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We will be well and truly sick of the sight of each other after this year with a guaranteed 3 more games against each other. 2A is going to be a hard league to stay in. Never played in the Benson cup before!

Oh, but you did. Remember Duck Park 2003? That was Benson Cup, we got a trimming (7-19 we shipped IIRC) off Mary's that time as well.

It's a good thing ye ain't in the Championship, we'd probably draw ye in that too!

Maybe it was, think the initial dissenying view was from them though, and ye put it up thereafter. Either way it's sorted out. 18 was excessive for other clubs (such as the neighbours) but it does ye no harm for our league.

Mullinabreena away for us in Round One, starting March 24th. Warm-ups begin in two weeks time, us, ye, Mullinabreena and Harps in one group in the Benson Cup.

A departure from the usual showings this week, the famous Cork-Tipperary 1987 Munster Hurling Final replay in Killarney. The day the Tipp "famine" (if one considers 16 years a famine!) ended. Should be a decent one, on a bit later than usual though.

I hear we got 4 extra players for our Div 2A squad because of an incompetent motion from OMS' favourite club. Nice one!

And you know things aren't quite right when ye are backing up yer own nearest and dearest!!!

Makes sense though. Division 3 (5 in reality) will be a shambles in any case, should be on Friday or the weekend itself (tight for ye though). Looks like another year of Wednesdays and withdrawals before it is sorted out.

Started this thread yesterday but it was lost in the upheaval. Any views:

My own, plus one or two others that I recall:

Mayo v Roscommon 1993
Mayo v Cavan 2005
Limerick v Cork 2006
Limerick v Derry 2004
Derry v Tyrone 2001 AIQF
Derry v Tyrone 2006
Sligo v Down 2006
Fermanagh v Donegal 2003
Mayo v Galway 2005
Derry v Down 1993 (never seen it myself though)

Hurling:
Limerick v Antrim semis 94/96
Cork v Kilkenny AIF 1999
Wexford v Offaly 2006

Others?

Fixtures are out. St. Michael's will have two teams in 2A/2B alright. Will post up later. No Championship draws or firm dates yet. Obviously we're planning on still being involved in the Tomy Murp...........sorry Championship come August.

Football:

Dublin-Meath 1991 (Foley's goal and all that)
Derry-Dublin 1993 AISF
Kildare-Meath 1997 (Replay I think - 3-17 to 2-20 AET iirc)
Kildare-Dublin 2000 Replay (Dubs lorded it in the first half, KE goaled twice after the break and won pulling up )
Armagh-Tyrone 2002 Replay
Sligo-Tyrone 2002 (it had to go in, couldn't leave it out!)
Down-Tyrone 2003 drawn Ulster final
Roscommon-Kildare 2003 qualifiers
Tyrone-Kerry 2003 AISF
Roscommon-Sligo 2004 Replay
Armagh-Tyrone 2005 AISF
Tyrone-Kerry 2005 AIF
Tyrone-Dublin 2005 drawn AIQF
Mayo-Dublin 2006 AISF

Hurling:

Cork-Tipp 1991 Munster Final replay
Offaly-Wexford 1996 Leinster Final
Cork-Offaly 2000 AISF (99 was meant to have been good also, but can't recall it)
Cork-Waterford 2003 Munster final
Cork-Wexford 2003 drawn AISF
Cork-Waterford 2004 Munster final
Galway-Kilkenny 2005 AISF

To give an idea why we could have done with the win today, I see (according to Aertel, reliable?) that Waterford only went and beat Wexford 2-13 to 1-12. Wicklow beat Antrim well too.

Monaghan won 2-11 to 1-10, both sides finished with 14, Finlay sent off for Mon.

Derry won 0-12 to 0-7.

Leitirm won 0-12 to 0-11, great result for them.

According to Tommy Clarke, neither side will be disappointed. Well if drawing with Tipp is 'good', then we seriously would have no ambition. Leitrim showed us up today in that regard.

FULL TIME..............

Draw, Tipperary 1-12 Sligo 0-15. Not what we needed, makes promotion a harder task now.

6 mins to go, Letirim 0-11 Offaly 0-10, hanging on.

What the hell is Deegan playing at? Too many of these card-happy refs about.