Dunderry V Dunboyne I.H.C.2012. First Round.

Played in a Longwood pitch on Sunday         June 2012 at 3.30 on a pitch that stood up well to torrential rain all day Saturday and earlier today .

Dunboyne Team per Georgie Hutton ,not a bad one in his day.

                                           Paul Brady

Liam Kane                          Patsy O Connor                    Cormac Hutton

Brendan Sweeney               Damian Buggle                    D.J. Carey

                               Danny Kane     Gary Watters

Ronald Dunne                       Michael Reilly                      Ciaran Mc Kay

Joey Coftus!!                        Stephen Clynch                     Mark Finlay


Dunderry.

                                               Chris Harrington

Davy Stephens (capt,)        Davy Mc Cormack                  Darren Callaghan

Damian Bruton                 Ivan Mc Cormack                    Brendan Wright                                             

                                       Bomber Farrell    Kevin Dowd

Killisan MInogue                         Evan Stephens            Bob Doherty          

Paddy Gorey                                 Keith Callaghan          Jordan Martin  

First few minutes were tit for tat until a ground ball from Wright went to Martin who passed to Bomber .Point.Interplay between Bomber,Bruts ,Red and back to Bomber,who lets long into square is broken when Keith is blown .We earn line ball,which Minogue directs to Finn who points.Keith bears down on goal and is harried into a wide ("Good man Horse roars Hutton").Watters wins ball and lets in to square where Davy Mac and Wright take control and clear to half forwards where Carey collects and goes on his bike until Ivan intercepts to Finn to Ted.breaks to Wright .Fouled.  Messy play ensues and Dunboyne earn a free which thy hit wide.Solid Dunboyne defending concedes a line ball to us ,which we fail to take advantage of and surrender possession to Danboyne who score a minor.Harry lands puck out on top of Bob ,who transfers to Keith ,whose rocket comes back off the crossbar .Martin collects and hits wide.Bomber wins puck out ,to Ted ,who lets in and Martin scores a cunning goal. .Shortly afterwards Watters rattles the crossbar .They over elaborate and hit wide.Finn hits wide.We break up another Dunboyne attack and ball ends with Ted,who hits wide.Bob takes fatherly point following good approach play from Finn and Martin. Ding dong play terminates with Ted conceding a free which Dunboyne take advantage of with a minor.Minogure earns a free which Keith blasts and Dunboyne save,Minogue retrieves and to Bob ,who hits wide.Watters is playing well but lacks support. Bob hits line ball wide.Ted to Gorey to Finn to Bob.Wide.Carey is a good player.Dunboyne conjure up a goal from nothing.Gorey to Bob.Wide.Watters is excelling.  Dunboyne 8 takes a good point from a bad Dunderry clearance.Ivan takes a long distance free and points.1-4 to 1-3 to us.  Gorey takes a good point from play.Keith is fouled and takes his point.Half time .1-6 to 1-3 in our favour.First half was even enough,though we never got out of third gear.We need to ratchet it up.
Ted wins throw in and to Martin.Wide.Tenacious defending by both sides over the next five minutes ,the highlight of which was a spectacular save from the Dunboyne net keeper from a Callaghabn bullet ends with a Bruton free and a move involving Finn,Keith and Gorey ends with a Gorey rocket to the net.Finn hits wide.Wright launches attack which ends up wide.Bob hits wide from a Wright delivery.A hurt Gorey makes way for Andy Coogan.Minogue hits wide.Dunboyne 15 is substituted.Bob hits wide.Dunboyne 10 gets marching orders.Coogan,Keith ,Finn.Wide.Minogue fouled.Keith scores minor from free.Dunboyne miss scorable chance.A sequence of Dunderry passes ends with a Keith point.Ivan points a seventy.Bomber hits wide.Dunboyne hit wide.Martin points from play.Bob points from play after good Dunderry interplay.Easy enough when Dunboyne are down a man.Joey Martin on.Jordan score a minor from play after a well coordinated move.Bob hits wide.Dunboyne poach a goal.Gilky is on and to Jordan.Point.Jordan hits wide.Keith rattles the net.Sprog clears and ball is worked to Andy.Wide.
We win 3-11 to 2-3.
We never got higher than fourth gear and hit 16 wides.but just as well as we won by a great margin.Against a better team we would rue so many misses.
This was a clean match and I was surprised the Dunboyne man saw red.I didn't see what happened.And a yellow was issued to one of ours for very little,as far as I could see.                          
We did enough to win .If Dunboyne have better players on their senior team than Watters and Carey they must be brilliant.