RATHNEW

We had a great win on Sunday in the senior championship playoff against Hollywood.

The team started very poorly in the first half. This wasn’t helped by the niggly and late tackling by our opponents.

It was a tough game for the ref to handle, and the lads feel the ref was let down by some of his umpires that didnt bring to his attention some of the late tackling and striking off the ball.

After the interval, the lads emerged a much better team and rallied off some glorious points without reply, we also added two goals to the scoreline from Eddie Doyle and Leighton Glynn, where our back line kept Hollywood to a solitary point in the second half.

This was a great performance from the lads considering they played over half the game with 14 men.

The team was driven forward by some of the players many seem to be writing off. Namely, Damien Power, Paul Merrigan, Nicky Mernagh and Leighton Glynn. Our midfield coped well without the assistance of big Jem and we are looking forward now to the semi-final.

Well done to our under-17/Minor team who had a great win away to Clara Gaels in the ‘A’ championship last Tuesday.

This was an all-round team performance from everyone and the lads fully deserved their victory on a wet evening up in Avondale.

The team played some great football in the first half and really should have been further ahead at the break.

They lead 1-4 to 1-3 at this stage. The lads tho were very determined in the second half and put in great effort right till the final whistle and winning on a final score of 2-9 to 1-7.

Team and scorers: Reece Doyle, Killian Clarke, Tristan O’Toole, Charlie Cruz, Fionn O’Sullivan, Nickey Kearney, Ewan Culbert, Sam O’Dowd, Jenson O’Connor 0-2, Sean Coffey 1-1, Ross Quinn, Shane Cullinan, Dylan Smith 0-3, Eoin Doyle 1-3, Kian Furlong, Jack Manley, Cian O’Neill, TJ O’Neill, Owen Gregory.

PS: The coaches and players would like to thank everyone for their support last night.

All at the club send condolences to the Hunter family on the passing of Harry. Harry donned the red and green jersey on many occasions. RIP.