St Phidelma's 0-5 ; Glencarrick 1-3
We survive for another week,what can only be described as a fantastic fighting performance our Junior side came back from the brink to defeat St Phidelma's to stay alive for another week in the Division 4E relegation dogfight. What was described as the best game he has ever seen by 1983 senior championship winner Vincent McGlynn tensions were high going in to this relegation 4 pointer. With Matt McDonald and Conor McPhillips restored to the starting line-up. We looked strong from the throw in with Seamus Thornton in midfield catching balls like a young Jack O'Shea and Jimmy Finnegan tenacious in the tackle at corner back it was an impressive opening 20 minutes and in 22nd minute we opened the scoring with an audacious effort from Darren McNeill were with his back to goal he managed to throw the ball up and somehow in a near dislocated fashion kicked the ball over the bar, sadly we didn't push on and St Phidelma's fought back to score two easy frees to leave it at 0-2 to 0-1 at half time.
In a topsy turvy second half we were trailing 0-5 to 0-2 with 5 minutes remaining and it was then the game sprung into life with tensions running high McPhillips and selector Anton Devlin had a bust up on the line with McPhillips shouting a tirade of abuse at the 75 year old who had his 2 year old grandson in the stand it was an embarrassing scene for all involved and disciplinary action I'm sure will follow in due course. At this stage relegation was looking us in the face but then a remarkable turn of a events occurred firstly record goal scorer at this level Rob Lynn hit a ferocious 5 yard shot that hit the full back on the quad & somehow trickled over the line to level the game. We needed a point to go ahead and in the last minute and after reducing our selector to tears only minutes before McPhillips reduced him to tears again but for different reasons when Eddie Murray intercepted a quick kickout by the Phidelmas keeper and squared the ball to McPhillips who with an open net from 1 yard should have put the game beyond doubt but instead mis-fisted the ball over the bar to put us one up luckily enough we did win but only when St Phidelmas missed a 5 yard free in the dying seconds, we stay alive for another week.
Team: Matt McDonald, Frank Sheridan, Jimmy Finnegan, Gerry Finnegan, Paddy McCabe, Peter Freeman, Eddie Murray, Mike Hunt, Seamus Thornton, Conor McPhilips (0-1), Darren McNeill (0-2, 1f), Fergie McNally, Raymond Durneen, Jamie Rothwell, Rob Lynn (1-0). Subs Darren Murray for Thornton (43 min).
Well done to our U12 team managed by Larry Murty who won the Louth U12 Inter County Football Blitz Phase 1 Divisional Championship in Darver last Saturday night, it was a joy to behold to see captain Josh Murty lift the trophy.
Club AGM on Thursday 20th December in the parish hall at 8pm. All current and prospective committee members please come along, tea and biscuits will be served.
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