Great win at Senior Football
Nice to welcome the All Ireland Champions to Broomfield and especially nice to repeat our win of last Autumn over Crokes to take our first points of the campaign. The first half was tepid enough, Crokes got the first two points, we slowly woke ourselves to around the middle and were probably unlucky to be only one up at the break - Beanos' point probably the pick of our effort
AFL1 St Sylvesters 2-7 Kilmacud Crokes 0-7
If the first half was mostly played between the 40's, the second half was played inside them. A great goal by Aido Relihan, an equally good effort from Niall Coughlan, a great free also from Coughlan. At the other end, Cian was having a tough battle with Jonny Magee as was Airy on Mark Vaughan, and with the help of McGurk and the very solid Dominic McDonnell, Crokes never broke us down.
Some might point to a few missing Kilmacud county players but we were missing Clarke, Jockser, Roche and others ourselves and, with a lot of very young players - Shane O'Connor and Ross Hazely in the middle, the tough as teak Barry Ryan on the wing, Fanning and Russy in the half forward line - we are certainly delighted with our own progress. Dave Galvin gave a very assured display at centre back, Campers was always involved and Ronnie came into the forward line to help us finish a very credible win.