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Dr
Crokes 2-5 ------- The Nire(Waterford)
0-8. (Played in Pairc Ui Caoimh on
Sunday December 10th 06)
Despite failing to
register a score for nearly forty five minutes we still
managed to graft out a three point victory over The Nire
on Sunday the 10th December 06.It could be said that our
opponents should have got something out of the game,
having registered nine wides in the second half and
still coming so close. I believe however that our
greater experience carried us through and our heroic
defending in the last quarter gave us victory and our
third Munster Club title. This gives us more titles at
present than any other club in the County.
We had the strong wind at our back in the first
half and used it well in the first quarter, building up
a 2-4 to 0-3 lead.The scores dried up for us after that
and our opponents point in the 22nd minute left us seven
points ahead at half time. In this thirty minutes we
registered seven wides.Would this lead of ours be enough
to carry the day?.
We just never got going in this second half.
Even though it would be impossible to analyse why, I
think it was a combination of our opponents carrying the
game to us with great passion and our lads suffering the
effects of a fifth competitive game in as many weeks.The
Nire became dominant around the middle and even though
guilty of several wides they had added on five
unanswered points by the 55th minute to leave us just
two minors ahead. Colm Cooper who had scored two fine
opportunist goals in the first half came up trumps once
again with a point from a free from a very tight angle
with a minute to go.This was the last score of the game
and victory was ours by three points.
Even though we have scored ten goals in four
County Championship games, eight in two O'Donoghue Cup
games and four in two Munster Club Championship matches,
the heroes in this contest were our defenders.Allied to
this were our forwards great scores in the first
quarter, our hard grafting at midfield and Eoin Brosnans
great block down towards the end.
Dr Crokes Best Player; The Defence.
Team and
Scorers; Kieran Cremin, Keith McMahon, Luke Quinn,
Mike Moloney; Batt Moriarty, Brian McMahon, Eanna
Kavanagh 0-1;Ambrose O'Donovan, Kieran Brosnan; Brian
Looney, Andrew Kennelly 0-1, James Fleming(capt); Colm
Cooper 2-1(0-1free), Eoin Brosnan, Kieran O'Leary 0-2.
Subs; James Cahillane, Vince Cooper, David Moloney,
Shane Doolan and Edmund O'Sullivan.
Our sincere thanks and congratulations
to all our backroom staff, our Team Manager Pat O'Shea
and his selectors Martin Byrnes and Eddie Tatler
O'Sullivan.
In our two games in this
Munster Club Championship we scored four goals and
fifteen points(4-15) and conceded no goal. Our opponents
scored eighteen points(0-18)
Our scorers were; Colm Cooper 3-5, Kieran O'Leary
0-4, Brian Looney 1-0, Kieran Brosnan 0-2, Batt Moriarty
0-1, Eoin Brosnan 0-1, Eanna Kavanagh 0-1, Andrew
Kennelly 0-1. |
