Branagan Cup 2015

L1m1tless

Summer knock out style competition for teams of players who have played in divisions 1 and 2.

Unfortunately I have never even seen this cup in person. Maybe some day though. Its good to have dreams..

L1m1tless

GROUP 1

Round 1
Wed 06 May Dun Laoghaire v Phibsboro
Elm Mount Bye

Round 2
Mon 18 May Phibsboro v Elm Mount
Dun Laoghaire Bye

Round 3
Mon 25 May Elm Mount v Dun Laoghaire
Phibsboro Bye


GROUP 2

Round 1
Wed 06 May 15 St Benildus v Dublin
Inchicore Bye

Round 2
Tue 19 May 15 Dublin v Inchicore
St Benildus Bye

Round 3
Thu 28 May 15 Inchicore v St Benildus
Dublin Bye


GROUP 3

Round 1
Wed 06 May 15 Bray / Greystones v Celbridge
Thu 07 May 15 Rathmines v Gonzaga

Round 2
Sat 16 May 15 Gonzaga v Bray / Greystones
Tue 19 May 15 Celbridge v Rathmines

Round 3
Thu 28 May 15 Rathmines v Bray / Greystones
Tue 26 May 15 Celbridge v Gonzaga

L1m1tless

Good luck to all,

Hard to see past Gonzaga in this one. It all depends on who is available to play

wine and final destination

Dublin 4-2 Benildus

Gonzaga 5-1 Rathmines

Bray 5.5-.5 Celbridge

Bray 1-4 Gonzaga (1 game adj)

Irish Warrior

Dublin 2.5 - 3.5 Inchicore

cdeb

Wow. That makes things interesting!

So we need what - 4½ to top the group?

Though the flip side is Inchicore need 3 to win, and seem more than capable of getting it.

Irish Warrior

You need to get 5 to go above Dublin. Ending level on points leaves them top as they beat you.

Makes things interesting alright.

cdeb

You're right. I was going on the basis of head-to-head against Inchicore for some reason.

Big jump between a 5-1 win and a 4½-1½ win. Especially as we only got 4-2 last year!

mikhail

If I remember right, the 4-2 was well under our expected score as Inchicore made us work hard on the night. I think they're stronger this year though.

Irish Warrior

We may be stronger when we face you than we were against Dublin. Against Dublin four out of our six players where from our Heidenfeld B team. We were out rated on every board by almost 500 points.

We were happy last year taking 2 of yourselves (and Bray I think). A win against what was effectively our Heidenfeld B team against an Armstrong team was beyond all expectations.

wine and final destination

Does anyone know group 1 results? Runners up spot could be interesting!

EnPassant

wine and final destination wrote: »

Does anyone know group 1 results? Runners up spot could be interesting!

Elm Mount 5 Dun Laoghaire 1.
Phibsboro withdrew.

Runner-up spot is based on best result from a 2nd placed team in match against group winner.

L1m1tless

EnPassant wrote: »

Elm Mount 5 Dun Laoghaire 1.
Phibsboro withdrew.

Runner-up spot is based on best result from a 2nd placed team in match against group winner.

Where did you see this? Is it for all the Cups?

EnPassant

Neo_Ninja wrote: »

Where did you see this? Is it for all the Cups?

I think the controller decided this for the Branagan because there are only 2 teams in Group 1 after Phibsboro withdrew. I don't know about the other Cups.

Elm Mount have submitted a motion for the LCU AGM that the Cup competitions be knock-out only from next year on.

mikhail

EnPassant wrote: »

Elm Mount have submitted a motion for the LCU AGM that the Cup competitions be knock-out only from next year on.

That may be best. The group stages were brought in to increase the number of games for teams, but it's a real struggle with small numbers to balance having small groups (so not too many games) against avoiding irregular groups with two or three teams.

cdeb

Inchicore 3-3 St Benildus

So rather improbably, Inchicore have knocked out two Armstrong teams and top the group.

The magic of the Cup

mikhail

Well done Inchicore!

wine and final destination

So that's Elm Mount, Inshicore, Gonzaga and I guess Dublin into the semi finals? Does anyone know how the semi final draw is done?

flipsake

The semi final draw has been made:
Tuesday 9th June Dublin v Gonzaga
Thursday 11th June Inchicore v Elm Mount

checknraise

Gonzaga 4.5 Dublin .5 (1 game adj)

flipsake

Inchicore 0 Elm Mount 6. :-(
Best of luck to them in the final. They were gracious winners.

EnPassant

The result of the final was: Gonzaga 5.5 Elm Mount 0.5