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Post by nkchardstuff on Dec 29, 2014 16:43:47 GMT
From the rumour mill I've heard that if listowel get over senans then the final could be put out until the 24th of January to accommodate some listowel players playin with kerry in the McGrath cup?! If this is true then I can't see where the conspiracy is against listowel as it means that all ther suspensions would conveniently be up and wud be back to full squad bar injuries! North Kerry board should stand strong and refuse to allow these players play wit kerry until the competition is over! Otherwise there accomodating county players at the expense of club players and player welfare is once again ignored because they will no sooner be finished the championship when the league returns and clubs will also want to step up trainin to be ready for start of County league
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Post by nkchardstuff on Dec 29, 2014 16:46:58 GMT
All if the final isn't on for a few wks and both teams hav a break before it I think Brosna and ballydonoghue will not be at all pleased with the North Kerry board who forced them to play several weeks on the trot which surely due to tiredness diminished there chances of progressing..
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Post by clancy on Jan 3, 2015 0:37:10 GMT
It's being quite here all week. Wonder what the state of play is for tomorrow. Stephen mulvihill is the ref I think. Will he be as firm as mike last week. Who is available for Listowel and senans? A close contest will surely be inevitable and Of course if Listowel win they are the better team however if senans win it's because the bold ref and all officials were against them. The same will apply if Emmett's are in final. Hope senans win just to read the crack here afterward!!!!! It's the off season after all so not much else happening. Odds are( I'm told so open to correction). List 4 to 6. Beale 6 to 4. Senans 4 to 1.
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Post by asithappens on Jan 3, 2015 14:36:28 GMT
Semi Final - Latest Score: Listowel Emmets 1-04 St. Senan's 1-04 after 22 minutes. St. Senan's scored a goal after 40 seconds but Conor Cox replied straight away for Listowel Emmets. St. Senan's went 2 up then but Listowel replied once again to draw level. They have gone point for point since then.
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Post by asithappens on Jan 3, 2015 14:45:15 GMT
Semi Final - Half Time: Listowel Emmets 1-07 St. Senan's 1-04. Listowel Emmets have finished off the 1st half very strongly. Conor Cox and Bryan Murphy scored 2 great points from play before Cox who is having another brilliant game scored a free to leave Listowel Emmets 3 points in front at Half Time. There is no breeze at all in Ballybunion today.
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Post by asithappens on Jan 3, 2015 15:12:57 GMT
Semi Final - 50 mins: Listowel Emmets 1-11 St. Senan's 2-04. The drama continued here in Ballybunion at the start of the 2nd half. Conor Cox converted a free to put Listowel 4 points up. St. Senan's were then awarded a very dubious goal after a Listowel Emmets defender was adjudged to have caught a high ball behind the line. Cox who is really is a gifted talent has now put Listowel 4 in front again after he converted 3 frees and another from play. St. Senan's are now down to 14 men with 10 minutes remaining.
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Post by asithappens on Jan 3, 2015 15:15:19 GMT
Another Cox free puts Listowel Emmets 5 points up. It's looking like a Listowel Emmets V Beale Final.
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Post by asithappens on Jan 3, 2015 15:26:05 GMT
Full Time: Listowel Emmets 1-14 St. Senan's 2-05
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Post by asithappens on Jan 3, 2015 15:30:52 GMT
Sponsored by McMunn's of Ballybunion - 2014 Bernard O'Callaghan Memorial North Kerry Senior Football Championship Final: Listowel Emmets V Beale Date: Saturday 10th January 2015 Time: 2.00 P. M. Venue: Ballylongford
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Post by kerryman90 on Jan 3, 2015 16:19:15 GMT
The performance today by conor cox was as good a performance I have seen in North Kerry in a long long time.. He had everything-high fielding, point talking, tracking back., tackling, free taking, goal scoring the lot! All this while marking Sean T Dillon who is one of the best man markers in North Kerry.. As a neutral I would have to fancy Listowel for the final.. Their never say die attitude is unreal! Mikey will have some headache picking a team the next day with all the next boys back...... Senans very green again today on the sideline I feel.. Senans only complicated their attempts to attack instead of playing direct ball like Listowel.. Big whelan was wasted instead full forward.. David sheehy also outstanding for listowel.. noel kennely unreal as usual.. For senans David Foran showed well but senans had no answer for Cox
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Post by AnygivenSunday on Jan 3, 2015 16:20:31 GMT
It's being quite here all week. Wonder what the state of play is for tomorrow. Stephen mulvihill is the ref I think. Will he be as firm as mike last week. Who is available for Listowel and senans? A close contest will surely be inevitable and Of course if Listowel win they are the better team however if senans win it's because the bold ref and all officials were against them. The same will apply if Emmett's are in final. Hope senans win just to read the crack here afterward!!!!! It's the off season after all so not much else happening. Odds are( I'm told so open to correction). List 4 to 6. Beale 6 to 4. Senans 4 to 1. If today showed anything about the last day, it's that ref had a bad bad day at the office. So your there with your smart comments about ref being against listowel, and listowel crying about referees. well if u can't see the difference between today's ref and the drawn games ref then Id say head on to specsavers for yourself.
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Post by jackeen85 on Jan 3, 2015 16:24:52 GMT
Entertaining game today, amazing what a difference a referee & linesmen tuned in and able to keep up with the play can make. High scoring, free flowing with little off the ball pulling & dragging unlike the last game! Credit to the Listowel, missing 8 from Stephens Day, they got it together today and never looked like leaving this behind them, far superior and always in control from early on! From what I hear we will not be seeing the final for a few weeks, McGrath Cup & Sigerson Cup commitments means the NKC Final will be pushed out a lot longer than anticipated!
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Post by boroman68 on Jan 3, 2015 16:37:33 GMT
It's being quite here all week. Wonder what the state of play is for tomorrow. Stephen mulvihill is the ref I think. Will he be as firm as mike last week. Who is available for Listowel and senans? A close contest will surely be inevitable and Of course if Listowel win they are the better team however if senans win it's because the bold ref and all officials were against them. The same will apply if Emmett's are in final. Hope senans win just to read the crack here afterward!!!!! It's the off season after all so not much else happening. Odds are( I'm told so open to correction). List 4 to 6. Beale 6 to 4. Senans 4 to 1. If today showed anything about the last day, it's that ref had a bad bad day at the office. So your there with your smart comments about ref being against listowel, and listowel crying about referees. well if u can't see the difference between today's ref and the drawn games ref then Id say head on to specsavers for yourself.
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Post by vicmc on Jan 3, 2015 16:40:05 GMT
listowel far superior today....senans looked dead on their feet with 10mins gone in 2nd half....conor cox outstanding....noel kennelly put the ball into his lap time after time.....senans were much less aggressive than the 1st day and listowel kept their heads today unlike the 1st day.......ref gave soft frees to both sets of forwards + was spot on with 1st sending off but listowel player lucky to get a black instead of 2nd yellow which could have ruled him out for the final...should be a decent final nxt saturday both teams with plenty of experience of playing in finals....
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Post by boroman68 on Jan 3, 2015 16:51:00 GMT
Jesus will ye howl about the ref. I'm not a senans or listowel supporter but What are ye complaining about? In the drawn game the 3 red cards that listowel received were obvious sending offs. 2 of the red cards were headbutts and the other was when the listowel player punched 2 senans players. The red card that Nolan received for senans was also warranted. It's was a tough game but senans were not dirty all they were doing was standing in front of there men blocking runs which is allowed. There mite have been a bit of pulling and dragging by both sides but that's always goin to happen in a football match. The ref reffed it fair enough the last day in my opinion. As with today's game listowel were the far better team in the second half and deserved their win. Cox was outstanding. I can't see beale beating them in the final. Listowel came through 2 tough games with senans and have their men back whereas beale beat asdee and a ballyduff team that had only 5 or 6 at training most nites from what I hear. Listowel will be battle hardened and I fancy them to win by 4 or 5 points.
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Post by veteran on Jan 3, 2015 16:56:14 GMT
Listowel 1-14 St. Senans 2-5 HT 1-7 1-4
Even though the first half was evenly contested, there was no doubting the worthiness of the winners or indeed the margin of their victory. Listowel were on a different planet in the second half, even allowing for the advantage of an extra man for a good section of that period.
Tadgh Kennelly did not play but Brian McGuire did line out and he was solid without being spectacular.Brendan Guiney was an injury victim. Ace forward, Sean O'Connell, did not start for St. Senans due to hamstring problem. He did come on but was only at half pace. A rural club like St. Senans cannot afford the absence of any player whereas a club of Listowel's resources can, and did, effortlessly plug any vacant gaps.
St. Senans got the start they must have craved. In the opening minute or so, a quick free was put into the hands of wing back, David Foran, who smacked home a smasher. Sadly, for them they did not have time to luxuriate in that wonderland because, Noel Kennelly latched onto the kick out and he, as he would do all afternoon, delivered it high to Conor Cox and Conor got a fist to it and the ball landed in the net. The remainder twenty minutes or so were of high quality and one could not hazard a guess at that stage as to who might breast the tape at the end. Significantly, coming up to half time Listowel secured a three point advantage, courtesy of one or two dubious frees.
There was no doubting who was the superior team on the resumption. Listowel played some textbook football with some exquisite foot passing onto tirelessly running colleagues. Most of these relentless moves were designed to have star man, Conor Cox, as the receiver and most of these designs were realised. Conor tormented St. Senans and first Sean T O'Connell and then Sean Weir and then Sean T again could not cope with his craft or, indeed ,his physicality. He scored 1-8, 1-1 from play. A lot of those frees accrued from fouls on himself.
It looked for a while that St. Senans would not score in the second half but Padraig Quille danced his way through for a fine goal. This game them hope and lifted their supporters. Whatever slight chance they had of salvaging the game soon evaporated when loyal servant, Brendain Whelan, invited a second yellow from the referee. The referee duly obliged and so it was back to the hills empty handed once more for the Half Way boys. They could have conceded another goal but Sean T. O'Connell bravely sacrificed his body, more or less, to prevent a rout.
Jack McGuire, Cormac Mullvihill and Kenneth Kelliher were in no mood for giving Christmas presents in Listowel's defence. Noel Kennelly, as always, was a powerful presence at midfield, and some of his top drawer deliveries into Conor Cox enabled the latter to mercilessly punish St. Senans. Bryan Murphy and David Sheehy kicked five points between them and were forever a threat. David has been cursed by injuries this year and it was good to see him back. I have said it before on this forum that the only thing he lacks to make him an inter county player is a few more inches in height. He is so skillful and so clever.
More heartbreak for St. Senans. Very likely they are immune to it at this stage. They pick from a wide area but it is sparsely populated. A rural club like them need to have all playing personnel fit and able. They just cannot afford any diminution of their forces. Apart from being shorthanded today, it was also apparent that a handful of their operatives are not good enough for this level, or at least are not good enough yet. One fervently hopes that one day their many recent successes at underage level will convert to senior success, but as we all know this does always happen. Today, Sean T. O'Connell, David Forsn in the first half, Damien Somers, Darragh Kennelly and Padraig Quille will have derived some personal satisfaction from the game.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Jan 3, 2015 19:38:58 GMT
If the match was half as good as Veteran's report then it wasn't so bad!
Looks like emigration is wreaking havoc.
Would Cox have done enough to further his county case? Is he still local?
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Post by sparky on Jan 3, 2015 21:43:20 GMT
Lads, I think the real story was told here today. Senans are not up to this level, they play in the lower realms of the County League and struggle in the Novice competition. They used be a very competitive force in NK and County during the 90's but the latest crop are not up to standard. Listowel on the other hand compete at the other end of the scale and they were never going to be caught on the hop 2 weeks in a row. The truth hurts but that is reality. I was very unimpressed with the Senans sideline on both days, they didn't appear capable of reading the game and implementing tactics as the games dictated, who is their manager. On the other hand Mikey showed his astuteness in decisions and tactical gameplan, well done emmetts. Senans - please have a deep review of your situation, none of this great effort lark. As a neutral there today, I enjoyed watching the display iof Conor Cox, he has done his Kerry aspirations no harm.
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Post by seamo on Jan 3, 2015 22:21:30 GMT
Lads, I think the real story was told here today. Senans are not up to this level, they play in the lower realms of the County League and struggle in the Novice competition. They used be a very competitive force in NK and County during the 90's but the latest crop are not up to standard. Listowel on the other hand compete at the other end of the scale and they were never going to be caught on the hop 2 weeks in a row. The truth hurts but that is reality. I was very unimpressed with the Senans sideline on both days, they didn't appear capable of reading the game and implementing tactics as the games dictated, who is their manager. On the other hand Mikey showed his astuteness in decisions and tactical gameplan, well done emmetts. Senans - please have a deep review of your situation, none of this great effort lark. As a neutral there today, I enjoyed watching the display iof Conor Cox, he has done his Kerry aspirations no harm. It's the North Kerry championship!!!! lol There isn't a club in the county that's not up to that level!!! But I'm not being biased, it's the same in any district championship, with a slight exception being East Kerry when Crokes are all fit and flying. ...And it's not that long ago that Senans drew with Listowel!! lol And now their "not up to this level", pull the other one!
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Post by seamo on Jan 3, 2015 22:24:37 GMT
It's being quite here all week. Wonder what the state of play is for tomorrow. Stephen mulvihill is the ref I think. Will he be as firm as mike last week. Who is available for Listowel and senans? A close contest will surely be inevitable and Of course if Listowel win they are the better team however if senans win it's because the bold ref and all officials were against them. The same will apply if Emmett's are in final. Hope senans win just to read the crack here afterward!!!!! It's the off season after all so not much else happening. Odds are( I'm told so open to correction). List 4 to 6. Beale 6 to 4. Senans 4 to 1. If today showed anything about the last day, it's that ref had a bad bad day at the office. So your there with your smart comments about ref being against listowel, and listowel crying about referees. well if u can't see the difference between today's ref and the drawn games ref then Id say head on to specsavers for yourself. O FFS shut up Listowel! Yer games are like a bad episode of Eastenders, a really bad episode with alot of whining and crying, even when things are going well for ye!
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Post by Mickmack on Jan 3, 2015 23:46:04 GMT
Its it time that Listowel had a second or a third club in the town. Rivalry can raise standards
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Post by AnygivenSunday on Jan 4, 2015 11:58:16 GMT
If today showed anything about the last day, it's that ref had a bad bad day at the office. So your there with your smart comments about ref being against listowel, and listowel crying about referees. well if u can't see the difference between today's ref and the drawn games ref then Id say head on to specsavers for yourself. O FFS shut up Listowel! Yer games are like a bad episode of Eastenders, a really bad episode with alot of whining and crying, even when things are going well for ye! So sorry we won't express our opinions again o mighty one
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Post by seamo on Jan 4, 2015 12:54:05 GMT
O FFS shut up Listowel! Yer games are like a bad episode of Eastenders, a really bad episode with alot of whining and crying, even when things are going well for ye! So sorry we won't express our opinions again o mighty one Don't be getting everyone's hopes up!
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Post by riverfeale on Jan 4, 2015 12:59:55 GMT
Very good game yesterday Emmets proved to have strength in depth in their panel by being able to line out without 7 / 8 players from the drawn game, Senans again showed their naivety on the sideline for replay by not making crucial changes / tactics , compared to decisions made by Emmets management to shore up any problem areas and improve their lot. That said even though down 8 players the 2 that Listowel could never replace again rose above all to take the plaudits Noël Kennelly and Connor Cox So the final eventually comes around next Saturday Jan 10th in Ballylongford @ 2pm. What will Beale have learned from the semi final games ? Do they possess the talent to curb Kennelly and Cox ? What personnel will line out for Emmets after their suspended / injured players come back in to contention for the final? Will Beale start James Mc Mahon and Tom Joy after both impressed after being introduce v Ballyduff ? Will it be a battle of the sideline between Patie and Mikey to resemble Mc Guinness v Fitzmaurice ? Interesting week ahead in the build up to this exciting encounter !
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Post by sparky on Jan 4, 2015 14:06:13 GMT
Very good game yesterday Emmets proved to have strength in depth in their panel by being able to line out without 7 / 8 players from the drawn game, Senans again showed their naivety on the sideline for replay by not making crucial changes / tactics , compared to decisions made by Emmets management to shore up any problem areas and improve their lot. That said even though down 8 players the 2 that Listowel could never replace again rose above all to take the plaudits Noël Kennelly and Connor Cox So the final eventually comes around next Saturday Jan 10th in Ballylongford @ 2pm. What will Beale have learned from the semi final games ? Do they possess the talent to curb Kennelly and Cox ? What personnel will line out for Emmets after their suspended / injured players come back in to contention for the final? Will Beale start James Mc Mahon and Tom Joy after both impressed after being introduce v Ballyduff ? Will it be a battle of the sideline between Patie and Mikey to resemble Mc Guinness v Fitzmaurice ? Interesting week ahead in the build up to this exciting encounter ! Agree, Senans sideline were a joke both days. They start there best warrior Whelan out of position at full forward, there was only 1 place for him and that was middle of field on Kennellly. I have rarely seen such a naive sideline in the modern era.
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Post by riverfeale on Jan 7, 2015 13:16:01 GMT
Is the final going ahead this Saturday ? I hear Emmets have an objection gone in because of Conor Cox & Jack McGuire involvement with U.C.C. In Mc Grath Cup, any updates ?
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Post by thechosenone on Jan 7, 2015 14:23:02 GMT
Surely it's a bit late to go cancelling the fixture considering its only a few days away.
Can't see it being changed at this late stage although you never know with the NKB.
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Post by homerj on Jan 7, 2015 14:41:08 GMT
Is the final going ahead this Saturday ? I hear Emmets have an objection gone in because of Conor Cox & Jack McGuire involvement with U.C.C. In Mc Grath Cup, any updates ? i assume that game is on sunday, hence why the final is on saturday?
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Post by riverfeale on Jan 7, 2015 22:26:48 GMT
Latest from Listowel , they will play on Saturday but without Cox & Jack Mc Guire, also without Brian Mc Guire who is going away on Friday for work in England. Advantage Beale with Emmets missing these 3 big names any wonder they wanted to postpone the final but both North Ky board and Beale wouldn't accommodate their request to put the game back
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Post by ciarrai78 on Jan 7, 2015 22:33:47 GMT
If Paul Murphy can chose the EKC final over an All Star trip, then surely Cox and McGuire can put their club before a relatively meaningless McGrath cup game. I think Listowel are playing games and will be very surprised if both don't line out on Saturday
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