Moycullen show no mercy in strolling to huge group win

Moycullen 4-23

An Cheathru Rua 1-6

John O’Sullivan in Rosmuc

MOYCULLEN put the rest of the Galway senior football title contenders on notice with a resounding victory over An Cheathru Rua in Rosmuc on Saturday last.

The 26 point margin of victory was the highest points differential between teams in this year’s championship, with Corofin’s 5-21 to 0-11 win over St James’ second.

The victory, borne out of the potency of their forward line – with Conor Bohan, Peter Cooke and Dessie Conneelly to the fore – and the dominance of their midfield, all but secures Moycullen’s passage into the championship quarter finals. Victory over the bottom placed Caherlistrane in the final will see them through.

The 1996 Galway senior champions, meanwhile, will face a relegation play off after what was sure to be a demoralising reversal. Going into the game, both teams needed a victory, but for contrasting reasons. Moycullen required a win to keep their knock-out hopes alive; Keith O Gairbhin’s charges needed to collect the points to stave off the possibility of falling into the relegation trapdoor.

Winning was the only outcome on the agenda for both teams, and this informed their respective tactical blueprints for the encounter. Tactical conservatism was thereby thrown to the wayside and attacking football was committed to by the Group 3 rivals.

In a sign of what was to come, Moycullen started like a team that weren’t only keen to progress but also to build on their previous narrow 0-11 to 0-10 victory over Mountbellew/Moylough.

The game was barely ten minutes old and last year’s quarter finalists had raced into a six points to nil lead. Bohan, in particular, was proving to be the scourge of the opposition’s rearguard. He landed three of his team’s six points as the gulf in class was becoming increasingly evident. Sean Kelly, Cooke and Conneelly added the other points in front of a decent crowd in Rosmuc.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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