Armagh Club football & hurling

fitzroyalty · July 09, 2009, 10:23:09 PM

League is still tight enough. are none of the county players buggering off to america now that armagh are out? What happens if teams are level on points at the end, play offs?? Six pointer on sunday with culloville playing sarsfields!

charlie stubbs · July 09, 2009, 10:59:40 PM

tones madden report from tuesday

Armagh Division 2 League Tuesday 7 July 2009
Wolfe Tones 1-8 Madden 1-11
Wolfe Tones suffered a 3 point defeat to Madden in the league on Tuesday evening and now seem to have found themselves in a relegation dogfight. The Tones started the game brightly and after an early Chris McAlinden wide, John Toal opened the scoring with a great point. David Heaney on his return from injury, played a good pass in front of John who turned quickly to evade his man and swing over a great point with his left foot from 30 yards. Madden immediately went up the field and restored parity when their no.12 equalised after a flowing move. Things could have got worse for the Tones moments later, when a Madden player bore down on goal only to be denied by a very brave save by Tones keeper Kieran Murray.
At the other end, John Toal continued to cause havoc for the Madden defence and after he had shot the Tones second wide he was able to get his second of the game from 35 yards in the 6th minute to restore the home sides lead. In the 8TH minute, John was at it again registering his 3rd point after good approach play by full-forward Stevy Lavery and Chris McAlinden. Madden then reduced the deficit to the minimum when their number 10 scored a free.
In the 15th minute the Tones moved further ahead, when the returning Stevy Lavery was able to score a great point hooking the ball over his shoulder from a narrow angle. The 17th minute came the turning point in the game. After great awareness from Stevy Lavery, John Toal was put through one-on-one with the Madden keeper who came out to superbly deny John what looked like a certain goal. From the resulting attack, Madden won a free which their no.11 converted with the outside of the boot from all of 40 yards. The same player was now having more of an influence on the game and in 22nd minute of the half again chipped over anothe free with some aplomb.
As in the previous weeks game against Granemore, the Tones players seemed to fall asleep approaching half time. Madden scored points in the 23rd and 25th minute(no.13/15) and in the 28th minute of the half hit the Tones with a sucker punch when the troublesome no.11, player a pinpoint pass to no.15 who left Tones keeper Kieran Murray with no chance.
Just on half time the Tones after a great break missed a fine opportunity. After Niall Geoghegan done some great foraging to win a ball and drive forward, he chose to shoot with Shaun Smith in a great position. That was the last action of the first half, leaving the Tones trailing by 5 points at the interval.
Wolfe Tones 0-04 Madden 1-6
Wolfe Tones needed to make a positive start to the second half if they where to achieve anything from this game. They duely oblidged, when 3 minutes into the second half an accurate cross field pass from David Heaney found Finnian Moriarity who had made a break forward from his centre-half back position and Finnian from 30 yards split the posts. This was immediately cancelled out by the Madden no.9. The Tones dominated the next ten minutes of the second half and had the visitors virtually camped in there own half. Unfortunately the Tones could not make possession count and kicked four wides during this period. Niall Geoghegan eventually took the bull by the horns in the 41st minute after a free flowing move his fellow halfback Ryan McQuillan supplied him with a fisted pass a Niall converted to leave 3 points between the sides and all to play for.
After a Chris McAlinden wide, Madden got themselves on the scoreboard after 47 minutes when their big no.25 was afforded too much time in the midfield area and carried the ball forward and kicked a fine score with his left foot. This seemed to rattle the Tones slightly and less than a minute later the no.15 scored another fine point from play and the game appeared to be up for the home side.
After 52 minutes Finnian Moriarity made an inspirational break from defence evaded a few challenges and drove the ball to the Madden net from 14 yards. The Tones now sensed that all was not lost in this game, and after 54 minutes after a Niall Geoghegan pass James Lavery was able to kick a score off his weaker left foot. This was quickly followed by John Toals first point of the second half and this left just one between them. Johnny McCarron who had did well since his introduction as a second half substitute, then missed a great chance to draw the sides level when he scuffed his shot from 25 yards.
Madden then with 2 minutes left on the clock broke away and after Connor McCarron appeared to be pushed in the back the Madden No.11 cut in along the endline and calmly fisted a point. That seemed to be the end of the game, but after a goal mouth scramble in the dying seconds the Madden keeper somehow managed to push an effort onto the post.
The Tones focus will now be on the championship game with Collegeland on 26 July in Maghery. The Tones in this game showed good fight in the closing stages and will need this come championship time in a game, despite recent form they will start as favourites in.
Tones lineout: Kieran Murray, Michael Carson, Connor McCarron, Chris Megoran, Niall Geoghegan, Finnian Moriarity, Ryan McQuillan, Conor Coleman, David Heaney, Brendan Coleman, Chris McAlinden, James Lavery, John Toal, Stevy Lavery and Shaun Smith: Subs Johnny McCarron for Chris Megoran
Full time
Wolfe Tones 1-8 Madden 1-10

sickboy · July 09, 2009, 11:00:48 PM

they can go to america if they want but they wont be playing football, croke park has the signing deadline the week before the back door starts. ballymacnab beat tir na og tonight 0-12 to 1-5

charlie stubbs · July 09, 2009, 11:09:27 PM

ARMAGH ACL TABLES AS AT SUNDAY 5 JULY

Div. I
P W D L Pts
Crossmaglen 12 12 0 0 24
Carrickcruppen 12 6 1 5 13
Pearse Og 12 6 1 5 13
Dromintee 12 6 0 6 12
Killeavy 12 5 1 6 11
Mullaghbawn 12 5 1 6 11
St Patrick's 12 5 1 6 11
Clan na Gael 12 4 1 7 9
Sarsfields 12 4 1 7 9
Culloville 12 3 1 8 7

Div. II
P W D L Pts
Maghery 12 12 0 0 24
Whitecross 12 11 0 1 22
Granemore 11 8 0 3 16
Ballymacnab 10 6 1 3 13
Harps 12 6 1 5 13
Clann Eireann 12 5 1 6 11
Tir na nÓg 12 5 1 6 11
Madden 12 4 2 6 10
Silverbridge 12 2 3 7 7
Wolfe Tone 12 1 4 7 6
Ballyhegan 13 2 1 10 5
St Michael's 12 1 2 9 4

Div. III
P W D L Pts
Keady 12 11 0 1 22
St Peter's 12 8 1 3 17
St Paul's 13 8 0 5 16
Middletown 11 7 0 4 14
Belleek 12 6 1 5 13
Clonmore 12 5 2 5 12
Shane O'Neill's 12 5 1 6 11
Collegeland 10 4 0 6 8
Annaghmore 12 4 0 8 8
Tullysaran 12 3 2 7 8
An Port Mor 11 3 1 7 7
Lissummon 12 2 2 8 6

Div. IV
P W D L Pts
Crossmaglen II 12 10 0 2 20
Eire Og 12 10 0 2 20
Forkhill 12 10 0 2 20
Corrinshego 12 8 0 4 16
Grange 12 7 2 3 16
Dorsey Emmett's 12 7 0 5 14
Derrynoose 12 4 3 5 11
Clady 12 4 2 6 10
Mullaghbrack 11 3 0 8 6
O'Hanlon's 12 2 2 8 6
Phelim Brady's 12 1 1 10 3
Killean 11 0 0 11 0

Goats Do Shave · July 10, 2009, 09:44:39 AM

As all the teams at the bottom of Div II seem to be losing every game... Does that make Madden virtually safe?

They're definately favourites to stay up now. IMO 2 from the bottom 4 will go.

I'm not sure what the fixtures are like, but I know Ballyhegan have played 4 of the top 6 teams twice already.

Div III looks a real scrap. It'll be a disasster for a few of those teams to get relegated to the bottom division.

charlie stubbs · July 10, 2009, 10:38:53 AM

we still have the following left goats

Home: bhegan, tir na nog, whitecross, harps, Maghery, silverbridge
away: Maghery, whitecross, newtown

at home can see us beating ballyhegan, the bridge, pdown and possibly winning away to newtown as we have goodrecord there. hard see where any other points coming from. relegation may not be worst thing though aqs we have a very very young team

Goats Do Shave · July 10, 2009, 10:47:05 AM

Although it's tough getting beat most weeks, it's always better for the younger players to be 'blooded' against these better teams i feel.

The only thing about the teams you are targetting for points... those teams will aslo be targetting you for points! $:-\$

We're in the same boat!

torres · July 10, 2009, 09:29:16 PM

granemore bt st michaels 13 - 10 , woeful game of football , poorly refeered but a wins a win .

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corn02 · July 10, 2009, 09:57:03 PM

Cross 0-14 Dromintee 0-11

Fair enough, Cross probably had an extra gear if they needed, but condiering the amount we were missing that is a better than expected result. Some Dromintee players were very good tonight, fair play, I was expecting a bit of a bhammering the way Cross have been going.

fitzroyalty · July 10, 2009, 10:14:08 PM

Killeavy 4-11 Clan na Gael 6-11

Great match. Clans travelled down with only about 18/19 of a panel, which makes the victory all the more sweeter. Killeavy dominated early on and at one stage led by 7. Must have been great for the neutrals, 10 goal thriller, Clans opening the goalfest after about ten mins. Killeavy however went straight up and scored one of their own to open up the gulf to 7 between the teams. Clans fought back and pegged it back to 3 points going into the break.

Second half was more or less all Clans, although at the beginning the teams traded goals, it could have went either way. Clans showed great determination however and ran the Killeavy full back line ragged. Once Clans got the 5th goal Killeavy heads dropped, and the blues finished strongly to win by 6. Great team performance.

N.B. Stefan Campbell, still a minor lorded something like 3-04/3-05 of the Clans' total. Armagh minor management should be begging him to join.

anportmorforjfc · July 10, 2009, 10:39:31 PM

Any div 3 results?

TacadoirArdMhacha · July 10, 2009, 10:51:55 PM

Quote from: fitzroyalty on July 10, 2009, 10:14:08 PM
Killeavy 4-11 Clan na Gael 6-11

Great match. Clans travelled down with only about 18/19 of a panel, which makes the victory all the more sweeter. Killeavy dominated early on and at one stage led by 7. Must have been great for the neutrals, 10 goal thriller, Clans opening the goalfest after about ten mins. Killeavy however went straight up and scored one of their own to open up the gulf to 7 between the teams. Clans fought back and pegged it back to 3 points going into the break.

Second half was more or less all Clans, although at the beginning the teams traded goals, it could have went either way. Clans showed great determination however and ran the Killeavy full back line ragged. Once Clans got the 5th goal Killeavy heads dropped, and the blues finished strongly to win by 6. Great team performance.

N.B. Stefan Campbell, still a minor lorded something like 3-04/3-05 of the Clans' total. Armagh minor management should be begging him to join.

Is that the fella who was threw off the panel due to disciplinary reasons?

fitzroyalty · July 10, 2009, 11:47:54 PM

Yeh same lad. To be fair, he is an exceptional talent, and should IMO be asked back to the panel.

bennydorano · July 11, 2009, 09:34:02 AM

Harps drew in Maghery 0-9 to 1-6. We could have nicked it near the end but Maghery missed enough chances to win the second half, but were also beneficiaries of a dodgy penalty in the first half. Entertaining game and Harps showed plenty of fight with a depleted squad (again), we travelled with 18 players and didn't see fit to use a sub which says it all really. Vernon added much needed steel and quality at CHB, but still doesn't look 100% fit. Considering Maghery came to Abbey Pk a while back and give us a 12pt hammering we are now showing a bit more cohesion approaching championiship time, which is good to see.

qub la la la · July 11, 2009, 10:25:12 AM

so cross have now won the league. who had dromintee missing corn? is it true that two players are going stateside?

clans picking up valuable points, 6 -11 is some scoring. killeavy defence has been very shakey this last while.