Inishowen 1sts 76 - 0 holywood
05 January 2008

Inishowen racked up one of the highest ever scores in the 30 year history of the club in the junior 4 league.
With a resounding victory over a shellshocked holywood side.

It may have been more only the referee decided to blow the game up 15 mins early with the county down men taking a severe pounding at that stage. There was still 12 tries scored none the less,with 8 conversions by Finn McCormick......IT would take too long to explain all tries ,but the scorers on the day were James Carr(2),mojo(3),Mark Glasha(2),Conor Mulkerns(1),Phelim Tuckey(1),Finn(1), one from Brian Harkin which was his 1st try in 6 years,and finally a try from Crawford Norris on an excellent debut for the 1st team............Performance wise ,The Inishowen backs have had great praise thru the season,but it was all about the forwards on saturday. Picking and driving,mauling,pop passes, inter passing,offloads and great lines of running.It was all there to see from the rampant Inishowen pack.All of this made it much easier for the backs, as it took the pressure off them to break the gain lines, and indeed was all go forward ball when they did receive it.

Inishowen on this form are formiddable..............Great work was done by Kevin Gallagher on rucking mid week,and the lineout got attention aswell at training. Which improved retaining possession no end compared to the previous 2 matches.
It would be unfair to single out anyone as all 15 men were excellent on the day,and I'm sure everyone came off the park feeling they had done very well for their team.........The hope is now that the 'showen' men can continue to play in this style,for with so many ball carriers up front and also out the backs,it would be a bad idea for any team to defend in just one area............Turnip of the week has to go to Paul McMeniman, who diving over the line and celebrating a try,then realised he was actually 5 metres short,and then proceded to blame president John Merrit for not making the try line more noticable when lining the pitch...A very funny moment but paul took all his stick very well it has to be said............We hope to see Club captain back at some stage who's been out with bronchitis........

Team - 1 brian balding,2 mofo 3 don johnstone 4 phelim tuckey 5 conor smelly 6 billy bailey 7 issac hayes 8 jimmy carr 9 flash glash 10 finn mac 11 dorris crawford 12 no try mcmeniman 13 conor m 14 sally mcnally 15 higgy baby ...........next match home to enniskillen on 12 january...