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Round 4 of the 2026 Sligo Club Football Championships · On The Edge Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome back to another episode of On the Edge Sports Podcast with myself, Brendan Turney, and my co-host here, Darren Kearns.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: We are going to review round four of the Sligo Senior Club Championships.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: And Darren, it's been another dinger of a weekend.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: I know you didn't get to many yourself now, but uh let's get straight in as we always like to do group one results in the Sligo Senior Championship.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Eastern Harps 19 points, Tour Lestran 117.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Tuber Curry 4-7, Shamrock Gales 632.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: That leaves the table.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Shamrock Gales on six, St.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's on four, Tour Lestran three, Eastern Harps three, and Tubbercurry on no points so far.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: And that means that Shamrock Gales are through to the semi-finals.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we'll go to the fixtures in a minute because there's a couple of juicy ones coming up there.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, so Eastern Harps and Touristran, I know you were away.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: Did you get to watch it back or Anthony?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I watched a good bit of a background.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I was live commentating on it, and again, everyone going into that was saying, Well, you'd expect Eastern Harps to win that.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: And Torestran, as we said, it's in the DNA.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: They don't know how to give up.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: Like the pride.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: Fantastic game.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: Write them off at your peril.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: And by all accounts, uh it was a merited victory.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it was a titanic battle, like it, like it was like it was going up and down the field.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_02: They were level a number of times.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and I'm sure you commentating and oh well, I one thing again, as I say, I'm I'm I'm kind of the new to know that I keep saying the new toy.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: For me, watching like the full forward line, uh, Cohal Fleming, uh Matthew Walsh, and Cochle Henry, yeah, just always showing for the ball.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and Truthran, especially in the first half, like it was in, fired it in all the time, and it came off loads of times.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: And even as I was commentating, I could see uh Cohal Fleming, I'm still learning all the names, shouting.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I said it, the next thing it's just so funny that he went in and it kind of he fumbled it, but then soccer style goal, yeah.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I mean that was a big swing at that point, but like near the end, then it was uh oh my god, now I'm after forgetting he's turned it.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: The sub Kennedy, wasn't it?
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: Ream Kennedy with an absolute score, monster score.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_02: You knew the minute it left the boost from way downtown.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Now, look at it, it's uh it's it's one of these things that but Nat and Pitch plays a little bit smaller, it's a little bit, you know, it's tighter, it's a real tight ground.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_02: And for a game of that magnitude, like it, you know, the crowd was in on top of you, like even like I suppose when you were commentating along with Willie Gormley, like it was like you know, you're right in the mix of it.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_02: We're out there, you're actually two steps up behind the crowd, like because just the way the facility's out there, and uh and then Tour Lestran, obviously Reyn Kennedy comes off the bench and like he's an excellent free taker, always has been, right?
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_02: But he absolutely nails one from distance for a two-pointer, and heps get up the field and they get a chance themselves, and it's blocked down, and then it breaks back out, and then they go for a two-pointer at the end when they probably didn't really need to go for it.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: Jim Malloy at that point, and fairness, he wasn't far off.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I suppose it was just a bravery to go for it.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was um uh Mr.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: Healy, corner forward.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Aaron, God, he at one point it was like just near the end, it was like, oh, this is opening up for a goal, and then they just Torestran kind of came back, and then he just took his point.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, look at it up and down and some good scores.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_02: It's that performance in Torestrana, that win for Torestran, you know, has been has been coming really.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like, because if you look at it, like they really put Samaris to the pin of the collar in the opening game.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: Like Samaris came out and top by four points, but they actually scored 312 in that game, which is you know, that's great clipping in a senior championship match.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: And then the game against Shermack Gales, they definitely would feel aggrieved that they didn't get the two points on that day with a breach.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_02: There was a minute a goal, and then from after the goal, they got caught for a breach, and it was a tap over point, and they got but they got their point on that.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_02: And then the last day against Eastern Harps, if they had lost the game, you know, they would have been thinking, you know, oh, here we go again.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_02: And like even Johnny Kelly said it in his interview with you afterwards, you know, he was like there was a couple of scores that left behind them, there was a couple of goal chances that left behind them.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_02: But look at it, it's a merited win, it really is.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_02: And Eastern Harps were coming off the back of a huge win themselves, you know, and with them big wins in championship football, it you can you know it can bring you into a false dawn, really, because you probably think you're a little bit better than you are, you're not as bad as you you thought you were either.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, you know, it's a real level on playing ground, and then the pitch out in Budden Adden brings it into a real leveller, also because the team that you know, like a team of Eastern Harps who they have pace all over the pitch and they have runners all over the pitch, all of a sudden the space that is in a bigger pitch, like a Tuber Curry or even a Mark Fitch Parker, even in a scroll, the likes of Budden Adden and Ballymott, they played that a little bit smaller, so the space just isn't there.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: So Torres Strand were able to just really soak up the pressure, and you know, for kick outs alone, like there was loads of kick outs went long on the day, and it's breaking ball at that stage, and like breaking ball, an awful lot of breaking ball is heart and desire, it's not so much tactics because tactics go out the window when it's a 50-50 when it's a battle, you know.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_02: Of course it is, and like you go back to the McGeanie famous quote that the piggery in the middle of the field, and that's just want.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_02: Like if you like coming up with a breaking ball and that, and Torres Strahan had it in spades the last day, and good luck to them, you know.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: None more so than Barry Walsh, of course not, yeah.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: And when he caught one of the last kickouts of the game as well, and he isn't well from where I was, he doesn't look like the tallest man in the pitch I know.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: No, definitely not, but like he's had a great championship so far.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he really has, you know, and you know, like and the like there was a couple of you mentioned the guys in the full forward lane, but Col Henry, who was our player of the week a few weeks ago, like he he nailed a couple of super scores, you know, over the right shoulder.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_02: Tom Bailey, isn't it?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: Tom Bailey, yeah.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: I love the way he played it.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think was it uh Barry Walter, someone who was like a decoy for him or something, and he kind of dinked the defender one way and goes, I'm gonna make my space, and then he pinged over the two.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he did, yeah.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_02: And again, there's football in Tom Bailey.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_02: There really is, you know, county under 21 under 20 from a couple of years ago.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_02: And but like they've got players all over the field tourist round, they really have, and just the last couple of years, they were they're probably finding their feet with losing some of the guys that were there when they were winning the six and seven in a row, okay?
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: And these guys have they've stepped up to the plate, and you know, there's probably make no bones about it, they're going to be in a championship quarterfinal, and they're going to take a bit of beating.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_02: They really are.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: I was talking to you the other day.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: Was that God?
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: If you look at the list of teams there, they could probably, I mean, they weren't far off Mary's.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: They should have beaten Shamrogess.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: So there's no one can take them for granted.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_02: No, definitely not.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I look, I know, like again, we're only going on what maybe the bookies might put it.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you well, we'll get to the games in a moment that they are playing uh Tuber Curry.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: Look, we'll just go straight to it.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: They played Tuber Curry now the last game, uh Saturday, Saturday, the 5th of September, 7 o'clock out in Curry.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: And then on Sunday evening, Eastern Harps play St.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's, and that's in Tubercurry at five o'clock on the Sunday.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: That we'll get to that one in a second, but Tubber and Torestran, like people are saying to me, look at there's rivalry, there's neighbours.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: Tubbercurry won't want to be the ones to let us right now.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: But they still are they still have those couple of injuries, yeah.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_02: They have it, they have a long, long list of injuries, Tubercurry.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_02: And I would say that they have decided themselves, and it's absolutely no disrespect to them, they've just probably said, Okay, the group stage just let's park it and let's look at the relegation battle from now and let's play that as a little mini championship because uh I'd say in a week or ten days' time that that that game is just going to come too soon for loads of them players.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_02: And we give a mention out to young Connor McDonough there, who we had earmarked as being a very good footballer who kicked two two-pointers against the Mary's.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: I heard during the week that he's done his crucial ligament.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_02: So another victim of that dreaded injury.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_02: So best wishes to him.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, and I'm sure he was earmarked for a role for Slidewonder 20s next year because he is that good, and it's just one of these things that it seems to be affecting a lot of players nowadays, and it's a horrible injury, but you know, hopefully guys come back better and better.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, that's the only can do at the moment, isn't it?
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, very tough.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: But then Torestran will probably be just looking at it and iron out a few creases after the last day, and they probably will have a little bit too much of Tobra.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_02: Now you're talking about pride, like that there's a rivalry there between Tobra and Torestran, there really is, and of course, Tobra aren't going to just roll over.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: Torestran will have their have to have their ducks in order to get the two points, but I would fully expect them to do it, and by getting them two points is going to put them into a senior championship quarter final.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: And again, it's only up the road, it's in Curry, so I expect and like the emotion and the celebration to Torestran fans, there was probably a little bit of oh well no, we weren't fully.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, like that's that's that's probably a little bit of um what's been wound up inside, and you know, like people talking them down or people not saying giving them the respect that and for the last couple of seasons when they've ended up in relegation, you know, that's a tough place to be after you're coming off so many championships in a row.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_02: And to get back to the we'll say, you know, dining at the big table with the bigger boys at the at the moment, that's where they're.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they'll definitely have a battle.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: I definitely seen that the last day.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and again, look at it, it was it was an absolute ding-dong battle.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: And again, I've said this a few times.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_02: And credit T and Herbs as well.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like they played their part in the like I was saying, Matt Henry.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Again, uh, I forget exactly what he scored, but but like the amount of six points on the night key key passes he will create.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't always assists, showing for the ball, he got pass men, he's laid off a pass.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: He's a superman to show, and again, you're looking at like probably the the night that we were commentating out against Shaw McGills, he probably played as the lone forward up there in the full forward line.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: And the last day he came out as more of a quarterback role, but he probably had to come that a little bit deeper to get on a bit of ball the last day.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: But he doesn't mind doing that, he's well able to do that because like he's super strong as well, like you know, and but they uh again, Eastern Harps are good players all over the field.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_02: I was really impressed with Ronan Mulligan at six there.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: I think did he clip over a two-pointer and two ones as well, four or five points he ends up with?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and they're midfield guys, big and strong, and then James Kearnan keeps running Dylan Wall.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: These boys Connor Walsh, isn't it?
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: Working, working, working, and uh and Jim Malloy, he was way out the pitch, and he was a big thing.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_02: Thomas Tanney got up for a great score there in the second half as well.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: And again, Alan Davy and the goals pulled off a few great saves as well, you know, because he is a he is a top goalkeeper and he got up the field himself and got nailed.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: Was it a 45 or a two-point three nail just before half times?
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_02: I think I think it was a 45 that Adrian McIntyre nearly caught above the crossbar.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: But again, you know, when you have a keeper coming up the field and it's doing that, it's worth sweating gold also because like you know, let's you need him coming up and doing that, and again, you know, he's he's a top class keeper, he really is.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_02: But Eastern Herps were gonna touch on the fixture there against St.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's there.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: The Sunday, the 6th September.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: I was talking to a bunch of lads yesterday, and they mightn't be that deeply involved in the SlideGoad Championship.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: I said, lads, that's actually worth going out to get out, get a bus together, get out there.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be an absolute ding done.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because that is I two weeks a week ago, no one would have probably predicted that one of these teams is going to end up in relegation.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: There's no permutations, is a Bar Treble Curry win, of course.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: But let's pretend we assume, let's say, going by what the odds are, not necessarily our opinion, but Turletan might win that one.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Then it's whoever leaves.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like a a draw will do St.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Eastern Harps have to win to get to a quarter final.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_02: So it's basically the loser is going to end up in the relegation battle, and not where any of the teams wanted to be, and not where anybody envisaged that these teams would be a couple of weeks ago.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_02: Really not.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Now, back to Tupper Curry, where they played each other in the league final, which went to extra time, and St.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's came out the right side of the result on that one, only only by a kick of a ball or a little bit more.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: But again, it's like it's a huge, huge game, and this is what challenges football is about, and this is what you want.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: Eastern Harps probably got brought back down to earth a little bit the last day by could be messing in disguise in one sense.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they had that big win with with uh with Turber Curry, so now it's like okay, maybe we're you know, yeah, that's what I mean.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like, but they definitely the squad is there from what I've seen.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_02: And St.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's on the flip side of that, they were you know they had beaten Turber Curry and beaten Tor de Strand, and then they got their eyes opened against Shermack Gales out in a scroll a couple of weeks ago.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_02: Now, also I will mention on that is the Jeopardy situation where you know when you're after winning two games and you go into the third game, it probably meant more for Shermack Gales to win that game against St.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's that night than it did for St.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's, but take nothing away from what St.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's needs to do, they're gonna have to have everything in order to get across the line against Eastern Harris.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_02: Because if they take their eye off the ball on this one, they're gonna find themselves in a relegation battle.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: And again, look at like a few weeks ago, they were they were the bookies' favourites for the for the championship.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, who would have seen it coming?
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, and just going back to the well, obviously Shamrack Gales are finished now, they don't have another game to play.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, again, like just to just to quickly note their game, like 6-32.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like, was it Lee Dagnan got 111?
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: 111 series.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: Unbelievable.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: And is Shane back?
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: Shane Shane Shane is back, yeah.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: He he scored 2-2.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: So like it's all tricking out the right time for them, maybe the wrong time for others, but like that was a real ruthless bit of a it was, and again, look at it.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: You you you have to feel a little bit sorry for Tuber Curry because you know, a team like Shamrack Gales, when they get a run on you like that, they don't let up and they just punish every little small mistake.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: And if you're not firing all cylinders, they are gonna punish you.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: And obviously, we mentioned Lee Degan clipping in, but like there was loads of loads of guys there, like David Quinn again, who you know got the.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: How many scores did they have in the end?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: It was I remember reading this somewhere is the shame it's 12 different scores or something.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: So 50 points in a championship game.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: I know the new rules lead to a lot of that, but I'm not sure if 50 points have been scored in a championship game before, you know.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's long time since I've seen that score line.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: And like there through the semi-finals, as I will move on to group two now.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: Drumcliffe, drumcliffe uh again, these two teams now have a like a four-week layoff till the semi-finals.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: So it'll be intriguing to see when they come back.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: And Drumcliff, from the team sheet I've seen from Ozrand, they seem to play quite a strong team there against Kalani Mulli.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give the results.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: Kalani Mulnerbrina 113, Drumcliff Ross's point 120, and Kalera Strandhill 15 points, East Key 112.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll just go to the Drumcliffe game.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Kept a lot of the big players out.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: They did rest Key and Lally in one game.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I Key and Lally started the last evening, um, came off at halftime.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um Kalani Mulnerbrina really stuck it to them because you know they're they're not a bad team, and we had mentioned that on a few occasions.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: They have good players throughout the field, like you know.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um but Drumcliff again, like it's it's one of those games, it's a it's it's a funny game to be playing because you know you're in a semi-final, you don't want to take any risks, and if you're having been playing, you want to get in the shop window for Adrian McParton to be seeing you, and again, Michael Carroll there, who we mentioned before, he clipped another two-pointer, and I think he got did he end up with four or five points.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: But they needed a late goal just to put that little bit of cushion between them.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: Mulderbrina really stuck into the pin of their collar.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_02: We give Ryan McCauley in goals for Kulani Mulderbrina a shout as well.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_02: I think he got four or five points again the last night, which he did the previous week against Kulera.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_02: I think we might have overlooked that as well.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_02: He's getting up and nailed them, and he even up to last year when they won the intermediate championship, he wasn't playing in goals.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, McDonough was playing in goals, who was a good free taking in his own right.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: But McCauley has come in and he's clipping over a few points with his left foot there.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_02: But Mulabrina stuck at their task, but Drumcliff probably just done enough.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like they're just like I would say they're probably worthy favourites at the moment where they're at because they seem to be clipping along nicely, they they have a nice rhythm to what they're playing, and the these few weeks off, is it going to be a hindrance or a help?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: Only time is going to tell.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's very hard to gauge, but like I said, they probably are like, we don't want to rest them for five weeks, so that's why everyone seemed to get their and there's such a huge panel there as well.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: They have loads of they are from the games I've seen, it's like they don't let up.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: No, and like key notes there coming back into the panel.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_02: So key keynote a few years ago was earmarked as a top quality corner forward in Sliga football, and he got I think he got a bad injury or two bad injuries or something like that.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_02: But he came back and he got the goal the last night.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: He came on that evening and out against St.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: Malach Gales up in Palimotte, and he's a right good player, and he's trying to put his best foot forward to get on that starting team.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_02: It's no easy task.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: And for a management team, you want them headaches because the worst thing that you can have is picking your team straight off the bat and having no options, whereas now they have options and they have firepower all over the field.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: So, but look at credit to Mulderbrina, and unfortunately, like they're in the relegation battle, and when you get into a relegation battle, no matter what level it's at, it's a very hard place to get out of.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: But that was that was that was a good performance by the performance and Easky again with Drew with Kalira, like Easky are you know in that relegation battle as well.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but like every weekend there's some shock, and I mean again going by the bookies never heard like you would have expected.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think you'd be no one thing you were daft to say, well, Kalira should win that.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, it was it was nailed on.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_02: And like we mentioned here a few weeks ago that I was talking to a couple of Eiskey boys who had told me that they were decimated with injuries, and they got a few boys back the last day, okay, and the two boys that main boys that have back was Ross Line and Mikey Gordon.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so I'm not a hundred percent sure what the story is with Mikey Gordon, but I know he has been in Australia and he came back last week.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_02: And I hope, well, for Esky's sake, that he's back for good, and even for Sligo Gesek, because he's an intercounty footballer, but there's two intercounty footballers that you're putting back into your team.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: Well, they get some lift from that, and I like from what I heard is that Mikey came back and he played a junior C game on Friday evening for his club, probably to you know, just to shake off the cobwebs.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's just like what was that junior C result?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: 4-8 to 2-9.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so yeah, you know, but like he came back in and like from all accounts he had a massive outing, like he was in the middle of the field, he was up and down the field, he is a huge engine, so he has.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: And Rossa getting back on the pitch, Rossa got a goal just after half time for them, Rossa Sloine.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: Rossa is a super footballer, but he is absolutely hampered by injuries and hamstrings, and uh he he's really struggling to get back on the pitch.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: But when he's on the pitch, there's not many better than them.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: And from what I had heard, he was in around the Sligo senior setup last year, and I had heard from guys that was in around the mix that he was ready to make the step up to intercounty football straight out of under 20, which is you know yourself, like we're looking for for fellas in Sligo football to do that and to be able to make an impact because it is a big step up, but you physically he's well able to do it, and he's a super footballer as well.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_02: And seeing him back on the pitch the last day for Easky, and that just gives the whole of Easy's team a huge, huge lift because they have good footballers, like they have Rory McHugh at six, they have Joe McHugh's brother at eleven, you know, they have Big Jack Scott there.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: I think he's captain of the team.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_02: Like he I think he nailed the equaliser late on.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: You know, and Koller Strandhill were missing Kevin Banks, and Kevin Banks is one of Koller's top performers over the last years.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_02: Like, for as long as I can remember, he's been there playing in the middle of the park, and I don't know many games that he has missed through injury, so I'm not sure what the injury is.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_02: But Koller went down to 14 men also, and in the new game with the new rules, when you're missing a player, when you go down to 14 men, it gives the opposition a real fighting chance, and no better team than Eiskey to take it with two hands, you know, and they really pushed Koller to the pin of their collar, and Barrio Manny stepped up to the plate, he kicked a two-pointer late on to give them the lead.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_02: And you're probably thinking that they might that might get them across the line.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_02: But Easy came back down the field and they got their equaliser.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: And from what I heard, when the ref blew it up, Easy were on the attack.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: Now, again, if time is up, time is up.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: That would have made it very interesting, you know, because more often than not, like that's that that is blown up, but that draw probably does enough for Kalera to get them through to the quarterfinal.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: I know mathematically there's there can be a huge, huge swing.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they'd have to do that.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: You know, if they were to lose their last game and Easky were to win theirs, but there's just I think the swing is just too much at the moment.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: There was uh just in that game, like two things like Calera did get a man sent off in the second half, and also Niall Murphy rebounded and got a point.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: He got a point, yeah.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's a little kind of yeah, a little extra.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_02: I would say I would say from Kuler Strand Hills thinking they didn't want to be playing him last Sunday, it was probably a little bit too soon.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_02: But if needs must, and he's probably itching to get back in the field because he he, you know, when you're uh forward of Murph's capabilities, you want to be playing football, and there's nothing worse than not being able to play.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: And I'd say he was like, Well, John Mack probably asked him, You ready to go here?
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: And he's like, in we go, you know, and he looked sharp.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_02: And I think you know, he got a point and got dispossessed for another one, but they got it back on the field, and I tell you what, they really need him on the field because whether there's going to be suspensions or not out of red cards, that's not for us to decide.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: But they're down the line, they're playing you're going to go through the fixtures now in a couple of weeks.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: So again, Saturday, the 5th of September, this is group two now.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: Kalira Strandhill will play Malosh Gales at St.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: Brendan's GA Park, that's 7 o'clock on the Saturday evening, and then on the Sunday afternoon, Kalani Mulnobrino play Easky at 2 o'clock in Bun and Adden Community Park.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: And again, as we were saying, Byron a massive, massive win.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Don't really know about Easy afternoon.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: But like that looks like it's a relegation.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: But again, I keep Kalera and Malosh.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: Now, as you said, they're playing for second and third by the looks of things.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: But I suppose it'll be an interesting one to go how much they'll go for that going, does it matter second or third?
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_02: This is it, and they're both teams are going to be weighing it up.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_02: And obviously, Malosh coming off a bad defeat there a couple of weeks ago to Drumcliffe.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_02: And Kulera coming off.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_02: We'll we'll call it a bad, a bad result against Eisky, you know, like they well from their expectations.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, definitely.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: But both teams will be looking at thinking that getting into second place will probably give you an easier quarterfinal.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: Whether it will or it won't, only time will tell on that.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: So I'd say both teams will be going gung-ho.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, both uh game out in Castle Conner.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: Again, we mentioned that Drumcliff long distance out in a scroll last week.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so these two teams have have a good uh distance to travel on the Saturday evening.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: But again, look at it's gonna be a game that call it, and uh if you nail your colours to the mast, there's a good chance that you're gonna there's gonna be an upset because there's nobody can call the game.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: We did see Milash with a couple of lads back, Luke Casterly and um Alan McLaughlin.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm sure Luke Taway is going to be back for this game as well.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think I seen him out of that match that day.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: Am I right in that?
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: So like some of you said weren't sure as he home with.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: So, like there's another addition.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: So you're planning for Melash, like oh well, hold on, Alzheimer's, they did lose, but they're the things are starting to slot into place with them.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it's going to be interesting.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: And again.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: Kulera if they'll another couple of weeks training, like it's probably they're probably looking at okay, it's a good job we're not out next week, no more than what happened with Milash and St.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_02: We said last week, it's good job that they weren't playing this weekend, just gone.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_02: Because when you have a result that you know takes the wind out of your sails, you need that week to you know recover and set your stall out and get things get your ducks in order.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, so that's what that's what we're looking at.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: But also just to touch on something that I heard during the week, and it I it's not a hundred percent confirmed, but it's the two teams that have won the groups, Shamrack Gales and Trump Cliff, who are both into the semi-finals.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_02: What I heard was that it's going to be an open draw for the semi-finals, which means that they could potentially play each other.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: So it's which is that right?
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: Is it wrong?
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's like you know, in most competitions in any sport, you go, Well, you're trying to keep this.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so what they're trying to do, I think, is avoid repeat pairings from the group stages.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: So but again, it's the top team that's you know, if you're Drumcliffe Ross Point and you're after winning four games out of four in your group, and you turn around, then you get drawn against the county champions in the semi-final.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: Is it fair?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: Is it just you know, Shamrack Gales on the flip side of that?
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_02: They'll be looking at the informed team in the championship as Drumcliff Ross's point.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_02: Let's try and avoid them in the semi-final at all costs.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: But from what I hear, it's it's it's going to be an open draw, and anybody can get anybody.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_02: So it's just an interesting fact.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see what happens.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and again, they've done the fixtures there, so you can get to a few games as well.
• 23:43
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• 23:48
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• 23:50
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• 23:53
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• 23:57
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• 24:00
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• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Intermediate, Darren.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: This is down your side of the world there.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we'll just go through the group run results.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Last Friday, Ballymote uh beat uh Castle Connor 316 to 21 points, and then on uh Sunday, Giva 16 points, Curry 119.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Curry again flying full, full, full bar, all the points I should say, uh full full house.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and that leaves that table Curry on eight points, Ballymote on four, Castleconnor and Giva on two, and Clunacool uh no no points.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now again, uh it can be very hard as we know to get all the details and reports and scores of all these games, but you know, what was your hearing on the two games very briefly?
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_02: So uh I was I was at the Ballymote Castleconnor match on Friday night out in Scarden, and as expected, it was a cracking match.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: I had said it on the pod last week that uh you were sending it to be and I I I would say coming away from it, um Castle Connor will be sick that they didn't win the game.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know, they were in the driving seat, they were six or seven points up with I was looking at the clock, and it was it was the time was going rapidly on Ballymoad, and I couldn't see a way back into the game how they were going to get out of it, but they got a very good goal, and straight after that goal, Castle Connor coughed up possession again and left a man, Jack Hever, inside on his own.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_02: The ball was put over the top, and he finished with a plumb to the net, and they didn't look back after that.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_02: Now it was just it was a cracking game, it was end-to-end.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: Like there was Ballymote hit the ground running in the first ten minutes.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_02: They were they they blitzed them through their defence.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_02: But Castle Connor, the big Michael Sheridan in the middle of the field, really got to grips, got his hands on loads of ball, and then obviously that man then Sean Carabine, you know, he got he got a couple of super scores, but they have a super full forward in Stephen Rogan as well, who was you know played for Slygowner 22 years ago.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_02: He was in college up in DCU, but he's an excellent forward, he really is, and he's a live wire in there, and he got on loads of ball, he caused Ballymo's full back line loads and loads of trouble, and it was you know it was tight enough at halftime, but then Castle Connor just kicked on and they kicked a couple of super scores in the second half, and they went four, five, six, seven up.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_02: But Ballymoch of their credit came back, and Liam O'Gormley on the sideline, you know, the management team deserved a bit of credit because they were losing the ball in the middle third, they couldn't get their hands on the ball, and Castle Connor were having it at their ease from both both kick outs.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_02: And they brought on a big big raft, Michael Rafftri brought him into the middle of the field and he just smashed ball left, right, and centre and gave them a foothold for the last 10-15 minutes.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_02: And look at it, it went right down to the wire for the last few minutes.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: Castle Connor put Sean Carbide in on the edge of the square and launched a couple of high balls into him, and right at the end, they they had a sniff of a goal chance, which you know would have brought the game level, but it didn't happen.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_02: And Ballimot then, you know, they they got they got their win, which assures them a place in the quarterfinal.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_02: On the flip side of that, then you had Giva against Curry on Sunday, my own club.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I had said the Curry are worthy favourites for the championship, and nothing has changed on Sunday.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like Marin watch every week, yeah.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like exactly, you know, he kicked uh again, he kicked six or seven points again on Sunday, you know, but he had a hand in loads of other scores also, he was a real handful.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_02: But like Alan Riley, who I mentioned on the pod last week, he had a super out in as well.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_02: But give it to their credit, you know, they had a bad performance, or not so much a bad performance against Ballimoto week before, but they only scored one eight.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, on Sunday there they scored 16 points, but they created an awful lot more chances than they put on the score sheet.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_02: You know, they left a lot behind them.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_02: I would say if they had got closer, that Curry would have been able to kick on and get another couple of scores because they seem to have a little bit left in reserve, and their county player Tommy Ross didn't play.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, he has picked up an injury, but I'm sure that he's going to be back for the knockout stages.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_02: But again, look at it, it comes down to Giva Castleconnor shootout.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: We just got the fixes very quickly.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: So Sunday, the 6th September, two o'clock in Tour Lestran, it's Giva versus Castle Connor, and then Sunday the 6th.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, same time, same day, uh, but in Connolly Park, uh, Ballymote will play at Clunacool.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: So Ballymote are through.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: Clunacool are bottom.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: But there's still I'm just looking at the table here, that they're only two points behind Give and Castle Connor.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_02: So But both of them would have a head on head to head.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: So that's for that.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a shootout, so for that thing.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: It is, yeah.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_02: So it's it's a playoff between Give and Castle Connor.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_02: So um and again, I can't I can't call and I was I was impressed with Castle Connor.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_02: I was on Friday night.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um gave a bit of work to do to get across the line, but it's that's what you want for championship football.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_02: Like you, it's you know, it's knockout at this stage, it really is.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_02: And that's the that's that's what you're if if you want to get to the latter stage of the championship, you need them games in the group, and that's what the group, when Sligo GA were deciding that we'll put a quarter final into it, that's the kind of a game that you want.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_02: That the last game is real high stakes, and winner takes all winner goes into county quarterfinal, loser goes into a relegation playoff.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: And you told me that you're offering uh Sean Caribine two free tickets to actually play this weekend.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_02: He can go where he wants, yeah.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: So the victor break is what they call it now at the moment.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, so yeah, so that's another just like that weekend is a ding-dong.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's definitely the weekend to buy your 15 euro pass.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: All the games if you're a real GA fan.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: Just quickly get into group two, uh Caldery St.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: Joseph's 3.14, St.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: Farnans 113.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh on last Sunday, then St.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's 120, Inascron Killed Glass 211.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: So that group then is Bun and Adden on six, Collery on four, St.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: Farnans on two, St.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's on two, and Inascron Killed Glass on two, and the fixtures in it's Cauley versus uh Inascron.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: So that's yeah, that's all to play for the next group, and St.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Pat's play Bun and Adden.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: So the only team with uh Farnens are finished in their their groups game.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: So who's who are you looking at there?
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a tight.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's you you look at that group, right?
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_02: And Budnadden are true, okay.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_02: They're in the semi-final as such, okay.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_02: And again, Colery gonna pick up second place, and then it goes into Farn and St.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_02: Pat's in a scroll.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_02: And Colery got their win over St.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_02: Farn's the last day.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_02: I said they would do enough to get across the line.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_02: They're you know, they're finding their feet at this level, and again, with their game against Innescrown the next day, it's a game that Inescron have to win if they're gonna have any chance of getting to a quarter final.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_02: I can't see how with what the performance that they had against St.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: Pat's the last day that it's going to do anything against Colery the next day.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_02: I could be wrong, but I just think Collery will have a little bit too much strength and depth for them.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_02: Super win for St.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_02: Pat's over their neighbours in a scroll.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_02: Again, I said it last week that I wouldn't be surprised to hear the St.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_02: Pat's are winning it, whereas in a scroll were probably slight favourites.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_02: But after the performance the week before, the Pat's put up against Colery St.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_02: Joseph's, you know, they put up a big performance, they put up a big score, and again they didn't rest on their Laurels and they hit in a scroll on the last day and got their win across them.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_02: So it sets it up that St.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_02: Fernans are sitting with all their games played with one win.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_02: But Nadin end up playing St.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_02: Pat's and Colery end up playing in a scroll, and St.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_02: Fernandes could end up getting to a quarter final with one win.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: I know, it'd be mad, wouldn't you?
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: And and that but that it that's the fun of that championship.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: The structure's really good, and I don't want junior ways.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_02: I had I had people saying to me, you know, that's not right, and how is that right that they only get through one win?
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's just the way it is.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, if if if any of the other teams aren't fit to get past them, then fairness aren't to blame for that situation.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_02: So I would expect Bud Nad and Callery both to win their respective games, which would leave Fairness, it goes into a mini-league, and because all of them when it's level on points, it's only the games between those three teams.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: It goes into that.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_02: That's something I'd never done before, but because they've all kind of bet each other in that, then I think it comes down to the score difference, and it's it's it's it's a crazy situation because uh for Sligo Gia when they're doing the fixtures and doing the permutations, I don't think they envisage that this could actually happen, and there's a possibility that's going to happen in a week or ten days' time.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_02: So the calculators are going to have to be out on the applicants as well.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Even I was commentating, I was getting a full text of all the breakdown if Turistran win, it's like, oh god, yeah.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_02: No, I I I think by all accounts that if the results go as expected.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_02: Now, don't get me wrong, St.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_02: Pat's and Inascron are going to have uh have a say in what happens.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_02: Like Bud Nad are sitting there in a semi-final already.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_02: What team did they put out?
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know if this is it?
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_02: And a couple play into St.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: Pat's hands and In a Scroan, you know, coming off the back of a bad loss to their neighbours the last day.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_02: Again, after being intermediate mediate final last year, they're going to be thinking, Oh, like let's try and get back to the drawing board here, let's try and put our best foot forward.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_02: But time will tell on that, and I would think that it might be St.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: Farance that might just sneak that last quarter final spot without having kicked the ball.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: Well, just to quickly finish up here, uh, the Sligo Junior A championship, uh, group one results St.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's 114, Owen More Gales 217, and then on Saturday, Tour Lestran uh lost to Kalira 113 to 116.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: That leaves that group Owen Morgan, who again uh oh, they have one more, yeah, they have a game left.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sorry, they're on top of six, St.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's and Kalira on four, St.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels on two, and Torestran, no points so far.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: And the fixtures in the next round there in that group is St.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's versus St.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: So let me just see, see ya.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: So there's uh Yeah, I think there's Permit.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: I think there's a June Ray is only the top two, though.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_02: Top two, yes.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and then the third team are kind of they get this there's and then the bottom two go into relegation.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Trollestran play Owen Moore Gales then on Sunday the sixth, and that's out in Shamrock Gales Park.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: So the first game is uh Saturday at four o'clock, Mary's and St.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's in Father Kevin Bretony Park.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: So again, you know, there's a this is there anyone definitely.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sorry.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely true, and Turlestraner definitely can't get up into the second place.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_01: Again, we don't have all the exact scores to hand to know Omer Games.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_02: No, so we're we're not 100% sure on that, but I know that St.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's Omer Gales, you know, flex their muscles.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_02: St.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's were in the game for a long time.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_02: They got a black card late on, they had a goal chance when there was only three points in it, which they missed, and Omer Gales were down the field and rattled a goal themselves to put a bit of daylight between the two teams.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_02: It brings it down to the last group games because I had thought that St.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_02: Michaels were out of it after having lost to Kalera Strand Hill.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_02: But from what I hear is that it again this could come down to the little mini league because if St.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: Michaels were to beat St.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's, then you have three teams end up on four points.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_02: So after St.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's beating Kulera, Kolera beating St.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_02: Michaels, does it come down to the number all these results?
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_02: I think it comes down to the score difference on that again.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_02: But look at it again, it's one of them teams is fighting for the second place, and you're gonna go into group two on the group two, and I think we might actually have for our first time ever, we might have a little we're missing a game maybe here, are we?
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: Or is that incorrect?
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, there's only one game listed in our thing we came up with, so that's my my error uh Milash Gales 5-9, St.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: John's 3 15.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and apologies, I don't know.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go to the I was at that game.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh look at I play a bit of ball with J Johns, we don't have to watch them, and uh it was a ding-dong battle, I'll have to say that.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: And like, I mean, you hear people say no more games all through that seem to be the favourites.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, St.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: John's.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of good young players in that team, and they were well ahead at different times in the game.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: And maybe maybe it's that youthful exuberance or exuberance or naivety, maybe at the end.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: I think there was like three goals in the last, I could be small but wrong, it was six or seven minutes.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: The last there was three goals going into injury time.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and maybe that's look, as as as the boys out there say, it's a two-year project there.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: So, I mean they've got the nucleus back there in that first team.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but it'll be interesting to see now.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: And their their next game is not uh so sorry, Malosh Gales and St.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_01: Johns are both on five, uh, Eastern Harps on four, and Shamrock Gales and Drumcliffe uh one game or one point apiece.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: So Drumcliff have they finished their game.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: So the next games are Eastern Harps versus St.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_01: John's.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's Eastern Harps in two ding-dong battles that weekend, their seniors and their junior A, and that's in Oxfield Park on Saturday, the 5th of September, at seven o'clock in the evening.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: And then on the Sunday, Malosh Gales will play Shamrock Gales, and that's in Clunacool Community Park at five o'clock.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: So again, uh everything to play for in that group, especially for those top two precious spots.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_02: It's like credit to say Melosh Gales, that's their you know their second team.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I I had said that with their senior team being off last weekend, it was good given an opportunity to some guys that are on the periphery of the senior team or senior panel to you know show themselves or show James Clancy and the manager team and Melosh Gales.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_02: Well, look at if I can do this for the second team and the first team aren't firing all cylinders, then give me a chance at it.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: And but for St.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_02: John's, you know, like absolutely no disrespect to Melash Gales, but that like they shouldn't be getting a result against the first team of St.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_02: John's, whether it's a two-year project or not.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_02: So St.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_02: John's have put themselves under a bit of pressure now because that game against Eastern Harps is a playoff as such.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_02: You know, no more so than what we're seeing with Giva Casakonner.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_02: It brings the jeopardy of the situation into it.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_02: Eastern Harps take a point or beat St.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_02: John's and put St.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_02: John's out of the championship.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_02: So it's going to be one of those games, and again, it sets Eastern Harps weekend up something serious because like they have that on Saturday night for their second team, and then they have their first team going in on Sunday against St.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's in another playoff.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_02: So it could be a huge week for weekend for Eastern Harps Club.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_02: And Milash Gales, you know, like 5'9 is fair going as well.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's it's it's very good clipping.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_02: And they're playing Shamark Gales' second team, who you know say Malash will probably take that win, and then that'll put them through as group winners.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_02: So that'll mean then that they'll avoid or will they not avoid Omer Gales in the semi-finals because if it's going to be an open draw in the senior and intermediate, there's a good chance that it should be an open draw in the junior, also.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_01: So the other group game result, sorry, we just had missed it there, was Eastern Harps.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, Eastern Harps uh 3-10 to Drumcliffe seven points.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_01: So that's that's just what's happened there.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so yeah, and sorry about that.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_02: We just obviously enough at Eastern Harps having three games played, yeah, had won the two games.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: So and and again, like uh the it's look at it's another ding-dong championship there, as we're saying.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_01: By all accounts, it was people talked about Own More Gales, and maybe John's kind of clipping up, but now Milash have really come into it.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: Eastern Harps could come into it, so another another great uh finale to that group.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, again, anyone that's listened to all of these, we we have all these on our social media.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: The junior B and Junior C.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I'll just quickly go through them.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Ballymote uh had a walkover over St.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's, uh Ownmore Gales 2-7, Curry, eight points, uh St.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: John's uh one seven to Kalani 213.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: I ended up coming on in that one.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was funny, and it's the first in my life I was ever asked in the middle of a game.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you were the lad from the podcast, so that doesn't happen in junior B matches all the time.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: But Kalani, the easy winners over the end there.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so the junior big uh Kalani on six points uh in group one, Balymot on four, St.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: John's on two, and Mary's on none.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: So this is just two top two go through, and then in the second group, St.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: Farnans are on two, O'Noor Gales on two, and Curry on two.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I honestly I don't know when the next round's a fixture so that they're not there.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure it'll all be up there.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_01: And very quickly, Junior Castle Connor 9-11, St.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: Path's three points, Easky 4-8, St.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels 2-9, Malosh Gales had a walkover over Trubber Curry, and that there's three groups there.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um Malosh Tabber Gales and Colby are top of the table.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know how they work out the second places, but I'm sure that'll all be revealed on Sligo GA.e in the coming weeks.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_01: So uh just before we go, Darren, um we have our well, our player of the week, okay, in association with Sherlock's Butchers and Ballastadere, and then we're going to try and find our top score in association with Sweat Happens.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_01: But we we well our our panelists of judges have come up with three names that we've seen.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: And again, we are limited sometimes in reports and news.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: So please don't be afraid to comment and tell us more news.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_02: But your three the three players the panel came up with I should say are so you know, like obviously we're getting second-hand information, and you know, when you when you don't get as many games as you need to over the weekend or you want to over the weekend for whatever reason, but there's three guys that we earmarked, and it's Barry Walsh and Torestran, who had a massive out and and you know, without him, they wouldn't be where they are, and probably sitting pretty getting into a quarter final.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_02: We had Lee Degnan, who kicked 1-11, like 1-11 a serious clip, and regardless of what the team scored themselves for Shamrack Gales, you know, top-class player probably wasn't at the standards where he set for himself over the first couple of games, but you know, really came back into it the last day.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_02: And then we had the Aussie himself making the return, Mikey Gordon, Fariski, because you know, like they were complete, complete underdogs, okay?
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_02: And he makes his return, and then all of a sudden they get a result against you know one of the kingpins of Sligo G over the last few years.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_02: And like interesting enough, he that they got him back from Australia for the relegation last year, and you know, he went a long way to keeping them up at senior football.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_02: So now he's back, and he's gonna have to do the same again.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_02: But them three guys are the three that and what we're going to do this week is uh maybe tonight or tomorrow on our Instagram we'll have a vote.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_01: This is all a bit of fun, just whoever wins it wins it.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they all played well, and we're sure there's more other performers of course than Hero, but this is look at we're just enjoying ourselves talking about the championship, having a bit of fun.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll have a vote, and then on Thursday we'll announce that.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: And then the top score, as far as we can tell, if you're watching, please tell us uh we haven't heard of anyone beyond that.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_02: Even throughout the intermediate and junior, if there's anybody that clipped over more than that, yeah, we don't see.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_02: But somebody probably knows of somebody that kicked whatever they did.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_02: We'll be waiting for the reports to come out and the the the local papers over the next couple of days, and we'll see that.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll fairness champion and the weekender do unbelievable detailed analysis.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you're ever not sure the scores get go there as well.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm just got some great reports in there.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_01: So before we go, uh we have the odds at the moment, because it's always enjoyable to see.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_01: So at the moment, Shamrock Gales are nine to four, drumcliffe are nine to four.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: The bookies can't call that.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_01: St.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's not favourites anymore now, three to one, uh, Kaleira nine to two, Malosh Gales sixes, uh, Eastern Harps eight, and Turestrand tens.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_01: So who did you call in the first day?
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: I I had said uh in the crack.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_02: I said Kolera Strand Hill, yeah.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_01: Say Kolera, okay.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's that's not that dead in the water.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember who I would have.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: Sure, I wouldn't have had a clue.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't have said Anthony.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh right now, and again, anyone watching, we're just yeah, well, from from all from all the football that I've seen over the last three or four weeks so far, I would just say Drum Cliff Ross's point, are worthy favourites at the moment, just with the way they're ticking over nicely.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_02: But there's a couple of teams waiting in the wings there.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like we had said, the Sharma Kales weren't at the peak of their performance over the last over the first couple of games.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_02: Over the last couple of games, they've really flexed their muscles.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_02: St.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's, who were lots of people's favourites, including the bookies, at the very start of the championship or close to it, have dropped back a level or two.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_02: Can they get back up to the pitch of it?
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_02: Again, only time will tell.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_02: And then you have we'll call it the you know, the guys that are are it the bridesmaids at the moment, you know.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, Malash, Eastern Harps, and Trellistran.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: And as I was saying, God, on their day, any of those three could take.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_01: And then the book's odds like Trulestran wouldn't have been up near there a few weeks or two ago.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_01: They're going to come back.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_01: Again, look, I mean, it was one game I watched to witness, but they have some decent results throughout the championship.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and again, their pomp could be up now, the confidence could be up.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, over the next over the next couple of weeks.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_01: They might get who knows, they may not win it, but they might get on further than we maybe first predicted.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_01: But for my watching, and again, we're all having a bit of laugh and a bit of crack here.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Drumcliffe, massive squad.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_01: They're so driven any of the games I've seen them, and there's loads of talent all over the pitch from backs to forwards.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: So if I if you told me I had to pick someone, I'd be kind of leaning that way at the moment.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_01: But as I said, it's been an amazing championship so far.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_01: And as I said, next week we're going to pick our uh we're gonna call it the halftime because it's gonna be halftime of the championship within all-stars.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_01: So we will put that out on our social media.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_01: So all we're looking for is a goalie, a defender, midfielder, and a forward.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: So if you just put in your four nominations, just tell us the player and the club, and we'll have a bit of fun with it.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_01: And we're just gonna keep it to the senior because it'd be too much paperwork trying to move through.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: So again, the in the senior championship, if you're watching this now, you can drop us a comment, you can send us a DM, drop us an email, whatever works, and we'll have a bit of fun with that, and then we'll have a little vote next week, and then we'll give out our half-pack.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it'll be interesting just to see people's opinions on and like obviously there's there's the crowds are probably up, I would imagine, because any of the games that I've been at, and I'm sure it's the same with yourself, there seems to be big crowds following the games, and there seems to be a big interest in it.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_02: And I would be sure that there'd be you know, obviously, the heart is always with your own club, but there's definitely guys and you know supporters out there and people that are following what we're doing here that will have an opinion on opposition players also that you know that are you know keeping teams in games or they're putting over big scores or whatever it may be.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, just get involved and and and we love the crack.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's like as I said, this is like us down the coffee shop or down the pub having a chat about it.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, input back into us and have a chat and a bit of crack.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_01: And again, I must say, thankfully, there's been nothing negative, or no one's gonna get too angry because this is you know, as we said, it is a hobby, it's a bit of fun.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so look at Darren, we'll be back next week.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: We'll have a bit of a preview of the um last round of games.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'll do our halftime all-stars, we'll start getting the nominees in there, and we're gonna have our competition where we're gonna be giving away a few nice goodies for that last weekend of the group games as well.
• 46:32
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• 46:41
  SPEAKER_01: And uh we will be back next.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it would be recording next Tuesday, so it'll hopefully be out Tuesday night, Wednesday morning.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for watching.
• 46:47
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• 46:53
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• 46:56
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• 46:58
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• 46:59
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• 47:00
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• 47:02
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