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Sixmilebridge 1-17 – Cratloe 1-13 at Cusack Park, Ennis

FORTUNE certainly favoured the brave on Saturday as Sixmilebridge won the most important O’Garneyside derby in history to qualify for their first championship final in nine years.

Manager Christy Chaplin and his backroom team made the big calls in bringing Clare’s most decorated goalkeeper Davy Fitzgerald out of retirement after a four year championship absense while also reconstructing his defence to combat the threat of Cratloe’s lively attacking unit. And in the end, that bravery paid off handsomely as they walked the tightrope of success/failure on numerous occasions before eventually overcoming their nearest neighbours.

As outlined in the build up to the game, ‘The Fitzy Factor’ was always going to have a huge bearing on the game and after Conor McGrath struck early with an opportunist goal on their way to a 1-6 to 0-4 advantage after 20 minutes, Cratloe seemed to have unlocked the door.

However, ultimately the 2009 champions took their eye off the major prize of a third successive final when they started to misfire during Sixmilebridge’s recovery early in the second period and began to put all their eggs in the one basket of trying to blitz the former All-Star in the Sixmilebridge goals.

Rusty or not, Fitzgerald has always been a big game player and he relished the challenge of his young opponents, pulling off two fine saves in the process, one from Conor Ryan, and the other a full length parry to deny Conor McGrath.

The first lesson that every underage team is taught is to ‘take your points and the goals will come’ but bizarrely, the more frustrated Cratloe became, the more desperate they appeared, to grab a goal. In logical terms it didn’t make an ounce of sense as they were only three points down for the majority of the final quarter as the ‘Bridge couldn’t seem to find an insurance point and had Cratloe taken their points, there would have been noth- ing between the teams heading up the final straight.

Perhaps you can point to fatigue as well for their goal obsession as the alternating weeks of football and hurling finally appeared to take its toil as they cruelly exited a senior championship at the penultimate stage for the second successive weekend.

Cratloe were much more themselves in opening period when bouncing back from a 0-2 to 0-0 deficit to take a five point lead by the 16th minute, capped off by McGrath’s instinctive goal. It stemmed from an Oige Murphy ball over the top that appeared to be drifting wide before McGrath latched onto the ball one-handed to flick it past a hesistant Fitzgerald.

With that, they really opened up and their electrifying intensity saw Sean Collins hit two-in-a-row to put the ‘Bridge firmly on the backfoot. However, with Niall Gilligan to the fore as ever, Sixmilebridge didn’t panic and after settling back into the game with four out of the next seven points, three from the stick of Gilligan, they delivered a crucial suckerpunch just before the break.

Inevitably Gilligan was the catalyst when dispossessing Oige Murphy around the 20 metre line and the ball broke to Shane Golden who in turn released Declan Morey to strike to the net in the 31st minute and slash the deficit to the minimum at 1-9 to 1-8.

With the wind to come, it was the spark that Sixmilebridge craved and they were the dominant force on the restart when responding to a Conor McGrath free to hit the next three points, two from Gilligan as well as a goal chance for Caimin Morey that just flew over the crossbar to take the lead for the first time in almost 30 minutes.

Cratloe, meanwhile, surprisingly shuddered under the pressure as routine placed balls and hopeful shots drifted wide and it was at this stage that they began to concentrate on reaping the benefits under the crossbar.

Cratloe left McGrath isolated in the full-forward line and the chances duly came but none were ultimately taken. Tadgh Keogh produced an exceptional flick to deny McGrath a certain goal while Conor Ryan beared down on goal soon afterwards but found Fitzgerald in stubborn form.

Meanwhile, at the other end, the ‘Bridge were more than content to take their points and unanswered efforts from Declan (2) and Caimin Morey gave their side a healthy 1-14 to 1-11 advantage by the turn of the final quarter.

McGrath cut the deficit to two, only to see it cancelled out by an superb immediate reply from Gilligan. However, only a minute later a poor defensive clearance from Sixmilebridge arrowed straight to McGrath whose shot to the right corner was excellently turned away by Fitzgerald.

Still, the ‘Bridge’s heroics at the back failed to inspire the forwards who for all their chances, were unable to obtain that insurance point. Four successive wides kept Cratloe in the game and even when substitute Tony Carmody rose majestically to catch a Cratloe puck-out and fire the ball back over Sean Hayes crossbar, a McGrath free kept alive Cratloe’s hopes at 1-16 to 1-13.

The killer blow came right on the hour mark and it was a score worthy of winning any game as a Cratloe attack was broken up by Declan Morey in the right corner who moved the ball through Carmody, Rory Shanahan and Caimin Morey before setting up minor Jamie Shanahan for the clinching score.

Cratloe never gave up the ghost but tired legs and minds were not about to loosen Sixmilebridge’s grasp as in the end, they proved the theory that who dares wins.

THE PLAYERS come from far and wide back to Quilty for training. Captain Peter O’Dwyer travels back from Athlone, students Niall Hickey and Seamus Murrihy come down from Galway while Martin McMahon makes the long trek from Dublin. And all those miles on the road are wholly necessary considering the immense fight for places in such a large squad that has achieved unprecedented success in recent years.

McMahon was linked with a transfer to Dublin side Oliver Plunketts not so long ago which made sense in geographical terms but the sacrifice to journey down to Quilty from his Dublin base has been made all the more worthwhile as his native side closes in on a third county title in four years.

“You don’t really mind the journey once you are winning. When you are on a winning team like we have been this year with the Cusack and O’Gorman Cups as well as going well in the championship, you don’t mind the travelling. It would be a lot harder to be making the trip down every year if we weren’t getting there so thanks be to God, we are lucky enough to be successful and that we have won a few county titles. But we won’t be taking this one likely because Barefield are going to be a tough game too.”

Kilmurry will point to their vast experience at this level in not only getting to county finals but actually winning them in recent years as the key to success. And after exiting last year’s championship race at the semi-final stage, there is no shortage of appetite either.

“The bit of experience that Kilmurry have had in county finals over the past few years maybe does make it a bit easier going into this game. Last year we were very disappointed not to be back in the final again and maybe the pressure of trying to go for three-in-a-row as well as the long stint of the All-Ireland campaign got to us in the end. But it’s a great feeling to be back in the county final again. It’s where we want to be and hopefully we can drive on and bring back the Jack Daly home again.

“The most important thing that we had to get back this year was our intensity and hunger for it. Maybe last year we still had a h a n g o v e r from the Al l – I r e land final but t h a t w a s still no e x c u s e because at the end of the day in the semi-final, we had chances to put Doonbeg away and we didn’t do it.

“So this year we were determined that every game that we went out to play whether it was a league game or O’Gorman Cup game that we were going to go out and try to win every game as hard as we could. And fingers crossed, we have been lucky to have stayed injury-free and with the squad being fairly big, lads that have hit form have been playing but if you’re not on form, we have been lucky enough to have fellas there to come on and make a difference.”

So as the form player of Kilmurry’s season, how does he rate opponents Doora/Barefield?

“The way we are looking at it is that they are the team that dethroned the champions. It wasn’t Kilmurry Ibrickane that dethroned Doonbeg of their county title, it was Barefield. They went along then and beat a good Wolfe Tones team. We were possibly lucky that when we played Wolfe Tones, there was nothing at stake in the game because whoever won or lost were still going to go through from the group.

“Everyone has been taking about Barefield’s Under 21 winning team of 2008 but back in 2003, there were in the final then as well so everyone remembers the one final that they won but they have been there or thereabouts for a numbers of years and won a minor last year.

“As well as that everyone points to our experience but Doora/Barefield are an experienced team too and have guys that have played for the county team so they won’t shy away from it and will know what to expect. But hopefully the fact that we have been to two county finals in the last three years, maybe that can help us to get over the line.”

Getting over the line once more will make the eventual journey back to Dublin that bit sweeter.

SIXMILEBRIDGE manager Christy Chaplin would have had every right to be smug on Saturday as his significant alterations and introductions paid off to earn his side a first county final appearance since 2002. But that isn’t Rusty’s style and instead he was magnanimous in victory after crushing Cratloe’s dream of a third successive final in this, the ultimate O’Garneyside derby showdown.

“We are over the moon. At this stage of the championship last year, we lost out to Crusheen and it hurt a lot. So we started out at the beginning of this year with everything geared to getting that one step further.

“We knew what Cratloe were go- ing to bring to the table, they are a super bunch of lads and are super fit. I know a lot of them personally, we all do as the clubs as so close but out on the field, there is an great rivalry there and today was going to be no different. We shaded it today, on other days Cratloe have shaded it and there was never going to be more than a puck of the ball between the ‘Bridge and Cratloe.

“We have 27 honest lads there and we can ask no more of them because they give us everything they have in the tank. Last year, to be honest, we made a few mistakes near the end and Crusheen punished us. Today we made a few mistakes and we got away with it as Cratloe missed a few frees and had goal chances but didn’t put it away and these are the small things that can win or lose games. We got the goal before half-time and we built from there.”

And despite not knowing at that stage who they would be facing in the final, he was only concerned with improving his own side ahead of the final in a fortnight’s time.

“We have to go back to the drawing board because we still have a lot of work to do. No matter who we play, we know we have nothing won yet. We got over Cratloe today and are in a county final for the first time in a long while but we have a lot of work to do.”

MONALEEN! To be or not to be? That is the question.

To be manager of the Limerick City club in 2011 as they chase down their fourth county senior football title since 2002?

Or not to be manager of the Limerick City club in 2011 in tandem with being manager of the Clare football team?

This elephant in a room full of county board delegates was broached towards the end of last Tuesday’s September monthly meeting of Clare GAA by Kilrush Shamrocks representative Colm Browne.

“Do you think it is appropriate that the manager of the Clare team should be managing a club team in a neighbouring county,” asked Browne of outgoing manager Michéal McDermott.

“I take your point on board,” responded McDermott, “but number one I was never manager of Monaleen. When I was appointed manager of Clare back in October 2009 and was ratified by the delegates in this room, at that time I was manager of Kilmurry Ibrickane and it wasn’t an issue then.

“As regards as where my commit- ments lie. Kilmurry Ibrickane had an All-Ireland final on March 17 (2010), the first in their history. On that Wednesday we played in an All-Ireland final, the previous weekend we played in a Division 4 match against London in Ruislip.

“When I was manager of Kilmurry Ibrickane it wasn’t an issue. During the year when I was manager of Clare I was asked to help out Monaleen, because they had lost their manager. I said I would because a good friend of mine was involved. I ended up doing a favour for a fella and I don’t have it in my heart to say no. That’s me. I enjoy football six, seven nights a week. Should that be taken away from me?, he asked.

However, Browne responded by saying “it’s different, you were actually the incumbent (with Clare) when you were appointed to Monaleen.”

“My commitment never waned when I was involved in Monaleen,” retorted McDermott. “When I was appointed day one I was with Kilmurry Ibrickane and it never affected my performance with Clare.

“Anthony Cunningham managed Galway under 21 hurlers to an AllIreland final and won. On Sunday he’s manager of Garrycastle in the Westmeath senior football championship. Pat Flanagan is manager of Westmeath football team, he is also manager of Clara who are in the Offaly football final.

“If I had felt my responsibility with Clare and not given 100 per cent I would be the first to put my hands up. My involvement with Monaleen did not detract whatsoever from my commitment to Clare.

“I was never manager and despite being quoted in media circles I am not manager – I’m there helping out, but I never missed a training session with Clare, I never missed a gym session with Clare. I give 100 per cent to Clare. It wasn’t an issue when I was appointed day one.”

COUNTY Board chief Michael O’Neill led the tributes to Michéal McDermott at Tuesday’s meeting of Clare GAA, saying that his commitment to Clare football was second to none.

His comments came at the end of McDermott’s lengthy address when he reviewed his two years in charge of the team, in which he parsed Clare league and championship displays in 2010 and 2011.

“As someone who has worked with Michéal McDermott over the past two years, his commitment has been second to none,” said O’Neill.

“The player he had on the panel gave it their all. His commitment, his knowledge of football is very good and I wouldn’t fault Michéal in any way.

“If there was an issue during the year we sat down and discussed it. We didn’t always agree but we worked for the betterment of Clare football,” added the county board chairman.

St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield delegate Joe McNamara also gave an insight into McDermott’s passion for football.

“Last Saturday I was in Gurteen – two mothers came up to me and said there is a seriously long session going on down there. Who was it who was training a group of girls? It was Michéal McDermott,” revealed McNamara. CLARE HURLING REVIEW

Ruan 2-7 – Crusheen/Tubber 2-5 at Clarecastle

ONE OF the better hurling games played over the Under 15 championship saw two evenly matched sides pitted against each other in the Under 15C title decider in Clarecastle on Sunday morning. Many clashes between these clubs in various forms over the decades will have rarely more been keenly contested, with the impetus switching between the teams with regularity. Ruan were the strongly fancied side to win the laurels but would be first to admit that they were fortunate with a late rally to take the honours as Crusheen/Tubber were the better side for most of the game.

The opening score fell to Ronan Monahan after two minutes and in- deed he was one of the better players on view over the hour and was top scorer for the defeated having been used in a number of positions. Liam O’Donovan opened Ruan’s account before Crusheen/Tubber corner forward Ross Hayes scored his sides first goal in the sixth minute. At the interval Crusheen/Tubber held the advantage at 1-5 to 0-4.

Ruan failed to score a goal until the 40th minute when Lee O’Donovan hit the target and Crusheen responded positively with scores from Donal McMahon and Monahan. O Donovan’s second goal put Ruan ahead and from there they held out despite a late rally from the vanquished. The champions had sterling performances from Michael Lyons, Conal Ó hAiniféin, Lee O’Donovan, Liam O’Donovan, Colm Rice, Jason Courtney and Tim O Connor. Crusheen/Tubber were served well by Ronan Monahan, Colin Waters, Donal McMahon, Cillian Droney, Simon O’Donoghue, Brian McDonagh and Sean Culligan.

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Corofin 2-14 – Doonbeg 1-06 at Hennessy Memorial Park, Miltown

HOT favourites Corofin justified those expectations on Saturday with a comprehensive victory to win their first Under 21B title in 17 years. A powerful finish that was sparked by Gearoid Kelly’s second goal saw the north Clare side ease to victory but in truth, they held the whip hand throughout.

A hattrick of Kelly points along with scores from Stephen (2) and Kevin Heagney pushed the winners 0-6 to 0-1 clear by the break and once Kelly scored the opening goal in the 43rd minute, Corofin appeared to have put paid to any hopes of a Magpie comeback.

However, a Jamie Russell goal gave Doonbeg a glimmer of hope to bring back the deficit to five in an impres – sive overall scoring display of 1-3 but that fightback was short-lived when Kelly raided for his second major in the final quarter. And with that, Doonbeg’s heads dropped as Corofin ease clear to secure the silverware.

St Joseph’s Miltown 1-15 – Kilmihil 0-11 at Pairc Naomh Mhuire, Quilty

MILTOWN Malbay will once again play senior football next season after securing their status in Clare’s club football premier division last Sunday afternoon. The prayers and novenas were all answered as Miltown finally located a performance worthy of the prize of survival.

For Kilmihil however sheer and utter despondency is a mere understatement in describing the brutal reality of relegation that they now have to live with. Their new life as intermediate footballers has now begun and who knows when such a curse will be lifted off again if ever.

This clash proved to be the hard fought battle that both sets of supporters would have expected and demanded from their players. Every single player who took part in this struggle for survival have to be commended for their mammoth efforts and the pride they maintained in their club jersey even those brave football soldiers who fell at the hands of an unfortunate seven point footballing defeat.

It was those very same eventual heartbroken losers who found the ideal start to this game after forty five seconds on the clock. Shane Mangan displayed no early nerves before dispatching a terrific point thirty metres out from goal to nudge Kilmihil into an initial lead.

Miltown however quickly responded. Micheal Malone was allowed far too much space without being challenged by a Kilmihil defender and he also immediately levelled this encounter with the first of his three very impressive scores from play.

Miltown’s momentum now began to roll into motion. Kevin Keavy soon pointed to steal the lead for the first time while Seanie Malone and David Talty also added their names to an ever increasing St Joseph’s score sheet. Paul Reidy Kilmihil’s primary marksman kicked two frees in the space of a minute to keep his side in touch on a score of 0-5 to 0-3 after the opening quarter of this match.

The next score in this game was probably the most crucial of all. A powerful bursting run by Graham Kelly through the heart of the Kilmi- hil defence caused panic and chaos around the scoreboard side goalmouth which culminated in Kilmihil’s worst fears materialising with the awarding of a penalty kick to Miltown. Corner forward Eoin Curtin was given the responsibility of converting this crucial chance and he certainly did not let his side down.

Any soccer play in the world from the past or present would have admired his net bursting top right hand corner drive which left the helpless Keith Considine with no chance. This was now a five point game and an early fear for the worst encircled the Kilmihil Kop in the stand at Quilty. This anxiety proved to be a little premature as a Reidy inspired Kilmihil amazingly regained a foothold in this tie. Point after point was converted by this classy full forward.

Whether from a placed ball or free it did not matter as the newly promoted vice principal of Spanish Point Secondary school taught some of his former students a lesson on the field of play.

Incredibly they entered at the break trailing only by the minimum and with the absences of even a gust of wind everything was still to play for in the second half.

Or so everyone thought! Miltown in truth found another gear after the restart that their Kilmihil rivals could not match.

The commitment of Kilmihil did not decrease but Miltown’s extra class began to shine through the more this match progressed. Dessie Molohan and Curtin took their frees with ease. Gordon Kelly captain fantastic as always even managed one after a rare scramble into attack from the defence he marshaled so well throughout.

Their skills levels were equal to their hunger for success and this lead ultimately to victory on a score of 115 to 0-11 with Micheal Meade finding the final point of the game.

A seven point margin was harsh on Kilmihil but Miltown conveyed no mercy and the celebrations at the sound of the referee’s final whistle were well deserved.

They will now be hoping for a 2012 free of anymore relegation finals but before the thoughts of next season really intensify a celebratory “miniWilly fest” will probably occupy the players’ minds.

St Joseph’s Miltown
Miltown Niall Quinn (7), Brendan O’Brien (7), Michael Talty (7), Enda Malone (7), Conor McKenna (7), Gordon Kelly (8) (0-1), Darragh McDonagh (7), Sean Meade (7), Kevin Keavey (8) (0-2), DavidTalty (7) (0-1), Dessie Molohan (7) (0-3 2f), Micheal Malone (8) (0-3), Seanie Malone (7) (0-2), GrahamKelly (7) (0-1), Eoin Curtin (7) (1-2, Pen. 2f)

Subs
Gearoid Curtin (6) for Talty, Enda O’Gorman (6) for McKenna, John Meade (6) for Talty, Kevin Burke (6) for Malone

Kilmihil
Keith Considine (7), Laurence Murray (7), Declan O’Shea (7), Derek O’Connell (7), Stan Lineen (7), Mark Coughlin (7) (0-1), Eamonn Ryan (7) (0-1), Timmy Ryan (7), David Ryan (7), Enda O’Halloran (6), Shane Mangan (7) (0-1),Anthony Downes (6), Noel Downes (6), Paul Reidy (9) (0-8, 6f), Mark O’Connell (6)

Subs
Shane Egan (6) for Downes, Martin O’Leary (6) for Downes, ColmCallinan (6) for O’Connell

Man of the Match
Paul Reidy (Kilmihil) Referee Pat Cosgrove (Corofin)

A CLARE inventor and businessman, who has sold his revolutionary glasses to some of the world top golfers, including Tiger Woods, will this month launch his patented Smart Vision Method in Ireland.

Kilmaley native, Tony McMahon, has returned to Ireland after spending 26 years living in America and will launch the Smart Vision Method In Clare later this month. The key element of the method is a pair of specially designed glasses which work to limit and focus the golfers view during a swing.

The idea for the glasses came from Tony’s childhood in west Clare, when he used to train horses with his father and noticed how much calmer and more focussed the glasses made them.

“The idea came to me that maybe there could be some advantages to limiting and focussing a golfers view – in the same way as we did with the horse all those years ago,” he said.

“The glasses work by getting rid of the information that you don’t need which allows you to focus on the information that is really important for playing golf. There are too many things going on for someone who is learning golf. They are expected to line up their body, get into the correct posture, develop their golf swing and then hit the ball.

“The method breaks it down to one skill at a time. You put on the glasses and get your body position right. Then you graduate up to the quarter swing and then the half swing before you getup to the full swing.”

Along with the use of the glasses the method includes a number of oneto-one coaching sessions designed to allow golfers to get to know how best to use the glasses.

“The whole idea is not that people would be using the glasses on the gold course – it that they would train themselves so that they wouldn’t need to wear the glasses anymore,” continued Tony.

“After using the method for half an hours of more, in blocks of 10 minute session, it begins to get ingrained in your brain. To learn a new skill and keep that information for life can be done in about 21 days – and then that is there forever. Proper coaching is important because the last thing that they want is to pick up bad habits so I like to coach the people myself – but I would hope to open up a series of trained coaches all around the country to teach people about the method.

“It like learning to ride a bike you can’t learn how to ride a bike by reading a book. But once you learn how to cycle you can cycle for any length on any bike.”

Kilrush Shamrocks 0-11 – Shannon Gaels 1-08 at Cooraclare

IT WAS the result that neither side wanted but in the cold light of day, it was possibly the fairest outcome of what was overall an entertaining encounter. Perhaps it wasn’t the most glamourous of end-of-year prizes but Kilrush and Shannon Gaels played as if it was the main decider in Cusack Park, such was the desire to finish the year on a high.

Essentially, both sides could pick through the bones of where this game could have been won or lost. Shannon Gaels led for over three-quarters of the contest but still had to scramble for a 62nd minute Sean Reynolds 40 metre equalising point.

On the flip side, Kilrush will probably feel that they had done enough after kicking four points without reply late on to usurp the lead for the first time in over 30 minutes but where their real regret will lie is that they were unable to pass goalkeeper Keith Ryan over the hour.

Ryan was simply immense for the Gaels, making three top class saves to keep his side in the contest, with the highlight being his 52nd minute smothering body block that denied Ruaidhri O’Connor a certain goal. Indeed, goal chances were to play a major part in proceeedings, with Kilrush guilty of wasting five golden opportunities.

However, it was Shannon Gaels who would have the first sight at goal in the fifth minute amidst a very bright start that saw John Paul O’Neill, Bryan Cunningham and Shane Tubridy hoist them to a three point advantage. Noel Kennedy picked out O’Neill whose shot beat goalkeeper Tony Burke but was kept out by the legs of Niall Gilbride.

Kilrush finally found their feet and in the next 15 minutes, they would kick five points without reply with their lively full-forward line of Stephen Sweeney, Owen Tarrant and Ruaidhri O’Connor beginning to cause major headaches for the Gaels’ rearguard. It should have been more too as after points from O’Connor and Padjo McGrath, Tarrant pulled a shot just wide of the goal. Four minutes later, the full-forward turned provider for the onrushing Sweeney whose stinging effort was excellently tipped over by Ryan.

A Jim Young free finally gave Kilrush the lead in the 22nd minute but the one man wall in the Gaels goal continued to frustrate them. In the 24th minute an O’Connor shot appeared destined for the top corner of the net, only for Ryan to get a hand to it and tip the ball onto the post while a minute later, Tarrant came raiding once more but opted for power over placement and his effort flew over the crossbar to give his side a 0-5 to 0-3 25th minute advantage.

That plethora of missed chances was magnified when against the run of play, Shannon Gaels would show them the way to goal two minutes later. Again Noel Kennedy and John Paul O’Neill combined but this time the full-forward was prevented a goalscoring opportunity and was deservedly given a penalty that captain John Neylon duly disptached.

With that, the Gaels began to motor once more, with Kennedy and O’Neill adding points before the interval to hand them an unlikely 1-5 to 0-5 half-time lead.

Kilrush needed a spark to reignite their flame and it came in the form of substitutes Peadar McMahon and Donal O’Sullivan who would make a decided difference in the second period. Progress was slow initially as the Gaels were able to match what the Shams could throw at them, despite another goal chance for Sweeney that went straight at Ryan. However, as the half wore on, the Gaels tired and Kilrush used that opportunity to slowly reel them in during the final quarter.

Of course, realising that the goal option was pointless, especially after Ryan’s breathtaking 52nd minute save from O’Connor, Kilrush cleverly took their chances over the bar after getting the ball rolling in the 48th minute through Sweeney.

With five minutes remaining, two points still separated the sides but as fatigue set in, the Gaels also lost their discipline as Peadar McMahon gladly converted three late frees to snatch the lead in the 59th minute.

In truth, the Gaels didn’t look like they could muster up an equaliser but in a last gasp attack John Neylon and Fergal Kenny did the spadework for Sean Reynolds to unleash a 40 metre final punt that just about stayed inside the left post.

With that, the final whistle sounded and while both managers looked for extra-time, the subsequent intermediate final meant that there was no time for that to happen and the sides must do it all over again.