Monaleen Juvenile GAA Club

Club Notes

November 13th 2011

Senior Notes
Lotto numbers for last week were 2,14.16.18 with no winner. Lucky dip winners were Seamus Doherty Thornfield, B.Moylan c/o Monaleen Stores, S.Collins Thornfield, E.Dolphin Newtown Park. Next weeks lotto will be €20000.
One of our Greats is leaving us this week for Australia, a great night was held in the club to wish Dave Collins all the best, old war stories featuring Dave were relayed during the evening. All in the club wish Dave, Maire, Rory and Enda every best wish for the future and we know Dave will be checking our results every week
Our AGM will be held in the club on Tuesday the 6th Dec please try to attend, all welcome.

Juvenile Notes

Our U14 footballers were defeated in the County Championship final by Newcastlewest who were the better team on the night. We went into an early lead with goals from Mark O’Dwyer and Cian Hession but NCW came back strongly and were too powerful for our team, a number of whom had turned out for a schools match earlier in the day. It was a sad end to the season for a great bunch of players who fought all the way to the end. Squad: Sean Fitzpatrick, Conor Nelson, Eoghan Whittle, Daniel Enright, Darren Golden, Niall O’Shea, Eoghan Carew, Conor Fleming, Daniel Power, Alan Nicholas, Oisin Kelly, Evan O’Connor, Mark O’Dwyer, Kevin Gleeson, Cian Hession, Pat Humphries, Donal Dooley, Jamie Power, Darren Coughlan, Bryan Tiernan, Cathal Carew.

Under 9 hurling training has moved to UL for the rest of this year. It is on in the new pitches their between 7-8pm every Friday night

On Sunday the 6th Nov we travelled to cork to Cork to support the senior footballers and get some matches for our boys for the end of season. We were hosted by St Michael’s GAA club and played four matches at four different age groups. The u 10 footballers were excellent throughout, showing lovely skills and taking some nice scores. Our u11 and u12 had one loss and a win and both games were of a very good standard. Our u13 footballers struggled throughout their game but were well short of a full team, yet they displayed some great defensive moves and began to gain more control of the game as time pushed on. From there we went on to support our senior footballers who did us proud with a magnificient display of football. So much to be proud of –well done big and small, we have a bright future to look forward to.