McKenna Cup 2024

[our_fella]

Queen's University have named their team and squad for the McKenna Cup clash with Tyrone in Healy Park this Sunday (12th January). The game throws in at 2pm.

1 – Michael Cunningham (Down)
2 – Peter Quinn (Derry)
3 – Che Cullen (Fermanagh)
4 – Conal McNulty (Tyrone)
5 – Ryan Mallon (Down)
6 – Darren O'Hanlon (Louth)
7 – Ciaran McCartan (Down)
8 – Martin McElhinney (c) (Donegal)
9 – Aaron Finden (Armagh)
10 – Ryan Murray (Antrim)
11 – Conor Maginn (Down)
12 – Harry og Conlon (Tyrone)
13 – Shay McArdle (Down)
14 – Rory Grugan (Armagh)
15 – Ryan Rafferty (Armagh)

[haranguerer]

Bradley names experimental Antrim side
09 January 2014

Antrim football manager Liam BradleyNew Antrim manager Liam Bradley has named an experimental side to face Jordanstown in the McKenna Cup at Creggan on Sunday.

Antrim (McKenna Cup v UUJ) - Oisin Kerr; Kevin O'Boyle, Dermot McCann, Justin Crozier; Tony Scullion, Martin Johnston, Mark McAleese; Mark Sweeney, Michael McCann; Conor Murray, Philip Maguire, Paddy Kelly; Paddy Cunningham, CJ McGourty, Brian Neeson.

Subs: Chris Kerr, Richard Johnston, Owen Gallagher, Sean McVeigh, Michael Pollock, Tomas McCann, James Lavery, Niall Delargy, Anton Taylor, Patrick Gallagher, David McGuckin, Conal Kelly.


http://www.hoganstand.com/Antrim/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=207312

How exactly could that side be deemed experimental?

[our_fella]

Grimley has pulled Jamie Clarke from J'Town,and is playing for Armagh today.

[never kickt a ball]

http://www.teamtalkmag.com/archives/26541

Coverage of Tyrone V QUB on above link

[armaghniac]

Grimley has pulled Jamie Clarke from J'Town,and is playing for Armagh today.

Now sign of JC, but Armagh doing rightly. 0-07 to 0-03 at half time.

[omagh_gael]

Ty 1-06 Qub 1-06 ht

[AQMP]

Antrim 1-10 UUJ 2-5...leaking goals again!!

[armaghniac]

Clarke now on for Armagh. JC works miracles.

[ApresMatch]

Anyone have Queens team?

[our_fella]

Anyone have Queens team?

1 – Michael Cunningham (Down)
2 – Peter Quinn (Derry)
3 – Che Cullen (Fermanagh)
4 – Conal McNulty (Tyrone)
5 – Ryan Mallon (Down)
6 – Darren O'Hanlon (Louth)
7 – Ciaran McCartan (Down)
8 – Martin McElhinney (c) (Donegal)
9 – Aaron Finden (Armagh)
10 – Ryan Murray (Antrim)
11 – Conor Maginn (Down)
12 – Harry og Conlon (Tyrone)
13 – Shay McArdle (Down)
14 – Rory Grugan (Armagh)
15 – Ryan Rafferty (Armagh)
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[never kickt a ball]

Dr McKenna Cup: Tyrone and Donegal win in Section A

Holders Tyrone beat Queen's 3-19 to 1-08 to put themselves in pole position to reach the McKenna Cup semi-finals.
In Sunday's other Section A fixture, a Colm McFadden goal proved crucial as Donegal fought back from five points down to beat Armagh by 1-10 to 0-11.
Armagh had led 0-7 to 0-3 at the interval at the Athletic Grounds.
In the game at Healy Park, two of Tyrone's goals came from debutants, Danny McNulty and PJ Lavery, both from county champions Clonoe.
The sides were level on eight occasions before the Red Hands displayed their quality to pull clear in the second half.
Queen's started brightly with a couple of Ryan Murray points, but were rocked by a Tyrone goal in the eighth minute, debutant Danny McNulty finishing to the net from close-range after Peter Hughes, Connor McAliskey and Niall McKenna had combined.
But the students responded with a Ryan Rafferty goal three minutes later, and were level when Rory Grugan landed a long-range point.
It was a tightly-contested opening half, with Murray and Ryan Rafferty again on target for QUB, while McAliskey and debutant Patrick Quinn hit Tyrone points.
It was Queen's centre back Darren O'Hanlon who brought the sides level on 1-6 each in stoppage time.
Once they got the wind in their backs, Tyrone eased clear with scores from McNulty, McAliskey and Peter Hughes, although they needed a superb block from Hugh Gallagher to deny Harry Og Conlan a goal.
Ronan O'Neill came off the bench to slot over a couple of delightful scores as the home side weased into a six points lead with less than a quarter of an hour to play.
McAliskey brought his tally to four, and his Clonoe club-mate PJ Lavery capped a fine debut with his side's second goal, before Paddy McNeice netted a third, Queen's held scoreless for the final half-hour.
SUNDAY'S POWER NI DR MCKENNA CUP RESULTS
Section A
Tyrone 3-19 1-08 Queen's
Armagh 0-11 1-10 Donegal
Section B
Monaghan 1-16 0-08 St Mary's College
Derry 1-11 2-04 Fermanagh
Section C
Antrim 1-17 2-08 UUJ
Cavan 1-09 0-05 Down


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/gaelic-games/25689593

[JP]

Very happy with Armagh today. Played some really nice football for this time of the year. Tailed off towards the end as I thought Donegal had stronger players on the bench and the ref did us no favours.

The work rate and commitment from all the players was first class. In particular Andy Mallon, the two Raffertys and Shields all impressed.

Leaves me feeling optimistic for the year ahead.

[armaghniac]

In addition to those mentioned above, I thought Stefan Campbell showed well for Armagh.

[Itchy]

From the Anglo celt.

Cavan 1-9
Down 0-5

Paul Fitzpatrick
in Kingscourt

With a year's hard grind under their belts, Cavan have hit the ground running in 2014 and, having easily seen off Antrim in round one, they picked up their second McKenna Cup win over a lacklustre Down at O Raghallaigh Park, Kingscourt last Sunday.

In desperately slippery underfoot conditions, the hosts were the better side throughout and led from the fifth minute, when Eugene Keating pointed a free, until the long whistle. The Breffni men were well up for the challenge, too, as was exemplified when Keating landed his second point in the eighth minute and responded with a fist pump towards the large home crowd.

A David Givney point made it 0-3 to 0-0 but Down – who kicked a dozen wides in all – managed to claw it back to a one-point game at the break with frees from Niall Madine and Darragh O'Hanlon.

Sub Kevin Tierney, who had bagged two goals against Antrim, set Cavan on their way at the start of the second half, though, sending a rocket to the roof of the Down net with his fist touch after great work from Keating.

Down replied with points from Madine and Ryan Boyle but Cavan quickly took charge, with Givney – relocated to midfield at the start of the second half – and Keating to the fore, along with full-back Rory Dunne, who turned in a commanding performance.

A long-range point from newcomer Philip Tinnelly was followed by two super scores from Turloc Mooney as Cavan poured forward in the final 20 minutes. Points from Givney, Keating (free) and Niall Murray saw them pull eight clear before Benny Coulter rounded off the scoring with a consolation free.

"We showed good form in the second half, I thought we started very well but we got caught up in the spider's web, trying to run down the centre into a crowded defence, but the boys talked about how to open it up among themselves at half-time, and in fairness they did that," said Cavan manager Terry Hyland.

Down boss James McCartan, meanwhile, bemoaned his list of walking wounded.

"It's very difficult when you're missing players through injury, we're missing nearly a forward line at the minute with Ambrose, Mark Poland, Donal O'Hare, Conor Lavery, Paul Devlin and two or three others."



Cavan: C Gilsenan; J Hayes, R Dunne, K Brady; P Tinnelly (0-1), A Clarke, N Smith; D McKiernan, P Leddy; M Reilly, N McDermott, T Mooney (0-2) ; C Mackey, D Givney (0-2), E Keating (0-3, 2f).
Subs; K Tierney (1-0) for P Leddy (half-time); M Lyng for D McKiernan (40); N Murray (0-1) for M Reilly (BC, 47); M Dunne for N McDermott (54); Damien Reilly for P Tinnelly (59); D Barkey for K Brady (66).

Down: S Harrison; D McCartan, P Turley, D O'Hagan; D O'Hanlon (0-1, 1f) , A Carr, M Lively; K King, G McArdle; R Boyle (0-1) , C O'Hare, B McArdle; P Fitzpatrick, N Madine (0-2), E McCartan.
Subs; C Garvey for D O'Hanlon (BC, 46); B Coulter (0-1,1f) for P Fitzpatrick (48); L Doyle for N Madine (52); D Turley for G McArdle (58); Sean Bell for E McCartan (60); S McNamee for D O'Hagan (69).

[AFS]

Fairly encouraging stuff from Armagh there today. We might have held on but for Donegal's strength from the bench and a couple of injuries killing some of our momentum. Although Donegal don't look like they've done much work over the winter, it's still difficult to compete when they're bring on All Ireland winners while we giving debuts to U21s.

I thought best for us were E Rafferty and Tasker. Rafferty is a massive prospect. Tasker took some lovely points from tricky enough angles; he has that ability to make difficult things look simple. Others that were good included Lavery, Vernon, Campbell, Shields and C Rafferty. Vernon did as well as most will do on Murphy; he could be an option at FB yet. Wouldn't be entirely convinced by their defensive abilities, but the two wing backs were very good going forward. In particular, Rafferty looks as comfortable with ball in hand as any newcomer I've seen. This has been a good winter for us so far with several new lads showing well.