Month: September 2021

ADELAIDE CROWS PLAYER Ebony Marinoff has been suspended for three weeks for the tackle in a practice game on Sunday that left Cork All-Ireland winner Brid Stack with a neck fracture.

Stack, who was making her Aussie Rules debut for GWS Giants, is ‘expected to make a full recovery’ after sustaining the worrying injury and has been released from hospital.

Marinoff has been handed a record ban for the AFLW after being charged with ‘forceful front-on contact’ – graded careless, severe impact and high contact. In the previous four seasons of the competition, no player had been suspended for more than two matches.

The incident occurred in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game and the case had been referred directly to the Tribunal.

Ebony Marinoff has been found guilty of engaging in forceful front-on contact at the AFL Tribunal tonight and has been suspended for three matches. Below is the incident in question, more to come #weflyasone #crowsaflw pic.twitter.com/3FDLg1kXmQ

— Adelaide Crows AFLW (@CrowsAFLW) January 19, 2021

JUST IN | Ebony Marinoff has been found guilty of forceful front-on contact late in the Crows' practice match on Sunday: https://t.co/8sNwXckpXB pic.twitter.com/ICtmVMTeAR

— AFL Women's (@aflwomens) January 19, 2021

Marinoff was unable to accept an early guilty plea as a result of the incident being referred to the Tribunal. She pleaded not guilty with the reasons outlined on the report on the AFLW website:

• She was contesting the football, which had changed direction, and only saw Stack a split-second before contact was made.

• She did not have a viable alternative given the incident happened in the space of a few seconds.

• Simultaneous contact from Alyce Parker on Marinoff’s left (and Parker’s boot in front of her own) caused her to make contact with Stack’s head on Marinoff’s right.

The AFL’s counsel, Andrew Woods, argued it was front-on contact rather than from the side, that Stack was in a vulnerable position and Marinoff should have slowed or stopped before tackling the player. 

The jury took around 45 minutes before handing out the suspension to Marinoff which will see her miss three games of the nine-week AFLW season.

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CAVAN LADIES FOOTBALL legend Aisling Doonan (Maguire) has announced her retirement from inter-county football after a remarkable 19 seasons.

The Ladies Gaelic Football Association [LGFA] released a statement this afternoon confirming the news, and paying tribute to “one of the most naturally gifted forwards to grace our playing fields in recent times”.

Doonan, 33, finishes up as an All-Ireland intermediate champion — she was named Player of the Match in that 2013 Croke Park decider — a five-time All-Star nominee, and a seven-time Team of the League award recipient.

Having made her senior inter-county debut in 2002, the long-serving Templeport star was captain of the Breffni team that lost out to Westmeath in the 2011 All-Ireland intermediate final after a replay.

Two years later, she again starred along the journey and scored 0-4 against Tipperary in a stunning final performance as Cavan lifted the Mary Quinn Memorial Cup.

A central figure for the county for so long, whose lethal left boot caused serious damage, Doonan was named on the Division 2 National League Team of the Year four years in-a-row from 2015 to 2018, adding to her previous honours at that level in ’11 and ’10 and Division 3 recognition in ’1o.

The Doonan Dummy! To mark Aisling’s retirement today from inter-county @LadiesFootball here's a few of her trademark classic scores from my archives, for @CavanLGFA against Laois in 2017. One off the left, one off the right.. pic.twitter.com/hlNRttL39t

— Jerome Quinn (@JeromeQuinn) January 19, 2021

She also bows out with three Ulster intermediate crowns, a Division 3 league title from 2010 and several interprovincial medals with Ulster.  

“The time is right to call time on my inter-county career with Cavan,” Doonan said, having last donned the blue jersey in the 2020 National League after an injury sustained on the club scene ruled her out of last year’s championship.

I’ve enjoyed some terrific days and there are memories banked to last a lifetime.

“It’s been an incredible journey and I’d like to wish our new county team manager Gerry Moane and all of the girls the very best for the 2021 season.”

Doonan will continue to play club football with her beloved Templeport, and is based in Cavan working as a sports development officer with Cavan Sports Partnership after a three-year stint as a staff member with the LGFA.

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Dublin ladies manager Mick Bohan.

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DUBLIN’S ALL-IRELAND FOUR-IN-A-ROW winning boss Mick Bohan is staying at the helm for the 2021 season.

“Dublin LGFA club delegates this evening have ratified Mick Bohan as the Dublin senior manager for the 2021 season,” the county wrote on Twitter this evening.

“Bohan took on the Dublin job for a second term in January 2017, since then he has led Dublin to four All Irelands, three Leinster titles and one NFL.”

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Dublin LGFA club delegates this evening have ratified Mick Bohan as the Dublin senior manager for the 2021 season.

Bohan took on the Dublin job for a 2nd term in Jan 2017, since then he has lead Dublin to 4 All Ireland’s, 3 Leinster titles & 1 NFL #UpTheDubs pic.twitter.com/gYPuwEPirI

— DublinLGFA (@dublinladiesg) January 19, 2021

Bohan first took the reins in December 2016 and has done a stellar job since, guiding the side to a clean sweep of All-Ireland and Leinster titles; the four-in-a-row delivered in December’s decider win over Cork at Croke Park.

Before the Clontarf clubman took charge, Dublin had suffered three All-Ireland final defeats in-a-row to Cork, each by the narrowest of margins. They haven’t looked back since, building on the soild foundations laid by Gregory McGonigle and bringing the game of ladies fooball to another level.

While unbeaten in championship action in his 21 games in charge, Bohan also steered the Jackies to their first-ever Division 1 league crown in 2018.

This, many often forget, is his second stint at the Sky Blues helm. Bohan guided Dublin to an All-Ireland final appearance in 2003, where they were beaten by Mayo.

Before coming back for a second bite at the cherry, Bohan compiled an impressive coaching CV and garnered plenty of experience, mainly in the men’s game.

A PE Teacher by trade, he previously worked as skills coach alongside Jim Gavin when Dublin All-Ireland wins were achieved at U21 level in 2010 and 2012, and then with the seniors in 2013.

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Celebrating after the 2020 All-Ireland final.

Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO

He contributed to DCU Sigerson Cup victories, and has enjoyed spells with Dublin clubs Lucan Sarsfields, Thomas Davis and his home outfit of Clontarf. He worked as a coach to the Clare senior footballers in 2016, alongside Colm Collins.

The future of many of his players — including four-in-a-row captain Sinéad Aherne who played under Bohan in ’03, and other long-serving stalwarts like Lyndsey Davey and Siobhán McGrath — is unclear as of yet, though it’s widely expected they’ll return for the Drive For Five. The side will also contest the Leinster championship once again following Meath’s promotion to the senior ranks.

Their Aussie Rules trio of Sinéad Goldrick, Niamh McEvoy and Lauren Magee are currently quarantining before linking up with their Melbourne side ahead of the 2021 AFLW season.

The42 understands that Cork boss Ephie Fitzgerald is continuing in his role, while there are vacancies to be filled in Mayo and Galway currently following the respective departures of Peter Leahy and Tim Rabbitt.

• ‘Everyone starts from scratch’ – managerial changes aplenty as 2021 season takes shape

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AUSSIE RULES SIDE Adelaide Crows are to appeal the three-match ban handed out following a tackle that left All-Ireland winner Bríd Stack hospitalised with a serious neck injury.

Crows midfielder Ebony Marinoff was hit with the suspension — the longest in AFLW’s short history — for making forceful front-on contact on Stack during a pre-season game against GWS Giants.

The final minutes of Sunday’s match were abandoned while Stack was taken to hospital to treat a stable fracture of the C7 vertebra, from which she is expected to make a full recovery.

If upheld, Marinoff’s ban will see her miss one third of the nine-game season which begins on 28 January.

Ebony Marinoff has been found guilty of engaging in forceful front-on contact at the AFL Tribunal tonight and has been suspended for three matches. Below is the incident in question, more to come #weflyasone #crowsaflw pic.twitter.com/3FDLg1kXmQ

— Adelaide Crows AFLW (@CrowsAFLW) January 19, 2021

“We are appealing this decision because we all feel that the suspension is grossly disproportionate for the action,” Crows Head of Women’s Football Phil Harper said

“We need to support our player in this instance as we feel Ebony acted in an appropriate manner given the circumstances of this incident.

“We also feel for the Giants and Bríd in particular and wish her all the best for what is hopefully a speedy recovery.”

Crows senior coach Matthew Clarke described the collision between Marinoff and Stack as “an unavoidable footy collision”.

“With regard to the penalty, as coaches and administrators we have a duty of care to our players and Ebony and all other AFLW players train incredibly hard for nine months for the opportunity to play just nine games.

“We feel it is unjust and disproportionate to have one third of those games taken away by what I believe to be an unavoidable incident.

“We believe it’s important to not only support our players, but to question an outcome which we see as placing an unreasonable expectation on all players to avoid contact in circumstances where the ball is in dispute.”

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GALWAY HAVE BEEN rewarded for their All-Ireland final success last month with six players on the EirGrid 20 U20 football team.

A 1-11 to 0-13 success over Dublin in Croke Park delivered glory for Galway in December and six of their players have bagged individual awards in Conor Flaherty, Jack Glynn, Conor Raftery, Paul Kelly, Matthew Tierney and Tommo Culhane.

Glynn, the captain of the victorious team, has been named Player of the Year after his 2020 performances while their boss Donal  Ó Fátharta has won the Manager of the Year award.

Beaten finalists Dublin have four players recognised in Lee Gannon, Mark Lavin, Lorcan O’Dell and Ciarán Archer while Ulster champions Tyrone have the same number of representatives in Darragh Canavan, Cormac Munroe, Ethan Jordan and Tiernan Quinn.

Kerry trio Sean O’Brien, Dan McCarthy and Ruairí Ó Beaglaoich have been honoured with Cork’s Blake Murphy, Donegal’s Aaron Doherty and Laois player Ronan Coffey complete the list.

EirGrid 20 U20s

• Conor Flaherty (Galway)
• Jack Glynn (Galway)
• Conor Raftery (Galway)
• Paul Kelly (Galway)
• Matthew Tierney (Galway)
• Tomo Culhane (Galway)
• Lee Gannon (Dublin)
• Mark Lavin (Dublin)
• Lorcan O’Dell (Dublin)
• Ciaran Archer (Dublin)
• Darragh Canavan (Tyrone)
• Cormac Munroe (Tyrone)
• Ethan Jordan (Tyrone)
• Tiernan Quinn (Tyrone)
• Sean O’Brien (Kerry)
• Dan McCarthy (Kerry)
• Ruairi Ó Beaglaoich (Kerry)
• Blake Murphy (Cork)
• Aaron Doherty (Donegal)
• Ronan Coffey (Laois)

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CONOR PHELAN HAS been added to Brian Cody’s Kilkenny senior hurling management team for the 2021 season.

The Clara man won an All-Ireland senior medal under Cody as a player in 2003, coming on as a substitute in the final win over Cork.

He also featured in the following year’s senior decider when Kilkenny lost to Cork while the forward had been part of All-Ireland U21 winning successes in both of those seasons of 2003 and 2004.

Kilkenny GAA wishes to announce that Conor Phelan of @ClaraGAA will be joining the Kilkenny senior hurling management team for the 2021 season.

— Kilkenny GAA (@KilkennyCLG) January 20, 2021

He was forced to bring his inter-county senior career to a close in 2005 due to a heart problem but remarkably was able to return to play hurling as he helped Kilkenny lift the All-Ireland intermediate crown in 2008 and his club Clara end their 27-year wait for county senior hurling glory in 2013.

In recent years Phelan, a former Gaelic Games development officer in Waterford IT, has been involved in coaching with his club and helped out with Ireland shinty teams.

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In 2016 he was a selector with the Kilkenny senior camogie team that captured their first All-Ireland final success in 22 years.

Phelan will work under Cody, who is at the helm for a 23rd season with Kilkenny, and alongside a management team that also includes selectors James McGarry and Martin Comerford, and S&C coach Michael Comerford.

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AFLW PLAYER BRÍD Stack has revealed she is ‘devastated’ about the injury she suffered in a practice game in Adelaide on Sunday but is counting her blessings that it was not more severe.

The Cork All-Ireland winner was making her debut for the GWS Giants in a pre-season encounter when she suffered ‘a stable fracture of the C7 vertebra’ but is expected to make a full recovery and has been released from hospital.

She tweeted and posted on Instagram today an update on her recovery while thanking her GWS Giants team-mates and coaching staff, and ‘the exemplary care’ she had received from medical staff.

Devastated but counting my blessings. Looking forward to rehab once cleared to do so. For now, hup the drugs 🙌 Thanks for all the lovely messages, to all involved with @GWSGIANTS, to the exemplary healthcare staff in Adelaide & to a little man whose hugs make everything better🧡 pic.twitter.com/E5AFQm2mbw

— Bríd Stack (@BridStackie) January 20, 2021

In her post, Stack wrote:

“Neck brace fitted on Sunday and I haven’t looked back since!!!

“Devastated to have sustained such an injury but I’m counting my blessings that it wasn’t a different outcome. Positive pants are on and looking forward to starting rehab once given the all clear to do so. For now, the drugs are outstanding

“Thanks for all the lovely messages over the last few days from home and away. It has meant so much to me and my family

“A massive thank you to my @gwsgiants management team and teammates especially @corastaunton and @keanecarthach for their amazing support over a very tough few days. The Australian healthcare system has been second to none and I’m so thankful for the exemplary care I have received. Special mention must go to a little man whose hugs make everything better

“Bring on the season ahead..Go Giants.”

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THIS WEEK’S GUEST on How To Win At Dominoes, The42′s coaching podcast with Shane Keegan, is Cork U20 football boss Keith Ricken.

After watching Ricken give a presentation at the GAA’s 2020 Coaching Conference, Keegan describes him as “one of the most captivating coaches I’ve ever encountered.”

The man who led Cork U20 footballers to the All-Ireland title in 2019 has also been involved in the club hurling scene with Carrigtwohill in recent years.

Ricken has a refreshing attitude to coaching, where he takes a player-centred approach.

“Don’t be caught up too much in science or lecturing when you’re on the sideline or in the dressing room,” he tells Shane of his philosophy.

“Learning becomes a barrier, you know like when you’re in school it’s a good teacher that can break down the barrier because automatically you sit at the desk and before you take out your books you put up the barrier: ‘Jeez, I could be listening to this one now for the next hour’.

“But when you come into a dressing room, you’re dropping down the barrier. Out onto the pitch, you’re dropping down the barrier and that’s where you’re receptive. I think it’s a great chance to influence people.

“Structure and too much structure frightens me. I envy people who have great routines…I would be the complete opposite. I find that the more that you know, the more you want to tell people what you know.”

Ricken goes on to tell a story about an occasion when too much focus was put into the scientific side of the game.

“I was at a match and a particular guy who is senior inter-county, he has two All-Ireland medals, was on the team,” he says.

“It was a colleges match. They had GPS units on all the lads. And yer man’s GPS was barely…actually if you were watching it you’d nearly say he was nearly flatlined, that they’d nearly have to bring in the machine to give him an aul jump start.

“The fella on the other wing was after picking up about 9km, he was breaking his hole. This is at half-time and [the manager was saying], ‘He’s after covering nearly 9km and this fella, look, jaysus, he’s not even breaking a sweat. We have to take him off to show him he’s not working.’

“I wasn’t involved with the team now but I just made a point to the lads. ‘It’s nothing to do with me,’ I said, ‘but he has 1-8 scored and yer man [on the other wing] has three points.’

“I just made the observation that he got 1-8. So if he does nothing for the second-half that’s 2-16 [he’ll have scored]. That’s a fair good return for me.”

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EBONY MARINOFF’S APPEAL to have her three-game AFLW suspension overturned has taken another twist after fresh video evidence was introduced by Adelaide Crows, which saw the case adjourned until Thursday, 28 January.

Marinoff was slapped with the longest ban in league history after her frontal tackle on Stack forced the Cork native to depart the action after a lengthy delay.

She was later diagnosed with a fractured C7 vertebra and has been ruled out for the remainder of her debut season in the AFLW. 

But Marinoff herself watched back the pre-season game and discovered footage prior to the collision where Stack was bumped by a number of Crows players over the sideline towards an advertising hoarding. 

“It was difficult to tell how many bumped her over the line, and the angle of the shot did not show her hitting the hoarding, obscured by the interchange bench,” the AFLW reported of the footage.

The Crow’s counsel Sam Abbott presented the clip at the hearing on the basis that Stack’s injury may have occurred earlier in the game. 

Appeal chairman David Jones questioned why Adelaide did not find the footage earlier. He then adjourned the appeal in order to give the board and AFL counsel, Nick Pane, time to review the evidence.

“I don’t think this case can be heard tonight,” Jones said.

“I’m not comfortable proceeding with this case at the moment. The last thing I want to do is deny the player an opportunity to put together a case.”

The Cork All-Ireland winner made her first public statement since the injury yesterday and she is expected to make a full recovery.

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SIX OF THE country’s top stars are in the running for the the 2020 RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year award, with the nominees revealed this afternoon.

Katie Taylor and Sam Bennett are among the contenders.

Source: Inpho Sports.

Katie Taylor, Sam Bennett, Ciarán Kilkenny, Gearóid Hegarty, Sanita Puspure and Colin Keane are all nominated for the prestigious award, the winner who will be revealed at the end of the month following in the footsteps of 2019 champion Shane Lowry.

The 2020 RTÉ Sport Awards will take place on Thursday, 28 January, and will be broadcast on RTÉ One and presented by Joanne Cantwell and Darragh Maloney.

Taylor and Bennett are among the frontrunners, after glittering individual years. Taylor successfully defend her undisputed lightweight belts, triumphed in the long-awaited Delfine Persoon rematch and was named Ring Magazine’s ‘Female Fighter of the Year’ for the second year in succession. Bennett became the first Irish rider since 1989 to win the green jersey at the Tour de France, doing so in style as he took the final stage.

The other nominees also enjoyed outstanding individual success in an unprecedented year, in which sport took a serious hit. Puspure — Irish Sportswoman of the Year in 2019 — claimed gold at the European Rowing Championships, adding to her laden medal cabinet, while Keane was crowned Ireland’s champion flat jockey for the second time.

Six-in-a-row All-Ireland champions Dublin are recognised through Kilkenny’s nomination, with the Castleknock star also in the running for Footballer of the Year. Likewise, Limerick ace Gearóid Hegarty is the hurler to get the nod, though there’s no room for a ladies football or camogie nominee. Soccer, rugby, golf and athletics representatives are also absent from the condensed list of contenders.

The nominees for RTÉ Sport Young Sportsperson of the Year, RTÉ Sport Manager of the Year and RTÉ Sport Team of the Year will be announced in the coming days. 

You can read RTÉ’s bios on the nominees (in alphabetical order) below, and vote in our poll.

The contenders for the RTE Sport 2020 Sportsperson of the Year award have been revealed.

🏆 Ciarán Kilkenny

🏆 Colin Keane

🏆 Gearóid Hegarty

🏆 Katie Taylor

🏆 Sam Bennett

🏆 Sanita Puspure

Find out the winner on Thursday 28 January on @rteonehttps://t.co/XXSqGsrsaJ pic.twitter.com/7mIXxuaWvA

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) January 21, 2021

CIARÁN KILKENNY

27-year-old Kilkenny had a stand-out Football Championship campaign, in a Dublin side full of talent. As the Dubs claimed a historic 6-in-a-row, the Castleknock man showed his attacking prowess, scoring 1-20 in five games, all from play, and was named the ‘Sunday Game Footballer of the Year’.

COLIN KEANE

The Co. Meath man was crowned Ireland’s champion flat jockey for a second time, claiming two classic victories on the way, winning the Irish Oaks and Irish 2,000 Guineas, whilst topping off the season a with Breeders’ cup win on-board Tarnawa.

GEARÓID HEGARTY

Limerick wing-forward Gearóid Hegarty topped off a standout Hurling Championship campaign by being named Man of the Match in their All-Ireland Final win over Waterford. The St Patrick’s clubman was in scintillating form all year, and hit seven points from play in the final to help Limerick secure their second title in three years. He was also named ‘Sunday Game Hurler of the Year’.

KATIE TAYLOR

Taylor put on a boxing masterclass to successfully defend her undisputed lightweight belts against challenger Miriam Gutierrez, inflicting a first professional defeat on the Spaniard. In August, the Bray boxer defeated her nemesis Delfine Persoon in a gruelling rematch. Taylor finished the year being named Ring Magazine’s ‘Female Fighter of the Year’ for the second year in succession.

SAM BENNETT

The Carrick-on-Suir rider claimed the green jersey in style at the Tour de France, winning the final stage at the Champs-Élysées, and becoming the first Irish rider since 1989 to win the famous jersey.

SANITA PUSPURE

The 38-year-old rower successfully defended her women’s single sculls title at the European Rowing Championships in Poland, adding a further gold medal to her two world titles at the grade.

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