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ROUND 5 Preview 2026 Sligo Club Football Championships · On The Edge Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to another episode of On the Edge Sports Podcast with myself, Brennan Turney, and my co-host Darren Kearns here.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: We are going to preview the final round of the Sligo Club Championship.
• 0:23
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• 0:25
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• 0:27
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• 0:56
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• 0:58
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• 1:00
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  SPEAKER_00: Good prizes there now.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: So, Darren, when we started this podcast, we said, sure, we don't know, but there'll be the interest in it.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'll just do a preview and we'll come back around the quarterfinals.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Well, how wrong were we?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: This weekend is lining up.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like we'll we'll we'll go with the juiciest one of all, in most people's opinions.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Eastern Harps versus St.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, and that's in Kilcoyne Park, five o'clock on Sunday.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: What a way to round off the weekend.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: And obviously, and again, if Brenda Tierney was here three months ago, he wouldn't have had a clue of any of these or what was going on.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: But like this, and I've been telling friends of mine to go, you've got to go, this will be a cracker.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I suppose the backdrop for anyone that wouldn't know Mary's with the favourites beginning of the championship.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Eastern Harps, they got to the league final, obviously.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: So you know, they're on the young young pretenders as such, really.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: And they've had a good championship.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, they they had a little mishap against Tor Lestran, who had a great game against them the last day.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: But where like neither of these teams thought was sorry, what we're trying to give the background to here is you would imagine, and we always say if you're good if the odds go right, which they don't go, you would expect Tor Lestran to be Trouble Curry in the other group game.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and if that happens, then whoever loses between Eastern Harps and Mary's goes into the relegation battle.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: So no one's seen that coming.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: And again, it may not happen, but it's more than likely what you would think.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's the pitfall pitfalls of it.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I suppose this is what you want when you get to crunch stage of the championship.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's it's do or die, like but the but the pitfalls are the relegation playoff, and that's where more than likely we can we can probably say, and that's absolutely no disrespect to Tuber Curry, where we're at at the moment, yeah, that Torestran probably will have a little bit too much for them.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's a local derby, of course it is, but they just the way that they're operating in the championship so far, and the way that Tuber have had their injuries so far in the season, and I think that they've just decided that I think we mentioned it before, that let's get ready for the relegation.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: So they still have a couple of injuries we're seeing.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: They do indeed, yeah.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: So they'll be looking at a couple of weeks down the line in a relegation playoff.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: So just the table, and again, courtesy.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: If you ever go by the weekend or Liam Maloney does a sensational job every week with everything, all every game so far.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: But just to remind everyone, this the group won uh Shamrock Gales are on six, St.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's are on four, Touristrand and St.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Harps are on three, and Trueba Curry on zero.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: So again, let's pretend Torestran do beat uh Tubber Curry, they go to five, bangs them up to five, yeah.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's one of the one of the other two can't get there, yeah.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: No, definitely not.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: So who do you think?
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, at the start of it, we had said that St.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's were favourites, and that was probably justified with the fact that they were after winning the Division I league.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: And they bet Eastern Herps in the Division One League final after extra time.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: They played each other in the last or in the in the league, you know, the groups of the league itself, and they kind of bet them comfortably enough in Kent Park, but at that stage, Eastern Herps were completely in bonus territory of nearly being guaranteed to be in a league final with the way that they hit the ground running throughout the start.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: This is my stupidity here.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Was that their first?
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Had they just come up to Division I or had they been there a couple of years Eastern First?
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: They're a couple of years there, they were finding their feet there for the last couple of years.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and again with championship, they're you know, this is they're they're there a couple of years now after winning an intermediate championship, and they're finding their feet in it.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: But Keith Cartier, new manager in Ross Dunman was managing them for a good few years there.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: Keith Carti came on board this year when Ross stepped aside, and you know, but they have an abundance of young players, and they have no real elder statesman, they have a couple of lads that are you know they're we'd say the wrong side of 30, whether that is the case or not.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: Standard and county, yeah, yeah, but but they have they have loads of fellas that was on the county under 20, they have a good few lads then that were in around the county senior setup as well, that you know, they're thereabouts, and they have lads that have no baggage or no you know qualms about playing any of these big teams.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like we seen it the first night that we were in Tupper Curry with playing the county champs in Shamrock Gales, which was a huge game for Eastern Harps, and by all accounts they probably should have won that evening.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: Shamrock Gales got a point late on to draw the game, but then you know they backed it up with a huge win against Tupper Curry.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: And did that give them a false dawn?
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: Only time is going to tell because they came out then the next week or two weeks later and they lost to Torlestran and brought them right back down to earth.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: So then St.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's on the flip side of that, they were after beating Tor Lestran and beating Tupper Curry in the opening two rounds of the championship, and not overly convincing to be honest, but we had said them early stages in the group were about winning the games and just getting the points on the board.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: They got their points on the board, and then they went and they played Shamark Gales, who probably really needed to win that game over Nina Scroan on a Saturday evening, and they got turned over by Shamar Gales that night.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: So then that brings them right back down to earth.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: So now they've had a couple of weeks off and they've had to rethink their ideas, and they're going to have to come up with a game plan to get across Harps on Sunday evening.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: Call it look at I I honestly I think that on paper we'll say nothing is won on paper, but on paper I just think that Simaries might have a little bit more firepower in the forward line.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, um, and look at we know that that harps have some very, very good forwards, you know, like Matt Henry is there, and he's really really he's been he's had a super championship, and you have Young Healy into the corner, you have Jim Malloy coming out, yeah, you know, and then they have half forwards that are bouncing through the middle, they have half backs that are getting up.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: Mulligan is getting up there, he clipped over four or five points the last day against Torres Strand from centre half back.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: So like they have runners from deep, but Samaris have the forwards, but whether Samaris can get their forwards clicking or not, that's what's going to be the tell and detail on Sunday evening because they have the players, Samaris, and everybody knows in the county that Samaris have the players, but for whatever reason they just can't seem to get across the line over the last couple of seasons.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: And it looked like they were getting a lot of stuff together, but league basis and league form goes out the window when championship starts.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's a completely different kettle of fish.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's exact same as inter-county, right?
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: It really is because in league football, you don't have your inter-county players for loads of the games, you mightn't even have your under 20 players for loads of the games.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: So you're playing other teams of the same stature that are missing their players as well.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: So basically, when you get into championship then and all these boys come back into your team, you have a completely different team and a completely different setup.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: So the two teams we're after having obviously last weekend was the electric picnic break.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I wonder how many of the players were.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: Was their lads away, or did they really get a buy-in to getting a good weekend's trend or a good two weeks trin and get back on the horse?
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: And like I've been talking to a good few people about this over the last week or ten days, and loads of people are really, really looking forward to this game, and it's you know, it's it's it's a crunch game, but this is what championship is about.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like the like winning games by double figures and you know, winning games or having games that don't matter and results don't matter, and that's why when Sligo GA brought in the quarterfinals this year for the first time in a long time, it meant that it was going to come down to the last game, whether a team ends up in relegation or ends up in a quarter final position.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: So this is where you want to be.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, cards on the table now, it's just going to see where they end up on Sunday evening.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I would I I can't really call it, I honestly can't call it, but I think that Samaris might have too much firepower, but it's how harps deal with Samaris' firepower.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's what is and getting the matchups right, and you know, do they tag certain players, you know, or do they leave fellas free and sit into a low block and try and invite on the pressure and hit Samaris on the break then?
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then Samaris on the other side are going to have to be thinking, okay, if we can nullify the presence of the likes of Matt Henry.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Matt Henry, not even from the scoreboard against Turtles Randok, he was assist and as I said, key passes all over the place.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: Tim Malloy was mopping up ball everywhere.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Tomos Tahney.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, from that game he came up and got a point from the book.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, he did, yeah.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like Adam Davy and goal there, you know what I mean?
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, super keeper, and like so, and even some great defence defenders around the box.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: So it's from again, and I'm coming in like the newbie, like just from watch what I've seen, and like I know Mary's have some really good young guys, some of them on the bench.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: So it'll be an interesting.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: Will it be a bit of a Mayo gun?
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: The young fresh, they don't care, no baggage, or will they seize up or not?
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: It can happen in IT.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: And that's gonna be that's gonna be the we'd say the conundrum that Marky B or Mark Barney, as people know, is gonna have that that what 15 he puts on the pitch, does he start with these young guns or does he leave them in reserve and try and finish the game off?
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um at that stage, is it is it gonna be too late in the game situation?
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: So you know it's the conundrum of getting and I said that St.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's probably don't know their best 15, and it can be a bit of a problem because when you have an abundance of players and you have loads of fellas, and I mentioned one of their best footballers, and he's one of the best footballers in Sligo, and he's just been plagued with injuries over the last few years.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Rodan Island Rodan Island, sorry, yeah.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: But Eli's back on the pitch the last few games, but Rodan hasn't played championship yet, and he'd be looking to get back into the mix this weekend.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: So if he was available and ready for selection, like if I'm the same areas manager, I'm putting him straight in.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and that good.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I he he's that good, and the pitfalls are that dangerous of losing the game or keeping a player like that in reserve and saying, Oh well, we'll see what he's like when we get to a quarter final stage.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is the last group game, you take your eye off the ball in this and you're in a relegation, and that's yeah, yeah, you have nothing else to worry about.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but again, uh as I said, even Turlustrand the last team whipped in ball all day, and it really troubled at times.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: But like the modern game, the rules doesn't favour defenses if it's if they're moving and the ball goes in fast.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: So maybe they'll have learned from that, it'll be interesting because they didn't particularly whip it in a lot themselves, they kind of worked it through more so and it's like the midfield battle is going to be crucial on Sunday evening because like both keepers will more than likely go long with an awful lot of their their kick outs, and and that's what's happening nowadays, really.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like like we'll we'll say that the it's the piggery in the middle of the field, it's the breaking ball, it's the want, it's the need, it's you know, it's like tactics go out the window when it becomes a we'll say a 50-50 situation like that.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's who's hungrier for the breaking ball.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: And again, you're looking at the weather here this week, like the conditions.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: If the weather is bad on Sunday, then you know, like a slippery ball, and you're going down, it's just going to become a complete and utter lottery when the ball goes out into that middle third.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: And you're going to have like you have Connor Walsh there, who's an excellent, excellent young player, Freestand Harps.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: David McGovern, who played midfield, he had a very good league final against these boys, you know, out in Tubercurry beforehand, and he you know he dug in and he he could like caught ball, but he got on loads of breaks as well.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like the likes of that is going to be crucial.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like you like, and that's where Mark Bernie has to decide: does he throw in a young gun there like a Connor Davy into the middle of the field and let him loose on breaking ball?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you come at a pace and you win that break, you could be gone 15-20 yards before a player can defensive player can get a hand on you, you know?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: So no, it'll it'll again, as you said, I don't think anyone can really call it.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: But that's five o'clock on Tubbercurry on Sunday evening, and it is actually live streamed.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I was delighted when Austin rang me the other day and said, Were you available to commentate?
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Oh, what a game to get to commentate.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Now you're you're you're going to be away in firstly, so I'm missing you again another game.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, but yeah, so it's live on Sligo GATV.e.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure it's an ocean of fame, all the details will be up in the street.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: And John Gamartin ref as well, like a very, very experienced ref.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, one of the you know, intercounty experience, and he doesn't take any crap off sidelines, off you know, off the players on the pitch.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: He tells you how it is, and he's one of these refs that kind of talks the players throughout the game.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, a lot will depend on him as well, how the players react to him.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like, there's there's going to be decisions in every game that we watch.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: A ref makes a harsh call or a wrong decision, or you feel that it's an unjust decision.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: You react to that in these modern rules.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Ball is brought forward 50 yards, it can be taken back out for a two-pointer.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: If you're having change in the beginning, if you're having wet conditions on Sunday evening, like free takers really, really can come into their own.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like you have Nathan and Eli Rooney, two super free takers there for St.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: You have young Healy there, like he clipped over a two-pointer there against Torres Stran the last day.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: You have Alan Davy that can come up and kick them as well.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: So them dead ball situations could become very, very crucial at the weekend.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: They're really good.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, I said it really that that's as we said.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Look, it is the tie the round, and as you said, look, Turbo Curry, Torres Stran.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: It'll be interesting.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: Look, Torres Stran on the up after the last day.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, it'll be interesting.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: Can they again going by what we said Iran, you would imagine they should have enough there.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: So like they're going to find themselves in quarterfinals.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: Now we'll go to the other group, which is uh Drumcliff, St.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: Malach Scales, Kalira, Eiskey, Kalani and Mulnabrina, and the state of play there.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Drumcliffe are on eight points, uh, Melasha on four, Kaliera three, Easky on one, and Kalani Mulnabrina on zero.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Baron, like, because the scoring differences is there are 40 points between is it Kalira and Easy?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: So Easy are playing um in Bunner Adam, they're playing Kalani Mulnabrina, and that's on which day is that one?
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: That is there, are they all Sunday?
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think that that's Sunday at two o'clock.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, two o'clock, sorry, no.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: Kalera and say Mulash Gales a Saturday evening out in Castle Conner.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: So Kaleira Mulash Gales, like Kalira go, okay, just don't get whacked.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and Easky would have to have a huge win.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: So let's pretend if the inevitable happens.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they'll have a win, but they won't be able to get averages.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta we've got to be real in this situation.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: And massive, massive kudos to Easky for pulling a huge result out of nowhere the last day against Kulera Strand Hill and getting their getting a point and you know getting some players back in the pitch.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: And regardless how their game goes, like like Kulani Mullabrina, who they're playing at the weekend, they're no bad team, they've put it up to Drumcliffe the last day, you know.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: So for that game, you know, obviously Eiskey have to win it by a monumental score and hope that Kulera get well bet on Saturday evening to St.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Miloche Gales.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: So they'll know what they'll have to do on Sunday.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: It become it could become a complete dead rubber if Kolera get a result on Saturday evening.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of course.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I mean?
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: So but with Kulera Strand Hill playing St.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Miloche Gales, it's two teams coming off the back of two very poor results.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: Call a spade a spade here.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like like St.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Miloche Gales got well beaten by Drunkliff Ross's point, who are obviously motoring very, very well and are super strong at the moment, have a super strong panel.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: But Milash Gales will feel that they really let themselves down that evening.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: We were commentating on it, and the game was over from a long way out.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: It really was.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: On the flip side of that, you had Killera Strandhill who you know they they were obviously they got better Dunkliffe Ross' Point in the first game by two points, but they were 11 down at one stage, they wouldn't have been happy with that.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: The turnaround then a couple of weeks later, and the bet Kurani Muller bringing out in Budnaden a comfortable enough victory, you know, like it like it was they always had them at arm's length, and they always kind of could do enough, and they ended up you know with Fola there playing and he scored a hat-trick and he got a few points, and then they didn't have Niall Murphy on the pitch.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: But then the last and then against Easky, you know, they were from all accounts, you know, they were at sixes and sevens against Easky, and it's one of those games that you know it's probably a lose-lose situation for Kalarston Hill.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: They go in thinking that right, okay, let's this is a huge, huge game, and you win it comfortably by double figures.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: You're no better than you were previously.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then the quarterfinals are the following weekend, so they're gone, and then you have of course Shamar Gales and Drumcliffe for top of both groups.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they've had no they had no game the last time.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh this this week in coming, I should say, you know.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: So like it's and they were they had a buy in the last group.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm saying.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: So they've had a right break like four weeks off.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but so Kulera and Sam Milash will both be looking to get back on the horse.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: And if Milash Gales have we'll say they have the two Luke's back, if Luke Towie, like uh like I presume he's gonna be back, he's been out for a long time at this stage, and now is the time that they're gonna need him because get him back on the pitch, because the difference between finishing second and third and the group can be huge because of who you get on the far side, because no, you you you just don't know who's gonna end up in second and third on on either group.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so there's a little bit of that coming into the games where you go, okay, well, they're both true more than likely, Malash and Kalero, but you're going, oh but hold on now, we don't want to fail.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: This is it, and again, you don't want to you you don't want to back up a bad result with another bad result.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: So and again, it's it's one of these things that there hasn't been a huge amount between them over the last few years, like you know, they played each other in county finals, there was only a kick of a ball in it, very close to say Milash Gales winning county championships, that it got away from them in the end.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: So they nearly had their number over a couple of times, but Clara Stranhill got across the line, so they know that if they bring their best foot forward, now with Niall Murphy getting back on the pitch against Easky, I'm sure he's gonna probably be hitting the ground from the starting fola.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: We did we did I don't know if we heard any news.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not 100% for that.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I presume I presume it's going to be a one-game suspension, so he'll be missing out at the weekend.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: So then you're gonna have to have Murph coming back into the equation, and you know, if he was playing, more than likely do Castle end up picking him up.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: There's your county guys marking each other again, which happened with uh Milash Gills against True Cliff and Castle come onto the field and he ended up marking Keel Alley, yeah.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so it's one of it's it's it's gonna be a topsy turvy game out in Castle Connor.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's a long distance for both, you know, both especially Milash, yeah.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: But on a Saturday a Saturday evening game.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: So again, I would think that if Kulera get their ducks in order and they get now, if Kevin Banks is back playing, I'm not sure what his injury was against Eisky, but you know, they don't have yes, they have loads of players, but they probably don't have the strength and depth that you might think they have for lads that were in county final double back-to-back county champions, lost the county final last year.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like they've lost Leo Daugherty, who that was a huge player for them over the last couple of years, but they have Ross Daugherty there, they've Mark McDaniel there, get Murphy back on the field, they have Sean Murphy back in defense, Sean Taylor is back fit again or very close to being fit, so he'll be itching to get on the on the field.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: Milash Gales on the flip side of that.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: We're talking about Luke Towie and Luke Castle coming back into it.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: Alan McLaughlin started the last day against Drumcliffe, and they have some good players all over the pitch, like Jung Lang there.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: We were impressed with him, he's a good ball winner, you know, and he shoots on site, but they're probably need to show up their defence a little bit.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: Well, teams are learning as they're going too, and they can go, we figure that out now.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: We figured this out, you know what I mean.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what I'm saying.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's up to the management team of James Clancy and and and the lads, Mark Quinn and Martin Feeney, down there in Malach Gales.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: Over the last couple of weeks, they're bound to have been putting a plan in place to right the wrongs.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: So again, call it very, very tight, but I I would I would be leaning more towards I'm I'm leaning more to Claire Stunthill, yeah.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: But as you said, even as you said, like Melosh with the lads back in, it's kind of well, it's a different animal.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: The game did turn a little bit, and then Alamed Locht was introduced, and Luke came on the last day.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you know it'll be it'll be a good battle to all over.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: And again, look as we said, East Key Culani, Mulderbrina, tough battle, but it's more than likely not going to have an effect on the I don't think so.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: So look at that's the senior uh and again uh Clear Stunthill, Melosh Gales is in St.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Bernard's Park in Castle Conner at seven o'clock on Saturday, and then Turbo Curry, Turlestran.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm sorry, my my little detail here is that one on that will all be on Sligo GA.e, anyways.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think that's it.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Turbo Curry and Turistran on Saturday?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Saturday evening.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Saturday evening, okay.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: So there we've got seven o'clock out in curry.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Kalani Mullerino play Easty on Sunday at two o'clock, and then as we said, Eastern Half Stars of St.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's the juiciest game of the weekend, in my opinion.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Kilcoin Park and Turbo Curry five o'clock on Sunday.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Killer, Killer and Similar Gales are streamed as well on the Saturday evening.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Saturday evening.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: So the two games are streamed.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: So like and Sligo G A T G A T V dotie will tell you all the fixtures and whatnot.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: And uh and if we keep the Sligo GA's socials, always tell us as well.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: What's on Ocean of M, what's on on um the stream.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: So before we're gonna we we told you at the beginning, just very quickly remind you, we're gonna have our midway all-stars now.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have a little quick chat, Darren, see who he's picked or who to go for.
• 21:28
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• 21:43
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• 21:48
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• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: So we've all of that for three lucky winners.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: So just remind them, all we want you to do wherever you're watching, just comment goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, forward.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: Just do those four.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's just a bit of crack and a bit of fun.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: And Darren, we'll have a quick look at who who where you think it's uh who would you be picking or who'd be in contentionless?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to fall out with anyone here.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: In goals here, uh, you went through your your books there.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: We've Alan Davy from Eastern Harps, uh, DJ Lines from Shamrack Gales, Keelan Hart from Calira, Dunico, Brian from Driff, and then an honourable mention for Ryan McAuley from Calani Mulnobrino.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: So can you who would you be leaning towards so far?
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: And again, this only being based based on the based on the matches that.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: That I've watched so far over the championship, I would lean towards Alan Davy, Friesen Harps.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think he's pulled off saves in all the games that we've been that I've seen.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and his kick outs have been very, very good as well.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: And he he's a right good keeper and has been a right good keeper for a good few years with them, and he's getting up the field and he's clipping over a few points as well.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, as I said, like DJ there with Shamrock Yales again against Torres Strand, he pulled off a huge save at a crucial, crucial time, and that went a long way to Shamak Gales getting a point against Torestrand that day, which if they didn't uh make that save, we've gonna be looking at a lot different huge, huge difference.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Keelan Hart there for Killer Strand Hill, he you know what a man to kick a two-pointer off the deck, or uh and he's well able to do it from play as well, and he's getting up the field, and he's been a top, top keeper with Killer over the last few years, and again this year.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: And then Dunico Brian from Drumcliffe, like talk about big shoes to fill the big papa darks who stepped away this year from Drumcliffe, who was minding the goals for them over the last few years.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Donica's come in and you know he hasn't looked out of place in any way, shape, or form.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Any of the games that we've seen.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now, don't get me wrong, he hasn't had a huge amount to do save-wise either, but anything he's been asked, he's come up with the goods, he really has.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: And for young Macaulay there for Colani Mulabrina, who didn't play a championship last year, he's clipped in with some super scores with a left foot there.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Great man off the deck.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think he was involved with Slag Rovers underage teams as well.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: So he definitely deserves a mention there as well.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: But for uh leaning towards the city.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: People might have other keeping up, of course.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: By the way, we're keeping this to the senior championship because we obviously haven't been able to watch loads of the championships, and again, it is a bit of fun.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: So pick it from your senior championship.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll quickly have a quick look at some defenders.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, very quickly here, you've you've kind of mentioned Rona Mulligan for Eastern Harps.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen him come up with some amazing scores of games.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Kieran Kenny from Shamrock Gales, Barry Walsh Trulestran, who was our player of the week there one week.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Reno Callahan from Drumcliff, Ushin Kennedy, Trulestran, Sean Carroll, Shamrock Gales, Tomos Tahan, Eastern Harps, Dylan Walsh, Eastern Harps, Ryan Fehley, St.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, Eamon Keene, Drumcliff, James Kiernan, Eastern Harps, and Carl McKenna, Shamrock Gales.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and again, even from again the games I've been watching, like Dylan Walsh there, Eastern Harps, just so solid in any game.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: I've watched him in James Kiernan.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm going up to Eastern, like he's all over the pitch and he's always available.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and and of course Barry Walsh was a sensation the last time.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: He was, yeah.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: The tallest man of winning high ball and everything.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, but again, there's loads of it.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: So there is who would you be like if you had to pick if you had to go towards three, and like no one's gonna fall out with you now with like uh like if it three hits.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: I I really I really don't know what to be.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Amy McKean, yeah.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: Eamon Keane.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I have great time for Eamon Keene there from Drumcliffe.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: I just think he's an excellent, excellent.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: And that game we commented and he was darting, yeah, yeah, and he's a man mountain, you know.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um very, very impressed with Reno Calla and Drumcliffe there as well, you know, teak tough corner back.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and watched him, and he's you know, watched him last year.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: He was, you know, he was I thought he was a good player, but this year I think he's just gone on another notch, you know.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: And again, very, very impressed with Kieran Kenny there, Shamrock Gales, left half back.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: He was our player of the week there a few weeks ago.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: There's been a few players of the week mentioned.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll just move on to uh midfielder.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: So you've kind of picked Eamon O'Mahani, Drumcliffe, Adrian McIntyre, Tor Lestran, Connor Walsh, Eastern Harps, Dylan McDermott, Shamrack Gales, David McGovern, St.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, and Sean Power, Drumcliff.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Again, there's plenty of notable ones there.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: There is, of course, and I'm sure people have other ideas on other players.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but as we said, it is a bit of fun.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: But like Adrian McIntyre for Tor Lestran, there, you know, elder statesman off the team.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: He's been there, he's been round the block, and in the few games that he's played in the championship this year that Torres Stran like Torestran are back in the quarter final, more than likely.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: Will, you know, like they're this looking like that, yeah.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: But from where they were to where they are now, a huge lot of it has to go down to McIntyre midfield because he just covers so much ground, he breaks up so much ball, and he's a huge leader.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: But he's always been a leader for Torestran, and he deserves massive credit for still being there, you know, because when there's fellas stepping away after the guys that have won all the senior championships, he's dug in there and he's given them a huge dig out, and he's worth his weight and gold.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like you know what I mean?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: He really is again there.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: Connor Walsh, the young pretender from Eastern Harps, you know, super under 20 player.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: I think he played wing back for Sligo under 20s, but he got he got in on the senior setup there.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure he's going to be with the seniors again for this year going forward, you know, for next year's National League and stuff like that.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: But he's a super young talent, he really is.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: And then you have McGovern, who I mentioned, there is you know, workhorse in the middle of the field for St.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: He puts in a huge shift when he's asked, comes up with some breaking balls when he's asked, and you have power there as well.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: And O'Mahani from Drumcliffe.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: Power is just one of these lads that just goes all over the place, doesn't like he probably doesn't even start midfielding some of the games, but that's where he's probably named.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: But and then O'Mahani, a couple of the games he's catching huge balls.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: He was massive for Sligo in their 20s as well.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: Huge man, and I'd love to see him playing for Sligo next year as well.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so it looks a bit ominous if everyone else when you have two two two drumcliffe.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: There's only one two that gets two mentions there for Drumcliffe.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: But again, it's just your quick trick or picks, I should say.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: It is, of course.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: Your choices, but uh yeah, no, as I said, you couldn't target.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, the section everyone loves to be uh watching is the forwards.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Matt Henry for Eastern Harps, Lee Daignan, Shamark Gales, Shane Digan, Shamark Gales, Keen Lally, Drumcliff, Michael Carroll, Drumcliff, uh, Fola Ayerindi, Koulira, Rost Darty, Koulira, Nathan Rooney St.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, Kyle Cauley, St.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, Johnny Kelly from Torlestran, uh, Cajal Henry Torlestran, and Jim Malloy Eastern Harps.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: Again, like I've seen Cajal Henry and Johnny Kelly the last game, like so some absolute brilliant score.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: And Cajal would have gotten player of the week for us as well another week, like Jim Malloy there.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I'm kind of chatting with the ones that I've seen.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, yeah.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, they like Nathan Rooney shooting the lights out there outside out against Tupper Curry that day.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so like, yeah, and well, like to me, Keen Lally, and I mean I haven't watched him before, and I remember watching the first game.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: I said he's now he don't get a big head, but I said he is every kind of uh way of playing like a David Clifford to me.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I've heard someone else mention that just the way he does it, and then we like Lee Dagdon got 111 one week.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: 111, yeah, sure.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: So like this, and I I have to say, Matt Henry, any game I've watched him, I just think he's such a good all-round player, and it's not just the score.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah, and then Fola, of course, you know, early game, maybe to get into it, then he got 3-3, and then of course last day he didn't get into it as much.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: So he deserves like if you score 3-3 in a game, you deserve a shot.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, you know, and and obviously Keen Lally has been unmarkable in the games he's played, really, to be honest.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: And Michael Carroll, there, a lad who probably wasn't named to start for Drumcliffe, but he started every game so far.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: But like he has huge scores kicked up.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um Lee Degnan won 11 the last day.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: Shane Degan came back into the full for Shamrack Gales, you know, missing the first two games, scored 1-4 against St.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's when he came back in, went a long way to winning the game for them.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he he scored 2-2 the last day as well.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: Right good player, and you know, there's there's probably lads that's left out of that, but obviously you can't pick up.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then obviously you have Nathan there for St.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's who has you know kicked huge scores.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: You have Kyle Cawley who went off with uh injury in the second game, but he had you know he's at halftime, wasn't it?
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and but he had played massive in the first game as well, kicked a goal and a few points.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: So and then you have Carl Henry for Tour de Strand, Man Mountain there at full forward.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like he like he kicked 1-6 in one of the games, he kicked some was it four or five points against Eastern Harps the last year, but some of the scores he was kicking, like he's kicking them over the shoulder from distance.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and people say, Well, the goals don't move, but you still have to kick them over the back.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you need to have that natural radar, like yeah.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: You do, of course, and then Jim Malloy, then obviously Eastern Harps, he's named a corner for it, but he's going on over the field and he's handling, like I would say, possession-wise, he's probably up there with the most and the highest touches he has, and right good player.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, and again, we're looking for people's opinions on this.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and we're not we're not saying this is like definitely just to remind everyone because there's no player of the week this week because there was no matches, there's no top scores this week.
• 30:09
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• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so we just said let's do the midway all-stars.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: So, again, just to remind you, just wherever you're watching this, comment underneath, it's just a bit of fun.
• 30:17
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• 30:20
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• 30:23
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• 30:29
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• 30:30
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• 30:35
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• 30:37
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• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: So that's just our little bit of fun in the middle.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're gonna just quickly go through then uh we've our intermediates and then all our junior championships.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so again, uh I have uh intermediate championships.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we've St.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: Pat's versus Bun and Adden.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's at the Sligo, it's in Scarden, I should say, at half four.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now, again, I'm sorry, my little uh sheet here has not put the right days and times.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you should probably know all the intermediate days, do you?
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's uh that's on Saturday afternoon, alright, yeah.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I've got to pull up, God bless you.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: Another three year old Sunday.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: All Sunday, okay.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Well then that'll make it easier.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: So Giva play Castle Connor in Torlestran at two o'clock, Colery play in Escroun uh in Kent Park at two o'clock, uh Balymot play Clunacool, and that's in Connolly Park at two o'clock.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the four intermediate championship fixtures.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: Again, uh where are we lying here?
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh in the in the intermediate to my own club, Giva, there.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um bit of a do-or die one.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Giva Castleconner shootout.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: Winner and Russia.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: Winner takes all losers in relegation, and that's the long and the short of it because you you know you have Curry sitting pretty at the top, you have Ballymote in second place, yeah, and you have Clunacool propping up the table.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: So if three doesn't go into four no matter what we look at it, do you know what I mean?
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Same setup as the senior.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's uh one team has gone through to the semi-finals.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: So Curry are definitely true, but in the second group, too.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'll just give the table quickly.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: Bon and Adner on six, Car Collery on four, and then the others St.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: Farnans, St.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: Pat's and Ennisground Rawl on two.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: So in that group, then you have, as we said, Bonin Adden versus St.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: Patz.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: So it's yeah, so so in in in that in obviously in in group two, it's you have St.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's and Enniscron that they both need to beat the top two in the group, we'll say.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: To have to make it anyways interesting or any mix-up happening.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Budnadden, after having a few weeks off because they didn't play in the last group game, of course, then they know that after this weekend they're already in a semi-final, so they have another two weeks off.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I would say that for St.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's that game is just going to be not what they wanted because I think Budnadden would be flexing their muscles and getting everybody on the field.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's not one of these games where they say, Oh, well, we'll rest fellas because we have a quarter final the following week.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: They don't.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: They have to get fellas on the field that haven't played in two weeks.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: They need to get fellas on the field because like it's very difficult to get challenge games this time of the year and competitive challenge games.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: So St.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's and to their credit, they haven't had a massive win over in a scroll on the last day, and they put up a big score against Colery St.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: Joseph's in the in the previous game.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: But I just think the Button Admiral have too much firepower.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: They have right good players all over the team, and they have Aidan Rooney managing them out there, who's getting a good gig out of them.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: He really is.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: And they probably have exceeded their own expectations at the moment that they're sitting pretty in a semi-final position.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: Don't get me wrong, they'll take it 100%.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: But that's where they're at in their other game.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Then in a scroner coming off the back of a very bad loss to St.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's there.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: In a scrown who were in the intermediate final last year, have really come back down there.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: Now they've missed, they have lots of players missing.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they really have Gavin Duffy is gone travelling.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: His younger brother Brian is, I think he's injured.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: Then they've had a younger brother again, Nile, who is free taken.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, they're probably a team that's you know, they're having a huge for a big enough area, they're probably having a huge panel of players, you know.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: So they're playing Colery St.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: Joseph's.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think Colery, like from the games that I've watched, I think that Colery might be one of the only teams capable or might have a chance of beating Curry, just from what I watched so far.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Colery have right good players throughout the field from number one right up to their corner forwards, you know.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: And we've gone through it before, like they have county statures all the way through their team.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, they have a good structure there.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Or um George Leach, I should say, coaching.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: Kelly manages to be a good thing.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, they have a strong structure there, right?
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: And they were playing Division Three League football, so it's a step up to go play an intermediate championship.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: It really is regardless of what anybody thinks.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because as as I mentioned, championship is a completely different ballgame to league football, and they were probably playing at a lesser level.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now they're finding their feet, they're finding their flow, they're getting fellas on the pitch.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I I would be pretty sure that they'll have too much in the tank for Inuscrown, which would leave it.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: They'll put Nad in their top callery or second, and then Farnans without kicking the ball at the way.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: They'll be sitting pretty going, Oh, we're in a quarterback.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: No, if Farnans be watching, they will be watching on and looking at the scores coming through, but I would just think that that's the way it's going to go.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_01: Then obviously, we have the other side of it there.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: Ballymote playing Clunakul.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: Clunakul are just, you know, they're they've obviously resigned to the fact that they're going to be in relegation playoff, and they're no more than Tupper Curry and the senior.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: They're probably just thinking, let's just get the group out of the way, forget about it, regardless what happens.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: Ballymote, it's a shot to nothing for them.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: They don't, you know, it's of no benefit to them to win it or anything, right?
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know, but obviously they don't want to be losing games, but they're putting their best foot forward.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: But it's a good game for Liam Mo Gorley to be playing because he can get game time into lads that were on the periphery of it or fellas that are coming back from injury.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: And then you go to the big one on Tour de Strand at two o'clock on Sunday with Giva Castleconnor, and I honestly can't call it.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_01: I watched Castle Connor two weeks ago against Ballymote in a game that they should have won.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: Then I watched Giva against Curry the following day.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: Curry kept him at arm's length for a long time.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: Giva probably disappointed with what they missed, but they scored nearly twice as much as they did the week before against Ballymote.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: So as long as they have everybody playing that's available and they have no injury worries, then it's going to be it's I I I really can't call it like it's it's you know, you have to get Castle Connor, you have to get your matchups right, you've got to get Carbine stopped, you've got to get Michael Sheridan stopped in the middle of the field, and then they have Rogan, who I mentioned before is a super full forward.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_01: So the matchups are going to be key in these games, and uh I'll you obviously wearing your heart, you're saying I hope Giva wins.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: I do, I do, of course.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, but I would just say if both both teams get their best players on the pitch, I just think it's a game that Giva should be winning.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: So that and that's that's the intermediate championship.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: And again, all those fixtures on over the weekend.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: And again, uh, I'm not sure if you go and check out Sligo GATV and Ocean FM for different broadcasts for different games.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we'll just quickly run through Junior A championship, and I'm going to now read this one off the paper because I have uh, as I said, I didn't make things right.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, in group one, round five, St.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's versus St.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: Michaels, that's in further Kevin Brightley Park in Cash at 4 p.m.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: on Saturday.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: And on group two, also non-Saturday, Eastern Harpspay St.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_00: John's, Oxfield Park at seven o'clock.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then on Sunday in group one, you have Tourlestrand versus Omer Gales at five o'clock in Shamrock Gales Park, and then in group two, you have St.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: Meloche Gales versus Shamrock Gales, and that's in Clunacool Community Park at five o'clock on Sunday.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: So again, like Johns, they had a game well wrapped up against Melosh Gales.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: Milash got like three goals in the last five or six minutes.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: And if I'm not mistaken, like I think it was Milosh's full forward, if his name escapes me right now, but I think he scored nearly everything, and then there was like number five, number six, and number eight or something, all got a goal.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: I might be slightly wrong with that, but it was just a rush of goals at the end.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: So Johns would probably have been sitting prettier only for that.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, them two games that you mentioned, St.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: John's and Eastern Harps and St.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's, St.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's their potential shootouts also because obviously the winner of Eastern Harps and St.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: John's go straight through to the semi-final, and that's regardless of anything like it's you know, in in in that group.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: So St.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: John's probably shouldn't be in the position they're in.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like we said it before, like you shouldn't be letting and it's no disrespect to second teams, it's not, but when you have a second team in a club drawn with the first team from the the other club basically, so the junior A is just the top two, it's just the top two.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yes, okay, okay, okay.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: So St.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: John's after you know the last couple of weeks again.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: That it's it's one of these things that Bart Fullen and the lads out there bound to have narrowed down a few things to say, right, this can't be happening.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: If we're ahead in this game, we gotta close out the game and not conceding goals because like conceding five goals in any game, no matter what level it's at, you know, manager gonna go home and say, Look at lads, you did okay with it.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: It shouldn't be happening.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: And at championship level, so Eastern Herp's obviously Saturday night down Drumcliff, they're gonna be coming all guns blazing for St.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: John, saying if we can get the win here, we'll put ourselves into a semi-final.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know?
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: And on the flip side of that, St.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's against St.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I like I think from all accounts, if St.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels were to win this, it goes into the little mini-league again that's against the two teams level.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's only the results with between those three that matters.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: So I've got to help the poor person doing the maths.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: But and say, but St.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's have a strong St.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's have a strong junior team, um, junior A team, and St.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels took their eye off the ball against Killer a few weeks ago and got pipped in that game, which is after putting them into this scenario.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: But as I said, like that's St.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's first team playing St.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's second team.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_01: So but I I would just with the way that St.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels are going, I would I would think that St.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's might edge that one on Saturday evening.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that's Saturday evening for the Kevin Brehney Park.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so uh and then so just the Eastern Harps St.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: John's, as we've talked about Trole Stran, Old More Gales.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's Trordestran, obviously, haven't got any points, and yeah, Ownmar is sitting pretty and yeah, favourites of the championship, rightly.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: Favourites of the championship.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I only realized in the week they were playing Division 2 and won it.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so I like it'll be an interesting junior A championship, see where it pans out.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so yeah, so look, I will quickly just tell everyone the the junior B championship matches uh and the some of these fixtures weren't even out by the time we'd done our graphic now, but St.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: Farnans play Bally Motor on Towers, and that's in St.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_00: Farnans Community Park at seven o'clock.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to guess them, sorry, no, but I think that's on Saturday evening.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, I think it I think these are Friday.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Friday, you are right.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Friday.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Again, the all the all the dates weren't there.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no more games play Kulani Mullerina.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: Again, just go to Slidewood GA.e if you want to make sure.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's in Connolly Park at seven o'clock.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: So those two you're sure are Friday.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then the Junior C championship, and these are quarterfinals.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, junior B is semi-finals and junior C is the quarterfinals.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: And again, it's Trubur Curry versus Collery and East Key versus Castle Connor.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: And again, when we start to make it the graphic, they could be updated since, but they're they're on there.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: So so look at we're getting to the as they say, the real business end of the championship now.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we've made your predictions, um, and again, we have our midway all stars.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm dying to see this game on Sunday.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm really excited to go and commentate it.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: As I said, you'll be watching from afar, no doubt, yeah, or on a plane or wherever.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but yeah, so look, we'll we'll we'll roll on, see what happens, and then we'll be back next week to go now the the quarterfinals and yeah, but there's gonna be a couple of teams.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: But this is credit to Sligo GA for bringing in the quarterfinals because the last group games over the last few years have come down to complete irrelevance.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: They really have in a lot of cases because the thing was done before the last group games, and it just meant it to be a farce.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now you're looking at the jeopardy of what's happening, lose your last group game, you go into a relegation playoff, and that might be only after losing one game, like you know.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's they're that they're the pitfalls, and so be it.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's what championship football is about.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like you look at what's happening up in the likes of Tyrone, it's knockout, it always is knockout.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: One game, knockout, you're gone, your season is over.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so you're getting a group stage in Sligo, now you're bringing it down to the last group game, and teams are in with a fighting chance of getting to a quarter final.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_01: So if you can't win your last group game and get to a quarter final, then you have no earning to be there.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: You have no right to be there.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:30
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• 41:31
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• 41:34
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• 41:41
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• 41:46
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• 42:06
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