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Post by kerrygold on Apr 20, 2015 16:34:25 GMT
Cheers - Interesting tie so. Waterville being decimated by injuries at the moment, more than likey tips the scale in Mary's way It'll be tight all the same..........
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Post by fireeye2014 on Apr 20, 2015 21:46:31 GMT
1. Spa V Kenamre - KENMARE (Spa very young and Kenmare going well but could go anyway. TOUGH decision) 2. Desmonds V Skellig Ranger or Currow - DESMONDS (Desmonds have handy draw here) 3. John Mitchel's V An Ghaeltacht - MITCHELS (Tough game but home advantage is key) 4. St Mary's V Waterville - MARYS (Take waterville out of waterville not great) Best game of the Quarter Finals will be SPA V KENMARE! Kenmare (especially if Stam not playing) Desmonds An Ghaeltacht St Mary's
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Post by kerrysam11 on Apr 22, 2015 8:12:41 GMT
1. Spa V Kenamre - KENMARE (Spa very young and Kenmare going well but could go anyway. TOUGH decision) 2. Desmonds V Skellig Ranger or Currow - DESMONDS (Desmonds have handy draw here) 3. John Mitchel's V An Ghaeltacht - MITCHELS (Tough game but home advantage is key) 4. St Mary's V Waterville - MARYS (Take waterville out of waterville not great) Best game of the Quarter Finals will be SPA V KENMARE! Kenmare (especially if Stam not playing) Desmonds An Ghaeltacht St Mary's Did Stam get injured in the last game?
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Post by tman59 on Apr 22, 2015 9:45:32 GMT
I heard stam was playing v Annascaul? What other players do spa have?
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Post by Premier on Apr 22, 2015 11:57:28 GMT
Is Niall Mahoney still playing for Spa, was playing very well before he got a bad injury and never really heard anything since
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Post by frankgalvintralee on Apr 23, 2015 22:18:35 GMT
Spa can see them going all the way Draw between Mitchels and An Ghaeltacht Mary's should have the hoodoo over the Mary's
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Post by buck02 on Apr 24, 2015 10:33:41 GMT
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Kenmare to beat Spa if Stam is out Currow to beat Skellig and Desmonds to beat Currow Ah Ghaeltacht to win at Mitchels Marys to beat Waterville
All games with the exception of the Demonds v Currow/Skellig game are a toss of a coin really.
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Post by kerrysam11 on Apr 24, 2015 10:57:23 GMT
Will go with Kenmare to beat Spa if Stam is out Currow to beat Skellig and Desmonds to beat Currow Ah Ghaeltacht to win at Mitchels Marys to beat Waterville All games with the exception of the Demonds v Currow/Skellig game are a toss of a coin really. It was mentioned above also that Stam is supposed to be out however he played last weekend. Why do people think he will not be available?
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Post by Premier on Apr 26, 2015 15:27:56 GMT
Another replay, this time between Spa and Kenmare.. Sounded like a good game
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Post by tman59 on Apr 26, 2015 16:02:09 GMT
Seemed a cracker of game between spa and kenmare via Twitter , Anyone have a report? Is it true Kenmare were up 8 points at HT?
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Post by 1955 on Apr 26, 2015 17:07:40 GMT
Was at the South Kerry derby and treated to a great game of football. Waterville started well but St Mary's dug deep and with Sheehan and Daly dominating midfield and Cournane running riot in the full forward line they coasted to an impressive victory
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Post by Premier on Apr 26, 2015 21:52:22 GMT
Was at the South Kerry derby and treated to a great game of football. Waterville started well but St Mary's dug deep and with Sheehan and Daly dominating midfield and Cournane running riot in the full forward line they coasted to an impressive victory I dunno whether you could say they dominated midfield, Daly made some notable catches but his influenced was lessened after his marker was changed. Sheehan didn't really impact in the air in terms of kick outs but his passing from frees in his own half opened up the game for the Mary's, and kicked 2 incredible scores under pressure in second half. The quality of the Mary's scores was exceptional but Waterville's game ended when Barry Dwyer, who was giving Conor O'Shea a good run around, hurt himself and couldn't move really from there on out. Game over
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Post by glengael on Apr 27, 2015 9:08:34 GMT
Surprised to see Gaeltacht bow out so early. You would have thought they might start making some kind of impact, with a successful u-21 team from last yr. If memory serves me one of the last times I saw Darragh playing was in an Intermediate semi-final and I don't think they haven't improved on that since.
Spa v Kenmare sounded good alright.
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Post by tman59 on Apr 27, 2015 19:08:22 GMT
Anyone have report on Spa Kenmare Game?
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Post by diego on Apr 27, 2015 23:39:56 GMT
Anyone have report on Spa Kenmare Game? Report here courtesy of Kenmare's Facebook page... www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=938237099572039&id=613661648696254Intermediate Football Championship - Round 2 Spa 2-17 Kenmare 3-14 Championship is Championship right? It just has something extra that you don’t get elsewhere...done best it’s in the summer when the grass is just right, and we had the sun even though it was freezing, we had a nice breeze...always great in the championship to be saying ‘we’ll have that in the second half’- and we had two teams that couldn’t be separated, hit hard, gave all, black cards, peno’s, goals, great saves, high-fielding, banter (abuse!) on the sideline and ultimately the chance to do it all again...that is Championship. The first half brought us three goals. The first was a penalty for a foul on Sean O’Leary which Paul O’Connor neatly slotted. The second was fortuitous perhaps, the deceptive wind holding up a Paul O’Connor free long enough to deceive James Devane in the Spa goal. Along with that he had to contend with Stephen O’Brien looking to get a touch (‘rolled off Stephen’s back one observer claimed). Either way it bounced in. We led 2-2 to 0-5 with 26 minutes gone. It got better. Paul O’Connor slipped a lovely pass to Stephen O’Brien who still had a lot to do to get in on goal...but get in he did. 3-3 on 29 minutes. Seanie added a white flag a minute later and Paul rounded the half off with a free. Spa had six points from the half, three from Michael O’Donoghue at centre-forward, but very ably assisted by wing Shane Cronin. Still, an eight point lead, you’d be rubbing your cold hands...but Championship is a different animal. Spa came out and were level by the 41st minute! Craig Hickey hit two goals and a point in that blistering ten minute spell in which we found it hard to get hands on the ball. Then we had 13 minutes with no score for either side, but yellow and black cards were flying...hard to see a really dirty stroke in any of it though...championship! We got on top again...a Paul O’Connor free and one from play from Stephen O’Brien and the line in sight. Mike Stam had another point. Only one in it and on 62 minutes Spa summoned up one last go and Craig Hickey hit the equaliser. Mad stuff, good job they keep de-fibs on all GAA grounds. In the first period of extra time it ended level again. Mark Crowley with a fine effort, Paul and Stephen chipping in with the others. 3-11 to 2-14 at the turn. It was energy sapping stuff and that was just leaning on the bar at the side of the pitch! Paul and Stephen again got white flags on the resumption, Hickey replied for Spa, but with Alan O’Leary’s point on 15 minutes I thought we had it. A two point cushion, legs surely gone. Spa came again. A goal! No goal! The ball was already wide...relief. But Mike O’Donoghue came up trumps with two late free’s, the last a real gem from out on the right. And that was it. No refund necessary. Where would you be? And we get to do it all again but why wouldn’t you, you’d love days like this. Kenmare: Kieran Fitzgibbon; Dara Crowley, Tommy O’Sullivan, Stephen O’Shea; Aaron O’Callaghan, Mark Crowley (0-1), Patrick O’Shea; Mike Randles, Shane Dalton; Ruairi O’Sullivan, Kevin O’Sullivan (0-1), Sean O’Leary (0-2); Alan O’Leary (0-1), Paul O’Connor (2-6, 0-1pen, 0-5fs), Stephen O’Brien (1-3). Subs: Dean Cassidy, Colm Dan O’Sullivan, Enda Crowley, David Hallissey.
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Post by kerrybhoy06 on Apr 29, 2015 19:33:53 GMT
Predictions for the weekend?
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Post by theresonlyone on Apr 30, 2015 11:49:41 GMT
Desmonds to win in a tight game
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Post by diego on May 3, 2015 13:22:10 GMT
Intermediate Football Championship Round 2 replay Kenmare 2-9 Spa 2-12 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=941269932602089That’s the thing with replays...you don’t know did you leave the match behind or did you have a lucky escape... well not until the next day anyway. Still don’t think we left it the first day though, great game in great conditions and no-one won. In our back-yard the conditions were not so good. Winter. It definitely spoiled the game a bit, not as free-flowing, much more niggly, the hits were harder...but the stakes go up, that’s the reality. We trailed by a point at the end of the first half, 1-4 to 1-5, but I thought we were just getting in to the game nicely. Craig Hickey and Mike Stam started where they had left off the last day with three points in ten minutes (0-2 for Hickey). Kevin Arthur had snuck one for us and with a Paul O’Connor free we were getting to the pitch of the game. When Alan O’Leary linked up with wing-back Patrick O’Shea and fed Fionan O’Sullivan he still had a job of work to do, but he made the net quake and we were ahead. It did not last long though. Within three minutes Mike Foley netted for Spa and they led by two, 1-5 to 1-3. It looked like a free to us at the start of the move, Stephen O’Shea, having done the hard work but Craig Hickey honed in on goal, Kieran Fitz saved well, but Foley pounced and finished confidently. Paul O’Connor added a free for us in injury time and the break looked a good idea. Unfortunately after the tea we couldn’t seem to get anything going. That was largely due to a dominant performance by Mike Stam O’Donoghue who ran the show for Spa. He added two points early-doors and then Spa popped in a goal to lead 2-7 to 1-4 and we were on the ropes. It took mercurial Paul O’Connor to get us off the deck. Stephen O’Brien and the man with the Rolls Royce engine Kevin Arthur provided and Paul made sure of the green flag. Two minutes later he added a point from a free and with eighteen minutes still left in the game we should have been back in contention. We weren’t though. Spa stuck to the task and a red card left us fighting hard. Mark works hard and hits hard. The first yellow was very harsh and left him in a precarious position. You cannot hold back when the chips are down in Championship battles though. Tackles were flying in from both sides. Both sides again saw black cards. We were running out of time but we did not fold, never do. Stephen, Paul and sub Seanie O’Shea all added points but Spa kept us at the end of the glove as the round ticked to the bell. Stam added two more points in that period, steadying scores and it just slipped away from us. That’s what you get. You don’t often get the weather or the result you want. Today we got neither. Well done to the team and management. When you are cold and pissed off you leave the pitch in the wrong frame of mind - this was good fayre in its own right and we just came up slightly short...such is football, such is life and it would be remiss not to mention a man I did not know very well but who was highly regarded from football days with Templenoe and the District – Johnny Casey. When the final whistle goes it's the characters not the score that counts. Kenmare: Kieran Fitzgibbon; Dara Crowley, Tommy O’Sullivan, Stephen O’Shea; Aaron O’Callaghan, Mark Crowley, Patrick O’Shea; Colm Dan O’Sullivan, Shane Dalton; Alan O’Leary, Kevin O’Sullivan (0-1), Sean O’Leary; Fionan O’Sullivan (1-0), Paul O’Connor (1-5, 0-5fs), Stephen O’Brien (0-2). Subs : David Hallissey, Brain Clifford, Sean O’Shea (0-1).
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Post by diego on May 3, 2015 13:27:12 GMT
Draw for the semi finals was made yesterday as well:
Spa V John Mitchels
St Mary's V Castleisland Desmonds or Currow
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Post by diego on May 3, 2015 14:29:12 GMT
Last place in the final four goes to Castleisland. Winners of the local derby today 2-11 to 0-12 over Currow.
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Post by ballynamona on May 4, 2015 10:50:37 GMT
Mitchels v Desmonds final most likely?
I would like to see Mitchels go up. They made their move to the Castlemaine road decades later than they should have. But they are definitely putting the work in and it would be great to see them back in the senior ranks.
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Post by buck02 on May 4, 2015 11:02:40 GMT
Semi finals are fixed for mid June so a lot depends on injuries and the American exodus. On form at the moment I would go for a Spa v Castleisland final.
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Post by Mickmack on May 4, 2015 11:06:35 GMT
Admittedly, its not frequently that I drive past the Mitchells new pitch after 6pm but any time I have in recent years there is always a gang of kids being coached.
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Post by Mickmack on May 4, 2015 11:09:13 GMT
Have Spa lost the last three finals?
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Post by buck02 on May 4, 2015 11:26:32 GMT
Have Spa lost the last three finals? I think Currow beat Marys in the final 2 years ago. Spa lost to Finuge in 2012 after a replay.
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Post by inforthebreaks on May 4, 2015 16:07:27 GMT
Mitchels v Desmonds final most likely? I would like to see Mitchels go up. They made their move to the Castlemaine road decades later than they should have. But they are definitely putting the work in and it would be great to see them back in the senior ranks. There is no going up this year due to the restructuring of the co. senior championship.
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Post by shaggy04 on Aug 26, 2015 17:54:04 GMT
Here's a mad idea for the ccc,it's probably too late now but seeing as there is such a back log of fixtures, couldn't the club semi finals be played this weekend, it's outside the thirteen day exclusion period,not that it's adhered to anyway,and there aren't any Kerry starting players involved, just an idea
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Post by tommybigboots on Aug 26, 2015 20:04:58 GMT
Surely Spa will win it this year can't see them losing with such a quality your fit team .. Seen them play twice this year they were poor against Annauscal in the intermediate first round (Garnett played a stormer) and I seen them play against Listowel Emmets this year with Shane Cronin scoring 5 points from play from half back they also have the like of Evan Cronin, Dan Donoghue, Matt Moynihan and also young Dara Moynihan who is developing into a fine footballer .. He almost would remind you of Brian Dooher
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Post by 1955 on Sept 26, 2015 16:33:13 GMT
After today's master class it surely is Spa's to lose
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Post by glengael on Sept 27, 2015 10:18:06 GMT
Spa 2-16 John Mitchels 1-10.
2nd semi St.Mary's v Castleisland Desmonds this afternoon.
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