Mooncoin Celtic u13s welcomed Piltown to Suir Crescent this afternoon and it was always going to be a competitive battle.

With three minutes on the clock a corner from Piltown produced a great save from Will but the rebound was scrambled home. The lads heads didn’t drop and after a few minutes a brave 50/50 by Tommy with the Piltown keeper led to Tommy getting his deserved goal.

The match was hard fought with Mooncoin defending plenty of good Piltown corners and a goal line clearance by Naoise saved a bizarre chance. Just before half time a foul on the left wing led to a superb free kick by Sam which was too high for the keeper to keep out and Mooncoin went into the break 2-1 up.

The game opened up in the second half and following a disallowed offside goal, Fionn struck again to ease the nerves.

A few good saves from Bradley in the last ten minutes saw the game out with all of the squad playing their part today.

Our younger U12 squad faced a Bohs side in sunny Suir Crescent and a bigger bohs side bossed the game from start to finish but our younger girls from our u10 squad will have gained valuable experience during the hour.

Viktor was captain for the visit of Hibernian to Suir Crescent over the weekend. We were on the back foot within a minute of kick off with the visitors scoring with an unstoppable header from a corner.

They scored two more goals before the break, both following goal mouth scrambles.

The second half was a far more even contest albeit with no goals to show for it. Special mention for Dylan on the goal for a superb double save late on. The game finished 3-0 to the away team.

The first fine day in months brought out the best in both Mooncoin and Kilmacow teams, as they played out a thriller of a derby, with Mooncoin taking the win 1 nil.

The first half was tight, with Kilmacow starting the better, but Mooncoin grew into the game and had a couple of shots just head wide. Eoin T was super in this 1st half.

0-0 at half time but 30 secs into the 2nd half and Conor W. had a fine shot that was well saved by the keeper. Soon after Conor had another shot that just whisked wide.

At the back Mooncoin were very solid with birthday boy Will W cleaning up everything behind a brilliant defence.

Mooncoin were on top and a sharp tackle then pass by Sam, saw Charlie M. pick up the ball just outside the D, and a quick swivel and hard high shot saw the ball hit the back of the net. A great goal to get Mooncoin ahead, and from here the team dug in.

To be expected Kilmacow came on strong, but this left room for breaks and Sean, Will Mc and Robbie exploited it, with Robbie going very close to grabbing a second.

The last few minutes saw everyone in defence and as the final whistle went there was great joy in celebrating a first win of the year.

Our first game in over 6 weeks and our first home game of the season had Ferrybank come to Suir Cresent.

A perfect day for football the game started with both teams trying to get into the swing of things after both having such a long break. We shaded the early exchanges and when Anil broke down the left after 15 mins his cross found Aidan who bundled home to put us in front.

The rest of the 1st half was nip and tuck with both defences on top. Ferrybank came at us in the 2nd half and we had to dig in. The mid field of Billy,Sean,Oisin,Liam and Luke broke up attack after attack as Ferrybank pushed for a leveller.

Anything that got past was ably dealt with by Alex,Jack, Finbar,Mattie ,
Cathal and Tadgh in defence. Upfront Jamie and Jimmy worked hard to provide an out ball.

The lads efforts saw us keep a clean sheet and with it a 1.0 win. A great result and nice to get 2023 off on a win.

The work rate of all 15 today was second to none.

Goals : Aidan Carroll

Mom : Jamie Grace, outstanding with and without the ball.

Special mentions for Aidan and entire defence.

Our U14B’s travelled to Bohs this afternoon and after a slow start Mooncoin soon found their stride. Both teams played a brilliant attacking game, with Mooncoin having plenty of opportunities.

Bradley Nolan was unlucky to concede a goal just before half time. After making a few positional changes at half time, Mooncoin came back at them in the second half.

Finn Foskin opened Mooncoin’s scoring when he converted a penalty. Minutes later Finn made it 2-1 to Mooncoin with his second goal and Cathal Morahan made it 3-1 with another great goal. We had two goal line clearances from Bradley Nolan and Larry O’Brien when we took our eye off the ball just before the final whistle!!

Everyone played great and the players that really stood out today were Conor Phelan and Larry O’Brien.

The best performance of the season to date as the boys took the game to Villa on their magnificent astro turf pitch. An early lead through Jason Grace was well deserved and it was a long ball over the top caught the lads out for Villa’s equaliser. Much improved all round.

We hosted Villa and Waterford Crystal on Sunday morning in Suir Crescent with our older girls taking on villa while our younger group played Crystal.

Plenty of goals, saves, tackles and most importantly fun had. Keep up the good work coaches and kids.

A game of missed chances for our u14 white team. A first half where we completely dominated, but with no goals to show for it at half time. An early goal in the second half for Tramore, albeit against the run of play gave them confidence.

But the girls composed themselves and equalised with a great passing move finished off by Anna Reddy. We had to settle for the one point on this occasion.