AIL 2024/2025

Clontarf

• 1 Charlie Ward
• 2 Dylan Donnellan
• 3 Ben Griffin
• 4 Charlie Coghlan
• 5 Jim Peters
• 6 Aaron Coleman
• 7 Declan Adamson
• 8 Richard Whelan
• 9 Sean Finlay
• 10 Conal Kervick
• 11 Seni Reilly Ashiru
• 12 Mark O'Sullivan
• 13 Tadhg Bird
• 14 James Mckeown
• 15 Noah Sheridan
• 16 Barry Gray
• 17 Alvin Amaniampong
• 18 Conor Bateman
• 19 John Vinson
• 20 Louis O'Reilly
• 21 Conor Kelly
• 22 Victor Allen
• 23 Rian Treacy

haha yeah, i wasn't planning on going tbh but woke up early by chance without planning to and was like ah sure why not plus we have marys this week so wanted to see how they fair out. i would have done the same if i planned in advance i'll let u know next time im up tho.

i was actually wondering that…. i know mckeown is a 10 in his early days but has transitioned in 9 in recent year was wondering if he was filling in for injury or if skehan was planning on putting him there in the future.

Yeah sorry, i didnt know panda took the year out i thought he was there last year and didnt feature due to injury or something. That move would be the equivilant of one of ours going to a belvo or wes tbh local rivals and all that lol. I seen rigney hobble off could be a worry going forward into the ail season this side of christmas depending on how severe that leg is.

Greg jones did well enough i thought yeah. Dan i thought was alright need to see move of him in games tbh. Was more impressed with there italian winger tbh with the scrumcap he was impressive.

One of your players i know chatted to post game did tell me to keep an eye out of bennie replacement the ex michaels lad, the fell that got the cut to his head and was bleeding post game, he said hes a real deal at 9 but young lad so needs time to develop.

As i said to you over summer and i still stand to it…. on paper marys would be a dark horse to do well come business end of season with the calibre of players they have tbh even though its there 1st year up from 1b.

great player

he did quite well when he came on today tbh for james kenny. 49-24 was the overall score to lansdowne….. not quite a scoreline i thought would happen before ko i would have thought it would be alot closer given how well marys recruited over the summer.

To play 7s.

So Sean French did re-join Cork Con.

Some interesting results up North on Saturday:

Dungannon 46 Queen 14

Ballynahinch 36 Malone 39

Banbridge 21 Rainey 33

Instonians 12 Armagh 53

Harlequins 29 Omagh 36

Ballyclare 52 Ballymena 12

Quite the introduction into the Senior ranks for Ballyclare and surprise away wins for Malone and Rainey.

Queens still have a lot of players still to turn up, and away with various age grade squads and academies so wouldn't read too much into their form, expect another hiding against Hinch this weekend.

2 Defeats on the spin for 'Hinch is a bit of a concern - though it hasn't taken long for the new Armagh coaching ticket to get them ticking, that's a great result against Instonains.

Be interesting to see how Ballyclare get on this season, if they follow in the footsteps of Clogher and Instonians they could be an interesting watch!

Will tickets be needed to get into this?

Incredible result for Nenagh Ormond....that club is going places...