Fitzgibbon Cup 2015

Mountainlad

That time of year again. WIT won last year as rank underdogs and are that again despite what I would consider a handy group, Mary I would expected to be reasonably strong also. The winner of that most likely makes the semi, would be surprised were either side to fall to UUJ or DIT (though they took WIT to extra time last year.)

Group of death features UCC and UL again, with NUIG joining them. Once again the Cork and Limerick Universities are favourites for the competition, but both had star studded line ups last year and failed to make the final. Of the two, fancy UL to fair the better though they have to play UCC away so may be facing the winner of Group A which features UCD and CIT, who lost out in the final last year.

Tony Kelly has left LIT, and for them to have any chance they would want to have been short a few players yesterday. Have thrown up reports of the Waterford Crystal games for lineups, if you've any knowledge of whose involved with the respective college teams please throw em up. You'll be able to follow the competition from this website http://www.he.gaa.ie/

Might go to UL v GMIT but would expect it to be one sided, but I think I'll head down for the semis and final so will be able to throw up reports on those.

http://munster.gaa.ie/2015/01/10/waterford-crystal-cup-preliminary-round-cork-v-ul/

http://munster.gaa.ie/2015/01/09/waterford-crystal-cup-preliminary-round-tipperary-v-mary-i/

http://munster.gaa.ie/2015/01/11/waterford-crystal-cup-preliminary-round-waterford-v-lit/

Laois and Antrim beat UCD and DIT comfortably respectively but can't find reports. Carlow and NUIG drew. CIT and WIT will be out in the next round of the Waterford Crystal.


The draw is as follows:

Group A

1 DCU 2 Cork IT 3. UCD 4. St.Pat’s Drumcondra

Group B

1. UCC 2 GMIT 3. NUI Galway 4. UL

Group C

1. IT Carlow 2. WIT 3. Maynooth University 4. Mary I Limerick

Group D

1. Limerick IT 2. UUJ 3. DIT

First Team Named Has Home Advantage in Group Fixtures

Round 1 - Thursday, 29th January 2015

All Groups

Team 1 v Team 2

Team 3 v Team 4

Group D

Team 3 Bye

Round 2 - Thursday, 5th February 2015

All Groups

Team 3 v Team 1

Team 4 v Team 2

Group D

Team 2 Bye

Round 3 - Tuesday, 10th February 2015

All Groups

Team 2 v Team 3

Team 1 v Team 4

Group D

Team 1 Bye

[E.T. if necessary in Knock-Out Stages]

Quarter Finals – 17.02.15/18.02.15

Group Winners Have Home Advantage

E Winner A V Runner Up B

F Winner B V Runner Up A

G Winner C V Runner Up D

H Winner D V Runner Up C

Semi-Finals – Friday 27.02.15 – Limerick IT

E v G

F v H

Final – 28.02.15 – Gaelic Grounds, Limerick

GAA2TheCore

Start of the Fitzgibbon today and just looking at the different college panels and think it's a three horse race with UCC CIT and UL and fancy CIT to one step further than last year have very strong team with the likes of bubbles o Dwyer and Aidan Walsh finding it hard to look passed and fancy them to win today against DCU

thinkstoomuch1

GAA2TheCore wrote: »

Start of the Fitzgibbon today and just looking at the different college panels and think it's a three horse race with UCC CIT and UL and fancy CIT to one step further than last year have very strong team with the likes of bubbles o Dwyer and Aidan Walsh finding it hard to look passed and fancy them to win today against DCU

All those teams are like you said real chance

Lit don't rule out either

Mary I have mickey browne goal herihly and colm Barry cork and course awesome majestic cian lynch

GAA2TheCore

thinkstoomuch1 wrote: »

All those teams are like you said real chance

Lit don't rule out either

Mary I have mickey browne goal herihly and colm Barry cork and course awesome majestic cian lynch

Is Cian lynch able to play ? Is he not fresher as he was playing Harty cup last year

GAA2TheCore

Red card for DCU player 5 mins into game

thinkstoomuch1

GAA2TheCore wrote: »

Is Cian lynch able to play ? Is he not fresher as he was playing Harty cup last year

He's fresher yeah you right as I'd Morrissey

The_Banker

Is there any websites where I can get score updates for todays games?
Tried gaa.ie and cant find a link....

Mountainlad

The_Banker wrote: »

Is there any websites where I can get score updates for todays games?
Tried gaa.ie and cant find a link....

Twitter best bet.

UL 0-09 Nuig 0-05

UCC 2-07 GMIT 0-02

DCU 0-06 CIT 0-06

Approaching half time.

Orizio

GAA2TheCore wrote: »

Start of the Fitzgibbon today and just looking at the different college panels and think it's a three horse race with UCC CIT and UL and fancy CIT to one step further than last year have very strong team with the likes of bubbles o Dwyer and Aidan Walsh finding it hard to look passed and fancy them to win today against DCU

CIT backs average enough, don't think they'll win.

Fireball07

LIT can afford to leave Jamie Shanahan and the Clare Shane McGrath on the bench... they look to have a pretty decent team on paper.

UCC have some serious firepower in their team, and some great star names.


GMIT & DCU panels look weaker than those 2 & UL, on paper CIT wouldn't look as strong as those either.

What are WIT like this year?

Mountainlad

Fireball07 wrote: »

LIT can afford to leave Jamie Shanahan and the Clare Shane McGrath on the bench... they look to have a pretty decent team on paper.

UCC have some serious firepower in their team, and some great star names.


GMIT & DCU panels look weaker than those 2 & UL, on paper CIT wouldn't look as strong as those either.

What are WIT like this year?

Panel looked alright to me, though they got a bit of a beating when they played Waterford. I'm not sure if Bonner is involved this year.

If they beat Carlow today I think they should make the semi finals of the Fiztgibbon.

UCD look to be the real dark horse, but tough side of the draw. They have some seriously talented players there in Cian O Callaghan, Conor McDonald, Cillian Buckley, Matthew O Hanlon and Colm Cronin.

Mountainlad

UCC lined out as follows today:

1. David O Gorman (Cork)
2. Killian Burke (Cork)
3. David Glynn (Kilkenny)
7. Shane Roche (Waterford)
8. Daniel Roche (Cork)
6. Tadhg Bourke (Waterford)
4. Michael Breen (Tipperary)
9. Rob O Shea (Cork)
10. Jamie Barron (Waterford)
11. Barry Lawton (Cork)
25. Tom Devine (Waterford)
12. Conor Lehane (Cork)
13. Anthony Spillane (Cork)
14. Shane O Donnell (Clare)
15. Alan Cadogan (Cork)


Number 5 Cormac Murphy did not start. I have listed them as they lined out but given them the number as per programme (I wasn't at the game by the way, all from twitter). John Power (Kilkenny) wasn't fit to play. That is some team they have. Thought they might be opposable but undestandable favourites on paper anyway.

Results from the early games:

UCC 3-19 GMIT 0-08
CIT 0-17 DCU 1-06
UL 2-24 NUIG 0-09

Mountainlad

Holders WIT beat IT Carlow on a scoreline of 3-13 to 0-09 points.

The teams were as follows:

WIT: Walsh, Fox (Tipperary), Teehan (Kilkenny), Jerome Maher (Waterford), Tomas Hamill (Tipperary), Martin O Neill (Waterford), O Dwyer, Stephen Roche (Waterford), Langton (probably Kilkenny :P), Austin Gleeson (Waterford), Paudi Mahony (Waterford), Gavin O Brien (Waterford), Liam McGrath (Tipperary), Harry Kehoe (Wexford), Jake Dillon (Waterford)

Carlow IT: Clancy, Doyle, Ryan, Palmer, Young, Doughan, O Hanlon, Prendergast, Taggy Fogarty (Kilkenny), Micheal Harney (Waterford), Ian Byrne (Wexford), Stephen Maher (Laois), Cha Dwyer (Laois), Fagan (Meath), Bolger


Strong looking Wateford side on paper as I said and were very under-rated coming into the tournament. Serious statement of intent, would expect them to still be major players at the business end again. Goals from Ciaran O Brien, Austin Gleeson and Liam McGrath.

Today's full results:

Fitzgibbon Cup Group A
DCU 1-6 Cork IT 0-17
UCD 1-23 St Pats/Mater Dei 1-6

Fitzgibbon Cup Group B
NUI Galway 0-9 UL 2-24
UCC 3-19 GMIT 0-8

Fitzgibbon Cup Group C
IT Carlow 0-9 Waterford IT 3-13
Maynooth University P-P Mary I

Fitzgibbon Cup Group D
Limerick IT 1-17 UUJ 0-11

GAA2TheCore

How do we all see the second round of fixtures going tie if the round looks like WIT v Mary I or LIT v DIT can't see any shocks happening should mostly be all comprehensive winners apart from the two fixtures I mentioned above and fancy WIT and LIT to prevail in what I see as tight matches

Hurleratheart

Tight the whole way and UCC beaten by 2 points UCC 19 NUIG 21

Any reports?

Orizio

...out?

Hurleratheart

Orizio wrote: »

...out?

UCC must beat UL next week to progres

Fireball07

That's a massive shock... UCC have some serious hurlers in their team, and UL absolutely hammered NUIG. I would have expected UCC to be slightly better than UL this year. Big ask for them to go and beat UL now whose points difference probably means they are through.

Mountainlad

If GMIT beat NUIG, UCC would still go through. Saw the 2nd half of UL v GMIT, will post when I'm on the laptop.

Fireball07

Other Results:

Group A
CIT 1-19 St. Pat's 1-14
UCD 2-16 DCU 1-14

This means CIT & UCD are through as expected, both winning 2 from 2 so far.

Group B
UL 1-24 GMIT 1-11

In addition to NUIG beating UCC, it means UL are pretty much through, having hammered NUIG. You'd expect NUIG to go on and beat GMIT, but they don't have a good points difference. If UCC do beat UL, both will probably go through... if UL win, then NUIG will likely go through. You'd expect UL to go all out though, dumping out UCC in the group stage would be a big help to them.


Group C
Mary 2-19 WIT 0-10

A huge win for Mary I against the holders pretty much puts them through, Maynooth play Carlow IT tonight. You'd still expect WIT to beat Maynooth and get through in 2nd place.


Group D
LIT 1-18 DIT 1-13

2 wins from 2 for LIT and they are through, between DIT & UUJ for the other quarter-final spot.





3 Limerick colleges look set to progress, that's good for the county. LIT in particular are backboned by Limerick natives.

Mehapoy

Fireball07 wrote: »

Other Results:

Group A
CIT 1-19 St. Pat's 1-14
UCD 2-16 DCU 1-14

This means CIT & UCD are through as expected, both winning 2 from 2 so far.

Group B
UL 1-24 GMIT 1-11

In addition to NUIG beating UCC, it means UL are pretty much through, having hammered NUIG. You'd expect NUIG to go on and beat GMIT, but they don't have a good points difference. If UCC do beat UL, both will probably go through... if UL win, then NUIG will likely go through. You'd expect UL to go all out though, dumping out UCC in the group stage would be a big help to them.


Group C
Mary 2-19 WIT 0-10

A huge win for Mary I against the holders pretty much puts them through, Maynooth play Carlow IT tonight. You'd still expect WIT to beat Maynooth and get through in 2nd place.


Group D
LIT 1-18 DIT 1-13

2 wins from 2 for LIT and they are through, between DIT & UUJ for the other quarter-final spot.



3 Limerick colleges look set to progress, that's good for the county. LIT in particular are backboned by Limerick natives.

That's a massive win for Mary I against the holders... Anyone got the teams for the limerick colleges?

Fireball07

Mehapoy wrote: »

That's a massive win for Mary I against the holders... Anyone got the teams for the limerick colleges?

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/ul-finish-gmit-off-with-19-without-replay-in-independentie-fitzgibbon-cup-30967722.html

Scorers – UL: T Kelly 0-7 (3f), K O'Brien 0-5 (1f), J Forde 0-4 (2f), PJ Scully 1-1, T Heffernan 0-3, J McGrath 0-2, D McInerney & D Quinn 0-1 each.

GMIT: T Haran 0-7 (6f, 1'sl), J Flynn 1-3, D Burke 0-1.

University of Limerick: P Maher; J Brown, D McInerney, E Moriarty; D Quinn, B Troy, B Stapleton; J Forde, T Kelly; J McGrath, S O'Gorman, T Heffernan; K O'Brien, C Martin, M Carmody.

Subs: B Maher for O'Gorman (49), D Morrissey for Stapleton (52), T Cleary for McGrath (58).

GMIT: D Starr; P Fox, I Creaven, K Lane; P Hoban, K Kennedy, D Burke; P Flanagan, D Conroy; J Flynn, S Collins, C O'Donnell; N Keary, S Lawless, T Haran.

Subs: D Cooney for Collins (45), M Hannify for Flanagan (52), L Cosgrove for Kennedy (61), D McGreal for Hoban (62).



Just two Limerick players in the starting team; O'Brien and Carmody... O'Brien scored 0-5, 4 from play, which is very impressive. Carmody back in the forwards, after playing in the backs for Limerick recently. Very versatile player, think he's played for Limerick at underage & senior level in every single line bar goalkeeper. Dan Morrissey came on too, hadn't been in the team during the Waterford Crystal Cup.



Apparently Reidy & Hannon were class for Mary I- they were at 10 & 11 respectively; Richie English and Darragh O'Donovan also started from a Limerick pov at 5 & 12, with Jody Hannon, Kieran Cleary, Kieran Larkin & Brian Finn on the bench.

cul beag

Big shock for UCC! Should make an interesting game against UL the next day. I imagine the Limerick side will be trying to knock them out at the group stage rather than meet them later on in the tournament. When and where will that game be played? Definitely worth travelling to.

Mountainlad

I was thinking PJ Scully got 1-1, but you don't have him down on the team at all fireball? Wearing 20 something on his back, so I'm assuming he was a sub.

Saw the second half, UL didn't have it all their own way for a lot of the game. They were being outfought in my eyes for the first 10 minutes of the second half (0-8 to 0-6 was the half time score in favour of UL) by a physically stronger looking GMIT team. They didn't pose too much threat up front and their scores all seemed to be coming from frees.

Then a long range free dropped short and was poorly batted out by a UL defender, where Jason Flynn was waiting at the edge of the box just left of the goal and he unleashed a thunderbolt into the far top corner. Outside of that, the game bypassed him in the second half and the only ball I can remember him contesting in the air after Dan Morrissey won brilliantly over his head.

That goal seemed to spur UL into action, a fantastic point by Forde around that time keeping the score ticking over. Tony Kelly stood up and hit two brilliant point from the wing and suddenly every shot UL took seemed to be heading over, another great point by David McInerney from about 90 yards or more out and also a great individual point by Kevin O Brien when he made an excellent catch, bet his man and stuck it over from the right sideline.

Thomas Heffernan made a break through the middle and handpassed off to Scully who buried it from close range and that put them 12 ahead. It was clear that UL were the classy side, some of GMIT's hurling was very poor. They didn't show the stomach for a fight early on which would be a concern. It might simply be a case of expecting a handy win after last weekend and that they are focused on bigger challenges ahead. Certainly, their display in the last 15 minutes would endorse their claims as frontrunner. Daire Quinn, McInerney, Kelly, O'Brien were best. Carmody was poor, and Jack Browne looks a touch slow to me.

deisedude

Hurleratheart wrote: »

Tight the whole way and UCC beaten by 2 points UCC 19 NUIG 21

Any reports?

Only caught some of the first half. Bobby Duggan was the standout player by a mile in the little i saw

deisedude

Hurleratheart wrote: »

Tight the whole way and UCC beaten by 2 points UCC 19 NUIG 21

Any reports?

Only caught some of the first half. Bobby Duggan was the standout player by a mile in the little i saw

Mehapoy

deisedude wrote: »

Only caught some of the first half. Bobby Duggan was the standout player by a mile in the little i saw

From what I've seen of Duggan he looks like the real deal, I'd say he'll have a big year for Clare, tony Kelly in good form for UL, getting anxious from a limerick point of view!

thinkstoomuch1

cul beag wrote: »

Big shock for UCC! Should make an interesting game against UL the next day. I imagine the Limerick side will be trying to knock them out at the group stage rather than meet them later on in the tournament. When and where will that game be played? Definitely worth travelling to.

Matadyke cork Tuesday at 2

thinkstoomuch1

Mehapoy wrote: »

That's a massive win for Mary I against the holders... Anyone got the teams for the limerick colleges?

Mary I would have corry And I think colm Barry may started corner backs
Riche English john meager tipp and tom Stapleton half backs

Seamus Kennedy tipp football probably midfield

Forwards would be corry, Donovan, Hannon niall o meara tipp lad senior panel last year and dual players terrific hurler
Don't know full team but that is core Mary I

thinkstoomuch1

I forgot mention Reidy who played forwards

And Steven Cahill probably played midfield

Full back and one other place I don't know

Talib Fiasco

Saw the Mary I game today. They were incredible. Game was over very early. John Meagher outstanding at center back. Liam Corry played Liam Mc Grath out of the game. David Reidy superb up front with Darragh O Donovan and Bill O Meara impressive too. Sham Kennedy and Ronan Maher solid in midfield. Phenomenal team they have. Will take some stopping. Jake Dillon didn't get a puck the whole game.

thinkstoomuch1

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Saw the Mary I game today. They were incredible. Game was over very early. John Meagher outstanding at center back. Liam Corry played Liam Mc Grath out of the game. David Reidy superb up front with Darragh O Donovan and Bill O Meara impressive too. Sham Kennedy and Ronan Maher solid in midfield. Phenomenal team they have. Will take some stopping. Jake Dillon didn't get a puck the whole game.

Thank

Maher midfield other player so

Who was full

How did colm Barry cork play?

Talib Fiasco

thinkstoomuch1 wrote: »

Thank

Maher midfield other player so

Who was full

How did colm Barry cork play?

Barry played full back with Corry and Andrew Ryan from Toomevara in the corners. Stapleton, Meagher, English half backs. Kennedy and Maher centre field. Reidy, Hannon and Donovan on the 40. O' Meara, Corry and Cahill inside. Mike Brown from Ballyhea was in goal.

Barry had very little to deal with in fairness but was solid. Nearly gave away a goal with some slack following a quick puckout in the first half but recovered well, Had a strong second half alright as he was allowed drift out a little. Still think he's a half back but did well today. Slim to no chance of him moving to wing back for Mary I or Cork.

thinkstoomuch1

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Barry played full back with Corry and Andrew Ryan from Toomevara in the corners. Stapleton, Meagher, English half backs. Kennedy and Maher centre field. Reidy, Hannon and Donovan on the 40. O' Meara, Corry and Cahill inside. Mike Brown from Ballyhea was in goal.

Barry had very little to deal with in fairness but was solid. Nearly gave away a goal with some slack following a quick puckout in the first half but recovered well, Had a strong second half alright as he was allowed drift out a little. Still think he's a half back but did well today. Slim to no chance of him moving to wing back for Mary I or Cork.

Thanks for that much appreciated

I was close enough with team

Barry yeah as proved cork v ucc by dj foran is not great full but half back outstanding player

Outstanding all Ireland intermediate championship last year half back but poor full back under twenty ones

Brown good keeper

Pa herihly mallow probably sub?

Very good forward also

Fireball07

Mountainlad wrote: »

I was thinking PJ Scully got 1-1, but you don't have him down on the team at all fireball? Wearing 20 something on his back, so I'm assuming he was a sub.

Saw the second half, UL didn't have it all their own way for a lot of the game. They were being outfought in my eyes for the first 10 minutes of the second half (0-8 to 0-6 was the half time score in favour of UL) by a physically stronger looking GMIT team. They didn't pose too much threat up front and their scores all seemed to be coming from frees.

Then a long range free dropped short and was poorly batted out by a UL defender, where Jason Flynn was waiting at the edge of the box just left of the goal and he unleashed a thunderbolt into the far top corner. Outside of that, the game bypassed him in the second half and the only ball I can remember him contesting in the air after Dan Morrissey won brilliantly over his head.

That goal seemed to spur UL into action, a fantastic point by Forde around that time keeping the score ticking over. Tony Kelly stood up and hit two brilliant point from the wing and suddenly every shot UL took seemed to be heading over, another great point by David McInerney from about 90 yards or more out and also a great individual point by Kevin O Brien when he made an excellent catch, bet his man and stuck it over from the right sideline.

Thomas Heffernan made a break through the middle and handpassed off to Scully who buried it from close range and that put them 12 ahead. It was clear that UL were the classy side, some of GMIT's hurling was very poor. They didn't show the stomach for a fight early on which would be a concern. It might simply be a case of expecting a handy win after last weekend and that they are focused on bigger challenges ahead. Certainly, their display in the last 15 minutes would endorse their claims as frontrunner. Daire Quinn, McInerney, Kelly, O'Brien were best. Carmody was poor, and Jack Browne looks a touch slow to me.

I got that from the Independent, I didn't see it myself... tbh I was out of touch today, with results and everything. If I had known it was on, I would have ditched the college work to watch out but I ended up only hearing it was on as the game was over. Good win though.

Good that KOB is playing well at this level, it's a big step up again to intercounty but he's managed at every level to date.

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Saw the Mary I game today. They were incredible. Game was over very early. John Meagher outstanding at center back. Liam Corry played Liam Mc Grath out of the game. David Reidy superb up front with Darragh O Donovan and Bill O Meara impressive too. Sham Kennedy and Ronan Maher solid in midfield. Phenomenal team they have. Will take some stopping. Jake Dillon didn't get a puck the whole game.

How was Hannon? On paper, you'd imagine he's their standout player although Meagher is really classy too.

Talib Fiasco

Fireball07 wrote: »

I got that from the Independent, I didn't see it myself... tbh I was out of touch today, with results and everything. If I had known it was on, I would have ditched the college work to watch out but I ended up only hearing it was on as the game was over. Good win though.

Good that KOB is playing well at this level, it's a big step up again to intercounty but he's managed at every level to date.





How was Hannon? On paper, you'd imagine he's their standout player although Meagher is really classy too.

Hannon was decent. Not the standout forward for them yesterday by any means but held down centre forward well, linked up very well with the rest of the lads and caught some good ball. Chipped in with a few good scores too. He was being marked by O Neill though who was WIT's only impressive player so he did well.

Meagher is an outstanding player. A real general at centre back and so effortless with his hurling. Joy to watch.

Deise_2012

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Hannon was decent. Not the standout forward for them yesterday by any means but held down centre forward well, linked up very well with the rest of the lads and caught some good ball. Chipped in with a few good scores too. He was being marked by O Neill though who was WIT's only impressive player so he did well.

Meagher is an outstanding player. A real general at centre back and so effortless with his hurling. Joy to watch.

What county is Meagher from?

Fireball07

Deise_2012 wrote: »

What county is Meagher from?

Tipp.

He was U-21 from them last year, was very good.

Talib Fiasco

Yeah tipp. Was on the senior panel as well before he got injured.

Vanolder

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Barry played full back with Corry and Andrew Ryan from Toomevara in the corners. Stapleton, Meagher, English half backs. Kennedy and Maher centre field. Reidy, Hannon and Donovan on the 40. O' Meara, Corry and Cahill inside. Mike Brown from Ballyhea was in goal.

Barry had very little to deal with in fairness but was solid. Nearly gave away a goal with some slack following a quick puckout in the first half but recovered well, Had a strong second half alright as he was allowed drift out a little. Still think he's a half back but did well today. Slim to no chance of him moving to wing back for Mary I or Cork.

I thought Tom Stapleton really grew into the game and had a fine second half- Corry at 2 had a fantastic first half but WIT were only playing a two man fullforward line so the backs in general were not under too much pressure. Still, the WIT forwards didn't get a sniff and most of their scores were from (soft) frees. Declan had moments, as did O'Donavan but it's hard to get motoring in college games, lots of rucks and mauls. Would love to have seen Gleeson on the pitch but WIT were very poor overall, think Pauric Mahoney got a couple of nice scores for them from out wide but that's about it. I would prefer English in at fullback but no real complaints on yesterdays viewing about any of the team... they have a huge panel and will need it as they are playing their postponed game against Maynooth this saturday before playing Carlow on Tuesday... Poor lads will be wrecked for their RAG week next week.

Talib Fiasco

Mary I. 4-18, Maynooth 1-6. Result to be expected in fairness. Had plans on travelling up for it but couldn't in the end so no report but apparently Maynooth played very well just couldn't match the individual personnel Mary I have at their disposal. Mary I play Carlow next Tuesday evening with progression more than less guaranteed. Should be winning that one too handily although Carlow will be a much sterner test

3ships

Carlow beat Maynooth Thurs by 9-24 to 1-3 which put them back in it

By my calc

Mary I now are +36 pd with 4 pts
Carlow +32 pd with 2 pts
WIT - 2 pd with 2 pts

A 2+ win for Carlow at home to Mary I wud see them tru
WIT need Mary I to continue form and beat Carlow or post a cricket score.

While the absence of Gleeson and a couple of others for WIT wud not have changed the result against Mary I it cud make a difference in the total they need against Maynooth

Browning

Was at the Mary I v Maynooth game today. Was never a contest once Mary I got going. Maynooth are Ryan cup standard at best. They had a lot of injuries and just don't have the calibre or numbers to compete at this level. Silly idea to play in the Fitgibbon full stop. Mary I got two goals late on which flatter them a little. Overall I did not see too many stand out performers on the day but if I was to pick any it would have been David Reidy (Limerick) and Tadgh Gallagher (Tipp).
Waterford will hammer Maynooth btw with or without Gleeson.

citykat

Mountainlad wrote: »

Holders WIT beat IT Carlow on a scoreline of 3-13 to 0-09 points.

The teams were as follows:

WIT: Walsh, Fox (Tipperary), Teehan (Kilkenny), Jerome Maher (Waterford), Tomas Hamill (Tipperary), Martin O Neill (Waterford), O Dwyer, Stephen Roche (Waterford), Langton (probably Kilkenny :P), Austin Gleeson (Waterford), Paudi Mahony (Waterford), Gavin O Brien (Waterford), Liam McGrath (Tipperary), Harry Kehoe (Wexford), Jake Dillon (Waterford)

Carlow IT: Clancy, Doyle, Ryan, Palmer, Young, Doughan, O Hanlon, Prendergast, Taggy Fogarty (Kilkenny), Micheal Harney (Waterford), Ian Byrne (Wexford), Stephen Maher (Laois), Cha Dwyer (Laois), Fagan (Meath), Bolger


Strong looking Wateford side on paper as I said and were very under-rated coming into the tournament. Serious statement of intent, would expect them to still be major players at the business end again. Goals from Ciaran O Brien, Austin Gleeson and Liam McGrath.

Today's full results:

Fitzgibbon Cup Group A
DCU 1-6 Cork IT 0-17
UCD 1-23 St Pats/Mater Dei 1-6

Fitzgibbon Cup Group B
NUI Galway 0-9 UL 2-24
UCC 3-19 GMIT 0-8

Fitzgibbon Cup Group C
IT Carlow 0-9 Waterford IT 3-13
Maynooth University P-P Mary I

Fitzgibbon Cup Group D
Limerick IT 1-17 UUJ 0-11

Think that's Jack Langton of Clara. KK U21 and in with a shout of the KK senior panel in the next few years at current rate of progress.

Fireball07

UCC are out! A late Jason Forde free levelled the game, and NUIG beating GMIT means they and UL go through at the expense of the favourites.


On paper, that's a serious failure on the part of UCC, considering the depth of talent they have. The loss to NUIG was a killer. Sounds like Tony Kelly was phenomenal today.

Richmond Ultra

Tony Kelly was class today the best player on the field but then UCC forget to play for the opening 20 minutes allowing UL to build up a lead that on a day like this was always going to be tough to make up. The shooting from both sides was poor with 15 each.
Cunnningham failed to use the bench three subs when your team is playing poor and leaving inter county players on the bench Foran, Collins, O'Brien, just to name a few. 11 inter-county forwards in the squad and you only use 8. Poor management when you knew that you had to score.

Lastly a penalty was given to UCC when O'Donnell was spear tackled to the ground when clear in on goal, UL blocked the resulting penalty. They should really bring in a black card for these tackles but the GAA don't see a problem with wild swings across the body or spear tackles when an individual is clear in on goal. Also the penalty has to go to one on one. It's impossible to score one under the current format.

deadybai

was anyone at WIT and Maynooth match today? WIT won 6-35 to 0-4 :eek:

dastardly00

Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final draw

Cork IT v NUI Galway
UL v UCD
Waterford IT v Dublin IT
Limerick IT v It Carlow

dastardly00

deadybai wrote: »

was anyone at WIT and Maynooth match today? WIT won 6-35 to 0-4 :eek:

That's nuts! :eek:

francozola

Mary I out after scoring difference, tough on them after putting in a huge effort of playing 3 games in 5 days.

Maynooth what's the story there?

citykat

deadybai wrote: »

was anyone at WIT and Maynooth match today? WIT won 6-35 to 0-4 :eek:

The Maynooth goalie hasn't mastered the art of pfaffing around...