Summer 2014 thread

helimachoptor

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I don't think we've ever went out of the cup in the first round

what about that time Clay took a penalty and kicked the ball over the net and all the way to tallaght :P

Lovely Bloke

I think that might have been a second round after a 1st round walkover.

I don't think we've ever actually played a first round cup match!

Lovely Bloke

This is our (incomplete) Cup record

2007
1st round - Stab City Strikers 1-1 (3-1 pens)
2nd - GeoDocs (1-1) (1-3 pens)

2008
1st round - walkover
2nd Round

2009
1st Round - Norfolk-Inchance ( 12 ) (Cup)
(1-1, Ciaran, Lost 4-3 on Penalties)

2010
1st Round - Logica ( Div 6 )
(2-1, Jules, Cillian)

2nd Round - Hunts up front ( 1 )
(2-5, Ed, Gary)

2011
1st round - Athletico Itfitsupmegowl FC
5-2

2nd Round - Templeroan
0-0, 4-2 pens

3rd Round - If There's Grass
0-2

2012
1st Round - The Royal Samplers
(4-3,David Kelly (4))

2nd Round - SAP
(4-4, 5-6 pens)

2013
1st - walkover

2nd Round - Havent A Kalou ( 8 )
3-3 (Derek McL(2), Steve); 10-9 on Penalties

3rd Round - Crewe Motley (2)
2-5

2014
1st Round - KUFC Allstars
Walkover

homerjay2005

we lost 8-0 in 2008 :eek:

Lovely Bloke

homerjay2005 wrote: »

we lost 8-0 in 2008 :eek:

yeah, think it was Microsoft, they mauled us that night

homerjay2005

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

yeah, think it was Microsoft, they mauled us that night

we only had about 5 or 6 players that night IIRC, the rest were ringers who had never played for us before that and indeed, never again played.

it was pretty a bunch of lads playing to make up 11, against the top team in division 1 at the time.

Lovely Bloke

Yep, that's right.

helimachoptor

Ballalley get a 1-0 win, the league with 6 games left is in our own hands.

Simply speaking 5 wins gets us the league. I think it'll be hard for any team to make up 16 goals especially given we play them.

Mousewar

helimachoptor wrote: »

Ballalley get a 1-0 win, the league with 6 games left is in our own hands.

Simply speaking 5 wins gets us the league. I think it'll be hard for any team to make up 16 goals especially given we play them.

5 really tough games but yeah, we can do it. We're good enough.

Frisbee

Hey lads, my work team has a cup game tonight and we're stuck for numbers. Anyone fancy a game in Benildus at 8?

Lovely Bloke

you want me to text the group?

Mousewar

Frisbee wrote: »

Hey lads, my work team has a cup game tonight and we're stuck for numbers. Anyone fancy a game in Benildus at 8?

Aye

Frisbee

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

you want me to text the group?

That'd be ideal, with Damo in we need one more person for eleven.

Frisbee

Mousewar wrote: »

Aye

Legend, see you up in Benildus about 7.45 or so.

Lovely Bloke

I'd say either Derek or Darren will be interested

Frisbee

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I'd say either Derek or Darren will be interested

Yeah I figured Darren "I hang around at pitches hoping someone would ask me to play" might be my best chance :pac:

Lovely Bloke

I texted Darren and Derek, I reckon Derek will ask the rest of his crew.

I asked them to post here rather than text me back, if there's nothing by 12 I'll text a few more lads.

mrDerek

legs are sore from last nights match and iv no way of gettin to benildus but if ya still have 10 late and someones coming by me id take a few painkillers and give it a shot

Frisbee

Feck risking that, we need you for the rest of our season!

sReq | uTeK

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I texted Darren and Derek, I reckon Derek will ask the rest of his crew.

I asked them to post here rather than text me back, if there's nothing by 12 I'll text a few more lads.

I only seen this now, I was in Cork all day with work and only back now, left phone at home.

Would have played if I was about, hope you went through

Frisbee

We did not. To say we were hammered would be an understatement. Best for your own mental state you weren't there! :pac:

homerjay2005

just a comparison to last season, after 14 games last year, we had

32 goals scored
13 goals conceded
37 points

this season its

53 goals scored
22 goals conceded
30 points

our goals scored is crazy, shows we have gone all out and went for most games, however its left us open at the back and we are conceding alot more goals than we did last season.

i think the league is stronger, Ballalley and BNY are better than the two rivals from last year and Cork are much stronger also.

mrDerek

homerjay2005 wrote: »

just a comparison to last season, after 14 games last year, we had

32 goals scored
13 goals conceded
40 points

this season its

53 goals scored
22 goals conceded
30 points

our goals scored is crazy, shows we have gone all out and went for most games, however its left us open at the back and we are conceding alot more goals than we did last season.

i think the league is stronger, Ballalley and BNY are better than the two rivals from last year and Cork are much stronger also.

I think we are missing paddys pace a bit at the back coupled with not having ed consistently is doing us damage.

homerjay2005

mrDerek wrote: »

I think we are missing paddys pace a bit at the back coupled with not having ed consistently is doing us damage.

weve conceded 4 late goals in 4 of the 5 games we have dropped points in and i think in all of them we had just the bare 11 players, i think that more than anybody missing has cost us.

Late defeat to Ballally when we pretty much had to play the entire 2nd half with 9 men. (3-2)
Late equaliser to Ewetuppers when we should have won the game by 5 or 6 but tired in the last 10 minutes (think we started with 10 for the first 15 mins also) (2-2)
Late goal against Full irish (1-1)
Last night (1-1)

or put it another way, weve scored 46 goals in the 9 games we have won which is astounding, conceding only 11.

helimachoptor

yeah but basically speaking for each additional goal we've conceded, we've scored 2, I dont think thats a particularly bad place to be in, however i think given the increase

We have scored 20% of all goals in a 10 team league.
We've conceeded the same amount of goals as the team on top and the team in 3rd despite us playing a game more.

helimachoptor

mrDerek wrote: »

I think we are missing paddys pace a bit at the back coupled with not having ed consistently is doing us damage.

I think theres a few things.

We've missed Ed 100%

But at centre half we've had

Murtagh/Conor for the first 3 games and conceeded two goals while scoring 15

Then we chopped and changed a bit and i think that hasnt helped, we know from experience a settled back 5 is immensely important in a good title run.

helimachoptor

homerjay2005 wrote: »

weve conceded 4 late goals in 4 of the 5 games we have dropped points in and i think in all of them we had just the bare 11 players, i think that more than anybody missing has cost us.

Late defeat to Ballally when we pretty much had to play the entire 2nd half with 9 men. (3-2)
Late equaliser to Ewetuppers when we should have won the game by 5 or 6 but tired in the last 10 minutes (think we started with 10 for the first 15 mins also) (2-2)
Late goal against Full irish (1-1)
Last night (1-1)

or put it another way, weve scored 46 goals in the 9 games we have won which is astounding, conceding only 11.

Those things happen because of tireness Ed, people not missing ultimately = fresher legs and a reduction in mistakes.

Mousewar

Not to dismiss your conclusions but I'd have thought the biggest factor in the increase in goals scored and conceded is the pitch. We've played most of our games in Colmcilles. It's a super narrow pitch and leads to a lot more goals than Benildus or Wesley.

homerjay2005

Mousewar wrote: »

Not to dismiss your conclusions but I'd have thought the biggest factor in the increase in goals scored and conceded is the pitch. We've played most of our games in Colmcilles. It's a super narrow pitch and leads to a lot more goals than Benildus or Wesley.

ah ya, its a crazy pitch for goals.

Lovely Bloke

one fact still remains, and it's concerning, unless we score 3 goals we don't win.