Thursday, 22nd February 2018
sport@eastcorkjournal.ie East Cork Soccer Notes Cobh Ramblers Begin New Season With Trip To Longford
by JORDAN MCCARTHY
Cobh Ramblers get
their new SSE Airtrici- ty League First Division campaign underway with a trip away to Long- ford Town on Saturday night (KO 7.30 pm). The Rams, head into
the new season with hopes of claiming a cov- eted play-off position at
the end of the cam- paign. Having enjoyed
a promising 2017, where they finished runners-up behind First
Division
champions Waterford FC, Stephen Hender- son’s men will be hoping to make a positive start to 2018, when they go up against Neale Fenn’s Longford Town, at
enjoyed
a positive end to their campaign in 2017, put- ting a run together which
the
City Calling Stadium, this weekend. Longford
took them up to fifth in the table and to the FAI Cup quarter finals. Like Cobh, they will have as- pirations of achieving a play-off spot – although this season’s race for pro- motion is set to be one of the hottest ever with Gal- way United, Finn Harps and Drogheda
United
joining Cobh, Longford, Cabinteely, UCD, Wex- ford,
Shelbourne and
Athlone Town in the First Division.
Speaking to the East
Cork Journal recent- ly, Cobh boss Stephen Henderson said; ‘‘it’s going to be very compet- itive and very exciting. It could go all the way down to the wire – every team in it will feel they have at least a chance of a play-off. I think there are five or six teams that have the resources to win the league. The (level of) budgets that we are up against is madness. So,
Corkbeg Reports
foraging for tickets. It all takes place in
by PAUL O’RILEY
Corkbeg 50th Anniversary Dinner Dance We are having a big shindig in Midleton Park Hotel to celebrate our 50th
birthday in April
and we’d like you to join us. There’ll be plenty of special guests present on the night, including FAI Director John Del- aney and lots of partying and dancing until the early hours. We’re call- ing on current players, all ex-players, support- ers, schoolboys parents, coaches and anyone who has been involved with the club over the years to come along and celebrate with us. We expect the tickets for this big party to sell out fairly quickly, so if you intend on going, you will need to get busy
Midleton Park Hotel on Saturday 21st
of April at
7pm. Music is by The Laughing Shamrocks and John Cody on DJ duty immediately afterwards. Tickets for the
night,
which includes a 3-course meal, are priced 35 euros each and are available only from Pakie O’Sul- livan (0873903800) and Ian Casey (0831404076).
CORKBEG FANTASY CHELTENHAM RETURNS – 10,000 euros in cash prizes
March) As part of our ongo- ing fundraising drive to raise money to extend and improve our current All-Weather surface at
Corkbeg AFC presents ‘’Fantasy Cheltenham’’ (13th 16th
-
our grounds in White- gate, we are holding a fantasy league tition for the
compe- upcom-
ing Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival. It’s a very similar competition to the Fantasy Premier League competition that many of you will be very familiar with, except it’s for horse-racing, not football. But the format means
that non-racing
fans will have as good a chance as racing fanatics. We ran this competition last year and it proved very popular and very successful. The overall 1st is 2000 euros. 2nd gets 1000 euros. 3rd
place wins 200 eu-
ros. There are also daily prizes of 500 euros, 300 euros and 200 euros. The winner of Cork-
begs own private fantasy league will win a food hamper from Super Valu
in Midleton. How to play: 1. Select one horse per
race from the first 4 races each day 2. Pick your horse
number and have your Corkbeg AFC code ready 3. Enter your selection
by phone, text, email or enter online BEFORE 12 noon on the day of the races. Points are scored ac- to where your
cording
horse finishes and a league
table is tallied
from the results. Scoring is as follows: 1. First Place: 21 points 2. Second Place: 11
points 3. Third Place: 5 points 4. Fourth Place: 3
prize place place
wins 500 euros and final- ly, 4th
points There are DOUBLE
POINTS for the first race each day and all results will appear on the web- site
fantasycheltenham.ie Tickets are 20 eu- ros, which works
out
at 5 euros per day and they
are onsale our committee from mem-
bers: Jim Reaney, Shaun Land, Terry Dunne, Paul O’Reilly, John O’Regan, Deccie
O’Shea, Ronan Forde, Willie
Crowley, Willis Maguire, John
Bennett, Ian Casey, Fred Wenham and Pakie O’Sullivan. Or just ask any Corkbeg players or members and we’ll see you right. You can only enter the
competition
by procuring a Corkbeg ticket with your unique code. For more details, check out fantasychelten-
ham.ie or message our
@eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal eastcorkjournal
for us, I think if we were to make the play-offs this year, it would probably be the best achievement Cobh
has had, since
they came back into the league. It would be re- markable.’’ After this weekend’s
opening assignment, the east Cork side will turn their attention to Sat- urday 3rd
March, when
they play host to Gal- way United, for their first home league game
of the season, at St Col- man’s Park (KO 7.45 pm).
Meanwhile, Cork City and newly promoted Waterford FC meet
in
the Munster Derby at Turner’s Cross this Fri- day night (KO 7.45 pm). The Rebel Army won their opening league fix- ture 3-2, in a five-goal thriller against St Pat’s, last weekend. Waterford, meanwhile, also got off to a winning start, as
they secured a 2-1 win over Derry City at
RSC. The
First Division
champions are taken to make a significant im- pact in this year’s Pre- mier Division and they should provide City with a stern test, when the sides meet
tomorrow.
On the other hand, John Caulfield’s men look to have the strongest squad in the league and will be a tough side to crack.
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Facebook page.
Flashback photo Due to editorial vaca-
tion, we missed out on our weekly photo from the past last week. So this weeks photo from the archives is from the real- ly early days, with many local heroes in the pic- ture. See if you can spot a young Kieran Higgins,
Sean Lee (RIP), Tom Scanlon, Jim Geeleher and John McCann. And there’s a famous East Cork refereeing legend also
pictured....can an- yone spot Sean Barry?? Looks like they were still the original Corkbeg jer- seys, so we’re thinking it could be around 1973- 1974.
FAI Summer Camp - Corkbeg Date
Important
commencing 09th
note for
parents and participants 2018 camp is on week Monday
to Friday the 13th
July running through .
Camp booking will be opening up online shortly
Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email:
sport@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web:
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