Disappointing end to a great run. Today’s game was a fierce contest and Piltown had enough in the tank to see it over the line.. our goal coming today from Adam Conway. Most importantly we need to take as many positives from this and build on it and roll into the Under 17 season with heads held high. A great turn out to support these two teams. A great squad in numbers the whole season and the hard work was put in on the training pitch all year. Jonah O’Toole, Alex Bailey, Ciara O’Keeffe, Tom Conway, Conor Dermody, Denis Kinsella, Sean Lennon, Liam Hogan, Adam Conway, Stephen Foran, Sam Hartwell, Lee Freyne, Cian O’Sullivan, Matthew Morahan and Daniel Roberts made up today’s squad.. Keep the heads up… We will bounce back and go again.

Our 13s travelled to tramore for their 4th away game in 5 league matches. We knew this would be another hard fought encounter as there is little or nothing between the majority of the teams in this division. We got off to a flyer when Emily pounced to score her 8th goal in 5 games a goal all of her own making. A fiercely contested midfield battle ensued which tramore came out on top for a period and they deservedly equalised before the break. We made a better effort in the 2nd period when the introduction of darragh sparked us into life and some loving passing led to Emily just shooting wide tramore had a chance to go ahead but Jack hearne pulled off an unbelievable save which Dixie said reminded him of Gordon Banks famous save, but nobody knew who he was taking about cause none of us are of that vintage. Our star of the match was Eoghan dermody who was magnificent in defence and has come on leaps and bounds in the last 12 months. Next up seaview celtic.

A very flattering scoreline to our hosts in what was a great advertisement for schoolboy football. We totally dominated the first 20 mins but couldn’t find a way past a resolute dls defence the homeside caught us with two sucker punches before halftime and somehow we went into the break behind. We were caught napping again early in the 2nd half to go 3-0 down cue the fightback we got the score back to 3-2 with 2 super goals from Liam Mackey and Ethan Owens and should have added a few more but for the last ditch defending from a very good dls back line. Dls caught us on the break twice in the dying minutes to make it 5-2 a scoreline which didn’t do our gangs footballing performance justice. Our star of the match tonight has to be shared with Liam Mackey and Ethan Owens.

Haven’t said much on the Euro prediction competition, but with the Round of 16 underway and the Netherlands out it might be interesting to see what had been submitted via the entries in the competition.

For Semi-Finalists we have the following

###### Semi Finalist

France named as Euro Semi-Finalist 39 times

Portugal named as Euro Semi-Finalist 21 times

Italy named as Euro Semi-Finalist 20 times

Belgium named as Euro Semi-Finalist 20 times

Germany named as Euro Semi-Finalist 18 times

England named as Euro Semi-Finalist 18 times

Spain named as Euro Semi-Finalist 9 times

Netherlands named as Euro Semi-Finalist 8 times

Denmark named as Euro Semi-Finalist 2 times

Switzerland named as Euro Semi-Finalist 1 times

So some people are going to miss out on the Netherlands, and with Belgium playing Portugal and England playing Germany there’s going to be a good few to miss out on those points too.

###### Winners

France named as Euro winners 22 times

Germany named as Euro winners 6 times

Italy named as Euro winners 4 times

Portugal named as Euro winners 3 times

England named as Euro winners 2 times

Spain named as Euro winners 1 times

Belgium named as Euro winners 1 times

According to our prediction competition France are the clear favourites, with Germany far behind.

###### Number of Goals

The most interesting item was the number of goals, it’s been a goal fest so far and the prediction league in general would have predicted

Number of Goals (mean) at Euro 2020 = 117

So far there’s 103 goals and with another 11 matches still to play it’s going to be much higher than the 117 mark.

Best of luck to all players in with a chance of the win.

Another cracker served up in Ashgrove. Tramore came to Mooncoin today and gave us a real test.. they had most of the play early and we were lucky to turn it around to go 1-0 up after a well worked goal for Stephen Foran to tap in.. Tramore stepped up again and equalised to bring to 1-1 at half time.. An early second half penalty for Tramore got them 2-1 up and it looked like it wasn’t going to be our day.. Tramore kept the momentum and were knocking on the door.. the last 15 mins we started to get back up a gear and a great finish by Lee Freyne made it 2-2… We turned the game in the last 5 mins with a great header by Tom Conway to give us the lead.. Lee added his second after great work by Alex Bailey and a brilliant chip from Stephen Foran made it 5-2.. Jonah O’Toole in goal fronted by Ciara O’Keeffe, Denis Kinsella, Tom Conway and Alex Bailey, Conor Dermody came in the second half. We pushed hard with Adam Conway, Sean Lennon on the wings and Liam Hogan steadying the ship. Sam Hartwell battled really hard upfront. Daniel Robert’s, Cian O’Sullivan and Matthew Morahan made up the squad… man of the Match today was Captain Lee Freyne who lifted the team when we needed it.. well done all

Both teams came into this one with 2 wins from 2 a tough game was expected in warm conditions in the rsc and what a game it turned out to be. We were 3-1 up at one stage of the game with goals from Sean, Emmet and Daniel but it was end to end stuff all game and to be fair to bohs they never gave up and clawed there way back into the game with their speedy wingers in flying form. A draw would have been probably a fair result and we would have taken especially with several key players missing through injury but emmet Cusack score a perfectly legitimate goal with a min left on the clock when pounced inside the box the ball was at least a foot over the line only for play to be waved on amazingly. Our best player tonight was Daniel ponce de Leon who was everywhere for the 60 mins.