St. Thomas’    1-19    

Cappataggle   0-16

Kevin Egan at Kenny Park

AFTER five years of one-score defeats in crucial knockout championship games – four successive semi-finals and then last year’s quarter-final loss to Gort – the pre-match talk suggested that Cappataggle had just sustained too many heartbreaking defeats, that they have too many miles on the clock, and that the East Galway side had missed their window of opportunity to finally reach a first ever Galway senior hurling final.

Usually an introduction like that precedes a story about how the plucky underdogs rolled back the years and produced a performance for the ages, ending in either a fairytale finale or else agonising heartbreak, worthy of a blockbuster Hollywood movie.

Sadly for followers of the Cappy club, not this time. Last Saturday in Athenry, Michael Broderick’s men were a pale shadow of the outfit that has been so consistently competitive since the middle of the last decade. While one 60-minute performance is far too small a sample size from which one could legitimately draw any dramatic conclusions, it does appear at first glance as if this year’s promising crop of U20s, led by Liam Collins and Oisín Finn, just came along a couple of years too late for the club to make history in the manner in which they desired.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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