Latton GFC Notes – Week Beginning 14th may 2012
* Lotto
On Sunday 13th in Rocky street Ballybay numbers drawn were: 15-27-4-33 Bonus No.18 No winner. €20 winners: Sean Crroarkin, Ballybay. Peggy Duffy, Latton. Robin mc Donnell, Ballybay. Mary Coyle, Rockcorry. Pat Hamilton, Belfast. THIS WEEKS JACKPOT: € 17,500. Draw will take place in Stookies bar Ballybay.
* Senior Football
We played Truagh at home on Friday evening 11th. Latton played with a strong wind in the first half and worked hard for their scores against a very defensive Truagh team, we kicked some good scores and lead by 6pts at half time. Latton got off to a great start in the second half with two Owen Coyle points in the first five minutes. Truaghs first score of the game came 10 minutes into the second half when they scored a goal from a breaking ball after a great save from Sean Framer. Latton responded well and hit two points to put the game beyond Truaghs reach. In a very sporting game of football all scores came from play. Latton 0-10 Truagh 1-02 Team: & Scorers: S Farmer, K Farrelly, E Lennon (0-1), P Fitzpatrick, S Fitzpatrick , K Duffy, D O’Brien , J, Kingston (0-1), A Farmer (0-3) , O Coyle (2-0), T Connolly (0-1), P, Shannon O Duffy (0-2), S McElroy , S, Coyle. Subs used: J Nixon, D Duffy, V-CURRIN
On Sunday 13th Latton travelled to Scotshouse to play Currin in the first ever meeting off the two clubs at senior level. Dismal weather in Scotshouse along with a dismal performance saw us go down by 2 points to the senior newcomers. A hungrier, more determined Currin put in a gutsy first half shift despite being against a very strong wind. This was to prove the winning of the game as Latton failed to fully capitalise from the breeze, leaving the half-time score Currin 4 Latton 5. The second half saw Currin further rise to the occasion notching up 4 more points to Lattons solitary point. The game lacked footballing quality from the start & with takles flying there was inevitably a red card shown to both sides with the dismissal of Stephen Fitzpatrick & Dick Clerkin. In a performance to forget we wish speedy recoveries to both Thomas Connolly & Jason Nixon who both picked up injuries on the day. Team & Scorers: S.Farmer, K.Farrelly, E.Lennon, P.Fitzpatrick, S.Fitzpatrick (1pt), K.Duffy, J.Nixon, J.Kingston, D.O’Brien(c), K.Conlan, O.Coyle (1pt), P.Shannon, O.Duffy (4pts), S.McElroy, D.Duffy. Subs: P.Conlan for J.Nixon (inj), D.McElroy for P.Shannon, J.McElroy for D.Duffy. Currin 0-8 Latton 0-6
Reserve championship
We play Magheracloone at home in the quarter final of the O,Duffy cup on Friday evening 18th at 7-15, the next two league games are away to Blayney on 23th and home to Tyholland on the 25th.
Coaching structures
Following the recent meeting with Monaghan coaching Officer Paul O’ Connor the executive committee have decided to put in place coaching and playing structures for all grades of football from U-8 to senior level. All mangers and selectors involved with the club are asked to attend a meeting on Tuesday evening 22th May at 8 o’ clock. Anyone who is not involved with a team but would like to help out in the future is welcome.
Committee Meeting
A meeting of the Executive Committee will take place on Tuesday the 22th at 9-30.
Minor league
Latton minors suffered their second defeat when we played away to Donaghmoyne on Tuesday evening; a poor start to the game from Latton saw Donaghmoyne leading by 12pts to 3pts after 10 minutes. The lads worked hard to get back into the game and with 10 minutes left were losing by 4pts. Donaghmoyne finished the stronger team and went on to win by 11pts. Latton 1-08 Donaghmoyne 4-10 .
Pitch bookings
All pitch and dressing room bookings to be made with Kathleen Lynch. Phone no 087- 7904579. All team mentors please note.
U-8 & U-10
Training has been changed from Sat morning to Friday evenings from 6 to 7. Any parents who are not getting text messages about training contact juvenile management.
U-8 blitz
On sat morning we hosted the second blitz of the year, we were lucky to get a good morning and the 12 teams from 5 clubs enjoyed a great morning’s football. Thank you to everyone who helped out.
u-12
Last Saturday in Cloghan we played Aughbog in the spring league finals day, played in windy conditions both teams played some good football. Latton played with the wind in the first half and went in winning at half time. Latton worked very hard in the second half and give Aughbog very few scoring chances and won comfortably in the end. Team: K, Duffy. O, Duffy. E mc Philps. S, Duffy. P, Hughes. T, mc Philps. S, West. N, mc Guire. C, mc Cabe. D, Demspey. J, Roe. S, Slevin. S, Black. J, mc Cabe. A, mc Philps. K, Hughes. J, Morris. A, Mulligan. C, Corrigan. Training on Tuesday evenings at 6-30.
U-16
We played Truagh at home on Thursday evening, a under strength Latton team struggled against a very strong Truagh team who run out easy winners in the end. We play Carrickmacross away on Thursday 24th May, training continues on Thursday evenings at 7 o’clock..
All-Ireland championship preview
On Saturday 12th May in the GAA social club we held a very successful preview night for the 2012 championship. The large crowd were treated to a great night’s entertainment by stars off the GAA past and present. Thank you to compare for the night Mark Sidebottom who’s knowledge of the GAA and quick wit made the night so enjoyable. Special guest include: Oisin mc Conville, Enda mc Ginley, Bryan Cullen, Darren Hughes, regrettably Seanie Johnston from Cavan/Kildare was unable to attend.
Official Club Website
www.lattongaa.com is currently work in progress with a wealth of information accessible to all club members, officers, parents & supporters worldwide. You’ll be able to keep up to date with all the clubs current affairs including Fixtures and Results of our Adult & Juvenile teams, Match Reports, Club Events & Scór. There will be an extensive Photo Gallery as well as a detailed Club History recalling each decade since the foundation of the O’Rahilly club in 1917. If you would like to have a sponsored advert pubished on the website please contact secretary.latton.monaghan@gaa.ie
Thank you
Latton GFC would like to acknowledge all the hard work club secretary Francis Ward put into getting our club website up and running.
By michael Mon 14th May
