How much of that 3-8 from play?
3-3 from play and was outstanding in general play.
Just back from Askeaton.
Monumental effort from the Granagh/Ballingarry lads. Desperately unlucky not to get something out of it.
Some champagne hurling from the rank outsiders in the first half, mugged off the all powerful reigning county champions. An economical G/B surged into an early 0-07 to 0-02 lead. The city outfit rallied but were stunned when a deflected drive from Eoin Kennedy trickled over the line to give the G/B lads an interval lead of 1-09 to 0-09. It must be said Na Piarsaigh missed a mountain of chances and spurned at least 1-07 in scoreable chances in that half.
A Na Piarsaigh point seconds into the second half seemed an omen for what was to follow but G/B were resilient and Damian OâDonovan scored a magnificent goal from an overhead pull as a ball dropped into the square. 2-12 to 0-12 and one of the greatest shocks in the history of the Limerick club championship looked a distinct possibility. However the star names of the light blues were always going to hit a purple patch at some stage and a devastating five minute spell ensued which ultimately was the winning of the game. Goals from David Dempsey and a cracker from Kevin Downes (very similar to the goal he scored against Clare in the 1B league final in Ennis in 2011) pushed Na Piarsaigh 2-16 to 2-12 clear. Shane Dowling threw over a couple of over-the-shoulder points during this period too.
They looked set to canter home at this stage but G/B were as game as they were skilful and, amid a welter of excitement, cut the deficit to a solitary point with a couple of minutes left as the vocal G/B support began to sense a colossal upset. Up stepped Ronan Lynch, though, to drag the vastly below par champions over the line. Stationed at wing forward all night, he nailed a magnificent score from played before nonchalantly putting over a sideline to extend the gap to three. This lad is something else. G/B had one last chance to salvage a draw but a blazing shot flew inches over the bar to the relief of the Caherdavin men (and women) as they clung on for the win.
Alan Dempsey was very influential at midfield while the G/B back 6 were immense. G/B face into a crunch tie with Nickie Quaidâs Effin with a place in Limerick hurlingâs premier competition in 2015 at stake. Na Piarsaigh march on - they surely wonât be as lethargic again in the rest of the year.
Pitch was in fine nick, kudos to @TreatyStones and co. The makeshift pitchside scoreboard and shop (out of the boot of a car) deserve a 
@dodgy-keeper, do you have the teams? Who else was good? Dempsey has been criminally underlooked by limerick this year I think. Ronan Lynch would be ready for senior next year, but weâll have to wait another year Iâd say.
Padraig Kennedy
Cathal King didnât line out, forget who was in the fullback line.
Mark Buckley, David Breen, Mike Foley
Alan Dempsey & Pat Gleeson
Ronan Lynch, Kevin Downes, David Dempsey
Adrian Breen, Shane Dowling, William OâDonoghue.
Na Piarsaigh could make a decent junior/intermediate team out of their subs. Ridiculous amount of players to choose from.
Colm Noonan
Cian Cagney, Donagh McCarthy, Mike Carroll (had an absolute blinder, cleaned up)
Bobby Houlihan, David Clancy, John Carroll
Dodge & Tommy OâDonovan
Denis OâConnor, Niall Kennedy, Eoin Kennedy
Cathal OâKeeffe, David Condron, Damian OâDonovan.
The situation with the subs for all the minor games has been bizarre all year. Seems to be wholesale changes from game to game. Lads are included or dropped on a whim. There was a lad brought on last Sunday who only joined the panel a few weeks ago!
If he keeps producing performances like that heâll be impossible to ignore. Going by what weâve seen this year he could easily be parachuted into the squad for the final and brought on.
Liberties and Ahane both got narrow late wins. Heard Ahane were about 7 pts down with 10 minutes remaining Huge results.
Adare v PWell is now a winner takes all clash for a place in the quarter final.
GBallingarry and Effin should both be fine as Ballybrown look like theyâll finish bottom of that group. A Knockainey Ballybrown relegation final would
not be a pretty sight
Great result for my good mate Dave Maloney tonight.
@dodgy-keeper, what delights were sold from the shop in Askeaton?
[QUOTE=âThunderPuss, post: 1003083, member: 1593â]Liberties and Ahane both got narrow late wins. Heard Ahane were about 7 pts down with 10 minutes remaining Huge results.
Adare v PWell is now a winner takes all clash for a place in the quarter final.
GBallingarry and Effin should both be fine as Ballybrown look like theyâll finish bottom of that group. A Knockainey Ballybrown relegation final would
not be a pretty sight[/QUOTE]
No relegation final this year as far as I know - open to correction but I think the bottom side in each group is relegated. Two go down from senior with two sides to be promoted from Premier Intermediate.
[QUOTE=âChocolateMice, post: 1003084, member: 168â]Great result for my good mate Dave Maloney tonight.
@dodgy-keeper, what delights were sold from the shop in Askeaton?[/QUOTE]
They didnât have any craft beer, mate.
Didânt realise that. I was going by the milford website which has a relegation final as one of the fixtures. Fair dissapointing for Ballybrown if they go down, it wonât be too easy to get back up.
Iâm actually not into craft beers, mate⌠There seems to be some confusion on the board about this. Iâm into world beers, particularly European beers. Thanks for the feed back tho.
That is correct.
Saw on twitter that Dylan Dawson has scored 6-36 for Blackrock this year in a hugely competitive Prem Inter Cship,so even taking out tonights haul he has been scoring well all year.
Was in Claughaun for the South Liberties v Ballybrown game.
Good, honest game of hurling with Liberties stealing it at the death with a Shane OâNeill goal nearly 4 minutes into stoppage time. Ballybrown had the wind in the first half and built up an 0-7 to 0-1 lead before a quickfire 1-3 (William Hickey with the goal) from Liberties levelled it. Ballybrown added a few more points from the very impressive Alan OâConnor and led 0-12 to 1-5 at the break.
Liberties moved Barry Nash out to wing-forward from the corner and he started to get into the game in that position. Shane OâNeill was excellent throughout but got a bad belt in the head which held up proceedings a bit and contributed to the added time as did a melee on the sideline that the county minor manager was prominent in!!
Ballybrown looked to be home but a late sideline cut was centred to OâNeill who had drifted forward and he buried a bullet in the corner of the net from outside the 21 to win it, 2-13 to 0-18.
Tonightâs results mean that Na Piarsaigh and Doon have qualified directly for the semi-finals and Knockainey are relegated to Premier Intermediate. A draw for South Liberties v Kilmallock will give both quarter-final places. Assuming Na Piarsaigh beat Ballybrown in the final round, a win for Granagh/Ballingarry over Effin will see the Clarina side relegated. Equally if G/B win and Liberties lose @dodgy-keeperâs boys will be in the unlikeliest of quarter-finals!
In the other group, Ahane beat Adare with an injury time Tom Morrissey point 1-16 to 1-15 while Patrickswell stuffed Murroe/Boher 2-16 to 0-12 to all but eliminate them from the competition. Ahaneâs win virtually guarantees them a quarter-final spot with the last place to be taken by the winner of the Patrickswell v Adare final round game. That should be a barn-burner!
[QUOTE=âElvis Brandenberg Kremmen, post: 1003095, member: 1624â]Was in Claughaun for the South Liberties v Ballybrown game.
Good, honest game of hurling with Liberties stealing it at the death with a Shane OâNeill goal nearly 4 minutes into stoppage time. Ballybrown had the wind in the first half and built up an 0-7 to 0-1 lead before a quickfire 1-3 (William Hickey with the goal) from Liberties levelled it. Ballybrown added a few more points from the very impressive Alan OâConnor and led 0-12 to 1-5 at the break.
Liberties moved Barry Nash out to wing-forward from the corner and he started to get into the game in that position. Shane OâNeill was excellent throughout but got a bad belt in the head which held up proceedings a bit and contributed to the added time as did a melee on the sideline that the county minor manager was prominent in!!
Ballybrown looked to be home but a late sideline cut was centred to OâNeill who had drifted forward and he buried a bullet in the corner of the net from outside the 21 to win it, 2-13 to 0-18.
Tonightâs results mean that Na Piarsaigh and Doon have qualified directly for the semi-finals and Knockainey are relegated to Premier Intermediate. A draw for South Liberties v Kilmallock will give both quarter-final places. Assuming Na Piarsaigh beat Ballybrown in the final round, a win for Granagh/Ballingarry over Effin will see the Clarina side relegated. Equally if G/B win and Liberties lose @dodgy-keeperâs boys will be in the unlikeliest of quarter-finals!
In the other group, Ahane beat Adare with an injury time Tom Morrissey point 1-16 to 1-15 while Patrickswell stuffed Murroe/Boher 2-16 to 0-12 to all but eliminate them from the competition. Ahaneâs win virtually guarantees them a quarter-final spot with the last place to be taken by the winner of the Patrickswell v Adare final round game. That should be a barn-burner![/QUOTE]
I wonât get greedy about a quarter final, pal. Beat Effin and thatâs G/Bâs county final!
If G/B lose to Effin and Na Piarsaigh beat Ballybrown that would leave both G/B and Ballybrown locked on two points. Would it go on head-to-head (Ballybrown beat G/B in the first round in Mick Neville Park) or would it be scoring difference to decide who stays up?
Also any idea when the last round of matches are scheduled to go ahead?
[QUOTE=âdodgy-keeper, post: 1003098, member: 1552â]I wonât get greedy about a quarter final, pal. Beat Effin and thatâs G/Bâs county final!
If G/B lose to Effin and Kilmallock beat Ballybrown that would leave both G/B and Ballybrown locked on two points. Would it go on head-to-head (Ballybrown beat G/B in the first round in Mick Neville Park) or would it be scoring difference to decide who stays up?
Also any idea when the last round of matches are scheduled to go ahead?[/QUOTE]
The general rule in the football is head to head first then score difference . if there are 3 teams tied it goes straight to score difference
[QUOTE=âdodgy-keeper, post: 1003098, member: 1552â]I wonât get greedy about a quarter final, pal. Beat Effin and thatâs G/Bâs county final!
If G/B lose to Effin and Kilmallock beat Ballybrown that would leave both G/B and Ballybrown locked on two points. Would it go on head-to-head (Ballybrown beat G/B in the first round in Mick Neville Park) or would it be scoring difference to decide who stays up?
Also any idea when the last round of matches are scheduled to go ahead?[/QUOTE]
Kilmallock are playing South Liberties in the last round, Ballybrown play Na Piarsaigh. If G/B and Ballybrown finished joint-bottom on 2 points then yeâre gone Iâm afraid. The head-to-head is the first eliminator. Scoring difference only applies if more than 2 teams finish level on points.
I think the next round is due the week after the All-Ireland hurling final.
Tom Morrissey, two days after playing minors above in Croker and a few days after getting more points in the leaving than @gaamad1996 - no rest for the gifted.
[QUOTE=âElvis Brandenberg Kremmen, post: 1003101, member: 1624â]Kilmallock are playing South Liberties in the last round, Ballybrown play Na Piarsaigh. If G/B and Ballybrown finished joint-bottom on 2 points then yeâre gone Iâm afraid. The head-to-head is the first eliminator. Scoring difference only applies if more than 2 teams finish level on points.
I think the next round is due the week after the All-Ireland hurling final.[/QUOTE]
Apologies, I meant to say if Na Piarsaigh beat Ballybrown. Edit made to original post.
All to play for so. Knockainey are gone, pretty much, in the other group. Theyâve used up all of their 9 lives over the last few years.
Na Piarsaigh have barely got out of first gear and coasted through the group stages.