ACL 1

REDS REDEEMED
Burren 0-9 Rostrevor 0-9
So how is it that a team can go out a week agao at home to Mayobridge and give a diabolical account of itself and then come to Burren a week later with [on paper] a much weaker side and so completely restore its reputation? A funny game football, though Burren will hardly see the joke this week, especially since they failed to score at all from play in the second half of Fridays surprisingly one-sided defeat.

VINDICATED
For Rostrevor, the vindication was distinguished by a couple of super goals. The first, after twenty-one minutes was a thing of rare beauty. It was made by a pass of brilliance by Joe Fegan, who was Burrens chief tormentor all evening.Joe’s pass from the right was delivered with such pace and precision that Dermot Mackin found himesly completely unmarked on the 20 meter line. Dermot quickly appreciated that a pass of this quality deserved a finish to match. And he gleefully despatched a searing drop-kick which racked the back of the Burren net before Mark Rocks could even lift a finger.

AMENDS
That really ought to have been Dermots second goal; a minute earlier he had settled for a point when Eddie Magees adventure possibly merited better reward. But it left Rostrevor 1-2 to 0-3 up, and they never fell behind again. Ryan McGoverns lively raiding brought him two first half points from play to add to similar scores from Aidan McGivern and Sean Murdock, but despite the dominance of Anthony Cunningham at midfield, Burren slipped further behind by the interval, with Turlough Murphy [2], Joe Fegan and John fegan increasing the Rostrevor lead to 1-6 to 0-4.

SETTLED
Goal number two settled the outcome six minutes in to the second half. A minute beforehand, Ryan McGovern had rattled the visitors upright, but Reds broke smoothly for Turlough Murphy and Conor Mackin to send shaun Parr through the middle of the Burren defence and curl his shot past the exposed Mark Rocks.

EDDIE OFF
Shaun Parr also added a point after 44 minutes to leave Rostrevor a comfortable seven points clear with fifteen minutes to play and even the dismissal of Eddie magee after fifty minutes couldn’t open a way back for Burren. Reds fans enjoyed the further pleasure of welcoming Conor Daly back for his first appearance of the season and though only in the game for a eight minutes, Conor should have had a goal and a point to his credit. His late point stood, but he fouled the ball as he finished a Joe Fegan pass to the net and the score was rightly disallowed.

IMPROVEMENT
This was a much improved Rostrevor performance from the previous week.Jarlath farrell had an outstanding sixty minutes in defence, and Shaun Parr broke classily from midfield. In attack, Conor Daly, John Fegan and Turlough Murphy all made big contributions, but this was Joe Fegans match and a succession of Burren markers failed to make any impression on the peppery Rostrevor forward.
Burren were disappointing. Gerard McCartan, Andrew Knapton and Ryan McGovern all had their moments in defence, and they actually dominated midfield all through, in the first half with Anthony Cunningham and in the second with Eamon Toner. But it was only with the introduction of Eoin McCartan in the second half that they began to move with menace, and by that time Rostrevor had this match firmly between their teeth.

Burren scorers; Sean Murdock [0-4] 3 frees; Ryan McGovern [0-2]; Aidan McGivern [0-1]; Eoin McCartan [0-1] 1 free; Kevin McGovern [0-1] 1 free.

Rostrevor scorers; Shaun Parr [1-2]; Dermot Mackin [1-1]; John Fegan [0-2] 2 frees; Turlough Murphy [0-2]; Joe Fegan [0-1] ; Conor Daly [0-1]

Burren team: Mark Rocks; Andrew Knapton, Ciaran Byrne, Ronan McGivern; Gerard McCartan, Chris McGovern, Ryan McGovern; Anthony Cunningham, Eunan McGovern; Conal McGovern, Ronan McGovern, Eamon Toner; Sean Murdock, Aidan McGivern, Kevin McGovern.

Subs used; Eoin McCartan; Kevin McGivern

Rostrevor team; Christopher McCartan; Gary Magee, Paul Magee, Jarlath Farrell; Aidan Cousins, Eddie Magee, Kevin McGrath; Niall Farrell, Shaun Parr; Turlough Murphy, Conor Mackin, John Fegan; Dermot Mackin, Joe Fegan, Nicholas Mills.

Subs used; Conor Daly.

Referee; Gerard Brannigan [Downpatrick]

Man of the match; Joe Fegan [Rostrevor]