Club Notes: 7th August 2017
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Club Lotto.
Last week’s winning lotto numbers were 9-13-17-20, and there was no winner. €20 winners were Claire O’ Driscoll, Peter Kenneally, Seamus Tobin, Sarah McGrath, Rose O’ Keeffe. Next week’s jackpot will be €5,850.
Minor Hurling, Cois Bhride 0-17, St. Carthages 1-23.
Lismore / Ballysaggart were the visitors to Tallow for the first round of this year’s Minor Hurling Championship last Wednesday. Short three of our first choice players, we started well enough with points from Darragh Buckley which were cancelled out by Lismore scores. Despite playing with the benefit of a strong breeze, our forwards were making no headway against a tough St. Carthages defence, and the visitors were scoring more freely to lead by 1-10 to 0-7 at half time, Liam Motherway and Ian Beecher getting the other points. St. Carthages got off to the better start in the second half, and they were soon leading by a sizeable score. To give our lads credit, they kept battling away and finished strongly with five points in a row from Darragh, Ian, Padraig Hynes, and a few from Liam Motherway. Their next game is away to St. Patrick’s on Wednesday week. Panel; Dean Beecher, Eoin McGrath, Tom Roche, Cian Ryan, Sean Henley, Robbie Geary, Ivan O’ Neill, Ian Beecher, Billy Hynes, Kieran Crawford, Darragh Buckley, Liam Motherway, Ciarán Hunt, Mike Condon, Ben Ahearne, William Cunningham, Padraig Hynes.
JFC Playoff, Shamrocks v. Sliabh gCua.
Shamrocks faced Sliabh gCua in a quarter final playoff last Friday in Fraher Field to decide who would go into the semi final or quarter final. Having to field without up to eight first choice players, we never had much chance here and were well beaten. So we now play Tallow in the quarter finals. Now I know fellas are entitled to get a break, but we seem to have a lot of people either away on holiday or attending music festivals etc.etc. at the moment, leaving us very short of players. If lads don’t get their act together soon, we could be out of our respective championships in a matter of weeks, especially if, God forbid, Waterford are beaten by Cork this Sunday. It is fifteen weeks last Sunday since we played our first round hurling match, and nothing since. Our intercounty teams are having a serious effect on club players, with nearly four months without a championship match in the Summer. It’s no wonder players are travelling to the US on J1’s and elsewhere. So many problems in the GAA, and no solutions in sight….
Tribesmen pip Premier.
What a match! Easily the game of the year with the result in doubt till the final shot. Galway are going to take some stopping in the final. If ever a county deserves an All Ireland title apart from Waterford, it’s the men from the West. When men were needed, Joe Canning stood up to be counted.
Deise v. Rebels.
Waterford have a unique opportunity to avenge their Munster semi final defeat at the hands of the Rebels in next Sunday’s All Ireland semi final in Croke Park. Cork will start as favourites, with three victories under their belts. The Deise have also been improving, with the defeat of Kilkenny the stand out win, but they know their last performance against Wexford would not be enough to take them to only their second All Ireland Final since 1963. I really believe we have the players, but are they in their right positions? The De Burca affair is also a distraction, and let’s hope fairness and common sense will prevail and he gets a chance to play on Sunday. A cautious vote in favour of Waterford. ‘HON THE DEISE!