Senior Football Championship 2015

SCFC · September 19, 2015, 08:55:36 PM

Ballyfin safe after a one point win over Ballylinan.
Ballylinan kicked away plenty of chances for a draw or even a win.

redsetanta · September 20, 2015, 02:33:12 AM

Great result for Arles tonight. A 1-11 to 1-11 draw with the Heath. Pressure point from Chris Conway to draw the match with time up. Great kick from him. Hard to know who'd be happiest with the final result. Heath could have been well ahead at half time but Arles made alot of errors in the second half. It will be an interesting replay. Killeen have played 3 games and are in the semi final. The replay will be Arles' 6th game in this years championship and still at quarter final stage.

Helix · September 20, 2015, 01:12:19 PM

Good to see Ballyfin up senior for another year. You'd imagine O dempseys would beat ballylinan in relegation final. Probably better in short term for ballylinan to be down intermediate. A realistic chance of silverware.
Great win for Emo also. Some turnaround from 1st round defeat.
Kilcruise celebrating as if they won a county final last night after the draw. How Kevin Meaney stayed on the field for the 60 minutes is beyond me. Ross with some outrageous points and Evin Keane for the heath having great game. Heath were very wasteful overall but should come through the replay next weekend. That game will do them no harm in the long run.

redsetanta · September 20, 2015, 03:16:32 PM

Good win for Emo alright but Josephs were dire in the final third. They didn't look coached or drilled at all. Ball carriers looked clueless when they got anywhere near the Emo goal.
They don't seem to know what style of football they are supposed to be playing and were all over the place. Maybe they were having an off day as I hadn't seen them this year but it was very poor stuff from them.

Laoischat · September 20, 2015, 08:14:07 PM

Great win for Ballyfin. A young team who need to be playing senior games. Sean & James Moore in attack are something special. Sean with another 1-5.

A very defensive set up though, Ciaran Duff mashalled it very well from centre back

Jimmy P · September 21, 2015, 10:30:04 AM

QuoteThink they've seen Ballyfin's history in both codes this year, and with Ballylinan being no angels either, they might need their best ref to keep them from killing eachother.

A bit of a snide remark to be fair. If Kinsella had to be reffing the Josephs game then maybe we would have had no "history" at all as you say yourself.

On the game itself there wasn't one dirty stroke in it a testament to both teams. Ballyfin did their best to lose it with Sean Moore missing an easy free to put us 5 up but we just about held. Gary Walsh looked extremely dangerous any time he got the ball which unfortunately for Ballylinan wasn't enough.

Delighted for the lads. Horan, Finn and the 2 Moores all played massive games. Delighted for the lads to stay up. Another year will benefit them no end

Laoischat · September 21, 2015, 10:36:26 AM

Quote from: Jimmy P on September 21, 2015, 10:30:04 AM
QuoteThink they've seen Ballyfin's history in both codes this year, and with Ballylinan being no angels either, they might need their best ref to keep them from killing eachother.

A bit of a snide remark to be fair. If Kinsella had to be reffing the Josephs game then maybe we would have had no "history" at all as you say yourself.

Wasn't meant to be a snide remark, just between the Joseph's game, and the hurling Ballyfin have had their fair share of red cards, deserved or not, they have built a wee reputation for themselves, I personally would agree with you but on the whole the issue as to why Kinsella was reffing is understandable.

Tony · September 21, 2015, 11:45:44 AM

Great reult for ballyfin. I thought Killeen were very impressive. Kingston on fire.

Laoischat · September 21, 2015, 12:20:27 PM

Lets Just hope Killeen and Portlaoise avoid each other until the final, could do with a decent final....no disrespect to Mountmellick but Portlaoise should do ok tonight

redsetanta · September 21, 2015, 10:41:34 PM

Big win for Portlaoise tonight!

portlaoisekid · September 22, 2015, 11:13:34 AM

A total non entity of a game, Mountmellick were never in the game. Portlaoise looked good but missed a number of chances. Defensively Portlaoise were very good.

Uisce · September 22, 2015, 11:22:33 AM

True, Mountmellick were never in the game. Expended a lot of energy getting over Crettyard so maybe they just didn't have the legs. Though Portlaoise looked excellent however, played some very nice football and kicked some great scores. There was a few times they could have went for goal and took the point, would expect them to be far more ruthless later. Rodgers, Glynn, Cotter not starting and Zach possible to come back. Looking good for them again!

portlaoisekid · September 22, 2015, 11:34:14 AM

Mountmellick looked tired at times alright but I thought the conditioning and fitness of the Portlaoise team looked immense. I dont think I've ever seen Bruno as fit.

Is it true that the semis are Sunday the 4th and final is on the 11th?

Uisce · September 22, 2015, 01:16:59 PM

Agreed, was massively impressed with Portlaoise. Not sure about the dates. Hurling final this weekend.. Which would mean football semi finals the weekend after, and final 2 weeks later.. 18th October? Strange that the football final is 3 weeks after the hurling alright.. Not sure though!

SCFC · September 25, 2015, 10:41:01 PM

Horrible display by The Heath tonight. Can't understand how they can prioritise possibly winning a Junior A title over bringing on a few subs who might dig them out of the hole they were in early in the second half.

Well done Arles, brilliant stuff from Ross, Davy Conway, Meaney in patches and a great young corner back Ciaran Lawlor.