Football is full of clichés and today was a great example. A local u13 derby saw Kilmacow arrive in Suir Crescent.

Mooncoin got out of the blocks quickly and Sam added to his goals tally this season with a direct goal from a corner after 2 minutes.

Few minutes later and Shane played a deft ball through for Tommy to slot cooly past the keeper. Just before 15 minutes were on the clock Tommy became provider with James blasting the ball in to the back of the net to deservedly score his debut goal. The first half ended 3 nil up.

Mooncoin knew that Kilmacow would come out stronger in the second half and 2 similar goals through the middle gave Kilmacow plenty of confidence. 5 minutes later and a speculative hit nestled in the top of the Mooncoin goal.

If it wasn’t for a last minute block from Robbie, the game might not have finished a draw.

Football is a funny old game and it certainly was a game of 2 halves today. Well done to both sides for an entertaining match.

Thrilla at the Villa

Captain Rueben led the front line away to Villa earlier today. The home team pressed us back in the early stages and got their reward with a well taken goal after we failed to clear our lines. Mooncoin came to life and began to control the game with Donncha, Billy and Eoin W taking thr game by the scruff of the neck.

A good ball was played through to Rueben who got ahead of the defender but was fouled heavily from behind. The resulting free kick was taken by Liam Mc who struck a lovely effort high into the top corner to equalise. 1-1 at the break.

Fresh legs came on in the second half and Mooncoin won an early corner. Eoin B hit it in low to the box and it travelled all the way to Shane on the far post for a tap in.

Villa weren’t done and scored their second and third soon after to equalise and subsequently take the lead. Mooncoin battled forward again and after a scramble the ball fell to Tadhg who hammered the ball into the corner. Some confusion followed but the ref allowed the goal to stand.
Villa pushed on again and got down the left and young Calvin struck an unstoppable shot past our keeper for his fourth for the home team.

With minutes left it felt as if Villa were playing down the clock with numerous throws on the right side. Eoin managed to square the ball for Shane in the box, who played it to Tom, the goalscoring goalkeeper and he coolly slotted home for 4-4. Not content with a draw, the lads pressed on and won a corner in the dying seconds.

Donncha whipped in a lovely high cross which the Villa centre back headed into his own goal. Cue wild celebrations. An epic finish to an epic game of football.

Very unlucky today for the lads against a well organised ferrybank side. Shay Moore was unfortunate not to get 2 goals but the ferrybank keeper made great saves.

Pete Dunphy also got a shot from a cross cleared off of the line. Unfortunately they ended up conceding 2 goals off of corner kicks with ferrybank getting a 2-0 win. Lots of positives to take from this group as they are constantly improving individually and as a team.

Motm today goes to Aaron Walsh as he was great defensively and going forward in the centre of midfield and showed no fear as 1 of the younger players in the squad.

Our youngest u10 girls headed to Faithlegg this morning for a run out against Park Rangers in sunny conditions on a fresh spring morning. Plenty goals scored by both teams with lots of positives to take from it.

A fierce contest today in sunny Piltown with little between the teams .
Our u16s took to the pitch against Piltown for an afternoon kick off .

Both teams were very disciplined at the back and for us today Sophie Scahill commanded the back four , she took control from the first kick and was consistent throughout , along with Eimear Quinn , Molly Murphy and Saoirse Corcoran .

On the 34th minute , a well taken corner from Eimear was met by Niamh Reddy who made sure the ball finished in the net , scoring her first Mooncoin Goal.

Emily Blackmore , Molly Long and Ella Brennan played some lovely through balls to Eimhin O Donohue, whose work rate today was phenomenal. And Kate McGrath worked tirelessly in the middle to keep the ball on the move .

But hats off today to keeper Sadhbh Kirwan , who in the last ten mins , when Piltown were pressing hard to find the equaliser, kept her cool and pulled off some great saves ,

Mooncoin came away with the three points in a very evenly matched and enjoyable game.

We welcomed Ballinroad to suir crescent this afternoon and both teams paid their respects before the game observing a minute’s silence for the late Kate Quinn who was laid to rest this morning.

Both teams were evenly matched and ballinroad were first to score. We had a few missed chances and ballinroad got a 2nd just before half time. Jay dunphy got one back for us minutes into the 2nd half with cathal morahan scoring another belter to make it 2-2. Conor phelan was unlucky not to score near the end.

The back line were superb again today. Final score was 2-4 to Ballinroad.

TJ was captain away to Ballyduff in a game between 8th and 9th. Some great saves from Tyler and later on from Jake were the highlights in what was a game of few chances for Mooncoin. Tl

The final score was flattering to the hosts as Mooncoin were more open at the back in the second half while pushing for a goal.

A very impressive De la Salle team showed no mercy for our understrength A side and showed why they are going to take some stopping in this league.

Aaron Dowley continued his goal scoring form with another goal.

Mooncoin Celtic U10 Girls entertained Southend this morning in Suir Crescent and are showing clear signs of improvement as this young group battled away for the duration of the game.

Disappointing result for the u14 white team who travelled to Dungarvan hoping to come away with something.

We started strong matching their intensity. An unfortunate goal conceded just before half time, meant we were on the back foot for the second half.

As we tried to claw the goal back some gaps appeared that Dungarvan took advantage of, slotting two more goals home.