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Post by southward on Dec 8, 2018 23:23:57 GMT
Lads,
It only prolongs the hijack if fellas are continually responding to the hijacker's nonsense.
And, yes, I'm aware of the irony in adding further to it with this post.
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Post by An Bradán on Dec 8, 2018 23:40:49 GMT
Bally whoever you are. Either attend the game or put a plug in it. Enough of the gibberish.
The rest of us regularly travel around this big, long, wide county to see games and support our clubs. Most of us travel the length and breadth of the country to watch club and county games also.
Many of us have also travelled long distances to collect and return sons and daughters from college or employment so that they could attend training and games. Everything else always comes second.
Pride in our clubs and pride of place meant that we don't think twice about it.
Emails to HQ or ranting on this forum are easy compared to true support of your club. Ballythefireside is appropriate for sure for a fireside supporter.
I expect a fine young Ballydonoghue team to make it a three in a row. Senans have to be more composed than in their last appearance but I still expect them to fall short. Ballydonoghue winning three in a row would be a fitting mark of their dominance in this competition but should they lose to Senans at least we won't have to listen to endless guff on here from some.
Video links are only a poor substitute. On to Moyvane tomorrow with all the supporters for the real deal. May the best team win.
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Post by statistician on Dec 9, 2018 0:31:32 GMT
Last Sunday’s Semi Final Replay:
Ballydonoghue 1-11 Ballyduff 0-10
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Dec 9, 2018 1:34:27 GMT
Lads, It only prolongs the hijack if fellas are continually responding to the hijacker's nonsense. And, yes, I'm aware of the irony in adding further to it with this post. It has gone beyond this stage. Control should act.
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Post by homerj on Dec 9, 2018 14:19:18 GMT
Lads, It only prolongs the hijack if fellas are continually responding to the hijacker's nonsense. And, yes, I'm aware of the irony in adding further to it with this post. It has gone beyond this stage. Control should act. Fully agree but others shouldnt engage and they are just as bad. 3 or 4 posts becomes 20 with lads engaging. Anyway, heres to a good game today, may the best team win. Conditions will be awful tho and no doubt will impact the quality.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Dec 9, 2018 14:30:01 GMT
It has gone beyond this stage. Control should act. Fully agree but others shouldnt engage and they are just as bad. 3 or 4 posts becomes 20 with lads engaging. Anyway, heres to a good game today, may the best team win. Conditions will be awful tho and no doubt will impact the quality. I am one of those who have been engaging. I know I shouldn't but I do anyway. At this stage control should be acting though. I think for the well-being of everyone here they should act.
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Post by homerj on Dec 9, 2018 15:48:41 GMT
Looking like the title is heading to Senans.
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Post by kerrybhoy06 on Dec 9, 2018 15:50:42 GMT
Whomever wrote those emails does not have their full mental faculty.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 9, 2018 16:00:39 GMT
Congrats to Seanns on an historic day for you.
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Post by taibhse on Dec 9, 2018 16:06:31 GMT
Congrats to Seanns on an historic day for you. Are you suffering from shock - its St. Senan's
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Post by fealeside on Dec 9, 2018 16:11:16 GMT
Whomever wrote those emails does not have their full mental faculty. Congrads to Senans. Well deserved. Those emails are something else.
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Post by Fado on Dec 9, 2018 16:33:06 GMT
Can't wait for next years instalment
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Post by mandad on Dec 9, 2018 16:36:16 GMT
A peculiar trait in all of us is a love and support for the underdog. Growing up in North Kerry in the 40-60’s there were always plenty of tales of daylight robbery and wrongs perpetrated on the local football or hurling teams over the years.
So powerful is the cultural need for ‘wronged heroes’ that their existence was, no doubt, sometimes supplemented with those that never existed at all. Such figures appear in all times and in all places, including our own era, and they will continue to be the subject of sporting folklore in the generations ahead.
Between the shaky borders of history and myth, certain individuals are singled out as ‘righters of the wrongs’- heroic and admiral in their own community, villainous to others. St. Senan’s are no different to anyone else in that respect and some of their men have gone to their graves with such reputations - not always a total fabrication. This was a reflection of their high esteem within their community who continue to mythologize and celebrate them in their afterlives.
Tonight, as the good folk of Mountcoal/Rathea/Crotta/The Gap/Banemore and Stacks Mountain celebrate their very first North Kerry Senior Championship, won fair and square, I trust that they will look back, not in sadness or anger or preoccupation, but in simple remembrance of past legends of the club who kept the game going in tough times in every respect.
Well done today boys and men. New heroes one and all - Comhghairdeas leo go léir
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Post by southward on Dec 9, 2018 16:36:36 GMT
Whomever wrote those emails does not have their full mental faculty. "disspora" - love it!
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Post by An Bradán on Dec 9, 2018 17:01:30 GMT
Poor game to be fair. St.Senans by far the better team. The last word is key as they played as a unit while some in Ballydonoghue colours kept up the habits of a lifetime playing their individual games.
Senans were well on top at midfield, won the breaks and were much more tuned into he pace of the game. A burst of scores halfway in the second period sealed the win. Their main men showed up. When the big plays were needed they stood up. The same could not be said for some of the Ballydonoghue players. They were poor today and need to look hard at their futures.
Congratulations to St. Senans They'll be partying for a month
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Post by southward on Dec 9, 2018 17:08:47 GMT
Senans' defence was simply outstanding in the second half, smothering attack after attack without fouling, and restricting BallyD to a solitary score. This was the winning of the game.
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Post by veteran on Dec 9, 2018 17:31:18 GMT
St. Senans 1-12 Ballydonoghue 1-6 HT 1-4 0-5
A massive crowd ,as expected ,was packed like sardines into Moyvane today. They didn't witness a classic but they witnessed worthy champions and worthy favourites mauled, in the second half at least, by a pack of prairie dogs. Football is a team game and this was clearly illustrated today when a team with few if any stars played as a well orchestrated unit and devoured everything in front of them. It was as if a plague of locusts had descended on Con Brosnan Park. Apart from having more, by and large, illustrious players Ballydonoghue looked more physically imposing in the pre match parade. But of course it is the size of the fight in the dog etc.
What a difference in two years. After about fifteen minutes in the 2016 final Ballydonoghue had matters wrapped up against a St. Senans outfit which seemed to have contracted a debilitating dose of stage fright. No stage fright today. Ballydonoghue played with the breeze in the first half and Paul Kennelly and Brian O'Seanachain quickly became a force. Paul especially looked as if he would be a dominant figure as he so often is, being too lively and crafty for Sean T. Dillon, hitherto impregnable in the championship. Therefore it began to look ominous early on for St. Seanans and one feared a reprise of the 2016 debacle. No fear. It became apparent as the situation settled down that St. Senans were in no mood to defer the winning of their maiden hurdle not one moment beyond 2018. The elegant, athletic Damien Somers started to assert himself at midfield, emerged as the best in that area over the hour, and it also became apparent that the entire full forward line of Sean Weir, Sean O'Connell and Paudie Quille were making things nightmarish for the Ballydonoghue rear guard. Those three boys have been a nightmare for every rear guard they have encountered this year. Points were exchanged and only some desperate defending and goal keeping by the Bally boys prevented two goals being conceded. Eventually and inevitably they did concede. Sean O'Connell was prominent in the build up before ? Paudie Quills finished home. A crucial score against the wind.
The early stages of the second half were pedestrian for a while and then, as if a switch was flicked , the Senans team and their supporters began to believe that something , hitherto thought unattainable , was about to unfold before eys. Barry O'Mahony now began to give the required assistance to Damian at midfield, the inside trio continued to threat and tantalise but above all, incontrovertibly, it was the defence who climbed to heights nobody thought they had the DNA to achieve. It would be invidious to single any one player because, as a battalion ,they snapped and snarled and blocked and tormented and crowded and hit and erected a barrier as if the Berlin wall was their blueprint. It must have been totally demoralising for the Ballydonoghue forwards , simply unable to break free form the relentless harrying of a clutch of Tasmanian devils. In a nutshell that was how and where the game was won and lost. What happened at the other end of the field was largely of secondary importance.
Ballydonoghue did breach the wall for a goal late on but it was no more than tokenism. Significantly , St. Senans scored 0-8 in the second half and replied with 1-1; eight scores to two. There is no arguing with that.
One can only feel joy for the Barony of St. Senans, stretching form Kilflynn to well beyond Rathea church. They have experienced heartbreaks over several decades and a lot of good football men have gone to their eternal reward without tasting and savouring what the current generation deliriously enjoyed today. I have no doubt that few will contradict me when I say are as popular champions as North Kerry has ever witnessed.
You need to be great to win two titles in succession in North Kerry. It is an unforgiving wilderness in which to attain that distinction. Ballydonoghue achieved that distinction and by definition qualify as being great champions. They are young enough and good enough to give lip to anybody in 2019. But they ,as sporting as they are and always have been, will no doubt concede that today belongs to the mountainy men from the bogs. Sincere congratulations to St. Senans. The ache and wait is over. May it be the first of many.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Dec 9, 2018 17:38:15 GMT
Some great stories of famines ended and peaks conquered in GAA club action this year.
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Post by caseycasey on Dec 9, 2018 17:40:08 GMT
Can't wait for next years instalment Really?? Was at todays final and one other game in this years championship. I thought the standard was extremely poor. I was also at the mid kerry and south kerry finals. The North Kerry version was well behind in terms of standard.
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Post by Fado on Dec 9, 2018 17:54:04 GMT
Can't wait for next years instalment Really?? Was at todays final and one other game in this years championship. I thought the standard was extremely poor. I was also at the mid kerry and south kerry finals. The North Kerry version was well behind in terms of standard. No, not really 💡
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Post by southward on Dec 9, 2018 17:56:26 GMT
Can't wait for next years instalment Really?? Was at todays final and one other game in this years championship. I thought the standard was extremely poor. I was also at the mid kerry and south kerry finals. The North Kerry version was well behind in terms of standard. I enjoyed it anyway. Great crowd and atmosphere. I've seen a lot worse games too, and remember we're in mid-December with a sticky pitch. Heartiest congrats to Senans - delighted for them. Small gripe re the venue: the stand is too close to the sideline for a big crowd, allowing no view of the action on the nearside along the length of the pitch. A low blinding sun also made it virtually impossible to see the action at one end, but nothing can be done about that, I suppose.
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Post by bannerman on Dec 9, 2018 19:27:53 GMT
Poor game to be fair. St.Senans by far the better team. The last word is key as they played as a unit while some in Ballydonoghue colours kept up the habits of a lifetime playing their individual games. Senans were well on top at midfield, won the breaks and were much more tuned into he pace of the game. A burst of scores halfway in the second period sealed the win. Their main men showed up. When the big plays were needed they stood up. The same could not be said for some of the Ballydonoghue players. They were poor today and need to look hard at their futures. Congratulations to St. Senans They'll be partying for a month Hopefully it only be for the rest this month, both teams more than capable doing well next year in junior champ once they knuckle down and work from early p art 2019
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Post by mossie on Dec 9, 2018 19:47:20 GMT
Glory Saint Senans
A victory for those who keep working, believing and chipping away. All the work at under age came through for them today and who will bedgrudge them their success today. Some very talented men in their ranks who may well backbone a Crotta O'Neills senior hurling success yet and end another famine all the way back to 1968.
I like the cut of Sean T Dillon. Would like to see him in Peter Keane's squad to see if he could develop further. Many a successful Kerry team had a good scatter of north Kerry backs.
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Post by homerj on Dec 9, 2018 20:02:30 GMT
anybody know roughly what the attendance was?
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Post by Mickmack on Dec 9, 2018 21:48:15 GMT
Veteran... can i ask you whether the St Senans defence was of the blanket variety or more the old fashioned "stick to your man "variety.
Great coverage on RK today.
Is there any club in NK that hasnt won one?
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Post by bannerman on Dec 9, 2018 22:02:47 GMT
Veteran... can i ask you whether the St Senans defence was of the blanket variety or more the old fashioned "stick to your man "variety. Great coverage on RK today. Is there any club in NK that hasnt won one? Knocknagoshel and Brosna The asdee club also, but some their players would have won with ballylongford
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Post by southward on Dec 9, 2018 22:03:16 GMT
Veteran... can i ask you whether the St Senans defence was of the blanket variety or more the old fashioned "stick to your man "variety. Great coverage on RK today. Is there any club in NK that hasnt won one? Of the currently competing ones, Asdee, Knocknagoshel, Brosna; I think that's all.
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Post by veteran on Dec 9, 2018 22:11:08 GMT
Veteran... can i ask you whether the St Senans defence was of the blanket variety or more the old fashioned "stick to your man "variety. Great coverage on RK today. Is there any club in NK that hasnt won one? Oh Mick , this was as you correctly phrased it the old fashioned “ stick to your man variety “ Ballydonoghue’s forwards are no slouches but the Halfway lads clung to them like leeches not giving them space to breathe. It was a throw back to another age where hitherto undistinguished defenders , with the exception of Sean T. Dillon, set out with unquenchable determination to hold up their quin. When every defender is holding up his quin the opposing forwards become moored in a quagmire. It was textbook defending from another era and it decided the outcome.
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Post by Mickmack on Dec 9, 2018 22:25:32 GMT
thanks veteran.
the expression "holding up his quin" is one i havent heard before but i assume it goes back to ploughing with a horse. The quin being the wooden piece that the horses chains were attached to. Is there another different source for the expression?
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Post by Ballyfireside on Dec 9, 2018 22:34:34 GMT
Great account there Vet, and good commentary.
Look lads, ye were hard on me, all I wanted to do was get us all to see it live, go aisy. If I went hard, well apols!
Now, can we see the blasthed video?
PS For the record, only uploaded at 7am Monday morning after the game. Ballyd dead in their feet, 3 consecutive Sunday outings and then heavy ground took it's toll. Will be back for more though and there is a pipeline of talent and willingness to stay at the top for the foreseeable future. Amazing for Senans to win their first and they won't lose grip so easily.
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