AGHADA HURLING AND FOOTBALL CLUB

Losing three players from that epic match against Naomh Padraig way back in August. Aghada just ran out of numbers in this teak tough match in Lisgoold. Damien Wall, Dominic Cashman and Timmy Crowley were sorely missed by Aghada due to injury,

Yet Aghada could have caused an upset leading by 5 points as the first half closed, Killeagh got a soft goal followed by a point to leave the half time score Aghada 1-6 Killeagh/Ita’s 1-5.
Tony Wall was again our main threat up front. He opened the scoring with two points to answer Killeagh/Ita’s three then Shane Morrissey scored a mighty point to level the match, a minute later Wall added another. Now Aghada were on top but Killeagh/Ita’s were always a danger up front. Some great saves by Martin Day and good work by the backline (especially Laim Day and Peter Murphy) kept the Killeagh/Ita’s lads at bay. Declan Morrissey and Stephen Gilroy was on top in the middle of the park. A long ball in Paudie Wall grabs it, Penalty up steps Tony but he never hit the ball right. Aghada come again and Mark Galvin taps over a great point from out near the sideline. Then within a minute Wall makes up for the penalty when raised the green followed by the white flag to give Aghada the afore mentioned five point lead.
Scores were hard to come by on the resumption but slowly Killeagh/Ita’s stole away.By the 51st minute they had scored three points to none from our lads. Then came the turning point a miss clearance from the full backline found Killeagh/Ita’s best man Brendan Barry, for once on his own and he made no mistake. Aghada’s 1st score of the half came from Wall on the 56th minute two minutes later he again found the net to make it a three point game. As the sands of time ran out try as we might we could not get the goal we wanted and we had the chances. Killeagh/Ita’s were able to add two more points to give a false gloss to the scoreline. Aghada can feel proud as most players played above themselves and as previously said we paid a big price for the loss of our players ,the three Walls Tony, Paudie and Brian had big games, as did the two Laim’s, Day and Morrissey.
Team
Martin Day
Peter Murphy, Laim Morrissey, Kenneth O’Brien
Brian Wall, Laim Day, Brendan Kearney
Declan Morrissey , Stephan Gilroy
Paudie Wall, Shane Morrissey (0-1), Tony Wall (capt) (2-5)
Sean O’Donoghue, Mark Galvin (0-1) Alan Morrissey
Sub used, Evan Kennedy for Sean O’Donoghue 50th m other subs David Condon, Alan Creedan

After been 13 points down on the night the fog came down, Aghada knew they had a mountain to climb. O’ but how they climbed. Aghada had three more players available Peter Murphy, Dominick Cashman and Kenneth O’Brien on the down side we lost one Paudie Wall. Fielding a much changed side from the abandoned game the Aghada sideline made better use of their time. The master move of placing Laim Day on Paudie Sullivan paid off big time. The Cloyne/Castlemartyr combination opened the scoring and were ahead by three points after 12minutes before the mighty Tony Wall opened Aghada’s account with a placed ball. Now Aghada fought like tigers and were to score five more points before Naomh Padraig scored again. Wall added another placed ball just as the short whistle blew. To leave Aghada ahead 0-7 to 0-4.

Aghada scenting blood tacked on three more points after the brake again from Wall. Now Naomh Padraig started to trouble Aghada but our backline outstanding all night long held out ,A round this time the Ref Killian Looney must have booked half the Cloyne/Castlemartyr sideline. When the game resumed the Cloyne/Castlemartyr combination reduced the lead to four points before yes that man Wall again steadied the ship. Naomh Padraig came again trying for that goal to change the match but to no avail. A free out for Aghada at the edge of the square .The Ref moves the Ball for dissent. Moves the ball again for more dissent suddenly Tony had a chance for a point, and take it he did. Then Just as the battle was at its height the Cloyne/Castlemartyr combination left the fray with according to the ref 11 minutes left on the clock (two on ours) Aghada looked on with disbelief .

Make no mistake this was Aghada’s night we were the most focused side, they never gave up, hooked, blocked and never gave their man an inch. All fifteen players were stars on the night but Wall must stand out 10 points on the night 7 from free’s . Team management must also take a bow when they used their chance wisely. As said before moving Day was a great move but so also was bring Declan Kearney back half back and moving Tony Wall and Shane Morrissey to the forty .
Martin Day ,
Peter Murphy, Timmy Crowley , Laim Day
Damien Wall , Laim Morrissey , Declan Kearney
Declan Morrissey , Kenneth O’Brien ,
Dominick Cashman , Shane Morrissey (0-1) , Tony Wall (0-10)
Stephen Gilroy, Mark Galvin (0-1), Alan Morrissey

For the record Tony has scored 1-28 against Cloyne in championship matchs the last few weeks (u21 , Junior B )
Team night of fog
Martin Day ,
Brian Wall, Timmy Crowley , Laim Morrissey ,
Damien Wall, Declan Morrissey , Laim Day
Declan Kearney , Shane Morrissey,
Tony Wall (0-3) , Mark Galvin , Alan Morrissey
Alan Creedan , Séan O’Donoghue , Paudie Wall (0-1)
Subs Stephen Gilroy (blood) for Brian Wall 19th m Kenneth O'Brien for Creedan 26th minute

Martin Day ,
Brian Wall, Timmy Crowley , Laim Morrissey ,
Damien Wall, Declan Morrissey , Laim Day
Declan Kearney , Shane Morrissey,
Tony Wall (0-3) , Mark Galvin , Alan Morrissey
Alan Creedan , Séan O’Donoghue , Paudie Wall (0-1)

Subs Stephen Gilroy (blood) for Brian Wall 19th m Kenneth O'Brien for Creedan 26th minute

Our lads put up a good show against premier side Mallow in this highly entertaining match in Rostellan
Scores from Paudie Wall (3-2), Tony Wall (1-7) kept us in touch . as the game went on we came more and more into it with Brian Wall showing well at corner back when he came on .
Team
Cormac Falvey
D. Wall , S. Gilroy
P. Murphy , S. Morrissey, D. Kearney
Laim Day
Alan Morrissey (0-1) , D. Morrissey, Sean O’Donoghue,
Paudie Wall (3-2) Tony Wall (1-7)
Subs Brian Wall, Kenneth O’Brien (0-1) , Dave Condon and Alan Creedan

Aghada lost this game to the Cloyne/ Castlemartyr side in a highly entertaining game played in Cloyne

While the final score line was big this did not reflect the tone of the game as the Saints got two goals at the death. Aghada lead at halftime on the scoreline of 1-4 to 1-3. Fr. Denis, Finnbarr and Michael will be happy enough with this outing, as there is more in this team
Team Martin Day
Damien Wall, Laim Morrissey, Timmy Crowley
Declan Kearney, Laim Day, Peter Murphy
Declan Morrissey (0-1), Stephen Gilroy
Tony Wall (0-5) , Sean O’ Donoghue , Dominic Cashman (0-2)
Paudie Wall (1-0) Mark Galvin (0-1) Cormac Falvey

Sad end to a great year for the minor hurlers.
Losing our second county final in a row , yet we could have won
Missing Intermediate player Billy Hennessy was a hurdle to many to over come.
Brian Morressy put over the first point from a dead ball after five minutes sadly this was the only time we led .The Blackwater boys replied with 2 points followed by a goal in a ten minute spell when they over ran Aghada . slowly Aghada came back into the game thanks to another three frees from Morressy . just on the stroke of half time Blackwater added another point to lead at the short whistle by 1-3 to 0-4
After the brake Blackwater again when further ahead with two more points from frees
On the 35th minute Alan Morressy hit Aghada's 1st point from play Tony Wall followed shortly after. Then an Aghada attack was broken down and with our backline out of place Blackwater got a soft goal to put them 5 points clear entering the last quarter . Dave O'Keeffe made a great run before off loading to Sub Shane Russell who rattled the net . Blackwater got a seventy yard free which again when all the way to the Aghada net. Back to five points could our lads come again indeed they could and with five minutes left Alan Morressy hit the net, Tony Wall added a point to leave the minimum between the sides by alas we could get no closer and on the stroke of full time Blackwater added a point to give them a two point victory

Martin Day
Damien Wall , Timmy Crowley , Laim Morressy

Laim Day , Steven O'Keeffe ,Cormac Falvy

Steven Cashman, Conor Hickey ,

Mark Galvin , Brian Morressy (0-4)Declan Morressy

Tony Wall(0-2) ,David O'Keeffe , Alan Morressy(1-1)

subs used Peter Murphy for Cormac Falvy ,Declan Kearney Conor Hickey and Shane Russell(1-0) for Mark Galvin

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