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Cooper secures 8th straight win
22 May 2005 - Sally Cooper continued her scoring blitz to lead the Shamrocks ladies team to its eighth consecutive win the Gaelic football’s Brisbane Shield at Willawong over the weekend.
Cooper scored a hat-trick of goals to open the second half, to help secure the victory and lead the scoring with 3 goals 5 points, as Shamrocks 9-11 (38) beat John Mitchels 1-8 (11).
Best for Shamrocks were Jacinta Kelly – a new recruit from the Perth Shamrocks – Alycia Clayton, and Seleta McGuire.
In the mens division, Billy Rockett also maintained his recent scoring prowess with 3 points, as three club scoring records were equalled in his team’s 6-10 (28) to 1-4 (7) defeat of Harps.
Shamrocks A did not fair so well against John Mitchels, when beaten by 10 points 0-4 (4) to 2-8 (14). The team must now await other results to see if it qualifies for the Brisbane Shield final next month.
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Mayo back ready for Mitchels
15 May 2005 - Western suburbs’ Shamrocks A play undefeated John Mitchels in Gaelic football’s Brisbane Shield at Willawong on Sunday, and will enjoy almost a full squad after the successful return of Matt Mayo over the weekend.
Mayo – Shamrocks’ goals record-holder – led the scoring with 1 goal 2 points in his first game back from injury, as his team 2-6 (12) beat Sarsfields 0-4 (4) to remain in contention for next month’s Brisbane Shield final.
Best for Shamrocks over the weekend were Cameron Carney, Mayo, and Danny Madden.
Also in the mens division, Shamrocks B 1-5 (8) were beaten by Souths 2-16 (22), although finished the game well by losing the second half by just 3 points.
Billy Rockett cleverly punched in his team’s goal, while the best players were James Marshall, Justin Mosch, and Justin Rees.
In the ladies competition, Shamrocks 3-16 (25) maintained their unbeaten status by accounting for Sarsfields 1-6 (9).
The match was scoring record-holder Reanna Browne's last game before heading to the UK, and then representing Australasia at the Gaelic football World Cup in October.
Both Browne and Renee Moynihan led the scoring with 1-4, while the best for Shamrocks were Alycia Clayton, Narelle Saward, and Moynihan
This week Shamrocks A and Shamrocks ladies play John Mitchels, and Shamrocks B face Harps.
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Porter attracts western stars
12 May 2005 - Brisbane’s western suburbs Shamrocks Gaelic football club is forging closer links with the sporting elite with the return of Sam Porter from the AFL’s Western Bulldogs this season.
Porter – a Brisbane western suburbs product who grew up in Indooroopilly and now living at Taringa – got straight to work, introducing the Shamrocks to good friend and Western Bulldogs star Lindsay Gilbee, when the AFL’s western suburbs Melbourne club was in town over the weekend to play the Brisbane Lions.
Gilbee and the Bulldogs were winners on that occasion, beating the Lions, and Gilbee continuing to lead the AFL in kicks as the Bulldogs’ second-leading goal scorer this season.
Pictured above is Shamrocks coach Jacqueline Peacock, Western Bulldogs’ Lindsay Gilbee, and Sam Porter in Brisbane over the weekend, after a quick lesson in Gaelic football.
The fast half back flanker is no stranger to the Irish, having shared a house with former Bulldogs’ Irish rookie Bernie Collins (pictured right) from Castletownsend, County Cork.
Gilbee is enjoying his best season, and is a contender for this year’s Australian International Rules team to play Ireland.
The Shamrocks club hopes some of Gilbee’s success will now rub off on them with the return of Porter.
Porter was an award-winner with the Shamrocks back in 1999, and since then has filled finance roles with the English Premier League’s Chelsea Football Club in London, and most recently the Western Bulldogs in Melbourne, before this year returning to a committee position with the QGFA’s Shamrocks in Brisbane.
His return home is already paying dividends, with all three Shamrocks mens and ladies teams performing well in the Brisbane Shield, smashing a host of scoring records.
Shamrocks made front page news in Ireland earlier this year when World Cup winner Jacqueline Peacock returned to the club to become the world’s first female coach of a senior mens Gaelic football team.
Porter enjoys a high profile sporting heritage – his uncle Chilla Porter won a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics, his cousin Harold Peacock is an award-winning sports administrator and coach, and distant cousins include Essendon’s best and fairest winner and AFL premiership player Hugh Torney (pictured right) and Australian netballer Jane Altschwager.
Records tumble in clean sweep
08 May 2005 - Gaelic football’s Shamrocks club enjoyed a clean sweep by winning all three matches against East Celts at Willawong over the weekend, and claimed a bundle of records in the process.
Brisbane’s western suburbs club got off to a flying start in the mens competition as Shamrocks A 4-14 (26) beat Easts Celts A 1-2 (5) led by Cameron Carney, Steve Cox (2 goals) and Brad Kennedy (1 goal 6 points).
The records then started tumbling when Shamrocks B 1-13 (16) broke a seven-year-old team points record to defeat Easts Celts B 0-7 (7), led by Sam Eastwood, Robin Arman and Billy Rockett (5 points).
Shamrocks ladies (pictured) then completed a fine day by eclipsing a phenomenal six team records in their 15-15 (60) defeat of Easts Celts 0-2 (2).
Among the records to fall was the greatest winning margin, and the highest individual score, as Reanna Browne broke a six-year-old mark with an amazing 6 goals 8 points.
Best players for Shamrocks were Tricia Browne, Reanna Brown and Alycia Clayton
Shamrocks play Souths and Sarsfields at Willawong this Sunday.
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