Dunderry.
C.Farrell
D.Stephens D Mc Cormack D.Bruton.
D.Callaghan E.Stephens C.O.Shea
K.Minogue B.Wright.
K.Bruton D.Geraghty D.Keenan
P.Gorey. B.Doherty C.Harrington
Tones score from play after three minutes,with stong wind in their backs.From puck out Tones earn a line ball,which is well struck but works its way to Geraghty ,who does well to part to Doherty,breaking his stick in the process.Ball back out to Dunderry half back line where we earn free.Minogue takes and it lands in Tones 21 yard line .Comes back out.O Shea manages to hold on to ball and passes to Geraghty to Keenan to Harrow.His shot blocked resulting in seventy to us.Minogue hits it ,lands on 14,pulled on .Wide.Puck out to our half back line.Well gathered by Davy Mac.Tones pick up clearance.Wide.Puck out lands midfield.free against us 80 yards from our goal for chopping.From free ball won by Tones 13.Goal.Ref .gives free wrongly to Tones as two lads become accidentally entangled and Tones man falls more convincingly.Point to Tones.Finn,Red.Davy Mac deliver ball in turn to inside forwards.Tones backs repel attacks.Eventually Gorey passes to Minogue.Wide from play.Puck out lands in our full back line.Davy S.gathers to Finn to O Shea.Dispossessed.Tones 13 gathers and scores a minor.Broken play ensues resulting in a Tones wide from play.Tones are playing ducks and drakes with us ,but overelaborate and O Shea wins ball to Bruton Kevin,hits low towards goal,breaks to Gorey who fires in and Keenan finishes to net.Finnn earns free ,takes it himself,won by Doc.Wide.Finn breaks ball to Geraghty.Fouled.Wright hits well.More broken play ends when Gorey hits wide from play.Tones fullback line are defending well.Ball worked to Dunderry end,where Tones 11 scores friom play.Finn’s free won by Gorey who loses ball then recovers and scores a fine point.Tones miss a seventy yard free.More broken play ends when Tones 13 score a minor.Tones miss another scorable chance.Stephens D. And Bruton D.Switch.Red to Wright to Gorey to Bob.Point from play.Davy Mac to Geraghty,who makes ground and barely misses.Geraghty fouled 75 yards from Tones goal.Keenan takes free.Barely wide.O Shea wins ball on second attempt,to Gorey to Doherty.Barely wide.After missing a blatant back push on Red the ref is struck by the ball( a spectator says “not half f....in hard enough “ thinking of the push on Red) and throws it in.Wide to Tones.Wright wins ball ,to Finn,Fouled .Keenan free lands on 21 and is cleared by Tones.After broken play half time is blown.Tones 01-06.Dunderry 01-02.Strong wind to come in our favour in the second half.We have a chance.
From throw in Finn fouled.Keenan scores free.DAithi S.penalised for foul on 13.Tones score free.Tones have moved 15 ( Curtis ) back as sweeper behind their half back line.Dunderry do not take him up.Wins puck out.From broken play O Shea wins ball,hits over shoulder and Geraghty makes superb catch,long ball to Doc.Point.Tones man is down ,seems greviously wounded.Tones players try to tell ref.his job.Big mistake.Makes miraculous recovery.Free to Tones.Not clear why.Red blocks to Finn to MInogue,outnumbered 3 to 1 ,Bruton gives master shoulder.Blown.Free wide.Tones score point from free after missing a chance from play.Tones score good point from play.Dunderry are not playing man to man and match is drifting away.Bruton D penalised for fair shoulder.Tones score.Period of broken play ensues,culminating in foul on Finn.Takes free himself,breaks off Doc., to Bruton K.Wide.BRuton pulls overhead on ball,Tones man goes to catch.Contact made.Second yellow and then red to Bruton.Tough call.Tougher job ahead.Swiss and Eoinie Mac are on for Minogue and Harrow.Davy Mac and Keenan pump ball into Tones full back line ,come out just as quick.Dunderry forwards outnumbered.Finn hits wide from play.Tones score two long distance points from play.After a Finn wide from play ,Swiss passes ball to Gorey who takes a minor.Tones repel Dundery attacks and are playing keep ball.Dunderry look foolish.Too many Tones defenders for too few Dunderry attackers.We earn free which Doherty buries.Ownie fouled.Keenan converts point.Tones score a minor from a free.Gorey gets possession and is fouled.Tones 13 is looking for action off the ball .He find it and falls.Umpires consulted.Play properly resumes.Point taken.Three points down.Have we time.We don’t .Full time.
Post mortem.
I think we hit seventeen wides.Wouldn’t be great.When Tones played a sweeper behind their half back line in second half we did not counteract it.There is no point in having two extra backs when playing with the wind,which we seemed to have had for all the second half.Also some of our players will have to sharpen up on fitness.Tones deserved their victory and played way better than they did in the league.In the white heat of championship hurling the men stand out and the boys ,if they want and are interested,learn what is what.If it was played again I would give our lads and selectors the nod.All concerned will have to up the ante for the remaining matches and team selection and sideline switches ,from Goalie out will need to be ruthless.We still have a chance.Ref .Watch.
The ref.believes that hurling is a man’s game and refereed it accordingly.Had no bias as far as I could see.Aside from sly back push on Red and penalising us when legs got entangled no major complaints.Hard on Bruton I thought.Anyone who knows the man would know that it was accidental.He can hold his own but is not nor never was a dirty player.
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