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2026 Sligo Club C'Ships Q/Final Review · On The Edge Sports Podcast

0:15
SPEAKER_02: Hello and welcome back to the On the Edge Sports Podcast with myself, Brendan Tierney, and my co-host Darren Kearns here.
0:21
SPEAKER_02: We're going to be talking now in our first episode this week.
0:23
SPEAKER_02: There will be two again this week.
0:24
SPEAKER_02: We are getting to the Sligo Senior Club Intermediates Junior Semi-Finals time.
0:29
SPEAKER_02: So this episode you're watching will be all reviewing last weekend's games.
0:32
SPEAKER_02: Darren, let's get straight into them.
0:34
SPEAKER_02: We were commentating on St.
0:35
SPEAKER_02: Miloch Gales versus Torestran, and it finished up St.
0:37
SPEAKER_02: Meloch Gales 3.21.
0:39
SPEAKER_02: Now there's a debate, the scoreboard out there's at 322.
0:41
SPEAKER_02: We're pretty sure it's 321.
0:43
SPEAKER_02: And it was didn't matter what the score was, it was an emphatic win.
0:46
SPEAKER_02: Uh Tor Lestran only getting 2-8.
0:48
SPEAKER_02: And as I said, like we went out there, we were I was talking going to people going, God, they're you know, could be a fracker.
0:55
SPEAKER_02: But not how it turned out.
0:57
SPEAKER_01: Really surprising.
0:57
SPEAKER_01: No.
0:58
SPEAKER_01: Melash Gales hit the ground running from the get-go.
1:02
SPEAKER_01: And surprised an awful lot of people, surprised Torestran, definitely, and I'd say surprised themselves also, based on what was after happening in uh a couple of weeks before what happened then when they got like a rabbit on the headlights against Drumcliffe Ross' Point out in Ballymot.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: Now I suppose they had a game to you know correct the wrongs in between that against Kulera Strand Hill, which they drew 11 apiece out in Castle Connor the week before, but like from the very first ball, they were they were on it.
1:30
SPEAKER_01: They were on it.
1:31
SPEAKER_01: And I would say that they got a huge lift just before the game, which it it shocked them, us and everybody else there when we found out that Johnny Kelly and Ushin Kennedy, two massive, massive players to Torestran, and have been down through the years, all in their county winning pomp.
1:48
SPEAKER_01: And especially this year, they've been you know Johnny Kelly is running the show, he's super super footballer there at 11 pulling the strings to Touristrand all the time.
1:56
SPEAKER_01: And Ushin Kennedy has a workhorse in the middle of the field who gets up and down.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: You know, he clips in with a couple of scores, and he's always he's huge running ability, huge engine on him.
2:04
SPEAKER_01: And when Milash Gilles found out that they weren't playing, it just gave them a wee pep in their step.
2:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I was I was I think as you said we're all blown away, but like like I've been very impressed.
2:14
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we've commented in a few Tour Lestran games where I went out to watch them another game, and like Cajol Flem and Cajal Henry, Matthew Walsh have been prolific throughout this championship.
2:21
SPEAKER_02: Was it Cahel got player or top scorer of the week one week?
2:24
SPEAKER_02: And yeah, they were kept their full forward line got two points from play, and that's nothing against them.
2:29
SPEAKER_02: That's can only be a compliment to the backs in Several Osh Gales.
2:32
SPEAKER_02: Like no one held them to that all the championship.
2:34
SPEAKER_01: No, and uh, like I suppose you know, we were talking to a couple of the same olosh gales players afterwards and to the manager James Clancy, and you know, like it wasn't that they were overly surprised with the result, it was like they probably thought it was in them, and getting it out of them has been the problem that James Clancy has probably had over the last 12 months since he took it over.
2:55
SPEAKER_01: And you know, when you're stepping into a uh a role like that, and Jimmy Langan has had that team for a few years and had been knocking on the door county finals, and James Clancy probably needed just a little bit of time to bed himself in and get his own ideas and thoughts around it.
3:08
SPEAKER_01: And on from a player's point of view, I'd say they probably need a bit of time to get used to that and different voice, different opinions, and it can change up.
3:17
SPEAKER_01: But definitely on Sunday evening, it looked like you know they were a team that they knew what they were at, they knew what their game plan was, and they had a game plan from the get-go, and they just went at it, and they left nothing to chance.
3:29
SPEAKER_01: They went two, three, four, five, six up in the first six or seven minutes, and they never looked back to be fair to them.
3:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
3:37
SPEAKER_01: You know, and like the range of scores.
3:38
SPEAKER_02: I mean, having sheet here in front of me, like Lou Castley named as fullback now as he told himself he was more out on the halfbacks, but still, yeah, how many run through, runs through, even like there was loads of times he linked up to play, Dean Carroll, centre back, three points, uh, even Ethan Waters, a cornerback, getting a point, like uh Kennicks in midfield too.
3:55
SPEAKER_02: So, like, just and all of never mind for starting into the forwards, like if just as you said, and they were ruthless.
4:00
SPEAKER_02: And in fairness to Trulestran, even when the last 10 minutes when the game was definitely gone, they still kept going.
4:06
SPEAKER_02: So, Melarshgale, they're not going into next week in the semi-final, kind of ah, it was an easy win.
4:10
SPEAKER_02: No, we're arrested like Trollestrana, which they've been doing a lot.
4:13
SPEAKER_01: And I suppose, like, like probably a long way out, the game was over on Sunday evening.
4:17
SPEAKER_01: And when you get into that kind of a situation as a team and you're running the bench and there's a few subs coming on, like it's very easy just to down tools and say the game is over here, and you know, let's get ready for a county semi-final because they knew it's coming up a week later.
4:31
SPEAKER_01: But no, they didn't.
4:32
SPEAKER_01: You know, they kept going, they kept going for scores, and even right up until the end, they kept going for goal chances.
4:37
SPEAKER_01: And in fairness, Adam Bro and Torres Strand goals kept out one or two late on, you know.
4:41
SPEAKER_01: And how many how many uh times did Liam Kennedy come across and put a ball in?
4:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and he was unlucky.
4:46
SPEAKER_02: I get technically on an own goal, it just kind of hit against him.
4:49
SPEAKER_02: But like, but his uh, especially in the second half, cutting out that, and that that was Touristran's game.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: Well, I suppose Tourist Strand's game plan from halftime was just launch the ball in from anywhere and let's try and hit down your bag a few times because that's probably the only way they were going to get back into it.
5:03
SPEAKER_01: And on three or four occasions, Liam Kennedy from cornerback just landed out in front of his man and you know caught the ball and drove up the field.
5:11
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, this was so demoralizing.
5:12
SPEAKER_02: Like and and as you said, uh they that was their their superpower when we've seen them a few weeks ago, tourist ran.
5:19
SPEAKER_02: But obviously, uh Malash had it, they were ready for it, and again it was Tigris all the way through.
5:23
SPEAKER_02: And they never let up either, like they kept going and kept going and kept going.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: Like obviously, Adrian McIntyre tried his damnedest at midfield there, like he really you know, he fought for everything, and you know, he was trying to give fellas lifts, and he got a great score himself just before halftime.
5:36
SPEAKER_01: But you know, he was fighting a lonely battle around the middle third there, you know, and uh any break and ball, there was always there was nearly two Melosh Gales guys going for the breaking ball, so they were really hungry on the break.
5:47
SPEAKER_01: It seems that that they'd a lot of work done on the breaking ball in the last couple of weeks.
5:50
SPEAKER_01: And you know, like Nile McLaughlin was back in goals there for say Melosh Gales, who you know, he's been their keeper for the last number of years, but he's been injured for most of the championship.
5:59
SPEAKER_01: Came back in, and like he is a he has a big boomer of a kick on him, and he was getting the ball down the field.
6:03
SPEAKER_01: And obviously, Bud Naden is you know, it's a small enough pitch, but when you're getting up there and you're getting it past the halfway line and you're winning that breaking ball, you're in a scoring position then.
6:12
SPEAKER_02: Like you know, he's really mopped.
6:13
SPEAKER_02: I've seen some stat now.
6:14
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if they but they they won like 15 or 20 nearly of Tronishran's kickouts.
6:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and even if that's a little bit like they were definitely mopping up, as you said.
6:20
SPEAKER_02: If they weren't winning cleanly, they were just there all the time.
6:23
SPEAKER_01: Credit to them, credit to them.
6:24
SPEAKER_01: They kept going from right from the get-go, right to the final whistle.
6:27
SPEAKER_02: And it was my first time, um or not my first time, but I mean Aaron Lang really came to life in this game for me.
6:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he wasn't such a danger man.
6:34
SPEAKER_01: I would say the amount of possessions he had, like it like there wasn't a ball that went into him that he didn't win out in front, yeah, or he didn't have a hand in.
6:40
SPEAKER_01: Now he scored, I think he ended up with one four himself.
6:42
SPEAKER_02: One three I'd down for.
6:43
SPEAKER_01: One three or one four, but like he he had another he had another five or six or seven wides as well, like you know, and in fairness to him, he kept at it, and it's kind of like in the we said the Mayo moles you took out the words in my mouth.
6:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
6:57
SPEAKER_01: Keep going, keep going, keep shooting.
6:59
SPEAKER_02: But he's you know keep swinging confidence, like, and he's a bag of speed and tricks.
7:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh I would not like to be marking him under these new rules, and like then going back to Paul Flynn out in the wing, then a goal and uh goal on two as well.
7:09
SPEAKER_01: Live wire, he's he's had a couple of great games now with championship, he really has.
7:12
SPEAKER_01: But these guys and Keen Nickinson at midfield and Joe Keeney at midfield, you know, all these boys have played inter-county football, like you know, like be it at under 20 level or whatever it may be, you know, and there's there's competition for places in that Milash Gales team, there really is.
7:26
SPEAKER_01: And you know, we probably know more so than us, maybe, because we were commentating on the game against Drumcliffe.
7:31
SPEAKER_01: We might have bet them up a little bit too much for their defeat to Drumcliffe Ross's point, you know, like and um you know, we'll touch on it again, but like are the time of the run.
7:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but we were trying to hold ourselves back from talking about Anathan Head because on Friday we'll have our previous based on what we were watching, like it was a completely different animal on Sunday even to what we seen in Belly Moor about three or four weeks ago.
7:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, now you could argue, okay, uh, on form like Drumcliffe maybe are a tougher opponent, obviously.
7:58
SPEAKER_02: Most people would probably agree on that.
7:59
SPEAKER_02: But I remember you telling me again, because I don't know everything about Sligo's club football scene, but you told me how uh Alan McLaughlin was just coming back in, Luke Hastick came on that day, yeah.
8:07
SPEAKER_02: You know, and we're still waiting for the Ozman himself.
8:10
SPEAKER_02: Everyone's like, is he here?
8:11
SPEAKER_02: Is he not?
8:12
SPEAKER_02: But he is here, and he's there, we're waiting to see him just.
8:17
SPEAKER_02: That's a way if you're if you're coming up against him now next weekend, you go, no, is he is he coming in as well?
8:21
SPEAKER_02: But even from the bench, Michael Langden, like uh Dante Current, these kind of players come in, you know, mid impact busy.
8:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, mid-impact handle lots of ball.
8:28
SPEAKER_01: Like and when you're going into that game, you know, obviously the game has won and it it is what it is, but you have to try and show the Milash management that if I go into the white heat of a championship semi-final, that I'm ready to go here, like you're not going to shock responsibility.
8:44
SPEAKER_01: And even at the end, they got uh blood sub right at the very end, the game was over, and you know, one of their elder states when Keelan Waters, like he got called upon.
8:53
SPEAKER_01: And you know, another guy could say, Ah shit, the game is over.
8:57
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's a it what's the point of going on?
8:59
SPEAKER_01: But he was getting on the field, he was showing you you know, he was putting James Glancy said after he said that was that was their best, like that seemed to click.
9:07
SPEAKER_02: So, as we were as we will talk about in the semis preview, you know, maybe that's where they are at now, you know what I mean?
9:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and we did we did kind of mention that Torestran were in bonus territory from where they were over the last couple of seasons, you know, fighting relegation battles, etc.
9:19
SPEAKER_01: etc.
9:19
SPEAKER_01: Not where Torestran wanted to be, and they were in bonus territory, and look at it was just probably for the panel that they have at the moment, it was probably a little step too far.
9:29
SPEAKER_01: And you know, when you're playing games, championship games back to back, and you pick up a couple of injuries along the way, and you're you know, you don't have a very deep panel, you know.
9:38
SPEAKER_01: But credit to them, they stuck at the game, they kept at it, you know, and you know, like they they got a goal late on the run lucky with another one or two that could have bounced in off the underside of the crossbar.
9:48
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, credit to Torestran, but and I have to say, like, it just came in from watching them again.
9:53
SPEAKER_02: As I said, I've been learning like Barry Walsh again, Tigrish is ever, Adrian McIntyre as we already mentioned, even Ronan Walsh came on, and very hard for the commentator to just kick the decipher the two kicked a dinger of a two-pointer.
10:03
SPEAKER_02: But like, even like Carl Fleming was coming out winning balls, so they're a real, like, dogged, dogged team, and it's been a joy watching them, I must say.
10:10
SPEAKER_02: The Morton Eastern Harps we mentioned last week.
10:11
SPEAKER_02: Uh, but yeah, so not to be for Troy Strand.
10:14
SPEAKER_02: I don't think anyone expected that much of a victory, but it really sets up.
10:17
SPEAKER_02: I suppose if Malash Gales had kind of trickled past that and just won by a couple of points, maybe everyone would be less less excited at an expand.
10:25
SPEAKER_02: So we'll we'll get into that in due course.
10:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
10:27
SPEAKER_02: So the other semi-final course was on Sunday out in Calloone, and it was St.
10:30
SPEAKER_02: Mary's versus Kaluristrant, Kaluristrandhill, sorry.
10:32
SPEAKER_02: And Mary's were favourites, and they they tagged on that favourite.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: Julie obliged.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they did what they were supposed to, 17 points to 15.
10:39
SPEAKER_02: Uh, again, like we were both out at it.
10:41
SPEAKER_02: Now we weren't commentating, and I was people yapping to me in chatting, so it was going to be but uh from my uh uneducated view of this senior championship, St.
10:50
SPEAKER_02: Mary's just seem to be putting more and more of the younger lads on in the bench, and they seem to be gelling really well.
10:56
SPEAKER_02: And we'll go through the scores in a minute, and then their defence again and again and again.
10:59
SPEAKER_02: Fiona Hare, Scott Lynch, these lads and others like they are Tigris.
11:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I remember talking to Scottie Lynch uh after the game out in um oh my god, where were we the week before?
11:11
SPEAKER_02: Triple Curry.
11:11
SPEAKER_02: Yes, and he was bursting to go for last weekend against Kaleira.
11:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so you can see that tigrishness goes on to the field.
11:17
SPEAKER_02: Like, but just to tell people the scores here, uh according to the report we had in the Saga Champion with Jessica Farry, uh St.
11:22
SPEAKER_02: Mary's got four or St.
11:23
SPEAKER_02: Nathan Rooney got four points to freeze, uh Eli Rooney three points, one two point free.
11:28
SPEAKER_02: Uh Connor Davy, three points, one two pointer there again.
11:30
SPEAKER_02: Robert Kelly Lynch three points, Keelan Cawley two points, Fiona Hare in the backs, goes up for a point, and Patrick Brady a point.
11:50
SPEAKER_02: So again, a lot of the younger statesmen there coming into their groove, like, and I've watched Connor Davy, and you talked about the beginning early on this podcast.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right, good footballer.
11:58
SPEAKER_02: Oh, he's he just what age again is he?
12:01
SPEAKER_01: No, he's only 18.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: Like he shouldn't be allowed to be that calm in the position of the ball in a senior situation.
12:06
SPEAKER_01: And and the two-pointer that he got, he had no right to be kicking it from where he was.
12:10
SPEAKER_01: He was facing the trainer pitch in Calloon.
12:12
SPEAKER_01: If anybody knows the pitch, he was facing it and he hooked it over, and it was probably against whatever elements was there.
12:18
SPEAKER_01: Um but St.
12:19
SPEAKER_01: Mary's in in that game, it was like they probably had the game one, and then all of a sudden it's down to a nail point of time.
12:28
SPEAKER_01: I actually forget what it was a good chunk between it.
12:30
SPEAKER_01: No, there was, I think there was five in it.
12:31
SPEAKER_01: Five, yeah.
12:32
SPEAKER_01: So it was double score.
12:33
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, but like it was they took their foot off the gas again.
12:37
SPEAKER_01: And for this Sam Mary's team to you know to end up you know getting to a championship final first and foremost or winning a championship, you know, if you have a team of Kolera's ability down, you need to keep them down and don't give them oxygen.
12:51
SPEAKER_01: And it in in this sense, like Kolera were nowhere next or near the level or where they've been over the last few years.
12:58
SPEAKER_01: You know, they just weren't on Sunday for whatever reason, you know, like like Niall Murphy played, didn't look himself as you know, at all.
13:05
SPEAKER_02: I mean, very understandable.
13:06
SPEAKER_02: Like, I mean he's a few.
13:07
SPEAKER_02: He hasn't played an awful lot of football.
13:08
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, um he still came up with a beauty of a two point.
13:11
SPEAKER_01: He did, he spun one the outside the right.
13:13
SPEAKER_01: You know, Keelan Cawley started at 11, he was taken off in the first half, uh, then he was put back on in the second half.
13:19
SPEAKER_01: You know, they were missing Kevin Banks at midfield, huge player, huge loss to them.
13:23
SPEAKER_01: And then they were missing Oren Hart at wing back, who's played wing back for the last few years, so then he hurt his hamstring over the last couple of weeks.
13:30
SPEAKER_01: So when you're going deep into the panel like that, and you don't have you know, not the calibre of player replacing the same calibre player, that's when it gets you know, question marks come for a team.
13:40
SPEAKER_01: And Kalero looked dead and buried, but like to their task, they just kept at it.
13:46
SPEAKER_01: And you know, Murph spun over that one the outside the right, and then all of a sudden there's only four in it, then they get another three.
13:52
SPEAKER_01: They were after winning the midfield battle for about ten minutes, and then all of a sudden they get a goal chance with five or six minutes left.
13:59
SPEAKER_01: Murph comes in along the end line and hand passes it across to Fola, who had a very quiet day by his own standards.
14:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure he'd be the first to admit that.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: But he gets a flick to it, beats the keeper, and Scotty Lynch, you know, dies full length.
14:12
SPEAKER_01: I'd love to watch a bat, it was like he came out of the ground.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and flicks it over the bar.
14:15
SPEAKER_01: And Scotty was after coming back after receiving a black card himself for a hand trip.
14:20
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so I'd say he was like, I have to do something here, like I'm after, you know, letting the side down, you know, let's make sure I don't let in a goal or anything like that.
14:28
SPEAKER_01: And he put his body on the line and he got a super, super flick to flick it up and over the bar.
14:32
SPEAKER_01: At that stage, I think there was only a point or two in it, it would have put Kalera into the lead.
14:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and if that had happened at that stage, would Samaris have come back from it?
14:40
SPEAKER_01: Because that would have been a huge sucker punch.
14:42
SPEAKER_01: But to their credit, they kept going, they kept that one out.
14:45
SPEAKER_01: That brought that there was two in it, actually, so that brought it back to one.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: Like that brought it to 16-15, and they went down the field then, and Kyle Cawley got a super score from a tough angle.
14:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, way out in the wing, yeah.
14:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, to to give them the little two-point cushion, and then but like they were they were probably an awful lot better than Kulera than two points in the score line suggests.
15:03
SPEAKER_01: But what I'm saying is if on what we're looking at, like when you're that far ahead of a team, like there's at that stage, then you just the better teams and the stronger teams they put fit teams through the sword.
15:16
SPEAKER_01: So, say for argument's sake with Milash and Tour de Strand on Sunday evening, like when Milash had them down, they did not give them oxygen, they did not give them no little 15-minute purple pass.
15:23
SPEAKER_02: No, it wasn't as if to say they get a goal at one stage at Touristran.
15:26
SPEAKER_02: Remember that and then it was like straight up, straight down the field and got another got a goal against it, cancelled it out.
15:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, look again.
15:30
SPEAKER_02: Uh we've kind of been saying like Marys are there's a lot of youngsters there, and sometimes that kind of thing can creep in.
15:35
SPEAKER_02: Obviously, the battard didn't help, but I was one thing that, and I think the whole stadium was looking at one stage, and Fiona Hare, one of the defenders of the championship I've seen, yeah, marking fola, and there didn't really seem to be as low as a high ball going in.
15:47
SPEAKER_02: Maybe it I don't know.
15:48
SPEAKER_01: From from where we were definitely because like I was standing above the goals at the at the dressing room end, and I was like, they have to launch one or two in the street.
15:57
SPEAKER_01: Everyone was because like you know, it was a standout now.
16:00
SPEAKER_01: Junger Hare would be like, let it in and let me fight.
16:03
SPEAKER_01: You can see him loving it.
16:04
SPEAKER_01: He's a tenacious little corner back.
16:06
SPEAKER_02: He must have been going like everyone thinks now that he'll get this you know, he wants his body shape the way he was in near him.
16:10
SPEAKER_02: I'd say he was like, I make sure you won't get a run out instead of it.
16:12
SPEAKER_01: I know I know, and he and Fjun got up and got a super score himself in the first half, clipped it over.
16:18
SPEAKER_01: You know, he finished out his run, clipped it over, great score.
16:21
SPEAKER_01: And Patty Brady got up and he got a score himself in the first half.
16:24
SPEAKER_01: You know, he's a right good footballer as well.
16:26
SPEAKER_01: And we're talking about Connor Davy and Emma Mulligan wasn't playing the last day either.
16:30
SPEAKER_02: Just didn't come on, or was he?
16:31
SPEAKER_01: He was he was away at work.
16:32
SPEAKER_01: Ah, okay, okay.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: And you know, they had called for Brian Meehan towards the end, that's another young kid that came on, and then the elder statesman himself, Stephen Cohn, came on and you know, he won a couple of balls but clipped a couple of them wide as well.
16:45
SPEAKER_01: Like you know.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, so when you're looking for the impact off the bench, like they had in Rhode Island Island that didn't start him on injury time, yeah.
16:53
SPEAKER_01: He only came on right at the right at the end.
16:54
SPEAKER_01: So again, they'll probably be looking at the fact that right, let's try and get our best 15 on the field starting the semi-final.
17:00
SPEAKER_01: But look at it.
17:01
SPEAKER_01: We mentioned last week on our own shows that quarterfinals are about winning, no matter how you win them.
17:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
17:07
SPEAKER_01: And try and iron out any few creases you have during the week then and get ready for a semi-final.
17:12
SPEAKER_01: Because the likes of if you were to lose that game and then you're crying over spilled milk and you're saying what ifs, buts, and maybes.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: And as you said, that goal chance, and it could have been it could have been they'd be licking their wounds all.
17:22
SPEAKER_01: But it's not, and they won it, and they're true to the semi-final, so you know, good luck to them, hat to them.
17:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, no, no, it was another enthralling game.
17:29
SPEAKER_02: But again, as you said, Mary's probably let it become an enthralling fixture, which is correct.
17:33
SPEAKER_02: So that was the two quarterfinals in the senior championship, and now we'll go on to the intermediate.
17:38
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so we had uh in the quarterfinals Ballymote 5.14, St.
17:42
SPEAKER_02: Farnland's 212, Colery St.
17:44
SPEAKER_02: Joseph's 2.14, Castle Conner 3.10.
17:46
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and now we did hear from this one uh Colery were four or five points down.
17:50
SPEAKER_02: They were five points down with not long to go.
17:52
SPEAKER_01: Minute on the clock.
17:53
SPEAKER_02: A minute?
17:54
SPEAKER_02: I didn't realise it was that nice.
17:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then you you heard the story tell us.
17:57
SPEAKER_01: Two goals.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: Um Darty bagged a goal to bring them right back into it.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: They won the next kick out and they got straight up the field, and Brian Callahan rattled a goal in and they held the ball for the last few minutes without Cass O'Connor getting their hand on it and they managed the game out.
18:12
SPEAKER_01: Now, from all accounts, I believe Cass O'Connor would be sick to lose it, although Collery had left that missed a penalty in the first half, I think it was, that left another couple of chances behind them.
18:22
SPEAKER_01: Um but Castle Connor, I I've been saying it all championship, they're not a bad team, they have good players throughout every line of the field, you know.
18:30
SPEAKER_01: And they were probably thinking to themselves, we can be in a semi-final here, you know, going into that game, like and Colery St.
18:37
SPEAKER_01: Joseph's are you know they're finding their feet at this level, and that's a that's a huge, huge test for them, which they come out on top of, you know.
18:46
SPEAKER_01: And you know, if they if they come out the wrong side of the result, you would have been saying, Oh, well, look at sure.
18:50
SPEAKER_01: They were playing division three football, next year they'd be playing division two football, and they'll have a right rattle at the championship then, and so be it.
18:57
SPEAKER_01: But no, they didn't rest on their lawyers and they kept going right to the end, and they got their Drew Awards at the end.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: Now, that's from what I can gather, like you know, they had big players all over the field that played very, very well.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, you had Callahan, you had Cock, Brian Cox was marking Sean Carabine, two intercounty teammates for a number of years.
19:14
SPEAKER_01: Like I heard it was a super battle, like you know, and Owen Doherty there up in the corner forward position, you know, it seems like he's been around for a while, but he's one of their elder statesmen.
19:24
SPEAKER_01: Like he got the goal late on.
19:25
SPEAKER_01: I think he got eight points along with it, you know, which is fairly.
19:30
SPEAKER_02: You don't seem to lose it at any age, as long as you keep yourself anyways fit.
19:33
SPEAKER_01: Like it's amazing to keep racking up those scores.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: So I look at Colrier there, and in the in in the other quarterfinal Ballymote, St.
19:40
SPEAKER_01: Farnon's, like we had mentioned that St.
19:43
SPEAKER_01: Farnens obviously didn't play the week before in the last group game, and they got through to the quarterfinal having one win from their four games.
19:50
SPEAKER_01: Whether that's right or wrong, that's not for us to decide.
19:52
SPEAKER_01: That's the you know, that's the way it happened.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: It worked out, and so be it.
19:55
SPEAKER_01: But Ballymot are just you know, they're a well-oiled machine, you know, they're a right good team.
20:01
SPEAKER_01: Liam O'Gormley has them, you know, they have them firing all cylinders, they're gonna take a good bit of watching towards the latter end of the championship, I guarantee you.
20:09
SPEAKER_01: And like they had obviously they have the three Lavins, we'll say, you know, and then they have Zach O'Dowd and they have Jack Heaven and they have Thomas Sweeney, they've they have good footballers throughout the field, and then like James Lavin from I think probably playing in the half back line ends up kicking two three.
20:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we were getting messages.
20:24
SPEAKER_01: This man was flying.
20:26
SPEAKER_01: But like he he he's a right good footballer, and but knows where the posts are and clipping two three from your half back line, and the way the rules are now, you you you know, you could be a half-owned or we're looking at Luke Hassware full back essentially, and yeah, and score four points.
20:41
SPEAKER_02: Like they got what, seven points between them.
20:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but Bally Motor are a well-oiled machine, and St.
20:44
SPEAKER_01: Farns was just a step too far for St.
20:45
SPEAKER_01: Farns, just the way that the thing is now, like you know.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and uh well, just to tell people the relegation semi-finals, obviously, Giva, you you were able to get the hair down 115 and a scroll in 2-8.
20:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh, Clinicool 11 St.
20:57
SPEAKER_02: Patz one eleven.
20:59
SPEAKER_02: Cluniko 11 points in Pats 111.
21:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, I I was at I was at the Giva in a scroll match, very lucky to get out of it.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: Um, went a man down after 10 minutes to uh to a red card and was four points down 10 minutes into the second half, and they ground it out, and credit to them because you know it would have been very easy to lie over there and finish it off and say that we have another bite of the cherry in a relegation final, but they didn't, they grounded out, and you know, just where the game is at the moment, like it's as I mentioned with small panels, like Eva would be struggling with numbers, you know, wouldn't have huge numbers, and you know, they played nine league matches in ten weeks, including the league final, then straight after it, and then go straight into playing five championship games in six weeks.
21:43
SPEAKER_01: Your panel is really tested, and you lose one or two players, and that goes for all the teams, you know, that are that are a lot a lot of the rural teams that are that are struggling with numbers.
21:51
SPEAKER_01: It's just it's it's a difficult task, it really is.
21:53
SPEAKER_01: But they got the win, and on the flip side of that, then with St.
21:57
SPEAKER_01: Pat's against Clunakul, St.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: Pat's you know, would have been an awful lot of people's favourites for the chopping block, you know, and they ground out the win against Clunacool the last day.
22:07
SPEAKER_01: Again, you know, they have right good fellas in that club in St.
22:11
SPEAKER_01: Pat's, they really have, and they've lost an awful lot of footballers, but credit to them, they struck to their task, and they got there, and it's Clunacool and in a scroll in the relegation final now.
22:20
SPEAKER_02: Do you know before we move on to junior A, we'll just quickly go through this week's fixture.
22:23
SPEAKER_02: Just tell people who are not going into them.
22:24
SPEAKER_02: We will have our second show, which will preview this weekend's matches uh coming out on Friday.
22:28
SPEAKER_02: So the senior semifinals draw.
22:29
SPEAKER_02: Cliff Ross's point versus St.
22:30
SPEAKER_02: Mary's at half one in Markfitch Park.
22:32
SPEAKER_02: Me and Darrenby on Cole Coms with that.
22:33
SPEAKER_02: All these games, by the way, are on Sligo GA TV and they are on Ocean FM, so go and check them out there.
22:39
SPEAKER_02: Shamrock Gales versus St.
22:40
SPEAKER_02: Melosh Gales also in Markfitch Park at half three.
22:42
SPEAKER_02: There will be a relegation semi-final at five o'clock on Saturday.
22:46
SPEAKER_02: That's East Key versus Trubber Curry.
22:48
SPEAKER_02: Sorry, they're sorry, the semi-finals is Easky versus Trubber Curry, Kalani Mulderbrino versus Eastern Harps.
22:52
SPEAKER_02: They're both five o'clock on Saturday.
22:53
SPEAKER_02: All the fixtures on Slago GA.de.
22:55
SPEAKER_02: Then in intermediate Sunday, the semi-finals, Ballymote versus Callery, that's at midday out in Callooney and Connolly Park.
23:01
SPEAKER_02: And then Bon and Adam play Curry in the other semi-final out in Kilcoyne Park and Trubber Curry at half five.
23:05
SPEAKER_02: And the Saturday evening there, there's the relegation final as you just mentioned Clunacool versus Inniscron.
23:09
SPEAKER_02: Now we're not going to get into them.
23:10
SPEAKER_02: We will get into them in the next podcast.
23:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, sorry, Calunacul and Innescrone is half seven out in Curry.
23:15
SPEAKER_02: So Junior A, here we are now.
23:17
SPEAKER_02: Our own team here.
23:18
SPEAKER_02: We'll just go through the uh the semis first.
23:21
SPEAKER_02: Uh the relegation semi-finals in Junior A, I should say.
23:24
SPEAKER_02: Shamrock Gales 211, Torlestran 18 points.
23:27
SPEAKER_02: Drumcliffe 2-8, St.
23:28
SPEAKER_02: Mary's 4-12.
23:29
SPEAKER_02: Of course, there was no semi-finals.
23:31
SPEAKER_02: Everyone thought they were on, now they're on coming up this weekend.
23:33
SPEAKER_01: So again, super win for Torlestran there over Shamrock Gales, you know.
23:37
SPEAKER_01: Like they were struggled throughout the league phase, you know, got a few bad clippings of a few teams, but they regrouped, and you know, they took Shamrock Gales, you know, like the on Saturday even.
23:49
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure Shamrock Gales wouldn't be thinking we you know we'll get across the line here and Torestran go into the relegation final.
23:55
SPEAKER_01: But no matter the exact same senior out in Tour de Strand, you know, they had some elder statesmen playing, and you know, the Legends got the they got the win.
24:03
SPEAKER_01: And St.
24:03
SPEAKER_01: Mary's had a comfortable win over Drumcliffe Ross' Point in the other semi-final.
24:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and so we'll just quickly go through the Fixers in in Junior A this weekend finally says some people uh Owenmore Gales versus St.
24:12
SPEAKER_02: John's, uh that's in Randsborough uh Saturday at five o'clock, and then St.
24:16
SPEAKER_02: Meloche Gales play St.
24:18
SPEAKER_02: Michael's also five o'clock.
24:19
SPEAKER_02: I hope it's that correct.
24:20
SPEAKER_02: And that's in Curran Park and Ballymot.
24:21
SPEAKER_02: And then the relegation final in Junior A is Drumcliff, Ross's Point versus Shamrock Gales in the in Altonskarden, the GA Centre of Excellence, five o'clock on Saturday.
24:29
SPEAKER_02: So all five o'clock kickoffs.
24:31
SPEAKER_02: We will get into preview on those ones uh the weekend, but just to wrap it up, then the junior B final, there was no junior seed this week ain't gone by.
24:38
SPEAKER_02: Uh junior B final, congrats to Ballymote Round Towers.
24:41
SPEAKER_02: Uh 4-9 to Kalani Mulnerbrina, 14 points.
24:44
SPEAKER_02: Emphatic win for them.
24:45
SPEAKER_02: Uh again.
24:46
SPEAKER_01: McTiernan there uh you know he he played Sligo Masters this year, super, super popular, played for Sligo down through the years, and he has played for Ballymote.
24:55
SPEAKER_01: I've I've been on the receiving end of some of the Dermy's left foot shots uh on numerous occasions, but he scored a hat-trick on Friday night in that junior B final, went a long way to winning the game for them.
25:05
SPEAKER_01: Well, obviously with four or nine, yeah.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
25:07
SPEAKER_01: And uh credit to them, but good luck to good luck to Ballymote.
25:10
SPEAKER_01: That's a good win for them, you know, and I'm sure the celebrated in style as well.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: Yes, no better men.
25:13
SPEAKER_02: So that concludes this first episode.
25:15
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so uh the only thing to go back on now is our player of the week.
25:19
SPEAKER_02: Yes, and our top score.
25:20
SPEAKER_02: Now, the top score we have is Owen Daugherty.
25:22
SPEAKER_01: Own Darty 1-8, unless someone has some other info we're missing.
25:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
25:26
SPEAKER_01: At the moment, 0-8, uh Owen Doherty 1-8, Colery St.
25:29
SPEAKER_01: Joseph's again, Castle Connor.
25:31
SPEAKER_01: Um, that's what we have at the moment.
25:32
SPEAKER_01: If we're open to correction, always.
25:34
SPEAKER_01: And we uh we've done a wee Instagram poll looking for players of the week.
25:39
SPEAKER_01: And the top three.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: Luke Casterly from St.
25:41
SPEAKER_01: Miloche Gales, Fiona here from St.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: Mary's, and the third one, then we had James Lavin from Ballymote.
25:49
SPEAKER_02: So our player of the week, and I always get these mixed up in my head when I go at it, we'll get a 20 euro protein pack from Sherlock's Butchers, and the top score will get a session out in um Sweat Happens reboot, a reset and recovery.
26:00
SPEAKER_02: There's so many different names here out in Trouble Curry as well.
26:03
SPEAKER_02: So we'll have those up during the week uh when we confirm all the details on those.
26:07
SPEAKER_02: Uh look at that's all for this uh review of the weekend's games.
26:10
SPEAKER_02: Check back in on Friday, we'll have a preview of all the semi-finals.
26:13
SPEAKER_02: So for me and Darren, we'll see you next time.