Neville Cup Round One:
Dublin Uni 1 (Tolley Humphries) Monkstown 7 (Andy Ewington 5, Frank Ryan 2)
Andy Ewington made a dream debut for Monkstown as the New Zealand showed his penalty corner menace at Santry this evening, crashing in four drag-flicks as well as rebounding another penalty corner.
Trinity kept the visitors to just a single first half but the Town cut loose in the second period as Ewington found his range while teenager Frank Ryan weighed in with a pair. Tolley Humphries got the sole response with the score at 4-0.
Gareth Watkins sat the game out but Monkstown easily progress to set up another visit to the Santry area on Saturday, this time to face a stiffer test in Fingal.
Neville Cup Round 2 (all Saturday)
Fingal v Monkstown, 2pm, ALSAA; Skerries vs. Glenanne, 2pm, Skerries; Corinthians v Pembroke Wanderers, 1.30pm,Whitechurch Park; YMCA v Clontarf, 3pm, Alexandra College
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33 comments:
is the darw for the semis decided already,
Fingal/Monkstown vs Skerries/Glenanne;
Corinthian/Pembroke vs YMCA/Clontarf
to be played before November 29
another glens vs pembroke final
eh, would defo not be too sure on that one. Pembroke were a bit ropey in mideweek and still no internationals allowed.
Corinthian diddled their full team in Mills final so would defo think on home turf they can take em
Any photos findo? We need to see if this New Zealander is good lookin!
Sorry no. I was at the Dublin senior football championship last night between Plunketts and Jude's - cracking game but meant I missed this one.
The lights in Santry also don't work too well with my camera unfortunately.
Don't worry about Andy, he's not great looking!
Stephen, I think you mean the lights in Santry don't work.
The lights in Santry are not really adequate for night matches - you can hardly see the ball on the other side of the pitch. Also would help though if the home team could supply a white (not dirty grey) match ball.
With Jaros, Lee and Horsfield missing it will be Monkstown rather than YMCA that will be using the excuse of being a very young team this year. What was it that was said by Alan Hansen about Alex Ferguson's Utd - "you'll never win anything with kids"
allen, watkins, groves....monkstown dont seem that young to me
Are Skerries even going to bother putting out a team against Glenane?? They've pulled out of Division 2, Glenane's 3rds could peobably take them at this stage!
Guys anything could happen, its a cup game remember
Hold on der buddy skerries has not pulled out of div 2
If skerries have pulled out of division 2 that only leaves 6 teams. The standard of hockey is going to suffer because of it and the rift between the top two divisions is only going to grow.the branch need to do something to try and rectify it before it gets worse
skerries apparently have pulled out of division 2! I think this is disastrous for the teams in the division who have put in the work in pre season. the branch need to sort this out as thats 3 teams this season that have decided to drop down divisions. kilkenny, naas and now skerries! I think its about time the branch pushed to help out the struggling teams and not focus all their attention on the top div 1 teams. how can the game develop in the lower divisions without their backing!
Watkins and Allen weren't playing for the town last pm!!
Just back to the Santry issue again, Anonymous - September 18, 2009 1:41 PM is right.
Could Trinity please clean their balls before games in future.
Findo, think that's true about Skerries droppin out? Does that explain why Div 2 fixtures only go as far as October?
Skerries pulling out of Div 2 with a week to go til the league starts is an absolute disgrace. It makes a joke of the league.
6 teams now in the league, what a joke.
that means only ten league matches for Div 2 teams. The suggestion of playing each other 3 times has been touted about which would not solve anything.
corinthians v's glens final. cor win 4:2. mark my words
div 2 : teams will play each other 3 times. just confirmed. not ideal but something. in fairness probably the strongest 6 teams anyway.
They need to change the relegation ruling for this season only too: Bottom 2 go automatically go down with 3rd bottom in the playoff from Div 1 and Div 2 winners go up. and 2nd as normal play in the playoff Know you have 8 in each divison.
Lets face it there are not enough clubs.
Skerries Have Pulled out of DIv2. This decision was a tough one to make but we felt it had to be done. It was due to the loss of so many 1st team players from last year and not enough players coming through the ranks. As a player and a committee i was gutted byt this. But in fairness to the club players and other clubs it wouldnt have worked.
I would like to thnak the clubs who rang me yesterday to say how sorry they were about this.
Best of luck to everyone in Div 2 this year. I know its not ideal but just make the most of it.
Here someone give Mullingar and Portrane a bell there, see if there around for a few div 2 games durin the season!
We're not pullin in a very positive direction here lads, funny thing is we'll probably still win the junior interpros again at the end of the season, funny wha!
"Just back to the Santry issue again, Anonymous - September 18, 2009 1:41 PM is right.
Could Trinity please clean their balls before games in future."
- I totally agree, the place is a disgrace. No dashed 5 yerd line and a filty ball. Shambolic. Lads sort yourselves out!
This aint funny at all!! We badly need more clubs to develop. This will have a knock on effect in years to come in div 1 as teams in div 2 are going to keep losing any talent to the like of ym pembroke monkstown trr glens etc.
We need the Leinster branch to do something right now!
Would it be an idea to run the leinster league like the school girls premiership two groups of 8 each plays eachother twice or something. Followed by classification matches. Top team from each group qualify for IHL next year. while 2nd in each group qualify for IHL wild card.
FEED BACK PLEASE!?!?!
Sure santrys grand. All these moany monkstown boys need to grow up a dirty ball never hurt anybody. They play a couple of games for ireland under 18s or whatever and suddenly there too good for santry! There gonna finish sixth or lower this year id say
is that the third case this year of division 2 teams dropping out of the division?
i'd also like to know what the branch could possibly do to keep the teams playing in division 2.
these clubs all seem to have dropped down the divisions due to the lack of good first team players, possibly due to them leaving and not being replaced with equal or better quality.
players playing for the so called "big clubs" 2nds 3rds and 4ths etc. must be questioned with having a lack of ambition, why play in these divisions year after year without getting much of a look in for the 1st team?! a season with a division 2 team and you could easily be looking at playing division 1 hockey after promotion. just does'nt make sense to me to waste a career when you could be making a real differance at one of these clubs. the standard is fairly similar in division 2 with no teams hugely superior to the other, some people just need to be willing to make the change and join one of these clubs because division 1 hockey could only be a season away.
Sorry 7:42, dont agree with you.
The MAJORITY of Div 3 clubs have a higher playing standard and get to learn a huge amount from 1st team players and especially coaches who's teachings naturally transfer into Div3 squads for two reasons.
A)Our 2nd's team strive to mimick the 1st team playing style in regards to tactics and drills and
B)Usually almost half the fielded 2nd team is from the first team squad(because they may not be getting enough playing time or they are fringe 1st team players etc.). Regardles they are always busting a nut for the team to play more regularly on the 1st's.
Hence the bar is constantly being raised.
my response to 7.42pm would be that it is not just division two clubs who need players to fill their teams to keep their club running not just let them flit off to some other club just becuase they 'should' play at that level.
LOYALTY i think is the key. If we can get players to stick to clubs and not just leave when things go wrong.
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