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Sligo GAA Club C'Ships: Preview Intermediate & Junior A & C Finals! (+ Senior Relegation Final) · On The Edge Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome back to On the Edge Sports Podcast with myself, Brendan Tierney, and my co-host here, Darren Kearns.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be chatting about the recent results and the upcoming fixtures in the Sligo Club Championships.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Darren, you were at a cracker of a relegation final, which maybe at the beginning of the season wasn't kind of something people would be looking forward to seeing.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: But it was Calani Mullenabrina 116, Truber Curry 15 points.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was on abundant add in community last Sunday.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Community Park, I should say, last Sunday.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: And this is, we believe, the first time ever Trubercurry have been relegated from senior, and they have the record of the most titles.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: So it was a real kind of little bit of Sligo GA history.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, not for real.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Not they wanted, but it was just a it was like a real moment to go.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, you know, it's amazing how that has happened.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, so tell us a bit about the game.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Just a quick thanks to our sponsors, EJ Menswear and EJ Menswear.com here in Sligo Town, and also to Reboot Fitness in Tubercurry, Torres Strand, and now in Charlestown.
• 1:08
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• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: I know it was cracking game cracking tension and drama.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: Cracking game in the fact, yes, there was loads of mistakes, and the standard was uh befitting of a game for relegation fight.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: Just maybe teams, two teams not on top of their game throughout the season.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: And like there was I couldn't say that at any stage that you were looking at the game thinking, oh well, one team is an awful lot better than the other, right?
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: And even at that, Mulderbrina, Kaladi Mulabrina went into the game with the wind in the first half, and there was a good howl of wind go down into the bottom goals in Button Adden.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: And anybody that has been out there knows that it's a small enough pitch, so then that plays into your hands, and they opened up with a 6-1 lead in the first seven or eight minutes, and everybody that was there was thinking this is lights out for Tuppercare here in a big way.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: And Kulani Mulherina were on the up and they were really strong and they were really aggressive in the tackle, and they were turning them over all over the place, and then all of a sudden, it was like a flick of a switch for Tubercari, and they just took over the game.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: And within the blink of an eye, they went 8-6 up.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: And it was like Kulani Murray couldn't get their hands on the ball, they couldn't get their shots off.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: If they were getting a shot off, it was under an awful lot of pressure.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: Tobacari had really, really came to the game, and it was like like I'm saying the flick of a switch, what it was like the flick of a switch was oh lads, if we don't do something here, we are going to be out the gate at halftime.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: We might as well knock him out for the second half.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: And to their credit, then Kulani Marini just fought back a little bit towards half time, and they got another two-pointer from a free from Barry Gorman, and they went in a point up at halftime.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: Second half, Tobercurry have debrees, and you're thinking, okay, if they can get something similar to what they've done in the first half, they're going to go a long way to winning the game.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: And the ball is thrown up.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Connor Johnson comes in for the break and ball, and he kind of slips a little bit as he's picking up the ball.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: And Ushi McCann, who was on a yellow card from the first half, catches him high with a with a hand, like there was nothing, there was no brute force in it.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: No malice, as they say.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: There wasn't really, but it was probably warranted of a yellow card, and 10 seconds into the second half, they're reduced to 14 men.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: And by all accounts, it's an uphill battle for Tuber Curry then.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: But then they went at it and they had some big players really came to the fore.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like Eddie McGuinness was excellent throughout the game, but he was really strong and he drove forward.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: And then Luke Gilmartin, like he clipped some super points in the first half as well, but second half, he kicked a couple of scores that you know right to be kicking.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: And they were on the up Stephen Gamartin at midfield, like you're talking about elder statesman in club football.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like this man was retired, he came out of retirement.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: Was he playing junior C?
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: Well, okay, yeah, okay.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: He started, he started at midfield the last day to give Tupper Curry a dig out because you know they are decimated with injuries, and you know, he he fought throughout throughout the game, and it looked like Tupper Curry were on the up and they were going two points up, they went three points up.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: Then Kulani Mulabrina come back and they get a couple of scores, so it's it's up and down the field, and it's 12 all, it's 13 all, then it's 15 all, and you're like, and I had said to a couple of the lads that I was beside me, I says any team gets a goal in this game, it is game over.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I was keeping up to date on the radio, in fairness, and you you couldn't say that anybody was really on top, or really like there was nobody playing bad, like yes, it was riddled with mistakes, and then with about I don't know, maybe maybe 10 or 12 minutes on the clock, two Tupper Curry lads run into each other in you know, innocuous collision, and both of them have to go off with two blood subs, right?
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: So you're losing, you're already down to 14 men, and then two of the lads that you've started have to go off.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: They already had Rory Ryan went off with an injury.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: So were they off for long?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: So they had to go off.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, you can get replaced as blood subs, and one of the blood subs, uh Griffin Gallagher, who came on and he has been a keeper for Tupper Curry, he ends up coming up the field and kicking a two-point, you know.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: Championship doesn't stop, huh?
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then one of the the two lads came back on, they were patched up.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: They're you know, one of them had a you know head uh bandage on him, the other fellow had his nose stuffed as well.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: Niall Murphy's gonna be.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: And you wonder no matter how good you're feeling, like once that kind of a hit hits you, how you can be fully like in fairness, like to come on again with something.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: Then Kulani Mulabrina, one of the lads, gets the ball out in the far wing and he goes for a pot shot at goal, and the ball is just hanging up in the air, and everybody is looking at it.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I seen the Kulani Mulabrina number nine, Declan McCormack making a run.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: And Declan is a big, big man, right?
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: Plays in midfield for them, but has played in goals, has played in the full back line.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: But I could see that he was making this run, and I've been in the position of the Tubercurry keeper on numerous occasions when you want your defender to give you a dig out there and stop the fellow making that run.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: Because once he's running, you know yourself in football, you have that momentum, and he's coming in and he watches the ball the whole way and he gets up above everybody and flicks the ball to the net.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: And that gave them the little cushion that they needed, the four-point cushion.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: Tubercari kept going, they went down the field, they got you know, they had a they had a free, which you're thinking, do they need to go for a goal?
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: I think they were told that there was about a minute left.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: Smart enough play to kick the ball back out to Dermot Walsh, another lad who was retired who came back to their fold to help them out in the relegation battle.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: He goes for a two-pointer from distance, and it just drifted wide.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: If that two had gone over and they'd won the next kick out, and they get another two, it's in the you know the lap of the gods at that stage, but they didn't, and unfortunately it's Tupper Curry gone down the trapdoor.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: But I mentioned on the on this pod last week, like that you can only be in relegation so many times and get out of it, you know, and it was like it was just a little step too far for them.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: And Kulani Mullabrina, like they're they came up from intermediate last year, right?
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: And to go straight back down would be a real, real, real sucker punch because they were competitive in an awful lot of the games that they played.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: They drew it Kalera, like wasn't it, yeah.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: And uh no, they didn't they got they got back to Kalera, but they drew the and the the loss of Drumcliff, yeah, they lost all their lost all their group games, but they were competitive in them.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you know, like and you're looking at Drumcliff got to a semi-final, Kalera got knocked out by a kick of a ball to St.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's, you know, and it was just you know, you need to find your feet at senior level.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: So if they go back down to intermediate level, there's no guarantee that they come back up again, and then you know, you're you're treading water at that stage.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: But to their credit, they got across the line the relegation battle and they've kept their senior status.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: So now it's up to them as a club and as a bunch of players to kick on and try and get to that quarter final next year because there's no point hanging around and just making up the numbers in the group stages because eventually, no more than what's after happening to Tubercurry, you will get caught.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: So there's only so many times you can go to the bell.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: It was Risky that drew Kalera, isn't it?
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I have a doubt.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah, no, they did have some results, as he said, that's you know, they weren't getting hammered all the time, and then that's it.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: No, because they're they're you know, they're a good, they're a good team, they have good players throughout, like they really have, you know, like they have a very, very good keeper, Ryan McCauley, who has clipped over points throughout the championship.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now on Sunday, it it didn't work out for him.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: He had a couple of scuffed ones, and it was but conditions were were tough on Sunday for kicking the ball off the deck.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: But they have the two Gormans who both have played county football.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: Gavin played an awful lot for Sligo last year.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: They have Nathan Mullen, county player for the last number of years, and then they have like you're talking Connor Johnson, who's you know, big, big player for them, was in around the Sligo seniors last year as well.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: And then they have the likes of Declan McCormick who got the goal, Ray Connolly.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: They have Kieran Gorman in the corner there, right little pocket rocket with a left foot in the corner forward.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, there's right good players throughout the team, and you know, it would have been like I'm not going to say it's an injustice because if you get beaten in a relegation mat final, you you know you can have no qualms about it.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: You deserve to go down.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: So, but no, they kept their senior status, so then they need to build on that for next year because they're still division two in league football, but they've kept their senior championship status.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: And for Tuber Curry, who have been relegated in both the league and the championship now, it's back to the drawing board for them because you know they're probably not getting enough out of the players that's around the area at the moment for whatever reason that is, and that's not for me to be saying what's right or what's wrong, and you know, again, when you're when you're riddled with injuries like that, like we mentioned obviously one of their bigger players, Brian Kern, like you know, Snake, like he's a huge player for Tuber Curry, but Snake is the wrong side of 40.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I mean?
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you can't keep relying on the likes of like there comes a stage where you got someone like him and still playing after 40s, like you might get brought in for a little bit.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: You've got to get some of these younger fellas to step up to the plate, and now where Tuber Curry are, it's it's definitely back to the drawing board, and it's you're you're starting from a low ebb, but you're down in division two, and you're down in intermediate championship for the first time in the club's history.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: So it's trying to get back up there again.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, not to judge just that club, but I mean I chatted to a load of the clubs.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: There was a press night there last week, last Friday, with all the clubs into the different junior and junior or the intermediate and the senior.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: And there's a lot of the clubs over the last couple of years have gone up or down.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like Curry, a perfect example, and they've just kind of turned.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe this year, let's say we'll talk about that in a minute, but let's say they do go on to win, they go, right, maybe that's lifted everyone again, and the youngsters maybe have been embedded into the team more.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, but like soury can maybe look at their near names.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: And just what you mentioned there, like I've been in that position myself, like like with my own club, Giva, like like we've won plenty of intermediate titles, and we go up to senior, and you know, you end up when you win an intermediate, you think that it's going to give you a big lift.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: But for Aurora club, the likes of Giva, when you lose a couple of players, and what that always seemed to happen.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: We went up to senior, we lost some players for whatever reason, fellas going travelling or fellas getting injured, and next thing you come back down again, and you have to have a few years in intermediate before you're ready to go again and try and challenge with the intermediate championship.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: So, as you mentioned there, being a yo-yo club is not the way forward either.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like you know, and obviously, when you're in intermediate, you want to be winning it, you want to get out of it.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: But when you are winning that intermediate, you need to be consolidating your position in the senior setup then, and it doesn't just happen overnight.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, again, we as I said, it was uh they gave and I remember Trevor Curry had a great game against St.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, if I'm not mistaken.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: I remember we were out at that there.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: So, like it was like they threw all their eggs into the basket for that.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just playing and their number Henry is the number 11?
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Perry.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: Perry, Perry.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: So like I thought was my first time seeing them like in the flesh, and like there was some really good players throughout the team there.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like Eddie McGuinness there Connor McDonough, yeah.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Who done it who he he done as cruciate like and again like a big loss.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: But for the likes of them, losing them players, like it's it's it's tough going because they were good that evening against St.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's, you know.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: But there was a time that was getting really close.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think you're watching like St.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's were lucky to get out of that, like you know.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: But look now they're in the senior final.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe Tupper Curry can just take those markers next season and push on, like you know.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but look, so we'll we'll do our players of the week because two of them featured.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: We said we just picked two of the two because there was only what you might call one big game really in the senior delegation.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you picked out two players.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: So I sorry, our judges picked out two players, but you were the only one at the match.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: So we uh it was one from each club.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: So uh Luca Martin from Tupper Curry, who had a sensational outing from the get-go, and Luca is one of these lads, he was in at the senior setup last year, didn't get an awful lot of game time and stepped away himself then before championship started.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Luca's a lad that I think could very well be on that Sligo team.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, he he has his own problems with his own injuries, but he's a big, big, big strong lad, and he has a super left foot on him.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like he kicked six points.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: What's his primary position then?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh full forward, full forward, okay.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: But he can play anywhere in that like obviously he doesn't have to be in the three up, he could play in that middle 11 because he's a big unit of a man, but he had a great out in the last day, and he really he really brought Tubercare back into the game and he kept going for the second half and kicked a lot of lot of good scores.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: And on the opposite side of that, Kalani Mullery now went for Connor Johnson.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: So he he was primarily playing at six.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: Connor is has been known as a full back, he played a bit of county under 20 as a fullback, he played a bit of Sigers and football with ATU Sligo that I was involved in last year.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: Big unit of a man, and he was in involved with the Sligo setup as well.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: But he kicked a great two-pointer with the outside of his right foot on Sunday, and he kicked another point in the second half when Kulani Manabrina really needed that.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: So he brought the fight to him, but he was good throughout, big, strong lad, and you know it was probably between the two of them to see who was going to get man of the match, if there was a man of the match awarded.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that's who we're we'll put that on our Instagram.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: We had a great reaction to last week's uh player of the week.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, there was some voting going on.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: So it'll be Connor Johnson and Luke Gilmartin.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll put that up on our Instagram.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: And before I just go on to the next stage, which is our top score, because that's going to tie us in.
• 13:51
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• 13:57
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• 14:00
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• 14:04
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• 14:08
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• 14:08
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• 14:11
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• 14:13
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• 14:15
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• 14:18
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• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: And we are thinking about doing a Christmas event.
• 14:24
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• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: We were thinking of doing something in town, a kind of a Christmas awards night social uh about the championship season.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: A nice blow off the head, blow off the steam there at the end of the year.
• 14:34
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• 14:36
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• 14:42
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• 14:45
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• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, we go on to our top scorer uh of the week.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: And again, uh we'll uh will we give the results first?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: The junior, the junior C semi-finals were on.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'll just get my right screen up here now.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, last Friday, uh Castle Connor beat St.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: Miloche Gales, it was 4-7 to 10 points, and Tuber Curry uh beat Shamrock Gales, they beat them 5-12 to 1-9.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: So, am I right?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Stephen Gilmartin played in that he did, yeah.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: So he came then in the middle.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: Durham Walsh played as well, yeah.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right, okay.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: So, so and just quite quickly, the final in that is on this Saturday in Tour Lestran, it's Castle Connor versus Turbo Curry, and that's at half seven in Tour Lestran.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: So, under lights, I'm guessing.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: So, this if you're going to see the Junior C final Sunday at half seven in Tour Lestran.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but out of the Junior C games, the top scorer, unless someone can correct us, yeah.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: We think judging by uh what we what we looked at over the weekend, obviously it wasn't an awful lot of games on, but uh young fellow from Tuber Curry, Conan O'Brien, he scored three goals on a point.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: And we had mentioned a few weeks ago anybody that's getting a hat-trick in uh club championship is is good going, whether it be junior A B or something.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if you're at that level, that's your level, and that's but he's a he's only he's only a young kid, I think he's only 18.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: So 10 points went a long way to them winning the game, and didn't hear an awful lot about them junior C semi-finals, but obviously the final is on this weekend, and no more than anything else, it doesn't matter what age you are, whether you're 18 or you whether you're I also said that's your all are the final.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if that's your grade you're playing at the end.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: County final is a county final, yeah.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: And just a wee side pod on that one with Tuber Curry against Castle Connor, Patrick Nockton, who plays for Tuber Curry now against Castle Connor.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so they're coming up against each other on Saturday evening.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: So it'll be interesting to see where that goes, you know.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: Very good.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the the wrap-up of that.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then as I said, uh don't forget to vote on the uh player of the week.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: We'll put that on our Instagram during the week.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh okay, so moving on to this weekend, uh, there's two finals happening this weekend in Markovich Park on Sunday, a doubleheader at one o'clock.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: We have the junior age football championship final.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's between Omore Gales and St.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Michael's, and then in the intermediate final at half three, uh it's Ballymot Round Towers versus Curry.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll start with the Junior A.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, like by the way, just if you are watching this, we will have we have a couple of clips of interviews.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: We spoke to every representative from all the teams in the junior A, intermediate, and obviously senior, but we leave that till next week.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and just they'll be on this interview or on this pod, I should say, at the end of the pod.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: So Omoor Gales, St.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: Michaels.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's my view from what I've been hearing from everyone.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead, yeah.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like Omoor Gales, red hot favourites all the way through.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: They're just seemed to seem to steamroll everyone.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then St.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Michaels.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now they did beat St.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: Michaels in the championship already.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you kind of hear little rumblings of St.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Michaels kind of feeling confident, yeah.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe getting, you know, like is this the game?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, more might go, oh no, we got caught.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Will there be a plan?
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Have they seen them all?
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, this is the conundrum we're all.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Of course it is, yeah.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: They've watched them enough, I'm sure, and they've got enough times to chance, but like sometimes who knows?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: We'll know, we'll know on Sunday.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, where where are you going on this one?
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now, look at obviously Omer Gales are red hot favourites, okay, and rightly so based on what they've done throughout the season, okay.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: And like we'll just the only thing I I'll mention is that they won Division II league, okay?
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like they bet my own club in the Division II League final after extra time, and they're going up to Division I.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so park that for a minute and go back to championship football.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned there that they already bet St.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's in the group stages, which was the very first game of the championship.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: You're going right back to August Bank holiday weekend, do you know?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a lifetime ago now, okay?
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: Now they bet them comfortably in the night.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now both teams were missing an awful lot of players that night.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Since then, St.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's turned around and they got bet to Kulera Strand Hill in the group stages as well, and Omer Gailles just kept strugging along and just chalking up victories.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: St.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels thought that they were dead and buried, but the way that the results panned out and the way that they came back into the championship, it meant that if they won their last game against St.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's, that it was going to give them a fighting chance or a realistic chance of getting to a semi-final.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: So then they've done that.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: They've done it, they bet St.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: Mary's by 118 to 113, I think it was.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: So, but they kind of kept them at arm's length.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: And then they won their semi-final comfortably against Milash Gales, putting up a huge score.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so we mentioned on the on the pod last week that Kyle Davy, the keeper, got up and kicked eight points.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then they that's not a plan Old Moore would normally have.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then they had Pork McGoldrick, corner forward, who you know he's getting to that little 40-year-old mark as well.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the sweet spot we'll call it.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he he kicked seven or eight points as well.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: But Pork does that in an awful lot of games.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: He's a dead ball uh kicker as well, and but he takes a bit of watching up there.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: But they have if just going through their team, like they have they have good players in an awful lot of the lines, you know.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Jack Karen, I think he's he's joint captain with them, he's playing at midfield.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Jack is an all-action midfielder, he's up and down the field, and Gavin McGowan plays in midfield for a giant of a man, he throws himself into every tackle and doesn't hold back.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: I think he kicked two points against uh Malash Gales in the semi-final as well.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: And then they have a couple of young fellas there that have like so Gee and St.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: Michaels were joined underage, have been for the last number of years because you know, with the population, especially in the Geeve area, just they they needed the the amalgamation of the two clubs, and they've got to a lot of we'll say B semi-finals or B finals in you know, from under 15, under 17.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of these fellas would say Michaels are now coming to the fore, they're at the age now where they're playing adult football.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: And when you have a group of lads like that that's coming through, you know, that don't really care who they're playing, and you know, if you get them on the right path, you know, and if you can prepare well for the final, like they've had a couple of weeks off now.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: If they have got their ducks in order and have trained well, and you mentioned the fact, get a plan in place, right?
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: So you get a plan in place to try and stop Omer Gales.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now you have an awful lot of fires to put out on the Omer Gales side, you really do.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: But like Omer Gales are gonna have to come up with a plan to stop the likes of uh giving away long-range threes because Kyle Davy come up and kick them.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like he seems to be on song, the boot is working for him.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm sure anything inside 50 yards, St.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's boys is going to be leaving it down for him, and then obviously stop Pork McGoldrick and decide James Mackey is playing a full forward, and you have Ryan Walsh in the other corner, they have a guy called Simon McKeon playing right good footballer as well.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: So they have they have footballers everywhere.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: So Omer Gates are going to have to counteract the plan there to come up with that kind of a solution for them.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: Then on the flip side of that, with St.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's, like they're they have to obviously stop Mark Walsh running from deep at midfield, which your own club and and and St.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: John's would have had a plan.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: And to their detriment, yeah, it it didn't work for whatever reason it was.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: But what's happening then is that Mark Walsh breaks that line or breaks that 15-20 yards, whereas before he kind of done an awful lot of running to dead ends.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now he has his brother coming off the shoulder who knows where the net is and knows where the posts are.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Dylan, obviously, okay, and then ably assisted by two lads that got the top scorer awards on our pod.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: Brian Phillips, yeah, right.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Brian Phillips and Darek Allahan, right?
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then they have Aaron Mullen, who's kind of playing in midfield but wasn't forward for a lot of it.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like he scored one three or one four against St.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: John's in that semi-final, you know.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: So like he kind of goes under the radar a little bit, but they have then to have tenacious backs, you know, they're working as a unit.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: Liam Gilmartin is managing them there, he has them well set up, and they all kind of seem seem to be singing off the same hymn sheet.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: So if Sir Michaels were to get a result on Sunday, it's it would completely blow the form copy book out the funyog, right?
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's Omer Gails is to lose.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Omer Gails has scored 108 points.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like you know, that's some clipping.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: That is fair clipping.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure someone else out there can see all the divisions and say that.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: It is fair clipping, but it's when you're when you're going into uh county finalist favourites and you think it's only a matter of turning up.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying that's what they are.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, but we see this can happen a lot of times with someone famous.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: So, look, all as I always say Sunday Lancer Everything.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: We've seen that since the summer.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: If it turns around and Omer Gills win win the game comfortably by eight to twelve points, yeah, so be it.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's in that, which everyone knew that was going to happen.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: If it brings it in, say Mike's bringing into a dog fight with 10 minutes to go.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I promised at the moment I've seen the long-range forecast as it could be wet as well.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: So you just never know those kind of things can be all become a leveler, you know.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, so if it's level with 10 minutes to go, and you know, then you get an awful lot of answers.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the thoughts, the thoughts seep into lads' heads going, where are we going wrong?
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: or he's off or he's nervous.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't like Omer Gales press the panic button there.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't supposed to be happening.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: We're supposed to be winning this game comfortably.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: And they were relegated last year, yeah.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: So like they're on the bounce back, and I mean they've had a great championship so far.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, no, it's it'll be an intriguing one, and that's one o'clock on uh Mark.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Bill Cartier refing it also.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I was actually speaking to somebody over the weekend who told me that they've watched an awful lot of football and they were absolutely impressed with Bill Carti as a referee in the fact that he lets an awful lot of stuff go, not pulling for little small fouls here and there.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: He's you know, let the physicality go, which you know, in in essence, it will probably suit Sam Michaels because when you're the underdog, you need to be putting in big tackles and strong tackles, and you don't want freeze given for little small stuff.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I I the physicality shouldn't be punished, maybe necessarily.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, definitely not, definitely not.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: So Bill Cartier is referring on Sunday, so we'll see how it'll go.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: And that that's actually live on SligoGATV.e from both finals around the world, both finals beyond the intermediate, we'll get to in a moment.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: So that's at one o'clock um in Markfridge Park on Sunday, and we'll be there.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Now we're not commentating but because of different things on their dials, but I'll definitely go up and watch that one.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: I know you're not around actually.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but that's it'd be an intriguing to see what way it falls.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: I or I like just to see the crown and everyone's muscles, that's the way it turns out to be, in fairness to them.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, yeah.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so yeah, so which we I presume you're going to say if we said to call it, you're probably sitting into old more gales, which I think most people you can meet would and uh like I'm sure there'll be plenty of St.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Michael's people that I'd be meeting will tell me that you know that I'm definitely going to be wrong.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: And when you're in that position, you have to you have to back your own club.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: You have to say we have a great chance on Sunday, and regardless whether it whatever happens, they're in a county final, it's their first county final since 2019.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so they're they're they're back where they are now.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: But poor Clancy is back managing them, and I think you done an interview with Sabrina Kelly over the weekend.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: So she's and she's I think something that she's the first female coach, might be correct on this, to bring uh a men's team to a final in Sligo.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, maybe slightly inaccurate that, but someone else can tell me that.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's true.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's involved in sport all her life.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, and even with a great chat with her the press day, and then a lovely energy tour as well.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: And like, you know, you can just see, and I talked to a couple of the players then as well, even outside the camera, and just there's a good buzz there and a good vibe, and sometimes these smaller rural areas like they can really get into this kind of kind of final, like we talk about Ballymoad and Curry and all that, like, but yeah, I like to say Michaels, they lost the junior semi-final last year as well.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so they've been up there at least, like it's not just to come out and overall, they're always there thereabouts when it comes to the the the junior, the knockout stages of the junior, and they could have uh as I'm saying, they could have down tools after losing their opening couple of games in the championship in the group, but they regrouped and they got back on the horse, and now the final sets in a county final.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: So it's we'll say call it a bonus surgery, you know.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: And what will be will be on Sunday.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: That can relax a player in a game, too.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone thinks we're gonna they'll bring a fight to it.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, whether the fight is going to be enough to topple Omar Gales, only time will tell.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so yeah, so that's one o'clock on Sunday as I said, and that's live on Slide with GATV.e, and it's also gonna be on Ocean FM if you're tuning in.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then the next game uh is at half three on Sunday.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: This is this now, especially.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: There doesn't seem to be any hot, hot favorites in this one.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's Curry versus Ballymote, and again, even talking to the two teams since you've got to talk to uh Limo Gormley and uh Jack Lavin uh at the press night.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and seems to be a good there's a good spirit, seems to be coming together on Ballymote the way they're talking and the energy there, and just from bits we've seen them in their two teams, like their junior B team won the championship.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, they're battlers, Ballymote.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: They don't let you have Anthony too easy, like so.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: Curry, probably the slight favourites, I'd be guessing.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so where's this one gonna be won and lost?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I suppose, like if you're looking at the all the results throughout the intermediate championship, we'll probably say that the two best teams have got to the final.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and but Nadin will say, Well, hold on a second, now we drew Ballymot the last day and we topped our group, etc.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: etc.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: But Ballymote and Curry were in the same group, is what I'm saying, right?
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: And they obviously had to avoid each other in the semi-final then.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: So but just based on based on all the results, it it seems to be that these are the two teams that are capable of winning the championship from a long way out.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like I thought that Colery would have I thought that they might have given uh Ballymote a little bit too much respect in the first half and gave themselves too much to do in the semi-final, being 12 points down, or Ballymote being 12 points up and bringing it back to two or three point game, then that game I'm I would be pretty sure is going to bring Ballymot on in leaps and bounds.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: Because in the in them game situations, you go 12 up, you're thinking, no matter what your management team say to you at halftime, as a player, you're thinking, lads, you know, we have a county final to afford to here.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's in our hands, yeah.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's in our own hands.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're we're we're still playing within ourselves.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: Colery are dead and buried here, and then all of a sudden you go out in the second half, and we'll say something hits the fan, and you have to turn around and see can you knuckle down again?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: To their credit, they did.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, because Colery were were on top in that game.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like I like I watched it back, they were they were overpowering them in midfield, they were dispossessing them in the forward line, they were getting in for scores, they got in for um a penalty, they were getting two pointers, they were getting threes that were turning into two pointers, and you know, another team then would have said, Okay, lads, we need to regroup here, right?
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: And what what's going on?
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: I pressed the panic button, but they didn't.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: They got up the field and they got a goal again to put six in it again, you know what I mean?
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: And that gave them the little bit of cushion that they needed, and it kind of settled them down a small bit.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: It really did.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now, of course, Caller came back at them, but you know, it's a county semi-final, the team is always going to come back, they're gonna die with their boots on.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: But Ballymote have like if you go from their keeper right up to their corner forward, right?
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: Top players, okay, they really do.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: Curry on the far side of that, okay.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: I would say that game against Bud Nadin might have been a wake-up call for Curry, you know, the last day.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: And that's no disrespect to Bud Nadden, you know, like they probably they were 9-4 up at halftime, you know, again, no more than anything else.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: We go out here, we do the same again in the second half, we're going to be in a county final boys.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: We're after winning four group games comfortably enough, right?
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: I know that Ballymote stuck it to them in their in the opening group game, and Curry got two goals 2-15 to 15.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it was one of the players who was talking about about that, and they said, You know what I mean?
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, yeah, we we kind of let it was it maybe the goals were a bit soft or something.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: They they kind of lapsed to the colour.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and they came uh straight after each other also.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so a six-point swing.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: But apart from that, they were they were comfortable in all their games without having to do an awful lot either, you know what I mean?
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like against Castle Connor and against Gee, against Clunacool.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: So then they're going to Bud Nadden, and you might think that you're a little bit better than you are, and Bud Nadin, big strong lads and right good players throughout the field.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: They stuck it to them and it brought it to extra time, and then when they got to extra time, then you know they probably could have lost it in normal time, you know.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: The fellow that got the goal for Bud Nadden running authority, he had a chance right at the end that just went wide, and then that would have been curry out of the championship.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: After being red-hot favourites, but so be it, they're in the final now.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I would say you asked where it's going to be won and lost, the matchups are going to be crucial.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: Matchups are going to be crucial.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: So you're talking, obviously, right?
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: So we have the three lavins we'd say okay for for Bradley, okay, Jack, Michael, and James, right?
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: Excellent footballers, and then you have Keenan Kilcoin off the tee, very, very sharp, kicking the ball out, okay, and he will find your runners.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now they started Michael Raffter in midfield the last day.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: For his size and for his power, I watched him against Castle Connor when he came on.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: I thought that he kind of changed the game when he came on, when they really needed somebody to smash the ball around the middle of the field.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I I I I'd say that he'll probably start again in the final on Sunday, and then their forward line, then like they have like they have Jack Heaver, they have Zach O'Dowd, they have Aaron Brennan who kicked 1-4 the last day, Zach O'Dowd kicked 2-2.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: Jack usually scores a goal, great eye for a goal, and Thomas Sweeney kind of a workhorse in the middle of the field.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: So then for Leah Moog and his management team, is we go to the curry setup, right?
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: And do we worry enough about Curry or do we worry enough about ourselves?
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: So it's going to be the conundrum of Jimmy Langan and Leah Moog, because like obviously Jimmy has an in at his disposal.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: We talk about Adrian Marin, 12 points the last day, 10 from place balls, but you give him free inside 30 yards, it's a point.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: Chalk it down for a point.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he he he he doesn't miss, okay?
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: And obviously they have Tommy Ross and Dylan McLaughlin and the halfback line.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: So Tommy Ross is kind of this guy that breaks lines at I've now I heard that name.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: I was at in a pub in a man a few weeks ago, a friend of his actually, and he's watch out for this man.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: And now the name just came back again.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like speed, speed to Archand, and he just breaks lines all the time and he direct running, and then Dylan Mack at six, he kind of sits there and mans the house and controls an awful lot of what they're doing.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then obviously they have Alan Riley at midfield along with Jack Duffy, two big men at midfield, which would lead me to believe why Michael Raff might start for Ballymotte, you know, to try and counteract that and stop them guys winning primary possession, and then you go into the forwards then for Curry, right?
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_01: And like they have an awful lot of firepower there, and they have Adrian, you know, knitting everything together, right?
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_01: And bringing lads into the game and runners coming off him, like he you make a run, he's gonna find you with the ball, right?
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: So, and then they have Tommy Henry there, right?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: Who like he's like he wins every ball that goes into him, he wins it, right?
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: Real strong, stocky, full forward, right?
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: You give him half a chance, he's gonna find the post as well, right?
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so there's an awful lot of fires for both management teams to try to.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen either of these in the flesh's yet, but I definitely can't wait to go.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Who's gonna pick up who?
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, you know, like there's a guy there that plays for Ballymot in the back line, Robbie Flannery, who I could see is going to pick up either Tommy Henry or Adrian Marin and probably sacrifice his own game.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you were, for argument's sake, we'd say Jack Lavin, excellent defender.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: If you say you take him out of the midfield area and you put him man marking Adrian Marin, that takes away from Ballymote's game.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's always a conundrum of going, well, should I do we target the other team or go into our own strengths?
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I suppose it's it's only when the game starts can someone go, Well, that's what went wrong and that's what we should have done, or that's how we that's what we're going to do.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: And no more than anything else, there's going to be a couple of curveballs thrown between fellas with injuries, or between fellas, you know, we'll say what happened Tupper Curry last week in the relegation final with a red card.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone could get a black card at any stage in the game, and then everything is just up in the air.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Now I have been tipping curry all year for intermediate.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: On on the basis of I thought that they were they they were just a little bit a step above everybody else.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: I think the ballymotive got better as the championship gone on.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: And that's game on game situation.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's just like, you know, uh the more games you play, the better you get.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's the long and the short of Gaelic football.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like it really is.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: And like you go back to that semi-final that they played against Colery, you know, like if you're 12 points up, like you've hit the ground running at halftime.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: You really, you really have like, you know, you were on cloud nine here, then you get right back down to earth, right?
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I would say, as a as a as a manager team, Liam Og and his lads are going to be thinking, we're lucky that happened.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because if they went on and they won that game by double figures, you know, you get you lure you into a false sense of positive.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: There's no team talk that can stop that seeping into a lad's head like you know, yeah.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: What are you talking about?
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: No, no manager can can listen to that, like you know, and then you're trying to bring lads back down.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: So he his lads were brought back down to earth, no more than Jimmy Langan and his Curry boys.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: I was about to say they've both had a similar semi-final, they've really had good group stages, they're really happy.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's really well set up for uh a cracking game.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: And as you said, I'd say most people all year were saying curry, yeah, and maybe this last few weeks ballymot, and again, just talking to the lads, just the the vibe off them, like the the Ballymoat men.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it seems to be and I would say I would say the the one thing that or there's loads that Ballymot have gone for the one of the things they've gone for them is the fact that Liam Og is there for the last number of years, okay.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, they they lost the intermediate semi-final last year in a cracking game to in a scroll one up in Kent Park, went extra time, it was up and down the field.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: I just had it here 4.15 to 222, so it was ding-dong cracking game, it really was, and it could have gone either way, it really could.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: And for Ballimore to get back on the horse now and turn it round, and you know, they didn't have a great league campaign, you know what I mean?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: But it was more or less win the championship, I'd say was their aim at the start of the year.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: Let's get to an intermediate final and let's win the championship and let's see where we're at.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas Curry on the flip side of that, they got relegated last year from the senior, and you know, they probably took the right off the ball a little bit last year when they got to the relegation playoffs and ended up found themselves back down intermediate.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: And then Jimmy Langan comes in, managing them for the first time this year, and he's got a right gig out of them.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: He really has, you know, like they they had they had a super division one, they were very strong, they were you know very close to getting to uh league final.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I was just looking, I wonder if you have to bring it up the table.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: Curry had nine points, the the winners had and and towards the end of the league, they kind of they're more or less down tools and relaxed towards the end of the league.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: Because I think they could have very easily got to a league final, but then the league final then was the week before the first championship game, and it wasn't going to make any odds if they'd got to a league final or not.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: They were the fourth highest scores in division one, yeah.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_00: So there's little markers there, like you know, and as you said, Ballymote and just second from bottom.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's the one.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they they they they got relegated from division one, but like I would say that their eye was more so on championship, you know, and obviously they had a couple of lads in with the county seniors this year, you know.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: And that seems to be a theme across a lot, and I'm sure it's across the country.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, when you have a few lads out, it's bringing them back, reintegrating them back, and it must be very difficult.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I know we've talked to some managers during the season, and again, this is nothing against the county team, obviously.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: We're just saying it is another thing clubs have to juggle with, and the more county players you have nearly the worse it can be.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: It can be just hard, like and not only that you missed them for certain league games, maybe or something, but it's just it's just hard integrating them back into the whole setup, and you know, you you you have to tailor your training around it, you know, you're you don't want bringing them back in and flogging them after coming off the county setup, or you give them a week off when they finish with the county or two weeks off.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's it's the conundrum of of a management, you know what I mean?
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: It it really is.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_01: But from the outside looking in, it looks like Jimmy Langan and Liam Oak have timed the run to perfection, and the two teams are into the final on Sunday, and as I said, I have been tipping Curry.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm leaning a little bit towards Ballymat now, and the basis of that is that what happened Curry in the semi-final.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_01: I you know, and I would say like Ballymote watching what Budnad and done, big strong men all over the field.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: Were Curry able for it?
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: Did Curry have enough uh firepower coming off the bench?
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: With you know, I know Carl Brennan came in and kicked one-one.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they they're probably going to need the likes of that to happen again.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: They really are like to get across the line.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_01: And Ballymot are just like they're strong, they're very, very physical.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: Curry are physical as well, but Ballywood just seemed to have a little bit of grip between the teeth, you know.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I wouldn't I'm not I wouldn't rule out a draw in the game.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a it's it's really uh primed for a draw that game, right?
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: There'll be no quarter given there, like and as you said, they both had a good tester in the semi-final, and received on Mikey Conway, Michael Conway down to referee it.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_01: So that's it's the best of luck to all the refs, yeah.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, yeah, and that's that's a big game for Mikey D.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: Reference on the referee scene for the last few years, and I I could be wrong on this, but I think it's his first we'll we'll call it a major final that he has.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it's again you go into the White Heater Championship battle for players and management, it's the same for referees as well.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, it's a big game for him as well.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I've seen him reference him underages here, and I thought he kind of handled any game I've seen very well, like you know.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, but as you said, look, it's exciting for him as well as anyone.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: And you'd be hoping after the game that nobody is talking about the ref in any game, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean?
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like, let's let's let's hope it's won by the players on the pitch or lost by the players on the pitch, and they can look at each other, catch each other, or play them to the middle.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, look, as I said, it's exciting.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_00: These are the first two of the senior men's finals, which we've been blown away by the interest.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: I must say hello to Park Henry there if he's watching by the way, he met me the other day.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but um it's been a great championship, and as I said, I'm growing on it like like I wouldn't have never dreamt of been watching intermediate finals a few months ago, and now this sounds like could be one of the games of the year.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, correct.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyone that's out there, whether you're calling to Markfish Park on Sunday or uh on Sligo GATV.e or on OceanFM, uh it'll be a dinger.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we will we'll well I'll be there.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'll I'll take the notes this time.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: I won't have darents.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, no, looking forward to it.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: But uh look, we'll be back next week.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: We'll review these and then we're gonna have a huge preview then again with the senior final, which is Sunday week.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: We won't even get into that now.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's enough talk on that next week.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: And again, there's loads of other games on.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: I know there's some ladies' games on, um, there's a minor final coming, not next week, this week, but the week after.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: So other lots of other championship games.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: And the Hurlan is obviously in full flight as well in the club championship.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: So uh lots of uh sport and action around the around the county to watch out for.
• 40:36
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• 41:08
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• 41:09
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