Sunday 27 Feb 2011 Fe 14 - Prem 3 Football League
Mitchelstown (3-09) vs Midleton GAA (3-04)
Mitchelstown, 10:30AM
Fe 13 Football
Our U-13's started their competitive games for the year with 2 football games on Sunday morning, 27th. Our Central Region Premier 2 team travelled to Mitchelstown while our Cork East Region team played hosts to St. Finbarrs in the Paddocks. As these 2 games clashed on times and we had a number of withdrawals from the squad over the weekend we were tight on numbers for both games so we 15 travel to Mitchelstown and 8 go to the Paddocks where they were boosted by some members of the U-12 panel.
In Mitchelstown the boys put on a fine display against a very well drilled home team who it could be seen treat football as their number 1 code. At half time we had a slight lead of 1-2 to 1-0 turning to play into the breeze. At the start of the Second half the boys started very well and we registered a number of fine scores to open a bit of a gap on the score board. With 15 minutes to go we led 3-4 to 1-2 when Mitchelstown introduced their subs and the fresh legs changed the game as our boys struggled on their first 60min outing on the full pitch with no subs to bring on ourselves and number of players having picked up injuries the home side set up camp inside our 45m line and we lost on a scoreline of 3-9 to 3-4.
In the Paddocks the boys came up against a stronger St. Finbarrs side who had a full compliment of players on the age and their great physical side and again the ability to use their subs saw them win well in the end. A number of lessons were learned from both these games with the boys recognising the need to pace themselves for the bigger field and to move the ball faster then we did while the management team learned the limitations of our panel in size and availability needs to a primary consideration when fixing games.
Well done to all who played in both games and we have plenty to work on and improve on over the coming weeks.
Players used over both games were: Alan Swarbrick, Christian Daly, Christopher Power, Christopher Shanahan, Conor Evans, Conor O'Neill, David Mulcahy, Dion O'Neill-Hill, Dylan Cahalane, Eoin Moloney, John Dwyer, Jordan Roche, Kevin Daly, Kevin Mulcahy, Liam Franklin, PJ Fitzgearld, Ronan O'Donovan, Ross O'Connor, Ryan McConville, Ryan O'Reagan, Sean O'Meara, Shane O'Brien, Temitayo Abdullah.
