Connacht Junior Cup 2010/11

[Back n the game]

Not bad predictions Back n the game. 6 out of 8 correct.

Only 4 Sligo/Leitrim clubs have made it to the third round and there is only one S/L club left in the Shield, a poor enough stat.
I think 10 Mayo sides have progressed to round 3

Thought Achill would beat Bangor but didnt know enough bout Quayside to make a proper judged prediction. So 20 Mayo clubs in the last 64 and I dont know why they have been written off already. Anything can happen in cup competition and im sure there wll be plenty shocks in the next round

[Longshanks]

any word on when the draw for the rest of the cup is???

[sligoman]

any word on when the draw for the rest of the cup is???Any word yet?

[Longshanks]

havent heard anything on it yet. the third round is fixed for the 28th November so it should be out soon enough, will they do the complete draw or just the 3rd round??

[Round Tower]

havent heard anything on it yet. the third round is fixed for the 28th November so it should be out soon enough, will they do the complete draw or just the 3rd round??

We got a new calendor of ties for both FAI and Conaught cup games for all ages.It says that FAI junior cup 4th round on 28th of November and Conaught cup Round 3 on the Sunday afterwards the 5th or 6th of December.

[Longshanks]

We got a new calendor of ties for both FAI and Conaught cup games for all ages.It says that FAI junior cup 4th round on 28th of November and Conaught cup Round 3 on the Sunday afterwards the 5th or 6th of December.

any chance you might be able to post that, I'm involved with U-16's and we're still in FAI and Conn Shield.

The reason I said 28th for the third round is that is the date on the draw I got from Galway FA website, it had the 1st and 2nd round draws done. Sligo/Leitrim & Roscommon 3rd FAI is on 7th, Sligo/Leitrim have a free weekend on the 14th(SRFC in cup final), I hear the Oscar Traynor team are playing on 21st Nov, might be better for us if the Conn Cup isnt till December at least we'd get 1 league game in November, weather permitting?!?!

[Round Tower]

any chance you might be able to post that, I'm involved with U-16's and we're still in FAI and Conn Shield.

The reason I said 28th for the third round is that is the date on the draw I got from Galway FA website, it had the 1st and 2nd round draws done. Sligo/Leitrim & Roscommon 3rd FAI is on 7th, Sligo/Leitrim have a free weekend on the 14th(SRFC in cup final), I hear the Oscar Traynor team are playing on 21st Nov, might be better for us if the Conn Cup isnt till December at least we'd get 1 league game in November, weather permitting?!?!

We got it via e-mail from the Mayo league secatury to all Mayo clubs and he got it from ART Friel

[Longshanks]

I take it that the draw hasnt been done yet, will it be next week?? Any word from ART Friel?

[Closed Account]

Connacht Cup Draw (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OtLJJXeYkI9mv7zp8kL6mFeobXbvcdybKSk1ZGKc98s/edit?hl=en_GB)
Connacht Shield Draw (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aNS_B_PXTdS31wt8mP9HjyP6u7G88qCM1YxHf-Ape6s/edit?hl=en_GB)
:)

[Round Tower]

Connacht Cup Draw (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OtLJJXeYkI9mv7zp8kL6mFeobXbvcdybKSk1ZGKc98s/edit?hl=en_GB)
Connacht Shield Draw (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aNS_B_PXTdS31wt8mP9HjyP6u7G88qCM1YxHf-Ape6s/edit?hl=en_GB)
:)

Thanks it is great u have the draws for the Connacght under age cups and shields but with the e-mail clubs got from the secatury of the Mayo league the 3rd round of Connacht
cup is the first week of December.

[Longshanks]

You can always count on Joe

[Longshanks]

Tie of the round has to be Castlrea Celtic v Ballina Town.

From a Sligo/Leitrim point of view:

Merville v Yeats, will go with a home win here
Ballygawley v Swinford, we have began to pick up some points lately, they will be lacking match sharpness, a tight home win?!!?
Ballymote v Athenry, Ballymote are a young side who knock the ball about nicely but will have to go for the defending champions
Strand v Corrib Celtic, home advantage to swing it
Cliffoney v Kilmore, long long trip for a ring rusty Kilmore, home win
Leitrim v Claregalway, dont know much about either side, home win
Quayside v Dynamo Blues, Quayside are getting their act together of late, Dynamo struggling in Galway Premier, toss a coin, home?
Boyle v NUI, Boyle have started to drop unexpected points, home advantage might swing it
Kilkerrin V Calry Bohs, Calry are struggling at the moment, home win
Cartron v Cloonfad, wont be many goals in this, away win
OLBC v City, away win
Ballisodare v Roscommon Town, town beat Strand in FAI, Ballisodare are never out of a game, tight home win
Aughanagh v Carbury, Aughanagh gave City a mighty scare last week, but will have to fancy Carbury to come through and go a long way
Moore v Manor, a long spin for Manor but should have enough to go through

By my guess work there will be 10 Sligo/Leitrim teams in the last 32, (probably be closer to 7/8)

[fatboyslim]

Who is the Favourites this year? Surely Athenry must be. Anyone have any other fancies? City Utd?

[Longshanks]

I think Athenry would be due to meet Mervue in the 2nd round.

Castlerea, Ballina Town, Erris, Carbury, City are all in the same side of the draw and only one will make 1/4ers I think?!?!

But you'd have to back Athenry, they've won it 3 times in the last 4 years. I think Carbury would also have a serious shout this year

[badker]

Has anyone got the full draw please? Looking for the Roscommon sides. Maybe you could link the draw if its available online,

[Round Tower]

Has anyone got the full draw please? Looking for the Roscommon sides. Maybe you could link the draw if its available online,

The full draw for all Conaught cup's junior and youths are posted on this thread by Joe Denilson on the 04/11/2010.

[Closed Account]

Has anyone got the full draw please? Looking for the Roscommon sides. Maybe you could link the draw if its available online,
Posted them earlier but they mightn't be friendliest formats.
Connacht Junior Cup and Shield (.doc) (http://www.sportsmanager.ie/uploaded/640/2010ConJunior.doc) PDF (http://www.sportsmanager.ie/uploaded/640/2010ConJunior.pdf)
Connacht Underage Cups and Shields (.doc) (http://www.sportsmanager.ie/uploaded/640/2010ConShield.doc)

[badker]

Posted them earlier but they mightn't be friendliest formats.


Thanks Joe much appreciated. Should be a few interesting matches to look forward too.

[fatboyslim]

Have Athenry strengthened their team this year(if thats possible) or have they lost any players?

[Athenryboy]

Athenry have , in my opinion, actually strenghtened their squad but also lost Cathal Fahy to Canada. Benny Lawless returns after a seasons break & Simon Murray joined from corrib rangers..
The 2 corofin lads are back early along with Alan O Donovans brother, i think. Very strong squad with 8 or 9 players on the bench that would walk onto any premier team. Manager wont keep them all happy for long, but if they overcome a strong Mervue side (after a result against Ballymoate hopefully), i can see them doing well again.

[Longshanks]

apologies for earlier posts, was trying to cop and paste from excel. anyway this is how I see the draw working out:

quarterfinalist 1 from:
Ballisodare v Roscommon Town
Ballygawley v Swinford
Cliffoney v Kilmore
Boyle v NUI

quarterfinalist 2 from:
Ballymote v Athenry
Mervue v Claremorris
Cartron v Cloonfad
Snugboro v Salthill

quarterfinalist 3 from:
Ballymoe v Skyvalley
Merville v Yeats
Oranmore v Conn
Moore v Manor

quarterfinalist 4 from:
Bangor v Westport
Corrib R v Fahy
Charlestown v Dunmore
Killala v Ballyhaunis

[Longshanks]

me again!!

quarterfinalist 5 from:
Aughanagh v Carbury
Kilkerrin v Calry
Castlerea v Ballina Town
Strand v Corrib C

quarterfinalist 6 from:
Quayside v Dynamo
Clew bay v Ballinasloe
OLBC v City
Craughwell v Erris

quarterfinalist 7 from:
St John v Shiven
West v Manulla
S&F v Castlebar
Rahara v Ballyhane

quarterfinalist 8 from:
Leitrim Villa v Claregalway
Hibs v Inver
Ballyglass v East
St bernards v St Patricks

[Longshanks]

Anyone care to have a stab at who the quarterfinalists will be??

I'll go with:

Boyle v Athenry
Oranmore v Westport
Carbury v City
West v Hibs

[jim_bob]

longshanks you are thinking very far ahead!!!!!!
or have you got a time machine????? if so give me the results so i can go to the bookies
lets get the next round out of the way before we predict the quarter finalists

[Longshanks]

No time machine Jim Bob. Just thought it was interesting to break down the draw into pots for the 8 quarterfinalists. If you were to ask each league to nominate its top contenders for the Cup you'd probably get something along the lines of: Sligo/Leitrim - City/Carbury, Mayo - Ballina Town/Westport/Erris, Roscommon - Castlerea/Ballinasloe, Galway - Athenry/Mervue/Hibs. (apologies to anyone who thinks I've left out their club from the list).

Looking at how the draw is it looks like only one of Carbury/Ballina Town/Castlerea will make it out of pot 5, one of Ballinasloe/City/Erris out of pot 6, pot 5 meets pot 6 in the quarters. Pot 1 has 4 Sligo/Leitrim SL teams at home to other top flight opposition. Pot 2 looks llike Athenry/Mervue in the 4th round. Pot 4 has 6 mayo teams in it.

There could be a lot of high profile casulaties in rounds 3/4/5

[badker]

Fairly decent predictions their Longshanks. Will be a few shocks along the way no doubt.

Quarter Finals
1 v 2
3 v 4
6 v 5
7 v 8

Home advantage could play a major part at this stage. Can't wait for November 28th!

[jim_bob]

i dont know enough about other teams outside mayo so i cant really predict. some big teams left in it for the slaughter. its all to play for im sure there could be a few shocks on the way with ballinasloe having to travel around 150 kms to play us. hopefully they will be very tired

[badker]

Best of luck Jim. You must be a Clew Bay man. Where is that? Google maps says its near Westport. How far from Westport is Clew Bay?

[Longshanks]

Jim_bob, are many of the mayo teams still training?? we are to play Swinford

[jim_bob]

clew bay united is in louisburg it about 20kms to the west of westport town. im sure some clubs are doin a small bit of training just to keep fitness. some teams are still in both cups (junior cup and connaught) so the will have to train harder than others. its hard for clubs here though cos with the leagues finished over a month ago and long spells between rounds of cup matches.
swinford will be a hard game longshanks they are a very good side who played very well in our super league this year maybe home advantage might help ye

[Longshanks]

Kilmore have a nice trip on their hands, Cliffoney is about 20-25 mins past Sligo town. We went to Kilmore a couple of years back, took us about 3 hours to travel there and longer on the way back on a dark cold December day

[badker]

Why does the Mayo League play there football in the Summer? It must be a major disadvantage playing in the major cup competitions out of season. Do all FAI Cup games have linesmen?

[Longshanks]

Westport won the FAI Junior Cup in 2005, Castlebar(twice) and Erris have made semi's in recent years too and there is usually a Mayo team or two knocking about at the quarters stage in the Connacht Cup too.

Dont think linesmen are a requirement for the early rounds but they normally feature in the open rounds(last 64 onwards)

[Round Tower]

Why does the Mayo League play there football in the Summer? It must be a major disadvantage playing in the major cup competitions out of season. Do all FAI Cup games have linesmen?

Simple there is very rarely any postponments, very good ground conditions for better football in most pitches. It has also led to some of the best club facilities in the country been developed. There is very few clubs that does not own there own pitch and has a club-house. A few clubs has also developed their own Astra-turf fcailities where u can train during the Winter. As a disaadvantage in FAI and Conaught not really though u are playing and training for 2 years. There has been sucess for Westport won FAI junior and Iorras and Castlebar Celtic hasw on FAI youths cups.

[fatboyslim]

if athenry have strengthened their side from last year then they mite as well call this competition off!!!! Cathal Fahy is a big loss but they have equally as good players on the bench. Will Alan O Donovan not be in the Galway GAA Squad this year?

[Longshanks]

Carbury have a much stronger side this season, they have a lot of ex-rovers players now and will take some stopping in the league, but they have an awful tough draw in the Conn Cup, if they win it they'll have done it the hard way

[fatboyslim]

who was the last sligo team to win the Connacht Cup? There just always seem to be the same story every year of 1 team who has loads of EX sligo Rovers players however they dont always get over the finish line. There is not much difference in standard between LOI and the latter stages of this competition anyways. Mostly fitness levels and a small bit of skill. Most teams would have a few players who have had spells with Longford, Athlone, Galway, Sligo etc How are Carbury doing in the league?

[fatboyslim]

Ballinasloe won this comp a few seasons ago. Have been semi and quarter finalists a couple of times as well. will ye beat them? Have ye had any decent runs in this comp before?

[jim_bob]

i think this is the furthest we have got in the con cup as with all the mayo lower division sides this is a cup thats out of reach of most lower teams but if we get a good run you would never know we will give them a good game but as you have said ballinasloe have a good record in this cup so no doubts they will be favourites to win this game.

[Longshanks]

[QUOTE=fatboyslim;1424415]who was the last sligo team to win the Connacht Cup?

Abbey won it in 2006, Carbury were finalists in 2007 and Abbey made the final in 2008. Carbury are 2pts clear of City having played a game more

[Longshanks]

Lads when you look at the last 8 teams left in Connacht Cup from 2005 onwards its pretty clear that Galway are the dominant league

----------winners Runner-up beaten semis beaten Quarters
Galway -----4---------- 2--------- 5------------ 10
Sligo/Leitrim-1---------- 3--------- 3------------- 4
Mayo------- 0---------- 1--------- 3------------- 5
Roscommon--1---------- 0--------- 1------------- 5

the galway league have provided 21/48 quarterfinalists in the last 6 years, Sligo Leitrim 11/48, Mayo 9/48, Roscommon 7/48.

[Longshanks]

Athenry have only(only I say) made the last 8 three times in the last six years, albeit they went on to win it on each occassion.

Quick question:

Which clubs have featured most often in the latter stages(quarters and better) of the Connacht Cup from 2005 onwards?

no prizes for correct answer, only for a bit of fun and banter!!

[slab11]

Kilmore have a nice trip on their hands, Cliffoney is about 20-25 mins past Sligo town. We went to Kilmore a couple of years back, took us about 3 hours to travel there and longer on the way back on a dark cold December day

Piece of Cake:cool:

[Longshanks]

Piece of Cake:cool:

You might as well bring the whole cake, after all you'll have plenty of time to eat it on the bus trip there

[badker]

Any fixtures set in stone for the next round?

[Longshanks]

We're down to play Swinford on the 12th in the 3rd round. i think all 3rd games are scheduled for the 12th

[pixiehead]

Any info on Cartron United please?

[Longshanks]

Any info on Cartron United please?

not a bad side, they've been unlucky the last few seasons, just missing out on promtion or losing a play-off to get into the Super League. usually well organised and competitive

[swinfordfc]

Longshanks,

Whats the colour of your jersey and could you give directions to McSharry pitch please,


Regards,

Swinfordfc

[pinero]

Lads when you look at the last 8 teams left in Connacht Cup from 2005 onwards its pretty clear that Galway are the dominant league

----------winners Runner-up beaten semis beaten Quarters
Galway -----4---------- 2--------- 5------------ 10
Sligo/Leitrim-1---------- 3--------- 3------------- 4
Mayo------- 0---------- 1--------- 3------------- 5
Roscommon--1---------- 0--------- 1------------- 5

the galway league have provided 21/48 quarterfinalists in the last 6 years, Sligo Leitrim 11/48, Mayo 9/48, Roscommon 7/48.



galway teams are helped by some of the most biased referees in connaught big galway teams always seem to get home games as well,feel free to correct me if im wrong