LOI: League of Ireland Fixtures (Week 25), Aug 26-30

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All various kick-offs

Premier Division

Friday, August 26th, 2016

Finn Harps v Shamrock Rovers - Finn Park - 8pm

St. Patrick's Ath. v Bohemians - Richmond Park

Cork City v Longford Town - Turners' Cross

Wexford Youths v Dundalk - Ferrycarrig Park

Saturday, August 27th, 2016

Bray Wanderers v Derry City - Carlisle Grounds

Sligo Rovers v Galway United - Showgrounds

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016

Shamrock Rovers v Derry City - Tallaght Stadium - 8pm

Cork City v Bray Wanderers - Turners' Cross

First Division

Friday, August 26th, 2016

Waterford United v Drogheda United - RSC

Athlone Town v Cabinteely - Lissywoollen

Saturday, August 27th, 2016

Cobh Ramblers v Shelbourne - St. Colman's Park

Sunday, August 28th, 2016

UCD v Limerick - Belfield

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
Longford Town
Galway United
Wexford Youths
Finn Harps
Bohemians

UCD AFC
Drogheda United
Limerick FC
Athlone Town
Shelbourne FC
Waterford United
Cobh Ramblers
Cabinteely FC

Omackeral

St Pats away is an absolute bogey for Bohs, haven't won there in about 6 years or so. We did smash the Saints 5-1 at home this season though. Would take a draw at this stage but won't hold my breath.

gimmick

CCFC need to smash Longford tonight. No sloppy 1-0s (though Id take it), the team needs to remember where the net is.

kksaints

We need revenge after the hammering we got in Dalymount in May. Hoare is suspended so we are going to have to make a change in defence.

Pighead

Need to stop the rot this evening and get back on track in the league. I know Wexford haven't been getting great results but anytime we have played them recently they've given us a hell of a game and we've had to pull late winners out of the back. Squad must also be knackered after our European exploits. Going to be a tricky game this evening.

The_Kew_Tour

Cork should win and will win. Question is by how many. 2-0 or goal win and it is not great.

Hammer Archer

A draw for Limerick on Sunday and they'll officially be champions.

HalloweenJack

Two tough games for ourselves, hopefully our recent momentum can get give us the confidence to get something out of them.

Mushy

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Two tough games for ourselves, hopefully our recent momentum can get give us the confidence to get something out of them.

Id be very happy with 3 points from the two games. Will head to the Cork game Tuesday, hopefully get something there. Not good playing 2nd and 3Rd in a row, but think they're good enough to get something.

dfx-

I'd be surprised if Rovers get a point tonight, the defence is appalling and liable for stupid mistakes.

Edit: 0-2 great scoreline that.

Darkglasses

Very decent performance by the Youths going into the Leinster Senior Cup final on Monday. Really impressed by Sean Gannon for Dundalk. Great game of football I thought, referee a little card-happy but after last night's WCL ref I'm completely indifferent.

Also happy to report the crowds picked up a bit for the Youths men tonight too, got over 700 in.

kksaints

Pure crap from us tonight.

Alfa Quadrifoglio

Omackeral wrote: »

St Pats away is an absolute bogey for Bohs, haven't won there in about 6 years or so. We did smash the Saints 5-1 at home this season though. Would take a draw at this stage but won't hold my breath.

Great win for Bohemians tonight, class free kick from Curtis Byrne (class player needs to work harder). Was very surprised by the performance of St Pats, lacked urgency and intent.

Sue Pa Key Pa

I thought the Youths put in a great effort last night against a team so far ahead of the rest in the league. Dundalk showed real cuteness when there was any physical challenge by 'collapsing' as soon as there was any contact. A very poor referee bought it. This led to indiscipline by Youths players and some genuinely poor fouls to give away. Overall, I'm as happy as you can be after a defeat. Injuries are our problem, but the spirit shown last night leads me to think we should get out of trouble, just.

Gavin "shels"

A lovely meaningless trip to Cobh in 20 mins.... Can't see us getting anything.

overshoot

dfx- wrote: »

I'd be surprised if Rovers get a point tonight, the defence is appalling and liable for stupid mistakes.

Edit: 0-2 great scoreline that.

Celebrating a goal has become a distant memory for us! If ever your defence was in for a grand time!

AgileMyth

Raf cretaro.. He just keeps going

Paz-CCFC

UCD v Limerick will be streamed live on the FAI's Youtube channel here. It's being broadcast from 17:50 and kicks off at 18:00. Presumably it's going to be similar quality to the President's Cup that was shown live. That one was pretty good. It had sound originally, but was muted by Youtube for copyright claims, probably by one of the record labels whose songs were unintentionally caught by the footage pre-match and at half time (really pathetic that they can get a 2+ hour video muted because of that).

Apart from the efforts by clubs to broadcast over Facebook, Periscope etc., when was the last time a First Division match in the normal season was shown live? I know the playoff final used to be shown by TG4 and Setanta, but when was the last time one from the normal league season was on? I have vague memories of the first and possibly only one being around 2006 or 2007. They definitely didn't show any when City were down there in 2010 and 2011, which was a very strong division - City, Derry, Limerick, a strong Shels and a strong Monaghan. I doubt they've shown any since it became an eight team division.

NIMAN

Bad 2 pts lost last night away to Bray, looking like Rovers are in prime position to overtook Derry now.

Massive game between us next, really could be doing with winning it as Rovers have games in hand.

overshoot

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

Apart from the efforts by clubs to broadcast over Facebook, Periscope etc., when was the last time a First Division match in the normal season was shown live? I know the playoff final used to be shown by TG4 and Setanta, but when was the last time one from the normal league season was on? I have vague memories of the first and possibly only one being around 2006 or 2007.

The showed Finn Harps v Athlone in 2007 alright. The premier was done and dusted and we had been on a savage run of form... messed up that night and drew... and missed out on the title by a point
Pretty sure its the only first division game to be shown live.

Hammer Archer

Congratulations Limerick.
Annoyed that that's the third game against Limerick this season that we've thrown away at least a point. Just hope they keep the foot down and don't coast for the rest of the league.

Omackeral

Bohs are 2-0 up on Wexford Youths in the ultra prestigious Leinster Senior Cup.

DrumSteve

4-0 now in a thoroughly dominant performance from the Bohs.

It's a pity there was no camera here for Kurtis' first goal.

Darkglasses

Got a right battering tonight, we were awful. Byrne's first goal was a beaut alright

The_Kew_Tour

Big game at the Cross tonight. Need the 3 points to keep pressure on.

Mushy

Hoping brays form means they'll get something from tonight!

dfx-

Both sides wouldn't mind a draw tonight I suppose but Derry favourites for me. Despite certain fixtures repeating themselves over and over, it seems like a hundred years since the last game at the Brandywell

justshane

Derry 1 up v Rovers, great win if they can hold on.

City 2 up v Bray. Expected really.

Dundalk 3-0 up v Crumlin, shiels scoring on his first start. Interestingly enough Darren Meenan didn't make the squad so maybe that's him finished with Dundalk.

pablomakaveli

4-0 to City now. Thats 13 goals in the last 3 games now. Granted 2 of those were against Longford but good to see the team scoring again.

The_Kew_Tour

Bit more like it tonight, but the frustrating thing is that Bray were no worse then Bohs few weeks ago. That 1 point from Sligo/Bohs might cost us.

About 1500 at it. Probably lowest crowd I have seen for while (league wise). Really hate midweek games

dfx-

Eleven yellow cards in Tallaght and not one bad challenge.

I'm surprised the ball boys weren't booked since they were on the pitch too.

Mushy

Abysmal performance by Bray. Cork well up for it, weren't allowing same mistakes as Friday.

If only the effort at the end went in, would've been class!

gimmick

It would gave won my buddy a nice few quid too as he had 4-1 backed.

Very straight forward win for City. Nice to see the goals spread around. And a clean sheet too.

The_Kew_Tour

Mushy wrote: »

Abysmal performance by Bray. Cork well up for it, weren't allowing same mistakes as Friday.

If only the effort at the end went in, would've been class!

Tbf I have seen worse then Bray at Cross this season getting something. Cork actually played for 90 minutes too rather then usual 45.

Our penalty was very soft too, not a pen, not that it made difference to result.