Two early Portglenone goals set them on the road to a six point victory in this senior football fixture. Before we got going they had kicked 2-3 and we were very much on the backfoot. However a Collie O’Riordan goal followed by a Ryan Rooney point got us on the scoreboard as we looked to get a foothold in the game. Portglenone responded with two points before we had our best spell of the game. Paul Dynes hit the back of the net and Liam McGivern kicked a fine point to reduce the margin to three. All the good work was undone with another Portglenone goal and they quickly tagged on three further points to have a commanding lead 3-8 to 2-2 at half time.
We put in a better second half performance with goals from Liam McGivern
and Ciaran O’Riordan, with points from Stephen McGivern, Gerard Burns and Liam McGivern but Portglenone had done all the hard work in the first half and coasted to the win with five second half points.
Sometimes its hard to take positives away from games like this, we were caught cold early on but there was only six in it at the end in a game that we never really got going.
