John Brennan

The 2005 season got of to a successful start in near perfect conditions at the Quarter Road on Sunday afternoon with the visit of Aghaderg as Glasdrumman took the two points after a hard fought match. The first ten minutes were totally dominated by Glasdrumman  but despite their dominance they only had two points  to show for their efforts, the first after five minutes from the boot of full forward Raymond Clarke followed three minutes later by a point from a free by Raymond Magorrian.  Aghaderg clawed their way back into the game with two points within  three minutes and went ahead with a well taken goal in the thirteenth minute from corner forward Kevin Faloon who was proving a handful for the Glasdrumman defence. They further stretched their lead four minutes later with another point before Cormac Murphy pulled one back for Glasdrumman. Kevin Faloon and Raymond Magorrian exchanged points to leave the halftime score Glasdrumman 0-4 Aghaderg 1-4.

Aghaderg were first to register in the second half with a Rory Simpson point after five minutes to leave four points between the sides. The switch of Mark Trimble to mark Kevin Faloon proved  to be decisive as Aghaderg were forced to change a game plan which had worked successfully for them in the first half. Slowly Glasdrumman started to assert their dominance with two unanswered points from Cormac Murphy and one each from Raymond Clarke and Paul Brennan to level the game with fifteen minutes on the clock. Rory Simpson restored a one point lead in the nineteenth minute for Aghaderg but their lead was short lived as Cormac Murphy showed his class with two excellent points to put Glasdrumman ahead for the first time since the twelfth minute of the first half. The last six minutes belonged to Glasdrumman as Raymond Magorrian further stretched their lead with a point in the twenty eighth minute before Cormac Murphy scored a superbly taken goal to seal the points for Glasdrumman after a tense and hard fought match. Final score Glasdrumman 1-11 Aghaderg 1-6

Glasdrumman Ronan McDowell, Brian Burns, Kevin Burns, Paul Brennan (0-1), Colm Carr, Martin O’Neill, Sean McDowell, Cormac Murphy (1-5), Pat Mallon, Shaun Brennan, Raymond Magorrian (0-3), Mark Trimble, Connaire Harrison, Raymond Clarke(0-2), Gary McGreevy.