Secretary S Report of Activities 2008
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Secretary’s Report of Activities 2008
Work of the Committee
The Committee met on a number of occasions during the year under the chairmanship of Peter Shovlin
In the course of the year, the Committee sought to facilitate adult football by:
· Selection of management structures for the various teams
· Involvement in the registration, regrading and transfers of players
· Networking with managers on team panels, playing arrangements, kit requirements, other needs
· Networking where appropriate with the CCC (e.g. game rescheduling, fixing of challenge games etc)
· Monitoring injury scheme and Membership
· Approval of Expenses
· Fundraising liaison with Executive and teams
· Preparation for agm
Niall Brennan was co-opted as a member of the football committee in the course of the year.
Participation in competitions
The following table summarises the teams fielded by the club in adult football as well as the leagues, championships and cups in which they partook.
Team / League / Championship / CupSenior / AFL 1 / Senior Championship / Vincent De Paul
Inters / AFL 3 / Intermediate Championship / Loving Cup
Junior A / AFL6 / Junior B Championship / Stacey Cup
Junior B / AFL9 / Junior C Championship / Sheridan Cup
Minor A / Minor 1 / Minor A
Minor B / Minor 3 south / Minor C
Under 21 / Under 21 A Championship
Managers
The following managers were selected:
Ronan Hore Seniors
Conor Doolan Inters
Conor Hand Junior A
Niall Kelly Junior B
Jim Keane Minor A
Dave Mellon Minor B
Under 21 TBC
A big thank you to all the managers for the time and effort they put in during the year.
Team management is an onerous job and there were not too many volunteers coming forth.
Performance on the field
League tables
Appendix A attached sets out the most up to date league tables for each team and also the group championship stages for seniors and minors.
Senior Footballers
Report by Ronan Hore
Manager : Ronan Hore
Coach : Liam Moffitt
Ass.Coach : Shane Brooks
Selectors : Liam Tully
Frank Brooks
Physio : Michael Sheridan
Nets : John Lennon
Sponsor : T.J.O’Mahony - Michael Whelan and
Sean Moran.
Our first meeting with the Mentors and Players on 1st January 08, with our first training
Session on 6th January.
We held: 25 Gym Sessions
6 Sand Training Sessions
73 Field Training Sessions
We Played: 9 Practice Matches
4 Cup Matches
14 League Matches to date
3 Championship Matches
Full details as follows:
16/02 Lost to Judes 0-13 - 0-05 SVP
23/02 Drew with Round Towers 1-10 - 1-10 SVP
01/03 Lost to Thomas Davis 1-13 - 1-09 SVP
09/03 Lost to Kilmacud 1-10 - 0-08 League 13 Players missing
27/03 Win v Senchelstown 2-13 - 2-11 Friendly
30/03 Lost to St Marys 1-08 - 0-10 Cup
05/04 Lost to Thomas Davis 1-11 - 0-13 League 11 Players missing
12/04 Lost to Crossmolina 1-10 - 0-10 Friendly
16/04 Lost to St.Mark 2-10 - 0.07 League 10 Players missing
19/04 Win to Fingallians 3-10 - 1-11 League 10 Players missing
10/05 Lost to Lucan Sarsfields 0-17 - 0-09 League 10 Players missing
21/05 Win v Round Towers 1-13 - 0-09 League 11 Players missing
24/05 Lost to Oliver Plunketts 1-09 - 1-06 League 13Players missing
14/06 Lost to Ballymun Kickhams 1-13 - 1-10 League 14 Players missing
28/06 Win v Shelmaliers Wexford 1-16 - 0-04 Friendly
05/07 Draw with St.Judes 1-07 - 0-10 League 15 Players missing
16/07 Win v Na Fianna 0-17 - 0-14 League 14 Players missing
31/07 Lost to Stradbally Laois 1-10 - 0-10 Friendly
15/08 Lost to St. Sylvesters 1-10 - 1-08 League 10 Players missing
22/08 Lost to St.Vincents 1-13 - 0-12 League 9 Players missing
23/08 Lost to Crossmolina Mayo 0-14 - 0-12 Friendly
30/08 Won to Sr.Marks Tournament - Beat St. Annes by 5 points Friendly
- Beat St. Marks by 6 points
05/09 Lost to Rock, Laois 1-13 - 1-10 Friendly
07/09 Win v Bray Emmets 0-13 - 1-08 Friendly
14/09 Win v Naomh Mearnog 4-11 - 0-12 Championship
20/09 Win v Na Fianna 0-11 - 0-07 Championship
04/10 Lost to Ballymun Kickhams 2-11 - 3-06 Championship
14/10 Win v Sy.Bridgets 1-14 - 0-13 League 10 Players missing
02/11 Lost to Raheny 0-08 - 0-07 League 14 Playing missing
Ian Clarke was the only Player, who participated in all 30 games. What a Clubman and I thank him
most sincerely.
I would like to thank the following people, for their help, assistance, advice and co-operation
Over the year:
- All the Players for their effort, commitment and time.
- Liam Tully and Frank Brooks, for all their effort, time and advise, it was a pleasure to work
with you both.
- Liam Moffit, for his excellent training sessions, which were very tough and enjoyable. Liam is a
top class Coach.
- Shane Brooks, for all his help and for stepping into the breach when required.
- Frank and Bernie Brooks, for use of their Equestrian Centre and especially to Bernie for looking
after our jerseys and gear.
- Michael Whelan of Maplewood for his sponsorship.
- Sean Moran of T.J.O’Mahony, for his generous contribution to us.
- John Paul Moran, Chairman of Blessington GFC for the use of their facilities.
- Paddy Walsh and Noel Sheridan for their assistance over the year.
- Peter Shovlin, for all the help and co-operation. He was always available, and assisted us in
every way, when required.
- Richard Condron and Liam Hogan, for the co-operation during the year.
- Jim Keane, Minor Manager, Conor Hand, Junior Manager and Conor Doolin, Intermediate Manager,
for making players available, when we were short.
- John Lennon for putting up the nets.
- Physio, Michael Sheridan.
- Ned Slattery and his staff.
- Paddy Brady.
If I have forgotten, anybody, who assisted us during the year, I do apologise and thank you.
I must state, that everyone involved put in a big effort, heads were focused, bodies fit,
game plans executed, and only for a bit of bad luck, I am certain that we would have contested
a County Final.
Intermediates
Report by Conor Doolan
Mentors: Conor Doolan, John Galvin, John Archbold
After avoiding the relegation play offs last season the team got off to a good start and had gained 6 points from their first four matches. However the team struggled with the approach of summer due to exam commitments and student holiday visas. A couple of wins in September saw them move out of the relegation zone but are still not clear.
In the championship, the Intermediates lost to na Fianna 0-16 to 0-9 and looked to be gone from the losers round when trailing St. Sylvesters 2-6 to 0-1 at half-time in Parnell Park. A spirited second half performance saw them snatch a draw with practically the last kick of the game. The replay in O’Toole Park finished level 0-11 apiece and went to extra time. Sylvesters got the upper hand with a goal at the end of the first period of extra time and went on to win by 5 points. In the championship relegation play off the team won at the first attempt overcoming Round Towers of Lusk by 0-13 to 0-8.
The team completed in the annual Templeogue/Synge St tournament, winning their group before going down to St. Brigids of Offaly in the semi-final by 2 points.
Congratulations to David Hughes on making the Dublin Junior panel.
Junior A
Report by Conor Hand
Team manager: Conor Hand
Selectors: Denis Donohue and Tommy Flynn
In division 6, the team has played 13 games so far, winning eight, drawing one and losing four. We have two remaining games against Thomas Davis and St Peregrines. We still have an outside chance of promotion, depending on our final games and results from other games. Promotion was our major goal again this year but it may just escape us yet again.
We are in the final of the Stacey Cup. We drew with St Annes in the final at St Annes ground and now face them in the replay. The drawn match was very keenly contested with our team making a very strong recovery in the second half.
We also reached the quarter final of the Championship.
We have a very good squad of players, producing good attractive football. Injuries at critical times upset our rhythm. This team is good enough to compete at division 5.
We are indebted to Paddy Bates and Niall Brennan for sponsorship during the year.
Update report on Stacey Cup replay (report from Boden website)
Junior A vs St. Anne's
Sunday, 9th November 2008
Result: 2 - 7 to 0 - 6
The Junior A's won a second Stacey Cup Final after a hard fought replay win over St Annes. The A's started nervously in a low scoring first half and found themselves 2 points down after 10 minutes. The gap could have been wider but for a brilliant save from Alan Kennedy, who had to leave the pitch injured soon afterwards. However, Boden started getting on top and two frees from Stephen Fee and a terrific first point of the season from wing back Karol Cronin gave the Juniors a deserved lead. With a minute to go, Annes one a harsh penalty but former Senior Star Ger Flaherty reeled back the years to save it and keep the Boden ahead at half time.
Ballyboden started the second half where they left off and a screamer from Ronan Donohoe gave them a 5 point lead with 8 minutes to go. Annes responded well and got the deficit back to 3 before a superb Liam O Dwyer free and a Ciaran Dempsey goal clinched it for the club.
Team captain was Aaron O'Reilly.
Team: A Kennedy, A O'Reilly(c), B Young, J Fleming, K Cronin, J Corrigan, S Hogan, D Saville, R Donohoe, C Nevin, A Gardiner, J Marrinan, S Fee, C Reade, G Ward. Subs Used: G Flaherty for Kennedy (inj.), C Dempsey for Reade, L O Dwyer for Marrinan, P Bates for Ward, P O Connell for Fee.
Well done to Conor Hand, Tommy Flynn,Denis O'Donoghue and the players involved.
Junior B
Report by Niall Kelly
This team competed in Junior division 9 league, Sheridan Cup and the D championship. The team was managed by Niall Kelly, Noel Lynn and John Doyle.
The team reached the Sheridan Cup semi final, losing by one point to Erins Isle after extra time. There was a second round exit in the championship and we will finish in the top half of the league.
The team had a strong panel at the start of the season but a lot of players went away during the summer which left us short for a number of games. This, I believe, is where we lost the league, being beaten by teams we knew we could have beaten with our full panel. A small number of players who gave up playing for the club returned and are playing a full part in the panel.
To secure the future of this team a number of this year’s minors must be drafted to the panel on block as a number of players will not be playing next season. I was unpleasantly reminded of the practice of managers from other teams telling players they are now on their panel, without contacting the management of the team they are taking the player from.
I would like to thank the three dual players that played with us- Moss Nagle, Ciaran Twomey and Conor McCormack and also the football committee.
On a final note, I would suggest the in-coming committee should highlight the problem of poor fixture planning during the season. On a number of occasions we only played two matches during a month and some months we only played one. If we played every week we could have finished our competitions much earlier. As it stands we have three league matches to play at the worst time of the year.
Minor A
Report by Jim Keane 1 November 2008
Mentors: Jim Keane,Eugene Duffy,John Mulligan.
Seamus Keane Captain Barry Kehoe Vice Captain
Dublin Minor represenatives': Darragh Nelson, Seamus Keane,Sean Gibbons.
Matches Played:
The Minor A’s played a total of 26 games in 2008, winning 21, drawing 1 and losing 4. The following is the breakdown of the games:
League: We played 7 - wining 5, drawing 1 and losing 1. We lie in 2nd place and await news of a playoff for the league championship.
Championship: We played 4 games and won all of them. We await the semi-final fixture date
Challenge Games: We played 15 games winning 12 and losing 3.
Minor B
Report by Dave Mellon 24 October 2008
The Minor B team played 12 games and won six approx. We have a very committed bunch of players. Enjoyed a trip to Armagh and played St. Patricks of Newtownhamilton. We won by 8 points. The management team was strengthened with the introduction of a former inter-county Kildare footballer - John Archbold as head of squad development and joint manager. Not enough competitive games was an ongoing problem.
Health and Welfare Issues
Concern had been expressed at recent AGMs about the working of the injury scheme. As a result it was decided that a dedicated person should administer all injury forms across the sections. Jody Moran is performing this task and we thank Jody for his efforts in this important area of player welfare.
In the course of the year,the club purchased a defibrilator. A number of persons have been trained to use it and again our thanks are due to all who give of their time.
Representative honours
Congrats to Conal Keaney, Colin Moran and Declan O’ Mahoney who represented the club on the Dublin senior football team. Also to Davie Hughes and Darren Homan who represented us in the Dublin junior football team who won the All Ireland. Stephen Hiney and Simon Lambert represented us on the Dublin hurling team. Darragh Nelson, Seamus Keane,Sean Gibbons were involved in the Dublin minor panel.