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PRO | Monday 1 April 2019
Football can be a cruel
sport! The Doheny U21s suffered a gut wrenching loss to O’Donovan
Rossa in the West Cork U21A football final on Sunday last. The Dohenys
had basically one hand on the Liam Farr Cup but the concession of a goal in
stoppage time handed victory to the Skibbereen men on a score-line of 1-09 to
0-10. Granted the Dohenys never played to the lofty standards they set in
their semi-final victory over Carbery Rangers but in saying that the Dunmanway
side looked well in control of the game and will regret letting this one slip
away. The boys in green missed a number of scoring opportunities for
points at critical stages of the game leaving the door ajar for the O’Donovan
Rossa men to snatch victory in the end.
Dohenys had a stiff breeze to
their backs in the opening half and in truth they didn’t capitalise enough on
the advantage and only had a 2 point lead at half time 0-07 to 0-05. Although
Dohenys got the opening score of the match through the impressive Gareth
Crowley, the Dohenys were slow to find any fluency to their game plan.
Dohenys title ambitions were suffered a blow when they lost Declan Collins to a
leg injury early on. Skibbereen deployed a sweeper in front of the
Dohenys full forward line and Dohenys found it difficult to get quality ball
into their dangerous full forward unit. It really wasn’t till the closing
stages of the first half with Dohenys trailing 0-05 to 0-02 on the scoreboard
that the Dunmanway side clicked into gear scoring 5 points in quick succession.
Unfortunately from a Dohenys perspective the half time whistle came too soon.
Similarly to the opening half
the Dohenys got the first point of the second half off the boot of Cullen
Barry. A number of scoring opportunities were spurned by the men in green
at the start of the second half and this ultimately proved costly. It was
tough kicking into the strong breeze. Skibb reduced the deficit to a
point midway through the second half before Mark Buckley extended Dohenys lead
to two. Dohenys were defending resolutely. Jason Daly and Jerry
Colllins were particularly impressive in the Dohenys’s defence. With
seven minutes remaining Skibb level matters 9 points apiece. The game was
in the melting pot and up stepped Dohenys man of the match Gareth Crowley to
kick a splendid point. It looked like a match winning score but credit to
the O’Donovan Rossa men they didn’t lie down and manufactured a match winning
goal late on to capture the silverware on offer. It’s a bitter pill for
the Dohenys men to swallow but many of these players will have very little time
to mull over this defeat as a lot of the players will be lining out for the
senior footballers who are in championship action this coming weekend.
Furthermore the county u21 championship is kicking off in 2 weeks time so the
show goes on.
Team:
Stephen Daly, David Farrell, Declan Collins, Jason Daly, Keith Forbes, Jerry
Farrell, Padraig O Mahony, Gareth Crowley, Cullan Barry, Keith White, Bill
Murphy, Cathal Daly, Kieran Forbes, Mark Buckley, Fionn Herlihy. Subs Used:-
Jerry Collins. Additional Panel Members:- Nathan O’Donovan, Ciarán
Kelleher, Darragh Collins, Cian Collins, Adrian Cronin, Alan Brickley, Ellis
Farrell and Daniel Dullea
The Club would like to wish
Declan Collins a speedy recovery. Unfortunately for Declan he suffered a
leg break during the game so will have to spend a bit of time on the sidelines
recouping.
The Doheny senior footballers
promotional prospects from division 3 of the county football league were
suffered a blow last week when they lost to Bandon on a score-line of
0-11 to 1-10. The Dohenys had to field without their u21 contingent and
this obviously weakened the team considerably. To their credit the
Dohenys led the game for most part but again a concession of a goal with time running
out handed the advantage over to Bandon who ran out victors in the end.
The Dohenys play St. Nicks in Brinny this Sunday at 2pm in the Senior football
championship.