An entertaining game played in sunny conditions this morning between two mid table teams.

Villa got an early penalty after a misjudged bounce caught Derek Tebay off guard and forced a foul. We responded quickly with the impressive Jonny Power causing trouble in the villa box to force our own penalty which Sean Grace buried.

The game swung from end to end throughout and we looked to have nicked the three points through Kieran Fagan but a late late corner was rifled home for a share of the spoils. First game in 6 weeks but no sign of rustiness from our boys today.

The girls showed great fight and spirit against a tall Park Rangers team this morning.

After a scoreless first half where there was very little between the teams it was Park Rangers who pulled away with two goals in the second half to end the morning Mooncoin 0-Park Rangers 2.

Keep up the hard work girls ⚽💪

A flat performance from our young side who didn’t get going at all today. Cloughbawn got two very good goals that Grace O Toole could do very little with.

The last 15 minutes saw us dominate but we could not get an equaliser after Emily Blackmore dragged us back in to the game with a rocket of a finish on 75 minutes.

This will definitely be remembered as the one that got away this season.

Mooncoin dominated the majority of the game with most of the action coming down the left side. Sean and Aaron both had good chances early on. Cian quickly squared the ball to Aaron on the edge of the box following a fast throw in from Billy.

Aaron shifted the ball from left to right foot on the run and powered a shot into the top corner for 1-0. The boys continued to dominate and were unlucky not to get a penalty when a Ballinroad defender momentarily caught the ball with both hands in their penalty area.

Fortunately for the home team the referee was the only person on the pitch not to see this.

The lads continued to perform admirably in the second half with Cian and Jason attacking well on the flanks but the finish was lacking on the day.

Ballinroad pounced on a short pass back to make it all square and with Mooncoin pushing for a second goal they again punished us for a loose break of the ball in the dying seconds.

It was the best performance of the season from our lads and if they keep this up the results will certainly follow.

It was a day to forget for the u12B lads as a free-scoring albeit fortunate Tramore came to town and scored with a follow up from a good save, a rebound off the crossbar from a penalty and a deflected effort being some of the highlights from their four first half goals.

Mooncoin fought hard in the second half and created a number of chances, one of which was saved on the line with Tramore scoring from the resultant breakaway.

The last goal was probably fortunate also. 6-0 to the visitors.

Waterford U16 Girls sealed the Munster title in style today in Cahir and we had three young ladies involved with the squad, Emily Blackmore, Aoibhe Rees and Ella Brennan.

As usual, Emily was a dangerous threat throughout and nicked the first goal to set Waterford on their way. All three girls should be proud of their achievements and savour it.

It is brilliant for our schoolgirls section that is still very much in its infancy since late 2018, with Covid putting a stop for more or less two seasons with no games at all.

Plenty of involvement at development squad level in those years and these girls today will inspire all the young girls in our club to aim high and achieve great things in the future.

Today the lads travelled to piltown in what was sure to be a tough game.

There was nothing between the sides until piltown scored on the 20 minute mark. The lads didn’t let their heads drop as they kept going and had a few chances at the end of the first half but it wasn’t to be.

Piltown scored early in the second half and tired legs were starting to show in the last 10 minutes but Finn Foskin was unlucky not to find the net with piltown’s keeper making a great save.

Bradley Nolan was calm throughout the game between the sticks and made plenty saves. MOTM goes to Ryan Byrne who had a great performance in centre midfield.

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Our younger U14 girls travelled to Poleberry for this league tie against a strong Bohs team.

Superb efforts by all our girls on the night frustrated the home side for the majority of the game with a long range effort resulting in the first goal midway through the second half and VAR or goal line technology would have been helpful for deciding the second goal with our own goalkeeper in prime position to stop it from crossing the line but the goal was given much to the surprise of the majority in the ground. Let’s hope Furious Photography captured the moment!

A tough day at the office for this group who were well in it during the first half but found themselves two down at half time after two very good finishes by De la Salle and the stronger side pulled away in the second half.