Senior Draw:
Killanain v Mountbellew-Moylough
Glenamaddy v Dunmore McHales
Killererin v Annaghdown
Claregalway v Tuam Stars
Ml. Breathnach v Cortoon Shamrocks
Milltown v Caherlistrane
Menlough v Caltra
Corofin v An Cheathru Rua
Kilkerrin-Clonberne v St.Brendan's
Salthill-Knocknacarra v Barna
Intermediate Draw:
An Spideal v Corofin
Oranmore-Maree v St. Michael's
St.James v Clonbur
Headford v Carna-Caiseal
Oughterard v Kilconly
Moycullen v Williamstown
Monivea-Abbey v Clifden
Ml.Breathnach v Litir Mór
All games scheduled to take place on weekend of May 26th and 27th. (Depending on the outcome of Galway v Mayo the weekend before.)
Well we're finally off with the football championship. This weekends fixtures:
Saturday,May 26th-
Micheal Breathnachs v Cortoon SFC 6pm Pearse Stadium
Corofin v Carraroe SFC 7.30pm Pearse Stadium
Kilkerrin Clonberne v St.Brendans SFC 6pm Tuam Stadium,
Menlough v Caltra SFC 7.30pm Tuam Stadium,
Moycullen v Williamstown IFC 6pm Corofin,
Tuam Stars v Claregalway SFC 7.30pm Corofin
Headford v Carna Cashel IFC 6pm Clonbur,
Oughterard v Kilconly IFC 7.30pm Clonbur.
Sunday,May 27th-
Spiddal v Corofin IFC 2pm Pearse Stadium,
Salthill Knocknacarra v Barna SFC 3.15pm Pearse Stadium,
Oranmore Maree v St.Michaels IFC 4.30pm Pearse Stadium,
Glenamaddy v Dunmore McHales SFC 2pm Tuam Stadium,
St.James v Clonbur IFC 2pm Corofin,
Killanin v Mountbellew Moylough SFC 3.30pm Corofin,
Monivea Abbey v Clifden IFC 3pm Moycullen,
Micheal Breathnachs v Leitir Mor IFC 3pm Carraroe,
Killererin v Annaghdown SFC 6pm Tuam Stadium,
Milltown v Caherlistrane SFC 7.30pm, Tuam Stadium
Got to hand it to you Duine Eile. Fair play for unearthing this thread........
Senior Draw:
Predictions
Killanain v Mountbellew-Moylough Mountbellew
Glenamaddy v Dunmore McHales Glan
Killererin v Annaghdown Killererin
Claregalway v Tuam Stars Tuam Stars
Ml. Breathnach v Cortoon Shamrocks Cortoon
Milltown v Caherlistrane Caherlistrane
Menlough v Caltra Menlough
Corofin v An Cheathru Rua Corofin
Kilkerrin-Clonberne v St.Brendan's Brendans
Salthill-Knocknacarra v Barna Salthill
Senior Draw:
QuoteMenlough v Caltra Menlough
You serious???
Killanain v Mountbellew-Moylough Mountbellew
Glenamaddy v Dunmore McHales Glenamaddy
Killererin v Annaghdown Kilererin
Claregalway v Tuam Stars Tuam
Ml. Breathnach v Cortoon Shamrocks Cortoon
Milltown v Caherlistrane Milltown
Menlough v Caltra Caltra
Corofin v An Cheathru Rua Corofin
Kilkerrin-Clonberne v St.Brendan's Clonberne
Salthill-Knocknacarra v Barna Salthill
Hectic weekend of football action ahead. My attempt at the winners:
Killanain v Mountbellew-Moylough Mountbellew
Glenamaddy v Dunmore McHales Glenamaddy
Killererin v Annaghdown Killererin
Claregalway v Tuam Stars Tuam
Ml. Breathnach v Cortoon Shamrocks Cortoon
Milltown v Caherlistrane Caherlistrane
Menlough v Caltra Caltra
Corofin v An Cheathru Rua Corofin
Kilkerrin-Clonberne v St.Brendan's Kilkerrin-Clonberne
Salthill-Knocknacarra v Barna Salthill
Think we should have the beating of Annaghdown, tough enough assignment though. They brought Caltra to extra time in the championship last year and any team with players like Niall and Mattias Coleman and Frankie Burke is a serious prospect.(I presume Niall is clear to play for them because it wsa two yellows he got last week?) Still think the ability of Padraic and Nicky Joyce should shade it for us. The team is doing well and I expect a win on Sunday. ;D
Seriously Gallboss, Menlough to beat Caltra? You a Menlough native by any chance?!
Won't particularly comment on individual matches, but Caltra (3rd. favourites) may struggle in the unfortunate absence of Noel Meehan against a Menlough side who won the Inter. c'ship in style last year. Salthill and Corofin are the 2 favourites, perhaps rightfully, but Corofin will still have the same failing of being unable to run up big scores against the better teams; Salthill will have much the same problem as they may be over reliant on Armstrong and Mikey D. Killererin should be even more solid this year and are good value at 10/1, (should gladden Duine's heart!). A good dark horse bet are Cortoon who have a nice mix of experience and some good young players coming through, at 20/1 an e.w. wager wouldn't go astray. Tuam Stars could also be worth a look as they seem to be on the up again after a long time in the doldrums.
In the Intermediate grade Moycullen appear to be the form team with Kilconly, St. James and Monivea/Abbey (hopefully) in with a shout.
On the hurling side, Portumna are favourites and will be going all out for the title. It's hard to see who might stop them; reigning champs Loughrea are off-form and injury-hit, Athenry struggle in E. Cloonan's absence for scores, Craughwell are handy but light, Mullagh solid but no scoring machines either. Clarinbridge are on-form at the moment and they or quite possibly Gort may be in the shake-up.
For what its worth, below is my punt on predictions for the weekend.
Killanain v Mountbellew-Moylough Mountbellew
Glenamaddy v Dunmore McHales Glenamaddy
Killererin v Annaghdown Killererin (Just about - you could be biting the nails here DE!)
Claregalway v Tuam Stars Tuam
Ml. Breathnach v Cortoon Shamrocks Cortoon
Milltown v Caherlistrane Milltown (to shade it - a real 50:50 match here)
Menlough v Caltra Caltra (should be a bruising encounter - class to prevail)
Corofin v An Cheathru Rua Corofin
Kilkerrin-Clonberne v St.Brendan's K-Clonberne
Salthill-Knocknacarra v Barna Salthill
Yeah have a feeling it'll be a close one! The Coleman's and Frankie Burke are great players but who do Annaghdown have to keep tabs on Padraic and Nicky? I'm an eternal optimist so I'm going for a Killererin win (big surprise!) by about 2 points, wouldn't be surprised to see it go to extra time though.
Killanain v Mountbellew-Moylough Mountbellew
Glenamaddy v Dunmore McHales Glen
Killererin v Annaghdown Killererin
Claregalway v Tuam Stars Tuam
Ml. Breathnach v Cortoon Shamrocks Shamrocks
Milltown v Caherlistrane Caherlistrane
Menlough v Caltra Caltra
Corofin v An Cheathru Rua Corofin
Kilkerrin-Clonberne v St.Brendan's Ballygar
Salthill-Knocknacarra v Barna Salthill
Killererin v Annaghdown will be a cracker.......I've still not forgotten that Co Final and that damned crossbar in Tuam Stadium!!! I believe Mike Newell is out for Annaghdown so that will be a huge loss-puts big pressure on a small man in Frankie. Killererin to have just enough.
There should be a shock somewhere in there but i dont see where its going to come unless Menlough can turn over Caltra. Local rivalry - you never know?
Wins for Caltra over Menlough and Corofin over Carraroe and two draws AET, Kilkerrin-Clonberne and St.Brendan's and Tuam and Claregalway in the SFC
Shock of the round had to Annaghdowns win against Killererin what went wrong DE. Menlough really put it up to Caltra as I expected and it was only the man that is Mike Meehan that proved to be the difference.
Elsewhere wins for Cortoon , Salthill, Mountbellew, draws between Ballygar & Clonbern, Claregalway & Tuam not sure of the rest of the results. Milltown and Caherlistrane went to extra time not sure how it finished though.
Quote from: GallBoss on May 28, 2007, 08:56:57 AM
Shock of the round had to Annaghdowns win against Killererin what went wrong DE. Menlough really put it up to Caltra as I expected and it was only the man that is Mike Meehan that proved to be the difference.
Elsewhere wins for Cortoon , Salthill, Mountbellew, draws between Ballygar & Clonbern, Claregalway & Tuam not sure of the rest of the results. Milltown and Caherlistrane went to extra time not sure how it finished though.
Killererin were denied a draw and possible extra time when a perfectly good point was waved wide by an umpire. DE will not be a happy bunny this morning ! Milltown beat Caherlistrane in extra time.
Some interesting results...Do NUIG still play in this?
Tommy Varden Senior Football Championship
Milltown 0-12 0-11 Caherlistrane
Killererin 0-7 0-8 Annaghdown
Killanin 0-4 1-10 Mountbellew/Moylough
Salthill-Knocknacarra 2-14 0-11 Barna
Glenamaddy 2-8 0-6 Dunmore McHales
Claregalway 1-12 0-15 Tuam Stars
Menlough 0-8 1-8 Caltra
Corofin 1-10 0-8 Carraroe
Michael Breathnachs 1-7 0-11 Cortoon Shamrocks
Kilkerrin/Clonberne 2-12 1-15 St Brendans
Intermediate Football Championship
Oranmore-Maree 3-9 1-7 St Michaels
Monivea-Abbey 3-11 0-10 Clifden
Spiddal 1-3 1-7 Corofin
St James 0-10 1-8 Clonbur
Headford 1-6 1-8 Carna Cashel
Oughterard 0-8 0-11 Kilconly
Moycullen 2-10 0-9 Williamstown
Michael Breathnachs 2-2 2-12 Lettermore
Quote from: StoneWall on May 28, 2007, 09:37:20 AM
Some interesting results...Do NUIG still play in this?
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Nuig come in to this for the back door
I made it to the double-headers in Tuam on Sat evening and on Sunday evening. All four matches were poor enough.....granted the weather didnt help with a gale on Sunday and a very wet Saturday evening. One thing i noted in two of the four games - the pure diabolical nature of the umpiring! Whats the use of having umpires if they are unwilling to make a call? Killererin twice yesterday evening came on the wrong end of umpiring decisions....once from Nicky Joyces miss of the season (seriously, ya wouldnt believe it if ya saw it!) and again from an Annaghdown "wide" which was given as a point. The ref (Nally from Galway) left the players on the pitch for 3/4 mins before starting the second half and was tripe apart from that! He was bad for both teams though. No complaints, Annaghdown were way better - hadnt as much ball but used it very well when they got it. Killererin lads didnt know where they were going or what they were at....dunno what the game plan was but if you're a point down with 2/3 mins to go im not convinced left half back is where the bould Nicky should be loitering! They spent their time mouthing at the manager and each other. Worst Ive ever seen from a Killererin team.
No Duine Eile was far from a happy bunny this morning, more of a raging lunatic!Where the hell was that stupid bollocks of an umpire lookin, we could even see it was a point from behind the town goal and that wasn't even the first point signaled wide when it was actually over, the goal Nicky missed ended up over the bar and was waved wide even though the umpire gave the nod to put up the flag he changed his mind and said it was wide and an Annaghdown wide was given as a point! I'd love to know where they find these geniuses. >:( That said we had ourselves nearly beaten. We were f*****g diabolical. Declan Kelly at no.2 and Tom Hughes and Micheal Keane at mid field were about the only ones to come out of the game with their heads held high. We dominated mid field but no matter what we did we couldn't score in the first half. It wasn't Annaghdown that beat us, we beat ourselves. (With the help of the unpires of course.) Padraic had an unusually bad game, hardly ever has a bad club game, Nicky had about 5 players on him whenever he got a sniff of the ball so where were the lads to help him when he got into trouble?That said, he didn't exactly wear himself out trying to get the ball and what the hell was he at that he missed that open goal, it would have been easier score it than what he did with it. Like I said the only positives from the game was the performance of our midfield, Hughes in particular, caught an awful amount of ball. Besides that,they were like a team playing together for the first time. They looked fit but that's feck all good to them if they don't know where they're supposed to be playing or who they're marking. Absolutely brutal!Anyway, back door draw on tonight, unfamiliar territory for us, never been in this situation before. It's about ten years since we were beaten in a first round match.
was at the Salthill match on sunday, they looked good. didn't win enough clean or breaking ball in midfield but backs were very stong although they gave away to many scoreable frees. taxi from dublin to galway at 12 staurday night €280 Sathill match €10 getting back to my bed in dublin after weekend of madness priceless.
QuoteNo Duine Eile was far from a happy bunny this morning, more of a raging lunatic!Where the hell was that stupid bollocks of an umpire lookin, we could even see it was a point from behind the town goal and that wasn't even the first point signaled wide when it was actually over, the goal Nicky missed ended up over the bar and was waved wide even though the umpire gave the nod to put up the flag he changed his mind and said it was wide and an Annaghdown wide was given as a point! I'd love to know where they find these geniuses. That said we had ourselves nearly beaten. We were f*****g diabolical. Declan Kelly at no.2 and Tom Hughes and Micheal Keane at mid field were about the only ones to come out of the game with their heads held high. We dominated mid field but no matter what we did we couldn't score in the first half. It wasn't Annaghdown that beat us, we beat ourselves. (With the help of the unpires of course.) Padraic had an unusually bad game, hardly ever has a bad club game, Nicky had about 5 players on him whenever he got a sniff of the ball so where were the lads to help him when he got into trouble?That said, he didn't exactly wear himself out trying to get the ball and what the hell was he at that he missed that open goal, it would have been easier score it than what he did with it. Like I said the only positives from the game was the performance of our midfield, Hughes in particular, caught an awful amount of ball. Besides that,they were like a team playing together for the first time. They looked fit but that's feck all good to them if they don't know where they're supposed to be playing or who they're marking. Absolutely brutal!Anyway, back door draw on tonight, unfamiliar territory for us, never been in this situation before. It's about ten years since we were beaten in a first round match.
In fairness, there was an incident in the second half though where Annaghdown had the ball near their own goal, were coming out of defence, under no pressure, starting to build and the ref blew as there were a couple of players injured in the middle of the field. Match resumed with a hop ball down near the Annaghdown goal and Kilererin scored a point from it. I thought that was very harsh on Annaghdown and evened the point that wasnt.
Senior Draw:
An Cheathru Rua v Barna
Micheal Breathnach v Killanin
Tuam Stars/Claregalway v Dunmore McHales
Caherlistrane v Menlough
Kilkerrin-Clonberne/ St.Brendan's v NUIG
Killererin get a bye to the next round.......woohoo! (the extra game could have done them good but sure what harm)
Intermediate:
Winners Group:
Corofin v Oranmore-Maree
Carna-Caiseal v Litir Mór
Clonbur v Monivea-Abbey
Kilconly v Moycullen
Losers Section:
Williamstown v Clifden
St.Michaels v An Spideal
St.James v Headford
Senior Championship Replays: Bank Holiday Monday:
Kilkerrin/Clonberne v St Brendans
Claregalway v Tuam Stars Tuam Stadium