We played Kilmessan's second team today in Kilmessan.
Team.
Davy Gilkenson
Davy Stephens Brendan Wright Aran Feeney
Jordan Martin Ted Dowd Conor Dempsey
Liam Dempsey Conor Farrell
Stefan Clarke Dylan Keenan Lukie Martyn
Kit Harrington Johnny Moran Alex Walshe
Introduced,.Stephen Coogan,Joey Martyn,Mikey Dowdall,Christopher Fitzgerald and Alan Casey and I may have missed a few in the blizzard.
We are a team in transition .Not only are we in transition mode but all the older lads bar Ted were either sick or injured. Ted would be nearly twice the age of most of the guys who made their debut.I know that a lot of our exiles read the blog to stay in touch with home.So I'll put into context some of the names to try and connect to their people.Aaron Feeney and Lukie and Joey Martin are grand sons of Tom Feeney from Meadstown.There is no pull back in either of them.Young Tom Feeney knew no fear either so its not off the ground Aaron licked it and his mother is a Kennedy from Trim..Auld Tom didn't play as far as I know so it may be a Larkin thing or maybe it came from Gus for his sons Joey and Lukie ,but Gus played very little if at all.Any how these guys know no fear and that is a good starting point.
Dermot Dempsey ,now a selector,was fairly brave.I know as I played alongside him in years gone by.His sons Liam and Conor share this quality and it would be augmented from their mother's side the Henry's and John and to a lesser extent Kit donned the Dunderry jersey with distinction while yielding the caman.
Johnny Moran is a son of Catty Dowd a sister of Tommy and Ted.Dylan Keenan is a son of Tommy and Breda Gough,Kit Harrington's ma Lucy yielded the caman with Kilmessan, Brendan Wright was forged in the plains of Offally ,Davy Gilkenson in the heat of the North,Jordan in the land of full and plenty Dublin,Stefan in Kilcooley of this Parish am Alex is from the Black Road in this Parish .Davy is my son.Conor is the youngest son of the Bomber Farrell of Moymet fame and Josie Sheridan.
Anyhow a razor blade wouldn't need replacing too often with some of our debutaunts .Alex in his first adult match showed well early on and scored two good points.Lukie later scored two good goals,
under the watchful eye of referee Masterson ,who gave his usual impeccable exhibition of the art of the whistler in conditions that bordered on the Baltic.We had cold ,we had driving rain ,we had hailstones.A pitch that was good at the start cut up badly and it is to the credit of both teams that they stuck it to the end .
We started well ,finished better and won all the tussles in between.Every line of the field was won by us and everybody played adequately ,at least,given the oppressive conditions and the lack of hurling practise so far. I lost score but we won by a distance. (Actually 3-11 to 1-4 )
Conditions militated against thickey hurling and the standard was not the highest.But the commitment was excellent and there was nera a coward on the field,on either side.
Full marks for effort all round and it is great to see that the rivalry between ourselves and KIlmessan is as keen as ever.
Two points in the bag.Onwards and upwards.
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