O'Byrne Cup & Bihatimber 2012

[Hound]

With Meath losing it now means the Winners of Kildare v Dublin will have home advantage in the final

[dublin7]

Seanie Johnston can't move to his address in Straffan soon enough. (That's if he can find it)

Kildare far fitter but their finishing has been dreadful. Some shocking wides. It's like watching the comedy channel not TG4.

3 points apiece after 30 minutes.

Deserved 2nd yellow/red card for Kildare no 7. Only seemed interested in hitting dublin players. Serious chip on his shoulder. Some of the Kildare lads only interested in playing the man. If they get the ball it's a bonus

[Jinxy]

The wind is destroying the game.
Kildare look far more up for it.
They should find it easier to get scores in the 2nd half.
Ronan Sweeney falls over awful easy for a big man.

[dublin7]

Paul Brogan second card for nothing.

Kildare penalty after tomas o connor falls over.

1-7 to 0-5 after 49 min.

Kildare to push on to win with ease from here. Some of the Dublin players clearly enjoyed their celebrations over the autumn/winter.   

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

Surprised the ref actually didn't take the penalty himself.........................must be getting fed and watered down in kildare tonight

Scrappy affair, well done kildare............................................ premature something comes to mind 

[dublin7]

Kildare 1-11 Dublin 0-8

Kildare far better/fitter/determined team. Treated it like a championship game. Defended well, but small pitch certainly helped.

Typical kildare performance, dominated posession & kicked lots of wides.

dubs kept in touch up until a joke of a penalty for Kildare helped them pull away.

Andrews did well for Dublin, should get a start in the league.

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

A huddle and everything after the game  ........................ 

[Jinxy]

Kevin McManamon should definitely be a starter come championship time.
Never stopped trying to be positive.

[mup]

Not a bit bitter now are we Dubs?

Funny ye didn't mention Connolly tackle on the Kildare full back. He's some brave boy to come down on a player with two knees into the back of the head. He should be done for it.

[dublin7]

Not a bit bitter now are we Dubs?

Funny ye didn't mention Connolly tackle on the Kildare full back. He's some brave boy to come down on a player with two knees into the back of the head. He should be done for it.

Funny you didn't mention Kavangh's attempt to kick him after it, but being a Kildare forward he didn't fully catch him. Could both have been sent off.

Ronan Sweeney must have ice on the soles of his boots. If that wind was any stronger he wouldn't have been able to stand up. Never seen a big man go down so easily so often.

Not bitter, didn't expect that Dublin team picked to win. Happpy with Andrews & McMenamon's efforts. Just looking to see how new lads do.

[mup]

Not a bit bitter now are we Dubs?

Funny ye didn't mention Connolly tackle on the Kildare full back. He's some brave boy to come down on a player with two knees into the back of the head. He should be done for it.

Funny you didn't mention Kavangh's attempt to kick him after it, but being a Kildare forward he didn't fully catch him. Could both have been sent off.

Ronan Sweeney must have ice on the soles of his boots. If that wind was any stronger he wouldn't have been able to stand up. Never seen a big man go down so easily so often.

Not bitter, didn't expect that Dublin team picked to win. Happpy with Andrews & McMenamon's efforts. Just looking to see how new lads do.

No you're not a bit bitter are you? For a person who didn't expect the Dubs to win you are coming out with a fair few excuses as to why they didn't. Get over it will you - its only the OByrne Cup.

[Donnellys Hollow]

First time we've beaten Dublin since 2003 in Portmarnock I think. There'll be setting the furze alight on the Curragh tonight...

Defence was quite solid and Connolly was excellent bar one lose kick that resulted in a Mossy Quinn point. Kelly looks to be feeling his way back in alright and Fitzpatrick is growing into the full-back jersey. Hard to see him displacing Mick Foley though. Very impressed with Ollie Lyons again and McGrillen did well when he came on. Flanagan got stuck in as usual and Tommy O'Neill was solid. Not sure though that the Eoghan O'Flaherty at wing-back experiment is worth persisting with.

Roli and Daryl Flynn have the makings of a decent pairing. Conway and Kavanagh had mixed days. Smithy was showing very well but I thought he left O'Connor a bit too isolated in the second half and that was probably why he was taken off. Rob Kelly looked very sharp but I was disappointed not to see Podge Fogarty given a run. Should be another competitive game next weekend which will be good preparation for Tyrone on Saturday week.

[Fuzzman]

Yeah both Tyrone and Kildare are into their provisional cup finals next week so both should we well capable of showing up Kerry and Dublin the following week.

Who's been Kildare's best players in 2012 so far?
Have ye become defensive like the Dubs yet?

[Shamrock Shore]

Half saw the match as the telly was on as I was doing bits and pieces.

Seemed the ref was very fussy but I saw the Connolly 'challenge' and thought it was a disgrace. WTF was he at?

[TheThirdManning]

Cannot understand why McGeeney is not giving fringe players more game time. At least the Dubs are trying a few fresh faces and seeing what they are like. Is winning the O'Byren Cup really that important?