Sorry farmer it was merely the fragment of a joke remembered
âWhat was the first thing Nelson Mandela said when he was released from prisonâ
âIs Oliver Honeyman still playing for Leitrim?â
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Good Leitrim contingent in Aughrim.
Would be a massive win
Hon ta fuck
Any updates DB
Half time. Leitrim 0-8 Wicklow 0-7
Leitrim have kicked the last 3 points of the half to lead for the first time.
Wicklow will have the aid of the breeze in the second half. Whoever can get a goal will win it I feel.
3 changes in first half :
Beck for McWeeney (black card)
Hickey for Moran
Cox for Clancy
Liatroim AbĂș
Penalty for Wicklow in first min of second half
Misses
Yeah
16-10 i hear now
Full time LM 1-17 WW 0-11
Thats a great win for us, unbeaten this year, who stood out today DB
Terrific team performance today. Hard to single out a stand-out player but Ray Cox caused them all kinds of problems when introduced.
Very even first half saw Leitrim go in a point up after playing with the breeze.
Wicklow had terrific opportunity to go 2 points in front at the start of the second half when Enda Lyons was penalised for a foot block. Some Wicklow cunt struck the post with the resulting penalty.
Leitrim pushed on after this and were well on top when a major controversy erupted. Daniel Lowe was set up for a great goal chance. This observer thought he had hit the crossbar but Lowe, Cox and Mulligan celebrated with arms raised so it appears it hit the back stanchion and came back out. Plenty of Leitrim players remonstrated with both the referee and the umpires but it was to no avail.
A sign of their character under Hagan, the heads didnât drop and they really dominated the last quarter, culminating in a last minute goal for Ray Cox after he was unselfishly set up by Mulligan.
We are really looking good for promotion and a day out in Croke Park is on the cards.
Hope we donât get fucked up with points difference at the end,i hear we demolished them in the last quarter
[quote=âmassey ferguson, post: 914191, member: 189â]Hope we donât get fucked up with points difference at the end,i hear we demolished them in the last quarter
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Yeah finished the game very impressively Massey.
I would expect us to beat Waterford and London which would leave us on 11 points minimum.
That would be enough surely
A superlative second half display saw Leitrim storm the ramparts of Aughrim to overwhelm hosts Wicklow and claim two incredibly valuable Allianz League Division 4 points on Sunday.
Leitrim 1-17 Wicklow 0-11
Fortress Aughrim has often seen Leitrim flounder and suffer demoralising defeats but when the game was in the boiling point, it was the Green & Gold who upped the ante and produced a fantastic second half display.
The win moves Leitrim second in the Division 4 table, denied top spot only by scoring difference as the campaign for promotion grows stronger and stronger with each passing week. Tipperary are top with Clare also on seven points in what promises to be an exciting climax to the League.
The win in Aughrim, as energising and uplifting as it was, did not come without high cost as Fergal Clancy, one of the undoubted success stories of the League, suffered a broken collar bone in a collision and could yet miss up to three months.
Clancyâs absence will be a major blot on Sean Haganâs ledger after Aughrim, one that could come back to haunt Leitrim in the game ahead.
Hagan also took the decision to recall Enda Lyons to the starting line-up - the Carrigallen keeper was only brought into the panel after the injury to Cathal McCrann and he replaced Philip Farrelly who started against Carlow last week.
Lyons, currently the County Minor team manager, had a busy afternoon - conceding a penalty, getting injured and making a couple of top class saves to deny Wicklow certain goals.
A tight, tense and often chess like first half saw Leitrim hang on to Wicklow before striking three killer blows just before the break when James Glancy, Emlyn Mulligan and Robbie Lowe all scored points.
Those three scores wiped out a two point advantage hard won by the home side, leaving Wicklow to wonder exactly what had happened.
Equally important was a missed Paul Earls penalty just a minute into the second half. A goal at that stage would have put Wicklow two up but when the Wicklow men struck the post, Leitrim worked the ball the length of the field for Kevin Conlan to drive a dagger of a point into Wicklow hearts.
Perhaps the biggest talking point of the game was the absolutely astounding non-goal scored by Robbie Lowe - as footage on youtube shows (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1MFl5yu5lA
), the St. Maryâs man clearly rattled his shot off the back bar in the Wicklow net but the âgoalâ was missed by the umpires.
It could have been a huge talking point had Leitrim not managed to stamp their authority on the closing stages of the contest but at the time, 12 minutes into the second half, Leitrim led by just two points and the verdict was far from certain.
The early exchanges were even with Rory Finn hitting two for Wicklow and Emlyn Mulligan and Robbie Lowe on target for Leitrim. Paul Earls added a point before Gerry Hickey hit a very bad wide, something replicated by Mulligan and James Glancy.
However, a black card for influential midfielder Niall Gaffney halted Wicklowâs march and the tit for tat continued with Kevin Conlan and Hickey on target, Seanie Furlong replying with two of his own.
Mulligan and Wicklowâs Conor McGraynor swapped points but as Wicklow opened a two point gap for the first time thanks to another Finn point, Leitrim upped the pace in the closing stages of the first half.
James Glancy swept over a great point, Mulligan converted a long range (awarded after a foul on Fergal Clancy that saw him injured) and Robbie Lowe finished off a great move to give Leitrim a 0-8 to 0-7 halftime lead.
Wicklow should have goaled just minutes into the second half as Enda Lyons made a footblock on a Furlong shot, getting yellow carded for his protests after. However, Earls didnât convert the spot kick as his shot hit the post and Leitrim worked it down the field for Kevin Conlan to hit a fantastic point.
Sub Ray Cox, who made a huge impact once more, scored a great point and suddenly Leitrim were three clear and Wicklow looked all at sea.
Rory Finn added a brilliant long range point but with Lowe being denied a definite goal after a great catch from Ray Cox won the ball, Mulligan swapped points with Paul Earls as the home side kept the game at two points with 15 minutes left.
But Leitrimâs stamina and fitness came to the fore in the final 15 minutes, charging forward at every opportunity in waves - a Mulligan free was followed by a huge Aaron Hickey point, under ferocious pressure, before Furlong halted Leitrim with a point.
Mulligan tagged on a huge point from play, added a free before James Glancy put Leitrim six clear with less than four minutes to go when Leitrim turned over the ball and charged forward.
Furlong swapped a point with Darren Sweeney but the icing on the cake came two minutes into added time when Leitrim broke up yet another Wicklow move and after passes from Danny Beck and Emlyn Mulligan, Ray Cox gleefully fisted the ball to the empty net for a well deserved goal.
Leitrim: Enda Lyons, Barry Prior, Donal Wrynn, Paddy Maguire, Sean McWeeney, Gary Reynolds, Wayne McKeon, Darren Sweeney (0-1), Damien Moran, Kevin Conlan (0-2), Gerry Hickey (0-1), Fergal Clancy, Emlyn Mulligan (0-7), James Glancy (0-2), Robbie Lowe (0-2). Subs: Danny Beck for McWeeney (25 - BC), Aaron Hickey (0-1) for Moran (29), Ray Cox (1-1) for Clancy (32), Brian McDonald for Conlan (61), Shane Foley for G. Hickey (70), Paul Brennan for Maguire (71).
Ray Cox is such an improved player.
He is hugely improved alright farmer although a certain other poster here never gives him any praise, who are we playing next week im up home
[quote=âmassey ferguson, post: 914239, member: 189â]who are we playing next week im up home
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Waterford in Dungarvan next Saturday evening