Duhallow Junior A Football Final

JUNIOR A FOOTBALL FINAL

Millstreet 0-10 Rockchapel 1-11

 Sunday 16^th in Newmarket @ 2pm

Below is the match scoring as it happened, from the Duhallow GAA on Twitter. The story it doesn’t tell are of the seven wides by Millstreet after the 45th minute which could have turned the game another day 🙁
Full Time: Millstreet 0-10 Rockchapel 1-11 (FT) Rockchapel complete the double!
(51 min) Millstreet 0-10 Rockchapel 1-11 Seamus Hickey
(50 min) Millstreet 0-10 Rockchapel 1-10 John Forrest pt
(45 min) Millstreet 0-10 Rockchapel 1-9 L Collins pt free
(43 min) Millstreet 0-10 Rockchapel 1-8 T Collins pt free
(32 min) Millstreet 0-9 Rockchapel 1-8 Kevin Collins pt
(30 min) Millstreet 0-9 Rockchapel 1-7 T Collins pt
(Half time) Millstreet 0-8 Rockchapel 1-7 (HT)
(32 min) Millstreet 0-8 Rockchapel 1-7 Brian G Murphy pt
(31 min) Millstreet 0-7 Rockchapel 1-7 Another Guiney pt free
(27 min) Millstreet 0-7 Rockchapel 1-6 Guiney pt free
(24 min) Millstreet 0-7 Rockchapel 1-5 Tony Collins (GK) pt ’45’
(22 min) Millstreet 0-7 Rockchapel 1-4 T Collins pt free
(20 min) Millstreet 0-6 Rockchapel 1-4 Ian Guiney pt free
(19 min) Millstreet 0-6 Rockchapel 1-3 T Collins pt free
(16 min) Millstreet 0-5 Rockchapel 1-3 Liam Collins pt free
(13 min) Millstreet 0-5 Rockchapel 1-2 Tadgh Collins pt again
(11 min) Millstreet 0-4 Rockchapel 1-2 Liam Collins pt free
(10 min) Millstreet 0-4 Rockchapel 1-1 Superb pt from Collins
(8 min) Millstreet 0-3 Rockchapel 1-1 Tadgh Collins pt free
(6 min) Millstreet 0-2 Rockchapel 1-1 GOAL! Daniel Curtin for Rock
(5 min) Millstreet 0-2 Rockchapel 0-1 Michael Murphy pt
(4 min) Millstreet 0-1 Rockchapel 0-1 DJ O’Sullivan replies for Rock
(2 min) Millstreet 0-1 Rockchapel 0-0 First blood to Millstreet – Tim Kiely pt
Millstreet v Rockchapel @ Newmarket Teams Parading! Gr8 crowd!!

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Match report from the Examiner:

Rockchapel finally rule the roost

By John Tarrant

Monday, September 17, 2012

Rockchapel 1-11 Millstreet 0-10
It was a case of third time lucky for Rockchapel after edging past Millstreet in a titanic Duhallow JAFC final at a packed Newmarket yesterday.

Runners-up in both the 2009 and ’11 deciders, the winners’ possession game, support play and finishing proved superior to that offered by a young Millstreet side displaying determination and hunger aplenty but not the accuracy to make it count.

Boosted by a sixth-minute goal from Daniel Curtin, Rockchapel offered the appropriate degrees of desire and remained totally composed in the face of a Millstreet onslaught that kicked nine second-half wides.

Outsiders Millstreet made a decent start on nosing ahead twice before Rockchapel’s confidence received a massive boost on man of the match Seamus Hickey putting Curtin through for his goal. That setback prompted a fine Millstreet response, hitting back with interest, courtesy of points by Tadhg Collins to tie up the game for the fifth occasion.

However, Tony Collins (45) and Ian Guiney frees gave Rockchapel a narrow 1-7 to 0-8 half-time lead.

Collins added to the first-half tally for Millstreet but faulty shooting saw to it that their charge fell short and it allowed a more experienced Rockchapel side to kick on. Late points from John Forrest and Hickey confirmed the all-round acceptance that the better side had prevailed.

Scorers for Rockchapel: I Guiney, L Collins (3f) 0-3 each, D Curtin 1-0, T Collins (45), DJ O’Sullivan, K Collins, G Forrest, S Hickey 0-1 each.

Scorers for Millstreet: T Collins 0-7 (4f), T Kiely, M Murphy, B Murphy 0-1 each.

ROCKCHAPEL: T Collins; P Murphy, E O’Callaghan, B Curtin; B Cahill, K Collins, M Doody; D J O’Callaghan, J Doody; D J O’Sullivan, J Forrest, D Curtin; I Guiney, L Collins, S Hickey.

MILLSTREET: D Twomey; D O’Riordan, P Randles, D McCaul; C Lane, B G Murphy, A Murphy; M Ellis, C Sheehan; M Murphy, P Coleman, L Murphy; T Kiely, T Collins, J Broxton.

Subs: K Hickey for Lane (ht), M Vaughan for Kiely (38), R Kelleher for Broxton (44), L O’Connor for L Murphy (52).

Referee: MJ O’Keeffe (Dromtariffe).