliffe, Eamon Keen marked him and just touched back to the Drumcliffe game for a second.
9:31
SPEAKER_02: He had a massive game again on Saturday.
9:32
SPEAKER_02: But like, okay, I I just I just think he's I just think he's a phenomenal footballer.
9:36
SPEAKER_02: But he's gone against the full back role now at the moment, and um I wouldn't have put him down for a fullback because he played wing back for the Psycho in their 20s all year, but he picked Fole up in the first game, and he didn't like Fola caused him a small bit of hassle, but he didn't give him anything any space.
9:50
SPEAKER_02: And but the Mullerina boys couldn't handle him on Saturday or on Sunday afternoon in Button Adam.
9:56
SPEAKER_02: But Kulera got back on the horse, and again, look at they've been in county finals over the last few years for a reason.
10:03
SPEAKER_02: Okay, they have just lose it overnight.
10:05
SPEAKER_01: Any sign of any of the injured players there coming back?
10:07
SPEAKER_02: Well, uh Sean Murphy played, so okay.
10:09
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so he was back in he was back in the fold, which was good to see him back.
10:12
SPEAKER_02: And he he's you know he's a good cog in the defence for Kolera Strandhill, and uh Kiwi Keelan Caulle started who didn't start the first night.
10:20
SPEAKER_02: He came on at halftime against Drumcliff Ross' point.
10:22
SPEAKER_01: But of course, this is only Kalera's second game as well.
10:23
SPEAKER_02: So like he he knits an awful lot of stuff together there, but as a as a the question asked, the other Murph, the the the remaining man, no, there was no sign he wasn't he wasn't talked about at the weekend.
10:34
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, that group is looking tasty, like as we said, okay, Drumcliff were through.
10:37
SPEAKER_01: So Drumcliff uh play Kalani this weekend.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: So like it's a kind of a funny one for Drumcliff.
10:44
SPEAKER_01: I you would assume they're going to rotate a bit on that.
10:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, you would imagine.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: They definitely will, especially going out to in a scroll from Drumcliff out to a scroll.
10:51
SPEAKER_02: I don't know where they're going.
10:53
SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure if they're going Friday or not.
10:55
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, it's it's it's a long way out.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: But he has Ada McPartan has the luxury now of getting some of the guys that didn't start.
11:04
SPEAKER_02: I'm sure that he's going to be resting guys again, no more than what they've done against Easky in their second game in the group.
11:09
SPEAKER_02: They have the luxury of doing that.
11:11
SPEAKER_02: Because but then again, you you want to be keeping your shape and keeping your system, and you're not going to deviate away from it when it's working for you.
11:19
SPEAKER_02: And there's other guys that are going to be knocking on the door saying, if I can get in against Kalani Mullerbrina on Saturday evening and put my best foot forward and put myself in the shop window, and that's that's going to be the last chance.
11:29
SPEAKER_01: And it's like from last week and gone by to the semis, it's four weeks.
11:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
11:32
SPEAKER_01: So you're probably going, God, we don't get rusty either.
11:34
SPEAKER_01: Like, definitely, definitely.
11:35
SPEAKER_01: We've seen what Mayo, like they came in and Yeah, of course.
11:38
SPEAKER_02: And it's Kulani Mullerbrina, like to their credit, they kept added against Kulera on Sunday, and just after halftime, they had four wides in a row.
11:49
SPEAKER_02: And you know, they probably went for a couple of two-pointers that they didn't really need, but they probably thought that we needed to get back into the game because they weren't that far behind.
11:57
SPEAKER_02: I know that uh Kulera just got a goal just before halftime, and they were probably thinking, right, we have to kick a couple of twos here, and they probably didn't, they probably should have worked it in a little bit, and them wides just suck the life out of you.
12:09
SPEAKER_01: The underdog as well.
12:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, but you could see you could see it from the players on the pitch that they're like, oh, it's gone wide again, and it's just bringing you back down.
12:17
SPEAKER_02: And then whereas if a couple of them goes over, then it's a different ball game, and Kalera then have to come out and they have to come out of their shape, whereas Colera could just sit in their shape the last day and then hit them on the when they won the ball back, they got their turnovers and they hit them on the attack, and they got a penalty later on, they got another goal then from another game.
12:33
SPEAKER_02: And look at it's it's it's a funny game on Saturday evening because like Drumcliff Ross's point, don't need to win it, but I guarantee you they don't want to lose it either.
12:42
SPEAKER_01: No, they don't want to have a banana skin, and they as you said, there's gonna be lads that are going, no, no, this is my last chance to show the loss once.
12:48
SPEAKER_02: Then I on the on the flip side of that, then on Sunday afternoon, then in Kent Park, you have Kulara Strandhill playing Esky.
12:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and again, look at I I and I talked to one or two of the East Ke lads.
12:57
SPEAKER_02: Uh I was at an underage match out there last Friday evening, and they are decimated with injuries, and they have a long list of injuries, and but they're coming back slowly but surely, and they're getting back now.
13:08
SPEAKER_02: Obviously, Sunday will probably come too soon for a lot of them, but it's going to be a game that Kulera Stranhill probably are going to flex their muscles again and get across the line.
13:17
SPEAKER_01: And it's well, I'm just going on results, you know, yeah.
13:20
SPEAKER_02: Of course, and it could be it could be just another long day at the office for Easy, but I'm pretty sure at this stage that Eisky are just looking at the relegation battle and making that little mini championship for themselves, if you understand what I'm saying.
13:45
SPEAKER_02: Like, and that's no disrespect to them, it's just at the way where they are at the moment because they're working off a small panel.
13:50
SPEAKER_02: When you have a small panel and players injured, it's very tough.
13:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and of course, Malosh have a weekend off this weekend.
13:54
SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, it's kind of you can't wait for that last round.
13:57
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
13:58
SPEAKER_01: That's when the real tension comes into that group, doesn't it?
14:00
SPEAKER_02: Well, it's it's Malosh Gales versus Kaler Strantil in the last game.
14:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and if Drumcliff Ross Point were to win this weekend, then it goes to Malosh and Kaler to see who finishes second and third, which is going to have a big bear on the right.
14:11
SPEAKER_01: And just to make sure I'm not right wrong, second place third in the other group, didn't it?
14:15
SPEAKER_01: So okay, so you're kind of looking at the other group too.
14:16
SPEAKER_01: Go, uh, definitely.
14:18
SPEAKER_01: But at the moment, that's we'll go to group one.
14:19
SPEAKER_01: We'll just quickly go through that we said.
14:20
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, yeah.
14:21
SPEAKER_01: Uh Shamar Gales 117, Mary's one ten.
14:23
SPEAKER_01: Uh, again, I I I you watched this all and near the end I did tune in to the last two minutes, and it just didn't seem that Mary could just get it to click, and Shamar Gaels were able to just kind of nearly keep them a bit at arm's length.
14:34
SPEAKER_01: Would that be a good one?
14:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, pretty, pretty, pretty much so.
14:37
SPEAKER_02: Like, like uh Shamark Gales were well ahead in the first half.
14:40
SPEAKER_02: And Samaris got a goal and a point just before halftime.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh real poxy enough goal, long ball into the box, something similar to what Shamark Gales got against Torres Stran the week previous in Kent Park.
14:52
SPEAKER_02: It was a dangerous ball into the box, high ball in, nobody dealt with it, ball breaks, and Robert Kelly Lynch gets a hand to it and knocks it into the corner, which brings Samaris back into it.
15:00
SPEAKER_02: They get a point just before half time, and then all of a sudden there are only four down at halftime.
15:05
SPEAKER_02: Second half coming out, then I was thinking that maybe they're going to kick on here, Samarys.
15:10
SPEAKER_02: That's after giving them a bit of life, but no, Shamrack Gales, as you mentioned, kept them at arm's length.
15:14
SPEAKER_02: It was um a kind of a professional performance from the current champs, if you know what I mean.
15:20
SPEAKER_02: So I had said, mentioned on our show last week that they needed to get a couple of players back in just to fire them up in the forward line, especially, and the start of Shane Degnan, who is an intercounty forward, who was always going to make your team better, no matter what team he's playing on.
15:35
SPEAKER_02: He got one two, I think he got on the night, and Niall Kenny started as well, who had come on against Torres Stran and was a little live wire inside.
15:42
SPEAKER_02: So he had them two guys inside, which gives huge pace in the inside forward line, which means that they can kick the ball a little more direct.
15:51
SPEAKER_02: Then fellas coming on the loop.
15:52
SPEAKER_02: There's just it's just it brings the pace and the intensity up to it.
15:56
SPEAKER_02: Plus, Shamrett Gales brought huge fight, which was probably missing a little bit in their first two games, whether it may be a little bit of a hangover from last year's championship or league or whatever it may be.
16:07
SPEAKER_02: And again, we mentioned the whole Jeopardy situation, like it's they probably needed that win big time on Saturday night, whereas St.
16:15
SPEAKER_02: Mary's had two from two.
16:17
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so like and it's one of these games that you know like from the outside looking in, it looks that St.
16:24
SPEAKER_02: Marys probably don't know their best 15 at the moment.
16:27
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and uh the this yeah, they're waiting on anyone really to come back.
16:31
SPEAKER_02: Well, Ronan Island, Ronan Island is who is a huge player, but based on Saturday night, they need him back, and they need him on that team, and it's one of these things that you know they're probably I would say no more than Mulash Gales on in group two.
16:44
SPEAKER_02: I would say that Samarit is lucky that they're not playing this weekend coming, that they have a break and they can iron out a few creases because the talent is there, the talent the talent is there, the players are there, but they just don't seem to be able to, for whatever reason, knit it together.
16:56
SPEAKER_02: And it just looked a little bit all over the place on Saturday evening, nothing nothing really seemed to click for them.
17:01
SPEAKER_02: Again, they'll have a say in the championship, don't get me wrong, right?
17:05
SPEAKER_02: And they have an abundance of players, but Sharmac Gales fleck their muscles no more than John Cliff Ross's point.
17:10
SPEAKER_02: And again, you're looking at like you're going to go through the fixtures here for the weekend, but in the other result in the group, Eastern Harps had a huge win over Tuber Curry.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: So if we're looking at like Mary's how much was it four points between them and Tuber Curry?
17:23
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
17:23
SPEAKER_01: And Mary's into Lestran was only two or four points.
17:27
SPEAKER_02: No, I think it was four as well.
17:28
SPEAKER_01: So I mean, like if you're trying to get like I said, the horse race analogy, like so you're kind of going, well, Eastern Harps, you know, they like they they hammered Tuber Curry, and whereas Mary's kind of were struggling.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: I was at that game, it was a real tit for tat.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: So if you're trying it's an interesting group there to try and fathom, it is now we again we touched on it last week.
17:44
SPEAKER_02: Like Eastern Harps had the break in between their Shamrack Gales game and the Tuber Curry game.
17:50
SPEAKER_02: So that break, when you're a young up-and-coming team with a new manager, like and you're not playing back to back straight up, right?
17:57
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so you get your break and you get a good week's training in yourself, and Tuber Curry on the flip side of that were straight out the following week after putting up a huge effort against St.
18:06
SPEAKER_02: Mary's the week before.
18:08
SPEAKER_02: Lost Eddie McGuinness before the game, he didn't play, uh arguably their best player.
18:13
SPEAKER_02: They had a man sent off early in the game.
18:16
SPEAKER_02: They had Aaron Perry, who you were very impressed with the first evening, he went off injured.
18:20
SPEAKER_02: And Connor McDonough, the guy that kicked two two-pointers against St.
18:23
SPEAKER_02: Mary's, he also went off injured.
18:25
SPEAKER_01: So that really tells the story of the city.
18:28
SPEAKER_02: And I had said that if Tuber Curry were to compete against Eastern Harps two weeks in a row, they needed everybody firing, and we didn't know if it was the case.
18:36
SPEAKER_02: And if you're taking out three or four players out of that, you know, it brings you right back to the pack, and Eastern Harps then are just flying at the moment in relation to scoring that a huge spread of scores the last evening.
18:46
SPEAKER_01: How was our full forward doing?
18:47
SPEAKER_02: Um mad yeah, like he ended up at 2-1.
18:50
SPEAKER_02: And I uh the information I got was that he should have had 4-10.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: So definitely.
18:58
SPEAKER_02: Aaron Healy in the corner forward kicked nine points, and then that a spread of scores throughout um lots of guys got in, chipped in with it, and there was a guy that I had mentioned, Alex Lilly, that I think he's a right good footballer, up and coming footballer.
19:11
SPEAKER_02: Now, unfortunately, I heard over the weekend that he has done his crucial ligament in his knee.
19:14
SPEAKER_02: So I wishing him best wishes and hope he comes back better than ever.
19:18
SPEAKER_02: But you know, the likes of missing them players and Calen Hunt, who broke his foot in the league final, he's another couple of weeks away.
19:25
SPEAKER_02: But Eastern Harps be delighted where they are at the moment.
19:28
SPEAKER_02: Like that is that's a huge win.
19:29
SPEAKER_01: So if we put up a thing on Instagram and someone had messaged in Eastern Harps, the dark horses.
19:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, yeah, perhaps they are, but like for a young team, putting up a score like that, doesn't matter who it's against.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: That that that gives you huge confidence.
19:40
SPEAKER_02: So then if you're looking at the fixtures, you're going to go through the fixtures here.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: Five o'clock, that one.
19:55
SPEAKER_01: So again, the first one, Tupper Curry and Shamrack Gales.
19:57
SPEAKER_01: Now again, just going on last weekend, you're kind of if you're going into bookies, you're probably going, well, Shamrack Gales, maybe now, are they are they off and running?
20:04
SPEAKER_01: Like you know.
20:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I would say they are.
20:06
SPEAKER_02: And I would say, based on the Tupper Curry injuries, because the likes of them injuries and was it a straight red?
20:12
SPEAKER_02: Not 100% on that, but even if it is, and like if Aaron Perry is injured or you're missing, you don't know if they could pick up a couple of injuries in the Eastern Harps game as well.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: And Shamrack Gales just seemed to be upping it and up in it game by game.
20:25
SPEAKER_02: So I think it could be you know a long day at the office for Tuber on the street.
20:30
SPEAKER_01: They've had no break, am I right saying that?
20:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh Tupper Curry, there's three in a row.
20:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
20:34
SPEAKER_02: That's what I'm saying.
20:34
SPEAKER_02: So you know, and it's it's tough to do that with a small panel.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: It really is.
20:38
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, like one of our guys is looking after the top scorer, Brian Kern is out for the season.
20:43
SPEAKER_02: I know he's the elder statesman, but he's a huge player for Tuber Curry.
20:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so unfortunately, he's out for the season as well.
20:51
SPEAKER_02: So and then the other fixed, then Eastern Harps and Tour de Stran.
20:55
SPEAKER_02: So from Eastern Harps going on the high of beating Tuber Curry by that figure and drawn with the county champs in their first day out.
21:01
SPEAKER_02: They face Tour de Strand now on Sunday, and it's a potential banana skin.
21:06
SPEAKER_02: It is, right?
21:07
SPEAKER_02: There's no point saying it's not because Tour de Stran got a good result against Shamak Gales drawn with them.
21:12
SPEAKER_02: And they have Mary.
21:13
SPEAKER_02: They had a decent outing against Mary, scoring 3-12 against St.
21:16
SPEAKER_02: Mary's in the first game, and they're after having a week's break now.
21:20
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so that week's break, if they get a couple of guys back from injury, if they you know they improve another little bit on it.
21:26
SPEAKER_02: So it'll be interesting just to see.
21:28
SPEAKER_02: Now, I would expect Eastern Herbst to come through that based on what they're doing at the moment and putting up big scores and their pace and power.
21:35
SPEAKER_02: It just seems to be something that's working for them, and they're very, very lively.
21:38
SPEAKER_02: And then just Turlstrand, just it's is it going to be a step too far for them, you know?
21:43
SPEAKER_02: Like, and we said they have a small bit of pride in themselves, they really do.
21:47
SPEAKER_02: Like, and they're not they weren't counting champs seven in a row for no reason.
21:50
SPEAKER_01: Well, the the the memory, the muscle memory is in there, you imagine.
21:53
SPEAKER_02: You have you have a couple of guys that are there, and the guy that got player of the week last week for us, Carl Henry, is going to be a handful there for any fullback like seem in the flesh.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm I'll be I'll be uh commentating uh the live stream on Slago GATV.e.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh unfortunately Darren has left me for this weekend.
22:08
SPEAKER_01: So not sure who's gonna be able to do it.
22:10
SPEAKER_01: But maybe we'll do uh we'll do a FaceTime.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, so I'm looking forward as well.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking for look forward seeing Eastern Harps again and then throw this around for the first time.
22:16
SPEAKER_02: But I And and d and definitely, but it's it's the results this weekend in that group are going to go a long way because like Eastern Harps they get the win to go on five points.
22:29
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
22:29
SPEAKER_02: Shamrack Gales, I would expect them to get the win the goal pont at six, and then it comes down to Eastern Harrison St.
22:34
SPEAKER_02: Mary's.
22:35
SPEAKER_02: No more than Malach Gales against Kulur in the last game of the group to see who finishes six.
22:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because they're the games that you want because no disrespect to the to the likes of Easky or to the likes of Tuber or these guys, right?
22:49
SPEAKER_02: Them games, they're probably a little bit they're not down the line far enough to be competing with the bigger teams and the bigger panels.
22:56
SPEAKER_02: You know, when you get into them last group games, and it's a second and third, so the likes of Eastern Hearts to be like, okay, let's just get the win against Torestran here.
23:04
SPEAKER_02: By one point, they'll take it before the game, I guarantee you that.
23:07
SPEAKER_02: And let's put us ourselves into a shootout with Saint Mary's in the last group game and let's see where we're at.
23:11
SPEAKER_02: Because they had a ding-dong battle in the league final that went extra time, and there was only a kick of the ball or a little bit more in it at the end of extra time.
23:18
SPEAKER_02: So there's lots of football to be played, yeah.
23:21
SPEAKER_01: I mean, like, if it ended, if the groups ended today, like Kalira would be playing Shamrock Gales, they wouldn't fancy that, I'd say, and Malosh would be playing Eastern Harps.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: So just Malash's last result, they might be like, oh, Eastern Harps are flying, and we just you know, so yeah, so it'll be interesting to see what it all finishes up there.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: So look at that's that's the seniors, and as I said, the live stream games this weekend are Kalani Mullenabrina versus Drumcliffe.
23:42
SPEAKER_01: That's on Saturday evening at half seven, and as I said, I'll be commentating on Sunday at five o'clock in Bunanadden, Eastern Harps vs.
23:48
SPEAKER_01: Trollestrant.
23:49
SPEAKER_01: And they're on SligoGATV.ie.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: You can sign up there, and even if you go to the game, sure, sign up anyways and watch it back and you can uh rate my commentary then.
23:56
SPEAKER_01: So we'll quickly go through the intermediate championship here.
23:59
SPEAKER_01: I'll just call out the results.
24:00
SPEAKER_01: Um in group one, Ballymote run towers two eleven, one eight to Giva.
24:04
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, Darren.
24:04
SPEAKER_01: Uh Tlunacool 14, Curry 525.
24:08
SPEAKER_01: And that leaves that group Curry on six, Castle Connor, Giva, and Ballymote all on two, and Tlunakool on zero.
24:14
SPEAKER_01: And in group two, no, we'll just go to g just give us a quick overview.
24:17
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure you're obviously at the Giva game, anyways.
24:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, you look at from all I'm hearing, Ballymote would be kind of one of the more fancy teams in the world.
24:24
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh again, it was Ballimote probably had the luxury of bringing on fresh legs towards the end of the game.
24:33
SPEAKER_02: They got a goal late on with five minutes to go.
24:36
SPEAKER_02: There was only three points in it, and it was a fortuitous goal just after half time for Ballymote that had given them that little three-point cushion.
24:47
SPEAKER_02: It was level at halftime, there was nothing in the game, there really wasn't.
24:50
SPEAKER_02: Um but Give just don't have the panel, you know, they didn't have fresh legs to come in.
24:56
SPEAKER_02: They they brought on one sub who ended up getting sent off, and then you're with 14 men for the rest of the game, and you're you Ballymote were four or five up, and Give have to chase the game, and then they get hit with a sucker punch of a goal late on.
25:08
SPEAKER_02: And Ballymote were decent.
25:10
SPEAKER_02: I will give them their dues, they were decent, and you know, they have some good players all over the field.
25:14
SPEAKER_02: Like they've the three Lavins playing there in the middle third, like you know, right good players, and then they have a couple of very good forwards, and they have a couple of very, very strong, tenacious defenders that are mopping up ball around the full back line there.
25:26
SPEAKER_02: There was uh, and then they have a very good keeper in Keen Kilcoyne, who you know he's he was on the county panel there, and he played under Edriot Sligo, and very good kick out, very sharp kick out.
25:36
SPEAKER_02: So, again, look at Ballymote were worthy of the win, they really were.
25:41
SPEAKER_02: And then on the flip side of that, Curry against Clunacool.
25:43
SPEAKER_02: No more than what Drumcliff Ross's point done, the flexor muscles they went at it from the get-go.
25:49
SPEAKER_02: I was talking to a couple of guys who was at it, and they just blitzed them in the first 10-15 minutes, and it was game over.
25:55
SPEAKER_02: And no more than anything else, I had mentioned that the step up from junior to intermediate, although on paper it mightn't seem that it's a huge amount.
26:01
SPEAKER_02: Clunacool to compete at intermediate level need everybody playing for them that is able to be playing, and they're they've lost a couple of players and currier worthy favourites at the moment.
26:13
SPEAKER_01: If someone's in to me today, they they should probably be in senior.
26:15
SPEAKER_02: If they were in senior, they'd probably be getting to the knockout stages also, just with the panel of players to have at the moment.
26:20
SPEAKER_02: Like they have Ado Marin there, who is you know, he kicked another seven points at the weekend at his ease, and I think he came off with 15 or 20 minutes to go.
26:27
SPEAKER_02: They've Alan Riley, who's an excellent, excellent footballer, didn't play for Sligo this year.
26:32
SPEAKER_02: Um, disappointed not to see him playing because I think he should be on that Sligo team.
26:35
SPEAKER_02: And Sligo aren't in a position at the moment to be not having him on the team, in my opinion.
26:40
SPEAKER_02: And then they have a couple of forwards throughout there, young Gallagher, young O'Donnell, who you know they're they're just they're a well-oiled machine.
26:47
SPEAKER_02: And Jimmy Langan has gone in there from Malash Gales and he's managing them, and he seems to be getting a good gig out of the players at the moment.
26:53
SPEAKER_02: And at the moment they're sitting pretty at a semi-final, and it's probably their championship to lose at the moment.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: So Curry, uh, well, just to do the fixtures, Ballymote uh play Castle Connor, uh, that's at the GA Centre of Excellence.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: That's on Friday night at half seven, and then Sunday it's Giva versus Curry out in Curran Park and Ballymoto.
27:10
SPEAKER_01: That's at two o'clock.
27:11
SPEAKER_01: So you're hoping that Curry will go a look at just how red staller players, redstaller players.
27:15
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna have to put it down.
27:16
SPEAKER_01: Let's take a break.
27:17
SPEAKER_02: 100%.
27:18
SPEAKER_02: And they're they're bound to find 15 fellas and howleys there that'll travel over to Ballymo on Sunday afternoon.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: We'll give uh we'll give Adrian Marin uh we'll give a voucher for the uh recovery.
27:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, and look at for that one for Giva against Curry.
27:34
SPEAKER_02: Hopefully, Giva gets a strong 15 on the field.
27:37
SPEAKER_02: I hope they're not picking up any injuries after the weekend because they can't afford to pick up any any injuries.
27:43
SPEAKER_02: But and on the flip side of that, I hope that Curry are arrested a couple of players and getting ready for a semi-final in a couple of weeks.
27:49
SPEAKER_02: In the other game, then which is on Friday night in Scarden, Palymode and Castle Connor.
27:54
SPEAKER_02: I expect this to be ding dong a serious battle.
27:57
SPEAKER_02: Okay, right?
27:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but they're all level on points.
27:59
SPEAKER_02: It's level on points, and I I rate Castle Connor, and based on a couple of players they have, and obviously their main man, who I keep harping on about, Sean Caribine, and anybody that hasn't seen this guy playing football, get to Scarden on Friday night and let's see this guy playing because when you see this guy playing in the flesh, you're like, oh my god, he is an exceptional footballer.
28:18
SPEAKER_02: Ballymote will probably have Jack Lavin marking him, who is the county centre half back, and that would be a battle for the ages, I'd imagine.
28:26
SPEAKER_02: Now, on paper, Ballymote should be winning this, but again, it is a potential banana skin, and I would say that I wouldn't rule out a draw on it or a few points either way, to be totally honest, which would open up that group into what's going to happen in the last.
28:42
SPEAKER_02: Well, when Giva beat uh Curry, who arrested the Lats and Cowlies versus and then you have you have Giva versus Castle Connor in the last group game.
28:49
SPEAKER_02: Yes, that's the last group.
28:50
SPEAKER_02: So you know it's it's it'll be very interesting to see.
28:53
SPEAKER_02: And then you're going to group two.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: So Bon and Adden 215, St.
28:56
SPEAKER_01: Farnans 17 points, St.
28:58
SPEAKER_01: Pat's two fifteen, uh Collery St.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: Joseph's.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: That was their was that their second game out, and the 319.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: They won that one quite handily.
29:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh the group there is Bon and Adden on six, so they're obviously into the semis.
29:08
SPEAKER_01: Uh Collery, Farnans, and Enniscrone on two, and St.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: Pat's have no points so far.
29:13
SPEAKER_01: Again, it's the exact same as the top table there.
29:15
SPEAKER_01: We have one semi-finalist and then a battle there for the first time.
29:17
SPEAKER_01: It is, it's second and third, really, at the moment.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: And the bunnies are sitting pretty in the semi-final there.
29:21
SPEAKER_02: And mentioned that they have big players throughout the field and they have Luke Marin there, who's a sharp shooter.
29:27
SPEAKER_02: You know, he was on uh team of the year there in Ireland a few years ago when he was playing at minor level, and he's brought his form forward.
29:35
SPEAKER_02: They have big men catching ball.
29:37
SPEAKER_02: Aidan Rooney has them well drilled, and they got across Farnans the last evening.
29:42
SPEAKER_02: And again, no more than anything else, they're going to be looking at a few weeks' time, semi-final, looking to win that.
29:48
SPEAKER_02: In the other game, Collery against St.
29:50
SPEAKER_02: Pat's.
29:51
SPEAKER_02: This game, I think, by all accounts, Colery had the game done and dusted.
29:55
SPEAKER_02: I think they were 12 or 13 points up.
29:57
SPEAKER_02: St.
29:57
SPEAKER_02: Pat's had a man sent off early in the game, and all of a sudden, Pat split them in seven or eight minutes and kicked two, three, or two, four without reply, and brought the scores back to level.
30:08
SPEAKER_02: Now Collery found another gear, kicked on and got the win.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: Um again, I was expecting Collery to win it comfortably.
30:19
SPEAKER_02: They won it by that amount in the end, but it wasn't as comfortable as it probably should have been.
30:23
SPEAKER_02: They're finding their feet at intermediate level after playing Division III League football.
30:28
SPEAKER_02: That game will bring them on in leaps and bounds.
30:30
SPEAKER_02: They have a couple of lads to come back as well.
30:32
SPEAKER_02: Connor Griffin is there?
30:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Connor Griffin should be back.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: Is there another man?
30:35
SPEAKER_01: No, I might be getting the name round.
30:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I know that Gavin Lynch played the last day who didn't play in their first game, and I think he kicked 2-4 or 2-5 the last evening.
30:41
SPEAKER_02: Right good footballer.
30:43
SPEAKER_02: And they're a team that's going to take a good bit of beating in the championship level.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: They really are, because they only lost to Bud Naden on the first night by two points, 17 points to 15.
30:52
SPEAKER_02: And again, games bring you on at this level.
30:55
SPEAKER_02: So that game, the last night, they got tested in Kent Park, but they came out the right way.
30:59
SPEAKER_02: They're playing St.
31:00
SPEAKER_02: Farn's this weekend.
31:01
SPEAKER_02: You're going to go through the fixtures there.
31:03
SPEAKER_01: Cause St.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: Farnans, that's Saturday at half six out in Clunacool.
31:07
SPEAKER_01: And Sunday then at St.
31:08
SPEAKER_01: Path's versus Ennis Grown, and that's in St.
31:09
SPEAKER_01: Brendan's GA Park, and that's five o'clock on Sunday.
31:12
SPEAKER_01: So Colery versus Farnans.
31:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, look, it uh it should be it should be on paper uh comfortable win for Caldery St.
31:18
SPEAKER_02: Joseph.
31:19
SPEAKER_02: Right, even though they're level on points, even though they're level on points, it's just because Farnans have three played, you know, they're after coming on the oh sorry, of course, yeah.
31:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right, they're on the the back of two losses at the moment.
31:28
SPEAKER_02: And then I would just be thinking that Coleridge just have too much.
31:31
SPEAKER_02: Farnans' panel has probably been stretched that little bit as well.
31:34
SPEAKER_02: They wouldn't have huge numbers out there in Drumore West that are that are playing at the moment.
31:39
SPEAKER_02: But again, look at their it'll it'll be a bit of a battle, and it'll be a good battle for Coleridge St.
31:43
SPEAKER_02: Joseph's if they want to be competing with the other boys in the quarterfinal stage, come championship time at that.
31:49
SPEAKER_02: In the other game, St.
31:50
SPEAKER_02: Path's against St.
31:51
SPEAKER_02: Scrooge, local Derby out in the west of Sligo.
31:55
SPEAKER_02: Again, that that group is all set up for the West, like you know, apart from the true Castle Connor in to group one just for the mileage up.
32:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but um St.
32:04
SPEAKER_02: Pat's they're giving a right rattle on Saturday against Caldery.
32:07
SPEAKER_02: They gave it a right rattle, they really did.
32:09
SPEAKER_02: And I was looking at Pierce Cairns there, who seems to be around for a long time.
32:12
SPEAKER_02: He clipped in with six or seven points and fair play to him, and he's you know he's putting the shoulder to the wheel for them.
32:19
SPEAKER_02: But I just think that in a scroll just they might probably have a little bit too much for them on Sunday afternoon.
32:24
SPEAKER_02: Like they're it's it's one of these games that if Inascrown were to lose, you're not overly surprised.
32:31
SPEAKER_02: If you know what I mean.
32:32
SPEAKER_02: If it was a draw, you're like, oh well then they're two even enough teams.
32:34
SPEAKER_02: Whereas if Inascrown win it, it puts them right into the mix for getting into a quarter final.
32:39
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
32:39
SPEAKER_02: You know, coming into the last group games.
32:41
SPEAKER_02: So it's interesting to see that.
32:43
SPEAKER_01: As I keep saying, I'm like the child with the new toy, like kind of seen all these different games, and there's a real excitement now building.
32:49
SPEAKER_01: And just you mentioned Sligo there, like just for divulment now, and I didn't tell you I was gonna ask you this, but like could you give me two or three players that you've seen so far in the championship that haven't been in the squad that you'd you'd be suggesting they're tipping on the door of?
33:02
SPEAKER_02: Well, I I I would, and I've mentioned them here before, and there's two guys from Cliff Ross' Point, definitely Eamon O'Mahany and Eamon Keane, that I think could make the step up to intercounty senior level straight away, because they're just two man mountains, you know, like and they're have the right physique and they seem to have the right temperament and the right good footballers.
33:20
SPEAKER_02: Also, I'd also love to see Alan Riley back in the the Sligo G uh Jersey.
33:25
SPEAKER_02: I know that he's been there, thereabouts over the last years.
33:28
SPEAKER_02: Anytime he's on the panel, he seems to play, and then for whatever reason he's not in the squad the next day, and then I think this year he stepped aside himself.
33:35
SPEAKER_02: So I'd love to I I would love to see him back into the mix, like you know.
33:38
SPEAKER_02: And apart from that, there's probably a couple of guys there that you know that just not coming to mind, but that could probably make the step up.
33:44
SPEAKER_02: And it's you know, Fola.
33:47
SPEAKER_02: Could you see Fola playing for Sligo?
33:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
33:49
SPEAKER_02: You know, the Westmead guy, why not?
33:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
33:52
SPEAKER_02: So there could be a few surprises.
33:52
SPEAKER_02: Like Sligo don't have the luxury of saying, okay, well, and we don't need these guys, like where we're at at the moment and with Sligo Intercounty, just try anything, you know, to get us back.
34:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, if there's a huge well, I mean we've seen it with a massive panel, obviously breeds more and more competitive competition.
34:06
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, turn nobody away.
34:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, no, no.
34:09
SPEAKER_02: Um you might tag out again yourself.
34:11
SPEAKER_01: Uh so just quickly on to the junior A.
34:13
SPEAKER_01: Uh just quickly tell you the group one results.
34:15
SPEAKER_01: Uh St.
34:15
SPEAKER_01: Michael's 19 points, Kaleiras until 4-9, and St.
34:19
SPEAKER_01: Mary's 6-16, Torles Stran 11.
34:22
SPEAKER_01: And that leaves uh group one table.
34:23
SPEAKER_01: St.
34:24
SPEAKER_01: Mary's on four, own more gales on four, and own more again.
34:26
SPEAKER_01: I know they've only played twice, but they would be uh by any account I'm hearing they're gonna be the favourites.
34:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh Kaleera on two and St.
34:32
SPEAKER_01: Michael's on two, and then Turlestran um Trulestran have yet to get any points in that group, and then the fixtures we can Turlestran play Colera, and that's sorry, on Saturday in Conley Park at half six, and on Sunday then St.
34:43
SPEAKER_01: Mary's play Own More Gales in the Slide of GA Centre of Excellence out in Scarden, and that's at five o'clock on Sunday.
34:48
SPEAKER_01: So again, just briefly, uh like and like we'll I suppose straight straight straight off it there.
34:54
SPEAKER_02: Kalera Strandhill second team beating St.
34:56
SPEAKER_02: Michael's first team is a shock.
34:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um probably shouldn't be happening to be totally honest.
35:02
SPEAKER_02: Um that's St.
35:04
SPEAKER_02: Michael's gone out of the championship now already, like, and this should have been looking to bring it in and getting another win on the board.
35:12
SPEAKER_02: But like Kalera Strandhill, Ushin O'Neill, who shot the lights out the week before, he ended up, I think he kicked 1-9 again.
35:20
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, but um I had asked the question would he be involved with Kolera Strandhill first team?
35:25
SPEAKER_02: But I think it's Conarth Rugby as his first love, and he's only playing this as a side gig.
35:29
SPEAKER_02: But look, it was a that that's a great win for Kalera Strandhill to be honest, and then with St.
35:33
SPEAKER_02: Mary's beating Tour de Strand, St.
35:35
SPEAKER_02: Mary's have a very strong junior team.
35:37
SPEAKER_02: Um, they have lots of guys that are involved with their senior team.
35:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and on Saturday evening they didn't lose any guys, and it could have been a game that uh Mark Bradley might have thrown in a couple of guys, and you would have lost them then for the junior, you know what I mean?
35:52
SPEAKER_02: But he didn't, and that that that result, you know, Torestran are missing a good few players that fair play to them for fulfilling the fixture because there was a lot of guys away at the weekend, and then with the fixtures this weekend, Trollestran against Kulera Strand Hill with the way the Kulera are to be honest, they'll probably beat Torestran there and give themselves you know, give themselves a fighting chance of you know just being a strong second team, if you know what I mean.
36:17
SPEAKER_01: Like they played, they played in the junior B final last year.
36:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they did, yeah, they won that junior B last year, you know.
36:23
SPEAKER_02: But like when you have a strong second team, it's it can only be good for your first team, you know.
36:27
SPEAKER_02: And then what Sam Aries and Omer Gales, Omer Gales, as we said, are rightly favourites for the junior championship.
36:34
SPEAKER_02: They have a very good strong panel, their division one league next year, which is senior league, which is a huge step up from junior championship.
36:41
SPEAKER_02: But again, they probably should be winning, they probably shouldn't be in junior championship.
36:44
SPEAKER_02: Let's be real about things here.
36:45
SPEAKER_02: But they are that's where they find themselves, and they're not going to have it easy in Skarden against St.
36:49
SPEAKER_02: Mary's on Sun Devon.
36:50
SPEAKER_02: They're definitely not like St.
36:51
SPEAKER_02: Mary's have no senior match this weekend.
36:53
SPEAKER_02: So any of the guys that are on the periphery of the senior pal get a run out.
36:57
SPEAKER_02: 21, 22, them kind of numbers.
37:00
SPEAKER_02: Put yourself in the shop window for Mark Bernie to see you and put your best.
37:04
SPEAKER_01: And like you're up against, as you said, a good team.
37:06
SPEAKER_01: Like you are going all out.
37:07
SPEAKER_01: There's no that's not a good game.
37:08
SPEAKER_02: Like so, so it'll be interesting to see how it's gonna be.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: And like the weekend pass is I'll probably get this wrong now.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: Is it 15 or 20 minutes?
37:21
SPEAKER_01: 15, 15, 15 minutes.
37:23
SPEAKER_01: All the games that weekend.
37:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like that's mental if you love your GEA like so.
37:26
SPEAKER_01: And there's plenty of games, depending where you're living.
37:27
SPEAKER_01: There's plenty of games in all sides of the county, you know what I mean?
37:29
SPEAKER_01: So wherever you live, there's one near you.
37:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh the group two, then uh St.
37:32
SPEAKER_01: Meloche Gales 213, uh, Eastern Harps 210, Shamrack Gales 12, Druncliffe Ross's point one nine.
37:38
SPEAKER_01: So that was obviously a draw.
37:39
SPEAKER_01: So that table then, Melosh Gales and St.
37:41
SPEAKER_01: John's are on four points apiece, Eastern Harps on two, and Shamrack Gales and Drumcliffe on a point apiece each.
37:47
SPEAKER_01: So again, all tight enough.
37:50
SPEAKER_01: Again, I mean look at Melosh and Johns at top.
37:52
SPEAKER_01: I mean, John's potentially people's fancies, but again, like Bart Fowler and the team there when he come in this year, I'd say after where they've been the last few years, it's kind of like a two-year project, nearly, I'd say.
38:01
SPEAKER_01: So it'd be interesting to see where they finish in this.
38:03
SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, and like I think the information that we have is that it's the top two in each group that's gonna go to the semi-finals.
38:11
SPEAKER_02: So you don't have the luxury of uh finishing third in the group and getting into a quarter final.
38:15
SPEAKER_02: So in order for St.
38:17
SPEAKER_02: John's to be getting into the top two, they're gonna have to beat Benoche Gales on Saturday evening.
38:21
SPEAKER_02: Saturday evening at five o'clock.
38:22
SPEAKER_02: Shamrock Gales.
38:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I again it's probably going to be no easy task.
38:26
SPEAKER_02: Um St.
38:26
SPEAKER_02: John's bet Drumcliffe on their last outing by a point, and we had mentioned that there was breeches galore left, right, and centre.
38:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
38:34
SPEAKER_02: Maybe, yeah.
38:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, and but this is you take your eye off the ball against a so-called second team, like this is Sam Alashgal's second team when it's your first team, no more than what happened with St.
38:44
SPEAKER_02: Michaels and Kaler, Strand Hill last weekend.
38:47
SPEAKER_02: That shouldn't result shouldn't be happening, but when it comes to this level, it can happen.
38:52
SPEAKER_01: Well, it can happen because you as you said, there's probably a bunch of lads, even if there's 20 on that panel, there's might be five or six of them bursting the gut to go.
38:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I want to get up in that topic.
39:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, I got like I know that Owen McHugh, who's coming back from injury, he played for St.
39:05
SPEAKER_02: Miloche's second team at the weekend.
39:07
SPEAKER_02: Um, so when you have that, the likes of the that caliber of player playing, it makes the St.
39:12
SPEAKER_02: Melosh Gale's second team an awful lot stronger.
39:15
SPEAKER_02: Do you know what I mean?
39:15
SPEAKER_02: And I'm sure there's a few others that are there that are probably knocking on the door of James Clancy saying, Well, we got bet by Drumcliffe by this.
39:22
SPEAKER_02: I'm playing this well for the second team.
39:25
SPEAKER_02: Why don't I get a chance for the first team?
39:28
SPEAKER_02: And no better place than to do it because Simulash Gales again have no first team game this weekend, so they're playing St.
39:34
SPEAKER_02: John's, and it's not going to be an easy task for St.
39:36
SPEAKER_02: John's on the flip side of that.
39:38
SPEAKER_02: Eastern Harps against Drunkliff Rosses Point.
39:40
SPEAKER_02: Again, Drunkliff Ross Point again have no first team game this weekend, even though the game is on Friday night.
39:47
SPEAKER_01: Or they had their first team we're playing, but they can rest lads, that's called.
39:50
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
39:51
SPEAKER_02: Eastern Harps they had a tough time in the league with their second team who was in Division 2 because they got promoted from Division Three last year and they ended up not playing in a couple of games.
40:01
SPEAKER_02: So they're doing very well to get a team out for this championship and fair play to them for doing it.
40:06
SPEAKER_02: And but I expect Drumcliffe to beat them on Friday night there.
40:09
SPEAKER_01: That's Friday night.
40:10
SPEAKER_01: Eastern Harps with Drumcliffe out in Kilcoyne Park and Truple Curry at 8 o'clock, and then Saturday evening, five o'clock, out in Shamrock Gales Park is Saint Milash Gales at St.
40:17
SPEAKER_01: John's.
40:18
SPEAKER_01: So so again, if like we have, we we we we could stay here talking all night, but um the junior B and Junior C, we've even done a little review of all of the stuff there on our social media for people who want to check in on that.
40:28
SPEAKER_01: Um and uh don't forget all the pictures, and hopefully we have everything right here.
40:33
SPEAKER_01: There's other if we've double checked them all, we think we're okay.
40:35
SPEAKER_01: But SligoG.e, of course, for your tickets, for your matches, for all your details, and Sligo GATV.ie for this weekend's uh live games.
40:42
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, so it's it's all bubbling up nicely, and I think this weekend now is really going to start giving us the right picture for that last weekend.
40:49
SPEAKER_02: It probably will, and like you you have uh guys there that are you know they're really showing up and they're really playing well, and you know, they're putting themselves forward as if saying like a few weeks ago, Drumcliffe, Ross's point, they're the kind of close men like it, like you touch back to last year against Kulera in the semi-final in Kent Park, they missed a couple of goal chances in the first half, which Kulera went down the field and ended up scoring then.
41:16
SPEAKER_02: So they weren't that far away.
41:17
SPEAKER_02: Kulera then went to the final and brought Shamrock Gales to a replay, probably should have won the game.
41:22
SPEAKER_02: The first day we were missing a penalty and stuff like that.
41:25
SPEAKER_02: So Drumcliffer probably going to be looking at okay, we iron out then for increases.
41:28
SPEAKER_02: We're now in a semi-final, we're back where we were last year, and let's fix a few things.
41:32
SPEAKER_02: On the flip side of that, Shamrack Gales, who people have been saying, okay, they're not where they were last year, they're you know, they seem to have come back to the pack.
41:40
SPEAKER_02: They went out, and the book's favourites over the weekend at the start of the weekend was St.
41:44
SPEAKER_02: Mary's, and they went out and more or less you know won comfortably against them.
41:49
SPEAKER_02: So that puts them right back in the mix.
41:51
SPEAKER_02: So, and over the next few weeks, it's going to be you know, there's gonna be a lot, a lot of ups and downs, and yeah, seeing when things end up.
41:57
SPEAKER_01: So we'll see an online.
41:57
SPEAKER_01: I get to see another.
41:59
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42:04
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42:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh our panel of judges.
42:29
SPEAKER_01: Uh I think we'll come up with a couple of names for that.
42:31
SPEAKER_01: Well, we'll go to the top scorer first, because I think that's a shoe in.
42:33
SPEAKER_01: Am I right in saying that?
42:34
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42:34
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42:42
SPEAKER_01: But uh, so the the top score this week in all the championships, if we have our match done right.
42:47
SPEAKER_02: We think we we think we have for the information that we have, yeah, yeah.
42:50
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, please correct us if we're wrong.
42:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Fola.
42:52
SPEAKER_01: Fola uh from the Fola, I'm d from Coulier Strand Hill.
42:56
SPEAKER_01: So he'll be getting uh the uh he'll be getting out to the lovely uh recovery session out there in Turbo Curry and see what happens.
43:02
SPEAKER_01: Um and then the panel of judges we narrowed it down to two, I believe.
43:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
43:07
SPEAKER_01: Now we're not gonna well like Fola obviously could be in there, but we said, well, he can't be giving the same person two minutes.
43:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, one or the other now.
43:12
SPEAKER_01: So we you know he could well have won that, but we're gonna say also then who is the other one.
43:16
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so the the guy that we mentioned was uh Adam Ryan from Drumcliff Ross's point, who had a a super routing, but it was a game that they won comfortably.
43:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and the other guy then that was in the mix was Kieran Kenny, they call him KK out there in the Shamrack Gales Club, who winged back for Shamrack Gales, who you know he set a marker down straight away at the start of the game, went outside of a left two-pointer from way downtown, which you know they didn't look back after that.
43:42
SPEAKER_02: And he had a superb out in the very first night against Eastern Harps.
43:46
SPEAKER_02: You were really impressed with him, and you know, he was very good again against Turstran.
43:50
SPEAKER_02: So he's a guy that's you know he's really really strong at the moment.
43:53
SPEAKER_02: And at the end of it, we kind of we decided to go with with Kieran Kenny for the player of the week for this week, which is sponsored by Sherlock's Butcher's out there.
44:01
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44:09
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44:15
SPEAKER_01: Well, Kieran or Kernsey, that's forty five minutes of chatting done there.
44:18
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44:20
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44:22
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44:27
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