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- 0:15SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome back to our semi-final review of the Sligoat Club Championships with myself, Brendan Tierney, and Darren Kearns over there in the hot seat.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: Darren, we've got to uh, as we say, the business end now, the old cliche.
- 0:27SPEAKER_01: Um, it's a Shamrock Ales versus St.
- 0:29SPEAKER_01: Mary's final.
- 0:30SPEAKER_01: Uh, we had two, well, one real cracker of a semi-final at the weekend, and then of course one was just a bit one-sided.
- 0:36SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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- 1:39SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, we'll go straight to the game we were commentating on.
- 1:42SPEAKER_01: Markfitch Park Sunday, absolutely picture perfect.
- 1:45SPEAKER_01: Uh pitch, grass looked amazing, a few little sand things going on there, but it didn't seem to the teams didn't seem to be complaining too much about it.
- 1:52SPEAKER_01: But like it was um a cracker of a first semi-final.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: It was it was Drumcliffe Ross's point, 17 points, St.
- 1:58SPEAKER_01: Mary's 115.
- 2:00SPEAKER_01: And I mean you know, it was it was enthralling right through the city.
- 2:04SPEAKER_00: It really was, it really was.
- 2:05SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like it was just it was like I suppose Drumcliff got a super start, you know, went 4-1 up and looked really, really strong.
- 2:13SPEAKER_00: And even at that, it was like they probably could have been a few more points ahead.
- 2:19SPEAKER_00: They had probably put a couple of balls into their twin towers in the full forward line with Keane Lally and Paula Brian that didn't work out for them, which had worked out for them in a couple of games previous to that.
- 2:30SPEAKER_00: And in St.
- 2:31SPEAKER_00: Mary's kind of you know, they got a little bit of joy from winning them little breaks in the full back line, you know.
- 2:37SPEAKER_00: Like we mentioned it on the on the commentary, like they had obviously Fiona Hare and then Ryan Fayley and then Scotty Lynch breaking up that ball.
- 2:44SPEAKER_00: They kind of had an extra man there all the time.
- 2:46SPEAKER_00: And if you go back to a couple of the games that Drumcliffe played, it was more of a one-on-one situation.
- 2:52SPEAKER_00: And when that happens, you need an extra body back there.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: And St.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: Mary's had their homework done on that side of things.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: I would give them their dues on that.
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: I think St.
- 2:59SPEAKER_00: Mary's just got a bit of life, they got a lifeline from that from winning them a couple of balls because if they'd gone five, six, seven, one down, or even a ball that hit the back of the net, you know, at that early stage, you know, it can't be hard enough to claw that back, but they never pressed the panic button and they came down the field, and then they went into the lead themselves before halftime, you know, like and got some super super scores from a cut there was a good spread of scores throughout, but I thought that uh Kyle Cawley really came to the four there in the first half, especially, you know, and he was like he had a he had a good battle, he had a really good battle with Ross Chambers back there in the back in cornerback, who was named at number 12, but cornerback is usually his position.
- 3:37SPEAKER_00: He moved back to corner back, and then obviously Nathan clipped over one and Eli clipped over one, and then Eli clipped over a 45 after a super save by Dunico O'Brien in the drum trip goals.
- 3:47SPEAKER_00: Dunico O'Brien, I mean, he had four games.
- 3:51SPEAKER_01: Two in each half of Far as far as I remember.
- 3:53SPEAKER_01: And like, I mean, I know it ended up a one-point win, but like those four moments it it really was.
- 3:57SPEAKER_00: He was he was he was super, and he was he was really, really good on his restarts or his you know, his his kick outs in the first half.
- 4:06SPEAKER_00: There was one right before halftime that he split two Sam Mary's guys, you know, he took a real chance on it, and you know, that takes bravery, and he got it away and drunk crosspoint down the field and got a point just before half time.
- 4:19SPEAKER_00: And just for the goal that Sam Mary's got in the second half, I know we'll touch on that in a second, but he was so unfortunate.
- 4:27SPEAKER_00: And you mentioned a bit of sand on the pitch, and there was a there was a couple of times that there seemed to be fellas' studs getting stuck in the sand, and I think on that occasion, I would like I will just say that he he initially blocked the first one from Rhode Island, who was coming through for a kind of a half a goal chance.
- 4:43SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think they whoever had it lost control themselves, I think.
- 4:46SPEAKER_00: And then he got up and he's kind of spilled it as well.
- 4:49SPEAKER_00: Just as he was about to pick up the ball, and you know, it could have fallen anywhere, it could have gone out over the end line, it could have gone to the left, could have gone to the right, but then it just falls right to Nathan's foot and he slots at home with his left foot.
- 4:59SPEAKER_00: And that was that was the pivotal moment in the game, really, because it gave St.
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: Mary's that little three-point cushion at the time, and then it made Drumcliff Ross Point probably went for a couple of two-point efforts that weren't really on, to be totally honest.
- 5:14SPEAKER_00: And there was a couple that they pushed, and just with the new rules now, I just think that it's I think that if you miss a goal chance, you miss a goal chance.
- 5:21SPEAKER_00: So there was Drumcliff Ross' point missed a goal chance with key notes.
- 5:25SPEAKER_00: Great save by James Cronin and the goals for Sam Mary's, right?
- 5:27SPEAKER_00: And we mentioned Donico Brian saved, we'll say there were four, there were chances.
- 5:32SPEAKER_01: There were really well, and they were fairly clear cut.
- 5:33SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, there was Kyle Cawley on a couple of occasions, there was uh Robert Kelly Lynch as well, who had broke through.
- 5:38SPEAKER_00: He had a super outing as well, so he did.
- 5:40SPEAKER_00: But you're you're talking that that that yeah, you miss goal chances, okay?
- 5:46SPEAKER_00: That these things happen in a game, but if you miss a two-pointer in the new rules, I think it sucks the life out of a team, really.
- 5:53SPEAKER_00: Because one, the your own teammates are probably saying, you know, did you really need to be taking that on?
- 5:59SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the risk of it, like the risk of war and was it worth it?
- 6:01SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and on the on the flip side of that, then you know, if you do miss it, you know, like why did you take it on?
- 6:06SPEAKER_01: Like, and it it's a real pressure when we get on the second game where there was a man pinging them over for fun as well.
- 6:11SPEAKER_01: But as you said, okay, when you're up that far and you're attacking, and sometimes it can be just uh frustration.
- 6:16SPEAKER_01: And in fairness, as we said, Marys were the epitome of how to defend in these new rules.
- 6:20SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they were, yeah, they looked at bodies back.
- 6:22SPEAKER_01: If you took a picture and go, that's how you defend in the new rules, you clog it up, and but you have to be so in sync.
- 6:27SPEAKER_00: Like young Michael Carr for Drunk Left Ross Point, he got he got uh great two-pointer the outside of the boot in the first half, and then his two-pointer that he got um in the second half.
- 6:36SPEAKER_00: I I kind of mentioned in a commentary that it was kind of Clifford-esque.
- 6:40SPEAKER_00: So everybody was raving about David Clifford there a couple of weeks ago, and rightly so, don't get me wrong, he is uh we call him the goat, yeah, yeah.
- 6:45SPEAKER_00: Right, and but he was kind of inside the arc, but he stepped back out because he had an advantage and he went for the the two and he got it.
- 6:53SPEAKER_00: But Michael Carroll the other day, he cut inside Paul Kiquine and he kind of sized up that he was about to take a step inside if he kept going forward, the two-point arc, but he moved to the side and he you know he nailed a two-pointer.
- 7:06SPEAKER_00: I think Barry Judge was on the fence with giving it as a one first.
- 7:10SPEAKER_00: I think he initially gave it away.
- 7:12SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it can be a very hard thing for a ref to pick for a quick, and unless you have cameras in a space.
- 7:16SPEAKER_00: But it's a split-second decision, and he he's looking at it, and obviously, we had the benefit of the replay, and we were we were pretty sure straight away, but like you know, Barry Judge to his credit, then he kind of I think whether he got a bit of help from the linesman or from the umpires or whatever it was, but Michael Carl was you know, he he nail he nailed that two-pointer, and you know, that brought them right back into Keane.
- 7:34SPEAKER_00: Lally got a two-point free.
- 7:37SPEAKER_00: That was it was uh it was a free on the sideline for Drumcliff Ross Point, and I think we we heard on the on the mics that it was coming from descent from the sideline.
- 7:46SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 7:47SPEAKER_00: So that was brought forward on the tool 50 metres, and then in that instance, then obviously Keane Lally decided to bring it back out for a two-pointer because Drumcliffe Ross Point were chasing the game at that stage.
- 7:56SPEAKER_00: He nails that two-pointer, brings them right back into the game.
- 7:59SPEAKER_00: And you know, so you're talking about descent from the sideline, like there's not too often you see that in games, and in any games that I've seen this year or been involved in or looked at or been at or commentated on, there's always mountain coming in from the sidelines.
- 8:14SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 8:15SPEAKER_00: So for Barry Judge to call that one, you know, does it set a precedent for the county final that the sidelines are going to have to be quiet?
- 8:22SPEAKER_01: This has come up in the in the inter-county game as well at times, and you go, God, you'd hate a game to be decided by some someone on the sidelines.
- 8:29SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is.
- 8:29SPEAKER_00: It's crazy because the guys in the sideline, if if a player does it, he gets you know, he gets a double barrels from the management team for saying it on the sidelines.
- 8:38SPEAKER_00: So it wor it works both ways, it really does.
- 8:40SPEAKER_00: So it's up to the sideline to have a bit of manner to be quiet on that side of it as well.
- 8:44SPEAKER_00: But like I suppose, like you're talking about pivotal moments in games like Rhode Island, who you know, we've mentioned him here so.
- 8:51SPEAKER_01: Well, you picked him up before the championship at the nearly beginning, and then I was waiting for him to come in and waiting for him to come in, and then he came in the game and he was excellent.
- 8:56SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then he kind of missed it first game.
- 8:58SPEAKER_00: Well, he came on in extra or in injury time in the Calar Strathill game just to see out the game, and then he was sprung with 20-22 minutes to go off the bench the last day.
- 9:06SPEAKER_00: Three points, three points.
- 9:08SPEAKER_00: You know, one of them was kind of a half-goal chance that he kind of blazed over the bar that you know he was on the run, he fumbled the ball, or Donico Bryant took the ball off him for the goal that St.
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: Mary's got.
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: So he he had a crucial part to play in that also, and you know, St.
- 9:24SPEAKER_00: Mary's like like you're talking about.
- 9:25SPEAKER_00: You know, we I think we asked the question last week who was the deeper bench, and you're probably looking at from what we seen the last day that St.
- 9:32SPEAKER_00: Mary's that that the bench probably won it for them, really.
- 9:34SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, yeah, like you had Stephen Cohen went on there, he had a shot, hit the post, came down.
- 9:39SPEAKER_00: That was a Kyle Cawley uh goal chance that went out for a 45.
- 9:43SPEAKER_00: Nathan came out, takes the 45 quick to Muggsy, who had come on the pitch as well, Emily Mulligan.
- 9:49SPEAKER_01: And Muggsy got they got it.
- 9:50SPEAKER_00: Well, they both got on the ball a few times at cruise.
- 9:52SPEAKER_00: But Nathan nails that one with the outside the right, and that was that was a crucial score to get as well.
- 9:56SPEAKER_00: So you had you know, you had two subs directly involved in that, and that's like we're not we're not mentioning Ron Island on that side of it, like you know, that was that was Stephen Cohen and Emlin, like you know.
- 10:05SPEAKER_00: Um, and then on the flip side of that to Drumcliff Ross's point, so they took off Paul O'Brien 20 minutes, and then they brought him on for the last 10-15 minutes again.
- 10:15SPEAKER_00: So, you know, like did they decide that okay, we've met we've made a mistake in doing this?
- 10:21SPEAKER_00: Did they press the panic button a little bit too early?
- 10:23SPEAKER_00: Should they have persisted with you know, giving the ball into their two men that that was their their target, like that was their game plan, it seemed to be at the very start, or should they have bought brought Paul O'Brien out, or was he carrying a knock?
- 10:34SPEAKER_00: All these questions we don't know the answer to.
- 10:36SPEAKER_00: We're just looking for the output.
- 10:37SPEAKER_01: So Cliff, and we were really admiring the quick kickouts for ages, and then they kind of stopped, whether that was tactically, yeah, or you know, was it like okay, we've been hard for a while.
- 10:44SPEAKER_01: But oh, I'd love to know.
- 10:45SPEAKER_00: We'll and I would say it's a bit of both.
- 10:47SPEAKER_00: I would say that Samaris kind of were sitting in the pocket, and after Paul O'Brien went off, it allowed a Samaris defender to push up, which in turn leads for every line to push up the field an extra bit.
- 10:58SPEAKER_00: So then that that option that Donich O'Brien had in the first maybe 15 minutes of getting a quick kick out of the way to a spare man was gone because Samaris had pushed up the field because they didn't need to keep an extra man back in front of the the two twin targets in the full forward line.
- 11:12SPEAKER_00: So, like it's you know, it's a it was it was tactical, it really was, and like it went right down to the wire and right at the end of the game, then when we'll say the aforementioned Stephen Cohen gets dispossessed by Key and Lally on the the far sideline underneath the stand, ball goes in across the top, gets to Key and Oates, and Ryan Feely comes across.
- 11:34SPEAKER_00: And you know, I was talking to one or two lads about this since, and I've often seen refs give frees in that situation, just for the sake of giving a free because there was a hand left in.
- 11:43SPEAKER_00: I don't think it was a free, yeah, right, but there was a hand left in, and if you leave a hand in, more often than not, a ref gives the full one benefit.
- 11:50SPEAKER_00: And it was that was the last play, yeah, you know, because we had heard there was two minutes and we were right down, that was like at 6150 or something like that.
- 11:57SPEAKER_00: Keynotes turns out then to give the ball to Paula Bryan, who was on his left foot, favoured left foot.
- 12:03SPEAKER_00: That was the right side for him to be to clip it over.
- 12:05SPEAKER_00: And Robert Kelly Lynch makes up serious, serious ground.
- 12:07SPEAKER_00: Anybody that hasn't seen it, watch the highlights back that are all over social media, and he makes up serious ground and gets a hand in, dispossesses it, comes down the line with the ball, gets fouled, and it's game over.
- 12:17SPEAKER_01: And there was probably a moment earlier on in that attack where there was a quick ball in.
- 12:21SPEAKER_01: There was, yeah.
- 12:21SPEAKER_01: It just didn't seem to be seen by whoever had it, and um, you know, maybe only he'll know what he was thinking.
- 12:26SPEAKER_01: And do you think was there a chance for a point?
- 12:28SPEAKER_01: It was going to be a difficult shot, I suppose.
- 12:29SPEAKER_01: Yeah, under pressure.
- 12:30SPEAKER_00: In that, like you really need somebody to step up to the plate in that situation because you have a split second, and it's okay for us up in the commentary box, you know what I mean, or any of the supporters saying why didn't he put it over the bear?
- 12:41SPEAKER_00: But you're in the white heated championship there, and you're in the real, real crucial moment.
- 12:45SPEAKER_00: And you know, and and in fairness to Key Note, he got a fist a point before that.
- 12:50SPEAKER_00: He, you know, he was very unlucky with a goal chance that you know Keane Lally had won a super kick out and the ball would be transferred to him and a great save by James Cronin.
- 12:59SPEAKER_00: So maybe if he had rattled in that goal, it might have given him a little bit of self-confidence to take on that shot.
- 13:04SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
- 13:05SPEAKER_00: You just don't know how fellas' minds work.
- 13:07SPEAKER_00: You know, he missed that, did it suck the life out of him, did it take his confidence away?
- 13:11SPEAKER_00: But credit to Sam Aries, you know, they kind of they dug it out.
- 13:14SPEAKER_00: But what I would say about Drumcliff Ross's point is like like they have brought a huge energy to this championship.
- 13:21SPEAKER_00: They really have.
- 13:21SPEAKER_00: Any of the games that they played, and like so obviously they went four from four in the group stages, which you know is is serious, serious goal.
- 13:27SPEAKER_00: And Adrian McParton and his management team deserve credit along with the players for doing that.
- 13:32SPEAKER_00: And they get to the semi-final, they were in a semi-final last year also against Kalera Strand Hill, in a game that they probably feel that if they had got one or two of the goal chances that day up in Kent Park, they might have got to a county final.
- 13:42SPEAKER_00: How that county final would have gone, we don't know, obviously.
- 13:45SPEAKER_00: But they got back to the stage where they were.
- 13:48SPEAKER_00: Now, the four-week break, we had we had mentioned this before, right?
- 13:52SPEAKER_00: Like, was it a hindrance or a help?
- 13:53SPEAKER_00: In hindsight, it looks like it was a hindrance, more so than anything else.
- 13:56SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just the the tools didn't seem to be sharpened as much as and and I I and I thought I thought some of their some of their players were flagging a little bit towards the second half.
- 14:04SPEAKER_00: Like some of their no, it was probably soft underfoot conditions with the sand base pitch, and they put in a huge effort, don't get me wrong, they really did, and they left everything on the line.
- 14:14SPEAKER_00: But St.
- 14:15SPEAKER_00: Mary's had played back to back to back, right?
- 14:17SPEAKER_00: Three weeks in a row, and was tested in the three games.
- 14:21SPEAKER_00: So yeah, there was no you know, there was no way that in none of them games could they pull up with 15 minutes to go and say the game is over, it's done and dust.
- 14:29SPEAKER_00: Them games are all going down to the wire.
- 14:31SPEAKER_00: But if you're listening to Scottie Lynch and Mark Bernie in the two interviews they've done with yourself afterwards, like they had mentioned the fact, you know, like like this is these games have brought us on in leaps and bounds.
- 14:42SPEAKER_00: And you cannot beat championship football for bringing you on and helping you get ready for the next championship match because you know you play all the challenge games you want and they just don't come anywhere next or near to the level that you need to get at.
- 14:55SPEAKER_00: And especially when it's a championship semi-final, if it's a group stage, whatever it may be, you know, you're you're probably going through the motions.
- 15:01SPEAKER_00: But when it's a championship semi-final and everything is on the line, like I would say, you know, a two-week break is loads.
- 15:08SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, I would I would say that, and like you're going into we're talking now after the two games, if there was a draw, it was going to be a replay next weekend, if it was a draw after extra time.
- 15:17SPEAKER_00: So then they had to leave that little window to give themselves three weeks that each team got a two-week break ahead of the county final.
- 15:23SPEAKER_00: So now that both teams have three weeks off.
- 15:25SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 15:27SPEAKER_01: So no, I know, but it's as you said, it's just you kind of have to give that little window.
- 15:33SPEAKER_00: But but there's but go back to it, like there's nothing ever really between St.
- 15:37SPEAKER_00: Mary's and Drumcliff Ross' point in in championship or league.
- 15:40SPEAKER_00: Like, I think did you mention that the in the league game that they played during the year was a draw?
- 15:43SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure that's what we had pulled up, yeah.
- 15:45SPEAKER_00: And then the last time that they played in the championship semi-final a few years ago, it ended up in a draw as well, and they went the whole way to penalties.
- 15:51SPEAKER_00: And St.
- 15:51SPEAKER_00: Mary's had won that one on penalties.
- 15:53SPEAKER_00: So, like, you know, if that game had ended in a draw that I say, like like I would say from where we were watching, St.
- 15:59SPEAKER_00: Mary's were probably shaded it, probably arguably a little bit stronger, a little bit better, but it could have been a draw, uh, you know, very easily, very, very easily.
- 16:09SPEAKER_01: It could have been a goal near the end, yeah, very, very easily.
- 16:11SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, but as you said, like Keen Lanny got six points still, like you know.
- 16:14SPEAKER_01: I mean, he's been one of the stars.
- 16:15SPEAKER_01: And he was well mertured by Ryan Fields.
- 16:17SPEAKER_01: And this gone back to, and uh, people are uh I kept using the word Tigerush apparently in their commentary.
- 16:20SPEAKER_01: Yes, when you look it out, and I've watched Mary's have commentated.
- 16:23SPEAKER_01: I mean, you haven't seen every game, every team very close all to the championship, but some more than others, and that that Mary's backline, like uh Ryan Feely, Scott Lynch, and Fionn O'Hare.
- 16:32SPEAKER_01: As we said, they've been mismatched, heights, everything.
- 16:35SPEAKER_01: But it it just looked the last year that they've just become a really well-oiled machine.
- 16:39SPEAKER_01: Like in the new game, it's always fan, it always favours forwards, so it's going to be tough as a defence.
- 16:43SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 16:43SPEAKER_01: But my god, they are.
- 16:45SPEAKER_00: And then, like, so you had them guys there, so they were like they were touchtight on every occasion, no matter where the play was, they were touch tight.
- 16:52SPEAKER_00: And the the problem that other teams have had with Drumcliffe is kind of they're giving them a little bit too much space, and obviously Kean Lally is an exceptional footballer, and he's a serious, serious athlete.
- 17:02SPEAKER_00: So, like, if Kean gets the ball and he can do the little one-two or the give and go, then that's when you're in bother.
- 17:10SPEAKER_00: But what Fayley done the last day was Keane gave the ball off, he stopped him at source, he didn't let him build up that little head of steam.
- 17:16SPEAKER_00: So, like, that really nullified Keane's presence.
- 17:19SPEAKER_00: And don't get me wrong, like he did he kicked six points, three were from place balls, but the couple of times that he stepped him and got away from him, like he's gone a shot.
- 17:26SPEAKER_00: He really is.
- 17:27SPEAKER_00: So, on that side of things, but Keane didn't have a goal chance the last day, you know, and he's usually getting in for a goal chance or setting up a goal chance in most games that he plays, and then St.
- 17:38SPEAKER_00: Mary's then had the half backline of uh Patty Brady and Robert Kelly Lynch, who carried some amount of ball along with their two half forwards, Finton Campbell and Finn Young.
- 17:47SPEAKER_00: Like Finton carried a ball in the first half from underneath the stand, carried it the whole way down the field, and after flicking it up for himself when he kind of won his own break, yeah, and then he gets fouled right at the end.
- 17:58SPEAKER_00: And he done the same in the second half, a super run in the second half as well.
- 18:02SPEAKER_00: And these I'm married to say Patrick Brady's only young, he's only a kid, yeah.
- 18:05SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Finton Campbell.
- 18:07SPEAKER_00: Finton is he's he's in early twenties.
- 18:09SPEAKER_00: Okay, and then yeah, Finn Young is Finn Young is the same, yeah.
- 18:12SPEAKER_00: Young by name, young by name.
- 18:13SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's not he's not that young.
- 18:14SPEAKER_01: And then Connor Davy, but they like I as I said at the beginning of the championship, I mean I was kind of learning as we go along who's what, but these players seem to have been integrated into the team and really found their feet.
- 18:23SPEAKER_01: And I've seen some of them play in some games and maybe just not as Cam.
- 18:26SPEAKER_01: But the last tape, big match, semi-final, and like you were saying, Patrick Brady, like just so cool and calm.
- 18:31SPEAKER_00: He carried so well, and he brought he went forward at one stage, and you know, we'll say the innocence of Uther, you know, whatever.
- 18:37SPEAKER_00: He he probably should have passed the ball into I think it was Nathan that was inside him for a goal chance, and he turned back on his right foot himself and it got blocked down.
- 18:46SPEAKER_00: So, like, I'm sure himself he was a little bit annoyed with that, but he was probably thinking, I can get a score here myself, you know.
- 18:52SPEAKER_00: And like you go to the Drumcliff Ross's point team, like, and they had some standout performers as well.
- 18:58SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, obviously Stephen Regan and Key McBride always put in a huge shift.
- 19:02SPEAKER_00: And you mentioned that in a couple of games that we watched earlier on the year, the amount of ball that they handled during a game.
- 19:07SPEAKER_01: Oh, seriously, and they don't make many mistakes, like in um Eamon Keane again.
- 19:11SPEAKER_01: He ran up to pick up the Eamon Keane points.
- 19:13SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was Eamon O'Mahani.
- 19:14SPEAKER_01: Yeah, show power again.
- 19:15SPEAKER_01: A lot of those odds.
- 19:16SPEAKER_00: Yeah, show power clipped a point, Eamon O'Mahani clipped a point.
- 19:18SPEAKER_00: Eamon probably didn't get to the standards that he set for himself earlier on the championship, you know, and that's probably down to a little bit of the uh St.
- 19:25SPEAKER_00: Mary's midfield with McGovern and these boys as well.
- 19:27SPEAKER_01: You know, they're probably to go in there and see if they're down the spine, and then maybe he was getting a lot of runs in some games we've seen him in.
- 19:33SPEAKER_01: So maybe that wasn't happening this time, you know.
- 19:35SPEAKER_00: Maybe Marshall, like obviously Reno Callahan, you know, top, top cornerback.
- 19:40SPEAKER_00: Like Nathan had his hands full with him, and like Nathan ended up getting a few scores himself, you know.
- 19:45SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but like Eli Rooney, three points, you know, Kyle.
- 19:47SPEAKER_01: Kyle Collie, three points.
- 19:48SPEAKER_00: So that that's good clipping from your full forward line.
- 19:50SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I couldn't say that any of the drum cliff rose point full back line played bad.
- 19:56SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like I thought Ian Keane was good.
- 19:57SPEAKER_00: I thought he probably arguably got the better of Eli, you know, in a good few little battles that they had.
- 20:02SPEAKER_00: You know, he came out with the ball on a couple of occasions, as you mentioned, he got down the field and he got a score himself.
- 20:06SPEAKER_00: Reno Callan dispossessed Nathan on another occasion, and Kyle probably went out of the game a little bit towards the second half, as you know, he didn't get on the score sheet in the second half.
- 20:16SPEAKER_00: So, like, but again, that's probably down to Ross Chambers marking him very tightly.
- 20:19SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, and two good evenly matched teams, and is just and I'm not surprised that it went right down to the wire.
- 20:25SPEAKER_00: We had mentioned it last week that it probably would go right down to the wire, and it did.
- 20:28SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's the way it turned out too much.
- 20:29SPEAKER_01: And again, and like as we said, like Marys did have those four goal chances, and I know Drumcliffe had one as well.
- 20:35SPEAKER_01: So you kind of even like maybe maybe they like that's when we'd probably tip the balance gun that we're the better team overall in one sense, you know.
- 20:41SPEAKER_01: But no, well, look, we were we were very lucky we got that game on the day.
- 20:44SPEAKER_01: I know.
- 20:45SPEAKER_01: I mean, uh, we'll move on now to the second game.
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- 21:02SPEAKER_01: Uh Shamrock Gales versus St.
- 21:04SPEAKER_01: Milosh Gales.
- 21:05SPEAKER_01: And again, you know, we were all kind of going, never know, because Milosh was so impressive the week before.
- 21:09SPEAKER_01: And then it ended up 221 to Shamrock Gales, uh, 11 points to Milosh.
- 21:13SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 21:13SPEAKER_01: And this, you know, uh, like was it about a minute or two before halftime?
- 21:17SPEAKER_01: It was seven points all.
- 21:18SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 21:18SPEAKER_01: And then Shamrock Gales gets the goal, and you go, okay, it's a goal.
- 21:21SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 21:21SPEAKER_01: And then I had it marked down in my sheet.
- 21:23SPEAKER_01: I think I have it here actually.
- 21:24SPEAKER_01: It was after I'll just quickly say that after one after 42 minutes it was 112 to 9.
- 21:29SPEAKER_01: After 49 minutes, it was 117 to 10, and then on the 55th minute was 219 to 10.
- 21:34SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 21:34SPEAKER_01: Like they were just ruthless fire, hit fire.
- 21:38SPEAKER_01: And Milash Gales had a proper patch in the beginning of the second half and just didn't seem to go over well.
- 21:42SPEAKER_00: So, like, Milash Gales would be very disappointed.
- 21:45SPEAKER_00: Now, with with the result, okay?
- 21:47SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 21:48SPEAKER_00: But the way that the first half, and we'll say five minutes after halftime panned out, Milash Gales were, you know, they were delighted with where the game was going.
- 21:56SPEAKER_00: You know, it wasn't a great spectacle, you know, there was lots of mistakes, they had spoiled a lot of things that Sherman Gales were trying to do.
- 22:02SPEAKER_00: Um, Joe Keeney at midfield was winning the battle hands down over Dylan McDermott and George Barlow midfield for Sharma Gales, who were two huge men, but Joe Keeney really came to the fore and they were delighted we were.
- 22:15SPEAKER_00: It was like and you mentioned it was seven all, and then they give away a goal just before halftime.
- 22:20SPEAKER_00: Nial Kenny, super finished by Nial Kenny.
- 22:22SPEAKER_00: But you know, anybody that watches it back on the highlights, it could have easily been given as a free in to say Melash Gales.
- 22:30SPEAKER_00: So I think the Shamrack Gales man probably pushed Ger Brady into Luke Casterly.
- 22:35SPEAKER_00: I was I was only told that this evening by someone actually knows and I I think I I watched I watched the game back, and you know if it was given, Sham McGails can have no ifs or buts about it, it's it's a free, you know.
- 22:45SPEAKER_00: But it wasn't given, Rowan Hines didn't give it.
- 22:48SPEAKER_00: Shamrack Gales get that little rub of the green, and then Lee Degden puts the ball over the top to Nial Kenny, who finishes with a plum.
- 22:54SPEAKER_00: And after that, then you're like, okay, have Milash Gales got the answer.
- 22:58SPEAKER_00: They came out at halftime, won the throw-up, Joe Keeney again won the throw up, gives the ball to Allah.
- 23:03SPEAKER_00: Another great game.
- 23:04SPEAKER_00: Yeah, gives the ball to Alan McLaughlin, who clips a point, brings him right back into the game.
- 23:08SPEAKER_00: They held the ball for about four minutes then, and they came away up with no score.
- 23:12SPEAKER_00: They missed two frees, they had another one, I think, into the keeper's hands, and then Shamrack Gales get the ball, and Al Kenny gets comes down the far end of the field and gets a score.
- 23:35SPEAKER_00: And you mentioned it was it 41 or 42 minutes?
- 23:38SPEAKER_01: 42 minutes, it was six in it, 112 to 9.
- 23:40SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I think just before that, I think we're right back to 40, 41 minutes.
- 23:44SPEAKER_00: I think there was only three in it.
- 23:46SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 23:46SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 23:47SPEAKER_00: And then David Quinn just catches fire.
- 23:50SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
- 23:50SPEAKER_00: Like 113?
- 23:52SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he ends up.
- 23:53SPEAKER_01: Four two-pointers.
- 23:54SPEAKER_01: Uh you know, was it three of them or place balls?
- 23:56SPEAKER_01: I think the three.
- 23:56SPEAKER_00: So might be wrong, so there was, yeah, there was.
- 23:58SPEAKER_00: That you're right, yeah, there was.
- 24:00SPEAKER_00: But the first two-pointer he got was for the player stopping the play, solo and goal.
- 24:08SPEAKER_00: Gets brought forward 50 metres.
- 24:09SPEAKER_00: David Quinn decides to bring it outside the two-pointer arc, backs himself, and nails it.
- 24:14SPEAKER_00: So if you go back to we're talking about I mentioned the jeopardy of the group stages, okay.
- 24:19SPEAKER_00: So if you go back to the Tour de Strand, Chamber Gales game, up in Kent Park, David Quinn had the choice whether to take back out the free from uh breach for a two-pointer to win the game or clip the point over to draw the game.
- 24:35SPEAKER_00: You know, you're there's the jeopardy.
- 24:37SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 24:37SPEAKER_00: You know, they they didn't need it.
- 24:39SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, against Tour de Strand, they just needed to make sure they got a point on the board that that day because it's a group stage game.
- 24:44SPEAKER_00: Make sure we don't lose the game, clip it over, let's get out of here.
- 24:46SPEAKER_00: We have two points from two games, let's make sure we win the next game.
- 24:50SPEAKER_00: On Sunday afternoon, then he's like, This game's in the melting pot here.
- 24:54SPEAKER_00: If I can get this over the bar for a two-pointer, it's going to give us a huge lift.
- 24:58SPEAKER_00: It was Malosh's own fault for giving us the ball back for uh we'll we'll call it a descent or a breach of discipline, whatever you want to call it.
- 25:06SPEAKER_00: Nails the two-pointer, and then they do not look back.
- 25:10SPEAKER_00: And it kind of threw Milash all over the place.
- 25:12SPEAKER_00: They couldn't win their own kick outs.
- 25:14SPEAKER_00: Uh he comes up, he nails one with the outside the right, then himself for from outside the 45 for a two-pointer, and then he clips one over from play for a two-pointer again.
- 25:24SPEAKER_00: And it was just like they never look back, and like Malash, like to their credit, Malash, like they kept going.
- 25:29SPEAKER_00: They really did.
- 25:30SPEAKER_00: Aaron Lang, who had you know, he had he had a good battle with Ever Langans, he got a great score from play in the first half, but he would be disappointed with the widespread he had from place balls, you know.
- 25:40SPEAKER_00: Like he had one in the first half, you know, he kind of skied it, he had another two in the second half, and like he's had a great championship.
- 25:45SPEAKER_00: That's 45 short, and I mean again, but it was still great to watch.
- 25:48SPEAKER_01: He's a busy big chance.
- 25:49SPEAKER_00: He's had a great championship, and then he has a goal chance that breaks to him, ball is recycled back out, and Daniel Lyons in the Shaman Gates goal gets a brilliant save to it.
- 25:58SPEAKER_00: A brilliant strong left hand and puts it out for a 45, you know.
- 26:01SPEAKER_00: But you know, uh that gave it was probably I think it was 117 to 9 at that stage, even if they get that goal, they're probably not back in it.
- 26:09SPEAKER_00: Because Shamrack Gales are a well-oiled, experienced machine, you know, and they had like Sean Carron had a massive unbelievable, like he's like he's a tank of a man from way back.
- 26:19SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 26:19SPEAKER_00: Kieran Kenny, who has been excellent this championship, was a little bit quieter.
- 26:24SPEAKER_00: But them two half backs breaking lines like Sean Carroll just broke lines, he just went at every occasion.
- 26:30SPEAKER_00: He got up and he got a point for himself in the first half, and then he got fouled for another score, set up a kind of a half goal chance, and he got taken down for the penalty.
- 26:38SPEAKER_00: Again, now we'll uh we'll mention that in a second, okay?
- 26:42SPEAKER_00: But but that was a that was a massive outing for Sean Carroll, you know, and and and it's in him, and he was in around the Sligo setup a few years ago.
- 26:48SPEAKER_00: He's one of these guys, and you're watching him playing there the last day, you're like, Why would he not be on the well again?
- 26:53SPEAKER_01: Me with the the with as you say, the uneducated, I was like, That Philip surely is on accounting.
- 26:57SPEAKER_01: You know, just for my from watching now, we we commentated the very first game of the mess, so I haven't seen them in the flesh since.
- 27:02SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and like like he was good that day.
- 27:04SPEAKER_01: I remember that.
- 27:05SPEAKER_01: Uh, but like himself, Connor Sheridan, as you said, Kieran Kenny, the two midfielders were really involved in the game a lot the last year as well.
- 27:11SPEAKER_01: And then you've David Quinn, like there's a really strong Patrick Kenny on the ball.
- 27:15SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, he just didn't stop, right?
- 27:17SPEAKER_00: And he's a machine watching him running like he's an absolute machine, and he's like he's passing his own players out there.
- 27:22SPEAKER_00: It's like Inga Britson, you know.
- 27:24SPEAKER_00: He never stops, he's like the long, lean, fast player, and my god, and then obviously, then you have the two Degnans there, you know.
- 27:29SPEAKER_01: Oh, they were they're a joy to what and the last two they were cooking like.
- 27:32SPEAKER_00: And like I would say, Shane Degnan had he had a tough enough battle with Peter Cairns there.
- 27:37SPEAKER_00: And again, if anybody hasn't seen the highlights, go back and watch it.
- 27:40SPEAKER_00: And for young fellas that are trying to learn the art of blocking the ball, Peter Cairns' full dive block on Shane Degnan when I think Shane Degnan thought the goals had opened up and he was just clipping it over the bar and he dives out of nowhere.
- 27:52SPEAKER_00: And Ross Donovan was on commentary and he was delighted with it because I've seen Ross Donovan do that down through his career.
- 27:59SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 100% it was, and I think Ross was delighted about it.
- 28:02SPEAKER_00: But yeah, but Shane clipped over a couple of points in himself, and again, Lee came up, he set up the goal, and then he clips a great point for himself in the second half as well.
- 28:10SPEAKER_00: So, like, you're talking all of them players, and then obviously you mentioned Evan Lyons in the full back line and Daniel Lyons and goals.
- 28:18SPEAKER_00: That that that's a strong team.
- 28:19SPEAKER_00: Now, Milash Gales like did I don't I couldn't say that last week took too much out of them against Touristran because we were commenting on it, and you know, I think it was over with 20 minutes to go, or you know, they they probably don't think you can say, Oh, they could have taken off if you fellas because as you said, it wasn't.
- 28:36SPEAKER_01: I know Touristran kept battling, yeah, but they weren't like out in the field.
- 28:39SPEAKER_01: And again, I have to say, like, watching like so Luke Castley and Alamut Lachlan.
- 28:42SPEAKER_01: Alamant Lachlan never stops, yeah.
- 28:44SPEAKER_00: And he's uh like I was saying to my young ladies inside me, I said, Jesus, it's a joy watching this fellow football like Luke himself, who had scored four the week before, gets up for a great point himself.
- 28:52SPEAKER_00: And you know, and it's it's kind of interesting to see that he's kind of playing more so in the halfback line because he would have been renowned for being a cornerback, full back, and even for Sligo intercounty, but he he he looks very comfortable in that half back line.
- 29:05SPEAKER_01: Paul Flynn, he's really uh he's a dinky forward that seems to always work hard, he's always shown for the ball, doesn't make many mistakes.
- 29:11SPEAKER_00: Yeah, press with him that against it like obviously they're gonna be you know very disappointed with the way that the game finished out, yeah, but for 35 minutes they were in the game, you know, and then but it just shows you at this level if you switch off for you know a few minutes, yeah, yeah, right?
- 29:26SPEAKER_00: It's not a half a football, it's only a few minutes, and a good team like Shamrock Gales can put you to the sword, and that's what they've done.
- 29:32SPEAKER_00: And they're county champs for a reason, and they're gonna take uh a hell of a lot of beating in that county final.
- 29:37SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, obviously we'll be doing a full-blown preview of that in the next couple of weeks, but yeah, it really is a mouth-watering game.
- 29:43SPEAKER_01: As I said, you can pick out all the reasons why Marys can shut them down, yeah.
- 29:46SPEAKER_01: But then you've got all these shooters from all over the place for uh for Shamrock Gales.
- 29:50SPEAKER_01: So yeah, no, it was uh it was a two cracking.
- 29:52SPEAKER_01: Um well, sorry, I okay.
- 29:54SPEAKER_01: I know the second game was one-sided, but even from the point of view once the kind of game got away, like just watching Shamrock Gales a full flow.
- 29:59SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's true too.
- 30:00SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but on a show they did.
- 30:02SPEAKER_01: And then we will just drop back here now if my computer will work with me here.
- 30:06SPEAKER_01: Um going over to just to uh the relegation semi-finals.
- 30:10SPEAKER_01: Now I we don't have a whole lot of detail on these, but Easy uh beat Tupper Curry 5.15 to 115.
- 30:15SPEAKER_01: And I guess someone said had Easky maybe a couple of players back earlier, that's it.
- 30:19SPEAKER_01: All they needed was one more game to kind of maybe go, we could have got to a quarter final.
- 30:24SPEAKER_00: Uh so look, maybe I suppose all they can probably take is go I know that's we know what we have, and and that's the ifs, buts of maybe's and like obviously they were getting stronger as the championship was gone on, and Tober Curry were getting, you know, they were probably getting weaker as the championship was going on.
- 30:39SPEAKER_00: Yeah, with injuries and yeah, you know, and they put all their eggs into the basket for the first game, and you know, you're looking at that game that they played their very first out in against St.
- 30:49SPEAKER_00: Mary's, right?
- 30:50SPEAKER_00: And they put St.
- 30:51SPEAKER_00: Mary's to the pin of their collar.
- 30:52SPEAKER_00: Oh, that first half was good to get away.
- 30:53SPEAKER_00: They really they really did, okay.
- 30:55SPEAKER_00: And you look at in a short space of weeks where the tail of the two sides have ended up, you know, to be careful.
- 31:02SPEAKER_00: Or to the final but the wrong way around.
- 31:03SPEAKER_00: Yes, you know what I mean, and and that's and that's just what can happen at senior football, like you know, and East Key to their credit, you know, they're you know, they're they're just they're just a dogged, dogged, dogged outfit.
- 31:14SPEAKER_00: And they were hampered by injuries at the start of the season, and they're working off small numbers, right?
- 31:19SPEAKER_00: But you know, their last three games in championship, you know, unbeaten in their last three games, and win two of them, draw with Kulera Stranhill, you know, they deserve massive credit for that.
- 31:29SPEAKER_01: And then on the other game, then uh Kulani won 15, Eastern Harps 21.
- 31:33SPEAKER_01: Now, we've kind of all expected Eastern Harps, but with the way they've had this championship, I'm sure they were obviously frustrated.
- 31:38SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I was talking I was talking to a couple of people that was at that game, and Kulani Mulabrina were full value for being very, very close to winning.
- 31:46SPEAKER_00: And I think Harps had kicked a couple of two-pointers late on, but Kalani Mulabrina had their full squad available for the first time in all championship, which is you know, it's that's tough going also.
- 31:57SPEAKER_01: It just happens.
- 31:58SPEAKER_00: I mean, even an underage Gaelic, if you have the a whole thing flips under 4-5.
- 32:02SPEAKER_00: They got everybody on the pitch, and from what I heard, was it was the best they played all championship.
- 32:06SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and you know, it's it's just a little bit unfortunate where they ended up, you know, because after winning intermediate last year, now you're just one game away from the trapdoor.
- 32:15SPEAKER_00: And it's uh you know, Eastern Harps obviously were disappointed to be in that.
- 32:19SPEAKER_00: They didn't expect to be in that position, especially from where they ended up with their first two games of championship.
- 32:24SPEAKER_00: You know, they were thinking, you know, we're in with a shout here, getting to a county quarter final.
- 32:28SPEAKER_00: When you get to a quarter final, you see where that takes you, then you're on the crest of a wave.
- 32:31SPEAKER_00: They didn't get there, and I'm sure they were disappointed to be playing in that relegation semi-final at the weekend, but they got the win and they dug it out.
- 32:39SPEAKER_00: And you know, credit to them for doing that.
- 32:42SPEAKER_01: And even at the very beginning, like they they they could have won the league final.
- 32:45SPEAKER_01: And I remember you telling me that to me, they were full of young up-and-coming stars.
- 32:49SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I suppose uh they'll just put it down to experience a bit, but which won't satisfy them.
- 32:53SPEAKER_01: But I mean, I like not many people would have picked them to win the championship.
- 32:56SPEAKER_01: No, so I'd say they go, right, we've learned a few lessons, we put up some good games and good performances.
- 33:00SPEAKER_00: See how things go for for next season because they're still in the senior, and then obviously you go to the relegation final day.
- 33:05SPEAKER_01: Finally, this Sunday in Bun and Adam Community Park at three o'clock, it's Kalani Mullerina versus Tubbercurry.
- 33:10SPEAKER_01: Like uh, as you said, are Kalani, which you said with the panel back, maybe that's what Nimmers maybe side failed.
- 33:16SPEAKER_00: And again, I haven't I haven't heard an awful lot of information from the Tubercurry um team about who's gonna be available for the weekend or who's coming back into the mix for the weekend.
- 33:25SPEAKER_00: But no more than anything else, this is a county final, you know, because like Sunus it can have more importance for a club's you know, a few years than it's an open rivalry out there between Colani Molabrina and Tubercurry, and like it's gonna be like it's like you go out to Bud Nadden, they played each other in uh Bud Nadden in a championship.
- 33:44SPEAKER_00: Well, I might have I think it was a relegation game a few years ago as well, and it went all the way to penalties, right?
- 33:50SPEAKER_00: So, like like and just if you're looking at the results, okay, of where the game is, where the games have gone all championship, the two teams are at a very low ebb, you know, lost all their games, you know.
- 34:02SPEAKER_00: They're like, you know, who's coming into it with better form any better form, it's you know, it's pretty hard to call like that.
- 34:07SPEAKER_00: You could say that Coladium Arena have to be after putting up a good showing against Eastern Harps, but did that deflate them also?
- 34:13SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, like and you gotta look at it from that side of things.
- 34:16SPEAKER_00: So did that suck the life out of them, or did it give them a small bit of you know, we can go, we're actually a good team, we can go and take Tupper Curry scallop.
- 34:24SPEAKER_00: And Tupper Curry, like knowing them, like they I was playing against them in a relegation final a few years ago, and they bet us after extra time in a game, and you know, a game we probably should have won at the time, but they've been hovering around that relegation since then.
- 34:40SPEAKER_00: Okay, so no more than Curry ended up going down through that trapdoor last year.
- 34:45SPEAKER_00: You could say that oh well Tupper Curry are too big a couple to go down to trap door.
- 34:48SPEAKER_01: The most titles, isn't that right?
- 34:49SPEAKER_01: Like most senior titles to the right, yeah.
- 34:51SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, but if if if it happens, you know, you gotta you gotta start looking.
- 34:56SPEAKER_01: Look it up and move it on, I suppose.
- 34:58SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's it.
- 34:58SPEAKER_01: Uh we'll just move on to the intermediate.
- 35:00SPEAKER_01: These will be one of these guys will be uh up in the up in that seniors group next year.
- 35:03SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh so um Curry ended up beating Bun and Adden 223 to 123.
- 35:09SPEAKER_01: Now, I know you got to watch a good bit of this when you got home from the the earlier matches, and I got to watch near the end.
- 35:14SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was absolute chaos near the end.
- 35:16SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh like winter time, yeah.
- 35:18SPEAKER_01: The whole lot, and I mean just from a quick wrap-up of from what you were seeing.
- 35:21SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, well, Curry were 9-4 up at half time and comfortable enough.
- 35:26SPEAKER_00: And then Budnaden just got to grips with the game, and you know, like like they it was like uh it was like a flick of a switch.
- 35:35SPEAKER_00: They were like, you know, if we don't get our act together here, lads, we're going to get the floor wiped at us.
- 35:40SPEAKER_00: And they got big men standing up, and they got you know, Ushin Gorman kicked a couple of two-pointers himself.
- 35:45SPEAKER_00: He kicked a two-pointer with his left foot that he you know he's right footed, okay?
- 35:48SPEAKER_00: And he's a great footballer, he really is, and he's after coming back from a bad cruise seat injury a couple of years ago.
- 35:53SPEAKER_00: And but he cuts in off the dummy with his right and clips it over with his left, and everybody was watching the ball, and it drops over the crossbar, and they had a chance to win it right at the end, you know, in of normal time, and then Curry to their credit, obviously, you know, the elder statesman there, Adrian Mills.
- 36:09SPEAKER_00: Still gone, he gets a mention every week here 12 points again at the weekend.
- 36:13SPEAKER_00: Now I know a lot of them were from place balls, the majority of them, but still put them over.
- 36:17SPEAKER_00: But you still have to put them over.
- 36:18SPEAKER_00: But that and go back to we've seen a lot of freeze missed at the weekend.
- 36:21SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 36:22SPEAKER_00: Okay, like Ado knows where the posts are, and more often than not, he doesn't miss too many of them, okay.
- 36:27SPEAKER_00: And Kyle Brennan came on the pitch, okay, and Kyle Brennan is around for a good while as well, but like he got a goal an extra time, he got another point for himself an extra time, and he was a live wire there, and you know, but Nadin didn't really get to grips with him, and then you're thinking, Okay, Curry, if the game won, but Nadin come back down the field themselves, and again they get another two-pointer, and they bring this up.
- 36:48SPEAKER_01: It's an unbelievable two-pointer.
- 36:49SPEAKER_01: As I said to you, it's like was if it was fast forward, it was just with such power.
- 36:51SPEAKER_00: Just with the power that went over the bar at and you know, and they had big players throughout the field that really did, like Luke Martin.
- 36:57SPEAKER_00: You know, he kicked a couple of place balls himself and big frayed at midfield.
- 37:00SPEAKER_00: And the tactic that Bud Nadden were using with the keeper with Danny Kaffery, who's right good keeper and a huge man himself.
- 37:06SPEAKER_00: He played outfield a few years ago for Bud Nadden, but he was coming out the field for the Curry kick out, and he was making himself he ended up marking one of the curry kick-outs at one stage as well, you know, which is you know, but it was a tactic that kind of worked for them.
- 37:21SPEAKER_00: But like that game, you know, if Curry had lost that game, they would have been thinking, How are we after losing that game?
- 37:27SPEAKER_00: And credit to the bunnies, like they kept going and they kept going.
- 37:30SPEAKER_00: Aidan Rooney had you know a lot of life instilled in them because I'm sure there was question marks at halftime.
- 37:34SPEAKER_00: They're like, Boys, you know, this is a county semi-final here, and you haven't come to the match at all.
- 37:38SPEAKER_00: And then by geez, they came to the match in the second half and an extra time, and you know, they were very unlucky on the day.
- 37:44SPEAKER_01: And the other one then Ballymote uh ground out a four-point win over Collery 418 to 123.
- 37:50SPEAKER_01: And again, we know this one was yeah, kind of was getting away from Colery at once.
- 37:53SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 12 points down halftime.
- 37:55SPEAKER_01: Like you're just going, that's that gone.
- 37:56SPEAKER_00: And then they bring it back to three points 10 minutes into the second half.
- 38:00SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 38:00SPEAKER_00: And you know, like we were kind of I was listening to a bit of it and or watching a bit of it in the commentary box when we were setting up on Sunday, and like for all the world it seemed that Colery had the momentum there, and like momentum is huge in football nowadays, and like brought it back to three points, and the next thing Ballymon could go down the field and get a goal out of nothing, you know.
- 38:19SPEAKER_00: They really did, and but Ballymote have forwards that if you give them a small bit of space, like you know, like this is the Lavins again, is it?
- 38:26SPEAKER_00: Zach O'Dowd ended up scoring two 2-2, but he's uh he's you know he's left foot on him, hammer left foot, like and he's probably learning off the likes of the guy that we mentioned last week who got a hat-trick in the junior B semi-final, Darling McTearn, you know, because he's in the similar mould and he's probably getting tips off him, you know.
- 38:43SPEAKER_00: And what better man to be getting tips off?
- 38:45SPEAKER_00: And you know, like that an awful lot of fellas when they get into that position, like there was one of the goals that he got that he just put the boot through the ball and hammered it.
- 38:52SPEAKER_00: An awful lot of fellas are trying to place these shots, and more often than not, they end up missing them.
- 38:56SPEAKER_00: But sometimes you can just put the boot through the ball and it's going to find the back of the net.
- 39:00SPEAKER_00: Then Colreach with their credit came back down the field again and brought it back to three again.
- 39:04SPEAKER_00: But Ballimo just like Coleridge gave themselves too much to do.
- 39:08SPEAKER_00: They probably give Ballimo too much respect in the first half.
- 39:11SPEAKER_00: And if you're coming from 12 points down at halftime in super conditions for football, like no real there was a bit of a breeze in Calloone, but nothing that you could say was a 12-point swing.
- 39:21SPEAKER_00: And the effort you have to put into to bring it back to three points, you know, and then you get it with a goal again.
- 39:28SPEAKER_00: Like it's you need to go back to the well again and try and try and bring it back.
- 39:32SPEAKER_00: And they're definitely just that giving themselves that much to do was just a step too far.
- 39:37SPEAKER_00: And Ballymot and Curry in the county final.
- 39:40SPEAKER_01: I tell you, that's going to be a cracking game because we think it's October the 4th, is there it is, yeah.
- 39:44SPEAKER_01: Double header with a junior A final.
- 39:46SPEAKER_00: And because they played each other in the opening game of the championship out in Budnaden, and Ballymot had their measure for a lot of that game.
- 39:51SPEAKER_00: They were ahead at halftime.
- 39:53SPEAKER_00: Curry hit them for two goals early in the second half, and you know, ended up win winning the game, pulling up a little bit, you know, in that.
- 40:00SPEAKER_00: And after that, I thought that Curry would go on to win the championship.
- 40:04SPEAKER_00: You know, I haven't changed my view on it, but I'm telling you, it's going to be a right battle, so it is because these Ballymote boys are well drilled.
- 40:11SPEAKER_00: Liam Oak has them well drilled, and he has an abundance of talent in the forward line, and that's like you mentioned the lavins there, so they're probably playing around the midfield and half back line, and then you have a bunch of fellas playing in the forward line that are all pretty similar in stature, and most of them are left-footed, right?
- 40:32SPEAKER_00: Which you don't see too often, right?
- 40:34SPEAKER_00: And for a defence mark and them, it's it's definitely something that the defenders have to eye up because you know, usually if you're playing, you might get one or two guys maximum that's left-footed.
- 40:44SPEAKER_00: You know, the majority of these guys are left-footed for playing for Ballymoat forwards.
- 40:48SPEAKER_00: So if they're all learning enough Derby Mack, they're not doing too bad.
- 40:51SPEAKER_00: They have a good coach there.
- 40:52SPEAKER_01: Uh just quickly, the relegation final there, uh Tluna Cool 2.10 and a scron killed glass 3.18.
- 40:59SPEAKER_01: So obviously, uh Tluna Cool, good and no kite.
- 41:01SPEAKER_01: I mean, I didn't change.
- 41:02SPEAKER_00: So Clunacool obviously came up from junior last year and lost all their games in the group and lost out to St.
- 41:08SPEAKER_00: Pat's last week in the relegation semi-final by three points, and they probably put huge effort into that, thinking that that was going to be the one that they that that they could win, you know, potentially sneak it in a scroll after losing to Giva the week before, you know, probably had some home truths told during the week and said, We shouldn't be in this position, let's go out here and let's just get it done.
- 41:29SPEAKER_00: And them relegation finals, Clunacool, after coming up from junior, lost a few players.
- 41:34SPEAKER_00: And when you lose a few players, like when you're coming up from that little step up, like people would say that there's not a huge difference between junior and intermediate.
- 41:41SPEAKER_00: There is, right?
- 41:42SPEAKER_00: And you need to be finding players, not losing players.
- 41:44SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately for Clunacool, they're going back down again.
- 41:46SPEAKER_01: I'm back down, yeah.
- 41:47SPEAKER_01: And I mean, you're saying junior, well, if by all of people's accounts, uh, we'll go back to junior A now, all more Gales 417, St.
- 41:53SPEAKER_01: John's eight points.
- 41:54SPEAKER_01: There's a team that probably might survive up in the intermediate level, it seems that they might go against the rule, but they were just ruthless.
- 42:00SPEAKER_01: Uh was it in the first within 10 minutes, maybe three goals, three goals to no score, like more or less, wasn't it?
- 42:07SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I think Johnson got a point.
- 42:08SPEAKER_00: One point, sorry, yeah.
- 42:09SPEAKER_00: But like they're yeah, we we said it, we said it before that are the two good for junior, you know what I mean?
- 42:15SPEAKER_00: On paper, they are, and from watching them on Saturday evening, they are they're still only in the final.
- 42:21SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
- 42:22SPEAKER_00: Right, and and you'll touch on on the other the other semi-final in a minute, but they were you know they were really, really strong and looked a class above against St.
- 42:33SPEAKER_00: John's on Saturday evening.
- 42:34SPEAKER_00: And I thought they were very professional in their setup as well, because uh like Omer Gaines won junior a few years ago, so just for anybody that's uh the backstory, then they came up to intermediate and they got straight to the intermediate final, lost intermediate final to Eastern Harps, and then the following year they get relegated back down to junior.
- 42:51SPEAKER_00: So, you know, there's there's not a huge, huge difference between the where they were, but for one season they took their eye off the ball and they ended up getting relegated.
- 42:59SPEAKER_00: The season previous to that they could have been up at senior, okay?
- 43:02SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so then they got and they were up into division one as well.
- 43:04SPEAKER_00: They're up into division one, yeah.
- 43:05SPEAKER_00: Definitely the they got their act together in the league.
- 43:08SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they got their act together in the league, and then it's you know, it can be difficult enough to make sure that you have everything lined up to get yourself to a championship final because like obviously they kind of coasted through the group, and they were well set up on Saturday evening, and Liam Gilmartin there has them well set up, and they have you know, we had mentioned that the the Walsh's were playing, and Mark Walsh, who played for Sligo for a couple of years there, he was excellent at midfield the last day.
- 43:33SPEAKER_00: His his runs, his pace and his power running through the centre, and then Dylan Walsh, who is like Dylan Walsh, exceptional footballer, and one of the best young footballers in Sligo, and was in around the Sligo setup at the start of this season.
- 43:46SPEAKER_00: He uh he played a bit of Sigerson with the A to U in Sligo, and he, you know, seriously talented footballer, left or right foot.
- 43:54SPEAKER_00: He got a goal, super goal with his left foot, he got a great score with his left foot, and he's predominantly right footed, but he has no problem cutting on to his left.
- 44:00SPEAKER_00: And then they have a spread of scores throughout the field, like Darek Allen, who got top scorer on our pod a couple of weeks ago, Ryan Phillips, who got top scorer on our pod a couple of weeks ago.
- 44:10SPEAKER_00: But like all of these lads take watching, and at junior level, that's an awful lot of fires to have to put out.
- 44:15SPEAKER_00: You know, like and you're trying to stop the midfielders running through, you're trying to stop these forwards, and then they're tenacious in your little word, the Tigris defender.
- 44:24SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they got t shirts better than that.
- 44:26SPEAKER_00: And they have that, they have that in stacks, they really do.
- 44:29SPEAKER_00: And St.
- 44:30SPEAKER_00: John's, you know, like I think like I know you were involved with the St.
- 44:34SPEAKER_00: John's trail in the last few weeks, but I suppose Bart and Ian Rosseter and these guys have got in with the plan of maybe as as as a two-year plan and anything after that was going to be a bonus.
- 44:44SPEAKER_00: You know, they've probably seen at the weekend that if they need to get back up to the intermediate level, that's probably the target of what Omer Gale's done at where they need to be.
- 44:54SPEAKER_01: You know, fitness-wise, pace-wise, and just well set up, like, you know, yeah, yeah, and I again as I said I said, I've been in just that last week's training alongside them, and like there's uh there's a a raft of young talent there.
- 45:05SPEAKER_01: Uh really skillful, really fast young players, and uh like maybe that has its negativity sometimes with regards just in a game like that and up against opposition like that.
- 45:14SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 45:14SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I mean?
- 45:15SPEAKER_01: So I I th look, it was a lesson in football on the day, and then obviously Paul Mack got sent off in the first half, which then you know didn't really that kind of I suppose didn't help everyone on the pitch then was already getting supper punched goals.
- 45:26SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, when you're losing a leader like that.
- 45:28SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 45:29SPEAKER_01: And like he was such a key player, and again, obviously, even he's talking with uh he was a real leader, like you know.
- 45:33SPEAKER_01: So look at these are just moments in games, and a couple of years' time you look back after maybe going up and that you go, do you remember that day?
- 45:38SPEAKER_01: So I suppose that's what they'd probably take from it.
- 45:40SPEAKER_01: And in the other semi, then St.
- 45:41SPEAKER_01: Meloche Gale's 11, St.
- 45:42SPEAKER_01: Michael's 24 points.
- 45:44SPEAKER_00: Yeah, real real statement victory for St.
- 45:45SPEAKER_00: Michaels.
- 45:46SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 45:46SPEAKER_00: Now, does that put them in uh in the statement of we could beat more or more?
- 45:49SPEAKER_00: I guarantee it does, right, in their own minds.
- 45:52SPEAKER_00: And you know, we'll give we'll give a hat tip to Kyle Davy in goals for St.
- 45:56SPEAKER_00: Michaels, clipped over eight points.
- 45:58SPEAKER_00: That doesn't happen to you might have done that in your day, wouldn't you?
- 46:01SPEAKER_00: The rules were in back in my day.
- 46:04SPEAKER_00: No, um like he Kyle Davy, um captained Sligo minors a few years ago to a conic title, right?
- 46:10SPEAKER_00: Right good keeper, so he is, played Sligo under 20, and he's also involved with the Sigerson team down the ATU.
- 46:16SPEAKER_00: But he has a lovely strike of the ball, and he's he's he's been doing that all championship by by all accounts, but to get four of them at the weekend, like eight points from your keeper, when you have long-range threes, uh you know, it it goes a long way to win you the game.
- 46:30SPEAKER_00: It really does.
- 46:31SPEAKER_00: But St.
- 46:31SPEAKER_00: Michaels are are you know, they're a team that's probably came from losing to Kulera Strand Hill in the group stages, has galvanized them because they probably thought, okay, lads, good chance now we're not going to get to a county semi-final.
- 46:43SPEAKER_00: Then all of a sudden they get their season back on track, they beat St.
- 46:47SPEAKER_00: Mary's, then and they get themselves into a a county semi-final.
- 46:51SPEAKER_00: St.
- 46:52SPEAKER_00: Malache Gales, who obviously is the second team of St.
- 46:55SPEAKER_00: Malache, who we know had been training with with the first team, James Clancy.
- 46:58SPEAKER_00: You'll mention that on an interview you done with him a couple of weeks ago.
- 47:02SPEAKER_00: But it was definitely bonus territory.
- 47:03SPEAKER_00: It was like, you know, we're not at that level, and St.
- 47:06SPEAKER_00: Michael's really put them to the sword, and no more than what Shamrack Gales done to St.
- 47:10SPEAKER_00: Malache first team at on Sunday in the senior semi-final.
- 47:13SPEAKER_00: It was like once St.
- 47:14SPEAKER_00: Michaels got them down, they kept them down.
- 47:16SPEAKER_00: And in them games, them semi-final games, that's what you have to do.
- 47:20SPEAKER_00: Don't let don't give the team oxygen, don't let them back up.
- 47:22SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, keep keep them down, keep the scoreboard ticking over.
- 47:25SPEAKER_00: Like you say, they score 24 points without getting hit in the onion bag.
- 47:28SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah.
- 47:29SPEAKER_00: So it's good clipping.
- 47:31SPEAKER_00: Now, Omer Gales will be red hot favourites to win the final.
- 47:33SPEAKER_00: St.
- 47:34SPEAKER_00: Michaels would be absolutely delighted with that.
- 47:35SPEAKER_00: They played each other in the group stages.
- 47:37SPEAKER_00: Omer Gales, I think, won comfortably.
- 47:39SPEAKER_00: Both teams were missing a good few players on that evening.
- 47:41SPEAKER_00: So the final will be a different kettle of fish because obviously, group stages to knock out our county final.
- 47:50SPEAKER_00: Completely, completely different.
- 47:51SPEAKER_00: If St.
- 47:51SPEAKER_01: Michaels would have watched Omer Gales put someone to the sword like 10 Johns ago, they've probably learnt an awful lot from watching them as well.
- 47:56SPEAKER_01: And go up Yeah.
- 47:57SPEAKER_00: So they're and and if they have their homework done and you know they're marking it down.
- 48:02SPEAKER_00: If you just watch the St.
- 48:03SPEAKER_00: Mary's Defence, that's a good format.
- 48:05SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, there you there you go.
- 48:06SPEAKER_00: There you go.
- 48:06SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it'll be it'll be an interesting final.
- 48:09SPEAKER_00: And then as as you mentioned, we heard that it's it's brought forward a week.
- 48:12SPEAKER_00: It was supposed to be on on under floodlights on the Saturday night before the senior final, but it's brought forward a week.
- 48:18SPEAKER_00: Doubleheader, doubleheader, and marker.
- 48:20SPEAKER_00: Sunday, October the 4th.
- 48:21SPEAKER_01: That's the junior A final and the intermediate final.
- 48:23SPEAKER_01: So that'll be Curry and Bellymote and um St.
- 48:27SPEAKER_01: Michaels and and no more.
- 48:28SPEAKER_01: So that'll be a great doubleheader.
- 48:30SPEAKER_01: It's not the senior, it's not the Premier League, but like there'll be two great battles, as you said.
- 48:34SPEAKER_01: You couldn't, you couldn't definitely, especially the intermediate as well.
- 48:36SPEAKER_01: That sounds like it'll be a ding-dong battle there for sure.
- 48:39SPEAKER_01: Uh, and just just to give uh the junior A relegation final, uh, Shamrock Gales had a large win there over Drumcliffe.
- 48:44SPEAKER_01: So 214 to 11.
- 48:46SPEAKER_01: So there's plenty of scores out in Shamrock Gales, anyways, that's for sure.
- 48:48SPEAKER_01: And just to let you know, this weekend the junior C semi-finals are on Friday, the 25th of September at half seven.
- 48:53SPEAKER_01: St.
- 48:53SPEAKER_01: Meloche Gales play Castle Connor out in Kilcoyne Park, and Shamrock Gales play Tuber Curry in St.
- 48:58SPEAKER_01: Brennan's GA Park.
- 48:59SPEAKER_01: So uh that kind of we'll be getting that one to the last stages as well.
- 49:04SPEAKER_01: So look, uh, all we've left to do now, as I said, where if you haven't watched already, remember you can subscribe, help us keep the sub uh the podcast growing and going.
- 49:12SPEAKER_01: Uh our players, uh well, our top score of the week first.
- 49:15SPEAKER_01: Uh I think I don't think anyone can challenge this one.
- 49:17SPEAKER_00: No, no, so David Quinn from Shamarkales, obviously.
- 49:21SPEAKER_00: You know, he'll get his free session.
- 49:23SPEAKER_00: And we're not, and there's a little bit of a gray area.
- 49:25SPEAKER_00: Was it 113?
- 49:26SPEAKER_01: Was it I heard 114 or he wasn't too sure the official scores we've got back?
- 49:31SPEAKER_01: It's 113.
- 49:32SPEAKER_00: I'd say Croc would know himself.
- 49:33SPEAKER_00: I'd say we'll confirm that.
- 49:35SPEAKER_01: But if anyone else is near him, you're welcome to come in and let us know.
- 49:38SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 49:38SPEAKER_01: So he will win or he will receive his uh set free session at uh Sweat Happens reset and recovery out on Tupper Curry there.
- 49:45SPEAKER_01: And then our players of the week this week.
- 49:47SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so our judges had a little bit of niggling back and over.
- 49:49SPEAKER_01: There was there's plenty of guys up for debate.
- 49:51SPEAKER_01: So we picked uh Patrick Brady from St.
- 49:53SPEAKER_01: Mary's Patrick Brady St.
- 49:54SPEAKER_00: Mary's remind me the other two then Sean Carl Shammer Kales.
- 49:57SPEAKER_01: Yes, and now we did David Quinn.
- 49:59SPEAKER_01: We can't have the set look, people are gonna be like, David Quinn, we have a rule here, you can't win two.
- 50:03SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
- 50:04SPEAKER_01: So, like, of course, he's gonna be well in the reckoning there.
- 50:06SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, so it's uh Sean Carl Shammer Kales and we went with Adrian Marin from Curry.
- 50:12SPEAKER_00: Curry because obviously without him, they wouldn't have got across the line against Budnadden, and I'm sure there's other guys that maybe stepped up to the plate, but you know, 12 points in a county semi-final for a man of maybe 45 years of age is is good going.
- 50:25SPEAKER_01: Well I'm 46 and it's no way I'd score.
- 50:27SPEAKER_00: He might be 45.
- 50:28SPEAKER_00: I'll hear that.
- 50:29SPEAKER_00: I'll hear about that.
- 50:30SPEAKER_00: Confirm that as well.
- 50:31SPEAKER_01: We need the top score, confirmed we need Adrian Barron's age.
- 50:34SPEAKER_01: Um we will have a vote uh with the top two players on our Instagram.
- 50:37SPEAKER_01: Whenever this goes out, we'll hopefully have it out that night.
- 50:39SPEAKER_01: Uh again, Shallok at that.
- 50:40SPEAKER_01: Uh well, we're we're nearly down out.
- 50:42SPEAKER_01: We'll be running out of games very soon, but um we'll be back next week previewing the the intermediate and that we'll look, we're gonna try and gather a bit more content in the meantime, heading into all the finals.
- 50:51SPEAKER_01: Uh, but again, thanks for watching.
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- 51:03SPEAKER_01: Uh, that's it for myself, Brendan Terry, and from my man over here, Darren Kearns.
- 51:06SPEAKER_01: Uh, we will see you all again next time.