Under 13

Monday May 2nd
Under 13's home to Glounthane - kickoff 10:30.
Super Villa go Ballistic, Glounthane are Atrocious
The rearranged Under 13 clash between Villa and Glounthane was played at Skevanish on Bank Holiday Monday. We were deprived of a couple of the Under 12's who usually play with us as they were being spared for a cup game. Luckily they were able to go through a training session just after our match ;-)

The weather was bad for the last week and we couldn't get to cut the grass and after another nights rain the pitch was heavy. Never mind - that ref was happy, we were happy and Glounthane didn't have any objections so off we went.

Glounthane came to us with a big reputation, they are fighting for league honours so we knew they would expect to win. We were a bit slow to start but slowly we began to match Glounthane all over the pitch. It soon became obvious that their best player was the red headed number 9. He showed great touches and was dangerous until we man marked him with Jamie Donegan. Then mid way though the first half Glounthane got a free in front of goal. We built a wall but somehow the ball found its way through and before Aidan Davies could get to it through a sea of legs the ball nestled in the net. Villa didn't give up and we continued to attack - Gerard Rice played some great balls through to Conor and Aidan McCarthy and through bad luck and some inspired defending we couldn't find a way to goal. The second half started the same way, we attacked and attacked and just couldn't get a a goal. Conor was unluckky to hit the ball wide when clean through on the goalie, Gerard just lost control when he was through and Adam narrowly headed wide with the baest chance of the half.

Then with seconds remaing the Number 9 scored the winner to make the final score 0-2 It was one of those days; we could have stayed all day and not scored. Never mind - it was a great game. Everyone played great, with heart and passion. We ran for everything and showed we're good enough to tak on the best teams in our division. Bring on Leeds and Kanturk!

The team was:
Aiden Davies, Adam Moursy, Jack Walsh, Jamie Donegan, Kevin Hanley, Liam Kelly, Gerard Rice, Jack Tyner, Brian O'Donovan (sub: Brian Murnane) Conor McAnallan and Aidan McCarthy.

Joint Men of the Match: Jack & Jamie at the heart of the defence

Apres Match:
One Glounthane official took it extremely hard and asked the referee to get the signatures of two of the Villa players, Jack and Kevin. The ref told him not to be daft and that he wouldn't do it. The Glounthane official then stuffed out his chest and said he was vice Chairman of the Schoolboys League (are we really that hard up for officials, my Aunt Nellies stuffed parrot would be a better choice than the Glounthane numpty). When the ref wouldn't play ball the Glounthane official, Paddy-Joe McGinnity, asked for the autographs directly. We asked why but he wouldn't tell. Eventually it seems he thought Jack & Kevin were over age - or to put it another way he couldn't understand why we gave them a great game. So take a choice from the following list to describe Glounthane officials (the player were great) : unsporting, bad winners, big heads, numpty's, big girls blouses.....

Saturday April 23rd

Under 13's away to Blarney United at O'Shea Park - kickoff 12:30. Meet in Crossbarry at 11:00

What a turn around! Beaten 9-1 in the Cup we travelled more in hope that expectation. To make it even worse we were down to the bare bones with 11 players. It was a wet weekend and we had to play on the Blarney practice pitch. This was a great display from the Under 13 team; especially as Blarney must have thought they were going to get an easy three points.

The entire team played well together; all the back defended when needed and the midfield ran and ran. As the game wore on we began to attack more and more, Blarney tired and we started to win in midfield. Late in the second half Don Lynch was kicked, accidentally by Conor, and had to go off. This seemed to make everyone play harder and then we scored. Jack Walsh passed to Gerard Rice who made enough room for a shot – the goalie dropped it and Jack Tyner tapped in for what turned out to be the winning goal

Team: Aidan Davies, Adam Moursy, Kevin Hanley, Jack Walsh, Jamie Donegan, Jack Tyner, Gerard Rice, Don Lynch, Eoghan Delaney, Conor McAnallan and Aidan McCarthy.

(Thanks to Liam Kelly for letting the team know he wouldn’t be travelling and all the best to Eric McSweeney who needs to get his knee fixed up)

Man of the Match: Jack Tyner for being there when the goalie dropped the ball and for a high work rate - tracking back when he had to.

Saturday March 12th

Under 13 League match away v Tramore United.

A close game in the end. An even first half saw us go in 0-0 at halftime.We went one up through a typical poachers goal from Eoghan Delaney - it was a beauty. Tramore came back to equalise but Eoghan was in dynamic form and won the game with another class goal. Deservedly man of the match, Eoghan gave a great display of out and out goalscoring prowess (all in front of a scout from Blackburn Rovers)

The team was: Aidan Davies, Jack Walsh, Jamie Donegan, Adam Moursy, Kevin Hanley, Jack Tyner (sub: Liam Kelly) Gerard Rice, Don Lynch (sub: Brian O'Donovan) Aidan McCarthy (sub: Eric McSweeney) Conor McAnallan.

Sunday February 27th

Glounthane v Innishvilla in the Under 13 league. Kickoff 2:30 pm meet in Crossbarry at 1:00 pm. Match postponed.

January 29th: Under 13 Cup v Rockmount.

Kickoff 10:30

Rockmount have three points but have only played three games so far. This could be close - at least we're at home.

Well done to everyone who put the time and effort into the two Christmas & New Year coaching sessions.

Squad:

A Davies, Brian O'Donovan, Jack Walsh, Jamie Donegan, Liam Kelly, Gerard Rice, Jack Tyner, Gary Cronin, Conor MacAnallan, Eric McSweeney, Brian Murnane, Aidan McCarthy and Kevin Hanley.

Strand United December 4th at Skevanish

At long last - a home match!

The Under 13 team finally had a home game against Strand United on Saturday December 4th at 12:45.

This was a second attempt to play the game - back at the start of the season the ref didn't show so we had a practice match. It looked bad again at 1 o'clock on Saturday when the ref hadn't appeared but shortly afterwards he showed after being held up in the roadworks in Innishannon. Having waited around for longer than expected the Under 13's were so warmed up they had to cool down again. We kicked off and went straight intp the attack. Gerard Rice and Jack Tyner started to run the right side of midfield. Slowly but surely the pressure had to tell, the supporters on the Innishannon side of the pitch were going mad, they were all standing, waiting for the inevitable goal and when it came it was a beauty. Eric McSweeney pounced on a loose ball and smacked it sweetly into the back of the new. The crowd went crazy! Strand tried to fight back but Jamie Donegan, having his best match of the season was not going to be beaten - time and again he stopped their attacks and fed the ball to our midfield who ate it up. Eventually Strand cracked again and gave away a desperate free kick outside the box. Gerard Rice stood behind the ball and thought about where he'd place his kick. He started his run up, closed his eyes, and let fly - straight into the net - two up - the crowd went wilder. Does anyone read this stuff? Strand got a goal - yes the usual flukey one. Towards the end a well worked cross from the right wing was assuredly side-stepped into the net by Conor MacAnallan and that was that, 3-1 to the Villa!

Goal: Aidan Davies
Defence: Kevin Hanley (sub Brian Murnane), Adam Moursy, Jamie Donegan, Brian O'Donovan,
Midfield: Jack Tyner, Gerard Rice and Liam Kelly
Attack: Eric McSweeney, Conor MacAnallan and Aidan McCarthy (Sub Don Lynch)

Man of the Match: Jamie Donegan (Your Derby County fridge magnet can be collected next week)

Saturday November 27th the Under 14's were away to Strand at Inniscara at 2:00 PM.

The team was Goal: Shane Nolan

Defenders: Bill Hawkes, Colm Leehane (sub Jack Tyner 40mins), Alan Coleman, Kevin O'Driscoll.

Midfield: James O'Regan, Gerard Rice, Shane O'Sullivan,

Forwards: Liam Dempsey, Luke Field (sub Conor MacAnallan 40 mins), Jack Walsh. Sub not used Adam Moursy

This was another great game from the under 14 team following last weeks cracker against Casement. Kevin O'Driscoll returned from injury and Jack Walsh started up front. We went into attack from the start and Liam Dempsey and Luke Field were both unlucky not to score. Liam in particular has a shot from the wing pushed onto the post by the goalie. As usual we let in an unlucky goal against the run of play and but fought back to equalise through Liam. From then on we dominated play but were unlucky not to get the winning goal.

The Man of the Match prize of a Derby County sew-on patch went deservedly to Liam Dempsey but could easily have gone to Bill Hawkes for an assured display at right back or Colm Leehane for some great play at centre-half..

Under 13 Saturday November 20th away to Leeside Knockraha.

The squad was:
Goalie: Aidan Davies
Defenders: Kevin Hanley, Adam Morsey, Jack Walsh and Brian O'Donovan
Midfielders: Jack Tyner, Liam Kelly, Gary Cronin, Gerard Rice and Jamie Donegan.
Forwards: Eric McSweeney and Aidan McCarthy and Eoin Delaney.

Update: There is an Under 13 GAA match on Saturday also. The following will be playing in that game instead: Jack Walsh, Gerard Rice, Eric McSweeney and Eoin Delaney. We will borrow some players from the Under 12 squad to replace them.

Match Report: Well on the worst pitch this year (and the worst dressing rooms ever) we were narrowly defeated 4-2. It was a game of two halves - we lost the first half 4-0 and won the second half 2-0. The scorers were Gerard Rice and Jack Walsh. Niall O'Sullivan made his under 13 debut.

Sunday November 14th Under 14 match away to Midleton A. Kickoff 11.00

We never seem to have a good time at Midleton - last year we got lost looking for the pitch. At least this year we knew where we were going! Due to illness and sleeping in we were down to the bare bones with only 11 players. The team was Shane Nolan in goal, Bill Hawkes, Gerard Rice, Adam Moursy and Kevin O'Driscoll at the back, Jack Walsh, Shane O'Sullivan, Jack Tyner and James O'Regan in midfield with Luke Field and Liam Dempsey up front.

Kitman/Ballboy/Physio: Aidan Walsh

We started off well and conceded an unlucky goal to go in at half time one down. However, Adam Mursey got a knock on the knee which slowed him down and put our defence under pressure. Midleton scored three more goals and that was that. The team all voted Adam man of the match for his great first half display and he was presented with a very rare Derby County lapel badge in recognition.

November 7th Under 13 at Fermoy.

Not a good day, we were beaten 8-0. We could have defended a bit better.

The team was Aidan Davies in goal. Defenders were Kevin Hanley, Gerard Rice, Gary Cronin and Brian O'Donovan. Midfield Jack Walsh, Aidan McCarthy (sub Jack Tyner 30 mins, Jamie Donegan and Liam Kelly. Forwards Eric McSweeney (sub Adam Mursey 30 mins) and Conor McAnallen.

October 2nd - Cup Time - David v Goliath...nearly!

Our Under 14 team are drawn against Douglas Hall from Division 1A - time for a giant killing performance. Douglas have only played one match in the league and were narrowly beaten away to the league leaders Macroom FC. Nevertheless they are from a higher division - this ones a bit like Derby County facing Man Utd.

Result: Villa 0 Douglas Hall 6. Oops - they were good.

September 18. Under 14's at home to Youghal.

Well this was the biggest match so far this season. Youghal are the early pacesetters in our division, having won both their opening matches 7-0 against Crosshaven and Casement Celtic.

The team played with the strong wind in the first half and took the game to Youghal right from the start. Alan Coleman opened the scoring with a cracker from the six yard box. Youghal struck back but Villa weren't going to lie down. from a direct free outside the box, slightly to the left, Jack Walsh scored in off the opposite upright.

Youghal got a flukey equaliser and the sides were 2-2 at half time.

Kevin O'Driscoll was taken off at half time with a sore leg as a precaution for the big GAA match on Monday night and was replaced by Luke Field.

Assisted by the wind, Youghal scored three great goals in the second half to run out worthy winners.

This was the best game we played this season. We are the first team to score against Youghal and the scoreline could have been a lot closer. This will give us great confidence to know we can give the division leaders a big scare.

The team was: Shane Nolan, Gerard Rice, Colm Leehane, Bill Hawkes, Kevin O'Driscoll, Alan Coleman, Jack Walsh, Liam Dempsey, Shane O'Sullivan, Conor MacAnallen, James O'Regan and Luke Field.

September 13^th 2004-09-21

Under 13

Away to Hibernian at Shanbally.

Hibernian 1 Innishvilla 9

Phew – what a game! We didn’t know what to expect from Hibernian so travelled more in hope than expectation. This was the night that the victorious Cork hurlers came home to a heroes welcome so we didn’t expect a large crowd and we weren’t disappointed. It was also the windiest night in years - Hurricane Charly was ripping across the Caribbean and we were getting some of its tail end.

Hibernian won the toss and decided to play against the wind – that was a mistake. They found it difficult to kick the ball out past the penalty area. We went in at half time with a 5-1 lead. Things calmed down in the second half but we ran out 9-1 winners. Conor MacAnnallen with four and Jack Walsh with five were our scorers

So who won man of the match? The two goal scorers had a great night and Aidan McCarthy was solid in defence but the worthy winner was Don Lynch who, playing on the left wing in midfield, was constantly getting behind the Hibernian backs – a great display of attacking midfield play.

Team: Aidan Davies, Aidan McCarthy, Kevin Hanley, Liam Kelly, Gerard Rice, Bryan O’Donovan , Eoin Delaney, Don Lynch, Jack Walsh, Jamie Donegan, Conor MacAnnallen.