Hitting a hard-to-believe 3-20 without reply, with the benefit of the strong wind at their backs, Austin Stacks were home and dry by half-time of this almost farcical Kerry SFC game against Milltown\/Castlemaine at Austin Stack Park.<\/p>\n
When Brendan Casey fired over a fine point from play in the seventh minute, the Mid Kerry side were just a point adrift of their opponents (0-3 to 0-2), and there was the possibility of a real contest breaking out in this meeting of the last two intermediate winners.<\/p>\n
That hope didn\u2019t last long. With the elements making it almost impossible for Milltown\/Castlemaine to get out of their own half and, with the Rock Street men generally razor-sharp in their shot execution, the scores piled up for Austin Stacks.<\/p>\n
Kerry star Joe O\u2019Connor and, especially, exciting prospect Ben Murphy, were in control of the midfield sector and, as a result, the shooting opportunities were plentiful for the likes of Cian Purcell, Daniel Kirby, Paddy Lane and Jordan Kissane.<\/p>\n
By the end of the first quarter, even after orange flags from O\u2019Connor and Kirby, the lead for Austin Stacks wasn\u2019t anything out of the ordinary (0-9 to 0-2), but the rest of the half was an unmitigated disaster for Milltown\/Castlemaine.<\/p>\n
The first Austin Stacks goal arrived in the 17th minute after a swift move involving Purcell and Ronan Shanahan ended with Lane fisting off the crossbar, and the lively Purcell was first to react in bundling the rebound into the net.<\/p>\n
Green flag number two would be soon on the way. Indeed, the Tralee club only had to wait five minutes, with Purcell embarking on a penetrating run in along the right wing, and when his progress was brought to a halt, Lane tapped home with consummate ease.<\/p>\n
By the 24th minute, when the impressive Murphy affected a turnover, setting in motion an attack that culminated in the inter-county U20 star expertly assisting defender Niall Fitzmaurice for a punched finish at the back post, the Stacks\u2019 runaway train was unstoppable.<\/p>\n
Heading out on the resumption a mammoth 30 points behind (3-23 to 0-2), Milltown\/Castlemaine attempted to restore some semblance of pride. Pa Wren, David Roche and Dara Hogan kept plugging away, while Eanna O\u2019Connor was sharp from placed balls.<\/p>\n
The losers did manage to win the second half (0-15 to 1-6), but that was scant consolation by the final whistle. Austin Stacks sauntered home with a massive amount to spare, with substitute Jack Murphy slotting home their fourth goal in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Austin Stacks: P Lane 1-6 (1tpf, 1tp, 0-1f), J Kissane 0-7 (3tp), D Kirby 0-5 (2tp), C Purcell 1-2 (0-1f), N Fitzmaurice, J Murphy 1-0 each, A Heinrich 0-3 (1tp), J O\u2019Connor 0-2 (tp), B Murphy, E Carroll, M Tansley (f), R Shanahan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Milltown\/Castlemaine: E O\u2019Connor 0-10 (0-4fs, 3tpf), D Hogan 0-3 (0-1f, 1tp), B Casey 0-2 (0-1f), P Wren, G Horan 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n AUSTIN STACKS: M Tansley; C Griffin, L Casey, N Fitzmaurice; E Carroll, A Heinrich, R Shanahan; J O\u2019Connor, B Murphy; C Horan, D Kirby, M O\u2019Donnell; J Kissane, C Purcell, P Lane.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C Browne for Murphy (44), G Horan for C Horan (44), J Murphy for Lane (50), B O\u2019Sullivan for O\u2019Donnell (50), J Nagle for Fitzmaurice (55).<\/p>\n
\n MILLTOWN\/CASTLEMAINE: C Leane; A Dinham, P Wren, S Roche; A Kelliher, D Roche, J O\u2019Connor; M Lynch, D Dennehy; D Quirke, B Casey, D O\u2019Neill; D Hogan, E O\u2019Connor, C Moriarty.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: G Horan for Lynch (ht), K Kerins for Quirke (40), C O\u2019Connor for Dennehy (42), K O\u2019Carroll for S Roche (44), S Hogan for O\u2019Neill (50).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: E Moriarty (Dingle).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hitting a hard-to-believe 3-20 without reply, with the benefit of the strong wind at their backs, Austin Stacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,22,129,19,17,119,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-103715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-hurling","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}