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SLIGO CLUB C'SHIPS SEMI FINALS PREVIEW! · On The Edge Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: Hello and welcome to On the Edge Sports Podcast with myself, Brendan Tierney and Darren Kearns on Co-Commentary, nearly as we say every weekend, but this is co-podcasting.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we're going straight into the Sligo Club Championship semi-finals.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have a good look at the senior, we'll dip into the intermediate and the junior A as well.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_03: Darren, big one.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_03: We're uh we're privileged that we're going to be able to commentate on Sunday, half one in Markfitch Park, St.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_03: Mary's Drumcliff Ross Point.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_03: I think I just say as well, on behalf of everyone, fair play to the CCCC.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone is wondering would there be games in market?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: I think everyone is definitely excited by this.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_03: Back on that lovely new page stadium.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it'll be buzzing there on Sunday.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: So where is this one going to be won and lost?
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_03: Whew.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: This is uh here's the there's the question of in all the games we can do momentum because Drumcliff have been off, is it four or five weeks?
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: Four weeks, yeah.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: And St.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_03: Mary's have been trudging and dogging their way through and finding finding momentum and finding players off the bench that have grown into themselves.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_03: So so where Yeah, you're right, you're you're you're you're right in that.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like that that's the million-dollar question, you know.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um, is it a hindrance or a helping off for four weeks?
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh my personal opinion, I would say it's more of a hindrance because I would sooner be playing games, and I'm sure Adrian McPartland and his management team, you know, it's a long time to fill.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: It really is, you know, like you probably take a week off, maybe, or a weekend off, and you let the lads do what they want, or a bit of team bonding, or something like that, and then you gotta knuckle down, and then you gotta watch the quarterfinals last weekend, and then you know, it's there's a lot of time to fill there, nearly too much time.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's hard mentally to go, I don't know where I'm at now, because it's four weeks and because you know, you you you know, in your you're trying to peak at the right time, and you're trying to, you know, you don't want fellas to get too high, you don't want to get them too relaxed.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it's that's you know, it's the conundrum of a of a management team, it really is.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: Where's it gonna be won and lost?
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: Like, there's an awful lot of matchups have to be got right.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: Like you have, you know, you have top forwards on both sides.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_02: Both sides, yeah.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_02: You really do, and who's gonna pick up who?
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like, it's for Mark Bernie and Adrian Partland, you know, they're it's gonna be they're gonna be watching each other's moves, they're gonna be seeing who's lining up where, who's gonna be ending up marking who, you know, like obviously, you know, we've talked about it, the likes of Nathan Rooney and the likes of Eli Rooney and Kyle Cawley, more than likely going to be the full forward line for Samarys.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_02: So then you have you know, Rena Callahan, Eamon Keane, you know, who do they pick up?
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: Eamon Keane, more so a half back, but has played full back for Drumcliffe in most of the championship games that we've seen so far this year.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_02: You know, does he go does he stay there?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Well, he tore off up the pitch, man.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_02: You know, does he stick or twist?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know, does Ross Chambers come back into the equation for Drumcliffe Ross's point and pick up one of them corner forwards, you know?
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_02: On the flip side of that, you go right down to the far end.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: And what we have witnessed when we were on CoCom's out in Ballymote that we've seen that they put the Twin Towers into the full forward line with Paula Brian and the Key and Lally, you know, like I mean, again, the games I've seen Keenan Lally.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: You know, stop them at your peril and real like for St.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's, then they're like, okay, so they have we'll say Fiona Hare, top, top performer, and has been in every game that we've seen for St.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's and wears his heart in his sleeve and goes, you know, dogging out for every single ball.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_02: But there's a huge mismatch there if he goes in on one of them.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_02: Now he would relish the challenge.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_03: Don't get me wrong, we've seen him with Fola last weekend.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_03: There was a massive mismatch, but involved in a tall.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: And like not to forget, like we keep talking about Scottie Lynch as well, but like Ryan Feely, we nearly forget about him.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there's three of the most tires defenders I've seen.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_02: I would say I would say that Ryan is going to end up.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_02: I I would put Ryan on Keane Laddie.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I would do.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: I would put him on him and I would let him try and fight and harry and hassle with him from the get-go and just see where it ends up.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_02: And if he lasts 20 minutes, he lasts 20 minutes, if he lasts 40 minutes, he's you know, because Ryan is a Ryan is a dog of a player, but he's a tank of a man, like you know, and like physically he'd probably able for it, height-wise, might be lacking in that department a little bit, but like like Keen Lally, an awful lot of the ball he wins isn't up in the air, you know, it's out in front, these big long arms, and you know, an awful lot of what Kean does is when he gets the ball, it's game over because he just goes in the most direct line for the goal.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_02: And if you need somebody there that's able to match him physically, and then you're gonna have to, if you stop him up for a split second, you're gonna have to get the the likes of the Scotty Lynches, the likes of Patty Brady, any of these boys coming in and helping you out and hope that you get done for a bit of steps or overcarrying or something like that, and then you go into the middle third, the piggery area of the game, and you have like David McGovern who's dogging it out there for Sam Aries in the middle of the park, then Eamon O'Mahony there for Drumcliff, you know, full of running, huge man.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_02: You know, is McGovern going to have the legs firm?
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_02: You have Sean Power there on the other side, who usually ends up playing midfield for Drumcliffe, who just doesn't stop running when the whistle goes, he just takes off and he goes everywhere on the pitch.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so there's the conundrums for the management teams.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_02: You know, try and get your matchups right.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_02: The two wingbacks from Drumcliff and Broughton Ballymode.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: Never stopped.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: You know, Stephen Stephen Regan and Key McBride, like you know, and they just and and and again you you look on the flip side of that, you look at Gerda Kelly Lynch at Robert Kelly Lynch, Robert is an excellent footballer, breaks the line, knows where the posts are, probably doesn't do it enough in games.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm sure Mark Bernie and his manager team be wanting him to do it more and more and more because for a halfback in the modern game now, you need him clipping up with a couple of scores.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: But don't get me wrong, Fionn got up for a score the last day.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um Robert got up for two or three himself, Jared is well able to get up there and get a point, you know.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: So but you need these guys chipping in with these scores, you really do.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I would say an awful lot of it's gonna come down to you know like how the other team nullifies the presence of so what's happening nowadays is most often than not, if you can win your own kick out, you're getting a shot away, or you're getting a scoring chance away.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_02: So there's no point saying that oh, we're gonna win all the kickouts, or we're gonna win our own fair share of kick outs.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's not gonna happen, right?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_02: So be honest, be saying, right, we're gonna lose X amount of kick outs.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: Let's see how many of these we can turn over and stop getting them on the scoreboard.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: So that's where it's gonna come down to, I would imagine, you know, and like it's it's uh it's I'm I'm delighted that we're gonna be there on Cole Comms.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, I think it's gonna be a huge I think it's gonna be a huge battle.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and then you know, the question mark Samaris coming off the back of a couple of tough games there, you know, Kaler Strand Hill, Eastern Harps, you know, two games that they should have won comfortably, that they were ahead comfortably in games, and that they were you know, let's be real about things here, they were by far the better team, but they're keeping teams in it, and they're leaving the minute for the last couple of minutes, like even in Eastern Harps, if they got a goal at the end, Sameris are out of the championship.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: The last day, Scottie Lynch flicks one over the bar late on from a goal chance for Killer Strand Hill, that goes in, they could be out of the championship.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but they're not, they're in the semi-file.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: It was like back to the All Ireland like we said, we're we're each week we're learning, we're getting all the answers we're willing.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_03: So we now have more answers, and it all these questions will be answered.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_02: And and and every question that Drum Clifford answered in the group stages ticked every single box.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, it will be interesting as you said that momentum of like uh matches, matches, matches, matches, and maybe have an easier weeks training.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_03: Whereas if you're training hardboard, like it just gets into lads' heads, but look, we will not know till you won't know.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_02: And the one thing that I would say is like I'm I'm sure that Ado McPartin has been, you know, has had a couple of challenge games or has played a couple of challenge games, but challenge games to me are a waste of time because nobody really cares about them.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's only f box ticking and fulfilling an exercise, and you know, if a fellow's been away from an injury or isn't able to train during the week because he's away at work or at college or etc.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_02: etc.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, you just play the game just for the sake of playing the game.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's not championship intensity, it's not like like what's going to happen when the ball is thrown up at half one on Sunday, Markovich Park, that's gonna be championship football, you know?
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: Well, again, the big one is said they could probably play an A versus B.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: I remember out in Ballymoat, Drumcliffe had a huge panel, like huge panel, and again, the games we've seen them, they don't stop, they keep going a bit like Marsh Gales the last day, but Drumcliffe.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but and that and for we mentioned on that as well, is because everybody's trying to get on the team.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_02: Like if if you are taken off and you're replaced by somebody that goes in and lights it up or you know kicks a goal or ends up you know putting in a super block or something along the lines, you know.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_02: That's what these Drumcliff Ross Point guys have been doing when they're coming off the bench.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_02: You know, they're really making an impact and they're really saying, you know, here, look at me, you know, put my hand up, I'm ready to go here.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, like and that's that that's what you want.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_02: And you you mentioned the A first B game, like I'm sure there's in-house games there that are huge intensity and are way, way, way more beneficial to the management team than any challenge game.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_03: And who would use at the deeper bench then?
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_03: Like the last day, Stephen Cohn came off the bench, uh, Emlen wasn't there, as you said.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh young Meehan.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_03: Young Meehan came on, Nyland came on and like Nylon had a great game for the value of the game.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_02: So that's probably that's probably four that you're mentioning there, like you know, and there's probably going to be another one in the back line there that might have to play at the weekend because when you're playing back-to-back games, have St.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's a deep enough bench to go that way.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_02: I would say they probably have.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_03: Three three weeks in a row.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: I but I would say they probably have, like, you know, I would say like like I had mentioned on here before that St.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's problem is probably they don't know their best 15 themselves.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: You know, now the last couple of weeks they've kind of you know they've moving towards the right to the answer what they want.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_03: And we forgot to mention Mr.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_03: Davy there, or you know what I mean?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_03: Like you know a guy at 18 and just an eastern.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: He's just got in, he's just got in on the pitch, it's just another game to him.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: But like Drumcliffe have you know, the fellas there coming off the bench that Night Cleary didn't talk about against St.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_02: Miloche, who had started the first day against Kalara Stand Hill, who would have right good out and at full forward as well.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, they have you know Ross Chambers is coming back into the he came on that there the last day.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_02: You know, he's a right good, he can play cornerback, he can play halfback.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: He's definitely not a scorer, but he got up and he scored against St.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_02: Meloche Gales, and that's definitely putting yourself into the fire line.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, just remind me last year these two teams finished.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: Were they what semi-finalists?
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: Uh St.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's were semi-finalists last year.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: Sharma Gales bet them in the semi-final last year.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: Right, okay.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, so the form lines are there, but uh no, it looks to be uh it looks to be a cracker if you had to pick it.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_02: I would say honestly, I could say it going the full distance.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_02: I I'm not ruling out a draw on this, I'm not, and and just for our viewers, the information that we have, it's not finished on the day.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's game goes an extra time if it's drawing extra time, it's a replay.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's why there's a good gap between now and the potential final date.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_03: And that is that I've just come back to you.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_03: Sent me to the odds.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_02: Marys are the favourites, yeah, gone into championship favourites.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was interesting, and there there's not much between the rest, really.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_03: No, there's not, no.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you couldn't call it so there's there's nothing really between Sam Mary's and Sherma Gales, but Say Marys are just edging the favourites.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: And is that because they knocked out Kalar Strand Hill last weekend, you know, in in the Bucky's eyes, then Drumcliffe third, and St.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_02: Melash then are behind them, like you know.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and like uh like if Milash hadn't we'll move on to that game, but Milash with the nymphatic win at the weekend, like maybe they would have been much more or bigger underdogs, I should say, going into this weekend, only for that result.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_03: That was a real marker, and all their key players really got going like that.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: And and based on that, so if you're looking at the the form lines or the guidelines or whatever you are from the from the bookie side of things, if Samaria's a favourites of the championship, by the time that the game odds come out, they're going to be favourites through the game.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_02: In my eyes, I probably would make Drumcliff favourites.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: Well, again, I was about to say if you had to cut if I had to call it like okay, the rest, and again, the way they've just seemed to from the games I've seen, and I don't say I'm not sure.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_02: And I and I I just think from the outside looking in, I just think that I was just so impressed with them.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, I was thinking, right, if any team is to beat Drumcliff Ross's point, there's a good chance they're going to win the championship.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: So that's that that's and my opinion for Samaritan.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_02: My opinion hasn't really changed on that at the moment.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um now I could have a complete egg in my face on uh Sun has been around.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_02: But so be it.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: But I would say just on what I've watched so far and the fact that Samarys are after having two games back to back and Drumcliffe have the rest, as long as Drumcliffe come out of the rest, unscaled, full panel of players, and click back into form and click back into form in the first half.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_03: But it's very intriguing because like Mary's have so many good young players, so I mean that is in okay, three games in a row now, but maybe that doesn't affect young fellows as much.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not sure if Drumcliff come up as good as a defence as St.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_03: Mary's, and the last two games have really brought on that defence as well.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_03: So there's you couldn't definitively call.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, if you said put your neck on the line, I'd say just from what I've seen, as you said in the rest, I think we're both kind of siding that possibly slightly slightly, just slightly.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_03: Well that's just us calling for the crack.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: Like I mean, I'm just I don't care really who wins, as long as it's it's uh I hope it's a good tight fun game.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_03: The weather play a part as well.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know, it's not promised.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_02: Not promised great at the moment, no.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_03: So uh bring the brawlys.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_03: So bring the brawlers.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_03: We might have them in the commentary box.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so moving on to the second semi-final in the senior championship.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it's at half three in Markovich Park.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, remember it's a double header in Markovich Park, so it's a crack and day in store in town.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Shamrock Gales play Malosh Gales again, uh very similar nearly to the other match, as in Shamrock Gales, is it is four weeks, I think.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_03: And and Malash have been you know battling their way through games.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_03: So Shamrock Gales unbeaten, but maybe not always convincing.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_03: And then they which they beat Mary's fairly well, and then their what was their last group game?
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: I've got it out of my head all of a sudden.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_02: They had destroyed Tupper Curry.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_03: Destroyed Tupper Curry, that's it.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_03: So in one sense, you go Tupper Curry, as we said, had maybe maybe got weakened with injury, so it's kind of a bad marker.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_03: So their last game was probably not giving them much bearing.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely not.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_03: Well, again, they're the county champions.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and the muscle memory is there.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_02: The county champions.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: So if if it seems like a long time ago now since they had their first outing against Eastern Harps, right?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_02: So they definitely weren't firing all sellers that night, right?
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_02: And they didn't have to be, right?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: Put it put it that way, like it's it's the whole Jeopardy situation of three going out of the group, they probably were thinking we're going to be in the top three here, whether we get to the top slot or not, and get the carrot of the semi-final.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: Probably not what they were looking at at the time.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: Then they came under a small bit of pressure, then knowing that when they drew their first two games, we've got to go out here and beat Samaris out in a scroll on a Saturday evening game, in a game that I think Samaris were favourites for, but they put them to the sword, and there was only one winner on the night, and Samaris had no answer to them at all.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_02: But that was probably the time that Shamar Keels put down a marker as if they say here boys were not gone away.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, and like they beat what who are now the fine the favourites, yeah, they beat them convincingly.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_03: Comfortably seven points that night.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you know.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so look again, like we won't have a clue, but it's just a case of going.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: Did Marys learn from that game and grow in their next two games?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, or did Shamar Kales go, That's us now, lads.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we'll be back in a few weeks and we're gonna go.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: And like they were getting their you know, they were getting their main players back on the pitch, like they had Shane Degan had come back into the fold who had missed the first two games, came back in for the next two games, and has Rattlin scores one four against him Mary's two against Tupper Curry.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: So like he was hitting form, then he gets his break now for a few weeks to get the body 100% right.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know?
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: And I was short.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: They're gonna lose momentum or they're back pressure.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: We we don't know.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_02: You know, time is going to tell on that side of things, and you know, they were probably you know, they had a couple of injuries along the line, like I'm sure there might be getting one or two of them back, you know, time will tell on Sunday.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: On the flip side of that, you go to Milash Gales, and for a team that was a beaten docket, let's let's be honest about things a few weeks ago.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, we weren't saying that they were championship contenders in any way, shape, or form.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: Then all of a sudden they draw with Kaler Strand Hill, who I know they've got knocked out last weekend, but anytime you draw Kalera Strandhill in a championship match, it makes people stand up and see actually what's happening here.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: Then they go out then on Saturday evening and touristrand, who are or on Sunday evening and touristran, who are after having a couple of super champion performances, and Molashus blowed them out of the water.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, a real surprise.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: Blew them away from the get-go and never let up, put the foot on the throat from early on and just did not let them up until the final whistle went.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like it was we will mention the fact that is this a well-timed run?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_02: Again, you know, James Clancy, shroot operator, in there in his second year, the management team there now with Milash Gales with Martin Feeney and Mark Quinn with him, you know, getting his players believing in his own ways of thinking, you know, it's like club footballers are very strange and funny fish, and everybody is different in every way, shape, and form.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: When you're listening to one manager for three or four or five years, and a new guy comes in, and you're trying to listen to that new guy, or he's trying to tell you what to do, and trying to do it over an eight or nine month period, it doesn't work.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_02: It really doesn't and it takes the two years.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: I I I I think it does.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like obviously, you know, you have some guys that'll just hit the ground running and it'll click straight away.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_02: But for what's after happening in Milas, you know, it didn't get out of the group last year because it was the top two that was in the group to finish third, then this year, then they finished second in the group with that draw to get through to the quarter final.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: And we'll we'll say for argument for now, hindsight's a great thing.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_02: They got the more favorable quarter final last weekend.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_02: Well, as it turned out, yeah.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_02: As it panned out, right?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but they put themselves into that position, you know what I mean?
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and they're clocking up big scores.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: You know, if you go right back to the first day out against Eisky in horrendous conditions up in Kent Park, they put up something like 323 in that day, you know.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_02: So they know where the posts are.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: And like if you look at what the scored the last day and you look at what they missed, yeah.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: There was I think there were 13 or 14 wides.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: You know, if they were to score half of that, yeah, but like Aaron Lang there, as we said, Paul Flynn, these guys, you know, but like their backs, their backs got eight points, I think, between Luke Castle, Dean, Carl Nita Waters got eight points from play.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: You know, now again, I mean they mightn't have they might have as much freedom to run up the pitch this time.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_03: So it'd be interesting to be a good thing.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_02: Shamar Gales, like like you're looking at Shamark Gales there, and obviously they've top keeper in DJ Lyons here, you know, super kick out, and you know, he re he he's well able to find fellows on the run with the with his kick outs, which is when you get into Markovich on Sunday, like the difference between playing in we'll say Budnaden community park and playing in Markovich is chalk and cheese.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: It really is, right?
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: You have the spaces, you have, you know, the surface is there for you spinning the ball into as a keeper.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it's it's one of these places that keepers love playing if the space becomes available because you can put the ball into it and the players can run onto it.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: Then they have the fellows around the half back line, the likes of Kieran Kenny, you know, he's having a super championship, he really is.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_02: Then you have Connor Sheridan, huge man there at six, or he can operate a midfield, and then you have Dylan McDermott at midfield who just keeps showing for these kick outs.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_02: And once Sham McGails have the ball in hand, then they turn around, they look for David Quinn, then they look for their sharp shooters inside, the two Degnans, like you know, and more often than not, they end up coming up with the right result for whatever reason at the start of the championship, but just wasn't clicking for them, you know what I mean?
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't think, no more than anything else, I don't think they were overly worried about that.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't as if that they were thinking that that they reinvent the wheel here, we need to change something up big time, it's not working, lads.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: What are we gonna do?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go back to the drawing board, let's just relax here, and let's we're gonna be in the latter stages of the competition, you know what I mean?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_02: So that's where they are at the moment, yeah.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but like you could be we'll see, as we said, have Maloshki has actually timed it perfectly.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know, they go, was this a plan?
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, coming back with and again, the matchups are gonna be key.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: Matchups are gonna be crucial.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like like does Castleave pick up David Quinn, two intercounty players.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_02: Does Evan Lyons pick up young Aaron Lang?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you know what I mean?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Like I wouldn't mark and fancy marking Evan Lang after a season.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: Aaron Langs, like we'll say he won 95% of the ball that went into him last weekend.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_02: You know, will he get that much change out of Evan Lyons?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: We've seen Evan Lyons playing at the start of the championship.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_02: He wasn't operating at full tilt.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: He was just coming back, he was just coming back from a broken ankle, like you know.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_02: He said four weeks to recover from that.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_03: So this is what I'm saying, all these things could could favour them.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_03: Shane Dagnan, you did say was back from Ringer half it to the championship.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like I'm I'm sure I'm sure Liam Kennedy is going to be picking him up at a leave.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: If he doesn't do it in the second half of the last day, I wouldn't like having him running.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: He's a handful of of a corner back.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_02: You say there's a handful when you're a corner forward, but he's a handful of a corner back.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_02: So look at it it's again, it's key matchups, get the matchups right.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_02: And then if the weather is as it is at the moment and it turns into you know a deluge round on Sunday, and you know, there's ball breaking around the middle of the field, it's gonna be the want and the desire because tactics go out to Funyok, then like you know, yeah, yeah, because it's two good quality teams.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: It's not like one is an old dog team that needs the wet ball.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's as you said no, they're both fairly well.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_02: No, I would say, I would say again, you know, you're gonna ask, you know, the the odds on it, I'd say Shamak Gales are gonna be the favourites.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_02: Shamak Gales are county champs, you know what I mean?
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_02: Miloche Gales weren't there last year, but previous years to that, they were in two county finals in a row and were a kick of ball away from winning one of them, you know what I mean?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: So, like they're there on merit, don't get me wrong.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_02: What do I think?
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I would I would slightly both picked from Cliff the first, and again, there's a bit of crack.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I would give it out to us.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: I would I would I would edge I would edge towards the experience of Shammack Yales.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_02: I just think that you know, and a lot of it will obviously come down to the firepower and see you know who can obviously get the more scores on the board or who can get the most returns from their own ball when they when they get possession for their kick outs.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: But I just think that they're might be that little bit cuter, you know.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: They you know that they know how to win these type of games on more often than not over the last 12 months.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: So I just think I'm what years are I know was that a Milosh games are in finals, was it 24 or 23?
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: They were in 2019.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_02: What are we in now?
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: 26, so not 25, 24 and 23.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so they were into so I mean you know they know what it's not to win it necessarily.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: I know they didn't win them, but they were close, weren't they?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, really couple of games.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: So new managers used new voice now, maybe maybe and like as I said, they're definitely coming to the boil.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I think both games could very easily be draws, but and again, just from what we've seen, Shamrackales, like they could prove us all wrong.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: Like was it the first two games Shamrack Gales were worried about?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: Was it the Mary's Shamra Gales game we're worried about?
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_02: You know, but yeah, and then do we see the real Shamrack Gales against St.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: Mary's?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: You know, when they flex their muscles and then like maybe I'm maybe I'm a bit uh green tinted last with Milash Gales the last two, they're so impressive.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: But again, in fairness, Tula Stran and Shamrack Gales are probably different animals, so usually so all right.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: Like you know, we we have a little base out there in Mahara during the summer as well, so maybe I'll stick to the name.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_03: There, but I I wouldn't be surprised to like as I said, I've been really impressed as you talked about uh when we uh commentated against uh Trump Fliffemarch gets up in Belly Moch.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: You were telling me about Lucassi coming back in, and you know, Alan McLaughlin just came back in as soon as they came in the game, then change it up, changed it.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_03: So and then they were in full flow.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_03: Like we didn't really get into Alan McLachlan like the last time, but he was pivotal to see the score.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_02: But he handled like he so I'd say Toras Strand looking back on the game, if they were to do it, he had the freedom of the pitch, the last man that needs freedom.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: Right, and so like enough, but uh this happens in an awful lot of teams, like like you you go into the intercounty game where Poddy Clifford got the freedom of the pitch in games, and you know, then he runs the show.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: So Shamrack Gales are gonna have to stick or twist.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: Do we go man for man on this guy?
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: No one Shamrack Gales, I would say they're gonna go man for man or they're gonna go closest man to him.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_02: When say Malash Gales have the ball, the closest Shamrack Gales man to him will pick up Alan McLaughlin.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_02: Whether it be number six on his back, number eleven on his back, it doesn't make any odds, and just tag him because if you get Alan on the ball in any situation and he gets his head up, it's nearly over at that stage.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_03: But the two pointer he got the last to like at his ease, and it didn't look he had to think for long, just got a moment back gone.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_02: And what he was doing the last day as well was he was going for the juggler.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like he was like there was a couple of the goals that he set up, he could have clipped the ball over the bar himself on a couple of them occasions, and I've seen him do it Connor Lang's goal.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: I think he just fit a cross.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: Was that him, or was that my getting it wrong?
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was Paul Flynn, yeah.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_02: It was one of them goals, yeah.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_02: But I've seen him do that before, clip it over the bar, run back out, reset for the next kick out.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_02: But on Sunday evening, he was like, There's a goal on here, we are getting a goal.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you know what I mean?
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: So again, it's like it's like there's something as uh a switch as well.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, okay, but there isn't that's your career and learning, and then through the season you're gaining momentum, and you know the belief comes from that.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, so look at two uh homeland and conicold Sligo Club Championship semi-finals, both in Markovich Park this Sunday, half one and half three.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: We'll be on COCOMS for the first one drum Cliff Ross's point versus St.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_03: Mary's.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_03: That's on Sligo GATV.e.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_03: You can, if you're not able to come to games, I'm sure everyone's gonna go, I want to go to those games, it's gonna be a super Sunday in town.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but they will be live streamed, and maybe you should want to watch the back afterwards, of course.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_03: And they're gonna be live on Ocean of M and OceanFM.e as well.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_03: Now we'll just jump into the intermediate championship review, okay?
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_03: So it's Ballymoat versus Cowlery at some midday out in Conley Park.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_03: Now, both the intermediate semi-finals, there's four live games on Sligo G A T B dot E.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_03: Fair Play, Rory and all the crew.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_03: They have a busy Sunday ahead of them, so that's at 12 o'clock, and we'll just tell people the other fixture of Bun and Add.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so midday on Sunday, and then come into town for the other two, and then go back out to Kilcoyne Park and Triple Curry at half five for Bun and Adden versus Curry.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_03: So we're gonna go with Ballymote, Collery.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_03: Um, where do you see this one going?
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_03: Again, look at this.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_02: Is uh I had said that I thought that Calery St.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_02: Joseph might be one of the only teams capable of beating Curry in the championship.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: Curry played Ballymot in the group stages, and you know the Ballymote had their number for a good bit of that game, but Curry's firepower kind of took over towards the latter stages of the game.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_02: Alan Riley clipped a few.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, Adrian Martin, who we've mentioned on the pod loads, has clipped a few as well.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: But Ballymo put up a great score against the Farnans last weekend.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and Collery scraped over the line against Castle Connor.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_02: But that can be a good thing also, you know, because they could have you don't go in too confident and thinking we're great.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_02: You don't think that you know we're a huge team.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: Whereas, you know, it could be on the flip side of that Ballymo might actually believe that they're a little bit better than the air.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_02: Don't get me wrong, Ballymo they're a very good team, and they have good players right from their keeper Keenle Coyne right down to their corner forwards, they really have, and they're going to take an awful lot of watching.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_02: And Colry on the flip side of that, they have you know, like I think in Devani put on a clinical kick outs at the weekend, from what I heard.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, um, but he can do that, and you know, he'll probably do it on Sunday or again, you know, because Calloone big open spaces as well, like you know, and there's loads of runners in that Colroo team, but again, it's going to come down to the matchups and the firepower and who can restrict the forwards the most.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: And on that, I would I'm going to slightly lean towards Callery on that one.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_02: Just on I watched Ballymo playing on a couple of occasions.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_02: I watched them uh against Giva.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_02: They bet Giva comfortably, then I watched them against Castle Connor.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: Castle Connor had them, but they let them off the hook, and Ballymok got out of there and got their win, and then obviously they won their comfort their quarterfinal very comfortably last weekend.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_02: Whereas Collery came through a tough, tough battle, which I think might just you know unite them enough.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_03: Like you know, okay.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_03: Then the other it's this is the two tabletopers, the Bonadin curry, because it was an open draw the other day.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_03: So this is uh as we said, half-five button top of curry on Sunday, but an advanta versus curry.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_03: Uh can you call this one?
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_03: Is there an easy one?
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_02: I have said the currier favourites and you know, hot favourites for the intermediate championship from the get-go, and I I'm not going to change my mind now.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_02: But Budnaden, you know, big, huge, strong men like you know, Aiden Rooney from Samaris is in there managing them this year.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_02: He has them well organised, well set up.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know, they have you know, they have right players throughout the team, they have the two Gormans in the attack there, they have Luke Marin, who you know knows where the posts are, you know, he's chalk him down for six plus points in every game.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_02: Ushin Gorman, right good footballer coming back after doing his cruise sheet a couple of years ago.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_02: And then obviously they have you know a couple of giants around the middle third, you know, they have Frayne and Claven around the middle third, and then they have Keyn Brett in the half back line breaking forward, you know, so they have good footballers throughout the pitch.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_02: They really do.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_02: But Curry just seem to be you know, they seem to be kind of an established senior team that you know are just slipped down comfortably, yeah, just you know, took their eye off the ball last year, and they probably shouldn't be there, to be honest, you know, but they're there, and that's where they've ended up, and now they have it, they have no choice but to try and go through the front door.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_02: But obviously, look at Curry have you know they've serious firepower up there, like you know, like we mentioned Adam Aren, you know, but they you know they have Young Adonohu, you have Tommy Henry, they're right, right good footballers, and then you have Alan Riley who is just exceptional in the middle of the field, Tommy Ross, county man.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure he'll be back in there in the in the half back line, you know.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_02: So they they're just they're a well-oiled machine, they really are.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_02: And Jimmy Langer from Melosh Gales is out there managing them there now.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_02: This is his first year with them, and it's Aidan Rooney's first year with Bud Nadin.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, there's a little bit of a battle of the freshman.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_02: There's a bit of a side curve there, but I just think I think Curry might have enough for Bud Nadden on Sunday evening.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, cool.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we'll quickly jump into the junior A as well, and we'll tell a few people the fixtures in the relegation.
• 28:57
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• 29:35
  SPEAKER_03: But anyways, okay, so on to the Junior A Championship preview.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_03: We'll just tip into these really quickly.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_03: So we've Ownmore Gales versus St.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_03: John's.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, that's Saturday, five o'clock out in Randsborough.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_03: I think that was only fixed this morning, and we're recording here on Tuesday, and then St.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_03: Meloche Gales versus St.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_03: Michael's, and that's also Saturday, five o'clock, and that's in Ballymote out in Current Park there.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_03: So again, I get from my outside.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_03: Look, I've been playing a bit of junior with St.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_03: John's GB, then kind of been in training out the lads the last week's.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: Look, they seem to be going well.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_03: You team, they have been letting in goals late in games, and by all accounts, from everyone that talks about this, Omer Gales.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_03: This is just their championship.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_03: Is that accurate?
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_03: Am I it probably is, yeah.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_03: It probably is.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_03: That's what people say.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_03: But like, are they are they going in under cook debate?
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard to kind of gauge.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's it's they're on a height into nothing, Omer Gales.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_02: You know, and if I was uh if I was in the St.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_02: John's camp, I'd absolutely love it.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_02: I really would, you know.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like I'd be like, you know, I'd be like here.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like let's you know take these boys off their perch.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody has them trying to do it.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_03: I suppose it's yeah, it's that moment to go right, everyone's talking about them, let's see what they're made of.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we're gonna lose, I suppose, St.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_03: John's.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_02: And that and that can be it can be a tough position for Omer Gales to be in as well, because you're never as good as you think you are, and you're never as bad as you think you are either.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, but it's just one of these games that when you're up there, when you're up there on a peril, you know, it's you can get knocked down very easily.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_02: And if things don't start going right for them, beginning, yeah.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_02: You know, and St.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_02: John's get a foothold in the game, and like St.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_03: John's have a good panel of players, like there's and there's a few young, like super forward fast players, like you've Gary Farron there, you have uh Ryan Devani, you have Adam Feeney, these lads like have been flying in the championship.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_02: You threw in you know, Gooch and you know Paul McDonald's.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not gonna keep naming because it could be here all night, but I'm just saying like there's a real you know a mix of talent right across the team.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_02: There is so but then Omer Gaelsen, you know, they have an embarrassment of riches for William.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_02: County players involved.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_02: But just say for a for a junior team, okay, they they really have, right?
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_02: All the way through.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, they've Shatara Walsh is there, and you threw in Ryan Phillips and Darren Darrell Callahan and all of these books, you know.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_03: And uh the other man, of course, the man that's from top scorer Ryan Phillips Phillips.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, okay.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm I'm looking forward to seeing the one flesh because you know, right good footballers, but they all take watching, yeah.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like St.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_02: John's have an awful lot of fires to try and put out throughout that game.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's not beyond them, but I just think it could be a step too far.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, on the other side of that, then with St.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_02: Miloche Gales versus St.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_02: Michaels.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_02: I said it before, St.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_02: Michaels probably thought that they were out of the championship after losing to Kalera during the group stages.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_02: They've regrouped, they've got their act together.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um, St.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_02: Miloche Gales, it's a big weekend for St.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_02: Miloche Gales, you know, in a junior semi-final on Saturday evening and a senior semi-final, you know.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_02: And if you're listening to James Clancy the last day, he was saying, you know, like this is what we want as a club.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_02: If the two teams training together, two teams trained together, it's not a night that we don't have 30 at training.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_02: So like them guys that are on the junior panel or on that junior team are you know.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you're training at a senior level with some senior stars, like, and I you see that in a lot of clubs.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_03: I know, like, it was Kaleir last year in the junior A and that like you know what I mean.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, and so like for training at a different level.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_02: And it's definitely bonus territory for a second team because like the likes of St.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_02: Malache Gales, you know, they they probably didn't expect to be within getting to uh county junior final.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_02: And now they're uh one game away from it, yeah.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_02: Against St.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_02: Michaels, like you know, the way that the draws panned out, like I think everybody at the start of the year they probably thought that it was going to be St.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_02: John's and Omer Gales might avoid each other until the final, yeah, which probably was going to be the showpiece final as well.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_02: Well, did anybody talk of everyone?
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_02: And it's supposed to be St.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_03: John's Meloche Gales in at the end there, and that's what turned that table positioning around like that.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_02: So they they are where they are, and I just think St.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_02: Michael's just might have a little bit too much experience and know-how for St.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_02: Meloche Gales.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_02: But again, St.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_02: Michael's that's yeah, that not that's the first thing.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, sorry, yeah, okay.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_03: So that's you you'd normally see that that might be the advantage.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll very quickly go through all this relegation semi-finals, senior, intermediate, and junior, and I'll get darned to give it a call on every one of them.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so the senior relegation finals, Easky, Tupper Curry, Saturday, five o'clock in Torestran.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: Who wins that?
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_03: Easy are on a roll.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, they're just going the right way in Tupper Curry, and force you seem to be with the injuries affect them, so it'll be interesting.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: Colani Mullenabrina uh versus Eastern Harps, five o'clock in Budden Adam Community Park on Saturday.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_02: I Eastern Harps favourites, but after what's after happening in the championship, don't be surprised.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes you can get a bit demoralised and lose the form.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_02: I would I would 100% say they're demoralised after what happened.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_02: They were expected to be in a county quarterfinal and now they're where they are, so they need to have their ducks in order.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_03: And the intermediate relegation final is on Saturday at half seven.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_03: God, there's some heap of games on this weekend.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_03: Uh half seven in Curry.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_03: This is Clunacool versus Innescrone Kel Glass.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, who gets that?
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: All depends how Inescron come out of last Sunday's game against Giva, because they had the game one, they ended up losing it.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_02: It's demoralising.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_02: It really is.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_02: Clunacool have lost all their games so far in the championship.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_02: So that's so you're going from winning the junior championship last year in a scroll running intermediate final last year, yeah, and now it's a game between them to see who stays it.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_03: So technically and things get jittery when you go, God, lads, if anyone goes wrong, someone gets a dodgy red car, you know, absolutely.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_02: Saturday night under lights out in Curry in a huge, huge pitch out there.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_02: I think Curry's actually the same size as Crow Park.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_02: So mammoth mammoth task on them.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'll edge towards Aaron has to pick all these.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_03: I just I'll just edge towards in a screen because and then uh the junior eight relegation final, also.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_03: Is the drum cliff for us to point for us?
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_03: Shamar McGales, have you any in depth?
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_02: I think I think Sham McGales were haven't expected to be there, so I think they'll have too much firepower for drumcliffe.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so uh that's our wrap-up of our previews.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_03: This looks like as I said, I've been I say this every week, I've been growing into this championship for like six or seven weeks, and it's my first year ever really getting into it.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm gonna cross the commentating, we're gonna see it all up front or up close.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_03: If you've not been to games and you're a neutral or you're blowing like me from another county, I'm not just saying just get to Markovitch Park on Sunday.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_03: Like there's some dingers and games all over the place.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_03: But I mean, if you want that, let's call it the Premier League Super Sunday, half one in Markovitch Park, Drumcliffe versus St.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_03: Mary's, half three, Shamrock Gales versus St.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_03: Melash Gales.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, going to be a cracker.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_03: We can't get up, we can't wait to go up there and commentate on the first one and then sit back and enjoy the second one.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, we'll see you all next week then with uh our final preview.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, it'll be a bit of a break, so we'll come back to you and tell you what's going on, but we'll review all this weekend semi finals, and who knows, there could be replays.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_02: You never know.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_03: So that's all for myself, Brendan Tierney, and my co com's here.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_03: Co com'cause so used to saying that now.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Darren Kearns.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_03: We'll see you all again next time.
• 35:57
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• 36:03
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• 36:04
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