As “D” day draws closer and with a league title within smelling distance its hard to beat a nice handy league win so players can practice old bad habits and showboat their talents or lack of. And so, with 8 minutes gone and Joe Brolly having notched 3 fine points plus a superb long range effort from Gregory McGonigle the score stood at St Canices 0-4 to St Teresas no score.
Time to start f***ing around lads… forget all the months of work and practice on how to play… if they’re gonna shoot like an Antrim Junior team, well then so are we!
After 25 minutes Ruari O’Neill converted a free and two minutes later the same player finished to the net after another Seamus Derby impersonation, this time by the maestro Brolly.
There was just time before the break for James Loughrey to make one of his trademark runs from an angle on goal. Unlike last week however, James opted to kick rather than hand pass over the bar and when he was tripped from behind, fell awkwardly landing on his arm. James lay in agony, head, body and arm facing the St Teresas goal. Unfortunately his hand was waving back at Shoukri in the far goal. Not pretty.
Half Time: St Brigids 1 – 5
St Teresas 0 – 3
While there was an abundance of chances to kill the game off with scores in the second half, shots went wildly off target, possession was constantly given away and discipline was not exactly of military proportions.
TGFB. He scored four more frees and kept a cool head while all about were losing theirs (and that was just on the sideline).
Inevitably, a penalty was conceded late in the game and expertly converted. The referee (and bad light) stopped play before any more damage could be done.
Brolly’s accuracy at one end was matched by the opposition’s inaccuracy at the other and that, combined with some good defending led excellently by Deaghlan O’Hagan saved the points.
Full Time: St Brigids 1 – 9
St Teresas 1 – 6
On four different occasions during that second period St Brigids missed one or more scoreable chances while six points in front and still managed to be hanging on for victory with just the kick of a ball between the teams. Well done lads… keep it exciting for the crowd; don’t kill the game off too quick!
Team:
Stephen Morrissey, Frank O’Neill, Deaghlan O’Hagan, Benny Reilly, Paul O’Hara, Conor Mullan, Gareth Macklin, James Loughrey, Gregory McGonigle, Aidan Owens, Mark Sweeney, Duncan MacAuley, Ruari O’Neill, Joe Brolly, Frankie Devlin.
Substitute Used:
Paddy McDonald.
Best wishes to James on a speedy recovery.
