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Senior Boys Soccer

Back row L – R: Fionnan Moore, Declan Treacy, Sean Chan, Max Yeoh, Colin Anderson,
Alistair Magee, Josh Power-Disney.
Front row L-R: Angus Heaslip Noel Ebbitt, James Pratt, Emmanuel Galligan, Ali Aziz

Boys’ Soccer

Since the start of the school year in September the day the best players were Victor Babatunde, William
U14 boy’s football team have had great success in Ebbitt, Caolin Galligan and Stuart Bell. With this team
the Royal School. Mr Noctor and Mr Murphy put in all available for U14 again next year and some new
great time and effort into taking us for training every 1st years we hope to go one better and win the U14
Thursday after school and also arranging matches for cup next year.
the team. Most of the time we would have at least
20 players for training which meant we could have Senior Boys’ Soccer
some time learning skills and techniques and then 2011/12 proved a difficult year for senior football in
have a match for the last half hour. the Royal school. 14 of the Cavan/Monaghan cup

Our first game this year was against Monaghan winning squad of 2011 left the school, meaning
Collegiate in Monaghan which we won the senior team entered into a rebuilding phase,
blooding new players for the coming years. While
comprehensively 4-1. This victory gave us great the future looks bright with good quality coming
confidence going into the first cup game. This was through, due to the youth of this year’s team the
against Colaiste Oiriall in Monaghan. We played really results were always going to be patchy.
well in this match and ran out comfortable winners,
scoring 5 goals. Israel Adederin, Victor Babatunde, The team started well however with a hard fought
Eoin Hannick and Nigel Kells were the best players 1-1 draw with an equally young, but talented St.
on the day along with the captain Mide Olumide. Patricks College team. Emmanuel Galligan scored for
the Royal in the First half and the Defence was well
This got us through to the next round of the cup marshalled by Sean Chan, James Pratt, Noel Ebbitt &
where we came up against a strong team from Colin Anderson. This was the first match played on
Virginia College. Unfortunately we showed them too the New pitch surface in the Royal School.
much respect in the first half and were trailing at half
time. In the second half we were much improved but This game was followed by defeats in the league to
eventually lost out 4-2. St. Aidans, Cootehill and St. Mouges Bawnboy. We
also went down in the cup to St. Mouges.
At Easter we also had a match against St. Bricin’s,
Belturbet where we just fielded a 1st year team. However despite some disappointing results the
This was against an older team from Belturbet who next couple of years hold a lot of promise for senior
had 2nd years available. It was a really good game football in the school based on the Performance of
which eventually we lost 6-4, but it showed that our the younger teams this year.
1st years were a good match for any team. On the

26 The Royal Times 2011-2012