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UCFL Div. 3
14 May 2012

Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 3 Grant City

If I’m looking at things positively I suppose I can say we’ve been entertaining in our last few games, going down 3-2 on Wednesday, a 3-3 draw on Saturday and another 3-2 loss on Monday. As with most games this season we started slowly against Grant, they’re a big, physical, team and we played into their hands with rushed panicky play, never getting the ball down on the grass. As the half progressed we ...

UCFL Div. 3 Shield
09 May 2012

Arthur Griffith Park 2nds 3 - 2 Terenure FC 3rds

This was a game that pretty much summed up our season. Hopes were high coming in, things were looking positive half way through, but inevitably we didn’t push on, missed a few chances and were left disappointed.

The game started fairly cagily with neither side really dominating. AGP were making better use of the ball but our defense was comfortable enough and at time ...

UCFL Div. 3
21 April 2012

Terenure FC 3rds 1 - 0 Siemens

Before I get to our shield hopes, there's another league game to catch up on. Title chasing Siemens paid a visit to Bushy Park in another game I missed through injury and were sent home with nothing but a huge blow to their chances of winning the league. Padraig Conlon was the goal scoring hero, and from what I'm told the defence put in a tremendous display. The win was a good boost to the teams confidence ...

UCFL Div. 3 Shield
11 April 2012

Dollymount FC 2 – 3 Terenure FC 3rds

Still out with injury I declined the midweek trip to one of my least favourite football pitches and thankfully my absence brought the lads some luck. Dollymount have been a constant thorn in our side since we landed in division 3 and this was a first win over them at the fifth attempt. Manager/Goalkeeper Niall McCall saved a penalty at a key stage of the game that probably went a long way ...

I was glad the blog was unavailable for the last while because it meant I could put off writing a report on our last couple of games. Our recent good run has come to a crashing halt and we've left ourselves with little to play for until the end of the season.

UCFL Div. 3
24 March 2012

Terenure FC 3rds 3 – 6 Arthur Griffith Park FC 2nds

In the weeks before this game I was talking about the huge difference a settled back four has made to us and ...

UCFL Div. 3
10 March 2012

Terenure FC 3rds 1 – 0 Dundrum Town FC

The true value of a settled defence really shone through in this very tight game as few chances were created by either side and we came away with three points. Too often this season we have been on top in games and given away sloppy goals but the defence has been excellent recently and they won out here when Dundrum were good value for at least a draw on the balance of play.

The pitch ...

UCFL Div. 3
03 March 2012

Dollymount FC 1 - 1 Terenure FC 3rds

Where to start? For the first time this season we started with the same keeper, central defence, central mid-field and strike force, we were full of confidence after a good win over Castle and Dollymount have struggled all season. All the omens were good, except this was Dollymount and we've never beaten them, in fact they embarrassed us 5-0 in this fixture last season and beat us 2-0 at home this ...

UCFL Div. 3
25 february 2012

Terenure FC 3rds 3 – 0 Castle Celtic 2nds

What a difference four weeks make. Following on from the humiliation against Three Trout came probably our best performance of the season against Castle Celtic, a convincing three nil win and only a second clean sheet of the season (by coincidence against the same opposition). From the moment we arrived in Bushy Park there was a palpable sense of desire about all the lads, the pain of the ...

UCFL Div. 3
21 January 2012

Terenure FC 3rds 0 – 3 Three Trout Rovers

Done up like a kipper. Slapped in the face with a wet fish. The fishy smell around Bushy Park last Saturday was almost certainly emanating from our stinking performance. We went into the game on the back of two league wins in a row, looking at getting into the promotion race and pulling well away from relegation troubles, Three Trout hadn’t won a game in their short history and arrived in Bushy ...

UCFL Div. 3
14 January 2012

Phoenix 2 – 5 Terenure FC 3rds

It’s been a while since I’ve done a match report and I’ve missed our last two games so we’ll start with them.

On the 3rd of December we played Dundrum in Dodder Valley looking to end a seven game run without a win in normal time. With Dundrum hovering around mid-table like ourselves it was pretty much do or die and to make matters worse I was watching from ...