As a kind of prologue to this report mise has missed a number of football and hurling matches this year for one reason or another.Hopefully things will sort themselves out henceforth.
Generally I take the view that Dunderry has traditionally been a strong Intermediate football team through most of its existence,occasionally winning a Championship and heading upwards to Senior.
The last wave of players to go Senior stayed up a considerable time ,winning a Senior in 1996 and staying up until 2005,when we were demoted down.
We have been strong at Inter level since then .losing a final replay to St.COLMCILLES two years ago probably being the epitome of our always gallant efforts.
I have seen a number of League matches this year .The one versus Senchaelstown being the most recent.
They are a solid but currently non spectacular Senior team and in my time we have been just as good as them even though we are a grade below them.
We played them in our pitch recently and it was a draw.
Even though we were short half a team between County commitments and injury 20 men and boys togged out,so caps off to players and mentors.
I think we scored only 0-4 in the worst half of football we played for decades.
The second half was different though as we raised our game and both sides put on an exhibition that would warm the cockles.
The deciding factor was probably the dismissal of one of their players and we were cute enough to make the advantage pay.
The refereeing of that match was very fussy as are all the matches I attend and I genuinely wonder whether over fussiness has contributed to the falling through the ranks of the County Team.Put simply do guys feel they are inhibited from robust legal challenges to the extent tat they don't even try.
There again Meath is producing more more top grade Inter County refs. than any other County so the POWERS THAT BE SURE LIKE THEM.
Maybe there is a case for referees to be instructed to give the benefit of the doubt to robust play at Club level and cut back on the blowing of the whistle for little or nothing .Surely a decent level of physicality is the hallmark of our games and we shouldn't leave this aspect of confrontation to the Rugger crowd,where it is regarded as an attribute.
Now I missed the match against Longwood which I expected us to win.We lost by 3-12 to 1-13 a fair beating even if we were short a number of regulars.
So the omens were not good.
In ATHBOY ,where the gate man refused to believe that t I was an OAP we fielded as follows;-
Jennings
O Shea Dempsey Conor Watters
Martin Oisin Davy Mack A.Newman
Kenneally Dempsey Liam
Martin Jordan Bomber Dermot Kelly
Luke Martin Coogan Stephen Kane Mark
For the first time this year we were playing with a full deck.
Eoin Dempsey,and Ronan Brady ere wbrough on in the second half .
For the first quarter it was tit fot tat.The second quarter saw us string together some lovely moves and scores and we were well ahead at half time on a score of to .
After half time they rattled the onion bag but we raised our game well and were well out of sight at the final whistle Lukie scoring a first rate goal and missing an easier one.Kane scored the other.
Our scorers were Dermot Kelly 0-8 all frees.Stephen Coogan 0-2 .1 free.Lukie and Kane a goal apiece .Bomber 0-2 and Aron Newman,Jordan Maryyn a point apiece.
DERMOT AND Stephen scored 0-9 from frees, a testament to the fussy referring of Gerry Mc Givney WHO WAS PERHAPS A LITTLE WHISTLE HAPPY, BUT OTHERWISE DIED A FAIR GOOD JOB.
We were good value for our win and all played well.A massive improvement on last years contest against the same opposition.
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