LOI: League Of Ireland Fixtures (WEEK 8) April 20-21st

stovelid

Premier Division



All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Friday 20 April 2012

Bray Wanderers vs Shamrock Rovers - Carlisle Grounds

Bohemian FC vs Monaghan United - Dalymount Park

Cork City vs Sligo Rovers - Turner's Cross

Drogheda United vs Shelbourne - Hunky Dorys Park

Derry City vs Dundalk - Brandywell Stadium

St. Patrick's Athletic vs UCD - Richmond Park

First Division



All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Friday 20 April 2012

Waterford United vs Wexford Youths - Regional Sports Centre

SD Galway vs Athlone Town - Terryland Park

Saurday 21 April 2012

Longford Town vs Mervue United - Flancare Park

Finn Harps vs Limerick - Finn Park


General info

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/irish-soccer/

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/

Monday Night Soccer - Mondays at 7.00pm on RTÉ Two & RTÉ.ie (Worldwide)


Try out a game near you. Click fixture linka for staidum detals.

See club sites for ticket info:

Shamrock Rovers FC
Shelbourne FC
ST Patrick's Athletic
Sligo Rovers
Bray Wanderers
Cork City
Monaghan United
Derry City
Drogheda United
Dundalk FC
UCD AFC
Bohemians

Wexford Youths
Limerick
Longford Town
Athlone Town
Finn Harps
SD Galway
Mervue United
Waterford United

GLaDOS

3rd win in a row hopefully. Monaghan yet to a win a game and with leaky defence by the looks of things. Win will put us above UCD if they don't beat Pats in Richmond and 8 points off bottom.

Zebra3

Drogheda away.

To say I'm looking forward to this one is an understatement.

While unlikely, Drogheda could be top by Friday night. :eek:

Whatever the result, I really hope we go for it and don't sit back and defend.

Pinturicchio

Is there a list anywhere of the fixtures that RTE are showing live in the coming weeks/months?

Gavin "shels"

United Park, probably one of the best away sections for atmosphere in the League.

dan1895

Zebra3 wrote: »

Drogheda away.

To say I'm looking forward to this one is an understatement.

While unlikely, Drogheda could be top by Friday night. :eek:

Whatever the result, I really hope we go for it and don't sit back and defend.

Wish I could make this but alas its not to be. Drogheda have a very unique ground in that it is both the worst and the best in the country at the same time.

ShamoBuc

If we can get a draw against Sligo, I'll be happy with that.

AgileMyth

ShamoBuc wrote: »

If we can get a draw against Sligo, I'll be happy with that.

Surprised you'd say that. We haven't played well yet this season, think Bara has yet to decide on our best team/formation. I've no doubt it'll click and when it does we could be very very good. But Cork should be hoping for a win here.

That said if we put the right team out we should win this.

CSF

AgileMyth wrote: »

Surprised you'd say that. We haven't played well yet this season, think Bara has yet to decide on our best team/formation. I've no doubt it'll click and when it does we could be very very good. But Cork should be hoping for a win here.

That said if we put the right team out we should win this.

Still top of the league, regardless.

Oat23

CSF wrote: »

Still top of the league, regardless.

Which is a great sign considering we haven't had our strongest XI on the pitch yet and as AgileMyth said, the team is still tinkering with the tactics .

CSF

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Which is a great sign considering we haven't had our strongest XI on the pitch yet and as AgileMyth said, the team is still tinkering with the tactics .

I think that applies to almost everyone. Such is the nature of the LOI where everyones team changes dramatically from year to year including very often the manager.

ShamoBuc

AgileMyth wrote: »

Surprised you'd say that. We haven't played well yet this season, think Bara has yet to decide on our best team/formation. I've no doubt it'll click and when it does we could be very very good. But Cork should be hoping for a win here.

That said if we put the right team out we should win this.

Eh, ye are unbeaten, have only conceeded 4 goals, are top of the league and we only got our first win of the season last week.....yes I'll be happy with a draw.
Don't get me wrong if Cty click we are well capable of winning. But even last week, we gave Mon several chances before we hockeyed them.

dfx-

Brrrrrrrr-ay.

I presume there's going to be a sudden icy blast across Ireland on Friday

stovelid

LOL at Sligo manager on MNS saying teams want to knock them off their perch. Getting ahead of himself at bit.

Oat23

stovelid wrote: »

LOL at Sligo manager on MNS saying teams want to knock them off their perch. Getting ahead of himself at bit.

I don't understand..You don't want to knock us off the top of the table then? That is what he means.

applehunter

All set for a decent game at the Cross.

Hopefully the idea of pressing the ball has hit home for Tommy Dunne.

Daryl Horgan to show up the folly of the Sligo board for letting him go on the "cheap"

dreamers75

Love playing UCD with Russell their manager, reckon both of us will create a world record for the amount of passes on the halfway line.

AgileMyth

applehunter wrote: »

All set for a decent game at the Cross.

Hopefully the idea of pressing the ball has hit home for Tommy Dunne.

Daryl Horgan to show up the folly of the Sligo board for letting him go on the "cheap"

Everyone here is well aware of Horgan's ability. He wasn't happy in Sligo and we had the opportunity to bring Boco back. No point in keeping him here to sit on the bench. The move made sense for all three parties imo.

Best of luck to him. Hope he fulfills his obvious potential and makes it at the highest level.

NIMAN

Derry need the 3pts v Dundalk.

No point taking Rovers to the cleaners in the Setanta;) if we're going to drop more points at home.

We are struggling with some injuries at present but need to keep in the mix at the top.

Zebra3

stovelid wrote: »

LOL at Sligo manager on MNS saying teams want to knock them off their perch. Getting ahead of himself at bit.

I think he was just saying that when you are top, the opposition see it as a bigger game and are more up for it.

He certainly didn't come across as arrogant. Not to me anyway.

stovelid

Oatesy23 wrote: »

I don't understand..You don't want to knock us off the top of the table then? That is what he means.

Fair enough. It's valid in terms of the league position but he's kidding himself if he thinks you're hated like we are. :pac:

The point about Sligo earlier actually applies to us too. Both teams are bedding in a new managaer and new additions and haven't really clicked yet but are still racking up points.

WindmillWarrior

Zebra3 wrote: »

Drogheda away.

To say I'm looking forward to this one is an understatement.

While unlikely, Drogheda could be top by Friday night. :eek:

Whatever the result, I really hope we go for it and don't sit back and defend.

So do I mate. It would make for a really open game as we love to attack under Mick Cooke. Very hard game to predict. Probably odds on for the draw though, a score draw.

dan1895 wrote: »

Wish I could make this but alas its not to be. Drogheda have a very unique ground in that it is both the worst and the best in the country at the same time.

Haha, couldnt agree more. We have a saying on UP - its a kip, but its our kip

That_Guy

Do I dare be confident and think Bohs will win a 3rd game in a row against a pretty poor Monaghan squad in recent weeks?

Yes... Yes I do.

10-0

upandcumming

Back to winning ways for the boys! Come on the TOWN!

upandcumming

Also, MUTV are coming to the Flansiro! They'll be taping the game, as well as interviewing Gillespie and fans about his time with us.
More here!

GLaDOS

That_Guy wrote: »

Do I dare be confident and think Bohs will win a 3rd game in a row against a pretty poor Monaghan squad in recent weeks?

Yes... Yes I do.

10-0

First game I'm feeling somewhat confident about.

Guaranteed loss

That_Guy

ScienceNerd wrote: »

First game I'm feeling somewhat confident about.

Guaranteed loss

Meant to ask you actually. What's the bar like at Dalymount these days? Planning to head in early enough with a few mates.

edolan

AgileMyth wrote: »

Everyone here is well aware of Horgan's ability. He wasn't happy in Sligo and we had the opportunity to bring Boco back. No point in keeping him here to sit on the bench. The move made sense for all three parties imo.

Best of luck to him. Hope he fulfills his obvious potential and makes it at the highest level.

Not sure what many people from Sligo saw in Horgan, he was never great in any games he played for us, his crosses were light and were easy for keepers to come and catch them. That being said on MNS it seems that everything that Cork do attacking wise is coming through him. Disappointed not to be heading down myself, haven't been to Turners Cross since we got them in the cup when we were still in the first division, but have an exam that afternoon. Will hopefully get down there for the next game.

GLaDOS

That_Guy wrote: »

Meant to ask you actually. What's the bar like at Dalymount these days? Planning to head in early enough with a few mates.

Gets a decent crowd pre-match. Pints are reasonably cheap dear but quality can be inconsistent.

shanec1928

applehunter wrote: »

All set for a decent game at the Cross.

Hopefully the idea of pressing the ball has hit home for Tommy Dunne.

Daryl Horgan to show up the folly of the Sligo board for letting him go on the "cheap"

I think the woman he met down there had a bigger influence on his decision;)

gimmick

Really wish we were away tonight. No form whatsoever for the game.

monkey9

That_Guy wrote: »

Meant to ask you actually. What's the bar like at Dalymount these days? Planning to head in early enough with a few mates.

You get served by Bohs players themselves!!!

That_Guy

monkey9 wrote: »

You get served by Bohs players themselves!!!

Redzer7

Any matches live on the tele tonight lads?

That_Guy

Redzer7 wrote: »

Any matches live on the tele tonight lads?

Nope. RTE are showing the rugby instead.

dreamers75

http://www.paddypower.com/football/teams/league-of-ireland


thats kinda cool

Redzer7

That_Guy wrote: »

Nope. RTE are showing the rugby instead.

Fúck!

thebuzz

Rovers should really be beating Cork but we weren't great the last couple of games so I'm wary tonight, think it'll be a draw.

monkey9

I reckon i'm in for the most exciting nil all draw ever at Richmond Park tonight!

Mushy

Holy **** things are going down in Bray tonight.

AgileMyth

Pascal coming on. Historic day.

Oat23

Praise god! Go Pascal!

1-0 North

The_Kew_Tour

Fair play Sligo.

my friend text me saying ye fully deserved the win.

ShamoBuc

Over 3k see City lose 1-0, poor game, thought we'd get the draw but it wasn't to be.

NIMAN

Derry starting to struggle in the league, another bad result for us tonight.

I see SK has got another dodgy result for Rovers tonight, although did come back well. I tell you all, SK will make Rovers a worse team. Watch this space.

GLaDOS

Pathetic performance from Bohs, outplayed by Mons who had 10 men for most of the game. Fitness was shocking.

dreamers75

2-0 Saints


best 15 quid i have ever spent in this league, ****ing awesome game. Both sides went out to win and played some smashing football. Other teams take note they went 352 start of 2nd half and for 30 minutes it was a boxing match, we both just went at each other, we hit the post 3 times the bar twice, cleared off the line twice. It was actually a better match then the 5-1 cos they came to play football. Fcukin love UCD


LOL@ Shels "we should be putting these teams away" ahahah told yah nah nah nah

Ebbs

*mumbles something about a conspiracy*

Apart from the fact we're shocking, some of the decisions are outrageous. I assume it was the refs first game up here, but he gave offside from a peno.

One thing I will say is, Bray were the least sporting team I've seen in this league. In big derby games against Bohs, Pats etc you'd see the players show a bit of respect for the other team but bray showed absolutely none. If I seen that sort of behaviour from a Rovers player Id be disgusted.

GLaDOS

Ebbs wrote: »

One thing I will say is, Bray were the least sporting team I've seen in this league. In big derby games against Bohs, Pats etc you'd see the players show a bit of respect for the other team but bray showed absolutely none. If I seen that sort of behaviour from a Rovers player Id be disgusted.

What happened?

dreamers75

Ebbs wrote: »

Apart from the fact we're shocking, some of the decisions are outrageous. I assume it was the refs first game up here, but he gave offside from a peno.

Your the FAIs lovechild so no conspiracy.

All LOI refs have one of these and they randomly shake it. Us and UCD should have had a peno each tonight, ref and lino too slow to keep up with the game meant noone got one.

stovelid

dreamers75 wrote: »

Fcukin love UCD

Like you'd love them if they didn't take their hiding.

All I can positively say about tonight is a fougt-back point and we're still well in the chase.

I wish some of this alleged FAI love for us would translate into competent officiating.