I was also at the match between Murroe/Boher and Ballybrown this evening in Bruff. Seán Tobin gave an absolute Tour de France in the second half. From limited possession, he did absolute wreck when he moved into the full-forward line. I’d say he got 4 or 5 balls, and scored 2-1 from play, won a free and hit a bad wide. He made one unbelievable catch from which he won a free; he switched hands while in the air and caught while almost horizontal with 2 Ballybrown players around him.
They were chasing the game at that point, as the other full-forward, Shane Kenny had scored a cracking goal. He had the beating of the Murroe/Boher full-back and I’d say he hit 1-3 in all. It looked like that goal had given Ballybrown the edge and they moved into a 4-point lead but then Seánie sprang to life.
There was a 6-point turnaround which started with his first goal, they turned the deficit into a 2-point lead. He let the ball go across his body, put on the after-burners, scorched Luke Doran on the outside and buried it past Cian Hedderman. Seamie Hickey, at centre-back, threw over a point from out the field too (he wasn’t great in general tbqh).
Ballybrown did go back in front but then Tobin got his second goal; picked the ball running towards goal, Richie Kenny tried to foul him (and ended up getting a yellow card) but didn’t actually drag him down and Tobin sent a rasper into the top corner. A different class of hurler to be honest, just a serious player. Ballybrown got a soft enough free at the death to level things up.
Bryan Griffin did well for them, was in midfield but dropped deep and got on an amount of ball. Shane Kenny was a big threat inside & Mikey Kiely picked off a few good scores. I would say that Josh Adams was only alright, certainly didn’t dominate. They only brought on Barry O’Connor for the last few minutes, I know he’s a bit small but they had a few forwards doing nothing really, maybe he would have offered something.
For Murroe/Boher, if they had got more ball into Tobin inside, they would have won. Ballybrown had no one that could handle him and they never sat someone back in front of him from open play. Outside of him though, Dylan Sheehan & Darragh Kennedy were probably the best of them. No Finn Hourigan, I don’t remember seeing Conor Byrnes either and their full-back line also struggled.
That’s 3 draws now for them and both themselves and Ballybrown on 3 points. Draw not really worth a fuck to either of them and it’s really advantage Monaleen now in terms of going up. Decent contest though, nice pace to it and some excellent scores taken tbf.
