Club Championships 2021 - is fulvio a cameraman?

Julio_Geordio · September 19, 2021, 6:33pm

Very similar hairline

anon67715551 · September 19, 2021, 7:25pm

Super report, twas almost like I was at it myself.
Like awarded for the superb use of the term “Devon Loched it”……

kerry1891 · September 19, 2021, 8:10pm

Julio_Geordio:

Just back from Austin Stacks and the Kerry hurling final.

Kilmoyley vs Ardfert an all parish affair.

A funny game, one for the sports psychologists more than the hurling purists.
Both sides defences were well on top and both sides played a withdrawn half forward line so it was a ferocious scrap for every score.

Kilmoyley were horrendously wasteful once they got to the last third and their full forward line was cleaned in the first half. But it was point for point throughout until with literally the last puck of the first half Ardfert pounced on a defensive mistake to to drill in a goal from close range to leave them 4 points up at halftime. It seemed at the time to be a massive score as chances were at a premium. Ardfert led by 4, 1-8 to 0-7 at halftime.
Second half started similarly, but Kilmoyley continued to be wasteful and Ardfert tacked on two more to lead by 6 with 20 minutes to go.
It was all over, they just had to manage the game out. But they Devon Loched it, I don’t know did they run out of steam or did they, as I would guess, get into their own heads thinking fuck it we are going to win it here. They stopped doing the simple things, they were driving it clear and not playing through the lines as they had been, balls that were coming into their hand no problem were starting to be spilled, the keeper stopped hitting short puckouts which had been pretty successful. They seized up basically.
In contrast Kilmoyley never panicked, they never chased goals, even though it seemed they’d need one,
They had a great goal chance when three down, but the forward Daire Nolan lost his footing just as the defence had parted, but they never dropped the heads and kept plugging away, they reeled them in point by point by point until they got it back to one.
Adrian Royle who’d come in at half time made a big impact, giving them a ball winner in the FF line which they had been badly lacking.
Then star man Collins missed two difficult (but for him scoreable frees) to level it, one from the 45 from right on the sideline and one from his own 45 which dropped inches short and it seemed Ardfert had weathered the storm, they got back to two ahead and the sides traded points for another few minutes.
And then out of nothing, a minute of normal time left, a shite ball in, completely missed by the defender, it popped into the hands of Maurice O’Connor (normally a prolific forward but well marshalled on the day) right man in the right place. He was never going to miss and he smashed it to the net.
Kilmoyley tacked on another in normal time to win by three for a finish.
There was a bit of excitement right at the death when Ardfert had a goal, but it was ruled out for a square ball and they didn’t seem to put up much complaint, the whistle was gone before it went in I would say but there was great excitement in the stands as half of them seemed to think it was a goal for a good 30 secs afterwards.

1-14 to 1-11 for the record

Two in a row for Kilmoyley, I don’t know how you get a winning mentality, but they have it, always turn up and never beaten. Tom Murnane collected, I think, his 9th county title. John Meyler strikes again with Kilmoyley. He has some record with them. That’s 26 titles for Kilmoyley, pushing them one ahead of Ballyduff on the all time list. The county titles page on wiki is literally already updated. Serious bidness. Kilmoyley team is fairly young bar Murnane, you’d expect they’ll have a right cut off the three in a row.

Ardfert will be sick, I wouldn’t say they were robbed, but they had the game in their hands and they fucked it away. They haven’t that many of them won they can afford to be doing that either. A lot of their better players were their old hands so not sure a quick rebound is on the cards.

great report Julio

the Kerry county hurling final., always a great sporting occasion in Kerry

Julio_Geordio · September 19, 2021, 8:11pm

Were you down for it?

kerry1891 · September 19, 2021, 8:13pm

No Julio unfortunately

ChairmanDan · September 20, 2021, 9:40am

A 48 year old Paud O’Dwyer lined out at corner back yesterday for Palatine in the Carlow Junior Hurling Final.

Copper_pipe · September 20, 2021, 9:53am

The referee for our Junior B game at the weekend was 69 years of age

myboyblue · September 20, 2021, 10:00am

Would Maura have good hands?

Fagan_ODowd · September 20, 2021, 7:22pm

Watching the TG4 highlights package here. Fair to say that the club game is a consistently more entertaining product than the county game.

FlakeAway · September 20, 2021, 7:46pm

Very handy YT channel. Has all the highlights mainly from Waterford & Kilkenny.

Ashman · September 20, 2021, 7:51pm

The inter county scene in both football & hurling is in real bother

peddlerscross · September 20, 2021, 7:58pm

A real pity TG4 don’t seem to be showing Friday/Saturday night games like last year.

TreatyStones · September 20, 2021, 8:06pm

Hopper ?

TreatyStones · September 20, 2021, 8:06pm

Mainly because the club game isn’t considered a product

Cheasty · September 20, 2021, 8:07pm

With the exception of the Cuala - Na Piarsaigh finals and the shenanigans at the end of the Corofin-Kilcoo final the club finals have largely been terrible spectacles for a good number of years now.

Copper_pipe · September 20, 2021, 8:10pm

John McGrath

TreatyStones · September 20, 2021, 8:10pm

Yes, “hopper” McGrath

Copper_pipe · September 20, 2021, 8:11pm

Informative.

peddlerscross · September 20, 2021, 8:15pm

Borrisileigh v Ballyhale was a good game. As was Slaughneil v Dr. Crokes in 2017.

The semi finals have thrown up some great clashes in both codes. Slaughtneil v Ballyhale, Corofin v Dr. Crokes 2017, Na Piarsaigh v Slaughtneil a few off the top of my head.

And the provincial championships have always been box office.

Ashman · September 20, 2021, 8:16pm

The senior club final is less than 1% of the total amount of games played each year