Posted online: Nov 11th, 2009

Massive weekend for Moville, Malin, Urris and Burt

This Sunday will prove to be a pivitol day for four local GAA clubs as Moville bid to reach their first Ulster final and the promotion / relegation league play-offs are decided.
Moville return to Brewster Park in Enniskillen to take on Antrim Champions St Teresa’s on Sunday in the Ulster Junior Club semi-final (throw in 12.45pm).
The Belfast club overcame Cavan’s Butlersbridge in the Ulster quarter final at Casement Park on Sunday in a game Moville boss Eddie Devine attended.
Devine left that game with a high regard for Sunday’s opponents.
“They’re a hard working team who get men behind the ball very quickly and are strong runners off the ball with good support play and we’ll have to counteract that,” he said.
“A place in an Ulster Final is a massive incentive for our players and our work ethic must match their’s if we are to beat them.”
Sunday’s game is Moville’s second successive game at Brewster after they overcame Fermanagh champions Belnaleck there last week and Devine is comfortable with a return to Enniskillen.
“We were hoping for Celtic Park in Derry but we’re happy enough to return after we won there already, it’s a good surface and the rain won’t stop the game being played.”
Moville didn’t have a league game at the weekend but the intensity of their training sessions means their manager knows they will be ready and he appealed to the local community to come out and support his side.
“We always train intensively and Gerard Faulkner and Jimmy Hegarty have been geeing up the players in training. We have a good blend of youth and experience in this side and the players have prepared well. If everyone wins their personal battles and stays focused we can progress.
“We’ve been delighted with the support we’ve received from the local community up to now, Moville is a small town but people have come out in great numbers to support us and I hope they do on Sunday because this is a group of local players who want to do something positive for their area and create a feel good factor.”
Meanwhile Urris and Malin are both bidding to step up a level to Divisions 1 and 2 respectively. Malin drew with Termon in their promotion play-off at O’Donnell Park in Letterkenny on Saturday and that game will be replayed at Convoy this Sunday (Throw in 2.30pm).
Louis Walsh’s side made a poor start to Saturday’s game, trailing by four points at half-time, but they took the tie by the scruff of the neck in the second and, but for some wayward shooting at the end, could have won the game.
In the Division 3 play-offs Burt will be fighting to avoid relegation, after two successive defeats to Naomh Columba and Cloughaneely left them in the bottom three in the table, when they take on Na Rossa at MacCumhaill Park (Throw in 1.15pm).
Urris are bidding to go in the opposite direction when they battle it out with Cloughaneely in the Division 3 semi-final at the same venue (Throw in 2.45pm).