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Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Best bet would be to get the Luas to the Point, which is at the end of the red line (every second one goes to the Point, the others go to Connolly). It's about a 5-10 minute walk from there to Lansdowne. Would cost less than a fiver for a return ticket (lower again if you use a leap card).

Thats what I'll be doing. Very old school calling it the point ha

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Match and train tickets gotten

Fabio

I'm in Athlone (exile) and you wouldn't know the biggest game in Irish football is happening at all. Even when I look online though there's very little around about it thanks to the FAI.

I can see City are doing a great job back home and Dundalk seem to be doing a decent job too but nothing from the FAI at all. Disgrace.

Alfie Tupper

is there extra time on Sunday or is it a replay if level after 90 minutes?

Cape Clear

Alfie Tupper wrote: »

is there extra time on Sunday or is it a replay if level after 90 minutes?

extra time and penos if needed the GAA the only sport in the world that allows finals to go to replays at this stage

Worztron

Cape Clear wrote: »

extra time and penos if needed the GAA the only sport in the world that allows finals to go to replays at this stage

That's the proper way. Decide it on the day. It's only fair on the fans. Besides, they've played enough games to get to the final, no need to lump yet another game on in the form of a replay.

gimmick

When was the last replay? I know we won the 98 one after a replay. I think the following year Bray and Finn Harps had 2 replays?

Worztron

gimmick wrote: »

When was the last replay? I know we won the 98 one after a replay. I think the following year Bray and Finn Harps had 2 replays?

2000 - Shels vs Bohs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAI_Cup

Paz-CCFC

MrMac84 wrote: »

Thats what I'll be doing. Very old school calling it the point ha

It's the Point, regardless of what some company pays another company to "rebrand" it. (Likewise for Lansdowne Road!) Also, the Luas people call it the Point.

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Paz-CCFC wrote: »

It's the Point, regardless of what some company pays another company to "rebrand" it. (Likewise for Lansdowne Road!) Also, the Luas people call it the Point.

I would say I'd stick out asking a local Dub where the three arena is but my think cork accent will do that for me ha ha!!

applehunter

Jim "Moses" Ryan all talk on 96FM this morning.:pac:

PJ couldn't get a word in.:)

Fabio

Absolutely buzzing lads!

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How's #CorkIsGreen coming along?

crustyjuggler

City are gonna do it tomorrow lads . It'll be a great occasion .

gimmick

crustyjuggler wrote: »

City are gonna do it tomorrow lads . It'll be a great occasion .

Do you promise

Nerves are rising now and in my mind I'm seeing a late Dan Murray header to settle things.

crustyjuggler

gimmick wrote: »

Do you promise

Nerves are rising now and in my mind I'm seeing a late Dan Murray header to settle things.

Law of averages . We haven't beaten them in 8 or 9 games . City to win 2 - 1 . Should I buy a few cans for the train or is it too early to drink ?

ShamoBuc

Jersey, scarf, hat, coat....only about 12 hrs till the train....the buzz is building, Landsdowne hotel for pints me thinks and the build up to, hopefully, a good final but more importantly a win over that lot !!

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crustyjuggler wrote: »

Law of averages . We haven't beaten them in 8 or 9 games . City to win 2 - 1 . Should I buy a few cans for the train or is it too early to drink ?

I'll be bringing 4 with me?

Worztron

Some might end up seeing 22 men on the pitch.

Come on City!!!

Worztron

...24 - I forgot about the ref.

the beer revolu

Worztron wrote: »

...24 - I forgot about the ref.

Eh, 23 men on the field .
Seeing double would make that 46.

Worztron

the beer revolu wrote: »

Eh, 23 men on the field .
Seeing double would make that 46.

Doh! I was thinking of 1 team. :pac:

the beer revolu

Worztron wrote: »

Doh! I was thinking of 1 team. :pac:

Over excited!

Worztron

ShamoBuc

Could have went either way. Poor game.

gimmick

No it couldn't have. We played for penalties from the off. We were awful yesterday. Dundalks keeper didn't have a single save to make.

What really boiled my blood was the freekick at the death. All day we had no luck with floated balls into the box. So what did Healy do? He facking floated one into the box. And what happened? Just put the laces through it low. Maybe a deflection or something. Instead nothing.

Better team won. We didn't deserve it.

rob316

Tactics and game plan were a disgrace. 90 mins of lumping the ball into the box didn't work so I don't know why he thought employing the same tactic with Murray was going to work.
Sitting back and playing for penalties against a side that has the width, guile and pace to punish you was brainless stuff.

I have no problem Dundalk winning, they were poor but are a proper side and deserves all the praise and accolades.

Alfie Tupper

that was my third time seeing Dundalk and City this year and it was the worst I have seen Dundalk play yet they still had more than enough to win it.
City were very disappointing and unless Dundalk lose a few players to England it will be a similar story next year.

applehunter

John Caulfield football = Trappatoni football.

Alfie Tupper

Great to see Steven Beattie has signed a two year contract and Mark O Sullivan has also signed a new contract.

hman231

Both Billy and Darren gone to Pats not good news two very good players will be missed hope Billy doesent bang in too many for them

Wilberto

hman231 wrote: »

Both Billy and Darren gone to Pats not good news two very good players will be missed hope Billy doesent bang in too many for them

Really? Darren maybe, but I couldn't be happier to see the back of Billy, especially now that Beattie has signed a new deal with us.

ShamoBuc

Billy was a plague on the dressing room. Delighted he is gone. We are building a nice squad of players.

Wilberto

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Billy was a plague on the dressing room. Delighted he is gone. We are building a nice squad of players.

I still don't really expect things to change much, but maybe I'm just being pessimistic!

CHealy

Billy was always going so good to be gotten rid of him at this stage. Was hoping to keep onto Darren but alas he follows his older brother. Word from a current u19 player a few months ago, he said that the two of them are really really close, like way too much even for brothers. Crap attitude aswell, especially from Billy. Time to move on its Pats problem now.

Alfie Tupper

Good luck to Dan Murray who has announced his retirement, it was a joy to witness the "Murray Turn" during his stints in midfield last season.

hman231

Both Dennehys were very very good last two years pats will do well with them

hman231

Cork City win the u19 league again well done to them

ShamoBuc

From a goal down they won 2-1, think that's 4 in a row, great to see the furture so bright!!

gimmick

Fair play to a very successful management team. It does concern me how few players actually make it to the first team though.

Since 2010
Brian Lenihan
John Kavanagh
Garry Buckley

Only those 3 I would consider hits. The likes of Stephen Kenny and Rob Lehane I hoped would push on but did not happen.

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gimmick wrote: »

Fair play to a very successful management team. It does concern me how few players actually make it to the first team though.

Since 2010
Brian Lenihan
John Kavanagh
Garry Buckley

Only those 3 I would consider hits. The likes of Stephen Kenny and Rob Lehane I hoped would push on but did not happen.

It's the law of averages really huge gulf between u19 and first team premier not only in skill level but also physical strength.

CHealy

Thats 4 titles in 5 years for City u19's, incredible success.

The step up to senior LOI football is huge, bigger than you know, so no matter what the team is you are only ever going to get 1 maybe 2 players make the step up. This year I can see Connor Ellis and Chiodozie Ogbene make it to first team.

gimmick

Ya fair points.

Ogbene there is definitely high hopes for.

Cape Clear

CHealy wrote: »

Thats 4 titles in 5 years for City u19's, incredible success.

The step up to senior LOI football is huge, bigger than you know, so no matter what the team is you are only ever going to get 1 maybe 2 players make the step up. This year I can see Connor Ellis and Chiodozie Ogbene make it to first team.

Both these guys are doing their leaving cert in 2016 as far as I know.

Paz-CCFC

We also had Alan Browne who would've been a first team player but was picked up by Preston before we got the chance to start him.

So, that's a first team player every year from the U19s. Which isn't too bad, really. You can't bring everyone through, so if you had, say, the best three going through to the squad every year to give us decent cover and one of them becoming a regular starter, that's a decent return. In a little over a decade, you'd have the potential for the entire first team to be made up of underage players. Obviously, we can't rely solely on it, but it shows the big impact that it can have in the team, when supplemented by a few key imports. In a few years, it's very possible that over half of our first team could be made up of U19 graduates. The U17s and the U15s when it starts will really improve things, as well. It'll give us an extra four years to see what the best young players are like and it'll give them an extra four years of playing at the top level of Irish youth football. It'll give us a bigger share of the compensation if they leave out of contract, too.

You only need the odd player like Lenihan going for six figures and the underage setup largely pays for itself, with the potential of getting us more via sell-on/appearance clauses etc.

hman231

Happy Christmas to all city fans. I feel 2016 will be our year I feel that for the last two years running we have easily been the 2nd best team in ireland and with Dundalk losing towell i am confident we will do it thoughts ?

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hman231 wrote: »

Happy Christmas to all city fans. I feel 2016 will be our year I feel that for the last two years running we have easily been the 2nd best team in ireland and with Dundalk losing towell i am confident we will do it thoughts ?

Not sold on us improving yet. Big turnover of players will need too see a few games first as I don't think dalk are a one man team. We thought when Hoban left they'd collapse too. Hopefully we get another 2r3 good body's in before bohs

twowheelsonly

gimmick wrote: »

Fair play to a very successful management team. It does concern me how few players actually make it to the first team though.

Since 2010
Brian Lenihan
John Kavanagh
Garry Buckley

Only those 3 I would consider hits. The likes of Stephen Kenny and Rob Lehane I hoped would push on but did not happen.

Anthony McAlavey was down with Waterford as well and I think Cobh have picked up a couple along the way.

It's hard for these young fellas to break into the Senior team, particularly in the 'key positions' down the middle of the field where there are experienced players operating. Very few managers are willing to take a chance on a young fella when results are king. Damned if they do and damned if they don't. Some of these fellas become disillusioned then and drift back to MSL or local Junior sides where they're guaranteed game time.
Craig Donnellan has been the kiddy in the 19s' for the past couple of years but is he going to get in ahead of any of our current senior midfielders ? As a manager would anyone here have the cajones to put him in there? Likewise Conor Ellis and Chiedozie, although I do think that those two could make the breakthrough before Craig.

Edit: P.S... Incidentally 5 of the Limerick squad that we beat in the 19s' final have played with their Senior team. 'Smaller' clubs can do that, not sure that we'd get away with it.

hman231 wrote: »

Happy Christmas to all city fans. I feel 2016 will be our year I feel that for the last two years running we have easily been the 2nd best team in ireland and with Dundalk losing towell i am confident we will do it thoughts ?

Towell is a massive loss to them but they still have a powerful squad. IMO it's up to us to up our game and not depend on them coming back to meet us. If we start well I think we can do it but we need to treat every game like a cup final and stop dropping the stupid points that have cost us previously.

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Maca is going back too Waterford next season I belive but currently playing with Mayfield in the Msl

Paz-CCFC

We go again.

Dundalk in the President's Cup at the Cross this Saturday afternoon at 2pm. Bohs at home the following Friday, usual 7.45pm (live on RTÉ).

Some new lads which seem to have performed well in pre-season, so will be interesting how they do in the league. Going from reports about the squad, we seem to be stronger this year, so we can succeed where we've fallen the last two seasons? Would be great to finally win it after the disappointment we've seen.

I'll enjoy the buzz of a new, upcoming season for now. You never know how long it's gonna last.