Ballymun Kickhams 2-23
Raheny 1-8
Kevin O’Brien reports from Parnell Park
DEAN ROCK SCORED nine points as Ballymund Kickhams easily disposed of Raheny in the Dublin SFC tonight.
They’ll join Castleknock, St Judes, and the winners of the St Vincent’s and Lucan Sarsfield tie, in the last four of the Dublin SFC.
The majority of Rock’s scores came from placed balls (0-1 from play) as Ballymun enjoyed near-total supremacy in an 18-point win.
The key point of the game arrived in the third quarter, when Ballymun (who were 1-11 to 1-6 ahead at half-time) outscored Raheny by 0-8 to 0-2 to move into a commanding ten point lead.
From that stage the result was a formality. On the night Ballymun displayed an excellent standard of kick-passing and they cut through the Raheny defence on countless occasions with the direct running of the likes of Karl Connolly, Jason Whelan and Ted Furman.
They should have been further in front at the interval, but a combination of poor shot selection and bad shooting let them down.
Brian Fenton was Raheny’s best player, but their attack was too pedestrian, and Ballymun’s defence too smart, to allow the All-Star midfielder any attacking space to drift into.
The victors played without key defender James McCarthy, who sat out due to an ongoing groin problem.
For all their early dominance, Ballymun lead by just 0-8 to 0-4 after the first quarter.
Rock kicked another couple of frees for Ballymun, before they found the net for the first time in the 24th minute. A poor Ryan Bradshaw kick-out was capitalised on by Davey Byrne, who slipped in Paddy Small for the finish from close-range.
That goal sparked Raheny into life, and the next five minutes brought about their most productive spell in the half. Ivory curled another one over and then full-back Sean McMahon soloed in from 45 metres out and slotted past Sean Currie.
Ballymun enjoyed a good start to the second-half and, with Rock in-form from placed balls, they found themselves 1-18 to 1-8 ahead after 45 minutes.
The final quarter was a procession as Ballymun coasted home. Ted Furman completed the rout with a fisted goal in the 58th minute.
Scorers for Ballymun: Dean Rock 0-9 (0-8f, 0-1 45), Ted Furman 1-4, Paddy Small 1-2, Jason Whelan 0-3, Alan Hubbard, Karl Connolly, 0-2 each, John Small, Kevin Leahy 0-1 each.
Scorers for Raheny: Gavin Ivory 0-3, Sean McMahon 1-0, Brian Fenton, James O’Kane (f), Donal Ryan 0-1 each.
Ballymun Kickhams
1. Sean Currie
2. Leon Young
3. Eoin Dolan
4. Philly McMahon
5. James Burke
6. John Small
7. Karl Connolly
8. Aaron Elliot
9. Davey Byrne
15. Alan Hubbard
11. Jason Whelan
10. Kevin Leahy
14. Dean Rock
13. Ted Furman
12. Paddy Small
Subs: 17. Jason Welby (for Leon Young, half-time), 19. Liam O’Donovan (for 7. Karl Connolly, 47 mins), Elliot O’Reilly (for 8. Aaron Elliot, 53 mins), 21. Dillon Keating (for 10. Kevin Leahy)
Raheny
1. Ryan Bradshaw
4. Rutherson Real
3. Sean McMahon
2. Darragh Pelly
5. Ger Coady
6. Eoin Keogh
7. Sean Byrne
8. Brian Fenton
9. Conor Talty
10. Brian Howard
11. David Shatwell
12. Eoghan Smyth
13. Donal Ryan
14. CJ Heapes
15. Gavin Ivory
Subs: 24. Rob Diffley (for Rutherson Real, 34 mins), 13. Donal Ryan (for 14. CJ Heapes, half-time), 17. Rob Donnelly (for 7. Sean Byrne, 45 mins), 20. Patrick Reid (for 12. Eoghan Smyth, 48 mins), 18, Liam O’Shea (for James Burke, 56 mins), 19. John Ryan (for 11. David Shatwell, 56 mins)
Referee: Darragh Sheppard
Watch Royal Rumble 2003. Around the 8 minute mark Edge and Rey Mysterio give him a double dropkick but Edge goes right across his face and breaks his nose!
The worst one pat. Remember m n m? When the guy got the ladder right in the face. Complete botch. His nose spread across his face
Joey hasn’t been the same since and is effectively retired (training in nxt now). One of the worst injuries I’ve witnessed.
Oh God. Yeh, that one is foul!
I love watching NFL, but the number of former players committing suicide because of the CTE-related dementia is scary and really needs to be addressed.
It’s not just just the older guys suffering symptoms either, linebacker Jovan Belcher who was only 26 and still playing for the KC Chiefs last year, murdered the mother of his child and committed suicide.
How long before they wake up and change the rules?
Where is it claimed that this had to do with cte? The reasoning behind that particular tragedy says he had a row with his gf over whether their daughter was his or not.
I think it’s really admirable what chris is doing but other tragedies shouldn’t be cited to push an agenda…
Belcher was a 3 time All America wrestler as well as a crunching linebacker whose job it is to crash head first repeatedly into 250lb+ blockers and running backs… head trauma much?
It is also well documented by close colleagues and friends that he displayed all the early stage signs of cte, e.g. depression, memory loss, confusion, aggressive behaviour etc…
…but hey if you think shooting his girlfriend 9 times and then himself was a perfectly sane, rational response to a row over the daughter then fair enough.
Like I said I love watching nfl, but it doesn’t take a genius to realise that repeatedly leading with their helmets, as they are taught to do from a young age, causes major problems later in life.
Was the same story with the Chris Benoit murder suicide. Everyone put it down to roid rage or personal issues with his wife but Nowinski worked with Benoits father closely and when they did an autopsy on the brain of Chris Benoit they discovered that due to the number of concussions Chris Benoit suffered he had a brain the equivalent to an elderly person suffering dementia. It was then argued how many dementia sufferers kill their family but I would argue back how many are physically capable of doing so.
After this was high lighted WWE took steps to prevent this. Unprotected chair shots to the head are banned, certain moved such as piledrivers and top rope head butts (incidentally one of Benoits finishers) are banned. On the other hand American Football associations have stuck their head in the sand.
Billy Korgan.
Karl Pilkingtons twin. :)
I agree that the NFL has to do more to
protect players – the constant impact to the brain in the sport is definitely related to depression later in a players life, as seen with linebacker Junior Seau. I also think that the NFL isn’t strict enough in regards to PEDs – so many players nowadays are on HGH and other banned substances – the combination of both brain trauma and dangerous substances does even more damage to the body. No wonder ex players are suing.
Interesting piece, but the link on Twitter was called “We’re putting our kids at too much risk by letting them play certain contact sports. Here’s how we can change that:”
This doesn’t really come close to addressing that…