Nemo Rangers 0-14
St Finbarr’s 0-14
A REPLAY WILL be needed in the Cork SFC final after St Finbarr’s finished well to secure a draw in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday.
Nemo roared out of the blocks and had eight unanswered points on the board inside the opening 18 minutes.
Cork star Luke Connolly was to the forefront during this purple patch for the Trabeg side, scoring four points, while Jack Horgan and Barry O’Driscoll were also on target. Though they were competing at midfield, St Finbarr’s couldn’t turn their territory into scores, with three shots dropping into the hands of Nemo goalkeeper Micheál Martin.
A Stephen Sherlock free did get the Barrs off the mark in the 20th minute and scores from Cillian Myers Murray and Ian Maguire followed immediately in the wake of that as they found some momentum.
By half time though, Nemo were still well in control, leading by 0-10 to 0-4 and Ciarán Dalton’s nice score four minutes into the second half made it 0-12 to 0-5.
They wouldn’t score again for 18 minutes though, with the Barrs getting five in a row, two each from Sherlock and Colin Lyons and one from Denis O’Brien.
Even so, points from Alan O’Donovan and Colin O’Brien ensured that Nemo had the edge, but the Barrs persisted. Sherlock’s free was followed by his first from play, and then when Roy Leahy set him up, the sides were level for the first time since the scoring had opened.
The Barrs won possession from the kickout and held on to the ball, but a scoring chance didn’t present itself and so the sides must meet again.
Scorers for Nemo Rangers: Luke Connolly 0-4 (0-2 frees), J Horgan, C O’Brien, B O’Driscoll, P Gumley 0-2 each, A O’Donovan, C Dalton 0-1 each.
Scorers for St Finbarr’s: S Sherlock 0-8 (0-6 frees), D O’Brien, C Lyons 0-2 each, C Myers Murray, I Maguire 0-1 each.
Nemo Rangers
1. Micheál Martin
3. Aidan O’Reilly
4. Alan Cronin
2. Cian McWhinney
5. Tomás Ó Sé
6. Stephen Cronin
7. Kevin Fulignati
8. Alan O’Donovan
9. Jack Horgan
19. Barry O’Driscoll
11. Paul Kerrigan
12. Colin O’Brien
15. Ciarán Dalton
14. Paddy Gumley
13. Luke Connolly
Subs:
20. Jack O’Donovan for Fulignati (53)
25. Michael Dorgan for Jack Horgan (53)
10. Conor Horgan for O’Driscoll (58)
St Finbarr’s
1. Declan Murphy
7. Alan McCarthy
2. Glen O’Connor
6. Dylan Quinn
5. Colin Lyons
28. Sam Ryan
3. Jamie Burns
8. Ian Maguire
9. Eoin Comyns
10. Denis O’Brien
11. Michael Shields
12. Enda Dennehy
13. Cillian Myers Murray
18. Robert O’Mahony
15. Stephen Sherlock
Subs:
22. Roy Leahy for O’Mahony (47, injured)
25. Colm Keane for O’Brien (53)
21. Alan O’Connor for Lyons (60)
Referee: Conor Lane (Banteer)
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Won’t impact them really. Those are not huge losses. Munster v Wasps– now that was a squad decimated by COVID.
Serious chance here lads
@whoowhat?: you mean there’s a chance……
@whoowhat?: Eden Park, that would be historic altogether.
@Keith McCarthy: in llyod christmas’s world maybe
@daveyt: so you’re telling me there’s a chance ?
@Sean McCarthy: too right mate, put a few shrimp on the barbie ;)
What do people make of those billboards they’ve put up anywhere the Irish team are due to go? Stinks of desperation if you ask me. Are the NZ team embarrassed by them or are they lacking confidence that they take solice in them? If anything they’re going to fuel the fire in the Irish camp, probably exactly what we need after Ulster and Leinster feeling a bit dejected after the URC exits.
@SPQH: billboards?
@SPQH: take it as a compliment and a laugh, Irish bookmakers have done same, but much witter and better. Its really a non story
@SPQH: A Kiwi gambling company TAB NZ behind this.
Good luck to them provoking Paddy Power’s social media team!
@Paul Kennedy: wittier*
@SPQH: i don’t think they matter much, if it generates a bit of rivalry and sells more tickets fair play, maybe is a compliment that NZ fans are taking Ireland seriously.
@Paul Kennedy: OK fair enough, didn’t realise it was a bookmakers that was behind it.
@Doug Storms: Yeah, 3 outside Missouri.
Ireland can give back the players they robbed from new Zealand
@Tony Mcgrath: and then New Zealand can give back all the players they robbed from Tonga, somoa etc it works both ways
@Sole Trader: Australia & Scotland too.
@Tony Mcgrath: Ah c’mon. You can be more creative than “robbed”. Put some effort in man.
@Tony Mcgrath: robbed? Like what they did to Isa?
Getting Joe Schmidt on board reeks of desperation from Foster I think .
@Macus Mc Mahon: more like Feeks
All Blacks obviously taking a leaf out of the Tyrone playbook. Ireland beware .