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SLIGO MENS COUNTY FINAL 2026 Review · On The Edge Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's county final review time here on On the Edge Sports Podcast with myself, Brenda Tierney, and Darren Kearns.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: And before we get to that, we have to say uh thank you.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: We've reached 2,000 followers on Instagram.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: I think there's been over 2 million views on our content since the start of just the Sligo Club Championship.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: So we're so grateful for everyone that has tuned in, all the lovely words we've had.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: And like us, two boyos coming in, just doing this as a hobby, having a bit of fun with it.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: But I have to give Fury's credit to the local sports journalists.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: And Darren, you've probably seen these in the press box as well.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Over the few months, the help, the likes of Lee Maloney, Jessica Farry, uh Gavin Cauley, and then the PRO, Paul McKeon, uh Rory and the guys in the production in the videos, and Austin Callan, of course, I've noticed him.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's really open my eyes to the workload these people put in.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: And like, you know, you open either of the papers and you just flick through.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: And never mind the slide with GA Championship, like it's frightening.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I do not know how they do it.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's so hard to get details sometimes or scores, you know, it's understandable, it's all small amateur club games.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: So hat tip to the proper journalists, what they've done well for years, but it was amazing, and it was really helpful to us, obviously, find an information report.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: So before we get into the final review of the final, I just want to say, listen, thanks to all those people I mentioned, and more, anyone else that's ever helped us out from clubs with scores or anything like that.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: So, so, anyways, the final Sunday came and it's gone, and I think it lived up to all our hopes and expectations.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: It was an absolute cracker of a game, it was end to end as just as we wanted it.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the favourites, of course, Shamrock Gales, uh, most people's favourites, the Bookie's favourites, and again, Mary's prevail again in another tough, tight battle.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they do indeed, and uh they get their win, they get their first title in 11 years.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, probably warranted on the day, to be totally honest.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like anybody that was there, including some of the Shamrock Yales supporters that we were speaking to afterwards, they were very gracious in defeat, and they kind of held their hands up and said the better team won on the day.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um and St.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's to their credit, like they've that's four games in a row that they've come out just the right side of the score line by the kick of a ball, like you know, and that's that that's tough going as well.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: It really is a real testament to them, even psychologically, to keep going, oh, it could be lost here in the last second, could be lost.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: That's three games in a row, but they always keep seeming to battle, and even like the last moment we'll get to it later on, but like just on a knife edge again and they pull through.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, but but look, they they this first half, what was it, after like seven minutes?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: There'd been two scores.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: There was a goal, yeah, and there was a point.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: And then interestingly enough, I think like we mentioned it when we were doing the live feed from Markovich on Sunday that Shamrack Yales won the toss and they decided to go against the breeze in the first half.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: And I suppose just a quick thanks to our sponsors, EJ Menswear and EJ Menswear.com here in Sligo Town, and also to Reboot Fitness in Turbo Curry, Torres Ran, and now in Charlestown.
• 3:05
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• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you go back to the All Ireland uh senior final, Mayo done that themselves, and it proved to work wonders for Mayo.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Did a backfire for Sherma Kids.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Look at hindsight, it's a great thing, of course it is at the end of the table.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was a measured guess, you imagine, with the shooters they have, and especially what David Quinn did in the semifinal.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly, playing some goals.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Scoring in nearly as they say.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it was kind of like that they'd decided that we'll keep it tight for the first half.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: We try and nullify what uh St.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's are going to be doing, and if we can get a few scores, chip in with a few scores ourselves and be in the game.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I I said to you early in the in the first half, I said it was definitely a five or six point lead that St.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's would want going in at halftime.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: It turned out it was six.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Six at the end, but I mean, not long before that, like about 17 minutes, it was two points to a goal.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: There was a point in it twenty-fifth minute, I think, if I can read my own hand right there.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: One four to two.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: There was a phase there where Mary's got four in a row.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: And if you look at it like it was it was a slow burner, yeah.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: It really was, like it was very cagey affair at at the start.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: There was lots of mistakes, you know, from both sides, as expected.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: County finals, there's nerves, there really is, and I suppose the opening score for St.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's was huge.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Robert Kelly Lynch um getting a great goal, breaking through the defence, like it was it was it was a great goal from start to finish, and that just gave them a little platform, like when you get a goal, you know, the your opening score of the game, you know, like it just gives you a little foothold in the first half of the game, and it kind of settled them down a small bit.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: And if you looked around the pitch at the time, like that they really, really celebrated that goal as if to say that this has us on the scoreboard now.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: There's your first score of the game, it's a major, and it was up to Shamak Gales to come down the field and get a few scores against the breeze then.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: And it was a stiff breeze in Merkovich on Sunday, it really was like you could see that Lee Degnan took a free off the deck just outside the two-point arc um in the first half and pulled it towards the dressing room.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: Usually he'd be slotting them over.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: There was another chance just before half time that dropped short as far as he went short himself between himself and David Quinn.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: But again, that would have been nailed on for a two-pointer more often than not, in uh especially in Markfitch Park.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: But it was just St.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's just before halftime, then Nathan Rooney got a great two-pointer from just outside the 45.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: And they had an opportunity with the last kick of the half to go eight points up that he just pulled wide as well.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, yeah.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: I think eight points would have been a real clinker, especially the way Mary's defence.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I kind of I was talking to people that evening, I was going from you know, just from a spectator's point of view, watching it.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Yeah, it kind of felt Mary's defence won it in the first half.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: There was so many turnovers, so many blocks.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: There was turnovers, there was blocks.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: There was uh uh one one play that there was a double block, Ryan Fiely blocked the first effort and it came across then.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: And that was it, Fiona Hare.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: Fiona Hare meant blocked the second one, you know.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: And like we've mentioned Fiona on this pod loads, and loads of people inside and outside the same areas around the county have been mentioned because he's come up with the goods more often than not, and he's small in stature, but even uh like he has the heart of a tiger there, like and he got up the field and he got a point himself in the first half.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: When again it was badly needed for Sam Aries because when you're playing with the aid of a of a Gale Force Breeze, we'll say down into the graveyard goals, like and you're not getting on the score sheet, like like you mentioned that uh around 22 minutes, I think it was one, two to two points, like yeah, in in around that, yeah.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and like you can press the panic button at that stage and you can start going for Hail Mary shots, but he got up the field and he slotted one over with with the measure of a forward, like you know, and if you touch back to the Calera game a few weeks ago, it that he got up the field and he got a point just before half time as well, slotted that over with his left foot.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: So, like it's not as if that you know this was a Hail Mary shot, it was a measured shot, and he kicked it over the bar and he went back and he got into his position again to set up defensively.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: But we had mentioned that the Samaris defence over the last few weeks it was a kind of a measured approach, they always had an extra man back, and like when you're dealing with the firepower that Shaw McGails hold in that forward line, with the likes of David Quinn, with the likes of the two Degnans, like you there's a lot of fires to put out, and then you have the runners coming from deep, but Samaris didn't really worry too much about it, they kind of worked it on their own terms, and it was like they got their matchups right.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we were wondering was Ryan Feely going to come back out from the full back line and and take on David Quinn like he did in the group game, but it turned out that Paul Kikoyne marked David Quinn, and in fairness, Paul done very well, and Paul is more so a link man and and and always has been, and getting on the end of things or being a sweeper, or you know, but he marked David Quinn from the off, and it was his pass that set Robert Kelly Lynch through to get the goal in the first few minutes.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: So it was like, let David Quinn mark me, is what Paul had decided, you know.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: And if I'm not mistaken, David didn't I don't think he scored from play on the day.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: If I'm not sure, no, just a few frees, three frees, yeah.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was, yeah.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean that I mean from what he scored the previous game, and he wasn't up against any mugs that day, like you know what I mean.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean it was really wondering.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: But I have to say, like, even Sean Carl, Kieran, Kenny, even the first half, it wasn't like there was nothing going wrong, like they were tearing up that pitch, and again, Sean shown and how many runs he made, and he always seems to break a line, always seems to make a positive movement.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, there was stuff to be dealing with, like, and they did it, but like again, it was just right through the backs there.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: Patrick Brady, another young man, uh, and again, Scott Lynch.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: I said to you at one stage, I said, Is there two Scott Lynch's players?
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'd love to have a drone and and watch his tracking, like it's it just comes up everywhere, and you're like, it nearly kicks the ball handle.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: He he handled loads of ball in uh especially in the first half because um one thing to notice from the Samaris point of view was that they kicked the ball an awful lot.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Scott Lynch kicks the ball every time he gets to the ball.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and that must be a dream for a forward the likes of Nathan Rooney or the likes of Kyle Cawley inside that they know if they make these runs, and like don't get me wrong, like you're you're marking good players in the likes of Carl McKenna and Evan Lyons back there, Shaw McGills, but you know if you're making these runs that the ball is going to be kicked.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: So instead of like because like I've seen it in loads of games, the forwards will be making a run, the ball isn't kicked, he has to make the second run, he has to make the third run, and then he stops, and then he just stops the ball.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I never understand it in the modern rules.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: There should be tons of room uh for forwards, yeah.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: But there's no room unless the forward moves.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: But then as you said, the forward won't move if he goes on, they never give it a chance.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that's and and starts at the back now.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: Of course it does.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I suppose, like you mentioned the fact that Sean Carroll was carrying lots of ball and Patrick Kenny was carrying lots of ball, and even George Barlow and Dylan McDermott.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: I thought George Barlow had a big game.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: He did have a big game, yeah, right.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: But they carried an awful lot of ball in the sense that they had to carry it because the kick into the full forward line wasn't on with the wing.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: Because Sam Mary's kind of had the funnel back of the extra man back.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: And you mentioned Patrick Brady there, and we mentioned Robert Kelly Lynch.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like every time they got the ball, they went to break a line.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: More often than not.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: And when you're playing in them tight games, you need fellas to take on that mantle of let's break a line, let's get up the field.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Because you can sit back and Sharma Gales, they're big men to try and break down, you know, they've lots of big bodies around that middle third.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, you can get bottled up, and they did get bottled up on a couple of occasions, and they got done for steps, and they get done for a turnover, ball gets spilled, or whatever it may be, but they didn't panic.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and and and they didn't revert to okay, go back into your shell.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like they just kept at it.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: And and credit to uh Mark Bernie and his management team for setting them up in that way.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and it was kind of like if you go back to the group game against uh Sher McGales in his growing, completely different mindset and completely different team um ethos to what was what was on that night from what we've seen on Sunday.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: It really was, and like when they went in at halftime and there was one six to three points, there was lots of question marks like a mark for is it enough?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know well?
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think everyone in the feeling half time is going, okay, well, you expect Shamakales were gonna come back at them at least.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I maybe go, ah they'll just rattle on now.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, straight away after halftime, uh what it was after 35 minutes, it was one, I hope we can one nine to one to one ninety-four points or something.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: So they extended it, and it was Nathan with some an unbelievable thing.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I think from anybody that hasn't seen the clip on social media, and it was a Colin McGee that scored the championship or score of the year between himself and and and and the commentator he was saying that it was scored the championship.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: I think Colin McGee said scored the year.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and um it was it was a clinker, it was just like in the situation it was in then the context of taking that in such a game, yeah.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so and I listened to Nathan's interview afterwards, and he had said that he wasn't fully sure whether it was outside the two-point arc or not, he was just kind of just going for it.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: And like we've seen Nathan taking loads of shots in championship, and he's he mentioned this in in his uh interview as well.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: He said that he has missed them on occasions and he has got it double barrel from both sideline and his own players, but it just shows the confidence level that he's at at the moment that just keep at it, and like once it left his boot, he cut inside Car McKenna there, who bought a little dummy off him and outside the right boot, and it swirled over and into that breeze.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was just a clinker of a score, but it gives him a great platform just after halftime.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: It really did like, and that kind of set them up, and they they they never look back after that, like they didn't lose the lead after that.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: And when you're talking in them games, it was like Shamrack Gales then decided, okay, we have to hit some twos here, we need to get ourselves back into the game.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately for David Quinn, it didn't work out on the day.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: He had a few wides from you know difficult angles that on another day they were going over, and it was like he really needed to get one of them to get the other.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: To get the range, find the range, yeah.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I we've seen those with any player.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: One day you get one, you're off.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, and then there was, and I mean, I could understand because there was a phase in the start after they had that lead increased.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: There was time you could see for a few minutes, maybe Shammer Kids were maybe forcing into a small bit and taking, as you said, risky shots.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: And like maybe look, it's always for need you like me to be talking about it, but I'm just saying, like, they were the moments maybe they might look back with it.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they know football more than anyone, and they go maybe just to worked it in, keep tipping down the scores one point.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was probably a game like that that you needed to keep the scoreboard taken over, do you know?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: And like, and the longer that it went on that St.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's were were keeping ahead of them, keeping them at arm's distance, it was like, okay, we need to find a goal here to get us back into the game.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then St.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's was coming out with the ball, and they were very comfortable with it.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: And a misplaced hand pass, you know, is intercepted, ball breaks to Shane Degnan, who gets through for goal, gets a goal chance off, gets a bit of a pull on the arm, and the referee gives a penalty.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now, it was soft enough, it really was.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: There was no one rolling at the straight away with the boss and not even like like not even the Shamrock Gales players themselves, they were kind of looking, it was more you know, hopefully we might get it, you know.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: And they got the penalty, and this I like like so this are 45 minutes, uh so I think that's again it was around 197, maybe at the stage.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like this was a huge, huge turn of point in in the game.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: And David Quinn, who had slotted a penalty against St.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: Milash Gales in the semi-final, like James Cronin in the St.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's nets.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm sure he was thinking, okay, is he gonna stick or twist?
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: And as a goalkeeper, you know, if you have your homework done, and I know that James had said that the stats man David Keane had told him this is where he went in the semi-final.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: So as a goalkeeper, you're like, okay, will I go with the trial and test it?
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's 50-50 enemies.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you just have to go.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, no one's gonna give out if it doesn't.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: No, you know, like and and people are saying super save and great save, and it was.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: It was a great save, and it was a huge turning point.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: But as I think I mentioned that, you know, if David Quinn slots that to the left, it's of no benefit to the keeper.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like it doesn't make any odds.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: But James makes a hero out of himself, saves it, but he also gets up and saves the rebound.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I was gonna say.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: That they didn't know.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was critical.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he he bounced back up off the ground and you know, got over and got a foot to the rebound then.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, that they Sam Mary's came down the field, then like that was just I think Sharma Giades really, really needed that to get them back into the game.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: To their credit, then, after St.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's got another score down the far end of the field, they got up the field and like what a clinker of a goal.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you're looking at Gaelic footballs, I hope someone pulls that from the box.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what the new rules are designed for.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: So DJ DJ Lyons in the in the Sharon McGield's goal comes out, gets the ball on the T fast, and he drills one 60 yards down the field.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and within the blink of an eye, the ball has moved on to Patrick Kenny, who slips it inside.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Shane Degan ends up getting the ball and rattles it through the legs of James.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: It was an absolute per perfect work.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was and like if you would try doing that on the on the trainer pitch, you're it's not it's never not going to come off just as good as that.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's not, and that again that brought them back into it.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then you're wondering, I say, Mary's gonna win.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so it's one seven to eleven now.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: And again, you're going, okay, that's the the burst now Shamrack Hills needed.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, but it's still it like they kept creeping, they went uh like it went up to a point gap at once.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: It came down, it came down to a point because like Kieran Kenny, who had a massive second half, he himself and Evan Lines as well, I thought the two of them said, right, we're taking this.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they brought the they brought the fight to the to Samaris, they really did, and Kieran Kenny nailed one with the outside the left, a two-pointer from distance, and you know, it was a huge run.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was a run that wasn't tracked, and he came a pace, he took it off the shoulder and spun it over to the outside the left, and like that brought them right back into the game.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think it brought it down to two points, and then he get he ends up getting Shane Degnan click clips one as well, Nathan clips one down the far end of the field outside the right from play, a great score as well.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: And at this stage, you know, it's in the melting pot, it really is.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: And there's there's subs being ran in from the St.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's bench.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Sharon McGill's made one only one change.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Luke Flynn.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Luke Flynn was the only seventh minute.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was the only change to come in.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: And um Robert Kelly Lynch, who was having an excellent out and throughout, was putting his hand up for being a nomination for man of the match.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: He got a bad injury, and we'd like to wish him well on that side of it as well.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Because you know, it's great.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: The hurlers as well, it's last and a great talent he is.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's his collarbone that's gone.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: And it was a bit of an innocuous challenge by Sean Carr.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: There was no malice in it, you know, it was it it's it's tough football.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's you know, it's just the way that he came across him.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, Robert had to go off injured, and it was it was distressing to see it like that.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: But Emlin came on then, and you know, he he he you're talking about a cool hit on the ball on three or four occasions, and you know, he he kept the ball, and that's what Samaris needs to be doing, kind of like like make sure McGails do the chasing.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Then Kieran Kenny decides I'm going at one stage, and he went down the field, nobody really tracked his run.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: He got tagged at one stage, he broke away again, ball comes in across the top to him, and he clips it over with his left foot again, and that brought it down to a point.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: And like you're you're looking for the board coming up here at injury time, then you know, and was it three or four four minutes go up then?
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: And look at the ball comes down the field, and it's tit for tad, and you're like, This, you know, anyone's could go anyway, it really could.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and like we were beside the press box era, and like there was an awful lot of people in front of us between Samaries and Shamrack Gales fans, and they were on the edge of their seats, and the game had really caught fire at this stage, and again, no more than anything else, like there were mistakes being made, like there was hand passes going astray, there was you know, there was turnovers, you know.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: Jared Kelly Lynch lost a turnover at one stage, Sham McGills lost one, brought in brought the ball into the tackle that got done for steps, you know, and ball comes down the field, and Stephen Cohn gets the ball, and it was his first touch, and he just takes on his man, and he found the pace again and he he burned him up and he got a pullback, and no more than the penalty down the far end, you know, dubious enough, you know, there was a bit of a pull on him, and then he gets the free, okay?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure he was thinking about taking it himself because it was a left footer free, but like there was nobody going to get the ball off Nathan Rooney at that stage, okay?
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: And there's the pressure on, we were right behind it.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: Totally in line.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, is he is he going for this with with the outside the right boot?
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, because like if you look at where the wind was swirling, it was going in that way, but like if you go at the angle that he was at, it was like he had missed one with the inside of his foot, he had already kicked two with the outside of his right, it is all in the second half, so like he decided, right, I'm going outside the right.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: Because he said to us, that I just figured that's the only way I can score this.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it was.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's but like still some burvado, or if it went wrong, that'll be you know, we have some mouthpiece given out to him.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly, exactly.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: But he was on farm all day, like it just everything clicked from on the day.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: But that but with on day on on farm all day from once he got one.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like he had he snatched it at one or two at the very start, he really did.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: And that's if you go back to what we're saying about the David Quinn situation, like if he had got one of them twos that he was looking for in the second half, that could have a completely different bearing on the game.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: It was awesome in the semifinal.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then Nathan he nails it outside the right, nails it, and that gave them that little two-point cushion that Shamrock Yales have to decide then okay, we have to get one from distance.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Samaries had their low block in at that stage, and they were like, Okay, let's just make sure that we don't give away a free or we don't go crazy here, or they don't get one from distance.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: And like, in all honesty, there was only a two, maybe three players on the Sharmack Yales team that was realistically going to kick the two from distance at that stage of the game.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, so they were tagging the right people at that stage, and ball comes down the field, ball breaks away again, say Mary's get fouled coming out.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: We're thinking time is up, David Quinn is on the ground, there's a bit of verbals between himself and no evidence.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we interviewed him Imlen after this.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: He admittedly said I said something, and he gets a black card, and everybody is looking at the ref.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: Is he going to reverse decision and give a free into Shermack Gales?
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: Is he gonna hop the ball?
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Gives Muggsy his black card, gives him his marching orders, and he gives a hot ball.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, like you're thinking, hot ball is here now.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: What's going to happen?
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it was twenty it was 2022, Turtle Strand.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: It was this that was nearly a s a similar thing, wasn't it?
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: The caught at the death.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right right at the death, and ball is thrown up, and David McGovern, who came up with a couple of big plays during the game.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: This is quite possibly his biggest play that he's done for St.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's since he since he landed, and he wins the ball, flicks it back to St.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's, they pick up the break, and it's game over.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: All done.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: And you're looking at jubilant scenes for the rest of the evening after that.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: And look at it, it's it's it it probably is probably is warranted throughout the championship from start to finish.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: If you're if you're well then looking at the tough route, uh it's so well they didn't actually have that many more games, but they had so many more tough games nearly.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: It was like they didn't have the long breaks, whether obviously it might have benefited.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: And like you're you're you're talking so like I I had mentioned on last week's pod or or the week before, like that this was going to be Sean McKay's second game in seven weeks.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: And like, I just don't think it's enough.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you need to be winning a county championship, I don't think I I don't I whatever way the cookie crumbles, there's nothing you can do about it.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: I did like the structure now this year, yeah.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: The game more or less.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not saying I'm not saying for any reason that they need to flip everything on their head and do something, I just saying that it's very tough for.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: Shamark Yales with only two competitive games in the seven week spell, to one of them being a county semi-final, the other one being a county final.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and and it's just it just boils down to that fact because like if you look at the games that St.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's had in that little window itself, like you're probably talking four games.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: So that's double the amount of fixtures that Shammar Gales had and tough games.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: None of them that they could say they walked away with.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: You go back to Shamak Yale's semi-final for 35 minutes it was a contest.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: After that, it was game over.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: And they kind of went through the game, they were only going through the motions for the last 15-20 minutes.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: They really were, and that's no disrespect to say Malach Gales, it was just where the Shamrack Gales were.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: They flexed their muscles for maybe seven or eight minutes and they went double figures ahead and they never looked back after that.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: So mention the fact that you can do all the training you want, you can play all the challenge games you want.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: White heated challenge your battle.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's where it's at.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: And and and then the flip side of that, and it's we always kept going back to it, it'll be answered Sunday.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: We're saying that since June or July in the All-Ireland, and we got answered again that Mary's backs overall, they were able to answer most of the questions thrown out.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: That was as I said, that first half, yeah, uh where they shut down some of the games.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like and like you were talking about matchups, and like Ryan Feely and Shane Degan had a great battle.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: Shane got one two one one two or one three finished with, yeah.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: He did, like you know, and uh but Ryan had a great game as well, turned him over on a couple of occasions.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he really proper tussle both ways, neither winning or losing, but both coming out with some great players.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely not, like, and like Fiona Hare really stood up at times.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you mentioned Scottie Lynch, you mentioned Robert Kelly Lynch, you mentioned Patrick Brady, you mentioned PK, Paul Kyne, Mark and David Quick.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Finn Young and Finton Campbell, those two lads.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and again, I I don't know everyone's age, but like yeah, but a big game, and they were dogged and they got all out and running.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: But an awful an awful lot of them, an awful lot of them guys that you've mentioned there, and you obviously you go into Nathan, Eli probably didn't get to the standards he probably set for himself, probably hasn't done all championship.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: But he was from back from injury too.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: So it makes sense.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he has, and and Kyle was okay, probably again, but he's marked at the county full back.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: And Evan had a great game.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: Evan had a great game.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: But Kyle, you know, he chipped in, he got a great score with his left foot in the first half.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: But an awful lot of them players probably got you know between a six, seven, and eight out of ten.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: If you went through the whole team, and you mentioned James Cronin as well, like you can like give him his credit, also.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: But uh the subs, like we said Stephen Cohen, a couple of good possessions.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: Brian Meen he came on, a couple of crucial cruises, nothing too uh spectacular, but like those moments where you get the ball and you do something right with it.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Emlen again, we said, like you know what I mean.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: So a lot of their bench actually came on and kind of did small little things.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: Rolling Iron came on also, and you know, he didn't set the world alight like he did in the semi-final, but again, it's it just gives everybody a lift when you see a player like that coming on the pitch.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then if you flip that across to the Shamark Yales team, like you know, we mentioned like Carl McKenna was decent, right, without being spectacular, but again, he gets his hands full with Nathan Rooney, he really does.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: Evan was good, we'll say he was good throughout.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Kieran Kenny, I thought was one of the top performers.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, he was he really was Sean Carroll more so in the first half, Connor Sheridan got four clean catches from like kick outs in the first half of the first half alone, but like such a such an athlete on top of everything, like the speed of him up.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, uh Dylan McDermott and George Barrow.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: George Barlow caught a lot of ball in midfield, he handled a lot of ball.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: Dylan probably again, he you know, he he was okay without setting the world alight, and then you go into their forward play, and this is where not enough of them got enough marks out of ten in a county final day, and they'd be the first to admit that themselves, like you know, like they they really needed the likes of David Quinn and the likes of Lee Degnan to come to the fore.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's two inter-county footballers, you know, and you're probably expecting a little bit more from them.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Patrick Kenny was was was strong, he got it, he got a good fist of point just after halftime, good strong run, and he's he's an athlete, he's a machine, he really is, you know, like he's just you know like they came up against the the defence, so it's it's not even about the forwards, maybe just didn't click on the day.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but apart from that, you're up against, as we said, the tigers there.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: You were you were you really they were like the first team to get out of the room?
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like Nial Kenny, who had who had uh very good out in the semi-final, like he kicked the open and scored the game, and you're like, This man could take off here, but he kind of came back into it a small bit, but like look who he's marking.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not here, like you know, and like Johnny Quinn had one that was short, he had another one that was kind of half blocked down, like so, and then we mentioned that they only made one sub.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, look at I'm sure they're looking back and thinking that we could have done things different.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: There were county champs for a year, they were very good county champs for a year, you know, and they hadn't won one in a long, long time.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: And just Sunday just came up short on Sunday.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: They were all, and with the new rules, they're running a kick of a ball away for bringing that game to a replay, they really were, and you're saying that an awful lot of them players didn't get to the pitch of the game, do you know?
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: So when you balance it all out, probably say they're not going to filter off into the sunset, anyway.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: No, they're definitely not to be next to Will of Course, the Will of Course.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I look, I mean, as I said from day one, me watching this, and I was someone on uh was it Moraed from Kalani Well Lorrina wrote on something on Instagram going, God, I'm gonna miss the championship like I think we're all gonna miss it.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like because I thoroughly enjoyed the whole journey for whatever it was, nine or ten days.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I like there was a great crowd in Markovitch.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know the numbers actually, but it was it looked like it really was there, of course, and there was a lot of people asking that.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: Did we know the numbers?
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure someone has it somewhere, yeah.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure Jessica or Liam Maloney will have it in the in the papers during the week.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: But um, it was as big a crowd as I can see in Markfitch for a county final in a good few years.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh also probably boils down to the two teams, like Simaries have a huge following uh in their 50th year, also, and they're promoting that in a big way.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: And they had a lot of stuff done.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh lots and lots of kids in the in the in the ground on Sunday, which was great to see.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: There's a great picture, it's on Sligo G's Facebook of uh is it the 2015 or the 2022 uh final where Jay James Cronen is in the stand?
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: 2015.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: 2015, is that it?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, and it's like a moment and then it's just two years later than he's gonna be.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: But it's just a lovely little capture.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly, because you look at you look at them kids that was there from St.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's on Sunday, and like they're gonna be looking at that, and like success breeds success, it really does.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and you're looking at Shamraca, Shammarkades have massive following, they really do.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like, there's a huge area out there, like you know, and they have great support, right?
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: And that's going that's not just county final day, it's it's it's all through the championship, like you know, and they have lots of good stalwarts in that club, and you know, it's it's it's one of these things that there has to be a winner, you know what I mean?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: And that's sport, and sport can be cruel at times, and it can you can be unlucky in games, and it's just one of these things to me to come out on top.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't think anyone would be saying, 'Oh, it was a bad decision here.' I thought the ref was quite good.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, overall, let things go at different times.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, there's always going to be the odd little drive decision.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: There is, of course, like it was nothing that's it was no hard luck stories.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: No, I don't know.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and like you know, I think most both teams had more or less their full squad that they needed, more or less.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, uh, it was just uh an epic battle to end a great season, you know.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: So congrats to the Marys, uh, commiserations, Chamber Gales, and like even just from those two teams and all the teams, like they've been so kind to us with their time and interviews and chats and and some of the kind words they've had.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, I know it's been it's been a dinger.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: So Marys move on into Connect.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they play the Ross Common champions, they play the Roscommon boys, yeah.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: In uh it's the weekend of November the 8th and 9th.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so it's either going to be Park Pierce's or St.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: Bridget's.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: Probably St.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: Bridget's are probably the favourites at the moment, but Park Pierces came through an absolute cracker of a semi-final against Boyle a few weeks ago with cricket scores.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's like uh I can't remember the score off the top of my head, but I think it was like something like 521 to 2, whatever else that would make it after extra time.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: And like you're talking, you go back to you're saying that the Sligo champs have to go to Roscommon now to play them, like and whatever it may be, maybe like you know, let them enjoy their few days or their week ahead, and then they'll get back on their horse.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure Mark Berhani and his management team there, who were shrewd enough operators, they'd be coming up with a plan and trying to put their best foot forward because Sharma Kids probably tried the same last year, and they got Mike Cullen coming to Tobacurry to play them last year, and they got turned over.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, when you go into Connacht Championship, it's a different kettle of fish, it really is.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and you're getting the bigger boys, you're playing against the bigger boys, and just see how it goes.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, you look at Kalira a couple years ago who probably weren't fancied all the way through and kept going and kept going and kept going.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: So end up getting to go around semi-finals.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Even in the Premier League, like you defenses win titles nearly, like you know, and well, Mary said that obviously Robert O'Kelly is a monumental loss now to the black.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: Huge loss.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: But again, like as I said, there were lads who said maybe didn't click on the day, but maybe they'll have their moment the next day.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: So, no, look, I mean, look at as I said, we're not gonna worry about that too much for now.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: No, and I'm sure they're not either.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: No, they're uh I'm sure they are the last thing they're worried about tonight, listen to this, is that but um and Shamrack Gales are worthy champions for the 12 months that they got it.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they really were.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was a pleasure watching them right through, and even we are my our first debut commentator was out there in Trouble Curry.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they'd be back.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: And like as it as the play went on and as I'd see in more of the diagonals for me, like I hadn't seen them ever live in the flesh before this year.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, some great players David Quinn, like Jesus, uh like that semi-final like performances.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of course.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: Take chips out of that and keep it on the on the archives.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: But no, great to see some of the players uh in the flesh and just like my overriding thing is going that definitely maybe I'm a bit naive, but there definitely seems to be a great future for Sligo county football.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like there definitely has to be like there's and I've been talking with a few people throughout the championship and even over the last few days since the final, and like they're asking, you know, is this man with Sligo?
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: Should this man be with Sligo?
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Could this man be with Sligo?
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: And like all of them questions, like there's loads of fellas throughout the championship, and it's going from you know, even go, even go with some of the the junior players from the junior final a couple of weeks ago, like there's lots of them lads between the we'll say the junior knockout stages, intermediate knockout stages, and the senior knockout stages, you know, the fellas aren't on the county panel, and whether they're willing to go in, it's up to them.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: It is, you know, and I think it's good people are asking because now they're going, oh, they look at the amount of questions everyone has to be.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: And it's up to Jesse Slein and his management team now to try and coax these guys in or or make it that they want to go in and see where that takes them after that.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because like Sligo GA senior team at the moment has had a low enough ebb.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: It really is.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: It had, you know, real like from something that we thought was going to click last year, tit and click for whatever reason it may be, park that year, move on, and the only way is up after this, and they're gonna have a very, very tough division three league campaign.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: They really have like they have like have a tough, tough task ahead of them.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: So they need to be hitting the ground running, you know.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure that they're looking at these guys and they're saying, right, okay, if we can get this man in, you know, and some of the players that are there, like you're thinking if they're that good when we're watching them in the flesh, up close and personal, and fellas nowadays, modern day footballers, they're fit athletes, they really are.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I've seen so many classy natural footballers on summer, and like it don't matter where you play, whether it's your county club, connuct, or in count inter-county, yeah, class doesn't dissolve, like you know, and I think I've seen enough in the flesh to go up, my god, there's definitely enough.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: You'd be hoping so, yeah.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: And you want competition, so that's the key thing, because then the cream rises to the top.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, no, look, it's been uh it's been a brilliant championship, and as I said, I think the future is definitely bright.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so hopefully that all clicks on that side when it goes on to that side.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: But anyways, that's that's a good bit away yet.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is, of course.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: The winter to rest up.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but before we uh before we well, before we wrap up the club championship, now for anyone watching, we are going to continue our podcast every week.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: If you're not sure, we also have our Premier League podcast.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: And even this morning, we recorded a little uh rugby podcast.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: So we're kind of dipping our toe in different things and see what we get going.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we have our final uh player of the week and our top scorers.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: So our top scores this week is obviously Nathan Rooney, so yeah, congrats to him.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: And before anyone else is wondering why he can't be then in the player of the week, it's just our little kind of unofficial rule you can't win two awards.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, go back, go back to the Queen was another one they probably could have gotten.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: And Kyle Davy a couple of weeks ago.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Could have all got them.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: So we kind of said, look, it's spread the love around.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: So uh the sweat happens top score of the week uh player will be Nathan Rooney.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then the three players that'll go forward to the public vote.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: Last week there was seven or eight hundred people voted, it was meant to be uh we picked Kieran Kenny.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: Kieran Kenny, Shamark Gales, yeah.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Robert O'Kelly Lynch.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and Fiona Hare.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a two player.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: Two St.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's and one Shamark Hales.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: And three guys had super outings last Sunday.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: They really did.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and like, and as we said, we wish Robert the best.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: And Obi bounces back from from the injury, and it's not as serious as as it could be.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: And Fiona Hare had a massive outing, got up the field and got a massive score when it's badly needed.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: Kieran Kenny brought the fight to St.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: Mary's in the second half for Shamrack Gales and got three points from wing back, and he's had a super championship as well.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: So get voting on them and see where that see who gets who gets the final one of this championship.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: And obviously, we'll be keeping an eye on General GA and Chit Chat, and um we're going to do a little feature on the rules.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're obviously involved in coaching with the ATU Sligo senior team, so you're kind of seeing it in the flesh.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so we'll do little features, we'll have interviews of players, refs, who knows, coaches as the so as the winter goes on through.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we do have a Premier League podcast each week as well.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, so again, thanks to Sherlock's butchers, who will be the they'll they'll be given their prize of their protein pack, the 20 euro protein pack to the player of the week, whoever wins that.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: Sweat happens in Tupper Curry, uh amazing recovery studio out there.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: That they'll that'll go to Nathan this week.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: And then thanks, of course, to our other two main sponsors, EJ Menswear, EJ Menswer.com, who came straight in at the beginning of the championship.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: And we're very blessed.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: All our sponsors came to us looking for this, so which is the nicest way to get sponsorship because you're not running run begging.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: But anyone else wants to sponsor, there's still gaps there.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so to Eegis and EJ Menswer, and then reboot fitness in Turbo Curry Charlestown and Trupper Curry Charlestown and Turkestran.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_01: I've to get these all right half the time.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so look, we've been blessed to have people like that to help us keep it going.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, we've even had a few subscribers.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_01: So the people are throwing us the fiver a month, the links are in all our bios.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_01: Look, we'd love to keep it going, keep it growing.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: People have been asking us to do other local sports.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: We have we'll see what comes next.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_01: But as I said, it's their own lives family and all that.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we thoroughly enjoyed this for the last 10 weeks, but we're not going anywhere.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: We will be back, and uh, thank you all for watching.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see you all again next time.