mg72
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Post by mg72 on Aug 22, 2024 6:05:59 GMT
In all of the reports that I've read about the Glenflesk/Laune Rangers match, the players that were absent for Glenflesk have always been mentioned. It should also be noted that Laune Rangers have been down starting players during this championship. Missing the last day were these starters, David Mangan, Patrick Carey, Shane Daly,and Eoin O’Sullivan, while Ryan Diggin only managed 10 minutes on the pitch. It's almost like Glenflesk are being given an excuse for not progressing further, because of being down players, but not enough credit is being given to Laune Rangers for doing so well, while also missing key players. With respect Luke Crowley, Daniel O’Brien, Chris O’Donoghue and Patrick Darcy are of a different calibre to the Laune Rangers players you mention bar David Mangan. All 4 are in and around Kerry panel standard at least which is a massive total loss. John Kelliher a Kerry u20 also wasn’t available to them. Yes, I agree with you there and understand exactly how much of a loss they were to Glenflesk. Those players mentioned are of a higher calibre. All I'm saying is that more credit should be given to Laune Rangers for doing so well, especially when they were missing their starting players from 3,6,7,8 and 14. |
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Post by The16thMan on Aug 25, 2024 15:32:40 GMT
David Clifford really showing FOTY form vs Laune Rangers here. He must have 3-05 in the first half alone.
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Post by The16thMan on Aug 25, 2024 16:23:16 GMT
David Clifford really showing FOTY form vs Laune Rangers here. He must have 3-05 in the first half alone. Eoghan Hassett matched that performance in the 2nd half, kicked 10 points. Surely he's a guy Jack O'Connor must look at next year. |
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Post by mike70 on Aug 25, 2024 16:50:38 GMT
Great battle between the Laune and fossa, deserved victory to the laune in the end, the wind a big factor in the game.
The laune won’t fear the stacks in the final.
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Post by mainevalley on Aug 25, 2024 17:22:46 GMT
Very good game, very impressed with laune, very balanced side. Pacey and hard forwards won it for them. Turned over fossa defense often in second half. Fossa over reliant on David and paudie although I was impressed with ciaran o Sullivan at 6.
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Post by pillar on Aug 25, 2024 17:33:50 GMT
Refreshing to watch football being played this way without the shackles of fear that has invaded inter county football. Davod Cliffords kicking worth the admission fee alone , Rangers just an all round better team, fantastic game. Centre back for Fossa from Cromane originally, played for Nemo, last few years..good player.
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Post by allrounder on Aug 25, 2024 18:46:48 GMT
Centre back for Fossa from Cromane originally, played for Nemo, last few years..good player. His ball carrying was eye catching but not so sure about him on the defensive side of things |
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Post by Control8 on Aug 25, 2024 19:22:30 GMT
Intermediate semi=final results:
Laune Rangers 1-19 Fossa 3-11
Austin Stacks 0-14 Glenbeigh/Glencar 1-7
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Post by veteran on Aug 25, 2024 20:49:35 GMT
Laune Rangers 1-19. Fossa 3-11.
Have I ever got better value for E15? If so, I have no memory of it. This was swashbuckling, fearless , devil may care, up and at em football. As the man said as we exited , if teams always played with this attitude there would be no need to tamper with the rules. Never has a truer word been said. I cannot thank both tams enough for their approach and attitude . It was a blockbuster and while Fossa nearly pulled off a draw at the death, or indeed a win, courtesy of the tireless Paudie on a couple of occasions , I feel the better team won. In the circumstances , protocol almost compels one to say that a draw would have been the equitable result. Still it is my view that the better balanced unit , who played like wild dogs in the second half , and indeed for a good portion of the first half , deserved their narrow victory. If only by a hair’s breath , which is essentially what separated them at the curtain call.
At half time I said to myself that there is no show like a David show. We had scarcely fastened our seat belts when he rounded his marker and planted it. Not too long after he stroked another one home . That half was drawing to a close when he was fouled for a penalty. He did a hop, step and jump on the run up and scorched it into the net. Oh yes , he kicked a few points as well, one from some distant planet. Of course Paudie, Kieran O’Sullivan, Emmet O’Shea and Matt Rennie all contributed to the two goal advantage Fossa held at half time.
I feel the previous paragraph is an accurate representation of events but it is not the full story. The lacuna is that Killorglin are not mentioned .In spite of the heroics of you know who , Laune Rangers never looked out of their depth. They were as busy as bees with their forwards playing scintillating football . Their fine midfielder, Tom Whittleron finished a great move to the net and another young man, Eoghan Hassett, hinted at what he might achieve with a greater supply of ball, kicking two from play. The very stiff breeze ensured that Eoghan would , in the second half, get the supply he craved . Did he use that supply. Oh man , did he what.
In the second half, the increasingly stiff breeze ensured that DC would be starved and young Eoghan would thrive and flourish. Allied to that influence , every Killorglin man , both backs and forwards, tackled relentlessly and tirelessly. That combination of the wind, the dervish like industry of Killorglin and the inventiveness of their forwards with young Eoghan at the apex, ensured eventual submission by Fossa, gallant , stubborn Fossa. It culminated in the young Eoghan show matching if not surpassing the David show of the first half. He was serene, kicking the guts of ten points , some massive ones from play. I believe he has been plagued with injuries . If he can put those behind him we will have unearthed a gem but as somebody said to me, what is the point of sending him into the present set up when the ball is unlikely to be kicked into him. A sobering thought indeed.
It will be no consolation to Fossa that they contributed so much to a contest , and a contest it was, to be savoured, On the other hand , it is heartening , from a neutral’s standpoint, to see Laune Rangers rising again , especially playing such sparkling football. From a selfish Kerry point of view , another long campaign with Fossa would have sapped the energy of the incomparable brothers. A man must get his priorities in order!
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kerryexile
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Post by kerryexile on Aug 25, 2024 22:15:33 GMT
Great post Veteran. I saw the game on Clubber and you perfectly captured the action and the ambience. It is games like this that convince me that playing natural Kerry football can still win All-Irelands. The point was vindicated when it was said in commentary that in the first round of the championship David was not his usual self but that quickly changed. He was coming back to play the native game and normal service resumed.
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Post by glengael on Aug 26, 2024 8:29:56 GMT
Any reports on the other semi-final? It seems to have been a low enough scoring affair.
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Post by legendz on Aug 26, 2024 9:32:21 GMT
Is the Intermediate final before or after the County Championship?
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Post by The16thMan on Aug 26, 2024 9:50:39 GMT
Is the Intermediate final before or after the County Championship? Sunday Sept. 8th @ 3pm in Killarney, so before the County Championship. |
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Post by legendz on Aug 26, 2024 13:30:59 GMT
Is the Intermediate final before or after the County Championship? Sunday Sept. 8th @ 3pm in Killarney, so before the County Championship. Thanks! Seems to be the right job to play them off when there is momentum behind them. |
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Post by crokes86 on Aug 26, 2024 16:28:56 GMT
My intermediate team of the year
1 Mike Tansley (Austin Stacks)
2 Cian Lynch (Glenflesk)
3 Dylan Casey (Austin Stacks)
4 Kieran O’Sullivan (Fossa)
5 Armin Heinrich (Austin Stacks)
6 Eoin Clifford (Laune Rangers )
7 Jake Foley (Kerins O’Rahillys)
8 Joe O’Connor (Austin Stacks)
9 Colin McGillicuddy (Glenbeigh/Glencar)
10 Daire Cleary (Laune Rangers)
11 Darragh Lyne (Legion)
12 Paudie Clifford (Fossa)
13 Paddy Lane (Austin Stacks)
14 David Clifford(Fossa)
15 Eoghan Hassett (Laune Rangers)
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Post by veteran on Aug 26, 2024 16:33:57 GMT
My intermediate team of the year 1 Mike Tansley (Austin Stacks) 2 Cian Lynch (Glenflesk) 3 Dylan Casey (Austin Stacks) 4 Kieran O’Sullivan (Fossa) 5 Armin Heinrich (Austin Stacks) 6 Eoin Clifford (Laune Rangers ) 7 Jake Foley (Kerins O’Rahillys) 8 Joe O’Connor (Austin Stacks) 9 Colin McGillicuddy (Glenbeigh/Glencar) 10 Daire Cleary (Laune Rangers) 11 Darragh Lyne (Legion) 12 Paudie Clifford (Fossa) 13 Paddy Lane (Austin Stacks) 14 David Clifford(Fossa) 15 Eoghan Hassett (Laune Rangers) Would it not have prudent to wait for the final to see how fellows performed in the biggest game of the competition? |
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Post by sayitasiseeit on Aug 26, 2024 16:49:34 GMT
My intermediate team of the year 1 Mike Tansley (Austin Stacks) 2 Cian Lynch (Glenflesk) 3 Dylan Casey (Austin Stacks) 4 Kieran O’Sullivan (Fossa) 5 Armin Heinrich (Austin Stacks) 6 Eoin Clifford (Laune Rangers ) 7 Jake Foley (Kerins O’Rahillys) 8 Joe O’Connor (Austin Stacks) 9 Colin McGillicuddy (Glenbeigh/Glencar) 10 Daire Cleary (Laune Rangers) 11 Darragh Lyne (Legion) 12 Paudie Clifford (Fossa) 13 Paddy Lane (Austin Stacks) 14 David Clifford(Fossa) 15 Eoghan Hassett (Laune Rangers) There’s one man on your team there that only played in one game. His club actually lost that game. It must have been some individual performance by him |
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Post by crokes86 on Aug 26, 2024 17:14:22 GMT
My intermediate team of the year 1 Mike Tansley (Austin Stacks) 2 Cian Lynch (Glenflesk) 3 Dylan Casey (Austin Stacks) 4 Kieran O’Sullivan (Fossa) 5 Armin Heinrich (Austin Stacks) 6 Eoin Clifford (Laune Rangers ) 7 Jake Foley (Kerins O’Rahillys) 8 Joe O’Connor (Austin Stacks) 9 Colin McGillicuddy (Glenbeigh/Glencar) 10 Daire Cleary (Laune Rangers) 11 Darragh Lyne (Legion) 12 Paudie Clifford (Fossa) 13 Paddy Lane (Austin Stacks) 14 David Clifford(Fossa) 15 Eoghan Hassett (Laune Rangers) Would it not have prudent to wait for the final to see how fellows performed in the biggest game of the competition? |
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Post by crokes86 on Aug 26, 2024 17:16:21 GMT
I don’t think so. I expect stacks to win it. There wouldn’t be too much change to that.
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Post by Control8 on Sept 3, 2024 0:23:10 GMT
Website has Intermediate Final on Sunday 8 September:
Austin Stacks v Laune Rangers in Fitzgerald Stadium at 3pm.
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Post by mg72 on Sept 7, 2024 11:05:57 GMT
A huge final in Killarney (I got it right this week Veteran) tomorrow.
I don't think that there will ever be an intermediate final again between 2 clubs that have won that many senior titles between them.
The pressure is on Stacks to win more than it's on Laune Rangers I feel. It'll be a disaster for them with the panel that they have not to get back up to senior level.
Laune Rangers, with a very young and exciting squad, are in bonus territory. I fancy Laune Rangers to pull through by a couple of points in the end. I don't expect an exciting open game of football.
The referee, Eddie Walsh could have a big bearing on the outcome, depending on how he refs it.
I think that 14 points wil win it for whoever gets there.
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Post by kerrysouth on Sept 8, 2024 17:54:59 GMT
Very poor fare today glad I did not make the journey up and watched it on clubber Stacks old failing of not having a marquee forward like Crokes and Dingle last week cost them again today think Laune Rangers will be disappointed that they did not win it in normal time with that last chance.Gearoid Hassett big loss to Rangers .
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Post by Control8 on Sept 8, 2024 17:58:07 GMT
Final:
Austin Stacks 0-12 Laune Rangers 2-6, AET
Replay details not yet announced.
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Post by blacksheep21 on Sept 8, 2024 18:56:48 GMT
Little to get excited about today. There was a great start but defences on top after this. I thought Joe O Conner was easily the standout player player today. The stacks keeper Tansley was also decent and Nagle kept Hassett quiet
Overall a tough watch and a draw was fair enough.
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Post by breakingninja on Sept 9, 2024 8:58:29 GMT
Little to get excited about today. There was a great start but defences on top after this. I thought Joe O Conner was easily the standout player player today. The stacks keeper Tansley was also decent and Nagle kept Hassett quiet Overall a tough watch and a draw was fair enough. Joe O'Connor was excellent. Some man to get around the park and tackle. I thought Tansley could of done better for the first goal. Daire Cleary is electric when he gets the ball, was a real loss to Laune Rangers when he went off. Eoin Clifford another very good footballer, very composed on the ball. Gearoid Hassett will be a big boost to them. Isn't it a bit daft that these players will have to wait potentially 2 months to play a replay? This will have big reoccupations on Mid Kerry & St Brendans County Championship preparations. |
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Post by The16thMan on Sept 10, 2024 18:35:46 GMT
Final: Austin Stacks 0-12 Laune Rangers 2-6, AET Replay details not yet announced. Replay fixed for Sunday November 10th @ 1.30pm in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney. |
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Post by mainevalley on Sept 10, 2024 19:00:00 GMT
Final: Austin Stacks 0-12 Laune Rangers 2-6, AET Replay details not yet announced. Replay fixed for Sunday November 10th @ 1.30pm in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney. Desperate unfair on the two club players that aren't with mid Kerry and Brendan's to wait that long |
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Post by mike70 on Sept 10, 2024 19:47:35 GMT
Replay fixed for Sunday November 10th @ 1.30pm in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney. Desperate unfair on the two club players that aren't with mid Kerry and Brendan's to wait that long 100% not fair. |
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Post by Control8 on Sept 10, 2024 19:49:14 GMT
Replay fixed for Sunday November 10th @ 1.30pm in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney. Desperate unfair on the two club players that aren't with mid Kerry and Brendan's to wait that long
Should the final have gone to penalties then? I'm inclined to say a week should have been made available for a replay before the County Championship...even if that meant no week off between semifinal and final.
The competition had 5 consecutive weekends (from 27 July to 25 Aug) to hold 3 group games, quarterfinal and semifinal. A week off between semifinal and final (1 Sept) and final on 8 Sept.
Would the finalists have preferred to have the final on 1 Sept, with replay if needed on 8 Sept...meaning six weekends in a row (seven when replay added)?
On the other hand, the eventual winner should be well primed for Munster Club v Cork or Limerick representatives two weeks after the replay on weekend of 24 Nov.
Trying to fit two championships into the same space that most other counties have just the one is Kerry's dilemma. How to get to quarterfinal stage in 2 games rather than 3 is the question...open draw with seedings based on county league standings (top 8 in bowl 1, bottom 8 in bowl 2) would get us to quarterfinal stage after one round. Maybe an intermediate shield for the first round losers should be considered in order to keep players active till county championship. Same setup for junior premier and junior I suppose.
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Post by royalkerryfan on Sept 10, 2024 19:58:01 GMT
Final: Austin Stacks 0-12 Laune Rangers 2-6, AET Replay details not yet announced. Replay fixed for Sunday November 10th @ 1.30pm in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney. 2 months for a replay is a complete joke. |
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