Post by owenabue on Mar 26, 2007 9:42:32 GMT
Hope he'll be okay!
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Donaghy out for two months
26 March 2007
By Brendan O’Brien, Letterkenny
KIERAN DONAGHY will miss the remainder of Kerry’s Allianz League campaign after dislocating his shoulder during the first half of yesterday’s defeat by Donegal.
The Austin Stacks forward did the damage when setting up a score for Mike Frank Russell after 21 minutes, falling awkwardly against Donegal full-back Paddy Campbell as he did so. Kerry manager Pat O’Shea confirmed afterwards that the injury to the AC joint would probably keep the 2006 Player of the Year out for the next eight weeks, but a definitive timeline won’t be known until the injury is x-rayed.
“It would have been nice to see him on for the full game, because he started quite brightly and was involved in a lot of our scores early on,” said the Dr Crokes manager. “It was disappointing from the team point of view.”
If the initial eight-week diagnosis proves accurate, it will leave Donaghy with just two weeks to be fit in time for Kerry’s first defence of their All-Ireland title against either Clare or Waterford on June 3.
On a more positive note, O’Shea was able to re-introduce Paul Galvin and Darren O’Sullivan to inter-county football on a day when he had “no complaints about the result”.
“Donegal obviously have very good individual players. They have proven that. They combined well. They are aggressive. They are strong. We played well for 45-50 minutes and ran out of steam a bit.
“They finished it off well. For the first 30 minutes we conceded five points. Then they got a goal before half-time and we ended up conceding 1-11 in the final 40 minutes.”
As a learning exercise, it will have been worth its weight in gold for Kerry, but O’Shea, with games against Tyrone and Dublin still to plot for, seemed ill-inclined to look at the positives after his second defeat in charge.
“It’s the second year thing (after winning an All-Ireland). The hunger and the appetite are going to be key words. Today we were stepping up in standard, with all respect to the teams we had played so far.
“Donegal are top of the table and have beaten everybody there is to beat. The field was in great shape, the day was beautiful so there are no excuses. They played better than us.”
No-one’s reputation received more of a polishing than Brendan Devenney’s. As one punter put it, he would have scored from the car park yesterday on a ground where he claims to know every blade of grass.
Hunger too is a key word in Devenney’s vocabulary. “We haven’t had many major victories. I’ve won things with a lot of teams and this is the only team I haven’t won something with. I have won stuff at inter-provincial level, even with the Irish team, but this is the main team for me.
“We’re using that hunger to drive us forward at training. You saw that there today. We kept falling behind and kept coming back. Even at five points down. That says a lot about our steel.”
Like goalscorer Kevin Cassidy, Devenney was reining in talk of Ulster and All-Ireland titles, but he did admit that their imminent confirmation as one of the four Division One semi-finalists bodes well for the summer.
“I would say that’s us in the semi-finals and there’s been a lot of talk about teams that have done anything in the championship doing well in the leagues. That’s something that we haven’t done. We’ve kept yo-yoing up and down, so it’s very promising that we have beaten all these top teams. That said, Kerry were missing three or four players today. Throw them into the mix and it’s a different story.”
www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=sport-qqqm=GAA-qqqa=sport-qqqid=28776-qqqx=1.asp
Donaghy out for two months
26 March 2007
By Brendan O’Brien, Letterkenny
KIERAN DONAGHY will miss the remainder of Kerry’s Allianz League campaign after dislocating his shoulder during the first half of yesterday’s defeat by Donegal.
The Austin Stacks forward did the damage when setting up a score for Mike Frank Russell after 21 minutes, falling awkwardly against Donegal full-back Paddy Campbell as he did so. Kerry manager Pat O’Shea confirmed afterwards that the injury to the AC joint would probably keep the 2006 Player of the Year out for the next eight weeks, but a definitive timeline won’t be known until the injury is x-rayed.
“It would have been nice to see him on for the full game, because he started quite brightly and was involved in a lot of our scores early on,” said the Dr Crokes manager. “It was disappointing from the team point of view.”
If the initial eight-week diagnosis proves accurate, it will leave Donaghy with just two weeks to be fit in time for Kerry’s first defence of their All-Ireland title against either Clare or Waterford on June 3.
On a more positive note, O’Shea was able to re-introduce Paul Galvin and Darren O’Sullivan to inter-county football on a day when he had “no complaints about the result”.
“Donegal obviously have very good individual players. They have proven that. They combined well. They are aggressive. They are strong. We played well for 45-50 minutes and ran out of steam a bit.
“They finished it off well. For the first 30 minutes we conceded five points. Then they got a goal before half-time and we ended up conceding 1-11 in the final 40 minutes.”
As a learning exercise, it will have been worth its weight in gold for Kerry, but O’Shea, with games against Tyrone and Dublin still to plot for, seemed ill-inclined to look at the positives after his second defeat in charge.
“It’s the second year thing (after winning an All-Ireland). The hunger and the appetite are going to be key words. Today we were stepping up in standard, with all respect to the teams we had played so far.
“Donegal are top of the table and have beaten everybody there is to beat. The field was in great shape, the day was beautiful so there are no excuses. They played better than us.”
No-one’s reputation received more of a polishing than Brendan Devenney’s. As one punter put it, he would have scored from the car park yesterday on a ground where he claims to know every blade of grass.
Hunger too is a key word in Devenney’s vocabulary. “We haven’t had many major victories. I’ve won things with a lot of teams and this is the only team I haven’t won something with. I have won stuff at inter-provincial level, even with the Irish team, but this is the main team for me.
“We’re using that hunger to drive us forward at training. You saw that there today. We kept falling behind and kept coming back. Even at five points down. That says a lot about our steel.”
Like goalscorer Kevin Cassidy, Devenney was reining in talk of Ulster and All-Ireland titles, but he did admit that their imminent confirmation as one of the four Division One semi-finalists bodes well for the summer.
“I would say that’s us in the semi-finals and there’s been a lot of talk about teams that have done anything in the championship doing well in the leagues. That’s something that we haven’t done. We’ve kept yo-yoing up and down, so it’s very promising that we have beaten all these top teams. That said, Kerry were missing three or four players today. Throw them into the mix and it’s a different story.”
