Ulster championsip 1st... Donegal v Down

[Highlander3]

Marty Calrke didn't look himself yesterday and was puffing fairly heavily early on.

has he been carrying an injury or bug of some sort recently?

Is Liam Doyle anyways back near the team yet?

I agree Johnny i think i said the same thing earlier, he just him not look as fresh as normal

[maldini]

Coulter is and has been Down's best player for the last 10 years, no doubt about it

[bennydorano]

Coulter is a joy to watch.  Marty Clarke will do it if he stays longterm.

Down have no reason to fear Tyrone, I'm pretty sure Tyrone would have preferred donegal to come through.  Still weak defensively thou and a team as experienced as Tyrone could exploit it bigtime.

[north down]

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The ref obviously didn't see the Molloy elbow, which happened just after the ball had been released and in the middle of a bunch of players.


The ref may not have seen it, and as a result took no action, but it will be interesting to see what action the CCC take. Molloy may be a young and inexperienced player but it they let him off with that elbow then what sort of signal does that send to him and other young players. Derry and Tyrone players received hefty punishments for a lot less. Lets wait and see!!!!!

[John o connor]

In your opinion. Today was the first game I missed this year and you see very little on telly. Ambrose was Downs best player all year, closely followed by D Raff, then Daniel McCartan and James Colgan. Up front John Clarke was outstanding, Marty was consistent without ever setting the world alight. Hughes had a good game against Armagh, worked hard in others but never puts in 2 consecutive good performances.
Martin Clarke is just finding his feet in gaelic football. He does the simple things well and like all good players makes space for himself. He is potentially the best footballer since Greg Blaney, I would go as far as to say he is potentially the best Down footballer.

I dunno, I thought he gave the ball away a good few times.

He did, like everyone else and was an also ran imo.

Some bullshit being talked here about a 22 year old playing his first Championship match give the lad a break FFS. Not the best man in a Down jesery for sure but did make a difference , listen what Coulter said about him after the game !
A great result yesterday setting up a big game with Tyrone .IMO Headquarters should give each Armagh club 10 free tickets so they can experience an exciting Championship game !

[crossfire]

In your opinion. Today was the first game I missed this year and you see very little on telly. Ambrose was Downs best player all year, closely followed by D Raff, then Daniel McCartan and James Colgan. Up front John Clarke was outstanding, Marty was consistent without ever setting the world alight. Hughes had a good game against Armagh, worked hard in others but never puts in 2 consecutive good performances.
Martin Clarke is just finding his feet in gaelic football. He does the simple things well and like all good players makes space for himself. He is potentially the best footballer since Greg Blaney, I would go as far as to say he is potentially the best Down footballer.

I dunno, I thought he gave the ball away a good few times.

He did, like everyone else and was an also ran imo.

Some bullshit being talked here about a 22 year old playing his first Championship match give the lad a break FFS. Not the best man in a Down jesery for sure but did make a difference , listen what Coulter said about him after the game !
A great result yesterday setting up a big game with Tyrone .IMO Headquarters should give each Armagh club 10 free tickets so they can experience an exciting Championship game !

You are obviously still hurting from the league final defeat.

[drici]

The year going well for Brick Molloy.


December 5th 2009
Ulster Minor Football Club Championship at St Pauls
Kilcoo Owen Roes 1-16 Naomh Conaill 1-12 (A.E.T.)
(Full Time: Owen Roes 1-12 Naomh Conaill 1-12)

Owen Roes 1-16 (D O'Hanlon 0-2(2 frees), S O'Hanlon 0-1, R Johnston 0-2, N Smith 0-1, M Kelly 1-1, O McClean 0-2, C Laverty 0-2, J Johnston 0-4(1 free), Martin Devlin 0-1)
Naomh Conaill 1-12 (J Doherty 0-1, S Quinn 0-1, S Gallagher 0-1, S O'Malley 0-1, S Ellis 0-1, M Gallagher 1-0, D Molloy 0-7(4 frees) - some deadly points from Diarmuid)

January 24th 2010
Ulster Under 21 Football Club Championship at Creggan
NAOMH CONAILL 1-08
O'BRIENS, FOREGLEN 0-10

A GOAL five minutes from time by substitute AJ Gallagher was the key score as Naomh Conaill booked their place in the semi finals of the inaugural Ulster U21 Club Championship by eking out a win over Foreglen from Derry in yesterday's quarter-final at Randalstown.

With the Glenties men leading by the narrowest of margins (0-8 to 0-7) as the game entered its final five minutes, Leo McLoone senior's team bagged the killer goal.

Leo McLoone fed captain and Man of the Match Eoin Waide with a clever diagonal ball that opened up the Foreglen defence. Waide, who played for Donegal on Saturday night, would have backed defender Martin Bradley to cut out his delivery, but the ball slipped through his fingers into the path of Gallagher, who drilled home from the edge of the square.

While points from Martin Farrell, Eoghan McFeely and Nigel Bradley brought Foreglen back into the contest, it was too little, too late as Naomh Conaill had done enough to come through a hard-fought encounter.

They have yet to complete their 2009 Donegal U21 Championship, indeed they are only at the quarter-final stage of that competition, but Naomh Conaill, having won the last three Donegal titles, were put up as the county's representatives in the first ever U21 Club Championship, held at the mightily impressive Kickhams Creggan club outside Randalstown.

Though young in years, it was a vastly experienced Naomh Conaill team that lined out yesterday, with a number of members of the club's senior team, which contested the senior county final in October, included.

Dara Gallagher and Eoin Waide came through Donegal's McKenna Cup match with St Mary's the previous evening and were included from the off.

With less than two minutes played, Naomh Conaill penetrated the Foreglen defence when Gallagher's ingenuity put midfielder Leo McLoone in the clear, but his attempt at goal was parried to safety by Joseph Ashford.

Dermot Molloy raised the game's first white flag on ten minutes when he got on the end of a McLoone pass to fire over. Gallagher doubled that advantage on the quarter-hour mark when he delivered a fine point off his left foot having collected a sublime cross-field ball by Molloy.

It took Foreglen 24 minutes to score their first point of the game, registered from a free by Nigel Bradley after Eoin Waide was penalised for a foul on Eunan McFeely.

That would be the County Derry team's only point of the opening half.

Meantime, Dermot Molloy took receipt of another McLoone pass to hit his second of the day and in stoppage time at the end of the half he knocked over his third - from a free, after a late hit on Dara Gallagher by Oisin Duffy.

Naomh Conaill hit six wides in the first 30 minutes and in the opening minutes of the second-half the sizeable following who made their way from Glenties must have been worried that their missed chances could return to haunt them.

Inside the first seven minutes after the re-start Nigel Bradley converted a pair of frees to move Foreglen to within a point, but Molloy responded with a free. Eoghan McFeely kept Foreglen within touching distance, as he popped over a majestic point from 45 metres, while a free by Martin Farrell came just a minute after Dara Gallagher pointed at the other end.

Naomh Conaill were finding the gears again, with Eoin Waide and Leo McLoone pulling the strings. Skipper Waide was fed by Dermot Molloy, whose power saw him regain possession, and the wing-back split the sticks from 30 metres.

Molloy defied the laws of trigonometry when he perfected his angles from the tightest of positions out the left, after a surging run from inside his own half by McLoone opened up the chance.

But Foreglen weren't going down without a stern fight and points by McFeely and Bradley pulled them from the brink again, only for them to be rocked by the concession of AJ Gallagher's goal on 55 minutes.

Despite Foreglen applying a good deal of pressure late on, Naomh Conaill held on.

For the winners, Cathal Ellis, Stephen Molloy, Dermot Molloy, Leo McLoone and Eoin Waide were on song, with the latter being named the Man of the Match.

Naomh Conaill: Stephen McGrath; Martin Gallagher, Ciaran Boyle, Stephen Molloy; Jamie McHugh, Cathal Ellis, Eoin Waide (0-1); Callan Waide, Leo McLoone; Dermot Molloy (0-5, 2f), Seamus Corcoran, Dara Gallagher (0-2, 1f); Christopher Molloy, Joe Kennedy, Brian Quinn. SUBS: Jamie Molloy for C.Waide (36 mins); AJ Gallagher (1-0) for McHugh (41 mins); David Gallagher for C.Molloy (57 mins); John Molloy for Kennedy (60 mins).

Foreglen: Joseph Ashford; Ruairi Duffy, Shane Duffy, Kevin O'Neill; Paul Kealey, Oisin Duffy, Darren O'Kane; Ciaran McFeely, Mark McCormick; Cathal O'Hara, Nigel Bradley (0-5, 3f), Martin Farrell (0-2, 2f); Eoghan McFeely (0-3), Sean Campbell, Eunan McFeely. SUB: Martin Bradley for Kealey (half-time);

Referee: Owen Quinn (Antrim).


May 1st 2010
All Ireland Under 21 Football Final at Breffni Park
Dublin: V Whelan, E Culligan, R O'Carroll, D Nelson, J Cooper, J McCarthy, N Devereux (0-1), S Murray, C Mullins, M Coughlan (0-1), T Furman, G Sweeney (1-1), R McCarthy (0-1), D Rock (0-4, 2f, 1 '45), C Dorney (0-1).
Substitutes: D Quinn for McCarthy (h-t), C Redddin for McCarthy (42), B O'Rourke (0-1) for Furman (48), S McGuinness for Nelson (50), N Brogan for Dorney (73)

Donegal: P Boyle, E Doherty, C Boyle, P McGrath, D Walsh, T McKinley, C Classon, K Mulhern, D Curran, M McHugh, M Murphy (1-2, 1f), D Molloy (0-5, 4f), J Carroll, L McLoone, A McFadden.
Substitutes: C Morrison (0-1) for McFadden (28), D Murphy for McKinley (28), C McGinley for Carroll (63), S O'Kennedy for Curran (67)

Referee: M Duffy (Sligo).

A ten year old Brick.