2014 Club Championships

1-2 to 0-1. Vincents should be 7 or 8;up already.

2-6 to 0-4. Vincent’s have had tougher training sessions than this. No exaggeration to say they could be 20 up. Have missed at least 4 great goal chances. Garrycastle have actually got the last two points. Make that three now. 7 in it.

Mul, a round of applause for aib, ffs. Super super win, professional losers my hole, between minor, senior and club, how many munsters is that the last few years?

How many all Ireland’s?

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That is all. Thrilled.

Well done @balbec a really brilliant performance. :clap:

What a game. Some bottle by Kilmallock to come back at the end of normal time when two points and a man down. Enjoy the celebrations @balbec pal. Loughiel beat Na Piarsaigh a couple of years ago (deservedly so) so can’t afford to be complacent in February.

Hard luck to Cratloe. Conor McGrath and Conor Ryan were exceptional. The matches in the last few weeks killed them in extra time.

2-6 to 0-7 now

Vincents imploding! One in it. Dessie Dolan gifted a goal.

Top drawer save from Savagebstops what looked a certain goal. This is bizarre stuff. Garrucastle well on top now. Level now.

Ask me that again this time 12 months

Penalty goal by Quinn. 5 in it. Keeper black carded. Should be game over now.

Why? It won’t have changed.

Well done @balbec, they were excellent

What a belter in the Gaelic Grounds! Hard luck to the sound Joe McGrath and his Cratloe team but, as I suspected, they tied up a little bit in extra-time.

Kilmallock thoroughly deserved it though. Both Mulcahys, Bryan Sul, Barry Hennessy and Philly O’Loughlin were excellent all through. Saw the Gavin incident and he had to go, in fairness, although the Cratloe man mouthing at him after they scored the goal deserved the belt he got.

Someone mentioned the tip-tapping of Cratloe and it cost them I thought. They won excellent ball, worked fierce hard to do so but were too indirect. When they went to McGrath early they had Kilmallock in all kinds of bother. They didn’t do it often enough though and gave the backs a little time to settle. Mark O’Loughlin, in particular, benefited from this and grew into the game very well.

The Balbec were far more direct and were better able to take their scores from lesser opportunites. 1-21 in normal time is a savage return for this time of year.

On a final note, Fergal Horgan is a woefully poor and inconsistent referee. There was talk that Paudie O’Brien was booked twice, although I didn’t think he was. McGrath took about 11 steps for the first Cratloe goal and there was a fairly nailed on penalty for the Claremen near the end of normal time. All missed, along with much else, by the referee.

Kilmallock v Portaferry.

Parnell Park or Portlaoise as the venue?

Thought Horgan was poor enough. The steps rule didn’t seem to apply at all. He let an awful lot go - on both sides. Didn’t see the sending off - if you are sent off on a straight red for striking is it just a one game ban or what?

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Thought Horgan was poor enough. The steps rule didn’t seem to apply at all. He let an awful lot go - on both sides. Didn’t see the sending off - if you are sent off on a straight red for striking is it just a one game ban or what?[/QUOTE]

Ref Horgan, looked like he was trying to let the game flow alright but he forgot the rulebook. Big match to be throwing him into with the option of Johnny Ryan who ran the line today. All in all a well below par performance, assessors will not be pleased.

Credit to Horgan’s umpires though, TG4 camera’s did not catch GOM sending off incident. Neither did Horgan until his umpires called him in.

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On a final note, Fergal Horgan is a woefully poor and inconsistent referee. There was talk that Paudie O’Brien was booked twice, although I didn’t think he was. McGrath took about 11 steps for the first Cratloe goal and there was a fairly nailed on penalty for the Claremen near the end of normal time. All missed, along with much else, by the referee.[/QUOTE]

I think he was booked during normal time and then again in extra time, so that doesn’t matter.

It does matter. Yellow cards issued in normal time carry over into extra-time. If this is what happened, Horgan made a bollix of it.

GOM had a cheap shot on Ryan after the goal was scored at the other end, a decent slap. Straight red.