Munster Senior League

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Originally Posted by Evertonian

I have been keeping a close eye on the MSL 1st Division for obvious reasons this year. But now that we are all but safe i can enjoy the league that much more.:)

Any predictions on who will get promoted or who will get relegated from this league? There is around 6 teams who can go down by my viewing. Anyone know if its one or two go to the 2nd division. I know 2 get promoted into our league and im assuming Mayfield will be one after seeing them play this year against rockmount. They look a decent team.

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I would put my money on Ringmahon. Leeds are also in the hunt. All 3 have to play each other as far as I know so alot could change over the next few weeks

Mount won last night in the beamish cup, 2-1 at home to someone! I wasn't there!

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Originally Posted by Clifford

Mount won last night in the beamish cup, 2-1 at home to someone! I wasn't there!

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Mayfield Utd

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Originally Posted by Mr.X

just reading some of your posts on the first division, tought id chip in as well!!
from what i have seen personally this season....i wud putmy money on mayfield and ringmahon to go up(despite that ringmahon have lost a few players since start of season!)
both teams have impressed me the most this season, dont believe leeds wud be gud enough to hold there own in the premier league!!!
And to do with the relegation battle, mallow luk safe now, between everyone else for the chop!!two teams go down and i think( and hope:rolleyes:) it will be corinthians and lakewood!!
lakewood on a terible run and it looks like continuing!!lost lots of players and havent recovered since....think corinthians dont have strong enough squad to get necessary results to stay up either!!
relegation battle will be an exciting one though!!

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Saw a bit of Corinthians last week vs Carrigaline.

They looked a disorganised rabble and were well outplayed by Carrigaline who, I understand, only had a handful of regulars starting.

Typically enough, I suppose, they survived to get to penalties and get through.

Mount beat Wanderers 4-0 on Sat in a stroll. Butsy got 2, Gary and Colin got one each.

I reckon Mayfield to Win, Ringmahon to go up with them and i feel its gonna be Middleton and Lakewood to go down.

Passage, Tramore, Carrigaline, College Cors are also in the mix to go down but i think they will all be safe!

Passage and Tramore have won a few games recently with Carrigaline and Cors slipping up recently.

Passage - Cors (Off)
Midleton 3 - 0 Lakewood
Leeds 2 - 0 Tramore
Ring Mahon 3 - 0 Mayfield (I think)
Carrigaline Lost to Mallow as far as i no but not sure of the result!

Any takers!

Also hear that Cors have finally recieved the point for the match with ringmahon! Think this is reflected on the Munster Senior League website.

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Originally Posted by Mr.X

Thursday 2nd of April:

Beamish Stout Senior 2nd Division:

CIT 1 - 1 Bandon

Who said all hope was gone for cit!!!!:rolleyes:

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That was me, I'd say!!!
Congrats to CIT on their 1st point of the season ...in April.
But it doesn't matter anyway because they can never be relegated!!!


Doesn't say much for Bandon either does it???:D

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Originally Posted by Mr.X

Thursday 2nd of April:

Beamish Stout Senior 2nd Division:

CIT 1 - 1 Bandon:eek:

Who said all hope was gone for cit!!!!:rolleyes:

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They must have been playing Bandons Ladies team!!;)

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Originally Posted by ballsac7

They must have been playing Bandons Ladies team!!;)

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Nah they would have beaten them, must have been the Under 8's!:D

Ballincollig -v- Douglas Hall OFF

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Originally Posted by Long Throw

Ballincollig -v- Douglas Hall OFF

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Wanderers vs Ballincollig in the cup on Saturday is also postponed. Incidently the Over 35's game Friday involving the same two teams is also off.......I assume Ballincollig have suffered some sort of bereavement????

Blarney V Everton is off

View v Mount off as well.

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Originally Posted by BobbyBoy

Passage - Cors (Off)
Midleton 3 - 0 Lakewood
Leeds 2 - 0 Tramore
Ring Mahon 3 - 0 Mayfield (I think)
Carrigaline Lost to Mallow as far as i no but not sure of the result!

Any takers!

Also hear that Cors have finally recieved the point for the match with ringmahon! Think this is reflected on the Munster Senior League website.

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ya mayfield lost 3-0 to ringmahon mayfield were well on top for the 1st 30 mintues then left in a bad goal a few mintues before the break in the 2nd half they might as well stayed in the dressing room they were so bad ringmahon got 2 goal from the centre backs long throws this guys throws r unreal i've never seen anything like it he can throw it 60 yards with lots of power.on a good note we beat cors 2-0 last night

Everton 0 Douglas Hall 3

Douglas Hall 3 Everton 0
Stachan scored twice, Robbie Brohan got the third. In between, Podge saved 2 penalties. Always a tough fixture for the 'Hall - great to collect the three points.
Marys next on Thursday.

Tramore 3 - 0 Lakewood.
Comfortable win for Tramore, does their hopes of staying up no harm at all. Think they only have one left against Ring Mahon, is it??

Passage Carrigaline called off.

Big weekend for all the teams in the first, anyone from 5th down can be relegated and i believe that the top 3 can all still win it!

Tight this year

Rockmount & Avondale won, Douglas Hall beaten by St Marys

Douglas Hall 1 St. Marys 2
Major disappointment - Marys better team on the night, looked dangerous all through. 'Hall had a couple of spells where they were on top, but failed to capitalise.
Marys led 2-0, Deccie O'Connell scored a spotter for the 'Hall, but Marys held on.

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Avondale 2-1 Blarney.

Avondale started the brighter and had some long range shots on mccarthys goal but failed to trouble him. Blarney had a period of pressure which they made count after great play by conor meade he pulled it back to an incoming player who scored. Avondale came back into the game and scored just before half time through Knowles. It was stop start in the second half with a blarney subsitute and manager sent to the stands. A great move by avondale with about 5 mins to go unlocked the blarney defence and Mark O sullivan slotted home. Its going to be an interesting run for the league

It will be interesting alright.I thought it was a cracking game of football.Both sides playing some great stuff.Blarney were extremely comfortable up until the winner.They even had a chance to win it with a chnace in 2nd half.

Mount won 3-0, Butsy and Ross O Call got the other two. Butsy got an unbelievable goal, better than Torres' last week.

Comfortable night out, home to St Mary's in the morning.

Lads out of interest can anyone tell me what kind of attendences the MSL gets for bigger games like Rockmount V Avondale etc,also what kind of crowds does the intermediate cup draw for Cork derbies the last few years??

For some reason moved to Moneygourney. 'Hall dominated early on, goals from Gareth O'Donovan and Kevin Mulcahy. 2-0 half time. Sewn up with Deccie O'Connell's header. Ballincollig scored with virtually the last kick of the game.

Things getting exciting now

Rockmount 1-0 Marys
Leeds 0-0 Ringmahon

Shadow boxing... agreed Cliff?
Kevin Mul scored both for the 'Hall - first a smashing shot which took a deflection, second from a free kick. In between, Rockmount equalised after a spell of pressure - Ross O'Callaghan I think.
Tasty warm up for bigger matches to come.

Cobh Wanderer's 3-1 against Ballincollig!.
Cobh home to either Mary's or Avondale in semi's.

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Originally Posted by ball-hop

Shadow boxing... agreed Cliff?
Kevin Mul scored both for the 'Hall - first a smashing shot which took a deflection, second from a free kick. In between, Rockmount equalised after a spell of pressure - Ross O'Callaghan I think.
Tasty warm up for bigger matches to come.

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Yeah, never sparked into life. Some good and bad by both sides. Typical end of season outing with a bigger picture to be filled in soon!!

Avondale 1-0 St. Marys

Blarney 1- Everton 2

Blarney played fairly weel despite missing a good few. Had Everton under pressure for most of the match. Everton scored about 25 mins in through a decent header after being under pressure for most of beginning. Second half Blarney equalised and were pushing for winner when Everton caught them on the break in last minute. Everton could have had a peno with about ten left too to be fair. Decent game of football and a bit of a smash and grab job by Everton who are safe now.

What is happening in the 1st division, looking at the MSL website Lakewood are down but who will go with them ?
Anyone from Tramore, Carrigaline, Corinthians or Passage ? Who has to play who yet ?
Two from three to go up, Ringmahon, Leeds or Mayfield, who are favourites ?

Mayfield should be favourites since they have 2 games left although one of those is against Leeds who need to win to have any chance of going up and also against mallow who are on a good run. Ringmahon have to play tramore where you would expect them to win. So it should be mayfield and Ringmahon. Too close to call who will lift the trophy

ya away to mallow 2morrow it was called off last week due 2 water on the pitch the lads told me mallow didn't seem to want to play the game they told mayfield the pitch was unplayable the lads walked the pitch and said it was grand except for a small puddle at the top of the 18 yard box which could have been swept off the lads think mallow must have been short a few players sure the weather was wrost this week with rain yesterday and today and the same ref is doing the game so don't be surpised if the game off again

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Originally Posted by mayfield utd

ya away to mallow 2morrow it was called off last week due 2 water on the pitch the lads told me mallow didn't seem to want to play the game they told mayfield the pitch was unplayable the lads walked the pitch and said it was grand except for a small puddle at the top of the 18 yard box which could have been swept off the lads think mallow must have been short a few players sure the weather was wrost this week with rain yesterday and today and the same ref is doing the game so don't be surpised if the game off again

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game off again game rearranged for saturday again it becoming a bit of a joke now the pitch unplayable 2 weeks in a row in the middle of spring how did they ever play home games during the winter it about time mallow got a half decent pitch and get rid of that s**t pitch

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Originally Posted by mayfield utd

game off again game rearranged for saturday again it becoming a bit of a joke now the pitch unplayable 2 weeks in a row in the middle of spring how did they ever play home games during the winter it about time mallow got a half decent pitch and get rid of that s**t pitch

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Ok, lets deal with the facts here.I know a few of the Mallow players & the game that was arranged for last week was called off by the ref when he inspected the pitch. Both teams were togged out & getting warmed up. This was not ideal as obviously Mayfield had to travel but there was nothing anybody could do or say to change the ref's mind.And i'm pretty sure that Mallow were only missing one player for that game.Mallow are possibly even more annoyed that this game has been dragged out as this is their last game of the season. I'm pretty sure the Junior game that was also due to be palyed on the pitch yesterday was called off. In case you had'nt noticed, it did rain pretty bad for the previous 3 days or so.

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Originally Posted by Two Touch

Ok, lets deal with the facts here.I know a few of the Mallow players & the game that was arranged for last week was called off by the ref when he inspected the pitch. Both teams were togged out & getting warmed up. This was not ideal as obviously Mayfield had to travel but there was nothing anybody could do or say to change the ref's mind.And i'm pretty sure that Mallow were only missing one player for that game.Mallow are possibly even more annoyed that this game has been dragged out as this is their last game of the season. I'm pretty sure the Junior game that was also due to be palyed on the pitch yesterday was called off. In case you had'nt noticed, it did rain pretty bad for the previous 3 days or so.

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i know the game was called off by the ref and both teams were warming up but from what i was told by the players is they got there an hour before kick off mallow said pitch was unplayable the players and the manager checked the pitch and said it was good but for a small puddle at the top of the 18 yard box so at about 20 past 2 mayfield said they should get into there gear all that time mallow players never got into there gear till mayfield did ref came about 2.30 still no nets or corner flags out and two mallow guys went around the pitch with the ref now i don't know what they were saying to the ref but they told mayfield it was unplayable so i could only think what they were saying to him.i know it rained bad for the last few day but how many other game was called off in all the divisions and besides it mallow last game so surely there not worried about wrecking the pitch

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Originally Posted by mayfield utd

i know the game was called off by the ref and both teams were warming up but from what i was told by the players is they got there an hour before kick off mallow said pitch was unplayable the players and the manager checked the pitch and said it was good but for a small puddle at the top of the 18 yard box so at about 20 past 2 mayfield said they should get into there gear all that time mallow players never got into there gear till mayfield did ref came about 2.30 still no nets or corner flags out and two mallow guys went around the pitch with the ref now i don't know what they were saying to the ref but they told mayfield it was unplayable so i could only think what they were saying to him.i know it rained bad for the last few day but how many other game was called off in all the divisions and besides it mallow last game so surely there not worried about wrecking the pitch

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As the last line of your post says, from what i know, there were none of the Mallow players worried about the pitch. I presume they all wanted to just finish the season as soon as possible. But i do know this from talking to 1 or 2 of the players, of all the games the Mallow boys have been looking forward to, its this one as Mayfield thumped them earlier in the season & they want to beat Mayfield badly. It should be a good game (whenever it goes ahead!!) & it makes for an exciting end of season.