Saw the Echo tonight, 3 or 4 changes from Sunday, musta been some amount of alcohol sweated out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
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Saw the Echo tonight, 3 or 4 changes from Sunday, musta been some amount of alcohol sweated out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
Don't know what your talking about, our boys are supreme athletes in the prime of their careers. Total tee total - not a drop of booze passed their lips in an effort to ensure the title comes our way as well as the cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
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city never looked liked scoring. young lads they had up front were never gonna get past ken hoey. He s a class act at the back
Maybe twas the photo on the back page of the echo of 3 players draped all over each other all over the pool table in Tipples. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
That photo came to mind for me as well. I expect they will all be fit and well by Tuesday night
Mount beat Carrigaline 1-0 today in O Connell cup quarters, semi v Dale next Sat I think.
Only 3/4 regulars played.
I hear Dale won 3-0 v Hall?
Hall beaten 4-0 by Avondale. Competitive first half, but second 'Hall fell away. Difficult to keep motivation with the league drawing to an end.
Beamish Cup next target, home to Mayfield in Semi on Tuesday night.
Hope you'll do the same when we show up in the next few weeks! Can't see that happening, but you never know.
Very shaky end for the season in the league for the hall. Avondale must of been on fire.
Have the heads dropped ball-hop since the Inter cup final.
Still playing good football, but not converting chances, but the cup final has taken its toll. Set backs in matches seem to have a greater effect at the moment.
Team shuffle tonight, Strachan's goal enough to get the 'Hall past Mayfield in the Beamish Semi. Everton beat Mary's 2-1 in the other semi.
How did Rockmount do, Cliff?
Just in from windy Rockmount park (for a change!).
1-1 draw on the night. A 90 min own goal by the Blarney num 9 (I think!) got the point for Mount. It was nothing more than we deserved as we absolutely battered a resolute Blarney from the 25th min on. The first 25 mins was dominated by the incredibly hard working Blarney outfit, you'd wonder who were going for the title at that stage. Mark Clifford (my alias, but sadly not me) brilliantly set up the lead goal in about the 5th minute. He skipped past three ex team mates to send in a superb cross which was dispatched to the net from about 5 yards out.
From the 25th min on Mount kicked into gear and with the wind battered the Blarney goal mouth with frees and corners to no avail. The second half, into the wind was also dominated by the champions. Despite that Blarney had a superb effort smash off the bar and were always lively on the counter attack. Eventually we got our deserved equaliser, but fair play to Blarney for the battle they made it. Cliffy and Ray O Leary were excellent as were the back four in general considering everything including the kitchen sink was thrown at them.
For Mount Ken Hoey, Pat Keane and the industrious Jammer and Beech stood out on the night. True to say we weren't at our best, but the incredible heart shown to keep this historic attempt at three in a row alive was immense. Hats off to all the lads involved tonight, about 28 players involved all willing to fight to the bitter end for the cause. Shows why the Munster Senior Lg is dominating all before it in the Intermediate cup.
Hats off to the man in the middle tonight, let the game flow as much as possible in terribly windy conditions, both from the air and
both side lines! :D:D
Keep up the good work everybody. Some run in ahead of us. Three games left while Dale sit back and wait for Sat week.
Is that definitely being left til last Cliffy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
That last gasp point could prove crucial should ye win the next 2 games.
Avondale Utd 17 40
Rockmount 15 35
Douglas Hall 17 31
Yip, we play Everton on Thurs and Hall next Weds. Seems mad to play the decider on the Saturday of the June Bank Holiday, I for one will most likely miss it as we're going away. I wonder how many from either side will be in the same position.
Surely nothing wrong with Tue Thurs set up like it has been for the last 6 weeks.
It also says they are playing this Saturday in a cup, what cup is that?
Tough final three games for Rockmount to win league. Surly that was two points lost against blarney. Hall will be up for it after Final defeat. Will be some turnaround from Avondale if Mount slip up.
O Connell cup semi on Saturday as far as I know.
Tough games indeed Bon. It's tough to keep it going, last year and the year before Dale fell away in the league after winning the fai cup. It certainly takes it toll on the players.
If we pull it off it'll be some double, but it's squeaky bum time indeed. Everton won't be showing up on Thurs for the craic I'll wager!
And Everton showed up for more than the craic as I predicted.
3-1 defeat for Rockmount puts a serious dent in their title hunt. Two wins now needed away to the Hall and Dale respectively.
Never got going tonight and went behind early on, Ross O Callaghan levelled things up and we waited for the onslaught. Sadly for us it never really came and the tiredness seemed to finally catch up as the lads just couldn't muster up the energy to create openings.
Without Wheldon, Keane and Oldham the players who came in did superbly well, but ultimately the timing of losing such valuable players has gone against us this week.
Never mind, makes the last two games all the more interesting. Sadly the two year unbeaten run is over. We'll just have to begin it all again next Weds night.
I must say when the text came through last night I got a bit of a shock. Mount now must win away to Douglas Hall for it to go to the wire.
Hall rolled over to Dale last week but after the Intermediate Cup Final I can't imagine them doing Mount any such favours.
Avondale Utd 17 40
Rockmount 16 35
Douglas Hall 17 31
From what I hear injuries are after stopping Mounts title challenge.
Doyle, Keane, Oldham Weldon, & M Deasy all are out. Doyle tried to play last night (1st game since the inter final) but had to come off.
All are set to miss the final two games. Unfortunate time to get these injuries as obviously playing 3 times a week has taken it's toll.
At least the trophies are spread around this year although I did bet for the Hall to beat Mount in the Intermediate and the Mount to win the league.
Quite shocked they threw it away as they looked so dominate in the league but will put it down to bad luck. 4 big players to be losing
Anyway fair play to Avondale for sticking at it
And without a proper keeper too.;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Footballer
Isn't Brendan O' Connell the keeper for Avondale, he is one of the top keepers in the league. It is fair to say he started off a bit on the rocky side but he seems to be playing well the second half of the season and back to the level.
Good keeper in my opinion but is frustrating to watch with all his gamesmanship
I second the Brendan O'Connell sentiments - in my opinion the best keeper in the league. Good leader, good talker, distribution is superb. I'd have him in my team anyday. His gamesmanship can frustrate in fairness though.
Haven't seen enough of O Connell myself, but if it's not broke don't fix it is my motto and can't see why they got rid of Dave the save. Never let them down and has two FAI Intermediates sitting in his ass pocket.
I'm biased, but Mount keeper Slatts has to be the top keeper in the league as for about 4 seasons now they have kept the goals against under 10 (now 10 this season after last night!!) which is incredible - add to that the fact that winning two Intermediate cups were won as well, only conceeding 1 along the way this time and last time. Incredible. Good back four helps, but to organise them and make the saves when called upon is also vital. We saw that a Turners Cross v Hall with a match winning save at 0-0.
I second those sentiments Cliffy ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
Any truth in the rumour that he is leaving after this season?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
None whatsoever as far as I'm aware. Think a "Ronaldo" like comment about one day looking to end his career in another country was taken out of context. Keepers should go til 35ish and he's only 29ish as far as I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
Not retiring just wanting to play nearer home is what I heard ( don't even know where the guy lives to be honest)Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
Mount beat Dale 3-1 aet in the semi of the O Connell cup. Both sides rested players. Final v Everton for us now.
More goalkeeping faux pas, will they ever learn :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
Hall beat Everton 1-0 in one of the other cups last night at the Cross
Congrats to Douglas Hall. In honour of such a momentus win I have put a keg behind the bar of the East village to be consumed only between the hours of 3 and 6 on this Wednesday night. For the first 11 and subs only. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by razor
Do you honestly think that JC hasn't thought of that already?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
Perks of the trade and all that ;)
Nice to get a trophy on the shelf.... will ease pressure - the feeling of needing to win something this season was almost overwhelming. Beamish Cup is a reward for the effort put in by team and management this season.
Agreed, well done. Now take the rest of the season off eh? Cheers! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ball-hop
Surely they've a bit of unfinished business to take care of first ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
Back at it again tonight.... big game to warm up for Drogheda. Huge game for 'mount, who could see the league gone after tonight. I expect the 'Hall to be in good shape, winning on Sunday put a trophy on the shelf and relieves pressure.
Looking forward to another terrific game between the two - another notch for the status of the Senior League.
And there it ends. A gallant Rockmount team drew 2-2 tonight in their last ditch throw of the dice to set up a winner take all decider on Saturday at Avondale.
Alas, it wasn't to be, the damage was done last week against the game and honest efforts of Blarney and Everton. The high of winning yet another Intermediate Cup took it's inevitable toll on the former Champions and a cracking attempt at an almost impossible double is over for another year.
Hat's off to the new champions Avondale. In yet another two horse race they ground out some superb results in the closing stages and put the points on the board like Celtic in Scotland.
I look forward to Saturday when the Champions of Ireland and the Munster Senior League Champions can clap each other to the field again after another dominant season for both. Very enjoyable. Hope the rest can catch up some time soon.
Micky Deasy and Ross O Callaghan scored for Mount on the night, we came from 1 down to lead 2-1 until a late goal tied it up.
We've discussed that before on this thread about how the Intermediate Cup and MSL Premier double is an almost impossible task.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
When you consider Mount have been in 4 of the last 6 Intermediate Cup Finals and Dale won the other 2.
I believe there were some unsavoury incidents after last nights game.
Got another cup final next Monday night and a chance to avenge the defeat to Everton.
Any match report on last night? Who scored for da hall?
Yeah, hard to keep candle burning at both ends. In my opinion the final should be the last game of the season and a showpiece game rather than a month before seasons end as it's very hard to come back to playing league games after such a high. Dale found this for the last two seasons and now we're hit with it. Even with a massive squad, losing Pat Oldham, Pat Keane and Alan Wheldon for the crunch games was too big an ask. Oh well, next year hopefully.Quote:
We've discussed that before on this thread about how the Intermediate Cup and MSL Premier double is an almost impossible task.
When you consider Mount have been in 4 of the last 6 Intermediate Cup Finals and Dale won the other 2.
To say the least. No comment really as I've had my wrists slapped from on high about comments made here previously and won't lower myself to that level again. I wasn't there, but by all accounts it got tasty afterwards.Quote:
I believe there were some unsavoury incidents after last nights game.
Bring it on, be nice to play them again so soon.Quote:
Got another cup final next Monday night and a chance to avenge the defeat to Everton.
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Originally Posted by bon2007
Wasn't there last night, no idea who scored for them.