Irish football this week (08-10/3/07)

SectionF

Premier Division
Friday, March 9

• Bohemians :cool: 7:45 Drogheda United Dalymount Park
• Derry City 7:45 Bray Wanderers The Brandywell
• Galway United 7:45 Sligo Rovers Terryland Park
• UCD 7:45 Shamrock Rovers Belfield Park
• Waterford United 7:45 Cork City RSC

Saturday, March 10
Longford Town 7:30 St Patrick's Athletic Flancare Park

First Divison
08 March 2007

• Dundalk 7:45 Finn Harps Oriel Park

09 March 2007

• Shelbourne 8:00 Kildare County Tolka Park
• Cobh Ramblers 7:45 Limerick 37 Turner's Cross
• Monaghan United 7:45 Wexford Youths Century Homes Park
• Athlone Town 7:45 Kilkenny City Lissywoollen

Pighead

Dundalk shall open up the new season tonight in front of a full house in Oriel Park. They've had a good pre season and have brought in some decent players in their quest to return to the holy land. The bookies have them as 11/8 favourites and that sounds about right. Harps are missing a few players through suspension and injury tonight so I'll plump for a 2-0 victory to get the ball rolling.

C'mon the lilywhites!

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My jaysis, it's good to be back!

Premier Division
Friday, March 9

• Bohemians -v- Drogheda United Drogs
• Derry City -v- Bray Wanderers Derry
• Galway United -v- Sligo Rovers Sligo
• UCD -v- Shamrock Rovers Draw
• Waterford United -v- Cork City Cork

Saturday, March 10
Longford Town -v- St Patrick's Athletic Pat's

First Divison
08 March 2007

• Dundalk 7:45 Finn Harps Dundalk

09 March 2007

• Shelbourne -v- Kildare County SHELS
• Cobh Ramblers -v- Limerick 37 Turner's Cross WTF?Cobh
• Monaghan United -v- Wexford Youths Monaghan
• Athlone Town -v- Kilkenny City Athlone

Ronan|Raven

seansouth wrote:

• Cobh Ramblers -v- Limerick 37 Turner's Cross WTF?Cobh

Cobhs ground isnt ready, the pitch got damaged apparently when they were installing floodlights from the machinery.

SectionF

seansouth wrote:

My jaysis, it's good to be back!

Amen to that!

gustavo

Finally some proper football back here!
bohs drogs will be intersting , funny to see sean connor shown up . but he has got his excuses in early saying his team are "building"
I fancy us to beat Galway despite all the turmoil around us.

Ronan|Raven

Going to be a long season I feel for those of us in Longford. But one never knows everyone thinks we are going to go down but if our paper thin squad doesnt get to many injuries I fancy us to be ok.

Kojak

Premier Division
Friday, March 9

Bohemians -v- Drogheda United Draw
Derry City -v- Bray Wanderers Derry
Galway United -v- Sligo Rovers Galway
UCD -v- Shamrock Rovers UCD
Waterford United -v- Cork City Cork
Saturday, March 10
Longford Town -v- St Patrick's Athletic Draw

First Divison
08 March 2007
Dundalk 7:45 Finn Harps Dundalk
09 March 2007
Shelbourne -v- Kildare County SHELS
Cobh Ramblers -v- Limerick 37 Cobh
Monaghan United -v- Wexford Youths Monaghan
Athlone Town -v- Kilkenny City Athlone

gimmick

Good to be back. Shels Lite are favourites to win the league this season, with Drogs their main rivals according to Ladbrokes, which is a fair asserion IMO.

Bohs and Pats could have big seasons, but I suspect neither will. Big questions over Sean Connor, was he a flash in the pan at Sligo. And big questions over Johnny McD, he has made alot of signings, good signings, and really needs to deliver.

If Colin Healy plays like he could pre injury, and Farrelly plays like he did pre Bohs, Cork City will easily have the best midfield in the country when you factor in Colin O brien, Joe Gamble, Admir Softic, Billy Woods and Liam Kearney, there is big competition for 4 places there. Alot of ifs there, so why not have another one. If John O Flynn can get fit and stay fit, and the other ifs come good, City will be unstoppable.

Waterford, Bray and Longford will be the 3 teams to struggle this season.

As for this weekends fixtures

Bohemians -v- Drogheda United Draw
Derry City -v- Bray Wanderers Derry
Galway United -v- Sligo Rovers draw
UCD -v- Shamrock Rovers Rovers
Waterford United -v- Cork City City
Saturday, March 10
Longford Town -v- SPA SPA

redzerdrog

Premier Division
Friday, March 9

Bohemians 7:45 Drogheda United Dalymount Park drogs
Derry City 7:45 Bray Wanderers The Brandywell derry
Galway United 7:45 Sligo Rovers Terryland Park draw
UCD 7:45 Shamrock Rovers Belfield Park rovers
Waterford United 7:45 Cork City RSC cork
Saturday, March 10
Longford Town 7:30 St Patrick's Athletic Flancare Park pats

First Divison
08 March 2007
Dundalk 7:45 Finn Harps Oriel Park craptown
09 March 2007
Shelbourne 8:00 Kildare County Tolka Park kildare
Cobh Ramblers 7:45 Limerick 37 Turner's Cross draw
Monaghan United 7:45 Wexford Youths Century Homes Park monaghan
Athlone Town 7:45 Kilkenny City Lissywoollen athlone

Big Ears

It certainly is good to be back .

* Bohemians -v- Drogheda United Bohs
* Derry City -v- Bray Wanderers Derry
* Galway United -v- Sligo Rovers Draw
* UCD -v- Shamrock Rovers Rovers
* Waterford United -v- Cork City Cork
*Longford Town -v- Saith Patrick's Athletic Pats

John_C

Premier Division
Friday, March 9

* Bohemians 7:45 Drogheda United Dalymount Park Drogs
* Derry City 7:45 Bray Wanderers The Brandywell Derry
* Galway United 7:45 Sligo Rovers Terryland Park Galway*
* UCD 7:45 Shamrock Rovers Belfield Park UCD*
* Waterford United 7:45 Cork City RSC Cork

*these two games are the only difficult ones to call. Sligo and Galway are both muck, so it's a question of who is worse.
Shams will probably do well for a promoted side and UCD will finish mid table so I don't think there'll be much between them all season. Note:For anyone coming to this game STIG will not be available inside the ground so get it before you go in. Also, the builders have left the path beside the athletics track in a state so if you want to keep your shoes clean, use the next path up, through Glenomena Residances.


Saturday, March 10
Longford Town 7:30 St Patrick's Athletic Flancare Park Pat's

First Divison
08 March 2007

* Dundalk 7:45 Finn Harps Oriel Park Dundalk

09 March 2007

* Shelbourne 8:00 Kildare County Tolka Park Kildare
* Cobh Ramblers 7:45 Limerick 37 Turner's Cross Cobh
* Monaghan United 7:45 Wexford Youths Century Homes Park Monaghan
* Athlone Town 7:45 Kilkenny City Lissywoollen Athlone*

*I'm taking a complete guess here. I've not seen Athlone play in about 2 years and I've only seen Kilkenny once in that time.

Zebra3

Well, by the looks of it the beloved Reds have made it to the start of the season.

Who knows how it'll go (Friday night and the season!), but it'll be great to be back in Tolka cheering on some familiar faces and a helluva lot of new ones!!!!

Big expectations from pats this season, though I do hope they fall flat on their faces.

Gary O'Neill is a very dark horse for the golden boot which is really up for grabs after Jayo winning it for the last four years in a row (a league first).

KdjaCL

At last, pre season sucks.


Premier Division
Friday, March 9

* Bohemians 7:45 Drogheda United Dalymount Park Drogs , bohs fans to start booing connor after 11 minutes.
* Derry City 7:45 Bray Wanderers The Brandywell Derry simple really
* Galway United 7:45 Sligo Rovers Terryland Park Galway toughest one of the weekend, who is in charge of sligo
* UCD 7:45 Shamrock Rovers Belfield Park UCD Rovers be up for it but 1sst division squad vs UCD ehh flowing attacking football.
* Waterford United 7:45 Cork City RSC Waterford think cork gonna have a bad season.

Saturday, March 10
Longford Town 7:30 St Patrick's Athletic Flancare Park Draw cant remember last time we won down there.

kdjac

Pighead

YEEESSSSS! 3-2 Dundalk with a last minute winner! 1-0 down at half time, Harps get a man sent off after 50, 2-1 up after 82, 2-2 after 87 and then that last minute winner. Never a dull moment in Oriel Park.

Williams, Hughes and Flanno with the winner. Unlucky Harps.
TOP OF THE LEAGUE!

applehunter

* Bohemians -v- Drogheda United Draw
* Derry City -v- Bray Wanderers Derry
* Galway United -v- Sligo Rovers Galway
* UCD -v- Shamrock Rovers UCD
* Waterford United -v- Cork City Cork City

Good to have the FAI League of Ireland back. Flaws and all!

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Anyone else seen this?

http://www.eircomloi.ie/

FFS, it's a shambles for an official site.

Rest assured guys, there is better to come.

LOOK IN MY SIG - LOOK IN MY SIG!!!:D

Pighead

They've definitely gone for the minimalist look there! Whens your site gonna be up and running seansouth? There's definitely a huge void regarding informative Eircom League websites. And don't talk to me about aertels "updates".

SectionF

Doesn't look too bad IMO. They've hardly got a flood of material to fill it with.
The test will be keeping it fresh and up to date.

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Pighead wrote:

They've definitely gone for the minimalist look there! Whens your site gonna be up and running seansouth? There's definitely a huge void regarding informative Eircom League websites. And don't talk to me about aertels "updates".

Soon.

We have to get it perfected and co-ordinate the nationwide reporters.

We don't want to launch with a half-baked site, and would rather it late and good than early and crap.

Anyway, it's not only a one season thing, so I doubt if people will remember in four or five years "OMG, that's the site that launched a couple of weeks late".

Raskolnikov

I'm excited about the new season. Wasn't mentioned here, but the Drogs - Boh's game is on RTÉ tonight. I think it'll be a good one.

eirebhoy

• Bohemians -v- Drogheda United Bohs
• Derry City -v- Bray Wanderers Derry
• Galway United -v- Sligo Rovers Galway
• UCD -v- Shamrock Rovers Draw
• Waterford United -v- Cork City Draw
• Longford Town -v- St Patrick's Athletic Pat's

redzerdrog

its just not fair i should be on my way to dalymount now instead i am getting my football gear ready to go training:(

KdjaCL

20 mins no goals in prem.


kdjac

KdjaCL

Derry 1 up mc hugh.


kdjac

Raskolnikov

I thought Bohs were an absolute disgrace tonight. Other than a bit of skill tonight from Fenn, they just hoofed the ball up the field at every chance. Drogs had a couple of flashes of good play, but to be honest, they seemed happy enough to take the point away from home. Ollie Cahill was man of the match, rightfully so, looks like he'll be a very important player for Drogs this season.

pp_me129

Full time at rsc 1-0 blues

Full Deserved and goal was cooling on 67" direct from a corner kick

redzerdrog

heard drogs should of had a peno? i didnt see it at all but i wouldnt expect stokes to give us a peno anyway if last season is anything to go by.

bohsman

Des Byrne made two dodgy tackles in the box but won the ball both times, some refs would have given two penalties.

gustavo

Great game at Terryland we really came out fighting !
Two well taken goals and some fine performances that will give hope for the coming season , Best chant - "Dundalk , we should be playing Dundalk":)

Zebra3

2-2 draw with a last minute equaliser.

Great to be back!!!!!

Kildare's goals greeted with almost total silence.

KdjaCL

Pats probably play the same 11 that started vs portadown, Mulcahy still out and Arkins on holiday :rolleyes:

4 3 3 again so with O Neill playing as the holder upper person Ndo Fahey Kirby doing the running and backing him up, Murphy and Foley getting the ball and giving it to the better players.

Our new signing wont be playing


kdjac

SectionF

redzerdrog wrote:

heard drogs should of had a peno? i didnt see it at all but i wouldnt expect stokes to give us a peno anyway if last season is anything to go by.

We had a couple of shouts too.
Should have beaten Drogs, who have no excuse to be that poor, especially given the size of their squad. Certainly didn't look like title contenders last night, though I suppose it's early.
I reckon that if Mansaram had started we might have got something.

KdjaCL

Didnt hear bohs fans chanting "Connor out" so chant of the night goes to Sligo


"We should be playing Dundalk"




kdjac

Raskolnikov

SectionF wrote:

Should have beaten Drogs

Disagree completely, Bohs created virtually nothing last night. Like I said earlier, they were just happy to hoof the ball up the field at every chance.

Pigman II

It was pretty awful stuff to watch. Barely a shot on target the whole match. Joxer being made to compete for headers. Glenn Crowe looked lost and their Right-Winger was given all the room in the world whenever he wanted it.

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Zebra3 wrote:

2-2 draw with a last minute equaliser.

That second equaliser felt better than Crowe's winner against Bohs to win the league last season.

We deserved to win tbh, but a point is certainly more than I thought we'd have at this stage.

Some nice football played. There is hope there. BTW, chant of the night is :

Jimmy Crawford he's a red, he's a red, he's a red
Jimmy Crawford he's a red
He hates money

Zebra3

seansouth wrote:

That second equaliser felt better than Crowe's winner against Bohs to win the league last season.

Now, you're pushing it!!!

KdjaCL

2-1 vs Longford the scoreline flatters them :eek:

Should have been 5 by halftime, ripped them apart and im hoping its rustiness that made us miss all those chances. We need mulcahy back to stop teams running tru us.

other than that we going to win the league


kdjac

bohsman

Once Arkins gets back from his holidays itll all start falling apart.

KdjaCL

Heard he was a panic buy as we couldnt sign Murphy from Man City in time, will be gone in the summer and on pay as you play.


kdjac