Armagh Club football & hurling

[torres]

 very good report charlie , it  was a good game spoiled a bit by some  inconsistant referring , in my view our player went to shoulder the tones lad who turned sharply at the last moment and felt the full force of it , defenifilty not malicious as our player is a very clean player just out of minors last season and fair play to all the granemore players and mentors who stayed on the field until the lad was taken away in the ambulance and everyone from our club wishes him a speedy recovery .

[crossfire]

Division 4
Cross beat Eire Og by 2 points.

Any chance of a Cross Seconds line up Crossfire?

Sorry for the delay Corn as i had internet problems

Paul mc Entee Gareth Rooney Kevin Daly Ciaran Mc Shane Paudie Mc Gahan Colm Dooley Sean Farrelly Tommy Muldoon Gene Hanratty Aidan Dolan Johnny Mc kenna James Moyna Benny Doyle Cormac Clarke James Hughes

[illdecide]

Division 4
Cross beat Eire Og by 2 points.

Any chance of a Cross Seconds line up Crossfire?

Sorry for the delay Corn as i had internet problems

Paul mc Entee Gareth Rooney Kevin Daly Ciaran Mc Shane Paudie Mc Gahan Colm Dooley Sean Farrelly Tommy Muldoon Gene Hanratty Aidan Dolan Johnny Mc kenna James Moyna Benny Doyle Cormac Clarke James Hughes

Crossfire is that Cormac Clarke the guy ya call Willie? I thought he was a decent footballer and a hard we f**ker too

[brokencrossbar1]

Division 4
Cross beat Eire Og by 2 points.

Any chance of a Cross Seconds line up Crossfire?

Sorry for the delay Corn as i had internet problems

Paul mc Entee Gareth Rooney Kevin Daly Ciaran Mc Shane Paudie Mc Gahan Colm Dooley Sean Farrelly Tommy Muldoon Gene Hanratty Aidan Dolan Johnny Mc kenna James Moyna Benny Doyle Cormac Clarke James Hughes

Crossfire is that Cormac Clarke the guy ya call Willie? I thought he was a decent footballer and a hard we f**ker too

He is illdecide.  He is Jamie's older brother.  Fine footballer, too food of the sauce and ladies.  Hardy wee fecker?  Not afraid anyway but he was more in the mould of myself and JF, more bulk than most!!!!!

[corn02]

Division 4
Cross beat Eire Og by 2 points.

Any chance of a Cross Seconds line up Crossfire?

Sorry for the delay Corn as i had internet problems

Paul mc Entee Gareth Rooney Kevin Daly Ciaran Mc Shane Paudie Mc Gahan Colm Dooley Sean Farrelly Tommy Muldoon Gene Hanratty Aidan Dolan Johnny Mc kenna James Moyna Benny Doyle Cormac Clarke James Hughes

Crossfire is that Cormac Clarke the guy ya call Willie? I thought he was a decent footballer and a hard we f**ker too

He is illdecide.  He is Jamie's older brother.  Fine footballer, too food of the sauce and ladies.  Hardy wee fecker?  Not afraid anyway but he was more in the mould of myself and JF, more bulk than most!!!!!

I'm told he could have been a very talented player if he stayed away from the sauce? Not many in Cross slip through like that.

[illdecide]

Aye i remember him alright, the we hoor played against us wan day in davitt. He def was a hardy we fecker . As you say Corn it's unusual guys go by the wayside up in Cross whereas thats a natural thing to do in Lurgan

[thewanderer]

1st division should be very interesting from this week on with county players now available. It will be interesting to see if the teams who have not had their county players regularily available pull away from the teams who have no county players all year to affect their panel. who do you think will struggle now? culloville, clans, sarsfields seem to be in the biggest danger of regulation. To prove the point Dromintee won easily last week with players back after struggling the previous game. In the 2nd granemore could make a big push for promotion with Toner and Mc clelland available now.      

[corn02]

1st division should be very interesting from this week on with county players now available. It will be interesting to see if the teams who have not had their county players regularily available pull away from the teams who have no county players all year to affect their panel. who do you think will struggle now? culloville, clans, sarsfields seem to be in the biggest danger of regulation. To prove the point Dromintee won easily last week with players back after struggling the previous game. In the 2nd granemore could make a big push for promotion with Toner and Mc clelland available now.      

We still had Marty, Shannon out injured and Shane O'Neill was only fit for a half.

Having Aidan, Gareth O'Neill and Vincey Martin was a massive boost though.

We will still struggle, we could be the fall guys this year.

[full back]

TBH Corn, with the majority of your county players available again Dromintee should pull away & finish well up the league

[corn02]

TBH Corn, with the majority of your county players available again Dromintee should pull away & finish well up the league

True.

[illdecide]

FFS Corn ask yourself...seriously man. Dromintee will not be no where near the bottom come the end of the season...It will be between Culloville, Sarsfields, Clans and Mullaghbawn. I thought Carrickcruppen would have struggled too but they surprised me a bit and having 13pts already means they only need 1 more win to stay up so i think they'll be fine

[Real1995]

think it will take more than the 14 mark this year illdecide,i was thinkin 16 with the way things have progressed.....

[fitzroyalty]

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]

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]

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