Sigerson Cup

GAA2TheCore

Can't see any thread for the upcoming Sigerson Cup so saw the need to create one

Who does everybody fancy to win it ?

Personally myself find it hard to look passed UUJ with Cillian O'Connor Ronan O'Niell and Paddy Mcbreaty there stand out names and can't see any team having the defence to contain the 3 of these

manofwisdom

UUJ could be out after their first game when they play league champions DCU.

Syferus

UUJ's financial doping would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. People complain about DCU but UUJ are the truly shameless ones here. It didn't work last season and hopefully it doesn't work this season.

thinkstoomuch1

GAA2TheCore wrote: »

Can't see any thread for the upcoming Sigerson Cup so saw the need to create one

Who does everybody fancy to win it ?

Personally myself find it hard to look passed UUJ with Cillian O'Connor Ronan O'Niell and Paddy Mcbreaty there stand out names and can't see any team having the defence to contain the 3 of these

Ucc won't give up the crown easy and as hosts for finals with awesome manager billy Morgan excellent ex cork hurler Kevin Murray and a panel huge depth nearly pick two teams imo huge chance win it as have cream cork kerry talent

Tough opener v well coaches cit with Paudie kissanne but should prevail

rrs

UCC have a good chunk from last year's team still available, Conor Cox, Paul Geaney, among others.

GAA2TheCore

Does anyone have an idea of the CIT panel do they have many from last years panel , I think they might topple UCC in the local derby

thinkstoomuch1

GAA2TheCore wrote: »

Does anyone have an idea of the CIT panel do they have many from last years panel , I think they might topple UCC in the local derby

Cit have cork keeper David hsnahran senior sub keeper
Tj brosnan former cork under twenty one imo better half than corner
Captain is Brendan Sullivan kerry junior lost final cavan

He'd good player

Paul Sullivan is there could be midfield
Under twenty one last year and minor cork john corkery there and Barry o making and Sean flynn tipp senior I'd forward but brilliant cork senior cathal Vaughan I'd injured as towering kerry midfielder Kieran Murphy
Donal Hodnet cork senior terrific player and real danger as a forward and with corkery and flynn have forward but if Vaughan was there they had a better chance imo



Huge losses
They have daily and Jordan from Austin stacks senior club also
Darragh Tracey limerick is good player also


Kissanne good coaching will play blanket and they will be organised but ucc have huge depth and Morgan has them primed

Martin cork under twenty one keeper

Culhwme and Maguire kerry under age possible seniors

Half back line Clancy, dorman driscoll is awesome but Sean white cork senior extended panelists currently under twenty one again this year and ex minor coup play at six free o driscoll who can play ten Brian dooher role

Ian maguire cork senior and under twenty one with kerry man Sullivan midfield

Cork senior and ballincollig Sean Kiely play half forward buy help midfield and nemo ex cork under twenty one luke connelly is half forward

Full forward line senior Paul geaney kerry, under age tomas hickey super player and conor cox likely kerry senior former under age player


They have serious subs also
I can't see past ucc in game if they have the hunger
If cit won I'd be delighted for kissanne but at end day both teams managed by cork men with cork players

GAA2TheCore

thinkstoomuch1 wrote: »

Cit have cork keeper David hsnahran senior sub keeper
Tj brosnan former cork under twenty one imo better half than corner
Captain is Brendan Sullivan kerry junior lost final cavan

He'd good player

Paul Sullivan is there could be midfield
Under twenty one last year and minor cork john corkery there and Barry o making and Sean flynn tipp senior I'd forward but brilliant cork senior cathal Vaughan I'd injured as towering kerry midfielder Kieran Murphy
Donal Hodnet cork senior terrific player and real danger as a forward and with corkery and flynn have forward but if Vaughan was there they had a better chance imo



Huge losses
They have daily and Jordan from Austin stacks senior club also
Darragh Tracey limerick is good player also


Kissanne good coaching will play blanket and they will be organised but ucc have huge depth and Morgan has them primed

Martin cork under twenty one keeper

Culhwme and Maguire kerry under age possible seniors

Half back line Clancy, dorman driscoll is awesome but Sean white cork senior extended panelists currently under twenty one again this year and ex minor coup play at six free o driscoll who can play ten Brian dooher role

Ian maguire cork senior and under twenty one with kerry man Sullivan midfield

Cork senior and ballincollig Sean Kiely play half forward buy help midfield and nemo ex cork under twenty one luke connelly is half forward

Full forward line senior Paul geaney kerry, under age tomas hickey super player and conor cox likely kerry senior former under age player


They have serious subs also
I can't see past ucc in game if they have the hunger
If cit won I'd be delighted for kissanne but at end day both teams managed by cork men with cork players

Hard to look passed UCC when CIT are missing some key players I didn't know they were missing

Seen UCC play in McGrath cup final and was very impressed with them very good strength in depth and played really well without all the big names such as Geaney Cox Maguire Clancy

With the players CIT are missing I can't see them winning now but no doubt they will go down battling

thinkstoomuch1

GAA2TheCore wrote: »

Hard to look passed UCC when CIT are missing some key players I didn't know they were missing

Seen UCC play in McGrath cup final and was very impressed with them very good strength in depth and played really well without all the big names such as Geaney Cox Maguire Clancy

With the players CIT are missing I can't see them winning now but no doubt they will go down battling

Won't make game any chance please you at it you do match report here

keane2097

Boom__Boom

Someone just posted the UCC squad on another site.

Looking at the various squads there does look to be a serious gap in the depth of quality with UCC having a number of experienced intercounty players from Kerry and Cork and lots of talent throughout the squad. Not saying CIT are a bad side, but they don't seem to have the overall quality of the UCC side.

Like others I find it very hard, if not impossible to see past a UCC win and would guess that they have a decent chance of going a good distance in the competition overall.

1 Adrian Spillane Templenoe Kerry
2 Alan O'Donovan Nemo Rangers Cork
3 Brian O'Driscoll Tadgh Mac Cathraigh Cork
4 Colm Hyde Naomh Aban Cork
5 Conor Cox Listowel Emmets Kerry
6 Conor Dorman Bishopstown Cork
7 David Culhane Ballylongford Kerry
8 David Harrington Adrigole Cork
9 Eanna O Conchuir An Ghaeltacht Kerry
10 Enda Dennehy St Finbarrs Cork
11 Fergal O'Connor Knocknagree Cork
12 Francis Courtney Beaufort Kerry
13 Gary O'Sullivan Listry Kerry
14 Ian Maguire St Finbarrs Cork
15 Jack McGuire Listowel Emmets Kerry
16 Jamie Davis Douglas Cork
17 Kevin Davis O'Donovan Rossa Cork
18 Kevin Fulingati Nemo Rangers Cork
19 Kevin Hayes-Curtin Douglas Cork
20 Kevin O'Sullivan Kenmare Kerry
21 Kieran Histon Cobh Cork
22 Luke Connolly Nemo Rangers Cork
23 Micheal Martin Nemo Rangers Cork
24 Padraic Looram Clonmel Commercials Tipperary
25 Padraig McCarthy Rathmore Kerry
26 Padraig O'Connor Legion Kerry
27 Padraig Scanlon Glin Limerick
28 Paul Geaney Dingle Kerry
29 Ronan Murphy Beaufort Kerry
30 Sean Kiely Ballincollig Cork
31 Sean White Clonakilty Cork
32 Shane Power Clonmel Commercials Tipperary
33 Shaun Keane Legion Kerry
34 Tom Hickey Castleisland Desmonds Kerry
35 Tomas Clancy Fermoy Cork
36 Tomas Hickey Castleisland Desmonds Kerry

Anyone have the squads for any of the other favoured teams e.g. DCU and UUJ?

GAA2TheCore

thinkstoomuch1 wrote: »

Won't make game any chance please you at it you do match report here

I won't make the game either sorry il only be following it on Twitter

thinkstoomuch1

GAA2TheCore wrote: »

I won't make the game either sorry il only be following it on Twitter

Same as myself

Ucc winning it handy 2-8to 1-3 half time

Pretty much as I though


Vaughan huge losses cit
Looking at cit team on twitter few stand out players but have lot just solid club players and problem is that they face elite ucc team where lot under age player cork or kerry with large bulk possible seniors


Course Morgan is king


O driscoll got black card
But look who replaced him outstanding Sean white
No other team can do that

Goal cit john corkery last year cork under twenty one

Goal ucc kerry player tomas hickey who imo seen before super player

keane2097

Updates here if anyone is looking:

http://livegaelic.com/scores/

Boom__Boom

UCC 3-15 CIT 1-6

No surprise here.

rrs

Scorers for UCC: C Cox 0-9 (0-4f), S Keane, T Hickey 1-1 each, C Dorman 1-0, T Clancy 0-2, L Connolly, P Geaney 0-1 each.

Scorers for Cork IT: J Corkery 1-1, B O’Sullivan, D Óg Hodnett (0-1f) 0-2 each, M Vaughan 0-1.

UCC (Kerry unless stated): M Martin (Cork); F McNamara, D Culhane, J McGuire; C Dorman (Cork), B O’Driscoll (Cork), T Clancy (Cork); I Maguire (Cork), G O’Sullivan; S Keane, L Connolly (Cork), S Kiely (Cork); C Cox, P Geaney, T Hickey. Subs: S White (Cork) for O’Driscoll (20, black card), D Harrington (Cork) for Geaney (38), É Ó Conchúir for Kiely (41), P O’Connor for Culhane (47).

CORK IT (Cork unless stated): D Hanrahan; S Cahill (Limerick), TJ Brosnan, P O’Sullivan (Kerry); C Jordan (Kerry), B O’Sullivan (Kerry), D Leahy (Tipperary); K O’Connor, D Treacy (Limerick); S O’Flynn (Tipperary), J O’Connor, P Crowley; B O’Mahony, D Óg Hodnett, J Corkery (Aghabullogue). Subs: M Vaughan for O’Connor (half-time), M Taylor for Crowley (38), R Milner for Leahy (38), A O’Connor for O’Mahony (47), D Daly (Kerry) for Treacy (51), C Flanagan for Brosnan (57, injured).


NUIG had a comfortable win too agaInst Graham Geraghy's Blanch IT.

zetecescort

rrs wrote: »

Scorers for UCC: C Cox 0-9 (0-4f), S Keane, T Hickey 1-1 each, C Dorman 1-0, T Clancy 0-2, L Connolly, P Geaney 0-1 each.

Scorers for Cork IT: J Corkery 1-1, B O’Sullivan, D Óg Hodnett (0-1f) 0-2 each, M Vaughan 0-1.

UCC (Kerry unless stated): M Martin (Cork); F McNamara, D Culhane, J McGuire; C Dorman (Cork), B O’Driscoll (Cork), T Clancy (Cork); I Maguire (Cork), G O’Sullivan; S Keane, L Connolly (Cork), S Kiely (Cork); C Cox, P Geaney, T Hickey. Subs: S White (Cork) for O’Driscoll (20, black card), D Harrington (Cork) for Geaney (38), É Ó Conchúir for Kiely (41), P O’Connor for Culhane (47).

CORK IT (Cork unless stated): D Hanrahan; S Cahill (Limerick), TJ Brosnan, P O’Sullivan (Kerry); C Jordan (Kerry), B O’Sullivan (Kerry), D Leahy (Tipperary); K O’Connor, D Treacy (Limerick); S O’Flynn (Tipperary), J O’Connor, P Crowley; B O’Mahony, D Óg Hodnett, J Corkery (Aghabullogue). Subs: M Vaughan for O’Connor (half-time), M Taylor for Crowley (38), R Milner for Leahy (38), A O’Connor for O’Mahony (47), D Daly (Kerry) for Treacy (51), C Flanagan for Brosnan (57, injured).


NUIG had a comfortable win too agaInst Graham Geraghy's Blanch IT.

says a lot when UCCs team is listed as Kerry unless stated!

Boom__Boom

UCD, UL and Carlow IT won yesterday with DCU getting the win over UUJ today 3-10 to 0-10 Goals win games

Some very brief footage from the DCU UUJ game - the defending for this the two goals was very unimpressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93qMCQ5-kI

rrs

UUJ had a more "star studden" team then DCU, but it's not all about big name players

GAA2TheCore

Fair play to DCU on there win today I didn't give them much hope I thought UUJs star studded team would sweep aside all infront of them

GAA2TheCore

Also great win for GMIT on there win over DIT biggest shock of the first round so far IMO

rrs

DCU won the Ryan Cup before Christmass and have a fairly balanced team with Colm Begley having lots of Sigerson Experiene behind him.
Tom Fynn of Galway a top midfielder, 2 all Ireland U21 titles. Conor McHugh of Dublin All Ireland U21 last year, and eligible this year. Davy Byrne of Ballymun won Leinster Club, Conor Meredith of Laois former AFl, was outstanding under age
Conor Moynagh centre back on the Cavan u21 team last year and captain.
Dairmuid O Connor brother of Cillian big thing are expected of him as well as Enda Smith of Roscommon.

They don't have as many households names as previous names but a lot of are still u21 so will be emerging.

DCU

Tadgh Lowe (Boyle, Roscommon)

Jack Smith (Skerries Harps, Dublin)
Conor Boyle (Clontibret, Monaghan)
Conor Daly (Padraig Pearses, Roscommon)

Dessie Ward (Ballybay, Monaghan)
Conor Moynagh (Drumgoon, Cavan)
Colm Begley (Laois)

Tom Flynn (Athenry, Galway)
Steven O’Brien (Ballina, Tipperary)

Diarmuid O’Connor (Ballintubber, Mayo)
Conor Meredith (O’Dempsey’s, Laois)
Davy Byrne (Ballymun Kickhams, Dublin)

Enda Smith (Boyle, Roscommon)
Niall Murphy (Coolera-Strandhill, Sligo)
Conor McHugh (Na Fianna, Dublin)

Subs
Rory Connor (Kenagh, Longford) for Meredith (39)
Donie Smith (Boyle, Roscommon) for Murphy (45)
Conor McGraynor (Avondale, Wicklow) for O’Connor (46)
Eoin O’Connor (Naomh Pádraig, Louth) for Byrne (52)
S Carey (Monaghan) for Moynagh (55)
Donal Wrynn (Fenagh, Leitrim) for McHugh (58)


UUJ

Rory Beggan (Scotstown, Monaghan)

Killian Brady (Mullahoran, Cavan)
Ricky Johnston (Creggan, Antrim)
Marty Johnston (Creggan, Antrim)

Killian Clarke (Shercock, Cavan)
Mattie Donnelly (Trillick, Tyrone)
Stephen Sheridan (Forkhill, Armagh)

Michael Argue (Bailieborough, Cavan)
Caolan Mooney (Rostrevor, Down)

Kieran Hughes (Scotstown, Monaghan)
Ronan O’Neill (Omagh, Tyrone)
Richard Donnelly (Trillick, Tyrone)

Patrick McBrearty (Kilcar, Donegal)
Caolan O’Boyle (Lavey, Derry)
Cillian O’Connor (Ballintubber, Mayo)

Subs
Brian Sankey (Sherock, Cavan) for Argue (29)
Danny Savage (Bryansford, Down) for Sankey (BC, 35)
Liam Gervin (Derrylaughan, Tyrone) for O’Neill (40)
Frank Burns (Pomeroy, Tyrone) for O’Boyle (44)

Poor_old_gill

Boom__Boom wrote: »

UCD, UL and Carlow IT won yesterday with DCU getting the win over UUJ today 3-10 to 0-10 Goals win games

Some very brief footage from the DCU UUJ game - the defending for this the two goals was very unimpressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93qMCQ5-kI

One guy got all the scores for IT Tralee- not often that happens, expecially at this level.
Reminds me of an under 12 game

Boom__Boom

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

One guy got all the scores for IT Tralee- not often that happens, expecially at this level.
Reminds me of an under 12 game

What's even more remarkable is that ITT had Conor Keane in their full-forward line who is a very serious prospect for Kerry.

Poor_old_gill

Boom__Boom wrote: »

What's even more remarkable is that ITT had Conor Keane in their full-forward line who is a very serious prospect for Kerry.

Aye, Keane is a good prospect but I feel he has a tendency to take too much out of the ball at times. Savage is a good prospect too to be fair- Kennelly has gone on record with his opinion that they will both play for Kerry in the near future.

Henlars67

IT Sligo thrown out for fielding a player who isn't a student in the college.

Queen's not reinstated as they fielded three ineligible players in the same match.

statto25

Henlars67 wrote: »

IT Sligo thrown out for fielding a player who isn't a student in the college.

Queen's not reinstated as they fielded three ineligible players in the same match.

Where you seeing that Henlars?

Edit: Nevermind, got it!
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/it-sligo-and-queens-axed-from-the-independentie-sigerson-cup-for-fielding-ineligible-players-30967403.html

statto25

I.T Sligo were reinstated last night and play UCC on Friday @2pm. It seems that the rule that existed which prevented sabbatical officers from representing their college had been left out of the current rulebook so the previous decision was overturned. Can find any info on whether the rule had changed or that it was left out in error?

Syferus

Some plainly wrong stuff here. The ITS player in question is the student union president and also a full-time student in the college rather than someone on a sabbatical from studies, so even had the rule been there the case against him playing would be in a gray area. The lad was freshers manager so it was certainly not a UUJ situation where he was being brought in to play Sigerson, he's ITS from the ground up. The whole debacle was another black eye for the Sigerson, throwing out one of the few colleges that do operate their Sigerson team in good faith.

Good luck to ITS in the Mardyke today, it would be just fantastic that if after all this and losing Evan Regan to a collarbone fracture they could go to the current champions and this year's finals hosts and win.

Always_Running

IT Sligo officially out now after their 0-13 to 0-8 defeat.

Semi finals.

DCU V UCD
UCC V Carlow IT

Boyle sports odds.

UCC 10/11
DCU 2/1
UCD 4/1
Carlow IT 14/1

manofwisdom

Good value odds on both DCU,UCD as i reckon one of them will beat UCC in the final.

Redsoxfan

Who have Carlow beaten to get this far and do they have any 'stars'?

Looking at the UUJ line up posted earlier, wow, what a crock of ****e! 14 man Marys gave DCU a much harder game.

ciarriaithuaidh

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Who have Carlow beaten to get this far and do they have any 'stars'?

Looking at the UUJ line up posted earlier, wow, what a crock of ****e! 14 man Marys gave DCU a much harder game.

Carlow beat Tralee and UL. Beating UL in Limerick is a decent result, they had a good team on paper at least.

You're right about Jordanstown..bringing in county players is all well and good, but you can't manufacture a team. Those Mary's lads were willing to put their bodies on the line for each other. Does Cillian O'Connor for example, really give a ****e about UUJ? I doubt it.

Always_Running

St Mary's reached the Ryan cup league final back in December they probably would have beaten UUJ if they played them.

Always_Running

Semi final results

DCU 2-8 UCD 0-11 (late penalty won it)
UCC 2-13 Carlow IT 0-8 (Carlow were leading 6-5 at half time)

Final live on tg4 tomorrow 3pm I think.

Redsoxfan

Anyone else watching this Final?

Does anyone practice shooting anymore?

Poor_old_gill

Cox had a great chance in normal time to put UCC 2 up and bottled it, did so again in extra-time- very surprised as he is usually quite good at this level. Geaney was off the pace aswell.
Well done to DCU

eigrod

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

Cox had a great chance in normal time to put UCC 2 up and bottled it, did so again in extra-time- very surprised as he is usually quite good at this level.

That was unforgiveable. They had a 3 on 1 player advantage too and he messed it up. Would've won the game for them, unquestionably.

Poor_old_gill

eigrod wrote: »

That was unforgiveable. They had a 3 on 1 player advantage too and he messed it up. Would've won the game for them, unquestionably.

It was unforgiveable, I completely agree- he had two men over but he saw his name in lights and bottled it

Redsoxfan

Fair play to DCU, thought they were full value for the win in ET. Geaney didn't look fully fit. As for Conor Cox, well, I will say nothing. Clancy had a few shocking attempts also. Two big kicks from the DCU goalie and he did well to smother a goal chance in normal time.

Poor_old_gill

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Fair play to DCU, thought they were full value for the win in ET. Geaney didn't look fully fit. As for Conor Cox, well, I will say nothing. Clancy had a few shocking attempts also. Two big kicks from the DCU goalie and he did well to smother a goal chance in normal time.

Yeah Geaney was clearly not fully fit- surprised he stayed on as long as he did

Syferus

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

It was unforgiveable, I completely agree- he had two men over but he saw his name in lights and bottled it

It was an easy shot for someone with his ability, he took the right option. The execution was the problem.

Five Rossies on the DCU team. The three Boyle men all instrumental to the win, perfect.

Poor_old_gill

Syferus wrote: »

It was an easy shot for someone with his ability, he took the right option. The execution was the problem.

Five Rossies on the DCU team. The three Boyle men all instrumental to the win, perfect.

He had 2 men over or could have taken the ball on as he had space- as someone else has said (and I agreed with)- it was unforgivable.

A lot of Roscommon lads seem to go to DCU-any particular reason for that? They have had a good representation on the DCU teams over the last few years

Syferus

Cox had space (he was pretty much unmarked when he got the ball) and was in-front of the posts from a very easily scoreable distance, he had taken multiple hard shots earlier in the game and scored, there was no need to be over-working the ball when your scoring forward had the ball in that position, execution was the only thing Cox failed on.

The former DCU treasurer was a Western Gaels club-man, he helped foster a lot of players in north and west Roscommon going to DCU - four of the five on this year's panel are from those areas. He felt being part of a big university with the best young players in the country would help bring players on and make them realize they were as good as their counter-parts elsewhere. It's certainly helping.

Members of Moyna's management team are also involved with Roscommon GAA too so there's a few connections there.

Always_Running

UCC probably threw that game away in normal time but credit to DCU they kept plugging away and Lowe the goalkeeper showed nerves of steel with that pressure kick. DCU we better team in extra time however both sides were out on their feet at the stage maybe it's time to have at least a 3 day break between games.

Gary Neville

I could not believe how Eddie Kinsella allowed the equalising free kick be taken at least 10 feet forward from where the foul occured. This made it a far easier kick - IMO if the kick was taken from the correct position, it would have been near impossible to convert.

Billy Morgan was livid.

Conor Cox will have nightmares for a long time - He had 2 men free inside him and both had a clear run on goal - I can't ever remember seeing a chance butchered so badly. It's maybe unfair to blame one player but .......

nice_guy80

Gary Neville wrote: »

I could not believe how Eddie Kinsella allowed the equalising free kick be taken at least 10 feet forward from where the foul occured. This made it a far easier kick - IMO if the kick was taken from the correct position, it would have been near impossible to convert.

Billy Morgan was livid.

Conor Cox will have nightmares for a long time - He had 2 men free inside him and both had a clear run on goal - I can't ever remember seeing a chance butchered so badly. It's maybe unfair to blame one player but .......

A sign of bad coaching.