Real football for real fans this weekend, Friday & Sat., April 3 &4

SectionF

Tolka... its tenants are imposters from the southside
Richmond... nice, but suburbs
Dalymount... the home of Irish football, Dublin's only city centre football stadium, and, lest it be forgotten, venue for Bob Marley's only ever Irish appearance. :pac:

monkey9

SectionF wrote: »

Dalymount... the home of Irish football, Dublin's only city centre football stadium, and, lest it be forgotten, venue for Bob Marley's only ever Irish appearance. :pac:

Yeah, but Bohs play there!!

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p_larkin99 wrote: »

Ah yeah I think I may go to Tolka next Friday - Shels v UCD isnt it?

Yep

SectionF wrote: »

Dalymount... the home of Irish football, Dublin's only city centre football stadium

City centre me hole.

Phibsboro is not town.

iregk

Des wrote: »

Yep
City centre me hole.
Phibsboro is not town.

Indeed. Also the fact that bohs fans go there as well should be a turn off.

CiaranC

Phibsboro is in the city centre now? Has it moved?

(I suppose its in the city centre in the same sense that Tallaght is in Wicklow)

SectionF

Des wrote: »

Yep





City centre me hole.

Phibsboro is not town.

Back to Irishtown with you.

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SectionF wrote: »

Back to Irishtown with you.

You've been caught out lying, and all you can do is fling childish remarks.
:rolleyes:

Tolka Park is closer to town ffs.

SectionF

Des wrote: »

You've been caught out lying, and all you can do is fling childish remarks.
:rolleyes:

Oh dear. This is really getting to you, isn't it?

iregk

SectionF wrote: »

Oh dear. This is really getting to you, isn't it?

You don't work for Ryanair do you? The kip that is Dalymount being in the city center is similar to Ryanair's claims that their airports are in anyway close to the city they lay claim to.

CiaranC

Ryanair turned a healthy profit last quarter

SectionF

iregk wrote: »

You don't work for Ryanair do you? The kip that is Dalymount being in the city center is similar to Ryanair's claims that their airports are in anyway close to the city they lay claim to.

OK, OK. I'll admit I was stretching it a little. But not as much as Ryanair! And this is marketing, right?
City centre is an elastic concept, and when I was growing up we called kids from Phibsborough townies, and Dublin has expanded a lot since. And I've seen Blackhorse Ave (middle part) described in the I. Times as 'inner city'.
If it's not city centre it's as close as you can get. How about 'I can't believe it's not city centre'?

ntlbell

Des wrote: »

Y



City centre me hole.

Phibsboro is not town.

It takes 12 mins to walk from o connel st to dalymount

that's pretty damn central

dyl10

Helix wrote: »

i love this loi fan mentality that if you support an english team youve never been to a football match

I've been to English football matches

stovelid

I would have thought Dalyer was central enough. More so than Tolka or Richer.

Although being brought up in Tallaght - anything from Harold's Cross Crumlin/Rathmines in was 'town' to me.

emmemm

wannabe Teddy boy ...born 20years too late

RebelRockChick

Bohs 0-1 Cork city.

Was barely expecting a draw in this match, so to get all 3 points, delighted!

Helix

holy good lord

we actually scored some goals!

chopperbyrne

stovelid wrote: »

I would have thought Dalyer was central enough. More so than Tolka or Richer.

Although being brought up in Tallaght - anything from Harold's Cross Crumlin/Rathmines in was 'town' to me.

Surely Tolka is closer to the city centre than Dalyer?

PDN

It was good to see the Drogs fans giving Shane Robinson and Ollie Cahill a good welcome back to united Park. Robinson ran over and applauded us back - and Cahill ignored us.

So far this season Drogs' kids have played some good football but have lacked penetration and goals. Tonight, after four and half hours of waiting, we get two in 45 minutes!

Shane Barrett's return has made all the difference. I can see a genuine partnership between him and Robbie Farrell - Farrell's lay offs were excellent tonight.

Drogs totally bossed the first half, and John Paul Kelly hit the post when it was easier to score, yet somehow we went in to half time a goal down. But in the second half things improved and when the first Drogs 2009 goal hit the back of the net the relief was palpable. It looked like 3 points were a distinct possibility, but Shams fitness levels showed through in the last 10 or 15 minutes.

Even if we get relegated this season at least we're trying to play good football and the lads are giving 100%. And I'd rather watch that anyday than the couldn't care less attitude we saw last season and Doolin's negative tactics.

Helix

PDN wrote: »

Even if we get relegated this season at least we're trying to play good football and the lads are giving 100%

agreed

we're playing some super stuff, its just that we've been lacking anything resembling a cutting edge. hopefully barrett can sort that out in the long run

Ronan|Raven

Shane Barrett.. always welcome in Longford. Was immense for us.

HalloweenJack

****ing brilliant resdult for us tonight. 96th minute winner.

Pats had just equalised. Partridge fouls a Bray player down in the Pats right corner and they are all just standing around when the free kick came in. Some of the worst defending at the Carlisle ever. EVER. And that's saying something.

Absolutely delighted. It still hasn't really sunk in.

dreamers75

well that sucked balls.

stovelid

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Surely Tolka is closer to the city centre than Dalyer?

I'm not going to get a tape measure . The walk from Dalyer to Dorset (going past the Mater) heading to O Connell street always seems a shorter walk to me than walking to same from tolka.

I think we're splitting hairs though. All three are very close to town.

ziggy

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Xavi6

Kev Dohery in the 87th minute

100% record still intact.

Seaneh

Athlone to beat wexford 2-0 tomorrow.

We should have hammered waterford last week and the ref was a disgrace sending McGee off, twas Noelie's 100th game for the club.

Anyway, I love our now 4-2-3-1 system with Willo, Emeka and Noel playing off of big Placey up front, can't believe he was playing senior league untill this season hes a quality target man an has great pace for someone of 6'2odd.

LuckyLloyd

five wins from five imo

Roar

competent performance from city last night. played well, adn contained bohs equally as well.

our goal was nice, good finish from davin o'neill, who's goign to go on and become one of the best wingers in this league.

for bohs disallowed goal, im not convinced it crossed the line before glen crowe volleyed home, but i was only watching on tv and in fairness the linesman's flag went up straight away.

bohs were very poor. maybe it's their financial problems catching up with them on the pitch, I dunno.

dan connor still looks as nervous as a teenager about to bust his cheery though..

good result that i'm quite happy with

still though, doolin out.

djpbarry

ziggy wrote: »

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Rangers.

DSB

ziggy wrote: »

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Shels:D:D:D

Gavin "shels"

DSB wrote: »

Shels:D:D:D

Won't forget the songs we were chanting at the goonery that showed up at Tolka last season for the Celtic reserves friendly.:pac:


Anyway 87th min winner, feckin' great but one dodgy match that we could have packed in, in the 1st half.

bohsman

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Surely Tolka is closer to the city centre than Dalyer?

Not a hope, not the fastest way to either ground but get to the corner of the NCR and Dorset St, Dalymount is 5 mins away, Tolka is 20.

ziggy wrote: »

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Graham Carey a Celtic youth is on loan with us till July, also this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CtnNgfVdVk

monkey9

Who was the ref in the Bray - Pat's match. Absolutely shocking performance and i want to know his name so i can give him dog's abuse next time he does a Pat's game. Him and Chris Deans!

Pighead

Nice win for Dundalk last night over in Sligo. Mansaram slowly but surely finding his feet. Goal and an assist last night. Dundalk up to mid table and with a positive goal difference. Shamrock Rovers next up on Tuesday evening. Should be good.

20 Times 20 Times

Pighead wrote: »

Nice win for Dundalk last night over in Sligo. Mansaram slowly but surely finding his feet. Goal and an assist last night. Dundalk up to mid table and with a positive goal difference. Shamrock Rovers next up on Tuesday evening. Should be good.

Mansaram was very lucky with his goal :0 but I'll take it. Shams on tuesday.

Gavin "shels"

monkey9 wrote: »

Who was the ref in the Bray - Pat's match. Absolutely shocking performance and i want to know his name so i can give him dog's abuse next time he does a Pat's game. Him and Chris Deans!

Derek Tomney.

SectionF

Roar wrote: »

competent performance from city last night. played well, adn contained bohs equally as well.

our goal was nice, good finish from davin o'neill, who's goign to go on and become one of the best wingers in this league.

for bohs disallowed goal, im not convinced it crossed the line before glen crowe volleyed home, but i was only watching on tv and in fairness the linesman's flag went up straight away.

bohs were very poor. maybe it's their financial problems catching up with them on the pitch, I dunno.

dan connor still looks as nervous as a teenager about to bust his cheery though..

good result that i'm quite happy with

still though, doolin out.

In spite of lots of possession and territory, Bohs didn't play. Cork handled it pretty well, and the goal was very nicely taken. We deserved to lose.

dyl10

I think the Bohs game was pretty evenly matched.
Neither keeper had anything major to deal with(apart from Murphy with the goal of course).
Cork kept things very tight and they looked much improved on recent weeks.
Ndo couldn't seem to get into the game, maybe he was played to far foward?

I think a 0-0 would probably have been a fair result.

iregk

For anyone watching this match at home we were given the absolute pleasure of having top notch analysis by the man that just doesn't shut up, Roddy Collins.

His gem this week when describing Byrnes volley that was inch's over the bar:

"He had great technical, erm, technique hitting that shot". Genius!