On Saturday evening Drumsurn travelled to take on Foreglen, and put in the worst performance by a Drumsurn senior team in many a year and got absolutely hammered.

The match started and was mainly in its entirety an extremely scrappy and poor game as a whole. With both sides playing poorly missing a number of chances it was not until the twelfth minute that the first score came, a neat catch and lay off from Dannie O'Connor found Ciaran Mullan who shrugged off his marker to send over a point. This however seemed to sting the home team into life as within three minutes they had reclaimed the lead with two points of their own.

Long periods elapsed between scores and it was on twenty-two minutes when the next score arrived, Drumsurn won a free kick and up stepped Ciaran Mullan who stroked the ball over the bar from all of forty yards for a brilliant example of Dead ball kicking and by far and away the best score of the match. Foreglen again hit back and two free-kicks in quick succession had them up by two heading into injury time.

A minute into first half injury time the home team extended their lead to three points but it would Ciaran Mullan who had the last word of the half as he collected the ball and turned his man with ease to slot over his and Drumsurn’s third point to give them home at the break, hope that would not materialise!

Half time Foreglen 0-5 Drumsurn 0-3

The second half began in much the same manner as the first, scrappy and drawn out no sign of a score coming anywhere, that was until the thirty-fifth minute when a high free into the Drumsurn area caused confusion and the Foreglen forward was in acres of space to flick the ball past the helpless Steven Harbinson for the goal. Drumsurn went straight up the field on the counter and worked an excellent chance with the ball falling at the feet of Dean O'Neill literally on the goal line (well two feet away) to poke home and he managed to miss a sitter and screwed the ball wide, how?? No one knows.

Foreglen were in relentless mood and four points in as many minutes had them in front by nine points with only ten minutes of the half gone. Then the floodgates well and truly opened! Goals in the forty-third and forty-fifth minutes just added to Drumsurn's misery and pro-longed the suffering. Drumsurn actually did get a score on forty-six minutes Danny O'Connor worked an opening for himself and his efforts were rewarded with a point. On fifty minutes Mark McLaughlin added a fifth and final point of the game for Drumsurn from a very tight angle a well taken score.

The scoring may have finished for Drumsurn but not for the home team as on fifty-four minutes the made their way through a very lacklustre Drumsurn defence who had long given up the ghost and it actually seemed didn’t care and had stopped trying, getting back to the game, this Foreglen effort resulted in their fourth goal of the game and two minutes from time the home team got the last score of the game with their tenth point.

An extremely poor game ......

In actual fact it was a shambles of a second half. Two points down at half time and to loose by seventeen points, what the hell happened boys!??!

A lot of players on that pitch have to take a long hard look at themselves and sort this season out before an excellent start turns pair shaped and another silly relegation could be looming on the horizon, that said their are a number of players carrying this team but they cant do it all its time every man steps up to the mark and bring the team the success it craves and badly needs. This season has potential don’t let it slip away!

Team
Steven Harbinson, Michael Archibald, Christopher Harbinson, Barry Moore; Conall Chivers, Colm Feeney, Paul Butcher; Michael Coll, Cahir Mullan; Eamon Ferris, Dean O'Neill, Ciaran Mullan (0-3); Danny O'Connor (0-1), Pearse McNickle, Ciaran Ferris.

Subs
Mark McLaughlin (0-1), Kevin Friel, Ronan McNickle and Craig Chewing