Irish football this week (03-05/05/07)

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Suffering CL fatigue? Fed up with RTE's fatuous panel (John Giles and Liam Brady excepted )? Can't be doin' with all that Ronaldo hype?
Here's some real football happening at a field of dreams near you...
03 May 2007
Cork City 8:00 St Patrick's Athletic Turner's Cross
04 May 2007
Shamrock Rovers 8:00 Sligo Rovers Tolka Park
Bohemians :cool: 7:45 UCD Dalymount Park
Galway United 7:45 Derry City Terryland Park
Waterford United 7:45 Drogheda United RSC
05 May 2007
Longford Town 7:30 Bray Wanderers Flancare Park

applehunter

Big game for City tomorrow night.

Should have Flynny and Roy up front so hopefully if we repeat the level of performance that we produced on Monday we should be too good for Pats.

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applehunter wrote:

Big game for City tomorrow night.

Should have Flynny and Roy up front so hopefully if we repeat the level of performance that we produced on Monday we should be too good for Pats.

Doubt it.

Hmm. Better get used to the 1st Div being ignored I suppose.

We're away at Wexford this Friday, not expecting anything. I said I'd give it til mid-May until I started expecting results, I'm still good for that.

I can't go, but I'll be in Dalyer for the Boez - UCD game. My little piece posted here last week about the Farrelly/Healy thing at Cork was in the UCD Fanzine last week, I gots to get a copy to show the oul wan

Jonny Arson

Ahh the First Division has been forgotten again!

First Division Fixtures

Friday May 4th
Finn Harps vs Kilkenny City: Finn Park 8.00 pm - Home
Limerick 37 vs Monaghan United: Jackman Park 7.45 pm - Draw
Wexford Youths vs Shelbourne: Wexford Football Complex 8.00pm - Away

Saturday Mat 5th
Cobh Ramblers vs Athlone Town: St. Colman's Park 7.45 pm - Home
Kildare County vs Dundalk: Station Road 7.30 pm - Draw


03 May 2007
Cork City 8:00 St Patrick's Athletic Turner's Cross - Draw
04 May 2007
Shamrock Rovers 8:00 Sligo Rovers Tolka Park - Home
Bohemians 7:45 UCD Dalymount Park - Home
Galway United 7:45 Derry City Terryland Park - Draw
Waterford United 7:45 Drogheda United RSC - Away
05 May 2007
Longford Town 7:30 Bray Wanderers Flancare Park - Away

BTW Why is the Cork/Pats match on Thursday? Is it on TV or something?

Jonny Arson

seansouth wrote:

We're away at Wexford this Friday, not expecting anything. I said I'd give it til mid-May until I started expecting results, I'm still good for that.

I'm sort of like that. Since round 1 of fixtures will be over after the Wexford match I'll be expecting a bit more from them in Round 2. The potential is there but the experience with the younger players isn't. From Round 3 of fixtures and July onwards with a few clearouts and a few new experienced players in the positions for which Shels don't have players in natural positions, I think we could steamroll through most of the teams in the league. Aside from Dundalk, I don't think there is that much between the other 9 teams at the moment, 2nd 3rd all to play for but I wont get my hopes up, 2008 is the year for expectations for Shels.

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Jonny Arson wrote:

BTW Why is the Cork/Pats match on Thursday? Is it on TV or something?

AFAIK at this hour, it is on TV.

redzerdrog

03 May 2007
Cork City 8:00 St Patrick's Athletic Turner's Cross HOME
04 May 2007
Shamrock Rovers 8:00 Sligo Rovers Tolka Park HOME
Bohemians 7:45 UCD Dalymount Park DRAW
Galway United 7:45 Derry City Terryland Park AWAY
Waterford United 7:45 Drogheda United RSC AWAY
05 May 2007
Longford Town 7:30 Bray Wanderers Flancare Park DRAW

KdjaCL

Pats Cork moved for Setanta to show it, pain in the hole really. Game vs Drogs in 2 weeks also moved for tv thats on a monday.

Will take point from tonight as cant see us stuffinf Cork 3 times in a matter of weeks, they can not be that bad. We at full strentgh so

Ryan
.....Foley Brennan Maguire
Murphy .....................Frost
..Fahey..............Ndo
...........Mulcahy
Quigley...........O Neill


Cork please press us in middle as we are **** when that happens, to do that tho you will have to play to stop us and not to win.

Should be a good game if Cork attack us. Mega burgers in Urlingford FTW!


kdjac

gimmick

Not confident about tonights game at all. I can see SPA take a comfortable 0-2 win, and be the first to score into the new Shed. RICO is making excuses already, and thats bad news.

Zebra3

Fingers crossed for our first away win tomorrow night.

Friday May 4th
Finn Harps vs Kilkenny City: Finn Park 8.00 pm - Home
Limerick 37 vs Monaghan United: Jackman Park 7.45 pm - Home
Wexford Youths vs Shelbourne: Wexford Football Complex 8.00pm - Away

Saturday Mat 5th
Cobh Ramblers vs Athlone Town: St. Colman's Park 7.45 pm - Home
Kildare County vs Dundalk: Station Road 7.30 pm - Away

KdjaCL

gimmick wrote:

Not confident about tonights game at all. I can see SPA take a comfortable 0-2 win, and be the first to score into the new Shed. RICO is making excuses already, and thats bad news.

Be in Horseshoe @ 7:08pm if yah fancy a pint

kdjac

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KdjaCL wrote:

7:08pm

HTF can you be so precise?

Heh, last time I had pints in there with gimmick I ended up stuck out beside Turner's X at half four in the bleedin' morning.:D

KdjaCL

Driving down with schumacher type driver.

Assuming we leave on time we be there for 7 and 8 minutes to find parking and get to pub. Its an exact science nowadays


kdjac

Ronan|Raven

sure these new modern cars practically drive themselves!

Kojak

03 May 2007
Cork City 8:00 St Patrick's Athletic Turner's Cross - Home

04 May 2007
Shamrock Rovers 8:00 Sligo Rovers Tolka Park - Draw
Bohemians 7:45 UCD Dalymount Park - Home
Galway United 7:45 Derry City Terryland Park - Away
Waterford United 7:45 Drogheda United RSC - Away

05 May 2007
Longford Town 7:30 Bray Wanderers Flancare Park - Home

gustavo

I fancy us to get a result against Shams , 7/2 quite long odds.

In the other games . probably a draw between Cork and Pats , a Bohs and Drogs win , Galway and Derry to draw and Longford Town to beat Bray

applehunter

1-0 to City

Roy O'Donovan penalty.:)

First goal in the (new) Shed..fittingly its a new legend that scores it!

eirebhoy

He needed to make up for the absolute sitter he missed with his head in the first half. Cracking peno in fairness. He opened himself up and fooled the keeper.

Good football played in the first half, nice passing from both teams. 2nd half wasn't as good. Gamble has been City's player of the season so far by a long way from what I've seen.

Raskolnikov

Great game between Cork and Pats. It's easy to see why they're two of the best teams in the league. Some lovely passing and attacking movements in the match. Deadlock was broken by a peno for City at the 60th minute that was taken well O'Donovan. Game pettered out a little after that as Pats struggled being a man down. They did well to keep the score down.

The new Shed looks great

applehunter

Johnny Mac went on a rant about City fans calling Barry Ryan a junkie.

"Barry takes it up the nose!"

"Barry is a junkie"

He was caught for taking cocaine, what do you expect from a terrace? Goalies arent supposed to look forward to minding the net in front of the Shed. He takes it in good humour anyway everytime Ive seen. I hope he doesn't take it personally.

Its not in the same county as the stuff Webb received.

eirebhoy

Stupid rant by McDonnell, didn't come across well at all. He couldn't even make much sense after his rant.

applehunter

Did he rant last season when Sean Connor stuck his finger up a City fans at Inchicore?

Did he ****!

applehunter

Good win anyway and keeps us up there in contention till July when we will win every game by default when the FIFA 2 come back.:D

jank

Pity it was on a thursday. Would have like to have it on the friday and go on the batter after. Would have been a better crowd too.

Oh and City need a new striker.....fast!!

gimmick

I honestly thought that was an awful game. City were crap, and I am amazed we won. At half time I would have been happy with a draw. Thats said, SPA offered very little, only 2 decent shots from Ndo were notable, and even they went wide.

As for the penalty, i dont know about what it looked like on telly, but it looked pretty stonewall from my angle. Very well taken by Roy.

Pity about the crowd, but Thursday night football is stupid. Thanks for that Setanta and some stupid rugby match.

Gamble definitely won the battle of the Joeys in midfield. Another immense game. Had Ndo in his pocket for the majority of it.

Massive 3 points, we are only 6 points behind now, it could have been an insurmountable 12. When you consider the stupid points dropped, and to be right in contention, one has to feel positive for the season.

KdjaCL

Diving ****!!!

Only seen a replay this morning and give him 5.0 for technique.

Poor game imo we should have had it won but overplayed it when having 4 on 2 (wtf was up with Cork players falling) Corks 1st shot was the peno

Didnt see the interview but if Ryan was upset with corks fans about junkie i think Kearney and Roy may be a bit upset today, wltho Roy did smile and wave to us

kdjac

gimmick

KdjaCL wrote:

Be in Horseshoe @ 7:08pm if yah fancy a pint

kdjac

I was actually in the horseshoe before the game, but only saw this now

Raskolnikov

applehunter wrote:

He was caught for taking cocaine, what do you expect from a terrace? Goalies arent supposed to look forward to minding the net in front of the Shed. He takes it in good humour anyway everytime Ive seen. I hope he doesn't take it personally.

There were a couple of Pats fans roaring their heads off at City players too. It didn't sound too pleasant, maybe kdjacl can fill us in on what they were shouting about

Heard some Pat's fans on the radio complaining about the torrent of abuse that got levelled at them and their players while they sat at the Shed end. Oops.

KdjaCL

Raskolnikov wrote:

There were a couple of Pats fans roaring their heads off at City players too. It didn't sound too pleasant, maybe kdjacl can fill us in on what they were shouting about

Heard some Pat's fans on the radio complaining about the torrent of abuse that got levelled at them and their players while they sat at the Shed end. Oops.

Junkie was tame in comparasion to what was said to the Cork players and few bebo kids who were in the uncovered end. Ryan is a full time footballer with a history of drug abuse playing for a team in an area with massive drug abuse nicknamed Junkies, cant see how he got upset about it.

I think away fans get nastier than home fans when it comes to abuse, its funny abuse tho Roy smiled , Kearney did not.

I really do wonder how Cork fans think Roy is worth a million when in 3 games vs us hes had one shot on target and ehh thats about it. Has been very poor the 3 times i have seen him.

Counted about 5 Cork players falling or slipping on the pitch last night, what was up with that?

And question on squad rules, team brings 19 players to game hands in squad list with 16, one gets injured in warm up and your not allowed replace him? We werent last night with Kirby




kdjac

gimmick

^ I think once you have handed in your squad of 16 thats it.

Rico was saying in todays echo that he wasn't pleased with the abuse given to Barry Ryan. Okay, it went on a bit, but Ryan has always taken that well.

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He's been getting that kind of abuse for years ffs.

I didn't see Johnny Mac's rant, but seriously, if he's going to throw his toys out of the pram after one defeat, you have to wonder how long it's going to take to get rasher back in the frying pan.

Limerick Dude

Must win game for Limerick tonight, need to keep the pressure on cobh and dundalk, come on you super blues!

jank

Diving ****!!!

Only seen a replay this morning and give him 5.0 for technique.

He was clearly hauled down. Arms all over him .Had a pefect angle from the shed.

Saying that I thought the red card was harsh but there ya go.

Would love to know what the pats fans were singing/saying to Roy and Kearny

KdjaCL

There were some very bad men in the Pats end, altho funny i dont see why any footballer would upset over abuse like that. Webb situation is very different and very wrong. But even Junkie at ryan is funny and ironic.

Ryan did what he did and is a full time footballer from Dublin playing in front of 2000 odd cork people he should really expect it.


kdjac

KdjaCL

ermmmm Drogs drew with Waterford so we still top and seems this week goes to Cork who are only team who gain something. Derry drew with galway.

FT Bohemians 0 - 0 UC Dublin
90' Galway 1 - 1 Derry City
FT Waterford U. 1 - 1 Drogheda United
87' Shamrock Rovers 0 - 0 Sligo Rovers

Kinda shocked by drogs they had 67 of their 87 players fit.

kdjac

applehunter

Good result for Cork City.

is that 4 draws in a row for Bohs?

KdjaCL

applehunter wrote:

Good result for Cork City.

is that 4 draws in a row for Bohs?

4 batterings and humilations for other teams in a row, then yes. How we are keeping pace with the big club is beyond me. Im getting nosebleeds at this stage

Rovers scored in 90th minute and loads of fighting at the end, not sure if its fans or players.


kdjac

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Two red cards after the final whitle at Tolka in the battle of the rovers.

We went one up at Dolan's new franchise, but they got a bleedin' OG late on to claw back a 1-1 :mad:

Another point for Shels, but we're second from bottom.

KdjaCL

seansouth wrote:

We went one up at Dolan's new franchise

Now he is only helping a mate and keeping his Setanta job, i know for a fact he was asked to work at 2 dublin clubs. One as chief Exec and the other as manager. We know both of them well


kdjac

applehunter

Anybody hear Eamon Dunphy on Radio 1 this evening?

KdjaCL

applehunter wrote:

Anybody hear Eamon Dunphy on Radio 1 this evening?

Nope, dont watch him on TV not gonna listen to him on radio.


kdjac

applehunter

Only caught the last 10 seconds when he went on a mini rant. Praised Stephen Kenny and Fenlon and players but slammed everything else.

Discussion was with Des Cahill, Emmet Malone(Irish Times) and some PJ fella.

Thats all I caught.

Limerick Dude

Limerick 37 1 - 0 Monaghan

Great game, we really should of hammered them as we have plenty of chances but the 3 points will do, hopefully dundalk and cobh will both draw tomorrow!
Cmon you super blues!

Bateman

KdjaCL wrote:

How we are keeping pace with the big club is beyond me. Im getting nosebleeds at this stage

Fair play to Johnny Mac for getting his priorities right anyway.

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Limerick Dude wrote:

Limerick 371 - 0 Monaghan

:eek:

Limerick Dude wrote:

Great game, we really should of hammered them

Er...you DID hammer them, three hundred and seventy one - nil is quite a score!

Zebra3

Should have got our first away win of the season yesterday.

A top drawer goal put us ahead and a nightmare goal (from our defence's point of view) saw us throw that lead away.