LOI: League of Ireland Fixtures (Week 7), April 11-13, 2014

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Premier Division

All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Friday, April 11th, 2014

St. Patrick's Ath. v Shamrock Rovers - Richmond Park

Drogheda United v Bray Wanderers - United Park

Cork City v Sligo Rovers - Turners' Cross

UCD v Dundalk - Belfield

Bohemians v Limerick FC - Dalymount Park

Derry City v Athlone Town - Brandywell

First Division

Friday, April 11th, 2014

Galway FC v Shelbourne - Eamonn Deacy Park

Finn Harps v Wexford Youths - Finn Park - 8pm

Saturday, April 12th, 2014

Cobh Ramblers v Waterford United - St. Colman's Park

Sunday, April 13th, 2014

Shamrock Rovers B v Longford Town - Tallaght Stadium - 3pm

General info

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

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/

Soccer Republic - Mondays at 11.05pm on RTÉ Two & RTÉ.ie.

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

See club sites for ticket info:

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

Shamrock Rovers B
Shelbourne FC
Wexford Youths
Longford Town
Finn Harps
Galway FC
Waterford United
Cobh Ramblers

NIMAN

I've already given up on Derry playing any attacking, exciting, free-flowing football this season under Roddy, but if ever there was a game for us to open up and create chances, surely it must be Friday night (no disrespect Athlone fans).

GLaDOS

Missing the game against Limerick, but hoping for 3 points. They haven't had the best start to the season. Then again, we haven't been setting the world alight either. Clean sheet would be extra nice.

Corholio

Hoping for a Davoren winner in the 90th minute :pac:

Darkglasses

My relatively easy trip to see the Youths. More of a must not lose than a must win, anything that keeps us within arms-reach of a play-off place is good.

AgileMyth

Cant be arsed going all the way to Cork. Already know the outcome. We'll dominate the game and lose one nil.

AgileMyth

Corholio wrote: »

Hoping for a Davoren winner in the 90th minute :pac:

Expect him to be gone off injured long before that.

Can see the reason we let him go but its a pity that ledwith, his replacement, looks to be so poor.

D2D

Hopefully another big crowd at The Cross on Friday

The_Kew_Tour

Dare_2_defy wrote: »

Hopefully another big crowd at The Cross on Friday

Would expect around 4,000, maybe little more.

We got 2,750 for Bray, so with it being Sligo and after last week, it should be another decent crowd.

Gavin "shels"

Big game down in Galway for us, would love to see us win but would happily take a draw now! Should be a good crowd travelling.

Mushy

Not expecting anything from United Park, but you never know with Bray at the moment. A draw would be good, a surprise win would be great!

That_Guy

Home form has been fairly dreadful for a long time. Need to badly improve it and don't see why we can't go out and beat Limerick.

compo1

I want a dry evening at the Cross this time. My clothes are still drenched after last week.

hjkl

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Would expect around 4,000, maybe little more.

We got 2,750 for Bray, so with it being Sligo and after last week, it should be another decent crowd.

There will be little over 3,000 at it. The build up to this game has been almost non-existant.

Mars Bar

Gavin shels wrote: »

Big game down in Galway for us, would love to see us win but would happily take a draw now! Should be a good crowd travelling.

You coming down for it?

Gavin "shels"

Mars Bar wrote: »

You coming down for it?

Will indeed, have limited myself to 4 half days from work for this season for aways and this is one of them. Good few of us getting the train down and staying down there for the night and then there's two buses as well. Should be a healthy enough away support.

CHealy

frimpong wrote: »

There will be little over 3,000 at it. The build up to this game has been almost non-existant.

I reckon 3500 and we'll be doing well. No matter who the game is against, it was always going to be hard to follow last week, and the fact we have 4 home games in April means alot of people will pick and choose the games they go to. 15 quid a week for 4 weeks straight is alot to some, especially if you have to bring kids along. And Sligo isnt really a pull either.

anncoates

CHealy wrote: »

And Sligo isnt really a pull either.

Ouch.

AgileMyth

anncoates wrote: »

Ouch.

We're relegation candidates playing **** football. We don't draw a crowd to our own ground. Don't expect us to draw a crowd elsewhere.

anncoates

AgileMyth wrote: »

We're relegation candidates playing **** football.

I'd be very surprised if you're not in the top four this year. What you've been saying is true though. I thought we deserved to win overall in Tallaght but you couldn't put your chances away.

That_Guy

Someone posted up a stat on the Bohs forum regarding our home record since 2012 and it doesn't make for pretty reading.

Played: 35
Won: 8
Drew: 11
Lost: 16

Jesus.

dfx-

Has Rice been playing for Longford?

AgileMyth

anncoates wrote: »

I'd be very surprised if you're not in the top four this year. What you've been saying is true though. I thought we deserved to win overall in Tallaght but you couldn't put your chances away.

I'd be very surprised if we were. North out tomorrow means an almost definite loss since we can't keep a clean sheet either. Greene up front is our only hope of getting anything.

CSF

AgileMyth wrote: »

We're relegation candidates playing **** football. We don't draw a crowd to our own ground. Don't expect us to draw a crowd elsewhere.

You wouldn't be a historically big club either though, so it's only really be a currently successful Sligo away team who would draw the home fans out for the big game feel. Don't even mean that in a sneering way.

overshoot

Darkglasses wrote: »

My relatively easy trip to see the Youths. More of a must not lose than a must win, anything that keeps us within arms-reach of a play-off place is good.

haha hows the milage going?! in fairness if we want to keep challenging we need to start picking up wins in the home games after draws to waterford/galway. Keating back this week so will have some bite up front this week

CSF wrote: »

You wouldn't be a historically big club either though, so it's only really be a currently successful Sligo away team who would draw the home fans out for the big game feel. Don't even mean that in a sneering way.

given the constantly changing team at the top in the LOI i think that could nearly be applied to all clubs

Oat23

Considering taking Cork at 11/8 tomorrow. I am justifying betting against my own team because it will refund me the money I have paid to watch that sh*te in the showgrounds so far this season.

11/8 is a crazy price. If we get anything with Maguire/Odhiambo in the team it'll be a miracle.

Darkglasses

dfx- wrote: »

Has Rice been playing for Longford?

Played against us (Wexford) anyway.

overshoot wrote: »

haha hows the milage going?! in fairness if we want to keep challenging we need to start picking up wins in the home games after draws to waterford/galway. Keating back this week so will have some bite up front this week

Currently at 2,490km after 5 weeks.

CSF

overshoot wrote: »

given the constantly changing team at the top in the LOI i think that could nearly be applied to all clubs

Except largely the historically big clubs. Shamrock Rovers unfortunately the prime example. You care about your home game against them even if they're doing crap. I like to think we are similar enough but to a lesser extent, my experience of us at our worst last season indicated that to be the case anyway.

gimmick

Surely the "draw" for CCFC fans is to see our team top of the table and solidifying our position? I expect 4000+ again. Hope the weather is not as monsoon like as last week.

CSF

gimmick wrote: »

Surely the "draw" for CCFC fans is to see our team top of the table and solidifying our position? I expect 4000+ again. Hope the weather is not as monsoon like as last week.

There's still going to be a massive contrast between the home attendance at Bray or UCD and that of Rovers or Pats.

gimmick

True. As shown by the relatively small crowd for Bray.

The_Kew_Tour

2,750 at Cork v Bray is not bad in fairness

dreamers75

Bolger and Brennan available for tomorrow. Should be an interesting game thank god its not on tv.

UnleashTheBeast

Gavin shels wrote: »

Big game down in Galway for us, would love to see us win but would happily take a draw now! Should be a good crowd travelling.

Great to hear that a few Shels fans are travelling, thought there might.

You would almost forget what an atmosphere is like being in the First Division at times.

Hoping for a good crowd from ourside of things, maybe 1300-1500 and hopefully not a loss. Although there are doubts over two of our most influential players (Martin Conneely and Ryan Connolly), hopefully both will be fit.

dreamers75

Just leave that there.

anncoates

dreamers75 wrote: »

Should be an interesting game thank god its not on tv.

Won't be pretty, I'd say.

Alfred Borden

Expecting another defeat tonight, Derry to pout at least 3 past us.

doncarlos

Raf32 wrote: »

Expecting another defeat tonight, Derry to pout at least 3 past us.

If they play like they did against Dundalk you might have a chance. Probably the worst Derry side I've ever seen.

Dundalk should have too much for UCD tonight. We are on a good run of form and should be able to rest a few players. If UCD try and play football against us we could stuff them.

NIMAN

Raf32 wrote: »

Expecting another defeat tonight, Derry to pout at least 3 past us.

Have you seen us play?

Roddy will probably play for a 1-0 victory with a counter-attack.:rolleyes:

Pighead

NIMAN wrote: »

Have you seen us play?

Roddy will probably play for a 1-0 victory with a counter-attack.:rolleyes:

Your lot were awful against Dundalk alright but I seen the game against Drogheda and they were pretty decent and probably deserved to win that game. Derry have also had the toughest start possible so far in the league playing Cork, Dundalk, Sligo, Shamrock Rovers, Pats and Drogs. Would expect Derry to pick up a few points in the next four or five games.

Alfred Borden

NIMAN wrote: »

Have you seen us play?

Roddy will probably play for a 1-0 victory with a counter-attack.:rolleyes:

somethings gotta give, i think it will be the worst team in the league though, 0-0 , point for both teams, happy out :pac:

NIMAN

Pighead wrote: »

Your lot were awful against Dundalk alright but I seen the game against Drogheda and they were pretty decent and probably deserved to win that game. Derry have also had the toughest start possible so far in the league playing Cork, Dundalk, Sligo, Shamrock Rovers, Pats and Drogs. Would expect Derry to pick up a few points in the next four or five games.

Admittedly we had a hard start, deserved a point v Rovers, finally beat Sligo after 6 years, deserved to beat Drogs, but overall it has been shocking football, especially at home where 95% of the fans see the team.

There are a lot of unhappy folk on the Derry forum, despite us being only 6 games in. Us Derry folk are notoriously impatient with managers, but its more the style of play and hoofball thats bugging most.

Of course if we get 5 victories in the next 5 games, which might well happen, things might swing around a bit.

Omackeral

Athlone 0-1 up at the Brandywell! #Dare2Dream

Alfred Borden

Omackeral wrote: »

Athlone 0-1 up at the Brandywell! #Dare2Dream

That dream didnt last long :pac:

DrumSteve

0-0 half time in dalymount.

Fairly turgid stuff from all involved so far.

dreamers75

Pats denied a stonewall peno then gifted the most atrocious peno ever, byrne sent off for a decent tackle.

As with last week not gonna moan about the **** refs in the league as both teams have to deal with it.

Mars Bar

By the sounds of it, Galway were the most threatening of the two teams but have gone and conceded a 93rd minute goal to Shels. :mad:

Oat23

1-0 Rovers down in Cork!

Own goal. Still can't score ourselves.

Cork penalty in extra time...

Dennehy converts it..

1-1 93'

Lawrence1895

Mars Bar wrote: »

By the sounds of it, Galway were the most threatening of the two teams but have gone and conceded a 93rd minute goal to Shels. :mad:

Please don't take it in any offensive way, but...if it's true (since Extratime stopped working after 87 minutes), then........


YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

jeffery lebowski

Jeez We (Sligo) can't buy a break this season - Killer late goals now against Cork and Dundalk. But you make your own luck they say

AgileMyth

Spillane that gave away the penalty. Should be left there. Thats twice hes cost us points.