Connacht Junior Cup 2010/11

[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) PDF
Connacht Underage Cups and Shields (.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