Intermediate Football Championship 2011

[Offaly2010]

Good win for St.Brigids in the opening round of the Intermediate Football Championship in Gracefield this evening.
St.Brigids 0-16 - 1-9 Raheen.

[hard2watch]

Good win alrite,backs were dodgy early on but tightened up then..How did the rest of the games go and who looks dangerous at this stage??

[Thereorthereabouts]

You wud have to fancy ST Brigids. I would make them 6-4 fav for this champ.

Then between Clonbologue Raheen and Durrow to face them in the final!

RHODE 1-7 V 0-11 BIRR
DURROW 1-13 V 0-12 SHANNONBRIDGE
BRACKNAGH 1-6 V 3-10 BALLYFORE
CLONMORE HARPS 0-10 V 1-9 KILCLONFERT
CLONBULLOGUE 1-10 V 1-4 DOON
ST. BRIGID'S 0-16 V 1-9 RAHEEN

[john locke]

Clonbullogue 1 -7 Raheen 0 -10

[theman]

Clonbullogue 1.7 - 0.10 Raheen

Poor game last night. Clonbullogue started the brighter but went in at half time 2 points down 6-4. Raheen then burst out into the second half and were 9-5 up with 15 minutes to go when clonbullogue had a man sent off. Raheen employed the extra man in defence,Clonbullogue then got a lucky goal to put a point between them. A bad injury to Padraig Bracken 10 minutes to go held up the game for around 10 minutes when he jumped for a high ball and seem to mistime it and hit the ground head first. The long break seem to benefit clonbullogue as the had the Raheen defence under pressure and to late frees near the end levelled the scores,altough clonbullogue could of snatched the win but had a few wides. Very dirty game with 9 yellows and 1 red (harsh enough red). Would of been a better game only for the rain showers before the match making the pitch like an ice-rink.

[esb_lad]

st.brigids have to be the outright favourites to win inter.. young players coming through like cian donoghue... they are the only team in inter that would pose any real threat to the average senior team at this time...raheen, birr, durrow are good inter teams but would not be able for senior

[In the long grass]

Any reports from the weekend?

[john locke]

Raheen 0-10 Doon 0-10

[Thereorthereabouts]

RHODE 1-8 V 0-7 BALLYFORE
SHANNONBRIDGE 1-13 V 1-6 BIRR
DURROW 1-10 V 0-13 BRACKNAGH
ST. BRIGID'S 2-16 V 1-6 CLONMORE HARPS
CLONBULLOGUE 3-17 V 1-11 KILCLONFERT

Here guys are the rest of the results.

This means the quarter finals should shape up as follows:
Rhode (1) v Doon (4)
Durrow (2) v Raheen (3)
Ballyfore (3) v Clonbullogue (2)
Shannonbridge (4) v St Brigids (1)

Clonmore Harps V Birr in a relegation battle - Id fancy Clonmore to scrape this one and stay up.

Not a great standard or great year in Intermediate this year by any manner of means and if Brigids dont regain their Senior status it will be a big shock.
If a bookie was quoting I would have them as low as 1/3 to take the title.

Rhode, Durrow, Clonbullogue and Brigids should all overcome their respective opponents in the 1/4 finals.

[john locke]

Jasus your taking some risk picking the top two seeds in each group

[Thereorthereabouts]

Well I just dont see anyone else competing at the moment here.

[Thereorthereabouts]

Am I missing something?
Raheen have been very poor this year.
Shannonbridge are the same - neither of these will be competing at this level for a few years..

Rhode seem to be a team getting better and better and putting some big scores.
Clonbullogue and Ballyfore - This will probably be the tie of the round - Still though Ill stay with my first prediction.

[john locke]

Well doon were senior a few years ago shannonbridge not too long down either , ballyfore are making great strides this year since they got half the edenderry junior team , and raheen well they just love losing semi's and final so you can't count them out

[Thereorthereabouts]

Are you making a prediction Locke or just humming and hawing around...?

[john locke]

are the semi draw's seeded , by that I mean will the keep no.1 seed's away from one another like last year, cause ya sound a bit hillbilly if ya know what i mean