Match Reports

UCFL Div. 3
27 April 2013, 01, 04, 11 May 2013
Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 5 Kill Celtic
Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 1 Fortunestown Celtic
Terenure FC 3rds 0 - 3 Three Trout Rovers
Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 3 St Mary's Boys

This season has taken a major turn for the worse in recent weeks, for me personally and the team as a whole. My cameo from the bench in the dead rubber shield game with Grant resulted in an ankle injury that's kept me out of the last four games and looks like it will keep me out of our last four also. In the meantime we've been dragged right into the relegation battle with defeats to close rivals Three Trout and St Mary's Boys in consecutive games following a narrow win over whipping boys Fortunestown.
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UCFL Div. 3 Shield
13, 20, 22 April 2013

Walkinstown Athletic 7 – 2 Terenure FC 3rds
St Mary’s Boys 4 – 3 Terenure FC 3rds
Terenure FC 3rds 1 – 1 Grant City

We went into Monday evening’s game, away to Walkinstown, with high hopes of making it to the shield final but those hopes were left smashed as we dramatically fell apart in the second half of the game. In many ways this has been a strange season, in the early part there was no real regular squad, but as it’s progressed the team has developed and apart from a lack of a regular goalkeeper we have a solid and reliable squad. Results too have generally improved and we were looking at the shield competition as a way of demonstrating the quality of our squad, but after Monday we were left wondering where it all went wrong.
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UCFL Div 3. Shield

Three Trout Rovers 3 - 5 Terenure FC 3rds

I never like missing games and that especially goes for games we win, but I was delighted to hear the news from Greystones on Saturday. According to reports the referee was fairly reluctant to allow the game to go ahead due to the rapidly deteriorating conditions on the Wicklow coast but with the teams eager to go ahead the standing water was ignored.
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UCFL Div 3.
08 April 2013

St Mary’s Boys 1 – 1 Terenure FC 3rds

Both teams were playing for the third time in six days on Monday night and had come into the game on the back of weekend wins. Mary’s Boys look to have completely turned their early season form around as they trashed Grant City 5 – 1 last Wednesday before beating a good VEC 3rds team 3 – 1 on Saturday to leap frog us in the table. That means we are now well embroiled in a relegation fight so this game took on added significance.
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UCFL Div. 3
03 April 2013
Kill Celtic 6 – 1 Terenure FC 3rds

UCFL Div. 3 Shield
06 April 2013
Terenure FC 3rds 5 – 1 Fortunestown Celtic

This week we matched up against teams from the two extremities of the league and produced results to match. Kill are one of the three outstanding teams in the league while Fortunestown are tailed off at the bottom and that gap couldn’t have been more obvious. We travelled to Kill on Wednesday evening with our manager away but expecting a squad of 13 to travel Unfortunately there was some confusion with our keeper and he never arrived and with our left winger getting lost it was bare bones at kick off and yours truly stuck in nets again.

Despite the poor preparation and barely getting eleven on the pitch for kick off we didn’t start too badly. Kill are known to be a good footballing side but the bobbly pitch wasn’t doing them any favours and we were putting pressure on them and forcing them to rush passes. The early exchanges were fairly uneventful with neither goal really threatened. Kill did show flashes of good movement and their wingers and big number ten always looked dangerous when they got a run at us.
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Sidney Bedlow Cup
16 March 2013

St Mary’s Crumlin 2nds 2 – 1 Terenure FC 3rds

It will come as no surprise that all games were off this weekend but I just realised I never wrote a report on last week’s game so here we go. This one probably should have been called off too, the game beforehand left the pitch an absolute mud bath and if it wasn’t for the amount of games called off recently I think both teams and the ref would have gladly abandoned it. Deciding to go ahead meant it was more a game of endurance and effort than a football match and unfortunately our opponents seemed to want it that bit more.
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UCFL Div. 3
23 January 2013

Terenure FC 3rds 1 – 0 Walkinstown Athletic

After a not so brief hiatus in the season we were finally back in action on Saturday, eleven weeks after beating AGP. Looking for a third win in a row it was hard to know what to expect after so long without a game. We knew Walkinstown were a dangerous team and they ran, run away league leaders, Chapelizod close last week so they had to be taken seriously. With snow falling, rumours that the park rangers wanted to call off the pitch and the ref arriving late pre-match preparations weren’t ideal, but, thankfully we seemed to handle the delays better than our opponents.
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UCFL Div. 3
08 December 2012

AGP 2nds 2 - 3 Terenure FC 3rds

With many games cancelled on Saturday due to waterlogged pitches we knew we were going to be in for a hard slog when we had to switch from, the unplayable, Bushy Park to AGP’s home pitch, in Griffeen Valley Park, and so it turned out. The pitch looked remarkably good when we arrived but within minutes of the kick of the midfield was a mud bath and we were struggling to adapt to the conditions.
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UCFL Div. 3
01 December 2012

Three Trout Rovers 0 - 1 Terenure FC 3rds

Ah Saturdays are so much nicer when we win a game, and, particularly so when it's a hard fought one nil. Added to that it's the first time I've captained the team to a win and it was a particularly satisfactory Saturday, I think even Christopher Maloney sounded decent on the X-Factor I was in such a good mood.

The game itself was a hard slog. Three Trout have been picking up a lot of draws this season and are a well organised side who don't concede too many, their problem is they don't score many either. We've been a bit all over the place defensively at times and while we've improved on that we've lost some of our potency in attack so this was always going to be a tight game.
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UCFL Div. 3
17 November 2012

Terenure 3rds 0 – 1 VEC 3rds

This will go down as another frustrating day out as we failed to take our chances and were punished for it. As I’ve said a few times there seems to be three outstanding teams in this division and then there’s little between the others. VEC are currently best of the rest in 4th place and this is the second time we’ve been edged out by the odd goal against them when we should have been taking at least a point. Again there are reasons to be optimistic and hopefully we’re not far from the point where things will come together and we’ll start converting opportunities and winning points on a regular basis. ...

UCFL Div. 3
10 November 2012

WFC 6 – 0 Terenure 3rds

Normal services for this season resumed on Saturday as we travelled out to Loughlinstown and were sent home with our tails between our legs. WFC along with Chapelizod and Kill Celtic are running away with the league and we’re really not competing on their level at the moment.

Once again there was some positives to take from the game, for the first 45 minutes we were competitive, in fact we started extremely brightly and had WFC frustrated for most of the opening half hour. Had Al Brehony’s great strike dipped under the cross bar instead of hitting it, with the scores still level, things might have gone a little differently.
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Sidney Bedlow Cup
03 November 2012

Terenure FC 3rds 1-0 Kill Celtic 2nds

After 2 postponements this game finally went ahead and it was a nice result for us. OK we were probably favorites as they are two divisions below us but they were top half of their division while ...

UCFL Challenge Cup
06 October 2012

Aston Village 5 - 0 Terenure FC 3rds

High flying division one side Aston Village was always likely to be a hurdle too steep to conquer in this challenge cup encounter in Malahide Castle. On the plus side it was a beautiful autumn day and the pitch was in perfect condition that allowed for both teams to play some nice passing football.

Village started the game brightly and we were ragged in the first few minutes as we tried to adjust to a new 4-5-1 formation and a very big pitch, they opened the scoring inside the first five minutes, getting in behind us all too easily for a simple cross and finish. For the 35 minutes following the goal we had a remarkably good spell as Darren and Cian in particular dominated the middle of the park and allowed us to control possession and frustrate Village to an incredible degree. Maybe the early goal worked against them as they didn't seem motivated and were getting frustrated and putting in late challenges as they struggled to gain possession. The work rate all over the pitch from our lads was brilliant and Daire, all alone up front, was making a great nuisance of himself, despite the fact he was still struggling with a virus and had hardly trained for weeks.
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UCFL Div. 3
29 September 2012

Grant City 2 – 4 Terenure 3rds

Where to start with this one? A personal horror show of a performance, a first half of missed opportunities and a manic five second half minutes with goals flying in at both ends. Depressed does not begin to describe my Saturday evening mood after contributing in some way to all of Grant’s goals while missing a couple of decent chances myself at the other end.
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