LOI: League of Ireland Fixtures (Week 2), Mar 3-4

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Premier Division

Friday, March 3rd, 2017

Shamrock Rovers v Bohemians - Tallaght Stadium - Live on RTÉ 2, 7.30pm KO

Derry City v Limerick - Maginn Park

Cork City v Galway United - Turners Cross

Drogheda United v St. Patricks Ath. - United Park

Bray Wanderers v Finn Harps - Carlisle Grounds

Saturday, March 4th, 2017

Sligo Rovers v Dundalk - Showgrounds

First Division

Friday, March 3rd, 2017

UCD v Shelbourne - Belfield

Wexford FC v Athlone Town - Ferrycarrig Park

Waterford FC v Cabinteely - RSC

Saturday, March 4th, 2017

Longford Town v Cobh Ramblers - City Calling Stadium

General info

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

http://www.sseairtricityleague.ie

http://www.extratime.ie

Soccer Republic - Highlights show on RTÉ Two 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
Galway United
Finn Harps
Limerick FC
Drogheda United
Bohemians

Wexford FC
Longford Town
UCD AFC
Athlone Town
Shelbourne FC
Waterford FC
Cobh Ramblers
Cabinteely FC

NIMAN

Derry's first home game in Donegal !

Game between the 2 high scorers from last week, so likely be a 0-0.

I would be happy with the 3pts no matter how they come.

dfx-

Bohs are undoubtedly going to be especially drilled in defence and sent flying out of the blocks...

Bohs to score off someone's backside, off three posts and after a goalmouth scramble and a 1-1 result

MD1990

Derry vs Limerick should be a good game. Fancy Derry to challenge for the title this season. Very good team especially in midfield.

BigBrownBear

MD1990 wrote: »

Derry vs Limerick should be a good game. Fancy Derry to challenge for the title this season. Very good team especially in midfield.

i don't think playing in Buncrana will be benefecial to their challenge but probably a top 4 finish

MD1990

BigBrownBear wrote: »

i don't think playing in Buncrana will be benefecial to their challenge but probably a top 4 finish

Pitch looks very good which should suit Derry's style of play.
In the summer they will be switching to a 2.30 PM Sunday Kick Off as a lot of Derry fans go on holiday to Buncrana.

It will be an annoying journey for away teams.

major bill

Hard one to call in Tallaght, Rovers still hurting over the opening day defeat and with a point to prove! Bohs defence will prob have got a kick up the hole after the shambolic performance against Derry, can see this being a painful one for the Neutrals watching it on the telly,

Prediction: 1-1, Bohs to take an early lead with Rovers equalising late on!

kksaints

We need a much better performance than last Friday night. If we play that bad again we'll lose again and we'll be stuck in a relegation battle for the season.

Gavin "shels"

First game of the season for me, hoping to get something from UCD.

CHealy

Brutal rain here in Cork all night, plenty of flooding around the city, TC pitch ususally holds up well but Id imagine it will be a scrappy game given conditions. 1-0 City win McNulty kick out to go straight in.

The_Kew_Tour

Summer Soccer is back!!!

GLaDOS

Have a bad feeling about tonight. Long under pressure already if we take another beating.

Omackeral

IT'S MOTHERF'N DERBY DAY. Man I love this sh*t. This is where the barstoolers miss out. Nothing compares to the visceral mental carry on of a real derby in the flesh. The colour, the noise, the passion. Nothing.





Oh it's on telly? Might just stay in, it's kinda cold out

Captain Havoc

Just got a text from work giving me tonight off, would love to be going to Tallaght but I'll have to settle for the Cross.

gimmick

Bring your water proofs. Its pissing non stop here since yesterday at some stage and no sign whatsoever of it letting up

Can't see the match being called off, but it will be utterly miserable. And guaranteed some c**t will be in my seat and will have to have an argument to get him to move.

GLaDOS

https://twitter.com/ShamrockRovers/status/837704747834466304

Original pitch inspection at 4. Mustn't be good.

MD1990

https://twitter.com/Corktod/status/837705547419906049

Omackeral

GLaDOS wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ShamrockRovers/status/837704747834466304

Original pitch inspection at 4. Mustn't be good.

Update at 5:30. Pitch is grand in 80% of the area, they just need to fork it down a bit. It'll be on.

artanevilla

I'm sure everyone will either be told whether its on or off at approx 3 minutes before kick-off. Plenty of time.

GLaDOS

I actually work in Tallaght so have to hang round waiting to hear if I can go home or not :pac:

dfx-

the pitch will have lumps out of it inside 20 minutes either way...

artanevilla

dfx- wrote: »

the pitch will have lumps out of it inside 20 minutes either way...

And hopefully Roberto Lopes will too.

GLaDOS

Game on anyway

Mushy

HARPS NOT HAPPY

Finn Harps fans are rapidly cancelling their memberships of the Anthony Buttimer fan club after that controversial free that lead to the goal and his earlier penalty snub.

I'm loving the website updates

Hammer Archer

What's happening to Shels? We're 4-0 up after half an hour.

GLaDOS

Very hard to create anything on this pitch, Very muddy

LoonyLovegood

That is not a nice pitch to play on in Tallaght.

paulie21

Derry Limerick game abandoned.

OldMrBrennan83

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overshoot

I can only imagine how much limerick fans love Donegal after that...

kksaints

Very disappointing result for us up in Drogheda. Could be in trouble this season.

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The_Kew_Tour

4-0 and good second half by Cork.

Galway were better team first 20min but after that it was very comfortable

Mushy

Some amount of goals in Bray, looking forward to Soccer Republic

gimmick

Hammer Archer wrote: »

What's happening to Shels? We're 4-0 up after half an hour.

Chortle

Pat D. Almighty

kksaints wrote: »

Very disappointing result for us up in Drogheda. Could be in trouble this season.

Time for Ger O'Brien to come back out of 'retirement'. Bermo isn't captain material in my opinion

Omackeral

paulie21 wrote: »

Derry Limerick game abandoned.

As my mate said, game abandoned due to electricity fault... in a league sponsored by an electricity company.

Time to get #greatestleagueintheworld going again.

GLaDOS

Can't really complain about that, we only really made an effort once Rovers went ahead, an all too familiar story. We've a tough season ahead of us.

MD1990

Don't see why the Derry vs Limerick game could not played tomorow during the day maybe at 2pm.

Darkglasses

Athlone were decent but not amazing. In my opinion not a good footballing side, but a good chunky bunch who could defend well against our decent wing play in the second half. We gave away two fairly stupid goals. Grigorovs, Viegas, Hernandez and Lyons are the best of the bunch. Sfrijan was fairly anonymous, and Raftery a bit dodgy. Coss is a monster.

Mr.Nice Guy

I had the Rovers/Bohs game on the DVR. It was exciting at the end and I thought Bohs were going to nick an equaliser. Morris had a good game I thought and was unlucky with his header. Miele's goal was very impressive considering the conditions.

irish_goat

No ticket stubs handed back at Magnn Park either so no idea how the reply is going to work ticketwise.

A_Sober_Paddy

Pat D. Almighty wrote: »

Time for Ger O'Brien to come back out of 'retirement'. Bermo isn't captain material in my opinion

Dunno how bermo got the captaincy his a fraud in more than one way

monkey9

kksaints wrote: »

Very disappointing result for us up in Drogheda. Could be in trouble this season.

Christ, we were absolutely woeful. I felt coming into the season, especially with three teams going down, that we'd be in a relegation battle and the first two games of the season only enforces that opinion.

An utterly miserable night.

Tippex

Bray should have been in double figures by the end of the game. Harps were awful and then all of a sudden Bray forgot how to defend. Harps should have been put to the sword well before they managed to get their second and fair play to them for plugging away.

In saying that my jesus Buttimer was atrocious and I have no idea how horgan and hegarty are going to manage to get through the season without blowing numerous blood vessels they were on the officials backs and their players backs from the kickoff.

Oat23

We could see 3 teams from the West go down this season..

White Horse

Just listened to Dave Robertson being interviewed after the game.

Apparently Sligo were well in the game until the young lad up front got sent off due to the ref buying some Holywood acting from Dundalk defenders. Nothing in it up to that point.

This is what separates great managers. They see things us mortals can't.


https://audioboom.com/posts/5674190-robbo-post-dundalk