"We just didn't get out of the blocks for the second half," was the rueful assessment of member of the Belcoo backroom team Brian Treacy, as he reflected on the team's failure in last Sunday's windswept Ulster intermediate championship semi final in Dungannon.

Belcoo had faced into a strong wind in the opening half of their tussle with Derry side Coleraine and had reached the interval just three points adrift. The Fermanagh boys had played extremely well in those opening thirty minutes and had put themselves into a tremendous position to go on and win the game.

But instead they produced an increasingly unorganised display and in the end went down by the three point margin that had separated the sides at the half time break.

Treacy pinpointed Coleraine's centre half forward Barry McGoldrick as one of the opposing players instrumental in fashioning the winner's effort.

"We knew that he was a player who had the potential to cause us problems," acknowledged Treacy.

McGoldrick in fact was to be perhaps the game's outstanding figure, he thumped over a string of long range points when his team had the benefit of the howling wind in the opening half and he was at the heart of Coleraine's highly effective containment tactics after the changeover.

In what however has been an excellent season overall for Belcoo, Treacy felt that the Dungannon game would be, " a good learning experience for what is essentially a young side and hopefully they will benefit from this. Obviously though it is a disappointment especially since we had played so well in the first half to reach the position that we had at the break."

Belcoo's season is not quite over yet, they have one last assignment, the second division league final with Irvinestown, which has been provisionally pencilled in for Sunday December 3rd.