Glen Rovers 0-19
Erins Own 2-11
Denis Hurley reports from Páirc Uí Rinn
TWELVE POINTS FROM Patrick Horgan – including five a row to turn the game late on – were crucial as Glen Rovers retained the Cork senior hurling title with a final victory over Erin’s Own at Páirc Uí Rinn on today.
Having ended a 26-year wait for the Seán Óg Murphy Cup a year ago, the Glen achieved back-to-back titles for the first time since 1960 with this win but they were made to work for it by their opponents, who had been the last club to win two in a row, in 2006 and ’07.
The Glen had led by 0-11 to 1-3 at half-time and the excellent Dean Brosnan extended that lead on the resumption but points from Cathal O’Mahony, Eoghan Murphy – who finished with eight – and Maurice O’Carroll kept Erin’s Own in touch.
They trailed by 0-14 to 1-6 with 20 minutes left when captain O’Carroll benefited from Colm Coakley’s run and pass to crash a shot to the net.
Three in a row from Murphy put them ahead for the first time since the opening half but the Glen weren’t going to lie down. Horgan cut the gap to a point with a free and then, having missed one, tied matters with a fine score from Brosnan’s pass.
In the 56th minute, he put them in front again and two more in injury time left a goal in it. While Erin’s Own sought to fashion a late equalising goal, O’Mahony’s shot flew over the bar and the Glen held out.
The city side had been by far the better team in the first half but poor shooting hampered them. They led by 0-5 to 0-3 on 21 when James O’Flynn goaled for Erin’s Own, but they responded to that setback as Conor Dorris, Horgan, Cathal O’Brien and Brosnan all pointed to give them a significant half-time cushion.
Their supremacy was tested in the second half but ultimately they emerged victorious.
Scorers for Glen Rovers: Patrick Horgan 0-12 (0-6 frees, 0-2 65), Dean Brosnan 0-4, Conor Dorris 0-2, Cathal O’Brien 0-1.
Scorers for Erin’s Own: Eoghan Murphy 0-8 (0-5 frees), Maurice O’Carroll 1-1, James O’Flynn 1-0, Cathal O’Mahony 0-2.
Glen Rovers
1. Cathal Hickey
2. Calvin Healy
3. Stephen McDonnell
4. Gavin Moylan
7. Graham Callanan
6. Brian Moylan
5. David Dooling
8. Donal Cronin
9. David Noonan
10. Dean Brosnan
11. Patrick Horgan
12. David Cunningham
13. Conor Dorris
14. Cathal O’Brien
15. David Busteed
Subs
22. Mark Dooley for O’Brien (45)
18. Glenn Kennefick for Busteed (45)
25. Evan O’Connell for Dorris (60)
Erins Own
1. Shay Bowen
2. Cian O’Connor
3. Cormac Dooley
4. Jack Sheehan
7. Cathal O’Mahony
6. Shane Murphy
5. Stephen Cronin
8. Andrew Power
9. Seán Kelly
10. Robbie O’Flynn
11. Colm Coakley
12. Kieran Murphy
13. Eoghan Murphy
15. Maurice O’Carroll
14. James O’Flynn
Subs
19. Mark Collins for Kelly (half-time)
20. Cian O’Callaghan for James O’Flynn (43)
24. Stephen Horgan for Power (55)
Referee: Joe Larkin (Ballinora)
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He’s talking through his hoop. We were bad and getting worse during Mick’s last stint aswell. The standard of player has dropped drastically over the last ten years.
@Tom O’ Donnell: agreed, a bit of a plank sewing it into Kenny.
Maybe if we had a decent player on the left side of the pitch, we would qualified for more tournaments.
Plus, it wasn’t like McCarthy had gotten us to a play off, the play off was guaranteed before he was appointed.
McClean only coming out with this now tells you everything you need to know about him as player and as a person
@Adrian: While i do agree with you that the only reason McClean is bringing this up is that he has an axe to grind with Kenny and it is indeed bad form. We were also guaranteed that playoff spot, however what he said is he thinks that if we still had McCarthy there we would have had a better chance in qualifying. I think he is absolutely right regardless of his motives. If McCarthy was there we would have probably dug out a result in Slovakia, they were there for the taking, a poor side at the time.
@John Clifford: we lost that on penalties so being ‘hard to beat’ had nothing to do with that night.
We weren’t hard to beat tonight
@Tony Metcalfe: Slovakia were awful that night and we just didn’t take the game too them. Tactically Kenny got it wrong as he did though out his tenure. A manager with more bottle would have taken the game to them. I know him saying “hard to beat” doesn’t make sense, however it just stands that a more experienced manager would have got the job done that night, away from the fact that FAI should have let him see out the qualification campaign. It was bad form on all counts.
@Tony Metcalfe: we weren’t hard to beat tonight but that was down to formation (no three in the midfield), no high press, playing wing backs when we don’t have any decent ones, no intensity etc etc….basically when you have such limited players, you need a manager that is exceptionally good tactically. O’Shea is not that man , he needs to learn his trade elsewhere (lower level) before looking at a gig like this.
@John Clifford: I think you’ve memory holed that game a little. We had better chances than Slovakia, Conor Hourihane absolutely ballsed up a huge chance in front of goal. We did take it to them, but finishing let us down.
It’s hard to see us qualifying for anything for the foreseeable unfortunately.
@Ray Ridge: the Galway of international soccer maybe Ray?!
@Joe Kennedy: Both way off the top sides im afraid.
@Ray Ridge: pessimism correct on the soccer. But definitely lay off the rugby. Small country population wise and it’s our 4th sports. Always there there abouts winning six nations and can put it up to all blacks and springboks off this world. Call a spade a spade
@Gary Galligan: it’s not pessimism, it’s realism. When we win a knock-out game in the big one, then maybe.
@Gary Galligan: . We’re the only one of the nine major test playing nations never to have won a knockout game at the World Cup. There have been ten Rugby World Cup tournaments. Granted we were exceptional in the last World Cup but our record in what is by far the biggest tournament in world rugby is truly abysmal.
@Gary Galligan: How do you make out it’s our fourth sport considering there are more playing Soccer in the country than both GAA codes and Rugby, put it another way Soccer is the most popular sport participation wise in the country.
@Leonard Barry: . He means rugby is our fourth sport in terms of participation.
@Richard Ford: won last 2 six nations
@Ray Ridge: The Jimmy Sloyan of The 42. Insightful
@Gary Galligan: . Yup and delighted to see it but the Rugby World Cup is the really big one.
I don’t think that there will be many people trying to steal James McClean’s intellectual property!!!.
We don’t have the players, never mind manager. Ffs.
Wonder how many other players felt same way playing under Kenny?
@Shane: This stuff always amazes me. Is there no senior group amongst the players to be able to voice concerns like his to the management..
Kennys Reign was a disaster He should have been sacked after Luxemburg Beat us instead of being allowed to bring us down the rankings to sixty four In
The world. Everything has gone wrong. J o shea has been treated very poorly the 4 friendly arranged by the FAI have been too difficult.It’s like they want us to fail.