Monday 6.45 P.M.....
The McGovern Directional Drilling
team made a promising start to the Division 2 League (O'Gara Cup) with a
comprehensive win over St Michael’s on an excellent Cootehall pitch on Sunday.
The game featured two goals from Donie Smith (one from a penalty) and a
goal from Mark O'Connor. Sunday saw the introduction of former Eastern Harps
star Ray Hannon now domiciled in Boyle and awaiting his Boyle ‘Green Card’. Boyle
started well and might have put up a match-winning lead in the first ten
minutes, however the lead was 1.2 to nil. St. Michael’s came back with 4 points
in the following 10 minutes as Boyle had a barren spell of 15 minutes. In this
phase the Boyle keeper Ciaran Beirne made a great save to keep Boyle in front.
Then followed points from Darren O'Connor and Ray Hannon's first for the club. Cian
and Donal Smith finished the half with two frees to leave the half time score
Boyle 1.6 St Michael’s 0.4. Boyle were in control in the second half and Enda Smith’s point was
followed by a Donie penalty on 14 minutes. Ml. Paul Gilmartin added a
further minor but while Michael’s added
3 points Mark O’Connor (‘Bagsey’) with a well taken goal, brought a comfortable
win to an end. The final score was, Boyle 3.10 St. Michael’s 0.7. The score
line might suggest it was an impressive performance but the fact is that St.
Michael’s (for a team who played in an Intermediate county final) were
surprisingly poor on the day. There was considerable rustiness on the Boyle
side also which, I imagine, was understandable. There were a number of bad
misplaced passes, fumbles in possession, being pulled totally to one side of
the field, not playing wide enough etc. The back line needs to ensure that they
do not leave an attacker totally on his own, inside. That requires talking and
informing. Oddly I felt that there were elements of a ‘challenge’ game to this.
On the other side there were a good few positives, Ciaran Beirne was
fine in goals, maybe he needs to keep his last line informed. The full back
line did well with Kieran Supple showing his strength. The half back line also
did well, generally. Cillian Cox had another good game and surged up field to
effect on one occasion as did Ml. Paul Gilmartin. Ml. Hanmore has a good intro
to this level. Ciaran Cox and Enda Smith form a good midfield and Enda (in a ‘Man
of the Match’ performance) showed his power and speed with an incisive run in
the first half plus a number of great pieces of fielding. Ray Hannon had a very
satisfactory debut in the Boyle colours and his passing especially the height
and angle will be a big help to Donie and co. of the inside forwards. Tadgh
Lowe’s long range efforts were marginally off but on another day these kind of
scores could be a big option. Mark O’Donohoe and Jim Suffin also got around the
park when introduced while Mark O’Connor’s goal was top drawer It was a positive all round performance with
strong contributions from all players and subs used. They will meet Michael
Glaveys in their next outing in this competition on Saturday week 9th March. So
it is going to be an interesting campaign and one to look forward with optimism
to.
The Boyle team was as follows: C.Beirne,
K.Supple, D.Callaghan, A. Sharkey, M.Goldrick, C.Cox, Ml. Hanmore, C. Cox, E, Smith
Ml. Paul Gilmartin, Ray Hannon, T. Lowe, Cian Smith, D. O’Connor, D. Smith with M. O’Donohoe,
K. Feighan, J. Suffin, D. Kelly, M. O’Connor. (t.c.)
The U16s game with Clan na Gael didn't
materialise this weekend.
It is expected that
the National Automation Limited minors
will have league action this coming weekend.The Cooney Motors/ Cooney's Centra
team will have their first outing on Sunday 10th March.
There will be an
important Club Meeting on this Tuesday
night at 8pm in the Clubroom. All members are requested to attend. Club
members are reminded that their services will be required at a date to be
determined this week to provide a "meitheal" for work in
relation to the Club's current fundraising project.
Congratulations are
extended to Boyle Ladies Club player Emer Killilea on the birth of her
baby son.
Go raibh maith
agaibh,
Martin Dolan
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