LOI: League of Ireland Fixtures (WEEK 21) August 3-4 2012

stovelid

Premier Division



All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Friday 3 August 2012

UCD AFC vs Shamrock Rovers FC - UCD Bowl

Bohemian FC vs Bray Wanderers - Dalymount Park

Dundalk vs Cork City - Oriel Park

St. Patrick's Athletic vs Derry City - Richmond Park (Postponed)

Saturday 4 August 2012

Sligo Rovers vs Drogheda United - Showgrounds

First Division



All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Friday 3 August 2012

Athlone Town vs Wexford Youths - Lissywollen

Limerick vs Longford Town - Jackman Park

Finn Harps vs SD Galway - Finn Park

Saturday 4 August 2012

Mervue United vs Waterford United (7.30PM) - Fahy's Field

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

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

stovelid

Week 21. Please refer to Week 20 if you want to continue the Shels and Cork casuals chronicles.:pac:

Pretty much essential for rovers to continue the improvement and get a result in Belfield as time is running out to push Sligo.

That_Guy

Pity Sligo V Drogs isn't being shown on TV.... AFAIK anyway. Easily the pick of the fixtures this week. Would love a Drogheda win to keep things very interesting at the top.

As for Bohs, this is surely a game they should be looking to win. Back to back wins against UCD and Dundalk and need to keep that momentum up for a very tough run in coming into the 3rd series of games.

Hopefully Dinny will be back up front come Friday or at least get some minutes under his belt. Looking very light up front and don't really have a plan b as it stands with makeshift strikers leading the line.

Defence will need to be on it's toes though. Keep Jason Byrne quiet and they should be ok... I hope.

antomorro-sei

Massive game down in Limerick in the first division.

Lucan Bohs

Hopefully another 3 points. Bray didn't have a league game last week so they'll be fresh and prepared.

Would stick with the same 11 from Friday except if Dinny's fit bring him in for Wilson!

Good to see that Casa Rebelde are also selling tickets to our games

Hopefully there'll be a few German visitors to our game

gimmick

Somehow I see a draw between Dundalk and CCFC this weekend. Doing a lot of those lately.

BKC

Hopefully we can finally win a match this weekend against Dundalk!

Zebra3

Weekend off, so 4:0 to Bray please. :cool:

upandcumming

Oh dear God Town please win agin Limerick!

flas

huge game for us in limerick...

The_Kew_Tour

Another fecking Draw for us.

Mushy

Horrible wet day, not sure if will make the ucd match. Prob will tho, could be fun

shanec1928

That_Guy wrote: »

Pity Sligo V Drogs isn't being shown on TV.... AFAIK anyway. Easily the pick of the fixtures this week. Would love a Drogheda win to keep things very interesting at the top.

As for Bohs, this is surely a game they should be looking to win. Back to back wins against UCD and Dundalk and need to keep that momentum up for a very tough run in coming into the 3rd series of games.

Hopefully Dinny will be back up front come Friday or at least get some minutes under his belt. Looking very light up front and don't really have a plan b as it stands with makeshift strikers leading the line.

Defence will need to be on it's toes though. Keep Jason Byrne quiet and they should be ok... I hope.

no thanks!! this is only are third home game at our regular time on a saturday.

Mr.Crinklewood

Full times.

Bohs 0-0 Bray

Dundalk 1-1 Cork

UCD 0-2 Shamrock Rovers.

Mushy

Delighted bray got a point, how was the match overall?

Tonight was the first time ucd looked like a really bad team. Bar the one easy chance, they were outplayed all over the pitch. Was 2-0 going on 5 really. Cant see them getting enough points to stay up now.

BKC

Another draw! :rolleyes:

ShamoBuc

BKC wrote: »

Another draw! :rolleyes:

More than half our games have been draws, 10 out of 19, joke.

dfx-

Hopefully it's only a knock for Sullivan..

Encouraging performance: Hawkins excellent, Finn good in the first half, Stewart made a huge positive difference compared to Kavanagh, McCabe was tricky.

Season started to fall apart in the corresponding home fixtures, hopefully it starts changing again

Gavin "shels"

Weird not having a match...

dreamers75

dfx- wrote: »

Hopefully it's only a knock for Sullivan..

Encouraging performance: Hawkins excellent, Finn good in the first half, Stewart made a huge positive difference compared to Kavanagh, McCabe was tricky.

Season started to fall apart in the corresponding home fixtures, hopefully it starts changing again

If sligo dont win morrow league is in the bag.....

stovelid

Think it should have been a rout tonight

League probably gone for us but tonight was promising. We've tightened up at the back big time: Sives and Sully responsible for that but Oscar also starting to look like a real keeper. Deadly to have 6 points in the bag vs Sligo vs Pats and Sligo vs Drogheda plus we meet Sligo Monday week. They don't get 3 points from us there and I can see major jitters.

That said, I think the league is beyond us but it's good to see us playing like a team again and still in FAI cup and in the league cuo semi: both of which I would love us to win.

monkey9

dfx- wrote: »

Hopefully it's only a knock for Sullivan..

Encouraging performance: Hawkins excellent, Finn good in the first half, Stewart made a huge positive difference compared to Kavanagh, McCabe was tricky.

Season started to fall apart in the corresponding home fixtures, hopefully it starts changing again

Hawkins was playing!!!! :eek::eek:

stovelid

monkey9 wrote: »

Hawkins was playing!!!! :eek::eek:

Fair play to him. Super pro - on the pitch at least.

Played through a fitness test in Tallaght because we were short-handed and insisted on playing last 15 minutes in Derry with cracked ribs that almost led to a collapsed lung.

Any supporter of any club would get behind that.

Ebbs

stovelid wrote: »

That said, I think the league is beyond us but it's good to see us playing like a team again and still in FAI cup and in the league cuo semi: both of which I would love us to win.

Not when you look at fixtures it isnt.

Ideally tomorrow night is a draw, and the game in hand pats and sligo have is against eachother, meaning that we could well be back in it.

We're not good enough, but teams around us are looking just as shaky. Sligo have just taken a big knock with North gone, and Pats about to lose a player or two before the transfer window apparently.

Should make for a very close title rush.

On an unrelated note, as much as Id love to see Drogs win the league (if we dont), I really wouldnt want three brennans to pick up a medal.

dreamers75

Ebbs wrote: »

We're not good enough, but teams around us are looking just as shaky. Sligo have just taken a big knock with North gone, and Pats about to lose a player or two before the transfer window apparently.

Not leaving until end of our season but dunno if Reading will stick to that deal.

Fagan Forrester, everyone getting paid no chance we will replace either

Ebbs

dreamers75 wrote: »

Not leaving until end of our season but dunno if Reading will stick to that deal.

Fagan Forrester, everyone getting paid no chance we will replace either

Ah heard mixed reports. Same as when Enda signed for Villa.

We only played him sporadically after that, mostly in Europe as per agreement I believe.

Trivia: Enda has played 4 out of 5 Villa preseason games, I think 2 starts and came on twice, but has got more minutes than most.

dreamers75

Faherty and ANother seems to be the replacements. i heard who AN other is and laughed

In Bucko we trust.

Corholio

Ebbs wrote: »

Ah heard mixed reports. Same as when Enda signed for Villa.

We only played him sporadically after that, mostly in Europe as per agreement I believe.

Trivia: Enda has played 4 out of 5 Villa preseason games, I think 2 starts and came on twice, but has got more minutes than most.

Pretty much every senior player available has played about the same number of pre season games as Stevens. Won't be first choice, and doubtful he'll be second choice either.

flas

ok result in limerick,hopefully we have come out of our slump and can push and win the league!ltfc

guinnessdrinker

Can't wait for the Sligo Rovers v Drogs game tonight. I think Drogheda will cause a lot of problems.

So far the best team I have seen in the Showgrounds this year were Pats by a mile. So will be interesting to see if Drogs surpass Pats.

born2bwild

Gavin shels wrote: »

Weird not having a match...

Kinda like last year.

I actually made myself hotdogs last night - pure coincidence.

BKC

Quigley puts Sligo 1-0 up after 10 minutes.

Mr.Crinklewood

BKC wrote: »

Quigley puts Sligo 1-0 up after 10 minutes.

3-0 now.

Boco and Conneely.

Mr.Crinklewood

Hynes pulls one back for Drogs.

applehunter

FT

4-1

Impressive stuff.

gustavo

applehunter wrote: »

FT

4-1

Impressive stuff.

Best I've seen us all season , Boco. Cawley and Ndo all top class

Oat23

Best game of the season for us. Fantastic isn't the word to describe tonight! A nice bit of rain made the surface perfect for the game and we dominated. I think their goal after 70(?) minutes was their first shot on target!

I hope Boco stays and keeps up his recent form, he was great again tonight and Pascal caused a lot of problems, he's class!

monkey9

That puts Drogheda back in their place a bit. There was title talk there for a while. Great seeing them up there though. I really do hope they can maintain form.

Some win for Sligo though! Fantastic scoreline.

guinnessdrinker

Thought Rovers were class last night, they played great football. The wet surface definitely helps. Crowd in good voice too.

Even the Drogs fans never stopped singing, I have to say fair play to them coming down to Sligo on a miserable night in good numbers.

southlouth type

monkey9 wrote: »

That puts Drogheda back in their place a bit. There was title talk there for a while. Great seeing them up there though. I really do hope they can maintain form.

Some win for Sligo though! Fantastic scoreline.

What you mean it puts us back in our place ? There was no title talk from anyone connected to drogheda apart from a silly interview with alan Byrne in fridays newspaper . We have by far surpassed expectation at the beginning of the season . We are gonna battle hard for a european spot and a league cup final would be great . I hope sligo go and win it tbh but i get the impression alot of the support is getting a bit cocky ! Id be wary of that .

SantryRed

southlouth type wrote: »

What you mean it puts us back in our place ? There was no title talk from anyone connected to drogheda apart from a silly interview with alan Byrne in fridays newspaper . We have by far surpassed expectation at the beginning of the season . We are gonna battle hard for a european spot and a league cup final would be great . I hope sligo go and win it tbh but i get the impression alot of the support is getting a bit cocky ! Id be wary of that .

You said this only last week

southlouth type wrote: »

Is that not what we are doing already ? No doubt his injury is a good thing for us but have to go and win games regardless . 6 on the trot now so showing signs of consistency . Sligo next weekend is a massive one for us !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

doncarlos

southlouth type wrote: »

but i get the impression alot of the support is getting a bit cocky ! Id be wary of that .

In fairness they've been like that for the past few seasons. At least there is some merit to it this season.

Orizio

dfx-

^

Could've been anyone..not seeing what it has to do with LOI..

bohsman

Almost certainly an EPL fan, not sure what it has to do in a LOI fixtures thread.

Ebbs

bohsman wrote: »

Almost certainly an EPL fan, not sure what it has to do in a LOI fixtures thread.

Seriously? :L It has nothing to do with football, could have been anyone... doesnt matter what league he supports. Can LoI fans not be racist too? Im all for defending the league but its just some attention seeking racist, nothing more.

On the plus side, first time ive heard of "exotic" fruit making it's way to limerick.

bohsman

Ebbs wrote: »

Seriously? :L It has nothing to do with football, could have been anyone... doesnt matter what league he supports. Can LoI fans not be racist too? Im all for defending the league but its just some attention seeking racist, nothing more.

On the plus side, first time ive heard of "exotic" fruit making it's way to limerick.

More the fact that the crowd would have been 95%+ EPL fans.

stovelid

I think he's trying to say more that it's to do with the inherent racist evil of dirty neo-tans that follow the disgusting garrison game.

Because obviously it is not an issue in other codes.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/wexford-gaa-to-probe-new-racism-claims-198649.html

southlouth type

SantryRed wrote: »

You said this only last week

I said we are mounting a challenge ? So what , the vast majority of drogs support and management have said all along a euro spot would be a great season and nobody is talking about a league title . We certainly dont need putting back in our box etc as we know fine well we wont be winning it !

shanec1928

:pac::pac: can they try any harder? its funny..

aliveandkicking

shanec1928 wrote: »

:pac::pac: can they try any harder? its funny..

Shamrock Rovers in trying to drum up interest and promote a match shocker.

Yeah of course it's much better to do what the other clubs do when matches are moved to be shown on TV i.e. do nothing to promote the games and then complain that televised games are ruining attendances.