Sligo Club Football & Hurling

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Barnes was not even at the Ballymote game actually, I believe he was on holiday in Spain this week.

[Sligoper]

I was jokin. I was insuating that Barnes Murphy was the all star that turned up for tourlestrane late!!

[magpie seanie]

Beaten last night in Division 4 by a Paul McTiernan inspired Michaels "second" team who are in line for promotion to join their "first" team next year. They are some club if McTiernan is not in their top 14 players! We had a weak enough outfit out and blew it, missing a penalty and many, many other chances en route to a 4 point defeat. That completes a horrible season away from home for us - 7 defeats, lost to everyone. Our unbeaten home record will be tested this weekend against table toppers Coolaney/Mullinabreena. Still, we'll give it a lash.

[Westie]

Beat Marys in the league on Saturday evening. Our lads were back on track after a few dodgy weeks.  Sligonian was saying that Brehony had added a physical edge to his game, he has but still an awful cry baby. At least Johnny Davey never stopped going or didn't hide when the chips were down (and after a bad collision with his own man) unlike Mark.  Promotion is in our own hands. Does anyone know how it is decided if ourselves and Calry are on the same points.
Farnans travel to us on Saturday.  Big loss for them on Saturday. Drumcliffe seemed to have taken the finger out in the last few weeks.
The Bunnies seem to be gone from the top as well. Harps are really sickening them this year.

[Teeling Gael]

Owenmore Gaels got effectively relegated on Saturday night thanks to a major refereeing error whereby a 1 point victory to us by everyone present was marked a draw by the "referee". In fairness it was a excellent game with 29 scores with about 10 booking of which 5 were even questionable frees and 3 more more should have been red cards but it didnt play as a rough game. Queried a technical rule with ref during game and he patently doesnt know the rules, and we wonder about the future of Sligo football. Refs department have a hard job and I suppose it is up to us to provide better refs etc but it was the only game in our division that had any significant meaning on Saturday so felt they could have assigned a high grade ref. Thats football though and whilst its very hard to keep at it, the best response is to continue our recent good form into championship but I fear it will completely demotivate our young panel. To be honest dont particuliarily care about other matches over the weekend at the moment !!

[baoithe]

Disastrous result for us at the weekend. Westie we'll have it tight to beat ye next week but it's looking like we'll have if we want to stay up. I'd be sickened if we went down.

Our U-14s have had a good week of it and although I havent heard any first hand reports I see they made the final of their division in Feile. Can anyone tell how these divisions are graded? Is it based on each county's performance at the previous Feile?

[magpie seanie]

Westie - scoring difference will decide. Its up on Sligogaa.ie how teams level on points will be seperated. That win puts ye in a strong position.

Our senior lads took a trip out west on Saturday and produced a fairly poor though winning performance against Easkey. The happiness over the win was tempered shortly afterwards when we heard of Tourlestrane's late heroics to grab a vital point against Curry. That leaves us hoping for Bunninadden to get something off the county champions (unlikely) while we must beat Ballymote on their own patch (not easy either) as our points difference is very bad. Still - its our highest league finish (2nd, 3rd or 4th) in many years so we can take something from that.

Got another mauling from Coolaney/Mullinabreena on Sunday when our victory was getting a team out and avoiding a €500 fine. Sunday mornings do not really suit some of our second teamers to put it mildly. At least when you'd have a few drinks the night before a game ten years ago you'd have the decency to turn up and pretend you hadn't been drinking! Our forward line had an average age of 40 and that was with a 19 year old centre forward! Its nice to be a young lad on the team! Hard to see us mounting any sort of a fight to stay in intermediate with the carry on since the first two rounds of the championship.

[Owenmoresider]

Difficult to know what to say about the gentleman who officiated at our game, only to say that it's a shame that such incompetence can cost any team so badly. A simple win to stay up is now a win plus massacre, and even that mightn't do it. Time will tell.

The leagues as we head into the last round, irrelevant for some, and impossible for others:

League table for League Division 1
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
Eastern Harps  13 9 3 1 180 130 19
Tourlestrane  13 7 3 3 170 152 17
Coolera-Strandhill  13 8 4 1 159 164 17
Ballymote  13 6 4 3 170 156 15
Tubbercurry  13 5 6 2 135 136 12
Curry  13 4 6 3 139 145 11
Bunninadden  13 4 8 1 148 168 9
Easkey  13 1 10 2 123 173 4

Tubbercurry  - - Easkey  Tubbercurry 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14 
Curry  - - Eastern Harps  Curry 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14 
Ballymote  - - Coolera-Strandhill  Ballymote 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14 
Tourlestrane  - - Bunninadden  Tourlestrane 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14


League table for League Division 2
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
Geevagh  13 10 1 2 174 135 22
Castleconnor  13 8 4 1 167 129 17
Calry/St Josephs  13 7 5 1 196 172 15
St Marys  13 5 5 3 161 133 13
Shamrock Gaels  13 5 5 3 150 157 13
Drumcliffe Rosses Point  13 5 7 1 132 173 11
St Farnans  13 4 7 2 160 168 10
Eastern Harps  13 1 11 1 124 197 3

Calry/St Josephs  - - Geevagh  Calry/St Josephs 13/07/2008 18:00 Round 14 
Castleconnor  - - St Farnans  Castleconnor 13/07/2008 18:00 Round 14 
St Marys  - - Drumcliffe Rosses Point  St Marys 13/07/2008 18:00 Round 14 
Eastern Harps  - - Shamrock Gaels  Eastern Harps 13/07/2008 18:00 Round 14


League table for League Division 3
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
St Johns  13 11 2 0 210 127 22
St Molaise Gaels  13 10 2 1 173 113 21
Enniscrone/Kilglass  13 6 5 2 159 133 14
St Michaels  13 6 6 1 166 160 13
St Patricks  13 4 7 2 156 166 10
Cloonacool  13 4 7 2 137 156 10
Owenmore Gaels  13 3 8 2 134 202 8
Curry  13 2 9 2 114 192 6

Cloonacool  - - Owenmore Gaels  Cloonacool 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14 
Enniscrone/Kilglass  - - St Molaise Gaels  Enniscrone 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14 
St Michaels  - - St Patricks  St Michaels 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14 
Curry  - - St Johns  Curry 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14


League table for League Division 4
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
Coolaney/Mullinabreena  13 12 0 1 232 96 25
St Michaels  13 9 4 0 197 141 18
St Molaise Gaels  13 8 4 1 133 124 17
St Marys  13 6 5 2 155 149 14
Tourlestrane  13 5 8 0 155 164 10
Ballisodare  13 4 8 1 155 207 9
Coolera-Strandhill  13 3 8 2 117 183 8
Calry/St Josephs  13 1 11 1 124 204 3

Coolera-Strandhill  - - Calry/St Josephs  Coolera 11/07/2008 20:00 Round 14 
St Marys  - - Ballisodare  St Marys 12/07/2008 19:30 Round 14 
Coolaney/Mullinabreena  - - St Michaels  Coolaney/Mullinabreena 13/07/2008 11:00 Round 14 
Tourlestrane  - - St Molaise Gaels  Tourlestrane 13/07/2008 11:00 Round 14


League table for League Division 5
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
Ballymote  7 6 1 0 124 86 12
Easkey  7 5 1 1 112 81 11
St Johns  7 4 2 1 96 80 9
Bunninadden  7 3 2 2 117 88 8
Enniscrone/Kilglass  7 3 3 1 101 108 7
Shamrock Gaels  7 2 4 1 95 100 5
Castleconnor  7 1 6 0 72 119 2
Geevagh  7 1 6 0 65 120 2

Can see Tourlestrane making the D1 final if they are bothered with it. Hard to know how the other will go, but Ballymote drawing has left them with a lot to do. Bunnies look doomed now. Castleconnor should get promotion from D2 but Calry have put in a serious run late on and could snatch it if things go right for them. Mary's moored in D2 for another term. Farnan's maybe in bother again, Drumcliffe are a jammy shower, although their C'ship luck may have ran out. D3 - that table should be different, but we need a win either way. It just leaves us needing to do an awful lot more than just win. And the propect of two Michael's teams in one division is still live, but based on the fixtures maybe not going to happen. SMG to relieve a major headache for the CCC it would seem.

[SLIGONIAN]

Was at our junior championship match this evening. We robbed eastern harps scoring 2-2 in last 5 mins to snatch a 2 pt win after being down by 5. FT score harps 1-5 SMG 2-4. Poor stuff for most but entertaining belive it or not all the way through. Both teams gave exhibition on how not to feed supply to your forwards with huffing in skyscrapers the main theme from the game. Well done to our lads on never giving up. Into a semi now.

Heard on of the funniest one liners i ever heard from a well know witty ex chairman of ours, ye all know. After a bad decision goes against us "Ref would you take the hair out of your eyes" and him bald as the day he was born .

[magpie seanie]

Was away most of the weekend but heard our lads fell to a petty good Ballymote team to kill our slim league final hopes. As it happens Tourlestrane won anyway so we finished 4th - our best league position for years. Word on Ballymote is that they are much improved, highly motivated and will take some stopping.

Finished out our division 4 campaign with a win against Calry. A lot of old men reeling back the years! Its an awful shame from a personal point of view that we only have a couple of game left for the year. Now is the time lads want to be playing ball. Its difficult for all concerned I agree.

So a 4 week break for mosr untile the championship resumes. Tommy Murphy next weekend and most likely the weekend after at least.

[baoithe]

Delighted with our great escape and delighted that this group have been rewarded for the effort they've put in all year. I was surprised Drumcliffe fell so heavily to St Mary's and I suspect that our next meeting with Castleconner will be a different game. We wanted this game called off due to the double bereavements over the weekend of two great local gaels. Tommy Scott was an integral part of our club and for fellas of my age Tommy would have been involved in every team we played in. He was great with children and was an absolute gentleman to boot. He was respected throughout the county and this was reflected in the huge attendance at his funeral. He'll be sadly missed.

[SLIGONIAN]

From Sligogaa.ie

Sligo Under 16s progressed to the  Final of the Fr. Manning Cup Competition which will take place in Longford Slashersclub grounds on Wednesday, July 16th at 8p.m.  Sligo will face Roscommon in this encounter.  We would urge everyone to go ahead and support our young players onWednesday evening in Longford.  Coiste na nOg congratulates the players and management on reaching the final and wish them well on Wednesday evening.

Results from the preliminary rounds today were:

R1   Roscommon 1-11 to Sligo 0-7

R2   Leitrim 2-05 to Sligo 2-09

R3   Longford 0-04 to Sligo 1-07

I wont be getting carried away. Fair play and best of luck to the lads in the final. Underage is roscommon is really strong at the minute. If they keep this up theyll have a good senior side soon.

[magpie seanie]

Yeah - good luck to the U-16's tonight and in the upcoming Webb Cup. I know there has been a lot of work put into this group and the development squads in general. The way these tournaments are now being run is a big step forward. I remember in the past you'd have weeks with lads playing Wed and Fri for the county and probably club minor on the Monday which was not good.

[Owenmoresider]

League table for League Division 1
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
Eastern Harps  14 9 4 1 187 151 19
Tourlestrane  14 8 3 3 188 167 19
Ballymote  14 7 4 3 186 165 17
Coolera-Strandhill  14 8 5 1 168 180 17
Tubbercurry  14 6 6 2 161 155 14
Curry  14 5 6 3 160 152 13
Bunninadden  14 4 9 1 163 186 9
Easkey  14 1 11 2 142 199 4

League table for League Division 2
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
Geevagh  14 10 2 2 190 153 22
Castleconnor  14 8 5 1 177 144 17
Calry/St Josephs  14 8 5 1 214 188 17
St Marys  14 6 5 3 176 138 15
Shamrock Gaels  14 5 5 4 164 171 14
St Farnans  14 5 7 2 175 178 12
Drumcliffe Rosses Point  14 5 8 1 137 188 11
Eastern Harps  14 1 11 2 138 211 4

League table for League Division 3
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
St Johns  14 12 2 0 230 142 24
St Molaise Gaels  13 10 2 1 173 113 21
St Michaels  14 7 6 1 187 170 15
Enniscrone/Kilglass  13 6 5 2 159 133 14
Cloonacool  14 5 7 2 156 167 12
St Patricks  14 4 8 2 166 187 10
Owenmore Gaels  14 3 9 2 145 221 8
Curry  14 2 10 2 129 212 6

League table for League Division 4
Team P W L D P+ P- Pts
Coolaney/Mullinabreena  14 13 0 1 246 102 27
St Molaise Gaels  14 9 4 1 148 132 19
St Michaels  14 9 5 0 203 155 18
St Marys  14 7 5 2 173 155 16
Tourlestrane  14 5 9 0 163 179 10
Coolera-Strandhill  14 4 8 2 138 195 10
Ballisodare  14 4 9 1 161 225 9
Calry/St Josephs  14 1 12 1 136 225 3

That's how it all finished. Disastrous for us, but we ultimately got what we deserved I guess. At least O'Boyle didn't end up sending us down. D4 could be hard to get back out of, though Mullinabreena made light work of it. I'd expect Harps to win the D1 and Mullinabreena the D4 finals, and while Geevagh and John's would be favourites on league form in the other two, I wouldn't rule out Castleconnor or SMG winning, have been in better form recently. Tubber beat Drumcliffe well in the JFC last night, so that's them and SMG in the JFC A next year at worst.

[Farrandeelin]

So is there many more games left in the championship? If a team is knocked out does that mean that there is no more games left for the players involved or are there any tournaments l(ike the O'Mara Cup etc in Mayo) to keep players going for an extended spell if their team is knocked out early in c'ship?