Club Notes 27/1/15

Monaghan GAA Northern Standard Awards Night Congratulations to both David Millar and the Scór na nÓg Instrumental Group who picked up awards at the Hillgrove Hotel last Saturday night the 24th of January. Also congratulation to Owenie Sullivan who picked up a special merit award and the Wylie Brothers Drew and Ryan who were awarded the Senior County and Young Footballer of the year respectively. Finally Eamon Mc Aleer was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Well done one and all.

Leagues Start –  As the Senior Footballers commence their training  it has been announced that the RFL will start on Sunday 8th of March with the IFL beginning on  the 22nd of March.

Championship Draw – last Monday night the 26th of January we drew Carrickmacross Emmetts  in the 1st round of the championship which will probably take place in August.

Under 14 – This team recommenced training indoors on Saturday afternoon last under the watchful eye of coaches Anthony Brennan, Sean Smyth and Barry Tomany. Also in attendence was Colin Malone from the Co Board Coaching Team and he helped roll out a Strength and
Flexibility Program for the panel to follow. The importance of players and parents taking responsibility for doing this on their own as instructed cannot be emphasised enough. It improves basic power, flexibility, reduces the chance of injury and improves the general
physical fitness of the player. Please ensure you follow the program during the week and all players should be in Drumhowan on this Saturday for another session at 4pm sharp. Wear runners and tracksuit and take a small bottle of water with you.

All Ireland Scór na nÓg Final – takes place on the 14th of February in City West. Anyone interested in purchasing tickets please contact Pauline Grogan on 086 0702129 by tomorrow evening Friday the 30th of January.

Under 12 – Training for this group will recommence in early February so all players are asked to get out and active in advance of the season commencing. Get out with a ball practising your skills and get fit and ready to go.

Under 10 –  The indoor league that took place last year recommences again on Saturday 7th February at 9-30am and will run for the fourSaturday mornings  of February in Ballybay Recreation Centre. We will have games against the local clubs. This will be a good way to kick off the season for this group.

Juvenile Presentation and Registration night will take place this year on Sunday evening February 22nd. Medals will be presented to oursuccessful Under 12 & 14 sides from last year along with various Scor winners including our Double winning All Ireland Champions Music
Group. Maybe by that stage hopefully they could have completed the three in a row.

St Pats Under 16 – Anyone willing to Manage or help with this team please contact the club chairman or any member of the Coaching sub committee.

Under 6-8   Anyone especially parents willing to help out at these ages please come forward to the Coaching Committee. A number of courses are coming up which will be of help. See Below.

Coaching Courses. The Co Board are running Foundation Level courses on March 6-7, March 27-28th. There are also level one courses on Feb 13-14th and another on Feb 27th-28th. Also a Level 2 course will be held in March. Anyone interested please contact Donal Mc Adam.
Drumhowan will be hosting a workshop on Coaching Defensive play in Football on Wednesday March 25th delivered by Tony Scullion and Roger Keenan.