Croagh/Kilfinny just about hung on for victory, following a strong second half Granagh/Ballingarry revival. Croagh dominating the opening 20 mins with Ballingarry tacking on a few points in the lead up to half time to stay in touch. 11-6 at half time with Brian Hannan, Andrew Meade, Josh O’Connor and Tom McMahon to the fire for C/K. Cathal O’Keeffe and Damian O’Donovan keeping G/B in it.
The second period was a mirror image of the first - G/B dominating the first 20 with Darragh Casey and Jack Cagney taking over at midfield. Cathal O’Keeffe doing a lot of damage with his scores and surging runs. 15-13 with 10 to go and Croagh came back into it, going 17-14 up through Hannan and O’Connor. G/B couldn’t reel them back. Both teams guilty of some very wayward shooting down the home stretch. Ballingarry will feel they should have done better when on top, Michael Russell spurned a good goal chance when his shot was blocked by C/K stopper Dave Lynch. A lot of high ball rained down on top of the Croagh full back line but Ciaran Tangney, Mark Mullane and Ryan McCarthy stood up to it. It was arguably Croagh’s most impressive line on the day. Too often the ball just wouldn’t stick for Ballingarry inside the 21.
Croagh will be happy enough to have won without marquee forward Jack Lenihan. They could have done with him on the pitch in the second half - as it was he was performing ‘maor uisce’ duties.
Overall a very decent game with not a dirty stroke in it. Pallasgreen are next up for Croagh next Saturday, while Sunday sees Ballingarry take on Hospital.
Seamus was ok, he fielded a couple of fine high balls in second half and laid on two scores. I don’t recall him scoring but I missed the first few minutes so will need to clarify.
Outrageous strike from the Dow. It was a stupid free to concede by F/C as Nap attacker was going away from goal.
Feohanagh absolutely fucked it away. They were leading 4 points approaching injury time. The Dow had a 21 free saved about the 60 minute mark and I thought that was that. I got roped in to do umpire at the other end. The Dow was constantly talking/roaring at his backs, much more so than Fitzgibbon in Feohanagh goals. And his puckouts were about one and a half times as long.
Class is permanent. How did he go in open play @Gary_Birtles_Lovechi? To have a distributor of the ball like the Dow plus his long range and 21 yard free taking is some string to your bow. Assuming he can perform the basic functions. Which you’d imagine would be bread and butter to him
