Holders reveal their resilience with a forceful performance
Homeland SFC
Group Two – Round Four Tourlestrane 1-15 Coolera-Strandhill 1-12
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THE EMPIRE strikes back. Tourlestrane’s three-point defeat of Coolera-Strandhill last Saturday evening at Markievicz Park, 1-15 to 1-12, felt like a pronouncement of power by the holders: Be warned, we’re back. But, then again, did the holders – winners of the last six Homeland Senior Football Championships – ever truly go away? This result puts Tourlestrane into the semi-finals, with their final Group Two game to come, while last year’s finalists Coolera-Strandhill are almost certain not to reach the knockout stages unless two results – their own and that of Tourlestrane – go their way this weekend.
It became sort of unfashionable in recent months to think that the green and gold would dominate yet another Owen B Hunt Cup race. Coolera-Strandhill’s capture of the Furey’s Coaches Senior Football League Division One title, where they defeated Tourlestrane by 11 points in last month’s decider, suggested the birth of a new era. But that wasn’t Tourlestrane as we know it – they
UNDER PRESSURE: Tourlestrane’s Cathal Henry is tackled by Coolera-Strandhill player Ross O’Carroll at Markievicz Park.
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