A good win for us, I thought we played alright. I was a little surprised at Mungret, I thought that they would be better, they were very reliant on Paul O’Brien’s frees. In fairness, he put on a real display of freetaking, was putting them over from every angle, way inside his own half.
Darren O’Connell only landed in Dublin this afternoon after his J1 and it was like he was never away. Won a penalty inside a couple of minutes which Chawkie buried. Our forwards were good in general, think they all scored- Kyle Hayes hit 4 from play, Shaun Barry got 1-2 but there were good performances all over.
Backs generally on top too, particularly on puckouts, we dominated and that always gives you a platform.
Puts us 2 points clear at the top of the table with Bruff next weekend. Cappamore beat Pallasgreen too; puts Pallas rightly in bother- maybe gives Cappamore an outside chance of making a semi- they have to play ourselves, Bruff & Blackrock though.
I don’t want to get all Jim Gavin but we’ll need to go up another couple of levels to kick on and actually win the thing.
It’s always nice to win though. Whereas last year Mungret outfought and largely out-thought us, I think we got our matchups right and had our homework done on their game this time. Long way to go though and could end up playing again.
Blackrock starting to motor nicely though. We’ll see how Athlacca get on today too.