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Weekly Notes - 21st March 2007Super Draw: The second of the three local draws (confined to Éire Óg subscribers) in the Super Draw takes place this Friday night in the Carrig Orchard. All ticket holders are invited to what is hoped will be an evening of craic and cordiality.The Intermediates' next game is against Stratford this Sunday in Stratford. Games against this opposition have always been close and we don't expect that Sunday will be any different. This week the odds seem to be tilted in Stratford's favour. They have home advantage and having last Sunday played in the final of Division 2 (2006) they will surely be in an advanced state of preparedness. They lost narrowly to Carnew and the hurt, no doubt, will have sharpened their determination. In short, Éire Óg will have their work cut out to come away with a good result. With regard to our own involvement in the semi-final, against Carnew, of the said league this column had spoken of a foreboding in relation to events of simliar circumstances occuring in threes. One was beset by the fatalism of "a divinity doth shape our ends rough hew them how we will". The piseog was given substance: we lost in circumstances as ludicrous as those that on two previous occasions had caused us to draw. Half way through the second half we were clawing ourselves back into serious contention after a rather lethargic first period performance when disaster struck: two key players simultaneously received second yellow cards. No way back. Once when this writer was collecting for Éire Óg the mother of one of the juvenile players passed by with the words: "Oh, sure don't I give you my son", (notwithstanding the fact that her son hadn't even paid membership). No sense of reciprocity there, no thought of the facilities being placed at her son's disposal, of the sacrifices - financial opportunity cost etc. - being made by mentors, committee members etc. Unfortunately the same type of attitude appears to still prevail among many of our senior players. It seems never to enter their consciousness that it costs money to run their team and that they should be making their contribution (€80). Come on lads; membership will hardly undermine your finances. Hurling: the finals of what had been a very successful and enjoyable - for players and mentors alike - indoor hurling tournament under the auspices of the St. Patrick's (Wicklow) club involving players at u-10 and u-12 were played in Coláiste Craobh Abhainn on a recent Saturday. The series of matches began in early December. Táimid buíoch do St. Pats as an gcuireadh do thabhairt dúinn páirt a ghlacadh ann and we compliment them on the excellent manner in which it was run off. The club entered teams in both competitions and reached the semi-final in both. We thank Kate McDonnell, Christina Browne and Paul Howard for the work they are doing with these age groups.A reminder to the Minor Hurlers about training, Tuesdays and Thursday 6 -7.30pm. The Minor league is scheduled to begin on the first Sunday in April. U-12 hurlers train at 7pm, on Wednesdays and the U-10s on Friday at 6.30pm. Congratulations to the Wicklow Senior Hurlers on their recent victories against Laois and Carlow and to the Wiclow Colleges under 14s on their comprehensive victory over Laois - we were delighted to see that three of our own: Dan O'Neill, Ryan Horan and Andrew Walshe were included in the panel. Congratulations to Lorna Fusciardi, captain, Tracy O'Halloran, Emily Hanney, Kellie Ryder and Ruth McElroy who were on the Wicklow minor team that have reached the Leinster Minor Final. The team is managed by our own Séamus Aherne and Cathy Forde. |
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