Tullylish travelled to the Mournes on Friday night last knowing that a win would put them in a position to escape the dreaded relegation playoffs but in the end after spurning a long succession of chances it was the home side who came away with the points that saw them climb above Tullylish in the table.

The Tullylish players will know this is a game that got away they enjoyed the vast majority in the first half especially but their instance on going for goals and a long succession of wides meant that they only lead by 1 point at the interval. Tullylish dominated the midfield sector winning a lot of clean possession and the long ball into the full forward line was always dangerous. Glasdrumman opened the scoring after 5 minutes of the game but Tullylish soon responded with their opening score from Michael McCartan and quickly followed this up with 2 frees from Peter Quinn to assume control of the game. At this stage Tullylish were dominant but could not capitalise whereas when Glasdrumman attacked a score usually resulted. Tullylish did continue to dominate and more scores were added through Gary Chambers and Davey Corbett but many more chances went a begging and Glasdrumman added 2 points on the stroke of half time to leave the half time defecate at just 1 point Glasdrumman 0-4 Tullylish 0-5

Glasdrumman came out a different team in the second half ands although the game was a much closer contest in the second period Tullylish continued to spurn chances. Glasdrumman opened the scoring but Tullylish edged back into the lead through a 45 from Barry Priestly and a Chris McGovern point. Tullylish still looked the better team at this point but once again failed to take advantage by poor shooting and decision-making. Glasdrumman once again battled back to level the game but with 10 minutes to go but then Tullylish got what looked like the decisive score when a high ball into the square was fisted to the net by Barny Roberts. This should have propelled Tullylish to victory but Glasdrumman got a score back straight away and slowly started to take control of the game. Although Tullylish had several chances in the final 10 minutes Glasdrumman took the lead with just 3 minutes of the game left when they were awarded a penalty the ball was firmly struck to the net and try as they could Tullylish could not get into the lead again as the game drew to a close.

Tullylish are now staring relegation in the face and they will know that they only have themselves to blame after this game.

Tullylish:
M McEvoy; P Grew; C McManus; A McEvoy; B Priestly 0-1; M Feeney; R Barry; D Corbett 0-1; P Quinn 0-2; F ODowd; B Roberts 1-0 (E Morgan); M McCartan 0-1; C Thompson (B McCartan); C McGovern 0-1; G Chambers 0-2.