2024 Junior A Football Championship

[Iwonder]

Junior A weekly roundup:

Carbery: Goleen had a hugely impressive win over Ballinascarthy by 5 points, continuing their impressive rise from Junior B, Mathunas beat a relegation threatened Colums side by the same margin, while in division 2 there was wins for Marys & Kilmeen also. Tadgh Mac Carthaigh and Randal Og played out a highly entertaining draw. In the county league Argideen Rangers had a huge win as they beat Liscarroll/Churchtown Gaels to overtake them at the top of the table, Kilmacabea had a very comfortable win over Ballyhooly, thus joining the two just mentioned at the summit of the table making it 3 teams on 10 points at the top. St James lost by a goal to a talented Ballygarvan side.

Avondhu: Mallow and Killavullen played out a high scoring draw, Clyda overcame a stiff Kilshannig side to win by the minimum. In the county league it was a bad day for the Avondhu teams against the Carbery teams with Liscarroll/Churchtown being handed their first loss of the season and Ballyhooly taking another heavy beating.

Muskerry: Ballingeary beat Kilmichael by a point, Donoughmore gave Aghabullogue an awful hammering, Clondrohid were beaten well by Ballincollig and Grenagh had a vital win to beat Eire Og by the minimum. In the county league, Aghinagh got back up and running with a strong showing against Kildorrey boosting their promotion chances.

Duhallow: Knocknagree doubled Lyres score in the Ducon Cup R5, Castlemagner were well beaten by goal hungry Inniscarra.

Seandun: Passage were surprisingly well beaten by a very strong Ballyphehane side who also beat the Barrs midweek making it 2/2 in a few days, there were also wins for Douglas and Glanmire over Bishopstown and Whitechurch respectively. Mayfield worryingly had to conceed their county league game in div 6 to Canovee , Nemo also had a good win over Urhan in the county league div 7.

Imokilly: It was a great week for Carrigtwhohill who beat Middleton midweek, and then Carraig no bhFear at the weekend, Lisgoold obliterated a very weak Fr O Neils side, while Erins Own conceded to Youghal.

Carrigdhoun: Carrigaline beat Ballygarvans 2nd string, while Ballymartle had a strong showing to beat Shamrocks.

Really enjoying reading your round ups BBM, next set of games has Kilmacs vs Argideen followed by L/C gaels vs Kilmacs.

Could go along way to deciding the top two, gives Inniscarra and Ballygarvan a chance to leap frog a team or two depending on results with them also playing each other next round

Mayfield and St. Michael's are in with a big chance of being relegated to Div 7.
Aghinagh standing up well in Div 6.

 

[Boom Boom Man]

Next round will tell us a lot in regards to promotions/relegations. Another thing to note is that the county league teams are not aloud use their minors until their divisional championships, whereas the divisional teams can work away with them in the league. Tough ask for young lads to be thrown straight into the heat of adult championship.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Next round will tell us a lot in regards to promotions/relegations. Another thing to note is that the county league teams are not aloud use their minors until their divisional championships, whereas the divisional teams can work away with them in the league. Tough ask for young lads to be thrown straight into the heat of adult championship.

I heard yesterday on the radio that there is talk of a Division 8 coming in next year.
A very good idea

 

[Cork Fan00]

I heard yesterday on the radio that there is talk of a Division 8 coming in next year.
A very good idea

Would ruin the divisional setup all together imo. 6 leagues is nearly enough. The 7th division is a lot of junior a clubs who would still get stern tests in their own division.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Would ruin the divisional setup all together imo. 6 leagues is nearly enough. The 7th division is a lot of junior a clubs who would still get stern tests in their own division.

Your comment was made on the radio yesterday too. I can understand the fear of change and the fear of what will happen divisionally..
But I do think there are a couple of clearly stronger teams in each division that would benefit from better games.
Now who they are probably will be a bit more difficult under the new rules.
I think the County Junior is an unbelievable competition, 70 football and hurling teams with just 1 winner!! It’s incredible.
What I hate seeing is where a small club gets an exceptional group of players that come through and they get caught in traffic trying to get out of junior.

 

[leeside_rebel]

Presume the new Division 8 would be made up of the league winners of each division this year

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Presume the new Division 8 would be made up of the league winners of each division this year

I didn’t catch everything that was said on the radio so I don’t know.

 

[Random boi]

Presume the new Division 8 would be made up of the league winners of each division this year

Probably the league winners of all the divisions bar Imokilly, the 2 relegated teams from Division 7 and possibly the 2 county finalists to make it 10 teams.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Probably the league winners of all the divisions bar Imokilly, the 2 relegated teams from Division 7 and possibly the 2 county finalists to make it 10 teams.

The county junior champions and the winners of divisional league of the bottom team of league 7 are already promoted to Division 7 next year. So you can add 2 more teams to Div 8

 

[Come off the stage]

Probably the league winners of all the divisions bar Imokilly, the 2 relegated teams from Division 7 and possibly the 2 county finalists to make it 10 teams.

Why wouldn't the Imokilly league winners be included?