Senior Football Clonduff 1:11 An Riocht 1:9 15/05/2005

In Clonduff the seniors gave a heartening display that will hopefully stop the rot recently set in. With as many as eight first team regulars missing the players on duty performed beyond expectations and deserved to take something from the game. We were rocked when Clonduff goaled in the first minute and when they added a free it did not look good but the players dug deep and adopting a direct style of play brought the game into the Clonduff half of the field.

A Stephen Flanagan goal off a Ciaran Walsh cross lifted everyone and we went 1:5 to 1:1 ahead. Three frees helped the home side to a draw at half time 1:6 apiece. Clonduff opened a two point gap on the restart and amazingly the game then remained scoreless for some twenty minutes until they added a third. We drew level with the hour played and were searching for a winner when they broke and won a fifty which Jason Brown converted and from the kick out Plunkett McConville added his fourth free.

We scored eight of our nine points from play, a huge improvement on last week while Clonduff had seven converted frees in their total of eleven points. Gavin Finnegan brought off two brilliant saves in the second half while Aidan Flanagan settled rightly into full back. Paul Sherry and Deaglan O’Reilly were best in a good defence. Paul Murney gave everything at midfield while up front there were no lost causes with Stephen Flanagan throwing himself at everything and Richard Annett picking up the pieces.

Team: G Finnegan A O’Hanlon A Flanagan C Flanagan P Sherry D O’Reilly L Fitzpatrick P Murney P Small P Cole 0:2 K Flanagan C Walsh 0:2 N Doran S Flanagan 1:1 R Annett 0:4. Subs S Annett M Taylor. Clonduff scorers J Fegan 1:4 P McConville 0:4 J Brown 0:2 M Farnon 0:1.

Before the game a minutes silence was observed in memory of Thomas Curran, brother of our camogie player Karen Curran.