KERRY MANAGER EAMON Kelly has made one change to his side for this afternoon’s Christy Ring Cup final against Derry at Croke Park.
Patrick Kelly, who missed the semi-final win over Kildare last week due to club commitments, is drafted in with John Egan moving to corner forward and David Butler dropping out.
Former All-Ireland winning goalkeeper with Tipperary, James Logue, has been omitted from the squad for Saturday’s game at GAA HQ with Philip Lucid named as the substitute net minder.
It’s understood Logue was unhappy with being left out of the team for the 6-27 to 0-9 win over Kildare at St Conleth’s Park and has now been dropped from the panel altogether.
Logue was added to the Kerry set-up for the 2015 season and is an All-Ireland medallist in the minor, U21 and intermediate grades having represented Tipperary at senior level.
Throw-in at Croke Park is at 5.30pm.
Kerry:
1. Stephen Murphy (Causeway)
2. Rory Horgan (St Brendans)
3. Paud Costelloe (Ballyduff)
4. Bryan Murphy (Causeway)
5. Daniel Collins (Kilmoyley)
6. Darren Dineen (St Brendans)
7. Keith Carmody (Causeway)
8. John Griffin (Lixnaw)
9. Patrick Kelly (Clarecastle)
10. Michael O’Leary (Abbeydorney)
11. Shane Nolan (Crotta O’Neills)
12. Colum Harty (Causeway)
13. Mikey Boyle (Ballyduff)
14. Padraig Boyle (Ballyduff)
15. John Egan (St Brendans)
Substitutes:
16. Philip Lucid (Ballyheigue)
17. David Butler (Knockavilla Kickhams)
18. Tommy Casey (Causeway)
19. Dougie Fitzell (Kilmoyley)
20. James Flaherty (Lixnaw)
21. John O’Neill (Clonoulty-Rossmore)
22. Brendan O’Leary (Abbeydorney)
23. Adrian Royle (Kilmoyley)
24. Darragh Shanahan (Lixnaw)
25. Sean Weir (Crotta O’Neills)
26. Giles O’Grady (Ballyduff)
Headline is misleading
Ireland hammered
No matter how much the media keep trying to push women’s sport, they will ever be as popular as the men’s version. #reality
@fergalmoore: the fact you need to point that out is kinda sad but alright mate
@fergalmoore: so what. Let people enjoy it. This is the national team.
France were at a different level. You can’t be that late arriving at the rucks and very very loose line in defense against that side.
@Tommy C: Two trys from pillar in the ruck being asleep. Even with 14 France were far more composed. France pack we’re very impressive and some great offloading in the tackle.
Well beaten with some unacceptable individual errors. New coach on the cards imo.
@Hey TC: lost 7 in 8. Not sure what happened since Scotland. Seemed to have turned a corner?
@James Hughes: crash ball constantly, even when played out the line. No plan re the backs. Don’t get me wrong, strong performance, just lacking conviction in vital areas that let us down.
allez le bleu
What an utterly crazy red card. Ireland were well beaten but that was a shocking decision by the referee. If it had changed the direction of the game it would have been a complete travesty.
@Brian Jones:
Definitely yellow … red was very harsh.
@Camacsaint: definitely yellow, but red was just not correct.
Those girls looked like pure amateurs, as bad as a team of Rory bests
@Chris: it’s embarrassing yeah. I’d rather watch the angelus than Irish women butcher rugby.
@Chris: They are amateurs. They played a semi professional team.
Of course they looked like amateurs.
Reminds me of the many years in the Ireland v France men’s game when we were routinely destroyed, disgraced… Worse than that, Scotland Wales etc had no such problem – it seemed to be that a blue jersey was enough to terrorise us. The Scots, unlike us, had a hang-up about England. Stick at it ladies – you can make things change
Nothing can or will change until we have professionals!!
@BMJF: would 15000 people go to a woman’s rugby game in a year? How can they afford to pay the players on that
@tubbsyf: If it was based solely on attendance then a lot of players in a lot of sports wouldnt be professional.
@Ormond: participant rates as well play a huge part, hardly anybody plays or watched ladies rugby
As long as they noted the run out then who cares