Trim 2-14
St Michaels 0-6.

Trim intermediate footballers, having shipped two heavy defeats in the last two rounds of the Meath All County A League consolidated their place in the top half of the table with an emphatic victory over North Meath intermediate side St Michaels by fourteen points. Seething from their recent defeats, Trim were in a mean mood and even against the strong wind in the first half went six points to two up mid way through the first half. The Michaels pulled two points back but the home side hit a goal and a point just before half time to go in six points the better. The second half was a one sided affair. The wind assisted Trim side plain sailed through, scoring points freely, ten points in total to St Michaels two.
The visitors won the toss and elected to play with the wind into the town goals. They availed of the conditions early on and raced into a two point lead with only six minutes gone. The home side stemmed the flow when their full back line of Colm Flaherty, Robert Brennan and Maurice Power began to boss their direct opponents and winning most of the long balls thrown in at them. This set up a platform for Trim to build attacks from the back. They started to play some smart football, holding possession, keeping the passes low and short and were rewarded with three points and then a goal in a seven minute period half way through the half. The first two points came from James Toher's 'dead ball' frees. He was on target again from play some minutes later when he received the rebound when Eoin McGrath missed a sitter of a goal from the edge of the square. The goal came after some forceful defending in their full back line when Trim again worked the ball up the field where midfielder Frankie Murphy found Paul Gilsenan with a pass which enabled the speedy forward to scythe up along the left wing and rifle the leather to the net for an excellent major. St Michaels came back with two points in the twenty second and twenty fifth minute but Eoin Mcgrath hit Trim's second goal one minute later after some good build-up from Damien McGee and Paul Gilsenan. At the end of the half Damien McGee swept up the breaking ball at midfield, passed to Frankie Murphy who found Ronan Fitzsimons attacking up the left wing. The half back made no mistake with the strike. Half time score Trim 2-4, St Michaels 0-4.

Given Trim's performance in the first half it was inevitable that they would gain the ascendency with the wind assistance in the second half and they did not disappoint. In the first ten minutes of the half they had clocked up four unanswered points to go ten points up. The first point was a gem with Maurice Power winning possession on the edge of his square. He found James Toher with a long pass to the middle of the field. Toher, with his trusty left foot found corner forward Paul Gilsenan with a sixty metre pass who then fired over the point. Toher was on hand for the second when he planted a free kick. The Gilsenan brothers, Mark and Paul manufactured the third point with the latter scoring again after good work from Eoin McGrath on the right wing. James Toher scored the fourth with a fifty meter free from near the sideline. St Michaels got their first point of the half in the twelfth minute but Michael Lowther and Damien McGee responded for Trim shortly afterwards with two points. St Michaels hit their last and sixth point of the game in the sixteenth minute but the home side kept on pressing and hit four points in the final ten minutes, three from Michael Lowther and one from Paul Gilsenan to leave a fourteen point gap at the end.

The Trim team was: Garret White, Colm O'Flaherty, Robbie Brennan, Maurice Power, Ronan Fitzsimmons, Stephen Farrell, Darryl Phelan , Frankie Murphy, James Toher, Shane Kennedy, Michael Lowther, Mark Gilsenan, Damien McGee, Eoin McGrath, and Paul Gilsenan.

The Trim subs were: Gary Clarke, Sean McGee, Shane Downes, Keith Hamilton, Sean Fitzerald.

The Trim scorers were: Michael Lowther 0-5, James Toher 0-4, Paul Gilsenan 1-3, Eoin McGrath 1-0, Damien McGee 0-1, Ronan Fitzsimons 0-1.

ST. MICHAELS: Paul McCormack, Patrick Clarke, Philip Rogers, Sam Briody, Sean Gaffney, James Farrell, Robert Briody, Felim O'Reilly, Brendan Ryan, Ronan Cassidy, Daithí Reilly 0-1, David Lynch 0-2, Kevin Cassidy 0-2, Ben Farrell 0-1, Peter O'Connell. SUBS….Jamie Farrelly for David Lynch, Paddy Murray for Peter O'Connell, Martin Dawson for Patrick Clarke. Tweet

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