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eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1309 - 27/07/2022 14:08:11 2434869 Link 0 |
why was the rescheduled game not in Easkey then if it was originally fixed for there ?
muscles (Sligo) - Posts: 396 - 27/07/2022 14:37:05 2434874 Link 0 |
I assume Curry were entitled to keep the points so in a bit of horse trading they probably agreed to play it again but Easkey would have to travel.
eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1309 - 27/07/2022 17:23:56 2434935 Link 0 |
Ya that was my point. Surely if it was agreed it was wrong to schedule it it should have been at same venue??? Seemed a close game anyway that has given Curry promotion.
Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 243 - 27/07/2022 19:30:33 2434962 Link 0 |
Big weekend approaching. Sligobuck21 (Sligo) - Posts: 87 - 29/07/2022 12:51:52 2435216 Link 0 |
Agree with you on the Div 1 pairing, looks like Tour v Coolera. Div 2 is Curry and really it's the Bunnies for second spot as Owenmore Gaels have nothing to play for as their status is safe for next year. Really disappointed with the effort of some clubs for the U.19 competition. Far too many walkovers. Clubs ate complaining about not enough football for the 17 to 19 age group and when a competition is organized for the long evenings they don't field. eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1309 - 29/07/2022 14:33:40 2435239 Link 0 |
Agree with you on the Div 1 pairing, looks like Tour v Coolera. Div 2 is Curry and really it's the Bunnies for second spot as Owenmore Gaels have nothing to play for as their status is safe for next year. Really disappointed with the effort of some clubs for the U.19 competition. Far too many walkovers. Clubs ate complaining about not enough football for the 17 to 19 age group and when a competition is organized for the long evenings they don't field. eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1309 - 29/07/2022 15:35:00 2435257 Link 0 |
Shamrock Gaels have the easier game this weekend and will beat Calry at home but I can't see Molaise surprising Coolera so they'll make it on score difference. Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 243 - 29/07/2022 16:46:07 2435283 Link 0 |
Another weekend of great football , a huge embarrassment for St Johns getting relegated to division 4 football , hard to see where they can go from here, sligopublican (Sligo) - Posts: 45 - 31/07/2022 17:15:02 2435627 Link 0 |
Only way is up for Johns next year surely, but definitely a low point for any club to be down playing teams second and in some cases third teams. They'll surely be favourites for the drop from Intermediate too. While at the other end Bunninadden will have serious hopes of getting to senior championship after securing successive promotions from 3 to 1 in two years. Molaise weren't that impressive judging by league results so could be their year…as for senior it still looks Tourlestranes to lose Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 243 - 01/08/2022 14:00:56 2435734 Link 0 |
Division 2 certainly went down to the wire. I think the game was in injury time before the Bunnies drew level and then went on to win. Had they lost Easkey would have snatched the second place the hammering they gave Ballymote did wonders for their score difference. I hope this isn't the end of St. John's as a GAA Club.At underage they have really done nothing on the playing field for years so there's not a lot coming through. Coolaney finished the league strongly but a poor score difference see them go down. Farnans must be delighted with their first year in Div 1. They should retain senior championship status also. Tourlestrane v Coolera in the League final should be a win for Tourlestrane. I would have a fear that if Coolera did beat them Tourlestrane would come all guns blazing in the championship and murder everyone. The time to take them out is at semi final stage. Curry should win the Div 2 title. eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1309 - 01/08/2022 20:21:21 2435819 Link 0 |
Tourlestrane and Coolera will contest the div 1 final. Tourlestrane will be favourites as per usual and as eoin og said if Coolera win you just can't look by tstrane for championship. Tour should win but I don't think by much. Other teams seem to be playing good stuff too so I think we might have an excellent competitive championship this year. Coolaney/Mullinabreena gone down. It was always between themselves, Calry and Tubbercurry. They will look to stay up in championship as a statement of intent and then plan to come straight back up next year. Sligobuck21 (Sligo) - Posts: 87 - 02/08/2022 13:55:55 2435889 Link 0 |
Mayb johns and ballisadare could form a new club
Timmy86 (Sligo) - Posts: 234 - 03/08/2022 09:11:53 2435952 Link 0 |
Ballisodare is a GAA wasteland, they pulled away from owenmore gaels at the turn of the century to form their own club but after a few years they returned to them as they hadn't enough coming through to sustain any underage or adult male teams. The ladies sweated it out, but they too are down to just one team now u16, about time the lgfa County board tell them head back up the old N4 too. dissentinggael (Sligo) - Posts: 6 - 03/08/2022 10:25:22 2435961 Link 0 |
Not a bad suggestions
eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1309 - 03/08/2022 15:09:58 2436033 Link 0 |
Johns already have access to a very large percentage of Sligo's overall population. They just need to leverage it better. As said above, Ballisodare is now effectively part of Owenmore Gaels again, as it was for a good part of the previous century
ShellyGael (Sligo) - Posts: 67 - 03/08/2022 15:56:34 2436047 Link 0 |
St Johns won the U13A league and lost out in U15A league final so far this year. They always have plenty of talent underage, it seems to be an issue with retaining lads rather than anything else. Hopefully they can turn things around pretty quickly.
muscles (Sligo) - Posts: 396 - 04/08/2022 11:34:52 2436156 Link 0 |
St. John's will bounce back. No doubt about that. Maybe something the club needed. There is talent within the senior team and throughout the club. Their aim for the next 3/4 years should be to become a stable Div 2 team. I don't think they have a problem as a club the way it's being made out to be on this forum. A bad league campaign may be all. Sligobuck21 (Sligo) - Posts: 87 - 04/08/2022 15:16:59 2436217 Link 0 |
To call a club "useless" would be a bit unfair. They were a Division 2 team this year and will be next year, finishing third from bottom - how do you label the 2 teams that finished under them?? They could of and should of beaten us this year and we are now in a league final, small margins. Division 2 was very competitive this year bar the thrashings Curry gave out, including us. Very hopeful for a better, closer game this weekend with a good run in the championship to follow. We have no fear after back to back promotions and will relish any challenge. Intermediate championship should be very competitive with the obvious stand out team being St Molaise. Easkey will also be in the mix. As for St Johns, they took their eye off the underage for a number of years, like a number of other clubs. Recent success at U13 A (where they beat our team, BB, in the final) will stand to them as long as they don't lose talent to the show grounds.
Bloodsub6 (Sligo) - Posts: 14 - 05/08/2022 16:28:03 2436355 Link 0 |
Welcome back, Datsrite. The Bunnies have done very well. 2 promotions in 2 years.. it's difficult to see anything positive from a St.Johns perspective.. You can't build your hopes on an U.13 team. Any promising player will be lured to the showgrounds, won't be allowed play Gaelic and then thrown on the scrapheap in a few years time. Unless they can make an immediate return to Div 3 and hold their own there for a year or so and move up again I'm afraid they are screwed. Any player from another county that wants to transfer to a Sligo town club won't look at them. Mary's have hoovered several good players over the years with little or no success. John's won no game in the U.19 C championship and are in the U.17 B championship so hopefully things will improve for them
eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1309 - 06/08/2022 10:54:24 2436396 Link 0 |