The Castlebar Celtic girls’ U-12 team maintained their 100% league record when deservedly taking all three points against a brave Claremorris side in Concannon Park last Tuesday evening. It was the Hoops who dominated the early exchanges and were three goals to the good thanks to the excellent strikes by the impressive Rachel Lammond, Grainne and Aoife O’Neill. With the superb Celtic defence which was made up of the outstanding Rachel Baynes, Soirse McCabe, Anna Donavan and goalkeeper Allahan Courell who is getting better with every game never allowing the home side anytime of the ball it was clear to see that it was Hoops who were the dominating team. In fairness to Claremorris they never gave an inch and battled hard throughout the game and pulled a goal back midway through half but there joy was short lived after another superb run by the excellent Aoife O’Neill which resulted in her smashing the ball to the back of the Claremorris net to leave the score 4-1 at half-time. The second half started as the first with the O’Neill sisters controlling the midfield exchanges and Rachel Baynes marshalling the defence and it was Celtic who got the next goal from Aalana Scott and she soon added a second five minutes later. The introduction of Lucy Ryan, Sinead Coll, Sarah & Katie Donovan, Chloe Courell, Katie Conway, Ella Moran, and Lisa Joyce showed the talented that is available to the management team and they all played their part in this impressive performance. Claremorris came more into the game midway through the second half and added two more goals but there was no stopping Aoife O’Neill who got the final two scores to leave the young Celt’s 8-3 winners and on top of the Mayo League table.
Good 5-1 win by U-16 girls and Boys U-13 unlucky to be knocked out of the Mayo Cup by a very strong Ballyglass side after extra-time (1-0). Just didnt take there chances but no complaints as Ballyglass were a match for them. Best of luck to them in the Final. U12 girls keep their 100% record going. Strong side with some very talented players.
Massive game at the weekend. Wouldn’t be too hopeful considering the form Utd are in and how they played against us the last time we meet, the number of injuries we have picked up and of course the Ref factor which will mean we will finish with 10 players at the most and a massive free count in Westport’s favour, mind you nothing to do with the Port just what happens with this ref and Celtic. Still a lot of football to be played before league title is handed out.
Big 4 games left for ye,westport and claremoris. A draw might not be the worst result for ye??
Seen a few of celtic's games this year and your right, ye seem to pick up alot of cards, some i have to say baffled me.
I think we will have to win one of the games V the Port or C'morris to win the League
Celtic’s U-14 side made it two wins in-a-row following a deserved 5-2 victory over a talented Swinford side on Wednesday evening in Celtic Park. This victory was built on the splendid defence of goalkeeper James Foy and he was well protected by Thomas Hestor, Mark Benson, Conor High and Ray Loughran and this allowed the Hoops superb midfield of Jack McCormick, Mark McDonnell, Fintan Borotto and Colm Quinn to go forward at every opportunity and support the excellent front two of Robert Fallon and Cathal Hastings. The home side went in at half time 4-1 thanks to goals from XXXX. The second half was a much closer affair and the introduction of Ryan Timlin, XXX gave the home team a much needed injection and they all played their part in this vital victory to keep their side in the shake up for the league title. WIP
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Unlucky the weekend v Westport. watched the game and thought Celtic were the better team, however they should of taken some more of their chances but didn't and allowed Westpoet to score a soft goal in th dying seconds, but hey thats football for ya.. Westport very strong in central defence with Horkan and lawless.. all to play for now V Claremorris ??
another appalling display from the worlds best referee at the weekend. where does this guy get his god complex from? he really does believe he is above the little people that play and support mayo league.the guy is an absolute joke!!!!!!
i may occasionally walk alone but i'll be in good company when i do
Would say he has some issues, needs to chill out a bit, maybe talk a bit more to the players and possibly even smile ! HaOriginally Posted by ExCiTeD
I didn't know that Pierluigi Collina came out of retirement.
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!!
Atrocious performance from apparently the best ref in Mayo/The World. He blatantly singles out players he does not like for bookings. Lets some ridiculous fouls go. Seems more intent on having at least one moment in the spot light per game. I reckon he spends hours each day perfecting his glare. Reckons it can scare people when most just laugh it off. Truly incompetent at the weekend. Mad to give a penalty to Westport, mad to send Alan Mc Donald off the pitch and keep that thug Horkan(?), the striker not the centre back, on the pitch. Turns up late for games then has the gall to strut around the pitch like its all about him. Its like a bloody pantomine when hes around. The sooner he gets shipped off to UEFA and out of the Mayo League the better.
Have to agree with all you said about this "ref", his ego is getting out of hand.
Clearing every one out of his way for nothing and telling people to shut up which is disrespectul if he can`t take it himself.
I don`t know what happened with penalty incident he tears in blaring on the whistle then the linesman flags for a corner,
if he thought it was a penalty he should have stuck with it as he wasn`t that far away from it.
Also he spends too much time looking at the sideline drawing more trouble on himself.
He`d want to be told that the game doesn`t revolve around him and it is a sign of a poor referee if he is the main topic of conversation at the match.
The striker is hoban and and he is far from a thug as i don`t know what he did to earn that tag.
The problem is he never kicked a ball in his life and doesnt have the insight into when a challenge is intended to do damage or not. He seriously needs to leave his weekday profession and mannerisms behind him when puts on the black at the weekend. Can you imagine him trying to stare down Vidic with one of those comical stares.
Hoban, my apologies Mr.Horkan. Well I've only really seen him play 2-3 times, admittedly twice against Celtic. I've seen him red carded in one game (not v.s Celtic). At the weekend his only contribution to the game was putting his weight about, pushing people in the chest and trying to hurt and intimidate our goalkeeper, again by pushing him into to fence around the pitch and running straight into him. He didn't look like he wanted to play football and when he was subbed Westport looked better.
he is only a puppy,
All in all, a good result for Celtic, the next game is HUGE! A few suspensions will worry Celtic for the trip south.
Great weekend for the women and girls teams at the weekend. It was started off on Thursday with the U-14’s with eight players stunned Castlebar Town with a 2-0 win, this was followed up on Saturday when the U-12's beat Town 6-1 , the U-16 then hit Killala for five soon afterwards in the second game of the day for all three teams to advance to the Mayo Cup semi-finals. The Women’s team topped off the weekend with a superb 2-0 win in Athlone with the goals coming from Avril Kilkelly and Emma Mullin and can now look forward to an Intermediate cup semi-final.
The clubs U-16A side maintained their 100% league record following a deserved victory over a gallant Claremorris side after a 14 goal thriller at Conconnon Park last Monday evening. In this rip roaring tie it was the Hoops who opened the scoring thanks to a clinical finish by Philip Ruddy. The home side were level five minutes later following a defensive mix up but this was soon cancelled out by great strike from Man of the Match Cathal Lisibach on 20 minutes. The teams were level once again following a well worked home goal. Irish International Noe Baba opened his account after been put through by Darren Murray and this was soon followed by a Jason Hunt goal. Claremorris were finding the Hoops defence of Adam Chambers, Conor Ludden, Mark Howley, Darragh Coll and Sean Conlon harder to breakdown but they managed to pull a goal back on the stoke at half-time to leave the minimum between the sides. The second half saw the Celtic midfield of Colm Quinn, Darren Murray, Philip Ruddy and Noe Baba take control and with the striking partnership Cathal Lisibach and Jason Hunt causing the home defence a lot of problems it was the Hoops who dominated the second half. Three goals from Lisibach and two from Baba showed this dominance of the scoreboard and when both the impressive Sean Keaney and Rhyne Collins were introduced the Hoops were in total command. Claremorris did grab two goals of their own in the second half to but they just could not match their first half display. Managers Ioseph O’Reilly, Ronan and Ger O’Boyle were happy with the teams overall performance, but they know work still has to be done with this talented group of players
Congrats to Jeremy and Mark on been accepted as a founder member of the national women's league. Big game at the weekend. Will take a draw at this stage due to the depleted squad available for this game. Cannot understand how the Mayo League can put a die hard Westport Utd man in charge, with a Claremorris victory this will put Utd back in the frame. What fools are running the Mayo League. They put the same man in charge of an end of season Ballina Town game and he ensured that they did not win according to one of his linepersons that day.
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