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All Ireland Club
Quarter Final (Played in Ruislip on Sunday 28th
January 2007)
Dr Crokes 2-12 ------------St Brendans(London)
0-5
After a disappointing first
half display in which we failed to turn territorial
supremacy into scores we got our act together in the
second half and ran out convincing winners.Credit
however must be given to our opponents for their first
half display when they made scoring difficult for us
with their tenacious tackling and skilful distribution
of the ball against the stiff breeze. We played much
better against the breeze in the second half and a few
early scores gave us a seven point lead which we nearly
doubled before the final whistle.
St Brendans opened the
scoring after two minutes and we equalized in the
seventh minute. The teams swopped points before the end
of the first quarter to leave the teams level at two
points each. Considering that we were playing with a
strong breeze it left us in a very vulnerable
position.We added on three points without reply in the
next ten minutes to leave us three points in front.The
teams had a point each in the remaining minutes to leave
the score 0-6 to 0-3 in our favour at half time.
This was by no means a match
winning lead as we would have to face the strong wind in
the second half.
We got a dream start after the
change over with a goal and a point in the first five
minutes, the major an expertly taken penalty by Colm
Cooper. Our opponents added on two points to our one in
the next ten minutes to reduce the deficit to six
points. We got well on top after this and scored a goal
and four points without reply before the final whistle.
Full credit to St Brendans who
never gave up trying and did not deserve to be beaten by
thirteen points. For a change we played our best
football in the second half as in the last few games our
scoring rate in this period has been dismal.
Dr Crokes Best Player;
Brian McMahon.
Team and Scorers;
Kieran Cremin, Keith McMahon, Luke Quinn, Shane Doolan.
Batt Moriarty, Mike Moloney, Eanna Kavanagh. Ambrose
O’Donovan, Brian McMahon. Brian Looney, Kieran Brosnan
0-1, James Fleming(captain) 0-2(0-1free). Colm Cooper
2-5(2-0pen,0-3frees), Eoin Brosnan 0-1, Kieran O’Leary
0-2. Subs; Vince Cooper, David Moloney 0-1, James
Cahillane, Brian O’Donoghue
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