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Anyone go to Molaise Mary's or are there any supporters of either on this thread? Bumblebee123 (Sligo) - Posts: 101 - 03/08/2025 13:22:10 2629896 Link
Replying To Bumblebee123: "Anyone go to Molaise Mary's or are there any supporters of either on this thread?" Went to Collooney for the game and while I was impressed with Mary's, have to say Molaise looked way off the teams of the last two years. In fairness Spillane was probably their best player but they seem to have very limited options going forward. Mary's cleaned up at midfield and should have been 3/4 ahead at half time despite playing against a stiff enough breeze. Keaney came on at half time for Molaise (possibly carrying an injury?) but it made little difference as Mary's dominated all over the pitch. The two Rooneys, Gerard O'Kelly Lynch, Patrick Brady and Conor Flynn were very impressive. Cian Breheny and Stephen Coen back are two massive additions to spring from the bench with each scoring, including a two pointer from Breheny. Mary's look well on their way to securing a top 2 place but for Molaise, even though they lost their first game to Tourlestrane last year and recovered, it looks like it's going to be a real mountain for them to climb from here. EastSligoGaels (Sligo) - Posts: 3 - 03/08/2025 13:40:55 2629903 Link
Replying To EastSligoGaels: "Went to Collooney for the game and while I was impressed with Mary's, have to say Molaise looked way off the teams of the last two years. In fairness Spillane was probably their best player but they seem to have very limited options going forward. Mary's cleaned up at midfield and should have been 3/4 ahead at half time despite playing against a stiff enough breeze. Keaney came on at half time for Molaise (possibly carrying an injury?) but it made little difference as Mary's dominated all over the pitch. The two Rooneys, Gerard O'Kelly Lynch, Patrick Brady and Conor Flynn were very impressive. Cian Breheny and Stephen Coen back are two massive additions to spring from the bench with each scoring, including a two pointer from Breheny. Mary's look well on their way to securing a top 2 place but for Molaise, even though they lost their first game to Tourlestrane last year and recovered, it looks like it's going to be a real mountain for them to climb from here." Id have to disagree with you on Spillane being SMG best player. He was very poor imo. Running down alleyways like a calf you'd let out of a shed in early spring. Brady physically and mentally dominated him and for me was the stand out player in the pitch. I wouldn't be reading too much into Mary's performance Molaise were so poor, a 9 point defeat flattered Molaise. I think the result of Marys next game against drp will be more a barometer of where they are at. SMG havent adapted to the new rules at all. No men commited to the breakdown. Laboured in the build up, with no early ball played in and slow to recover when the opposition break. A relegation battle awaits there imo. Conor Flynn looked lively also in 1st half I thought. I thought the intensity of play in the Shamrock Coolera game was a notch above this game. Sligogo (Sligo) - Posts: 11 - 03/08/2025 14:41:22 2629911 Link
Replying To Sligogo: "Id have to disagree with you on Spillane being SMG best player. He was very poor imo. Running down alleyways like a calf you'd let out of a shed in early spring. Brady physically and mentally dominated him and for me was the stand out player in the pitch. I wouldn't be reading too much into Mary's performance Molaise were so poor, a 9 point defeat flattered Molaise. I think the result of Marys next game against drp will be more a barometer of where they are at. SMG havent adapted to the new rules at all. No men commited to the breakdown. Laboured in the build up, with no early ball played in and slow to recover when the opposition break. A relegation battle awaits there imo. Conor Flynn looked lively also in 1st half I thought. I thought the intensity of play in the Shamrock Coolera game was a notch above this game." To be fair now picking a good performance out of the molaise players is six a one half a dozen to the other, they were dominated all over the pitch, at least Spillane tried to get on ball to link the play and scored a couple of points. I agree he didn't have a good game but McLoughlin really struggled and Towey wasn't at the races either. I wouldn't rule Molaise out purely for the fact Tubber are really putting it up to Tourlestrane and could well nick a result, DRP could struggle under the new rules as for all accounts they relied on getting bodies behind the ball under the old rules. New rules really seem to benefit Mary's and Shamrock Gaels so far. In fairness to Mary's I thought their work rate was impressive which is something they'd have been criticised for in years past. EastSligoGaels (Sligo) - Posts: 3 - 03/08/2025 15:16:17 2629916 Link
Shamrocks will be delighted winning and not really playing that well. Coolera have been here before and will not panic, they could have won the game. If they get Murphy and OCarrol back they have enough to win their remaining games although Taylor injury is a worry. The first game of the championship could well be repeated in the final game. Harps are a coming team but I don't think they have enough yet to make the top two, Curry will be in relagation playoffs on current form. Mary's were impressive but how good it's hard to tell as Molaise were very disjointed and rudderless...they usually hand out hammerings in the group games and they now face a knock out game next weekend v Tourlestrane. Tubber will be delighted with their win but they were average and a weakened Tourlestrane will wonder how they left the game behind them in the second half with wasted chances. Tourlestrane or Molaise will be out of the championship next weekend which is the first shock of this years campaign. DRP still to play but on first viewing Mary's should have enough. MrUnderhill (Sligo) - Posts: 109 - 03/08/2025 19:17:46 2629938 Link
A super opening weekend of club championship action with some somewhat surprising results. Starting off with the senior on Friday night I was in Keash, firstly a credit to all in Harps on their continued ground improvements lovely new stand. Some club around could learn a thing or two. Back to the football and a win to Shamrock Gaels who are probably disappointed with their performance scraped by an impressive coolera with the services of Niall Murphy. The injury to Sean Taylor who I am led to believe has a broken leg could be very costly as he is an important part of their team. Not sure who fit Ross O'Carroll is either so sligo's new coach will be tested. David Quinn brought his county form into the club season with some good scores. Marys were very impressive and bullied Molaise all over the park. Yes molaise we're very poor but think think the Mary's performance is being understated by some other posters. Patrick Brady was outstanding at centre back and was MOTM, I'm told he's only 18 but will have caught the eye of O'Hara and Sloyan who were there watching on. Will be a cracker of a game between Mary's and DRP next week. Molaise on the other will have to lick their wounds, there was no fight in them whatsoever. Towey and McLoughlin both poor, Spillane tried hard but couldn't really make his mark with Brady glued to him. How will Molaise react only time will tell. Keaney seemingly dropped from the starting team, although he is overrated imo he do a lot better than Burns when he came on at ht. The combination of external manager and player could backfire and raise some internal tensions, Sligonian might be able to give us an insight on that. In Bunniland, Tubber had a deserved win over Tour with Josh Flynn and Luke Gilmartin doing damage up front. Tour struggled in the full back line without Barry Walsh and Johnny Kelly only coming on as a sub. Tour still reliant on McIntyre and will rue missed chances from Egan Bailey and Matty Walsh. Must mention Walsh who is a player to watch. The match officials should be relieved that tubber won, at least 3 tour breaches were missed and probably two black cards for tour and another for Curran who had a good game at centre back. Went onto Coola then to see Carly and geevagh, Calry had a good and much needed win to steady the ship. Calry have pace with costigan and Callaghan while geevagh were disappointing overall. manfromthewest (Sligo) - Posts: 39 - 03/08/2025 21:42:59 2629963 Link
Getting maximum use of the season pass and availing of the staggered games over the weekend I managed to get to Bunnyland for the Tourlestrane v Tubbercurry game. The first thing that struck me was the amount of people that I saw attending that were at other games over the weekend. This was a poor game. Tubber deservedly won because they were slightly better than Tourlestrane. They must have created 4 goals chances but only took 2. Tourlestrane were wide open at the back. Tubber on the other hand had that wiley old fox Brian Curran playing and he controlled and marshalled the defence very well. O Donnell was very good in midfield for Tourlestrane but they can't expect MC Intyre to play in that pivotal position at this stage of his career. Brian Egan roasted the Tubber full back and was the main scoring threat although Cathal Henry scored a few. For Tubber Josh Flynn was like a Duracell battery, full of energy and caused havoc. Cian Surlis at corner back was good and so was Gilmartin and Aaron Perry. Johnny Kelly came on for Tourlestrane and scored a point straight away but even he couldn't rally the troops. It's hard to understand how Tourlestrane had such an impressive league campaign. eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2197 - 03/08/2025 23:11:45 2629979 Link
Well done to all the posters for the match reports. Taypot (Sligo) - Posts: 188 - 04/08/2025 12:03:03 2630007 Link
By Bunniland do you mean Bunninadden Community Park, which Bunninadden currently rent? Just confused by some of the lingo being thrown around. upsligo (Sligo) - Posts: 16 - 04/08/2025 14:47:08 2630028 Link
Replying To upsligo: "By Bunniland do you mean Bunninadden Community Park, which Bunninadden currently rent? Just confused by some of the lingo being thrown around." Yes land of the Bunnies BreakingBall123 (Sligo) - Posts: 146 - 04/08/2025 19:17:54 2630056 Link
Taking my Molaise Gaels hat off, it was a great weekend of action to start the Sligo Club Championship. I really enjoyed the Coolera v Shamrock Gaels match for its closeness but I would be a little disappointed in the standard especially the basic ball carrying skills and cheap turnovers. I actually felt Shamrock Gaels won without playing that well tbh. Coolera minus Murphy and O Carroll meant the Gaels had to win to carry any belief into beating them further down the line and they did that. It could have went either way, Harte had a few missed frees late on but he was immense and the Gaels could have won easier if he hadn't made those 2 great saves. Not sure Deignan could have done much more. Lee was great and led with his energy throughout. Quinn long range ability is such an asset with the new rules and he stepped up when needed. I like the look of Barlow for them. Lots of high octane stuff but the amount of lateral blind passes and leaving the ball behind themselves was concerning from a standard perspective. The grounds looked great too so fair play to harps on that front. On the Marys v Molaise match, not much to say, fair play to Marys, deserved win, a very bad day at the office for us, there are obvious lessons on our build up play and ways for us to improve so hopefully all learn them fast for a huge game against Tourlestrane this weekend. 2 teams not in form and questioning themselves. Hopefully we can improve and get the win before a 3 week break for us. For whoever loses morale will be very low so a lot at stake. Great result for Tubbercurry, especially after Tourlestrane took the lead 2nd half and Harps continue to look strong this year under Ross Donovan. He seems to be doing a great job there. Sligonian (Sligo) - Posts: 1899 - 04/08/2025 22:13:58 2630077 Link
Long time reader, very few time poster. Hoping to change that. Good start to the championship weekend. Mostly favourites coming out on top though. Eoinoig seemingly the only to predict Tubber coming out on top of Tourlestrane. Senior I reckon in the end will come down to Shamrock Gaels and Coolera/Strandhill. Gaels getting the upper hand this time round and looking strong for the championship outright. Both will most likely meet in the final being in the same group. Harps getting a good win over Curry should keep them in the battle in that group but 3rd and safe for them in the end I feel. Group 2 a lot less predictable. Mary's to top the group. Every other spot is a toss of a coin now with Tubber beating Tourlestrane. DRP could upset any team on their day. Still have a sneaky feeling Tourlestrane will come back and take 2nd. In intermediate Castleconnor seemed to go against all the predictions and edge Bunninadden. Looking at that group I reckon they take 2nd behind Coolaney/Mullinabreena. With all the excitement with Carrabine coming back now gone due to the unfortunate injury I still reckon they have enough get to the semis if Flynn keeps fit and scoring. Coolaney with a predictable win. Other side I thought Enniscrone would do more damage to Farnans. Calry also getting the predictable win. Enniscrone to top that group with Calry not far behind I reckon. gaahub2020 (Sligo) - Posts: 4 - 05/08/2025 06:29:46 2630096 Link
Only got to the game in Bunninadden on Sunday and must say that I'm so surprised with Tourlestrane. Couldn't match the running power of Tubbercurry and don't look that resolute defensive unit we are so used to seeing. Tubbercurry were full value for the win. The only saving grace for Touris that Molaise don't seem to be doing well and they play them right away. Huge result for Marys against them but I still think if Tour got up and running again they could take them. Harps are another team that have to be taken serious as Owen B challengers. A big win for them though they will need to get over Coolera when that comes around. One would think there will be a big reaction to their opening day result. At the moment, I'm at a loss to predict a winner of the senior championship. In intermediate, no major surprises with Enniscrone and Calry winning on one side and Castleconnor and Mullinabreena on the other. I did think Geevagh would put up a better fight and that Bunninadden might edge it, but they both will look to avoid bottom two now. Again it's difficult to see a standout in intermediate at the moment. johncreilly (Sligo) - Posts: 175 - 05/08/2025 11:09:26 2630120 Link
Great reports on games the weekend, much appreciated by those of us who can't make them. Intermediate and senior probably won't take shape until after round 3 and we should have a good idea of a likely winner by then. Molaise and Tour under pressure already. The county board get a lot of flak but this champ format is very good. Every game has something at stake and never really any dead rubbers. westvoice (Sligo) - Posts: 84 - 05/08/2025 11:19:50 2630122 Link
An interesting start to the championship but as one poster said it'll probably round 3 before you get a better guide as to how things are shaping but certainly for anyone who lost last weekend a further loss this week will mean you're out of advancing unless everyone starts beating everyone. In senior, Tourlestrane will be the most bruised after the weekend and similarly in Intermediate Bunninadden losing to Castleconnor will be very disappointing and it's hard to see them making up the lost ground. Intermediate has never been as wide open I think. Predictions for this coming weekend. Senior: Coolera v Curry...Coolera without major hassle Shamrock Gaels v Easkey.....Gaels to win handily enough St Molaise Gaels v Tourlestrane...I'll pluck for a draw St Marys v DRP.....Mary's narrowly Intermediate: Calry v St Farnans....tight one to call but will go with Calry Geevagh v St Pats....Geevagh by 4/5 Mullinabreena v Ballymote....Mullinabreena by 5+ Bunninadden v Owenmore Gaels....Owenmore Gaels narrowly. Junior A St Johns v St Molaise Gaels....St Johns St Michaels v Tourlestrane....St Michaels Cloonacool v E.Harps....Cloonacool St Marys v Tubber....St Marys Sligoman1234 (Sligo) - Posts: 574 - 05/08/2025 12:40:38 2630136 Link
Replying To Sligoman1234: "An interesting start to the championship but as one poster said it'll probably round 3 before you get a better guide as to how things are shaping but certainly for anyone who lost last weekend a further loss this week will mean you're out of advancing unless everyone starts beating everyone. In senior, Tourlestrane will be the most bruised after the weekend and similarly in Intermediate Bunninadden losing to Castleconnor will be very disappointing and it's hard to see them making up the lost ground. Intermediate has never been as wide open I think. Predictions for this coming weekend. Senior: Coolera v Curry...Coolera without major hassle Shamrock Gaels v Easkey.....Gaels to win handily enough St Molaise Gaels v Tourlestrane...I'll pluck for a draw St Marys v DRP.....Mary's narrowly Intermediate: Calry v St Farnans....tight one to call but will go with Calry Geevagh v St Pats....Geevagh by 4/5 Mullinabreena v Ballymote....Mullinabreena by 5+ Bunninadden v Owenmore Gaels....Owenmore Gaels narrowly. Junior A St Johns v St Molaise Gaels....St Johns St Michaels v Tourlestrane....St Michaels Cloonacool v E.Harps....Cloonacool St Marys v Tubber....St Marys" Im expecting fairly straightforward results in the senior championship this weekend but wouldn't a shock be great for the competition. Coolera with or without Murphy will beat Curry even if Curry play down the hill for both halves. Molaise will get 2 points on the board as they will beat Tourlestrane. Shamrock Gaels struggled to beat Easkey the last time they met in the championship, no such worries this weekend. It's the first outing for DRP and I expect it will be a losing one for them. Mary's to win. In the intermediate Geevagh seem to have gone back a little this year but I give them the thumbs up to beat Pats. The bunnies let me down last weekend so I will give them a second chance and I think they will beat Owenmore Gaels. Calry had a good win last weekend so I think they will win against Farnans this weekend.(Just about) Mullinabreena to beat Ballymote . In the junior wins for John's Michaels Cloonacool Marys eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2197 - 07/08/2025 11:58:28 2630394 Link
Senior: Coolera v Curry...Coolera Shamrock Gaels v Easkey.....Shamrock Gaels St Molaise Gaels v Tourlestrane...St Molaise St Marys v DRP.....A draw Intermediate: Calry v St Farnans....Calry Geevagh v St Pats....St Pats Mullinabreena v Ballymote....Mullinabreena Bunninadden v Owenmore Gaels....Owenmore Gaels Fair play to Sligo GAA for their coverage at the weekend, was away last weekend but tuned in for the games. Thought ti was very Professional. RealSouthSligo (Sligo) - Posts: 130 - 07/08/2025 13:00:13 2630407 Link
Senior: Coolera v Curry...Coolera to get back on track Shamrock Gaels v Easkey.....Shamrock Gaels comfortably St Molaise Gaels v Tourlestrane Too much of a turnover in players in last 2 years in Tourlestrane camp. Another player went travelling 3 weeks ago (great timing). Barry Walsh also likely to be out. Molaise to win St Marys v DRP Mary's to keep up impressive start Intermediate: Calry v St Farnans Farnans Geevagh v St Pats Geevagh Mullinabreena v Ballymote Mullinabreena Bunninadden v Owenmore Gaels....Owenmore Gaels Anto (Sligo) - Posts: 388 - 08/08/2025 10:06:14 2630510 Link
Predictions for this weekend Senior: Coolera v Curry - Coolera Shamrock Gaels v Easkey - Shamrock Gaels St Molaise Gaels v Tourlestrane - Tourlestrane (expecting Barry Walsh to be back) St Marys v DRP - Draw Intermediate: Calry v St Farnans - Calry Geevagh v St Pats - Geevagh Mullinabreena v Ballymote - Ballymote Bunninadden v Owenmore Gaels - Gaels Junior A St Johns v St Molaise Gaels - Molaise St Michaels v Tourlestrane - Michaels Cloonacool v E.Harps - Cloonacool St Marys v Tubber - Marys manfromthewest (Sligo) - Posts: 39 - 08/08/2025 10:12:06 2630511 Link
Tourlestrane are finished. A number of guys not conditioned, few lads with alot of mileage on legs and no real pace throughout the team are bad ingredients to have at this time of year. Malaoise not looking to good either, their county men didn't step up when needed and I taught Spillane gave away the ball to often and no real end product. Mary's and S Gaels look good as they have pace and youth on their side, and with Murphy back with Coolera are going to be hard bet. Prediction: Shamrock Gaels to win Coolera Runner up sillymoocow (Sligo) - Posts: 6 - 08/08/2025 13:21:15 2630559 Link