MURPHY CUP
Wild Geese are still flying high
WILD GEESE...............3-14 AIB..............................1-8
Wednesday March 10 2010
THE Wild Geese continued their winning start to the 2010 season with a 12-point win over AIB on Sunday afternoon and can now look forward to a place in the knockout stages of the cup.
Half forward Aidan Scahill opened the Geese account, followed by a Danny Monks free. The two teams then exchanged points in the next few minutes, but towards the end of the first half the Geese went on a scoring spree with corner forward Keith Lowther excellently judging his shot to find the AIB net.
From the kickout midfielder Richie Monks won the ball and delivered a great pass out to Daryl Browne who crossed the ball to full forward Dicey Mc Donnell to fist to the back of the net.
Mc Donnell had another goal ruled out moments later, but Browne and Paul Murray added further points to leave the Geese well ahead going into the second half.
AIB had no answer to the movement of the Wild Geese who attacked with speed and skill and turned over a huge amount of ball in defence with David Prendeville, Kevin Monks and Darragh Hagan standing out.
From the start of the second half the Geese continued to attack the AIB goal. Vadim Lee scored two superb points in the opening few minutes, followed by a cracking goal from midfielder Richie Monks which flew past the helpless AIB goalkeeper.
The Geese defence also joined the attack when corner back Danny Kelly and half back Davin Browne both found their range at the far end of the pitch.
AIB then picked themselves up a gear and added a goal and 2 points themselves and could have had more but for some good defending from
the Geese.
Further second-half points were added by Browne and Paul Murray to see the Geese run out comfortable winners.
WILD GEESE: Joe O Rian; Danny Kelly 0-1, Kevin Monks, Paul Flood; Davin Browne 01, David Prendeville, Darragh Hagan; Richie Monks 1-0, Danny Monks 0-1; Keith Lowther 1-1, Daryll Browne 0-3, Aidan Scahill 0-2; Vadim Lee 0-2, David McDonnell 1-0, Paul Murray 0-3. Subs: Peter Slye, Tom Smith, Mark Fay, Charlie Rooney.
