Fingal 0 Pembroke 3 (Alan Sothern 2, Justin Sherriff)
Pembroke took their time but eventually found joy as they looked to break down another feverish half-court performance from Fingal in a good, clean battle at the airport this afternoon. The IHL champions enjoyed more of the play but – as Glenanne found last week in the Mills Cup – Fingal are a tough nut to crack on home turf and, while leading the first half corner count two-one, went into the half-time break at 0-0.
But the gaps began to appear in the second half with Alan Sothern opening the scoring with a nice dink over the goalkeeper following Justin Sherriff’s ball in. And he doubled his tally with a nicely executed first time reverse from a ball in from the left flank. Sherriff completed the scoring with a short corner hit. Paddy Conlon, though, picked up a thumb injury in the first half.
Glenanne 2 (Joe Brennan, David Keogh) Railway Union 1 (Jeffrey Spillane)
Glenanne recovered from a goal deficit to pick up all three points at St Mark's and move within seven points of league leaders Corinthian with three games in hand and in touch on a Pembroke side who lie five points ahead and one game extra played. Jeffrey Spillane added to his Saturday double for the second team in the Irish Junior for Railway with a forehand smash to open the scoring but Joe Brennan equalised from a corner breakdown before David Keogh got what proved to be the winner before half-time. The Park Avenue club remain in eighth place in the table.
Mills Cup, second round:
TRR 0 Corinthian 3 (David Carson, Lucas Piccioli, Brian Doherty)
A rampant Corinthian first half performance paved their way into the semi-finals of the Mills Cup where they will face Pembroke, currently set for February 21. David Carson put the reds ahead of rivals Three Rock Rovers early on before an impressive Lucas Piccioli goal against his former club made it 2-0.
While man-marked tightly, the Venezuelan controlled a crash ball brilliantly before unleashing a fierce shot from five yards off the baseline. Brian Doherty whipped in a high drag-flick on the stroke of half-time to be in total control. Rovers switched out of their half-court game and enjoyed more of the play in the second period but were unable to convert any chances to get back into the game.
U21s cup: YMCA 3-0 pembroke
ReplyDeleteKeith Crawford made his debut for Pembroke. What a player. Fingals loss is Pembrokes gain.
ReplyDeleteTHE keith crawford??
ReplyDeleteas in the finest exponent of skillz this isle has ever seen??
he only played for 5 mins.
ReplyDeletedoes anyone know if the Mills Cup semi's are being held at a neutral venue?
ReplyDeleteare the Mills cup semi's on this Sunday? Aren't they normally at a neutral venue? Anyone know anything?
ReplyDeleteU21s - Railway 2 Avoca 0
ReplyDeletethere was an email sent round asking for applications for who wanted to host the semi-finals earlier this season.
ReplyDeleteThought the TRRvCHC game was very one sided for the most of it. TRR had their chances though and Murray played outstanding when he was needed. Thought the midfield of Sutton & Pelow were far superior than the opposition and the class upfront definitely showed with Kimfley, Carson and Lucas.
ReplyDeletecant agree with you there. the difference was their center backs and kimfley
ReplyDeleteSoutherns a machine,doesn't stop scoring!
ReplyDeleteYep.. Doherty and Cronje were rock solid at the back and Kimfley was a major threat up front through out the game...
ReplyDeleteIt was a game of two halves though and Corinthian repelled all Rovers advances in the second to hold on to the 3 goal advantage built up in the first.
I was blown away by carsons performances on the weekend, the name david yuss carson is starting to stick, any sniff of a goal he puts it away.
ReplyDeletecarson was a real wild cat in the D this weekend. he also blew me away.
ReplyDeleteanyone catch the glens v railway game....it ended up being A LOT tighter than ever anticipated!
ReplyDeleteRailway did a Fingal on it and put 11 men on the goal line!
ReplyDeleteIf I was from Glenanne, I'd expect a lot more of it too! Loss to Fingal and only a narrow defeat of Railway shows that it can work so why not!
ReplyDeleteSure, by extension Glens did it to Pembroke so maybe this anti-hockey is the way forward.
teams are doing it to glens because glens defenders are no spring chickens(butler, brennan, murphy, fitz all the wrong side of 30) so the trick is getting them far up the pitch so they can be easily countered. If you look at international hockey or the EHL a lot of hockey is being played this way.
ReplyDeleteDont think Brennan would be happy to be put in that bracket!
ReplyDeletebrennan the wrong side of 30?
ReplyDeleteBrennan, just 28.
ReplyDeleteJoe Brennan is far from over the hill ! Butler aint exactly finished either.
ReplyDeleteWeaker teams will always play "negative" to cope with a superior team. you find this in all sports at all levels.
But 9 times out of 10 - the superior team will win,
Sure glenanne & pembroke have both done a "fingal" against european teams.
Railway went one up on Glenanne within 15/20 minutes, Thats doesn´t happen by playing negative. Railway played well, Glenanne were poor by their statdards. Results and games like this are good for the league.
ReplyDeleteIm confused - but didnt glenanne actually win this game - so why are people on saying its great for the game for this result
ReplyDeleteIs it that only beat railway by one goal ! - come on i have heard it all now
" Glenanne team over the hill because they won a game by only one goal "
really
Didn't pembroke beat railway by 11 at the start of the season?
ReplyDeleteSomething like that but didn't Glenanne beat Pembroke recently, so you know what that proves......absolutely nothing!!
ReplyDeleteAs a spectator of that glenanne pembroke recent game, it was a case of pembroke losing it rather than glenanne winning it. If pembroke had of taken their chances they could have won the game by a similar scoreline to their railway win!I think the glenanne players and supporters recognise this and aren't disillusioned by their win
ReplyDeleteto be fair to railway - they lost by 10 against pembroke....and it was in october!
ReplyDeletei think what's meant by the 'good for the league' comment is that it's good to see that 'lower' teams can push the 'top' teams all the way for 70odd mins. it most certainly does make things more exciting; a tense 2-1,3-2,5-4 game will always be far more exciting for the spectator than an 8/9/10-0 thrashing of a team (even if it is the bigger team than wins narrowly).
Maybe not disillusioned but I'm sure their delighted nonetheless!!
ReplyDeleteIn every match there's always could've, should've, would've moments. Stop with the "what ifs" though. Results are what count, only 3 points available in the league or the next round of a cup if you win. Doesn't matter if u win by 1 or 11...