Farragher runs riot in relegation battle

Date Published: 10-Jun-2008

NOTHING can focus the minds quite as clearly as the fear of impending danger, as Castlegar showed on Saturday night when they brushed Ballinderreen aside with their most complete performance of the year, booking a place in the knock-out stages of the championship and, in the
process, condemning their rivals to the autumn relegation series.

Bottom of the group going into this ‘winner takes all’ struggle, and knowing that they would have to win by more than four points to overhaul their rivals on the group table, there was an admirable
intensity about the city side’s approach right from the start as they simply overwhelmed their South Galway rivals.

Good news for Galway fans, too, that Ger Farragher seems to be in the form of his life at the moment. Cashel’s ‘scorer in chief’ helped himself to 2-8 here, setting the tone for a full frontal assault when he went for a goal from a 30 metre free as early as the first minute.

That early (over) ambitiouseffort might have been thwarted, but he surprised everyone in Pearse Stadium when he fired home a similar placed ball to open up an eight point gap 19 minutes in and he
then buried any hopes of a Ballinderreen revival when he goaled a 20 metre free 17 minutes into the second half.

Throughout the hour, Farragher was by far and away the best attacker on show here, but his phenomenal work rate was epitomised…