Club notes for week commencing 20th August 2012

Underage coaching including the nursery continues on Friday evenings 6.30 to 7.30. (4 to 12 years old)

 

Nursery is sponsored by Easons, Pearse St, Mullingar. Thanks to Easons sponsorship club nursery jerseys are available in the club shop at half price €15.

 

Team contacts for 2012: Under 8’s: Jimmy Hughes 086 3457564; Under 10’s: Stephen Cleary 087 6405723; Under 12’s: Marc Cunningham 087 8362297; Under 14’s: Jimmy Murtagh 087 6943273, Under 16’s: Johnny Murray 086 3739408; Minors: Eunan McCormack 087 8384055; Seniors: Tommy Kelly 087 2949714.

 

Lotto Results 20/08/12

Jackpot 1: €14,000

Numbers drawn: 4, 5, 17, 25

Result: No winner

2 x €100 winners: Declan Delaney, Johnny Penrose.

Jackpot 2: €2600

Numbers drawn: 1, 17, 20, 28

Result: No winner

Next week’s draws will take place in The Cloughan Inn with jackpots of €14000 and €2800.

 

If you are not currently subscribing to our lotto, the weekly club lotto is available to play online at our website. www.naduntagaa.com

You can also register online to receive our free weekly email which includes lotto results and club notes.

Please spread the word to Na Dunta Gaels around the country and the world, encourage them to play lotto online.

An annual lotto ticket for €100 (with 2 weeks free) can be bought on line or from Matt Carley or Anthony Rowan.

 

We are continuing with our text message service via TEAMER 51001 which we use to notify members regarding various club activities. If you wish to avail of this service, please text your name and number to 087 8362297.These messages are free to receive and a reply is not required. We currently have over 300 subscribers but would like to extend it further to ensure all our supporters are kept up to date. If you no longer wish to receive these messages then please text STOP with your name and number to 087 8362297. We want to avoid unnecessary duplication where several copies of the one message are going to the same household.

 

You can register to receive our free weekly newsletter email at our lotto website www.locallotto.ie – just search for The Downs. The newsletter is sent every Monday night and includes that night’s lotto results and club notes.

Face book you can now keep up to date with the club’s activities on our new FACEBOOK page:

http://www.facebook.com/TheDownsGAAClub  and TWITTER @TheDownsGAA.

 

Bingo continues every Friday at 8.30, come along and brings a friend for an enjoyable night’s entertainment.

 

 

The Downs who fielded a mostly youthful team in this game started brightly and had 1 – 3 to 0 -1 on the scoreboard after 8 minutes with Dean Daly, Adam Price (goal), and Kevin Bell to the fore in our forward line. St Marys upped their game and added two points to leave just one score between the teams after twenty minutes. The award of a controversial goal by the referee tied up matters on twenty two minutes. The Downs finished the half strongly and added two further points to lead on a score line of 1-6 to 1-4 at the break.

The Downs started the second half where they left off and Adam Price added his second goal after five minutes which was quickly added to with another point from play to leave The Downs ahead by a margin of six points with ten minutes gone. St Marys to their credit rallied and added two points. The Downs were guilty of some poor finishing at this stage of the game and were punished in the twentieth minute with a well taken goal after a short kick out was intercepted. The Downs responded well and added two further points from play to go three up again. Both teams then exchanged points before St Marys got their third gaol after a defensive lapse by The Downs. With the game now entering the final minutes St Marys pressed for the winner and looked to have the game won when they landed a point with a minute to go. The Downs held their nerve and worked the ball up field to land an equaliser on the stroke of full time. The game ended on a score line of The Downs who fielded a mostly youthful team in this game started brightly and had 1 – 3 to 0 -1 on the scoreboard after 8 minutes with Dean Daly, Adam Price (goal), and Kevin Bell to the fore in our forward line. St Marys upped their game and added two points to leave just one score between the teams after twenty minutes. The award of a controversial goal by the referee tied up matters on twenty two minutes. The Downs finished the half strongly and added two further points to lead on a score line of 1-6 to 1-4 at the break.

The Downs started the second half where they left off and Adam Price added his second goal after five minutes which was quickly added to with another point from play to leave The Downs ahead by a margin of six points with ten minutes gone. St Marys to their credit rallied and added two points. The Downs were guilty of some poor finishing at this stage of the game and were punished in the twentieth minute with a well taken goal after a short kick out was intercepted. The Downs responded well and added two further points from play to go three up again. Both teams then exchanged points before St Marys got their third gaol after a defensive lapse by The Downs. With the game now entering the final minutes St Marys pressed for the winner and looked to have the game won when they landed a point with a minute to go. The Downs held their nerve and worked the ball up field to land an equaliser on the stroke of full time. The game ended on a score line of The Downs 2-11 St Marys 3-8.

Well done to all the lads for a spirited performance. In a game that we looked, at stages we would win easily, proved otherwise and to their credit the team battled hard when it most counted.

 Team; Kevin McGuire, Shane Egerton, Pauric Corcoran, Conor Thompson, Dean Moran, Mark Leavy, Shane Raleigh, Adam Price, Dean Clarke, Dean Daly, Joe Corroon, Trevor McCormack Kevin Bell, Jake Cahill, Kyle Gavin. Cathal Scally Geoff McCormack.

 

Well done to all the players and  Bernie Corroon who was co-ordinator and the coaches from the club ( Aoife Rowan, Amy Staunton, Niall Murray, Shane Carroll, Cian Carthy) who participated in our camp last week.

Photographs from the week can be viewed on our website courtesy of Bernie Conneely.

George Coyle recently trawled through his records and has uncovered a varierty of photographs from Scor na Dúnta over the years which have been added to the club website.

 

We are now providing a First Aid officer for our Friday evening coaching sessions. New volunteers are always welcome and the Friday evening slots are provided on a rota basis. Please contact Trudy @ 087 9890121 for more information.

 

The Club Shop will be open during our weekly underage coaching sessions.

New for this year will be club umbrellas and O’Neills tracksuit bottoms in all sizes.

For more information contact Carmel at 087 9496347.

Members of our club nursery can buy club jerseys at a 50% discount €15 thanks to the sponsorship of Eason Mullingar sizes available 3 / 4 and 5/6

 

 

If anyone could help out with coaching any of our teams please let any of the coaches know.

 

Underage coaching session including the nursery continues on Friday evenings 6.30 to 7.30

For information on training times for all teams please contact 0874199344.

 

The Ladies Football are collecting bags of clothes as a fundraiser, so you can now de- clutter and help the club raise funds. Bags of clothes can be left with any team coach or committee member or in The Shop. Please ask family, neighbours, friend and co-workers to fill a bag.