Leeside 2 - 1 Regional
Balla 1 - 1 Grattan (Penos....)
Aisling 0 - 2 St Michaels
Nenagh 1 - 3 Wembley
Leeside 1-2 Regional
Balla 1-0 Gratten
Aisling 2-3 St Michaels
Nenagh 5-1 Wembley
Leeside 2 - 1 Regional
Balla 1 - 1 Grattan (Penos....)
Aisling 0 - 2 St Michaels
Nenagh 1 - 3 Wembley
Well so much for the all Limerick last 4.
Well done to Leeside for their 1-0 win over Regional. Hopefully Grattan can put in a performance tomorrow and get two Cork sides in the semis.
Result from LIT: Balla 3 Grattan 1 aet ...
Any result from the Aisling - St Michaels game?
aisling won 4-2. good result for balla i fancied grattan to cause an upset having seen them a few times this year they are a quality side
if it wasnt for birds and booze id have played for ireland juniors!!!!!
aisling went one up. AA keeper then gave away penalty and was sent off. michaels got a second penalty to be 2-1 up at half time. AA scored 3 in second half with only 10 men. michaels keeper had a bad day - made bad mistakes for first and third goals. michaels were disappointing though for a team with their reputation.
SEMI FINAL DRAW
Aisling Annacotty v Ballynanty Rvs
Nenagh “A” v Leeside
THE Balla manager at this stage still dont no who his best eleven is he changes the team around so often.What was the starting team yesterday???
Surely favourates to win it now
Well firstly I'd like to say well done Towlie an Leeside for a great result.The result is all that matters an ye dug deep an yer in the semis.
Ourselves,well if we played badly as ye already know I would be the first to point it out but considering where an who we were playing I thought we were excellent throught out the game.The weather(a gale blowin for the entire game) an the pitch were not great an it suited Bally's more physcial defensive style to be honest but I dont think they were prepared for the way we came at them especially in the 2nd half against the windThey were desperate men for a lot of the game throwing bodies in front of an on top of us to stop us playin.We were a yard quicker than them but they were cute an knew wherwe to give away frees where it would not hurt them.
The ref an his display also could no doubt be a factor but I do not want to sound as if we are bad loosers.I could'nt honestly blame him for any of their goals an the penalty decisions that we thought were straight forward were 50/50 at best an I know if they had been given against us we would'nt be happy.If I'm to be very honest an I will be we beat ourselves.Bally were on the back foot for a lot of the game an happy enough to soak up the pressure but we outplayed them footballing wise an more than matched them in the physcial sense.
You can alwasy tell when a team is struggling when they make changes quickly as Bally did in the 2nd half.We were pushing them back an back an took a deserved lead from man of the match Mark O'Sullivan.But you see we were winning headers for the whole game an not giving away silly frees up to about 10 mins to play but then probably sensing victory we got a bit nervous an started to bite a bit at them.
Their were 2 lads from some limerick paper standing with me an as soon as we started to give away the frees they told me thats this is when Bally would start to pick it up an they did.They changed their front 2 an it did change the game for them.We did not compete for 2 headers an were were punished an the 3rd goal was a freak ,Ronny Radford type shot.Great strike but never to be repeated.3 / 1 was harsh,we came an played the top, side in Limerick on their own patch an played them off the park an''Supporter'' I dont think you could argue that we were the better footballin side,but in fairness to ye they have bags of experience an weathered the Grattan storm.They were also excellent in the air an on the day when the wind was as strong as it was that was a major factor in them keepin us to 1 goal.
I was gutted for the lads at final whistle because they had come away from home again an put in a fantastic display an given their all to have victory snatched away in so crule a fashion.Speaking to the Bally management afterwords they were very complimentry towards us in sayin that we were a fantastic young footballin side with a great future ahead of us.That was after we had to listen to them sigin an roarin in their dressin room right next to ours.Loosin is **** an thats all.I know some one has to loose but when you gave what our lads gave to come away with nothin is gut wrenchin.
Thanks for the words of support throughout an again well done Towlie an Leeside we'll be cheerin ye on in the semis.
Their's only one Dinny Pop's.
BALLA lads singing and roaring in the dressing room afterwards......didn,t know they give out cups for winning last 8 matchs.
I'll give ya that I did feel the winner was offside .
But the linesman was right in line and he's not the shady type .
Whether he was right or wrong I've no doubt that the linesman genuinely believed he was on .
That ref on the otherhand is one of the most annoying you'll come across , one word towards him(abusive or not) and you could find yourself with a yellow .
We were unlucky to lose our left winger in the warm up which hampered us a lot going forward(he really is a fantastic player) .
I don't think either side was at their best really , I'm sure ye are capable of more than that and I sure as hell know we are .
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