Yeah I was trying to figure out watching it was he actually centre back or just back as sweeper.
Got stung badly under two high balls with Gillane, hit him an unmerciful belt of a shoulder in the first half though. If he grows into it mightnât be a bad move to get him more involved.
Nearly surely Griffin has the hurley caught wrong. Left above right.
Ya, he started centre back but ended up being free.
Gillaneâs form shows no sign of abating.
Askeaton had enough chances to win two games to be honest but Willie just didnât get enough support in attack. He was unbelievable but it was like the bad old days in that he was needed to do all the scoring⌠there are some other good young forwards but they didnât perform this evening. OâFarrell just looked a little leggy, wasnât his usual self.
And conceding two goals like that is an absolute horror show, that kind of thing can really sap confidence and momentum. But Monagea werenât able to get out of their own half in the second half, the Askeaton half-back line & midfield got on top, Alan McGrath was probably the best player outside of Willie.
Tom OâCallaghan was very good at centre-forward for Monagea and young Jamie Baynham was lively inside in the full-forward line, was able to physically bully corner-backs. And Seanie Herlihy just did enough to keep them ticking over, a very clever hurler still.
Iâm not totally surprised by that.
Kieranâs might lack pure strikers of the ball but wet conditions would actually suit them as they are very good at winning dirty ball and running with the ball. Croom probably have more hurlers but are an old, slow team generally and if it was a freefest, thatâs what Kieranâs live off.
Huge result for Kieranâs.
Iâm not totally surprised by Christians beating Patâs either tbh. That is definitely more of an upset but I think people think that Christians are worse than they are, they actually have some very decent players when they all actually show up. Donât they tend to get a lot of army fellas from up the country too who are handy enough at Junior level?
Have Kierans still the Causeway man in charge. I heard there was some hassle between them earlier in the year
Sweeper or not, you have to get Casey on the ball. I remember a while back people were being critical of Gillaneâs performances for the Well last year when he was being starved of the ball inside at full-forward. Well, that was the case for Casey today. Casey is sheer class but he canât score if he doesnât get the ball. Na Piarsaigh hit some awful aimless ball.
Maybe, in the circumstances, they should have looked to bring him out to 11.
To be fair, the Well brought Gillane out to win a few puckouts when they needed him to and he scored the goal from that position, I thought he was very impressive. Byrnes superb on the long-range frees; if Na Piarsaigh had a long distance freetaker as good as him against the elements, they might have won it.
I thought the Wellâs supporting cast were better than Na Piarsaighâs though and they did deserve the victory. Kevin OâBrien was very good, Patrick Kirby was excellent, Jordan Higgins got on ball and got through a lot of work and, in defence, Cian Fitz & John Flynn were very solid. And Calvin Carroll got a goal, a very nice point and was involved in the second goal.
For Na Piarsaigh, JJ Carey & Keith Dempsey both got a couple of points but I thought maybe they could be more involved in general play, I thought Dempsey in particular was very quiet. I didnât think Downes at 6 worked tbh. And just a lot of aimless ball. Look, they are still integrating county players back, was a few debuts for young fellas and they play a style of hurling that probably isnât suited to wet conditions like today.
Will was obviously the biggest loss of anyone, but Daithi Dempsey is a massive loss too. Jerome Boylan & Sean Long wonât be back by all accounts, so they better hope that WOD & DD will be.
But really, the Well were down more starters if not of the same quality as those. Josh Considine is a former county panellist, as is Seanie OâBrien (Iâm not actually sure of his story) as well as Tom Nolan & Nidge Foley. And John Kirby was suspended. Thatâs 5 definite starters including probably 4 of their starting backline (although maybe Josh will play midfield this year).
A good boost for the Well though, they needed the performance more after last year and look to be in decent nick. Na Piarsaigh wonât be overly bothered, I donât think, they have more freedom to tweak things, they only really need to perform in a county semi-final and theyâll live & die on that.
Madigan I think is the man calling the shots with John Fitzgerald. Not sure whoâs from Causeway but I think itâs the same backroom as last year.
John Fitz is the causeway man. He"d be a good man to have around. Shrewd operator in real life as well.
2013 All Ireland final replay
Tom Nolan is playing Junior A this year I think canât commit to Senior due to studying.
Flynn was excellent at full back for the Well, fielded some great high balls in second half and always came calmly out of defence with a good pass. Nap tried to over play it at times, theyâd have been nearly better off just letting it into Henn direct. It wasnât a night suited to ultra tippy tappy hurling. Byrnes & Carmody hit Gillane early whenever they could, the Well were just a bit more streetwise. The shutting down of Peter Casey after half time also helped.
That Cunt in the goals for NAP looks fucking useless
Iâm sure he can cry into his Munster and All Ireland medals tonight when he reads your post
The killer is it means fuck all really. The Well will likely have to bate them again to win it out. A statement of intent from the Well no doubt though
Saw Kierans a couple of times last year, when they won County Junior final and again against The Banner in Munster Semi. We played them in West Senior League, they were awful that night, they loved running aimlessly with the ball and hit about 15 wides. Found them to be the quintessential Junior side with poor tackling and a high free count against them. As poor as Croom have been these last few years, Iâm still shocked Kierans turned them over.
Who was she?
Looks like there was about 200 at Na Piarsigh v Patrickswell.
Just going through the programme for the weekend and thereâs an article on the 1993 City Hurling Final. Could it have been the finest hour of @Bod95, even in defeat?