To date the U16 footballers have played two games in the league, away to Gortnamona and at home to Lamh Dearg. We played well against Gortnamona but despite battling very hard all over the pitch they proved to be too strong on the night running out winners 4-16 to 0-10. However, the pleasing aspect of the game was that we had six different scorers, P McParland 0-4, D Wilson 0-2, C Moreland, J Haughey, C Park and A Slane 0-1 each.
Our second game against Lamh Dearg was a much improved performance, with the main feature of our game being the intensity of our tackling which ensured that Lamh Dearg had to work very hard for their scores. At half time we had a comfortable lead 2-5 to 0-1 with P Craig getting both goals and A Slane kicking 0-3 and D Wilson adding 0-2.
Lamh Dearg came out strongly at the start of the second half kicking 1-5 and at  this stage we under severe pressure. However, strong defensive play in the back line by C Gallagher, N Hughes and S Ferran saw us snub out any further threat allowing D Wilson, T McGreevy and A Slane to get the scores which saw us win the game 3-11 to 1-6. Second half scorers, D Wilson 1-3,  A Slane 0-1, N Hughes 0-1 and T McGreevy 0-1.
Our next game is away to St Johns at Corrigan Park on Thursday night with a 6.15pm throw in.
