Glenanne 0 Corinthian 6 (Brian Doherty 2, Conor Motyer, Chris Pelow, Andrew Cronje, Rowland Rixon-Fuller)
Corinthian picked up a surprisingly simple win at St Mark's this afternoon to make sure they stay in the mixer for a maiden title on Sunday afternoon hen they travel to Clontarf.
In the absence of Steven Doran and Stephen Butler - out for the final weekend of the Leinster league season following last week's red cards - Gareth Carragher stepped in for an exceptionally busy afternoon, pulling off a string of saves but he was powerless to stop Brian Doherty's first half drag-flick and a miraculous deflection from Conor Motyer for 2-0 at half-time. And the reds put a listless Glenanne performance to the sword as Doherty notched his second while Andrew Cronje, Chris Pelow and Rowland Rixon-Fuller all got in on the act.
The Whitechurch club, with the win, become the only side to have picked up a victory over every single opponent in the league campaign and, should they beat the Bulls will finish the season with an unbeaten away record. For the Glens, they have now lost three games on the spin, an incredibly rare occurrence in modern times.
Men's Division Two:
Navan 0 Dublin University 7 (Andy Gray 2, Craig Moore, Daire Coady, Henry Butler, Charlie Pearmund, Andrew Beverland)
Dublin Uni end a league campaign of 'what might have been' as they recorded yet another huge win, hitting the top spot for the first time this season. It is nigh on impossible for them to stay there with each of the other contenders having three games still to play. Currently, they have scored over 25 goals more than their nearest rival and ended the season on a run of 16 points from a possible 18. Had they hit form sooner, a title challenge could have been a closer run thing.
Once again, the goals were shared around with six players on the mark with Daire Coady, Andrew Beverland and Charlie Pearmund's drag-flick netting from corners. The Badgers remain in fifth place as Bray were unable to field against Avoca this afternoon.
Men's Irish Junior Cup:
YMCA II and Monkstown II ensured the Irish Junior Cup will return to Dublin after a year in Cork as they produced excellent away wins in Ulster this afternoon, beating Cookstown II and Lisnagarvey II, respectively. Andy Ewington was the golden goal hero for the Town, dragging home with a minute and a half to earn a 3-2 win. Richard Sykes and Simon Groves were on target for the Town in normal time though Frank Ryan missed an early stroke saved. YM's route was slightly less fraught with former Sandford senior league winner Gary Ryan doubling up while Warwick Armstrong was also on the mark in a 3-1 win.
Results: Lisnagarvey 2 (G Bittle, Matt Murphy) Monkstown 3 (Simon Groves, Richard Sykes, Andy Ewington) on golden goal; Cookstown 1 (Ian Sloan) YMCA 3 (Gary Ryan 2, Warwick Armstrong)
15 comments:
Brian Delaney back in the big time!!
Go on Delboy!
Whens the last time the Glens lost by that many in the Leinster league? Doesn't matter who they were missing...still a great result for the reds and whether they win the title or not i think they're team of the season!
JC
obviously not team of the season if they don't win the league.Most improved team yes,but not team of the season.
Too be perfectly honest corinthians came into the game fresh while glens were tired after what was a very difficult week.
Dont mean to take away from a great win. But surely 10.59 Doran and Butler are key players. Would the score be the same with them on the pitch? I think not!
PWHC Player.
Glenanne were very poor today. Very porous at the back and no real incisiveness going forward.
Corinthians played deep and caught them on the break and it was a joy to watch counter attacking hockey being played in such a disciplined standard. I'd say about 70% of play in the second half was in and around the Corinthians 25 yet they scored 4 goals. Shows great tactical discipline and a streak of ruthlessness in front of goal.
Could be a big season for delboy! All Ireland success and possible ijc and European success to come!
YMCA will have a difficult fixture to navigate at Railway . Have a feeling that it will be 3-3
Find it funny when people say things like Doran and Butler are a big loss and the result would have been different etc etc. Yes it probably would have been different, but they also should have been there - it was their own fault they were unavailable, it wasn't down to a freak injury or anything, they got a red card. So people shouldn't try to make excuses for them.
any idea as to when and where the relegation/promotion play off will be on? Should be an interesting game.
11.29 must have been watching a different game,first 10 mins of the second half were all glens then chc scored the 3rd and it was all chc after that. Agree that butler and doran are huge for the glens but chc were excellent and worked hard to get the result. Fair play to them, I was the one in the early stages of the season who said that chc couldn't stick it out at the top but they've brought it down to the final day so good luck to them.
GC
COM ON YM!FIRSTS AND SECONDS!!!!
11:04 PM, if you win the league then you are league winners but NOT necessarily team of the season.
I think there's a little bit more to team of the season than that.
Reckon that's what JC @ 10:59 was getting at too.
Ease up with the tunnel vision...
Corinthian can only play what team appears in front of them.
No problem with result,Schoolboy Gareth in goal for Glens made good safes and is one for the future.
Result and match makes no difference to Glens league position
nor does to-days game against Monkswtown.
Glens have now played Corinthian 4 times this season and have beaten them 3 times,3-1 league,3-0 Neville cup final(Corinthian were short players)and 4-2 ISC.
FYI Butler and Doran were withdrawn
voluntarily by Glens for this game and v Mtown as Branch had no time to complete disciplinary hearings before end of season.
were glenanne only missing the two stephens?
Some clubs just love writing off the glens, its being like this for years. They are still in the isc & club championships so have alot to play for.
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