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Same Format as last year – first round is all in – top 16 get through to the knockout stages.

In the case of ties after the FAI cup games I normally use the quarter finals of the EA Sports Cup as a tie-breaker. But as seen as the draw for the Quarter Finals are not made yet. The tie breaker is as follows:

"Predict the number of goals 2012 OFC Nations Cup Champions Tahiti will concede during the forthcoming Confederations Cup in Brazil"

They play 3 games - v Nigeria on the 17th of June in Belo Horizonte, v Spain on the 20th of June in Rio de Janiero and finally against Uruguay on the 23rd of June in Recife.

Should be interesting!
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UCFL Div. 3
20 May 2013

Limekiln 5 – 2 Terenure FC 3rds

Writing these reports is starting to become some sort of ritual torture at this stage. With an ever deepening injury crisis there was a danger we wouldn’t be able to field a team at all for this game, but a few of the lads from the seconds came out and did us a favour, despite their own huge relegation decider looming on Wednesday. Even with the number of changes to the team, including my own first start in a month, it was pretty much the same old story. We tried to play nice football but made too many basic errors and a very organised and experienced Limekiln side capitalised on them.
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UCFL Div. 3
18 May 2013

Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 4 AGP 2nds

After the carnage of Wednesday it was hard to know what to expect on Saturday afternoon. It was agreed that there needed to be a wholesale change in attitude and performance for this game and from the early stages of play this was in evidence. In the first 45 minutes we were pressing high up the pitch, playing at a good tempo and keeping AGP on the back foot. There was a minor hiccup when we conceded a soft penalty for handball but justice was served when Dylan saved comfortably. From that point we looked much the more likely to open the scoring with David Fennelly going closest with a strike off the post.
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UCFL Div. 3
15 May 2013

Walkinstown Athletic 7 - 0 Terenure FC 3rds



So the nightmare continues...

I was back on the sideline for this one but still ruled out of action due to injury. The game had just kicked off when I arrived and there was little of note happening in the early stages. Walkinstown maybe shading it but we were well in the game. The opening goal summed up a lot of our problems this season, a ball into the box, a couple of chances to clear fluffed and it breaks for the striker to score.
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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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I attended the Soccerex European Forum in Manchester in April and hope to bring you a series of pieces on some of the takeways for the Irish game from the week.

Gianni Infantino, UEFA General Secretary, revealed at the conference that UEFA had agreed a deal with the European Broadcasting Union (“EBU”) for the televised rights for the Euro 2016 and World Cup 2018 qualifiers. Interesting, but what is the relevance for Irish football fans?

RTÉ is one of over thirty national broadcasters which form part of the EBU and therefore this means that games will remain on free to air television in Ireland for the foreseeable future. The broadcaster was keen to publicise the fact, with an article appearing on their website that evening. The main quote, in the article and repeated elsewhere in the media coverage which followed came from Ryle Nugent, Head of Sport.
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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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