Neville Cup, Round One
YMCA 3 (Richie Pedreschi, Mikey Fry, David Robinson) TRR 1 (Garry Ringwood)
YMCA continued their fine recent form against Three Rock Rovers to record a comfortable opening day win and reach the last eight of the Neville Cup at Alexandra College.
Shane Madeley had an early goal chalked off but, from then on, YM were comfortably in control with Richie Pedreschi's fine touch opening the scoring before Mikey Fry finished off a good team move. David Robinson completed their tally in the 60th minute with a drag-flick.
Rovers only response came late on from the penalty spot while Neil Lyons picked up his first yellow card since U-16 level hockey.
UCD 2 (Ronan Flannery, Tim Hill) Fingal 3 (Trevor Parsons, David Bane, Paddy Gahan)
Three goals in 14 second half minutes swung this tie in Fingal's favour as they over-turned a 1-0 half-time deficit to beat John McInroy's UCD at Belfield.
Ronan Flannery's first half corner gave the students the lead in a tetchy first half which saw four green cards and Fingal reduced to nine men when Paddy Gahan and Brian Gray were both sin-binned.
But they bounced back with goals from Trevor Parsons, David Bane and Gahan to lead 3-1 with 20 minutes left. Tim Hill scored on debut to pull one back late on.
Glenanne 6 (Shane O'Donoghue 2, Mark Lambe 2, Eddie O'Malley, Alan Lewis) Suttonians 0
Glenanne enjoyed a comfortable easing into the competitive season with a half-dozen goals against Suttonians at St Mark's this afternoon. Teenager Shane O'Donoghue responded to his recent call-up to the Ireland A futures panel with a brace while the more experienced Mark Lambe also netted twice.
* For more of Adrian Boehm's photos from YMCA vs Fingal, click here; for Emer Keogh's photos from the same game, click here. UCD vs Fingal pics can be found here.
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24 comments:
C'mon Rovers its simply not good enough!
You should be challenging for the right to call yourselves "Best in Ireland'.
Predictable enough results given player movement --students need to stick to studenting and not upset their hectic lives with serious mc hockey !! c'mon the ymc aus
YM beating rovers, could the hype surrounding the summer moves be true? are Rovers on the way down? period of transition? or too early to say?
"Students need to stick to studenting and not upset their hectis lives with serious mc hockey"
What a ridiculous comment to make!!!! Perhaps your just afraid that the students might pose a greater threat this year than ever before.
The lads are putting in a great deal of work and deserve to do well. Best of luck to them and in future 7.30pm...keep your petty comments to yourself!
ha thats a stupid comment... UCD will suprise alot of people. Anyone watching the match yesterday will know they didnt deserve to lose. But lets just wait, and let UCD's hockey do the talking. They have made some great signings, with McInroy, Flannery, Tim Hill and the two young lads from YMCA. Looking at 3rock yesterday, it looks like they will really struggle this year, and it looks like YM can challenge at the top of the table for a change
rovers missing 9 players from squad yesterday. Dont write them off just yet.
In fairness I think Pembroke and Glenanne will still whoop everyone. They're just too strong, technically and physically.
i love the way everyone is predicting the brilliance of UCD to come...
UCD will finish 6th at best..
lets get real here.....
whoop di do...........
aP
Don't think anyone has predicted them finishing anywhere to be fair, just that they'd cause a few upsets, which they might.
The league hasn't even started, is there really a need for these squabbles?
YM support on here are starting to sound like the English soccer commentators who think England have already won the world cup. "YM can challenge at the top of the table" Get real guys the league hasn't started and you beat a very depleted Rovers team. I could be wrong of course but the irony is that YM will probably vying with UCD for those mid-table spots.
To be fair, I don't think Ym will be towards the bottom this term. If Jacob Webber returns and scores the goals then they will do well. Pembroke and Glenanne will be the teams to chase this season. The teams under that will be really competitive and for a realistic change ym will be amongst those teams in the hunt. But nothing more than that.
Prediction... An even more competitive leinster league but there are 2 that will be a grade above the rest.
Depends on your idea of competitive, Pem and Glens will both pull further clear of the rest and while mid-table skirmish will be interesting, not sure it helps the top two.
Corinthians could test them the way Rovers did in the last two seasons but other than that, I think the league may be a bit weaker as a whole.
With Pembroke and Glennane concentrating on EHL, there is an opening for a.n.other to perform in the leinster league. Its clear that TRR last year and PWHC the previous year struggled a little in the league when aiming to peak at EHL.
I would be surprised if they dont finish as 1 & 2 but dont be too sure this early.
Why are teams like CHC, UCD & YMCA being talked up so much this year, they are all good solid teams but its not only the leinster league that counts, why not use the league to gain the competitive edge to push for 4 semi-final spots for leinster in the IHL this year rather that bitching at each other.
In most Euro countries the top two in the league playoffs go to EHL.
In scotland they play the winner of their Senior cup against the 2nd place team in the league playoffs in a one off decider game.
We should adopt this, and if one of the top two teams in league win the cup, it obvious that this decider match would not take place.
The IHL is too big a competion financially for clubs to just have one place available for EHL.
Great idea about playoff between isc winners and ihl runners up. reckon there could be a big change at top of leinster league this year. How will top teams cope without internationals which will happen for a good while this season?
Does anyone know why Railway and Navan are not in the Neville Cup?
http://www.leinsterhockey.org/Public/CupResults.php
Ym could well get themselves into an IHL spot but the top three in leinster last year will be the teams vying for all the significant trophies once again this season. No matter how many comments say otherwise everyone knows this will be the case.
The year pembroke were in the EHL first they were unbeaten in the league,not losing one single game.Hardly struggling.
I think the point is they had quite a bit of momentum early season and then picked up a number of injuries which may well have cost them the Club Championships.
With the side they had, they were flying early season and most expected them to sweep the board.
Smashed Rovers 4-1 at Grange road in october just before the EHL.
But eventually the amount of matches paid its price, won the ISC but were well in with a shout for both the Leinster league and club championships and faded badly - looked a seriously tired outift that finals weekend, not scoring in 155 minutes of hockey bar strokes.
it was a strange one as they had not lost while international players were away for the olympis qualifier but when they came back they started dropping lots of league points.
"The year pembroke were in the EHL first they were unbeaten in the league,not losing one single game.Hardly struggling"
Unbeaten and not losing a single game, now that is impressive!!!
Pembroke and Glens will be top but the battle for the rest of the IHL will be very interesting this year, alot of teams on the same level
To answer the earlier query Railway are not in The Neville Cup because they have been banned by the Leinster Branch from all Cup Competitions - I believe they are appealing Irish Junior and Senior to Irish Hockey.
Railway have NOT been banned from any Leinster competition , they choose not to enter
Why would Railway choose to not enter a competition that would give them good, competitive pre season matches? Are they perhaps too good to waste their time playing against some under strength teams?
pembroke last lost a league game 3 years ago to glenanne-thats it!unbeaten last year too!
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