THE DECIDER. HUGE MATCH. DUNDALK FC V CORK CITY

Pighead

Cork City

This is how I think we'll line up and I've put a season's rating for each player in brackets after their name.

Cherrie(7); Gannon (8), Gartland (8), Boyle (8), Massey (7.5); Shields (7.5), O'Donnell (N/A), Horgan (8.5), Towell (8), Meenan (7); Hoban (9)

Ten of the starters are nailed on and it's a toss up between Byrne and O'Donnell for the final spot more than likely. I reckon given Byrne's sub par performances the last two games O'Donnell could come in beside Shields giving Towell license to start further up the pitch.

MonkeyTennis

Cork City

Spirit Store putting the game on the big screen, Im sure other pubs are following suit.

CSF

Cork City

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

Spirit Store putting the game on the big screen, Im sure other pubs are following suit.

You would hope so!! Huge thing for the town

ionadnapokot

Cork City

Pighead wrote: »

This is how I think we'll line up and I've put a season's rating for each player in brackets after their name.

Cherrie(7); Gannon (8), Gartland (8), Boyle (8), Massey (7.5); Shields (7.5), O'Donnell (N/A), Horgan (8.5), Towell (8), Meenan (7); Hoban (9)

Curious as to why you have Meenan as the lowest ranking outfield player. Inconsistent?

Pighead

Cork City

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Curious as to why you have Meenan as the lowest ranking outfield player. Inconsistent?

Meenan splits opinion amongst many Dundalk fans and I'm sure some of my fellow fans in here will wholeheartedly disagree. For me he has the best set piece delivery in the league and has to be one of the fastest. However he has a horrible habit of giving the ball away and for quite a few games this season he has offered nothing bar his set piece deliveries. When he's on song he's great but doesn't produce it enough for me.

ionadnapokot

Cork City

Pighead wrote: »

Meenan splits opinion amongst many Dundalk fans and I'm sure some of my fellow fans in here will wholeheartedly disagree. For me he has the best set piece delivery in the league and has to be one of the fastest. However he has a horrible habit of giving the ball away and for quite a few games this season he has offered nothing bar his set piece deliveries. When he's on song he's great but doesn't produce it enough for me.

T'was a great cross for Hobans goal last week! From the above, I gather that it was rarely replicated.

Pighead

Cork City

ionadnapokot wrote: »

T'was a great cross for Hobans goal last week! From the above, I gather that it was rarely replicated.

He has quite a lot of assists but the majority of them are from corners/free kicks. In fairness to him he's definitely upped his performances over the last month having been poor for most of August/early September. He has the potential to be a game changer tomorrow evening. Really hope he's in the zone.

uch

If you start with O'Donnell you'll win it, otherwise, I'm not so sure

Pighead wrote: »

This is how I think we'll line up and I've put a season's rating for each player in brackets after their name.

Cherrie(7); Gannon (8), Gartland (8), Boyle (8), Massey (7.5); Shields (7.5), O'Donnell (N/A), Horgan (8.5), Towell (8), Meenan (7); Hoban (9)

Ten of the starters are nailed on and it's a toss up between Byrne and O'Donnell for the final spot more than likely. I reckon given Byrne's sub par performances the last two games O'Donnell could come in beside Shields giving Towell license to start further up the pitch.

10green bottles

Cork City

SSE Airtricity promo for the match. :cool:

blingrhino

Cork City

Jeasus, i can`t wait !

Omackeral

Cork City

Absolutely buzzing for this! Best start to a weekend you can get.

Pighead

Cork City

Cork players going through their pre bedtime rituals about now. It's gonna be a long long night for each and every won of them. Sweating, twitching and unable to sleep in their beds as they recall their previous couple of games in Oriel Park.

Mark McNulty letting out a piercing scream as slow motion replays of the ten goals he has conceded to Dundalk in the last three games between the sides go through his frazzled mind.

It's been the same old story for most of Cork's big away matches this season in the noisier grounds. They arrive on to the pitch and soil their nappies as they immediately become rabbits in the headlights whilst longing for the warm bosom of the Turner's Cross faithful.

Thankfully for the poor Cork players their nightmare will soon be over and they can return home to Cork (empty handed) safe in the knowledge that an extra hours sleep awaits them on Sunday morning thanks to the clocks going back.


V Dundalk- LOST 4-0; LOST 4-0
V Pats- LOST 3-2
V Shamrock Rovers- WON 2-0; LOST 2-0
V Bohs- LOST 2-0; LOST 1-0

Played 7; Won 1; Lost 6; For 4; Against 16.

Paz-CCFC

Garry Buckley and Rob Lehane can draw from the experience of having scored on that pitch to win a national trophy not so long ago.

Pighead

Cork City

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Garry Buckley and Rob Lehane can draw from the experience of having scored on that pitch to win a national trophy not so long ago.

Yeah that's lovely for Lehane. He'll have great fun drawing on all that experience as he watches on from the subs bench.

Paz-CCFC

Pighead wrote: »

Yeah that's lovely for Lehane. He'll have great fun drawing on all that experience as he watches on from the subs bench.

'tis a shame that you can't bring players on from the bench. They should really allow it, would really help teams to be able to make substitutes.

Pighead

Cork City

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

'tis a shame that you can't bring players on from the bench. They should really allow it, would really help teams to be able to make substitutes.

Tis also a shame Lehane has played exactly one minute over the past four games. Don't think young Rob will be playing much part of tomorrows showdown.

Match day info was released earlier by the club. It appears the game will be shown live on the big screen in Market Square in the town centre.


http://www.dundalkfc.com/matchday-information-cork/

Bit of info for Cork fans:

Are you a Cork fan with a ticket to the Dundalk end?

As this is a Category A match strict segregation is in place.
Regardless of how you got your ticket, you will not gain entrance to the Dundalk section of the ground if you are a Cork supporter. Please go to the away section with other Cork fans for admission to the match.
Any Cork supporters that manage to get into the Dundalk section of the crowd will be escorted to the away supporter area.

Message for Cork Fans

All Cork City supporters, for both ground and stand, enter via the Carrick Road side entrance (see map above).
Stand Ticket holders gain access to the stand via the entrance by the away supporter terrace. Security personnel will assist you in this regard. You will need your stand ticket to enter the stand.
Toilet facilities for Cork fans will be located beside the away terrace and near the stand entrance. Cork fans in the stand can avail of the facilities at in the terrace area and must show their stand ticket to gain re-admission to the stand.
The weather forecast appears to be good tomorrow. However, Oriel Park is an old stadium and does not offer covered terraces for away fans. Please bring a raincoat!

Corholio

Pighead wrote: »

Tis also a shame Lehane has played exactly one minute over the past four games. Don't think young Rob will be playing much part of tomorrows showdown.

Match day info was released earlier by the club. It appears the game will be shown live on the big screen in Market Square in the town centre.


http://www.dundalkfc.com/matchday-information-cork/

Bit of info for Cork fans:

Are you a Cork fan with a ticket to the Dundalk end?

As this is a Category A match strict segregation is in place.
Regardless of how you got your ticket, you will not gain entrance to the Dundalk section of the ground if you are a Cork supporter. Please go to the away section with other Cork fans for admission to the match.
Any Cork supporters that manage to get into the Dundalk section of the crowd will be escorted to the away supporter area.

Message for Cork Fans

All Cork City supporters, for both ground and stand, enter via the Carrick Road side entrance (see map above).
Stand Ticket holders gain access to the stand via the entrance by the away supporter terrace. Security personnel will assist you in this regard. You will need your stand ticket to enter the stand.
Toilet facilities for Cork fans will be located beside the away terrace and near the stand entrance. Cork fans in the stand can avail of the facilities at in the terrace area and must show their stand ticket to gain re-admission to the stand.
The weather forecast appears to be good tomorrow. However, Oriel Park is an old stadium and does not offer covered terraces for away fans. Please bring a raincoat!

It was also a shame that Lehane has been injured lately, but most of your posts are full of exaggerated hyperbole anyway so par for the course.

Safe trip to everyone going tomorrow, already buzzing for it and either way should be a great spectacle for the league. Great to see such interest in a game, even for a title decider. Fair play to Dundalk for putting clear instructions for fans tomorrow, no excuse for any confusion now really.

10green bottles

Cork City

Anyone know what time the Cork team are heading to the glorious North-East at?. Just that I'm trying to engineer a water main pipe burst in the South Dublin area atm :pac:

Pighead

Cork City

Corholio wrote: »

It was also a shame that Lehane has been injured lately, but most of your posts are full of exaggerated hyperbole anyway so par for the course.

Why the hell are we talking about Lehane? He's been on the bench all season when fit and has played twenty minutes here and there. He's the equivalent of Mark Griffin in our squad. It's unlikely he'll have much say in this game.

Corholio wrote: »

Fair play to Dundalk for putting clear instructions for fans tomorrow, no excuse for any confusion now really.

You're very welcome.

gimmick

10green bottles wrote: »

Anyone know what time the Cork team are heading to the glorious North-East at?. Just that I'm trying to engineer a water main pipe burst in the South Dublin area atm :pac:

Travelled last night.

Awesomeness

Is this on RTE or Setanta? 7.30 kickoff? Wanna make sure I have the stream ready

10green bottles

Cork City

Awesomeness wrote: »

Is this on RTE or Setanta? 7.30 kickoff? Wanna make sure I have the stream ready

7.45 pm live on RTE2 .You'll be shouting for the town i think i heard you say?

Awesomeness

10green bottles wrote: »

7.45 pm live on RTE2 .You'll be shouting for the town i think i heard you say?

Indeed I will

Hon da town

Iused2likebusts

Great end to the season marginally hope dundalk do it as they have played the best football but you have to admire the attitude of the cork team.

SantryRed

Cork City

Really fancy Dundalk to romp it home tonight with a 3-0/4-0 win. However, John Caulfield is the king of setting up teams to turn matches into dog fights and frustrate the opposition. So it could easily go 0-0. An early goal and Dundalk will coast it.

Gonna have a small punt on -2 and -3 Dundalk.

Pighead

Cork City

Nice article from Daniel McDonnell about how far both clubs have come since the dark days when both flirted with extinction.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/dundalk-and-cork-within-touching-distance-of-league-glory-30688925.html

justshane

Cork City

Help good people of boards! Thought my ticket was sorted but it's not! Huge panic, anybody know of any spare ticket floating? Im a Dundalk fan so home ticket preferable but will take any at this stage! Any help much appreciated

Omackeral

Cork City

Very weird, my missus who has next to no interest in football rang me and asked me to put a bet on Dundalk tonight for her. Everyone's talking about this game. Can't wait. Hope Dundalk do it, very impressed by them all season.

Duff

Cork City

Absolutely sick with nerves.

Can't lose now!





C'MON THE TOWN!

gimmick

Just hitting the road now. Can't wait until it's all over. Been a wreck all week.

MonkeyTennis

Cork City

See you in Ridleys later so

dreamers75

DUndalk are in a Paddypower special.


Congrats Cork.

dan1895

justshane wrote: »

Help good people of boards! Thought my ticket was sorted but it's not! Huge panic, anybody know of any spare ticket floating? Im a Dundalk fan so home ticket preferable but will take any at this stage! Any help much appreciated

Thought I'd never see this kind of request for a LOI game.
Sorry I don't have a spare ticket.

LiamoSail

Looking forward to tonight's match. Wasn't long ago that Munster didn't have a representative in the league, so good to see City back, and their success no doubt promoting the sport in Cork

If a City win tonight can deter even one kid from a future of Canterbury track suits, dubs and the general knobishness we all associate with rugby fans, then it will be worth the stress we'll all have to endure in putting up with those Corkonians, the heads of whom will no doubt inflate even further beyond current levels with a win

dreamers75

Dundalk v Cork City
10/11 Dundalk
9/4 Draw
3/1 Cork City

Airtricity Premier Division Winner
10/11 Cork City
10/11 Dundalk

To finish bottom
8/15 Athlone Town
11/8 UCD

League of Ireland Playoff winner
10/11 Premier Division Club
Evens Galway United
10/1 Shelbourne

First incident to cause a flare from the Dundalk fans
4/7 Dundalk goal
6/4 Dundalk kick off
6/1 Dundalk crowned champions
16/1 Penalty to Dundalk
40/1 First Substitution
50/1 Cork crowned champions
66/1 Penalty to Cork
66/1 Red Card for Dundalk

Match Specials
11/8 Cork to remain top of the league for the entire night
9/2 Dundalk to be on top at any stage and Cork to end up as champions
6/4 A goal to be scored from the 81st minute onwards
7/2 A player to be sent off

Mr.Crinklewood

dreamers75 wrote: »

Dundalk fans should plan it for the first substitution...decent odds and within their control.

Harry Palmr

Should I bother watching this? Will be full of parochial guff and in jokes I don't understand?

Is the pitch real grass or "plastic", Barry Glendenning said the latter on Football Weekly. Hard to tell at the moment.

yay Flares! Or are they lying down smoke to sneak in behind Cork?

Omackeral

Cork City

Well there goes that flare already!!!


Every option Dreamers listed is now moot

Kirby

Cork City

HAHAHA. Look at the commentary booth. :P

Darkglasses

Bit smokey there Ted.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Stupid fake ****ing pitch. Cork City for the league.

Cork City for the league.

Harry Palmr

Presumably there will be a fine to keep John Delaneys own fire lit through the winter.

Paco Rodriguez

Cork City

Got flashbacks of Bradford City fire after seeing all that smoke.
It looks worse on camera though.

Come on Munster!!!

tayto lover

Great crowd and great atmosphere.
Come on the TOWN.

Luap

2-0 home win.

Omackeral

Cork City

Jesus cracking chick at the tunnel entrance there!

Kirby

Cork City

For anybody who didn't see it, the flare was so bad you couldn't even see the commentary booth. :P

monkey9

Dundalk to win this I think. And the fit the occasion it'll probably be something like Stephen O' Donnell grabbing an injury time winner.

Really hope Cork do it though as it would be hilarious to see Dundalk bottle this.

GavRedKing

Interesting start :eek:

Mr.Crinklewood

Brian.