Training, Championship Results & Fixtures, Night at the Dogs
Bad day at the office for both Teams over the weekend in their respective County Championship games with the First Team going down to Ballyboden St Enda’s on Saturday night in the County “A” (Round 2) Hurling Championship and the Second Team posting a similar result in yesterdays County “E” (Round 2) Hurling Championship. The First Team have two weeks to prepare for a “Cup Tie” scenario against Kilmacud Crokes as trying to qualify for the play-off stages from the last two outings is almost impossible. The Second Team are in a better position despite throwing away a big chance of victory in yesterday encounter with Castleknock. The situation is now quite clear!!!! train for the next two weeks or “kiss goodbye to this year’s Championship”
Training
Islandbridge:
tonight Monday and Wednesday 16th May 7.00pm
Championship Round 2 Results
Civil Service Firsts 1.07 (0.03) Ballyboden St Enda’s 3.15 (2.08) JHC “A”
The scoreboard may not accurately frank the on pitch situation here with Boden holding a 4 points to three lead after about 12 minutes and Civil Service playing reasonable well led by a solid display from Dermot O’Flaherty at wing back Adrian Mordan hurling a ton of ball in Midfield an ever reliable Ben picking off some nice scores at Corner Forward. The next fifteen minutes to halftime saw a total capitulation by Service to a young Boden Team playing a fine standard of hurling at this level. Service rectified the situation somewhat after halftime scoring 1.04 to 1.07 and giving hope of securing qualification from the last three games in the group.
Civil Service Seconds 0.08 (0.05) Castleknock 2.06 (0.01) JHC “E”
A story of missed chances in front of goal here and “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory”. A game Service lost playing with the wind in the first half due a catalogue of missed chances in front of goal. The introduction of ex Service star player Kevin McCambridge by Castleknock at halftime confounded Services situation with Kevin showing no mercy to his old Club on this occasion with some fine scores from play. One of those days!!! still in with a big chance of advancing in this years “E” Championship with a full show at training over the next couple of weeks.
P.S. I’m considering returning my €130 G-Shock digital watch to Casio for re-calibration, because when I challenged Referee Messier McNicholas for playing 29mins 42sec in the first half and 29mins 19sec in the second half he “cocked” his wrist proudly displaying a very old low budget analogue timepiece insisting on its extremely accurate timekeeping capacity
Championship Round 3
(Provisional Times & Dates only: Subject to Change)
Wednesday 23rd May, 19:15, Islandbridge:
Civil Service Hurling (First Team) v Kilmacud Crokes
Thursday 24th May, 19:15, Islandbridge:
Civil Service Hurling (Second Team) v Round Towers C
Night at the Dogs
Shelbourne Park have come back to us with availability on Thursday 21st June. We are on our own this year and have to make a decision on going ahead depending on how much enthusiasm we can get for the event from Club Members and you the Players. The Decision is Your’s!!!!! The other side of the coin is there being a better chance of a bigger return from the event on our own if everyone is prepared this year to put their shoulder to the wheel and make it happen.
Decision on Wednesday night at Training and/or at Committee meeting after training
