THERE was a week of key club games for Ulster teams with the Dr McKenna Cup also kicking the county season into action. Here are the star players. 1 JAMES MCBENNETT Dromintee Restarts were sensational for the majority of the side’s Ulster triumph at St Paul’s. 2 RYAN O’TOOLE Scotstown On a tough day for […]
By Shaun Casey IT was a different kind of Christmas in Scotstown this year, but captain Damien McArdle wouldn’t change it for the world. Instead of enjoying the usual celebrations that come with the festive period, Scotstown were on the pitch, plotting the downfall of St Brigid’s. This Sunday, the Roscommon men stand between David […]
WHILE the rest of us burn off the turkey and start to get the mind and bodies back in the game after the festive period, spare a thought for those club players preparing for one of the biggest games of their lives. As we all get back in the wagon on New Year’s Day, four […]
I WAS talking to a barrister from Warrenpoint on Monday morning. He watched the Ulster final in his local. He said the whole place was cheering on Scotstown. “You weren’t supporting Kilcoo?” “F*** them.” It was a vast relief for Scotstown after nine previous failed Ulster campaigns. The standard of football was middling on an atrocious […]
SCOTSTOWN breathed a huge sigh of relief as Sean Hurson blew his final whistle on Saturday night in Armagh. Ulster title number five was there at last. The Monaghan champions had the game wrapped up but Kilcoo rallied the troops down the home straight to take the game into extra-time. At that point you felt […]
By Michael McMullan WHEN Scotstown were last Kings of Ulster, Brendan Beggan formed part of a monstrous midfield axis Coalisland were unable to break. That was 36 years ago. Fast-forward to last Saturday, at the same venue, his son Rory was the star man as the Monaghan giants ended the club’s famine. His 11-point return […]
By Michael McMullan THE window after their championship group stages’ defeat to Corduff were the best three weeks of training Scotstown had all year. That was Darren Hughes’ take in the aftermath of the Oriel giants’ win over Kilcoo to land a fifth Ulster title and a first in 36 years. Scotstown had drawn with […]
By Alan Rodgers A FIRST All-Ireland campaign since losing in the 1989 semi-final now beckons Scotstown’s latest generation of Ulster Club winners after they made history by defeating Kilcoo in a game of rare tension and quality at the BOX-IT Athletic Grounds on Saturday night. It has been a long and winding road for An […]
Ulster Club SFC final Kilcoo v Scotstown Saturday, BOX-IT Athletic Grounds, 6.15pm By Michael McMullan BEFORE a ball was kicked, seven other county champions were handed the task of derailing the final most predicted. Newbridge pulled themselves from the jaws of defeat to come mighty close in a pulsating semi-final decided on a penalty shoot-out. […]
FROM very early doors this season, once the draw was made, talk began to circulate about the possibility of a final showdown between Kilcoo and Scotstown. The history is there between them and when you add in the quality of both teams, then you understand why a lot of the neutrals could see this game […]
