LOI: League of Ireland Fixtures (Week 4), Mar 23-24, 2013

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Premier Division

All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

St. Patrick’s Athletic v Bohemians - Richmond Park - 5pm

UCD v Dundalk - Belfield Park

Sligo Rovers v Limerick FC - Showgrounds

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Drogheda United v Bray Wanderers - Hunky Dory's Park - 3pm

Cork City v Derry City - Turners' Cross - 3.30pm

Shelbourne v Shamrock Rovers - Tolka Park - Live on RTÉ 2, 3.55pm KO

First Division

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Waterford United v Mervue United - RSC - 7pm

Salthill Devon v Wexford Youths - Drom - 7pm

Finn Harps v Longford Town - Finn Park

Athlone Town v Cobh Ramblers - Lissywoollen

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 (except UK)

Try out a game near you. Click a fixture link for stadium detals.

See club sites for ticket info:

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

Wexford Youths
Longford Town
Athlone Town
Finn Harps
Salthill Devon
Mervue United
Waterford United
Cobh Ramblers

That_Guy

I'm assuming it'll be easy enough getting away tickets for the SPA game yeah?

dfx-

Any reason for Pats v Bohs at 5pm?

Team selection for Bohs has me clueless about what to expect against Shels..

The_Kew_Tour

Love to get to Cross on Sunday but will be somewhere on a plane between here and Sweden at that stage.

Omackeral

At Dalymount vs Shamrock Rovers, the PA dude said there was a possibility of the Pat's game being a 4pm Kick Off. I havent heard anything else on this but that was announced on Monday.

Lucan Bohs

That_Guy wrote: »

I'm assuming it'll be easy enough getting away tickets for the SPA game yeah?

Yeah buy them under the arch. Easy to find

Lovely Bloke

dfx- wrote: »

Any reason for Pats v Bohs at 5pm?

Team selection for Bohs has me clueless about what to expect against Shels..

It's grand, it'll be against ten men.

I'm surprised we hadn't a man sent off last night.

Lawrence1895

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

It's grand, it'll be against ten men.

I'm surprised we hadn't a man sent off last night.

Shels might make it up for that on Sunday...with two red cards :rolleyes:

dreamers75

23/03/13
Premier
St. Patrick's
Athletic
Bohemians
Richmond Park
5pm
T.CONNOLLY
W.McDONNELL
S.ROGERS
D.McKEON

giggle

Gavin "shels"

Sunday will be ropey...

brianregan09

This will be a massive test for Limerick playing the champs hopefully we can nick something up there to keep up our great start

The_Kew_Tour

brianregan09 wrote: »

This will be a massive test for Limerick playing the champs hopefully we can nick something up there to keep up our great start

There be no shame in coming away with narrow defeat from Showgounds.

5 points has been good start for Limerick.

Lovely Bloke

Rumourings that SPA are to blame for Tuesday's farce, not the Ref.

Ref wanted to call it off at half six, but SPA said no, they'd get the pitch sorted, then they didn't so the ref had to call it at five to seven.

Far be it from me to absolve the imcompetent refs of this league of any blame, but this one is squarely down to SPA lying.

SantryRed

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Rumourings that SPA are to blame for Tuesday's farce, not the Ref.

Ref wanted to call it off at half six, but SPA said no, they'd get the pitch sorted, then they didn't so the ref had to call it at five to seven.

Far be it from me to absolve the imcompetent refs of this league of any blame, but this one is squarely down to SPA lying.

Still the refs fault too.

Lovely Bloke

SantryRed wrote: »

Still the refs fault too.

I prefer blaming SPA but.

Pighead

Feel sorry for UCD having to face a backlash from a wounded Lilywhites side. The students are actually one of my favourite sides in the division. Generally play a lovely brand of football (Best footballing side to come to Oriel last season. No joking!) and have managed to survive in the big league despite no crowd and a constant moving on of their better players.

If I were manager of Dundalk I'd tell the lads to go easy on UCD and settle for a 1-0 victory. However with ruthless Kenny at the helm I'm going to have to plump for a 3-0 victory for the Dundalk.

dfx-

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

It's grand, it'll be against ten men.

Shels must be running out of candidates for red cards though.

Presumably Foran will be out and I don't know about McGuinness, so there'll be defensive changes..

Alfred Borden

Is there any first division fans here or am I the only one? :pac:

CSF

Raf32 wrote: »

Is there any first division fans here or am I the only one? :pac:

Think you might be the only one. Like literally.

Mushy

Hopefully get something against Drogheda this weekend, just need to keep points ticking over.

dfx-

Raf32 wrote: »

Is there any first division fans here or am I the only one? :pac:

There's fans of First Division teams alright, but I wouldn't say too many fans of the First Division..

kksaints

Raf32 wrote: »

Is there any first division fans here or am I the only one? :pac:

There is definitely a few Longford fans around here and a harps man at least.

dan1895

At least one Youths fan somewhere.

Mars Bar

I wouldn't say I'm a fan but I'm kind of working with Salthill Devon this season.

dfx-

What's Drom like in this kind of weather..

dreamers75

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Rumourings that SPA are to blame for Tuesday's farce, not the Ref.

Ref wanted to call it off at half six, but SPA said no, they'd get the pitch sorted, then they didn't so the ref had to call it at five to seven.

Far be it from me to absolve the imcompetent refs of this league of any blame, but this one is squarely down to SPA lying.

We made it not rain? and lads with squidgees were going to clear a pitch in 25 minutes? That makes perfect logical sense so it must be true.

Fcukin knew we were gods.

Mars Bar

dfx- wrote: »

What's Drom like in this kind of weather..

Baltic

Fupping baltic.

dreamers75

Drogs Trabon game called off.

Saints to blame.

flas

Longford fan here,think harps away is a huge game already in the season,withus beating waterford last week if we beat harps away it will really set down a marker for the season...we have strenghtened considerably during the break and it was our lack of depth last year that cost us the league,we were flying until the few injuries with no suitable replacements,which is not the case this year!

Lawrence1895

dreamers75 wrote: »

Drogs Trabon game called off.

Saints to blame.

Borussia Dortmund's Under23 match against Erfurt was called off yesterday. I'll give Borussia and Erfurt a call and blame...you guessed it...the Saints

Drogmal

dreamers75 wrote: »

Drogs Trabon game called off.

Saints to blame.

If they'd have had it in DROGHEDA in the first place instead of Dublin this wouldn't have happened :rolleyes: Dam them and their prawn filled sandwiches.

Peppa Pig

Drogmal wrote: »

If they'd have had it in DROGHEDA in the first place instead of Dublin this wouldn't have happened :rolleyes: Dam them and their prawn filled sandwiches.

If they had this in DROGHEDA, the match would never have taken place. It was for Setanta to launch Setanta Turkey. Much as I love UP it is nowhere near being good enough for a product launch like that.

Drogmal

Peppa Pig wrote: »

If they had this in DROGHEDA, the match would never have taken place. It was for Setanta to launch Setanta Turkey. Much as I love UP it is nowhere near being good enough for a product launch like that.

Have the launch in the D hotel and play the match in United Park. Surely the dignitaries and powers that be could have braved the elements in the clubhouse for 90 minutes. Anyway at least we will be fresh for Bray just a shame for all the fans who flew in from Europe and a shame the local businesses didn't profit at all.

Mushy

I can see more of this weekends matches not going ahead. I'm in wick low now and its been thumping down for hours on end.

GLaDOS

Wouldn't be optimistic about our game considering it wasn't good enough Tuesday and the weathers only gotten worse.

So much for Dalymount having a chance to recover

Alfred Borden

flas wrote: »

Longford fan here,think harps away is a huge game already in the season,withus beating waterford last week if we beat harps away it will really set down a marker for the season...we have strenghtened considerably during the break and it was our lack of depth last year that cost us the league,we were flying until the few injuries with no suitable replacements,which is not the case this year!

Longford will win the division I think easily enough. Then battle for second and third between Waterford, Finn Harps and Athlone I would say.

IvySlayer

flas wrote: »

Longford fan here,think harps away is a huge game already in the season,withus beating waterford last week if we beat harps away it will really set down a marker for the season...we have strenghtened considerably during the break and it was our lack of depth last year that cost us the league,we were flying until the few injuries with no suitable replacements,which is not the case this year!

I also read Longford are out of debt and got new 60k sponsor. I have always liked Tony Cousins. Things are certainly looking up!

Paz-CCFC

Slightly off topic, but Cork City U19s have been crowned Elite Division champions for the second year running, after Shels conceded a last minute goal to draw 3-3 with Pats. City and Shels play in the Cup Final at the Cross Tuesday week, which City are also defending champions of.

Lawrence1895

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but Cork City U19s have been crowned Elite Division champions for the second year running, after Shels conceded a last minute goal to draw 3-3 with Pats. City and Shels play in the Cup Final at the Cross Tuesday week, which City are also defending champions of.

Shels conceding a last minute goal? Are you sure, it was not the first team?

But in terms of sportsmanship: Congrats to Cork from me

Paz-CCFC

Lars1916 wrote: »

Shels conceding a last minute goal? Are you sure, it was not the first team?

But in terms of sportsmanship: Congrats to Cork from me

You'll be happy to know that Shels ended the match with 11 men!

Lawrence1895

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

You'll be happy to know that Shels ended the match with 11 men!

So it was definitely not the first team :pac:

upandcumming

IvySlayer wrote: »

I also read Longford are out of debt and got new 60k sponsor. I have always liked Tony Cousins. Things are certainly looking up!

Where you read the thing about the debt? The trust wrote off a shit-ton of debt alright, but I'm not sure whats left!

shanec1928

pats -v- bohs off

Hammer Archer

UCD - Dundalk is still on after a pitch inspection this morning. There'll be another inspection this afternoon.

Mushy

Hammer Archer wrote: »

UCD - Dundalk is still on after a pitch inspection this morning. There'll be another inspection this afternoon.

What time is next inspection? Might head up but could be too late.

markc1184

Mushy wrote: »

What time is next inspection? Might head up but could be too late.

Think I seen 2:45 mentioned on twitter.

Pighead

markc1184 wrote: »

Think I seen 2:45 mentioned on twitter.

UCD V Dundalk FC is ON. Excellent news.

AgileMyth

Pitch in the Showgrounds is in good nick. Should be a decent game. Elding to score a hattrick I think. Its time he upped his game.

Mars Bar

1 0 here in drom. Captain, Eugene Greaney, scored a header from a corner. Both teams had a free kick on target with the keepers pulling off good saves. Salthill are down to 10 after the left back picked up two yellows.

Alfred Borden

Athlone Town 0 Cobh Ramblers 1 (C. Meade 13 pen)

Copper_pipe

Limerick Up 1-0 Curran