Remaining round two games in Senior Football Championship to take place this Saturday and Sunday

Two games in the second round of this year’s JJ Kavanagh & Sons County Senior Football Championship were played last weekend in the second round of the championship. This weekend, the remaining four games in the second series of games will be played in Double Headers at Fraher Field on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.

Clashmore V Rathgormack - (8pm on Saturday in Fraher Field)

Both of these sides had contrasting results in the first round of games two weeks ago.

Clashmore beat 2014 champions The Nire in the first game of the championship.

First half goals from Jason Seward and Cillian O’Keeffe proved crucial as Clashmore ran out winners on a 2-8 to 0-13 score line.

Rathgormack went into their opening round game with Ballinacourty with many expecting them to serve up a strong challenge for the 2013 champions, but they proved to be no match as Ballinacourty ran out very comfortable 4-10 to 0-9 winners.

Clashmore will go into this game on a high after their opening round win. Rathgormack after their first round defeat will not want to fall further behind the leaders as the half way point in the league section of the competition nears.

Clashmore will be favourites to win here, but if Rathgormack up their game on what they served up against Ballinacourty, they could push very hard for a win.

 

County Senior Football Championship

Nire V Ardmore - (3-30pm on Sunday in Fraher Field)

The Nire went all the way to the Munster Final last year without loosing a game a championship game. Having lost out to Clashmore last time out, they are already playing catch up. They will not want to fall any further behind and will know that if they were to win their remaining four games they could top the group or at least finish second and get what is often perceived to be an easier quarter final.

Ardmore last time out did well to beat De La Salle. For 45 minutes of the game they were the better team but found themselves trailing 1-7 to 0-4 at the break.

Clinton Hennessy was their best player last time out hitting 1-5 of his sides tally of 1-10. They will have to get more players firing on all cylinders in front of goal in this one if they are to win.

 

County Senior Football Championship

Kilrossanty V An Rinn - (2pm on Sunday in Fraher Field)

Both of these sides had opening round wins so a win for either side here will go a long way towards securing their place in the quarter finals of the championship.

On paper both sides have some very good players and this could well prove to be the best game in this weekend’s programme of games.

An Rinn against Saint Saviours were best served by Donie Breathnach who hit 0-8 of his sides 1-12 with Liam Ó Lonáin hitting 1-3. They will be looking for big performances again from them this weekend and will also be hoping to get one or two others on the score sheet with two or three points each.

Kilrossanty in beating Brickeys 0-15 to 0-9 had good performances from Paul Whyte who hit half a dozen points, two more than Joey Veale while Tommy Prendergast also impressed.

This is a game that could well go to the wire. If there is to be a draw this weekend it could be in this game.

 

County Senior Football Championship

Stradbally V Brickeys - (6-30pm on Saturday in Fraher Field)

Stradbally have proven to be the best team in the county since the turn of the millennium and while many of the players that have helped them to win so much in this time are no longer part of the panel they have still some experienced players in the likes of Kevin Coffey, Shane Lannon, Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh, John Hearne, Tony Grey, Shane Ahearne and Ger Power to pick from, plus some up and coming players like Jack Mullaney and Michael Sweeney.

Brickeys last year as expected bounced straight back up to the senior grade one year after dropping down to Intermediate.

They have some good players within their ranks like Conor Phelan, Shane McGrath, David Ryan, Mark Cummins, Conor McGrath, Cormac Curran and Carthach Shalloe but despite this it is hard to see them get anything from this game.

 

 J J Kavanagh & Sons Senior Football Championship - Group 1

Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff	Points
Ballinacourty	2	2	0	0	48	11	37	4
Clashmore Kinsalebeg	1	1	0	0	14	13	1	2
Ardmore	1	1	0	0	13	12	1	2
The Nire	1	0	0	1	13	14	-1	0
Rathgormack	1	0	0	1	9	22	-13	0
De La Salle	2	0	0	2	14	39	-25	0

 

J J Kavanagh& Sons Senior Football Championship - Group 2

Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff	Points
Stradbally	1	1	0	0	18	12	6	2
Kilrossanty	1	1	0	0	15	9	6	2
An Rinn	1	1	0	0	15	10	5	2
St Saviour's	2	0	1	1	20	25	-5	1
Gaultier	2	0	1	1	22	28	-6	1
Brickey Rangers	1	0	0	1	9	15	-6	0