Sigerson Cup Round 3 Results
UL 4-10 SETU Carlow 1-4
MTU Cork 3-12 ATU Sligo 2-7
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UL 4-10
SETU Carlow 1-4
Tom Clancy reports from Limerick
LAST YEAR’S runners-up, University of Limerick eased back into the last eight of the Sigerson Cup with a goal-filled second half more than enough to see off a disappointing SETU Carlow challenge. The margin swelled to a total of 15 points for UL who played quality football for most of the hour, but they’ll know sterner tests await.
Ahead by just four at the interval after a dominant first half, UL found the goal-touch to coast through. Those goals came from Clare’s Aaron Griffin, Ciaran Downes (2), and Sean McDonnell as Carlow had to eventually try to come out and attack their hosts.
Emmet McMahon turned in a captain’s display, helping himself to five points, four of which came in the first half. In reply, two nice efforts from Colm Hulton were all Billy O’Loughlin’s side could manage.
Eoghan McLaughlin’s rampaging run, which started near the halfway line, saw him turn provider for Aaron Griffin, which appeared to break the Carlow fight. Before that, Griffin had been denied by a Josh Moore block and by Matthew Ryan — the Laois ‘keeper pulling off a handful of saves during a busy evening.
Tommy Griffin found a goal for Carlow, either side of Ciaran Downes’ brace, as UL had space to attack at pace. The final goal, from sub McDonnell, put even further daylight between the sides.
Declan Brouder was able to rest some of his key men, many of whom will be lining out in the Allianz League at the weekend. Brouder’s side have more improvement in them, but they were not to be caught by another collapse, which saw them lose out to TU Dublin on penalties last Thursday.
Scorers for University of Limerick: C Downes 2-1; E McMahon 0-5 (1f); A Griffin, S McDonnell 1-0 each; P Keaney 0-2 (1f, 1 ’45); M Lenehan, J Hayes 0-1 each.
Scorers for SETU Carlow: C Hulton 0-3; T Griffin 1-0; C Farrell 0-1 (45).
University of Limerick: 1. Conor Flaherty (Claregalway, Galway); 2. Colm Moriarty (Annascaul, Kerry), 3. Mark Dempsey (Moorefield, Kildare), 4. Donal Casey (Leitrim Gaels, Leitrim); 5. Darragh Cashman (Millstreet, Cork), 6. Daniel Walsh (Kilmurry Ibrickane, Clare), 7. Eoghan McLaughlin (Westport, Mayo); 8. Brian McNamara (Cooraclare, Clare), 9. Paul Keaney (St Mary’s Kiltogohert, Leitrim); 10. Ciaran Downes (Kilmihil, Clare), 11. Emmet McMahon (Kildysart, Clare), 12. Mark Lenehan (Buttevant, Cork); 13. Paul Walsh (Brosna Kerry), 18. Jack Coyne (Ballyhaunis, Mayo), 24. Aaron Griffin (Lissycasey, Clare)
Subs: S McDonnell (Mallow, Cork) for P Walsh (HT); John Hayes (St. Kieran’s, Limerick) for McLaughlin (41), Cian Glennon (St Faithleachs, Roscommon) for Keaney (41), Oisin Looney (Milltown Malbay, Clare) for Downes (47), Jack O’Brien (Durrow, Offaly) for Coyne (48).
SETU Dublin: 1. Matthew Byron (Courtwood, Laois); 2. Padraig O’Shea (Cork), 3. Jack Donohue (Bannow Ballymitty, Wexford), 4. Paraic Deering (Rathvilly, Carlow); 5. Cian Maher (Carrickmacross Emmets, Monaghan), 6. Eoin Murtagh (Dunlavin, Wicklow), 7. Conor Doyle (Rathvilly, Carlow); 8. Eoin Hackett (St. Fechin’s Louth), 9. Darren McDermott (St. Mary’s Leixlip, Kildare); 10. Josh Moore (Rathvilly, Carlow), 11. Cian Farrell (Edenderry, Offaly), 12. Sean Cassidy (Sean O’Mahony’s, Louth); 13. Peter O’Driscoll (Ilen Rovers, Cork), 14. Colm Hulton (Eire Og, Carlow), 17. Tommy Griffin (Gearld Griffin’s, Limerick).
Subs: Adam Steed (St Laurences, Kildare) for Cassidy (HT), Michael Lynam (St Joseph’s, Westmeath) for Maher (HT), Olin Barry (Carrigaline, Cork) for O’Shea (inj – 35), Maher for Donohue (35), Sam Hallahan (Ballinameela, Waterford) for O’Driscoll (53).
Referee: Chirs Maguire (Clare)
O Halloran should’ve been first one replaced. Caused 2 if not 3 tries when Con were on the up. Very poor effort from more also. It’s like they just didn’t want it today. Pity that.
Connacht will need to stick a plaster on this season and stop the bleed or it’ll run away from them. Poor enough performance, especially at home, but there was something in that game for them if they kept chugging away but they didn’t look like they particularly cared in the last 20 mins. On the plus side it was great to see Buckley back. Hopefully he’ll stay fit for the rest of the season.
@Jim Demps:
It was test of Connacht depth and they don’t have it…
@Cowboy Paddy: the player who caused you the most problems was one of the most experienced. Not really about depth just players making poor decisions
@Chris Mc: he’s struggled this year more than any. I thought he was very poor in the last two European games as well. Really want to see a back three of porch Hansen and Wooten
Bridge too far…
Glasgow had 12 internationals…
Good points is Forde played well, Buckley looked well…
@Cowboy Paddy: Fullback hung his teammates out to dry with a couple of aimless kicks down the centre of the pitch which Glasgow ran back at them and scored.
O’Halloran has developed a way of missing tackles to Connaught expense
That hurt, we were outclassed..by a decent margin
I’ve tons of faith that all of the lads can pull this from this from the fire, but still – ouch
Connacht can be so frustrating to watch. Such a flat performance today. Bad decisions and discipline was very poor at times.
That was really not good enough, it was such poor commitment, there’s no point targeting big champions cup games, performing for 60 mins and then losing, then come back to the league, minus a lot of first string guys, not just those gone with Ireland and play as poor as that, there’s nearly zero positive leadership within the team to grind out a win in those sorts of games, we can sometimes play well, but we far too often play like an amateur side, way too many players just looked like that game didn’t matter.
Shocking performance by Connacht. First half was absolutely appalling. No excuses. Really humbling result.
Such a strange first half of Rugby, its as if both teams didn’t want to win
We were rubbish, there’s no doubt about that but the referee allowed Glasgow to kill that game
The first half took nearly an hour. Every break in play Glasgow managed to kill any momentum or flow by getting medical attention. I think only one player was removed after medical attention
There was one scrum when Glasgow were down to 14 men where the props were allowed nearly a minute to clean their boots
It’s cynical play and no mistake and something that i think needs to be addressed
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