LOI: League of Ireland Fixtures (Week 13), May 15/16

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All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Premier Division

Friday, May 15th, 2015

Shamrock Rovers v Longford Town - Tallaght Stadium - 8pm

Galway United v Bohemians - Eamonn Deacy Park

Dundalk v Derry City - Oriel Park

Saturday, May 16th, 2015

Bray Wanderers v St. Patrick's Ath. - Carlisle Grounds - 5.45pm

Sligo Rovers v Drogheda United - Showgrounds

Limerick FC v Cork City - Jackman Park - 6.30pm

First Division

Friday, May 15th, 2015

UCD v Wexford Youths - Belfield

Athlone Town v Shelbourne - Lissywoollen

Waterford United v Cabinteely - RSC

Saturday, May 16th, 2015

Cobh Ramblers v Finn Harps - St Colmans Park

General info

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

http://www.sseairtricityleague.ie/

http://www.extratime.ie

Soccer Republic - Highlights show on RTÉ Two at 11.05pm on Monday nights.

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

See club sites for ticket info:

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

UCD AFC
Athlone Town
Shelbourne FC
Wexford Youths
Finn Harps
Waterford United
Cobh Ramblers
Cabinteely FC

NIMAN

Get this in early, I fear for us in Dundalk.

Could be embarrassing.

justshane

No great fixtures ? Maybe Bray v Pats with Crolly in?

White Horse

justshane wrote: »

No great fixtures ? Maybe Bray v Pats with Crolly in?

Galways and Bohs could be entertaining. Both sides like to play football.

GLaDOS

Expect a tough game up in Galway, though we've probably been better away from home this season. Can see it being a draw.

anncoates

NIMAN wrote: »

Get this in early, I fear for us in Dundalk.

Could be embarrassing.

That's the spirit

Pighead

NIMAN wrote: »

Get this in early, I fear for us in Dundalk.

Could be embarrassing.

I also fear for Derry. The fact they are missing a few players won't help them either. A glimmer of hope for the Candystripes is the fact Gartland looks like he won't be playing. Paddy Barrett's time to shine. Expect a comfortable two or three goal victory.

doncarlos

Limerick have already drawn with the champs and Rovers at home. They could pull off another shock against Cork. The rest of the matches look like straight forward affairs.

overshoot

Cobh 3 wins from 3 under Henderson at home, we are missing defenders and going to make the lovely trip from Donegal to Cobh. God help me I must be crazy.
Then again, another ground off the list

CHealy

doncarlos wrote: »

Limerick have already drawn with the champs and Rovers at home. They could pull off another shock against Cork. The rest of the matches look like straight forward affairs.

Looking forward to my last ever trip to Jackman tomorrow, I've been there way too many times as a LOI fan, what a kip. I'll go with a 1-0 win for City, goal to come from a long ball to Mark O'Sullivan who'll take a shot and it'll go in off Sheppards ass.

overshoot wrote: »

Cobh 3 wins from 3 under Henderson at home, we are missing defenders and going to make the lovely trip from Donegal to Cobh. God help me I must be crazy.
Then again, another ground off the list

Enjoy. Really like watching football at St. Colemans, especially on a nice night. Make sure to head into the clubhouse for a few pints, they usually allow you to bring out pints in plastic glasses on the hush hush.

The_Kew_Tour

Would make the effort to head up if it was in Market Fields, even Rathbane!!!

No way am I wasting my time watching a game on crap pitch and ground like Jackman Park. 1-1 or sneaky Cork win for me.

overshoot

CHealy wrote: »

Enjoy. Really like watching football at St. Colemans, especially on a nice night. Make sure to head into the clubhouse for a few pints, they usually allow you to bring out pints in plastic glasses on the hush hush.

Few carloads down on an overnight trip so i imagine we will be following that advice!

Tomagotchye

White Horse wrote: »

Galways and Bohs could be entertaining. Both sides like to play football.

Guaranteed a nil-all now you've said that though...expect many cross field balls into the channels which simply run out of play.

Seriously though - Galway to get their first draw is my prediction. I wouldn't be too disappointed by that. Had my Galway scarf on at work today...getting queer looks off people since it was boiling hot in the office and I'm in Cork. Meh, gotta represent!

GLaDOS

Sounds like a good game down in Galway, 1-1 after 15 minutes

Edit: 2-1 Galway now. Our defence is leaking a lot lately.

3 -1 fúck sake. Apparently Buttimer gave United a penalty for nothing.

A_Sober_Paddy

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Sounds like a good game down in Galway, 1-1 after 15 minutes

Edit: 2-1 Galway now. Our defence is leaking a lot lately.

3 -1 fúck sake. Apparently Buttimer gave United a penalty for nothing.

Buttimer costing me a bet...unless boh's score two without reply

GLaDOS

Well he's given us a peno ourselves, 3-2, ridiculous game.

Omackeral

Shamrock Rovers 1-1 Longford Town approaching HT

miroslavklose

Each of the four top-six clubs that are playing are drawing.

NIMAN

Derry have been absolute pants to watch recently, showing little or no tactics.

How they are still at 0-0 on the hour mark in Oriel I simply can't understand.

Bus across the nets?

A_Sober_Paddy

anyone have any updates on how boh's are doing against galway? I know its still 3-2...but is a goal for boh's coming?

Mars Bar

It's 4-2 now! Connolly with the goal

Mars Bar

4-3 now

A_Sober_Paddy

another penalty in galway...5-3 galway:mad:

Mars Bar

5-3! Bohs scored and then Galway got a penalty with the keeper being sent off.

GLaDOS

Buttimer having a disaster by all accounts

Of course, that's par the course for him.

We didn't deserve anything by the sounds of things.

NIMAN

..... and Derry concede.

galwayrush

Wow , excellent display Galway United.

NIMAN

Have Galway all the players back who were missing the Derry game last week?

The_Kew_Tour

Sounds like cracker in Galway.

MD1990

Mountney is some substitute for Dundalk to have. Would get in every other team.

MD1990

Is there any chance Pats vs Dundalk will be live next week on RTE? Hasn't been announced yet.

Pighead

NIMAN wrote: »

Derry have been absolute pants to watch recently, showing little or no tactics.

How they are still at 0-0 on the hour mark in Oriel I simply can't understand.

Bus across the nets?

Not really a bus to be fair. Derry were pretty comfortable for 90% of the match and had probably as many chances as we did. We created fcuk all. Too many aimless hoofs from Boyle and Barrett at the back. We did start to put Derry defence under serious pressure over from about the 75 minute mark and thankfully the goal eventually came. (not sure how it went in, dribbled into the net. Guessing Mountney's shot took a big deflection). Poor performance (bar Massey who was excellent) but three valuable points earned and our gap at the top maintained.

spiritcrusher

Just back from the Galway game, probably the most bizarre and entertaining match I've seen in ages. Some fairly perplexing decisions made by the ref and linesmen, they probably evened themselves out over the 90 but the Bohs fans were ripping especially with the last penalty. The first two penalties I thought were dodgy (for the first I thought the Bohs keeper got the ball and then the second was outside the box), my initial reaction was the third one was a penalty as the Bohs keeper was nowhere near the ball.
The rest of the game was mostly just chaos with some very sloppy defending thrown in, Prendergast for Bohs was especially tormented by Cunningham and Garcia. Galway probably deserved the win as they were slightly less of a shambles at the back and had a touch more cutting up front (the second last goal was an extremely well worked counter attack).

Pinturicchio

NIMAN wrote: »

Have Galway all the players back who were missing the Derry game last week?

No. Hanley, Oji, Ludden, Byrne, Barry, Molloy, O'Connell and Cantwell were missing tonight.

NIMAN

Pinturicchio wrote: »

No. Hanley, Oji, Ludden, Byrne, Barry, Molloy, O'Connell and Cantwell were missing tonight.

6pts from last 2 games without them, 7 goals scored.

Maybe bench them all when they are available again?;)

dfx-

Hopefully the last time Rovers play 442 against 451s.

Longford will probably feel they should've won that, missed some sitters, but tired for the crucial period midway through the second half.

14 goals in three fixtures and only one for Dundalk..

flas

dfx- wrote: »

Hopefully the last time Rovers play 442 against 451s.

Longford will probably feel they should've won that, missed some sitters, but tired for the crucial period midway through the second half.

14 goals in three fixtures and only one for Dundalk..

Didn't think we should have won, rovers better side over all but thought we could have snuck a draw,especially with gary shaws 1v1 with the keeper,rovers did enough to scrap it,we did enough maybe not to lose!

dfx-

Bray 1-0 St. Patricks Ath.

The_Kew_Tour

FT Limerick 0-1 Cork City.

dreamers75

Poor performance from us tonight, bray looked like a team for most of the game won the middle of the park.

Omackeral

Trevor Croly - Football Genius

dfx-

The one side he had a good record against with Rovers was Pats, so good game for him to start with..

Paz-CCFC

There were about 20 Gardaí at the Limerick v City match tonight. Normal and public order unit (although, no dogs). There were 605 at the match. That'd be the equivalent of about 700 Gardaí at Lansdowne for a Cup Final. An absolute disgrace that this was forced on Limerick. I believe it costs €50 an hour to have one Garda at a matche. If they're there for 3 hours (say, half an hour before kick off and half an hour after), that's €3,000. At an average of a tenner a ticket, Limerick would've made about €6,000 on the gate. Imagine being forced to pay half your gate on that for a fixture that has no history of trouble.

Anyway, decent result. Had the chances to get another few, but happy with the three points and clean sheet. We'll probably have 5,000 now for Rovers on Friday (few will be looking at the League Cup game on Tuesday). Good result for us elsewhere, with Pats losing. 13 points and four places behind Dundalk, that must be them out of the title race. They're closer to the relegation zone than the top.

AgileMyth

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

There were 605 at the match.

That's the bit Limerick should be concerned about.

overshoot

I'm not sure how we are doing it... Or if we even deserve it...or if it can last... But 6 clear

anncoates

Can't see 4-4-2 being used against the better teams. Looked quite porous in midfield at times.

Was the Longford number 16 Ben Mohamed? Looked a very decent player.

Mushy

Delighted with three points. Should get a new manager every week.

Pighead

anncoates wrote: »

Was the Longford number 16 Ben Mohamed? Looked a very decent player.

He's deadly isn't he? Looks a bit lightweight and you'd think he's gonna get knocked off the ball easily but he's so skilful and he just glides by players or else draws a foul. Love watching him play.

Omackeral

Mushy wrote: »

Delighted with three points. Should get a new manager every week.

Ah here, you're getting one every month and a half as it is. Stop being greedy.

Gavin "shels"

Shels won!

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

I believe it costs €50 an hour to have one Garda at a matche.

It depends, Shels have a flat rate with the Guards for our games. So if we have 100 or 1 at our match it costs the same.

Omackeral

2 EA Sports Cup 1/4 finals down for decision tonight.

19:45 Galway United vs Bohemians

20:00 UCC vs Dundalk