Updates on the Tyrone and Derry SFC semi-finals, please.
Slaughtneil beat Ballinderry by 6 points.
Clonoe and 14 men Coalisland are level at 9 each going into injury time.
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I hope the great Kevin McCabe and Damien O’Hagan aren’t coming to blows in the stand/on the terrace.
Down SFC final result: Kilcoo 3-11 Clonduff 0-9.
Clonoe have taken the lead and back come Coalisland!!!
10 each.
Replay in Tyrone.
Clonoe have to go again after already having to overcome to Omagh in a replay.
Nice lookin layout
Toome and Nayna not great these days?
Drom vs Kildangan
Sars vs Borrisilleagh
Clonoulty vs Mullinahone
Kilruane vs Killenaule
That’s the quarter final draw. I would give a tentative nod to the 1st team named in each tie.
Toome are gone a long way back from their halcyon days of 10/15 years ago. Closer to relegation contenders than county contenders. They got a lot out of that great team with the Dunnes, O Briens, Brislane, Delaney, Bevans,… They all retired at the same time and there was a leadership void on the field. They are capable of taking the odd scalp now but not a run of consistent form.
Nenagh got caught cold at the start of the year. They have been slow starters the past few years and seem to aim to peak for this time of year. It worked the past few years where they have been at the business end of the championship. However they never got off the blocks this year with injuries to a few crucial men also a factor. They are a young team who have won a good few county minor titles in recent times but seem to have that flaky townie complex when it is put up to them.
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It was real championship stuff in Holycross today. Drom just about fell over the line in controversial circumstances. Referee Johnny Ryan blowing up after 30 mins and 9 seconds in the second half even though there should have been at least 4 minutes after 2 injuries and numerous substitutions.
Loughmore were absolutely seething and the ref got all sorts of abuse walking off the field.
Serious game though in front of a huge crowd. Loughmore were the better team overall I thought. Drom got a lucky goal just before half time giving them a 6 point lead having played with a strong wind.
Loughmore dominated the second half but were halted by referee Ryan. Loughmore had all the momentum coming down the stretch while Drom were out on their feet. Callanan and Woodlock did their stuff for Drom while Noel McGrath was brilliant for Loughmore. Also a big game from Aidan McGrath.
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Hon Drom
I like Drom but they were blessed to win that today.
Callanan looking nice and tanned after his recent holiday 
The green and white
The two King pins of Kerry hurling clashed again on Saturday with Kilmoyley emerging victorious by 2 points at the finish. They should have been out of sight at that stage, playing the much better hurling, but were unable to shake off a dogged Ballyduff who goaled in the last minute of normal time to make it a tense final few minutes.
The story of the game was the return for Kilmoyley of the Kerry great Shane Brick. Brick, who teaches in Cork, had left to play for tracton a couple of years ago, and actually retired this year from hurling due to arthritis in his hip. It emerged after Kilmoyley had reached the final that Brick was actually eligible to play having not featured in championship for Tracton this year and a delegation of players from the club went to him and asked for his return. He started in the first final, and though he certainly contributed he was off the pace and a long way from the man he was.
But as they say form is temporary, class is permanent and the first game merely served to blow off the cobwebs and Brick rolled back the years in the replay. He hit 3 points from play, but more importantly he acted as a playmaker for the Kilmoyley forward line, setting up the vital Kilmoyley goal as well as having a hand in several other scores. He was rightly awarded MOTM post the final.
That’s two in a row for Kilmoyley but more importantly they draw level with Ballyduff at 24 titles each in the all time winners table.
Be interesting to see how they go in Munster now, after reaching new heights in the early 00’s, when Kilmoyley were very unlucky not to beat a couple of very strong Cork senior club sides Kerry club waned in the following years and the standard dropped off noticeably. But it’s been on a definite upward curve again the last 5 or so years and with them competing in the munster intermediate club championship now it’ll be very interesting to see how they get on. The played Wolfe Tones last year who were on a mission after being fucked out of the senior in Clare and they only had a few weeks to prepare when in reality they spent it celebrating. I think they’ll give it more of a rattle this year and they’ve been drawn in the semi so will have time to get themselves right.
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Seems fair enough, didn’t do anything there to deserve the red. Apart from the clothesline. Then the punch. Then the row with the supporter. Only right to rescind it.
Hon Quigley boy.
Saying that, two two boys who hopped in to take him on got their dues.
@sidney I’ve asked the questions; awaiting answers.
I don’t think we should be 2/5 odd. We’ve hobbled into a county final but that’s what good teams do, I suppose.
Scotstown by 2.
Is this on the telly?
Only downside, that UUUUUUUUUCOAM Jarlath Burns will be on duty.
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