O'Byrne Cup & Bihatimber 2012

[Shamrock Shore]

DCU 2-11
Longford 0-10

Longford imploded in the second half it seems. 8 points all at half time and then Longford began to take command until an interception gave DCU an undeserved goal. DCU kicked on from there and had a second goal allowed even though it was a sqaure ball.

DCU head to Navan next Sunday to play Meath.

[ross4life]

The performances of Kilroy UCD & Smith with DCU has lifted some of the rossies FBD gloom

[Jinxy]

Actually its DCU.

Lets just pretend its Dublin we're playing.

DCU....... our hated rivals. 

[Hardy]

Don't worry - we're their bogey team.

[dublin7]

Kildare 0-17 Offaly 0-04

Little in the way of entertainment in Newbridge. Offaly were a bit of a shambles and failed to register a single score in the first half with the breeze. Kildare were very wasteful though and for the second week in a row they didn't really kick on in the second half. Had some of the players brought the shooting boots it could have been a lot more embarrasing for Offaly. Roli had a very good game for the second week in a row and Smith looked a lot sharper. Strong team out again with little in the way of experimentation. It seems daft to be saying this about an O'Byrne Cup match but next weekend is an important game for Kildare. Dublin have something of a psychological edge over this particular Kildare team (just like Dwyer's team in the early nineties) and Kildare really need to start believing that they can beat them.

Kildare lined out as follows - Shane Connolly, Peter Kelly, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, Ollie Lyons, Brian Flanagan (Morgan O'Flaherty), Tommy O'Neill, Eoghan O'Flaherty (Hugh McGrillen), Daryl Flynn (Conor Brophy), Ronan Sweeney, Tommy Moolick, Mikey Conway, Karl Ennis (Rob Kelly), James Kavanagh, Tomás O'Connor (Paddy Dunne), Alan Smith

Scorers - Scorers: Kavanagh (0-4), Sweeney (0-3), Smith (0-3), E O'Flaherty (0-3) (2fs), Conway (0-2) (1f), Moolick (0-1), M O'Flaherty (0-1)

Whatever about Dubs being their bogey team, they need to beat one of the big teams & win a major trophy this year to even try to justify the ridiculous training costs McGeeney has cost the county board over the last few years.

Kildare county board seem to be taking the FF approach to budgeting. Be all grand & Charlie won't have any problem getting people to cough up 1K to cover our costs.

Fianna Fail would be proud

[Donnellys Hollow]

Kildare 0-17 Offaly 0-04

Little in the way of entertainment in Newbridge. Offaly were a bit of a shambles and failed to register a single score in the first half with the breeze. Kildare were very wasteful though and for the second week in a row they didn't really kick on in the second half. Had some of the players brought the shooting boots it could have been a lot more embarrasing for Offaly. Roli had a very good game for the second week in a row and Smith looked a lot sharper. Strong team out again with little in the way of experimentation. It seems daft to be saying this about an O'Byrne Cup match but next weekend is an important game for Kildare. Dublin have something of a psychological edge over this particular Kildare team (just like Dwyer's team in the early nineties) and Kildare really need to start believing that they can beat them.

Kildare lined out as follows - Shane Connolly, Peter Kelly, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, Ollie Lyons, Brian Flanagan (Morgan O'Flaherty), Tommy O'Neill, Eoghan O'Flaherty (Hugh McGrillen), Daryl Flynn (Conor Brophy), Ronan Sweeney, Tommy Moolick, Mikey Conway, Karl Ennis (Rob Kelly), James Kavanagh, Tomás O'Connor (Paddy Dunne), Alan Smith

Scorers - Scorers: Kavanagh (0-4), Sweeney (0-3), Smith (0-3), E O'Flaherty (0-3) (2fs), Conway (0-2) (1f), Moolick (0-1), M O'Flaherty (0-1)

Whatever about Dubs being their bogey team, they need to beat one of the big teams & win a major trophy this year to even try to justify the ridiculous training costs McGeeney has cost the county board over the last few years.

Kildare county board seem to be taking the FF approach to budgeting. Be all grand & Charlie won't have any problem getting people to cough up 1K to cover our costs.

Fianna Fail would be proud

Sure aren't we well on track to defending our O'Byrne Cup crown and winning this glorious competition for a record tenth time??

[thejuice]

Don't worry - we're their bogey team.

This isn't your typical bunch of students to be fair

http://www.dcugaa.ie/node/128

[Bill Haven]

I was at DIT Westmeath yesterday.

Farcical situation where DIT's Paul Cunningham lay on the sideline with what must have been a pretty serious injury for a full 15-20 minutes before finally being carted away in an eight seater taxi, with the doors open because the stretcher couldn't fit fully inside.

Game itself was ok.

Callum McCormack very impressive for Westmeath despite being very isolated in a defensive formation and Harry Dawson a real handful for students with his shoot on sight from anywhere game plan.

Aidan O'Shea is quite the comical f**ker as well when you're close enough to the pitch to hear him.

Hysterical high-pitched overreactions every time a decision went against him. At one stage half the crowd was giggling when he let out the highest-pitched "AHHHHH REF!!!!" you've ever heard.

Not much to be taken from a Westmeath perspective given the team on display. Probably 1 or 2 first choice players at most lined out.

One of them, Michael Ennis played and was up and down the pitch all match. Great to see him looking so fit. A bit of leadership at the back is something that has been sorely lacking in recent years.

[heffo]

DCU 2-11
Longford 0-10

Longford began to take command until an interception gave DCU an undeserved goal. DCU kicked on from there and had a second goal allowed even though it was a sqaure ball.

Aside from all that you deserved to win though yeah??

[Dinny Breen]

Kildare 0-17 Offaly 0-04

Little in the way of entertainment in Newbridge. Offaly were a bit of a shambles and failed to register a single score in the first half with the breeze. Kildare were very wasteful though and for the second week in a row they didn't really kick on in the second half. Had some of the players brought the shooting boots it could have been a lot more embarrasing for Offaly. Roli had a very good game for the second week in a row and Smith looked a lot sharper. Strong team out again with little in the way of experimentation. It seems daft to be saying this about an O'Byrne Cup match but next weekend is an important game for Kildare. Dublin have something of a psychological edge over this particular Kildare team (just like Dwyer's team in the early nineties) and Kildare really need to start believing that they can beat them.

Kildare lined out as follows - Shane Connolly, Peter Kelly, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, Ollie Lyons, Brian Flanagan (Morgan O'Flaherty), Tommy O'Neill, Eoghan O'Flaherty (Hugh McGrillen), Daryl Flynn (Conor Brophy), Ronan Sweeney, Tommy Moolick, Mikey Conway, Karl Ennis (Rob Kelly), James Kavanagh, Tomás O'Connor (Paddy Dunne), Alan Smith

Scorers - Scorers: Kavanagh (0-4), Sweeney (0-3), Smith (0-3), E O'Flaherty (0-3) (2fs), Conway (0-2) (1f), Moolick (0-1), M O'Flaherty (0-1)

Whatever about Dubs being their bogey team, they need to beat one of the big teams & win a major trophy this year to even try to justify the ridiculous training costs McGeeney has cost the county board over the last few years.

Kildare county board seem to be taking the FF approach to budgeting. Be all grand & Charlie won't have any problem getting people to cough up 1K to cover our costs.

Fianna Fail would be proud

Sure aren't we well on track to defending our O'Byrne Cup crown and winning this glorious competition for a record tenth time??

Tickets are like gold dust - who needs Tim Tebow when you have Eoghan O'Flaherty sitting in the pocket...

[Donnellys Hollow]

Kildare 0-17 Offaly 0-04

Little in the way of entertainment in Newbridge. Offaly were a bit of a shambles and failed to register a single score in the first half with the breeze. Kildare were very wasteful though and for the second week in a row they didn't really kick on in the second half. Had some of the players brought the shooting boots it could have been a lot more embarrasing for Offaly. Roli had a very good game for the second week in a row and Smith looked a lot sharper. Strong team out again with little in the way of experimentation. It seems daft to be saying this about an O'Byrne Cup match but next weekend is an important game for Kildare. Dublin have something of a psychological edge over this particular Kildare team (just like Dwyer's team in the early nineties) and Kildare really need to start believing that they can beat them.

Kildare lined out as follows - Shane Connolly, Peter Kelly, Ciarán Fitzpatrick, Ollie Lyons, Brian Flanagan (Morgan O'Flaherty), Tommy O'Neill, Eoghan O'Flaherty (Hugh McGrillen), Daryl Flynn (Conor Brophy), Ronan Sweeney, Tommy Moolick, Mikey Conway, Karl Ennis (Rob Kelly), James Kavanagh, Tomás O'Connor (Paddy Dunne), Alan Smith

Scorers - Scorers: Kavanagh (0-4), Sweeney (0-3), Smith (0-3), E O'Flaherty (0-3) (2fs), Conway (0-2) (1f), Moolick (0-1), M O'Flaherty (0-1)

Whatever about Dubs being their bogey team, they need to beat one of the big teams & win a major trophy this year to even try to justify the ridiculous training costs McGeeney has cost the county board over the last few years.

Kildare county board seem to be taking the FF approach to budgeting. Be all grand & Charlie won't have any problem getting people to cough up 1K to cover our costs.

Fianna Fail would be proud

Sure aren't we well on track to defending our O'Byrne Cup crown and winning this glorious competition for a record tenth time??

Tickets are like gold dust - who needs Tim Tebow when you have Eoghan O'Flaherty sitting in the pocket...

There won't be a horse milked on the Curragh for a month if we win this one.

[Shamrock Shore]

Aside from all that you deserved to win though yeah??

Ah no, that's not what I am saying. I am just pointing out the two turning points in the second half. One goal gifted and the other probably should have been disallowed. But dems the breaks.

[Croí na hÉireann]

I was at DIT Westmeath yesterday.

Farcical situation where DIT's Paul Cunningham lay on the sideline with what must have been a pretty serious injury for a full 15-20 minutes before finally being carted away in an eight seater taxi, with the doors open because the stretcher couldn't fit fully inside.

Game itself was ok.

Callum McCormack very impressive for Westmeath despite being very isolated in a defensive formation and Harry Dawson a real handful for students with his shoot on sight from anywhere game plan.

Aidan O'Shea is quite the comical f**ker as well when you're close enough to the pitch to hear him.

Hysterical high-pitched overreactions every time a decision went against him. At one stage half the crowd was giggling when he let out the highest-pitched "AHHHHH REF!!!!" you've ever heard.

Not much to be taken from a Westmeath perspective given the team on display. Probably 1 or 2 first choice players at most lined out.

One of them, Michael Ennis played and was up and down the pitch all match. Great to see him looking so fit. A bit of leadership at the back is something that has been sorely lacking in recent years.

Spot on with all of that Bill, especially the bit about Aidan O'Shea, some whinger. Ref was spot on with the decisions he gave against him as well apart from the one where he was clean through, shouldn't have pulled him back but I'm glad he did as we got a good laugh out of him throwing the ball into the air and walking away with his hands still in the air for comedic effect.

It wasn't a bad match for the middle of January, it was tight enough until Tom Parsons came on, swung the game for DIT I thought. Callum McCormack ,Natchie and Paul Sharry were the pick of Westmeath men on show although a number of others did alright I suppose, Maguire, Sheridan and McDermott when he came on being some of them. Pitch held up well and its a good setup Kinnegad have there, no wonder they get to host so many challenge matches.

I'm not expecting much from the league, the winnable games are at the start, no Garrycastle players till at least the 18th Feb, no students playing with the colleges and a couple of injuries. Lets hope the U21s can lift the gloom again.

[Donnellys Hollow]

I was at DIT Westmeath yesterday.

Farcical situation where DIT's Paul Cunningham lay on the sideline with what must have been a pretty serious injury for a full 15-20 minutes before finally being carted away in an eight seater taxi, with the doors open because the stretcher couldn't fit fully inside.

Game itself was ok.

Callum McCormack very impressive for Westmeath despite being very isolated in a defensive formation and Harry Dawson a real handful for students with his shoot on sight from anywhere game plan.

Aidan O'Shea is quite the comical f**ker as well when you're close enough to the pitch to hear him.

Hysterical high-pitched overreactions every time a decision went against him. At one stage half the crowd was giggling when he let out the highest-pitched "AHHHHH REF!!!!" you've ever heard.

Not much to be taken from a Westmeath perspective given the team on display. Probably 1 or 2 first choice players at most lined out.

One of them, Michael Ennis played and was up and down the pitch all match. Great to see him looking so fit. A bit of leadership at the back is something that has been sorely lacking in recent years.

Spot on with all of that Bill, especially the bit about Aidan O'Shea, some whinger. Ref was spot on with the decisions he gave against him as well apart from the one where he was clean through, shouldn't have pulled him back but I'm glad he did as we got a good laugh out of him throwing the ball into the air and walking away with his hands still in the air for comedic effect.

It wasn't a bad match for the middle of January, it was tight enough until Tom Parsons came on, swung the game for DIT I thought. Callum McCormack ,Natchie and Paul Sharry were the pick of Westmeath men on show although a number of others did alright I suppose, Maguire, Sheridan and McDermott when he came on being some of them. Pitch held up well and its a good setup Kinnegad have there, no wonder they get to host so many challenge matches.

I'm not expecting much from the league, the winnable games are at the start, no Garrycastle players till at least the 18th Feb, no students playing with the colleges and a couple of injuries. Lets hope the U21s can lift the gloom again.

He was at the exact same craic in Newbridge last weekend.

[heffo]

I was at DIT Westmeath yesterday.

Farcical situation where DIT's Paul Cunningham lay on the sideline with what must have been a pretty serious injury for a full 15-20 minutes before finally being carted away in an eight seater taxi, with the doors open because the stretcher couldn't fit fully inside.

Game itself was ok.

Callum McCormack very impressive for Westmeath despite being very isolated in a defensive formation and Harry Dawson a real handful for students with his shoot on sight from anywhere game plan.

Aidan O'Shea is quite the comical f**ker as well when you're close enough to the pitch to hear him.

Hysterical high-pitched overreactions every time a decision went against him. At one stage half the crowd was giggling when he let out the highest-pitched "AHHHHH REF!!!!" you've ever heard.

Not much to be taken from a Westmeath perspective given the team on display. Probably 1 or 2 first choice players at most lined out.

One of them, Michael Ennis played and was up and down the pitch all match. Great to see him looking so fit. A bit of leadership at the back is something that has been sorely lacking in recent years.

Spot on with all of that Bill, especially the bit about Aidan O'Shea, some whinger. Ref was spot on with the decisions he gave against him as well apart from the one where he was clean through, shouldn't have pulled him back but I'm glad he did as we got a good laugh out of him throwing the ball into the air and walking away with his hands still in the air for comedic effect.

It wasn't a bad match for the middle of January, it was tight enough until Tom Parsons came on, swung the game for DIT I thought. Callum McCormack ,Natchie and Paul Sharry were the pick of Westmeath men on show although a number of others did alright I suppose, Maguire, Sheridan and McDermott when he came on being some of them. Pitch held up well and its a good setup Kinnegad have there, no wonder they get to host so many challenge matches.

I'm not expecting much from the league, the winnable games are at the start, no Garrycastle players till at least the 18th Feb, no students playing with the colleges and a couple of injuries. Lets hope the U21s can lift the gloom again.

Those Dubs love their keepers to be roaring and swearing.

Our Senior keeper for the last 12 twelve years is some extrovert all right. If only someone could get him to stop talking.