Congratulations to all of our teams in action over the weekend in the DDSL Cup finals in the AUL Complex.
The second day of the finals saw our teams score plenty of goals but unfortunately come away with only one win out of the three ties involved.
The first final of the day was an extraordinary one.
League form went out the window in the O’Neills Cup final as Glebe North raced into a three goal lead in the first fifteen minutes and maintained that advantage until half time. Within ten minutes of the restart it was 3-3 and Keith Dawsons team took the lead for the first time with ten minutes remaining only for Glebe North to equalise and take the game to extra time. Just when it seemed that penalties would decide the issue the winner came with five minutes of extra time remaining, and they held on despite being reduced to ten men and the referee finding seven minutes of injury time to play.
Our under 12’s looked to be on the way to success in the Herald Cup final when leading 2-0 – Jacob McDonagh scoring both -into the second half but two quick Shamrock Rovers goals – one the result of a dubious penalty – saw them loose the initiative and the further concession of a hotly disputed goal ended the contest.
A high scoring under 18 Ferrari Cup final saw us come out on the wrong side of a 6-4 defeat to Cherry Orchard. Tosh McCarthys side will hope for better luck on Thursday night next when they play Crumlin United in the final of the Leinster Youths Cup at 8pm in Stella Maris FC Richmond Road.
Yesterday brought the joy and the glory of our under 11’s and under 13’s winning the Condren and Brady Cups respectively along with the heartache of an extra time defeat for our under 15’s in the Premier Cup final.
Blessed with glorious weather the well organised event attracted huge crowds throughout the day.
All three finals were extremely close run affairs with two going to extra time and one to penalties.
The 11’s had the clearest victory – 3-1 over St Josephs Boys in the Condren Cup – the goals from Faith Dawson (2) and James Donoghue.
Our 15’s had most of the play and chances in the Premier Cup final but fell to the only goal in extra time to Malahide United.
The main drama was reserved for the Liam Brady Cup final when our 13’s equalised in the dying minutes of normal time (Conor Doyle) to bring the tie to extra time and then repeated the feat at the death in extra time (Symon Glownia) to take the game to penalties which was settled by Ben Nicholls to give SKFC victory 4-3 on penalties.
Thanks and well done to all of our players and staff in the six finals and to all of the parents and club supporters who turned out on both days.
A special word of thanks to Club PRO Neil Fox who produced some memorable photos over the two days that no doubt will be looked back on fondly in years to come.
Also this weekend our 12 premier team are acquitting themselves well in a high quality tournament at Stevenage FC winning three of their six games played so far.
