League Cup draw

**sligoman** · 13/04/2009, 8:57 PM

League Cup First Round Results:

FC Carlow 3-2 Cobh Ramblers
Monaghan 1-2 Sporting Fingal
Bray 0-2 Drogheda
Shams 3-0 Kildare
Shels 3-0 Dundalk

Latest (Extra time):

Galway United 2-2 Salthill Devon*
Limerick 1-1 Wexford Youths

*Salthill down to 10men.

**sligoman** · 13/04/2009, 9:21 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Latest (Extra time):

Galway United 2-2 Salthill Devon
Limerick 1-1 Wexford Youths

Galway won 5-3 on penalties.

Limerick/Wexford in a shoot-out now.

EDIT:
Wexford win 4-2 on penalties.

**LeixlipRed** · 13/04/2009, 9:41 PM

Dundalk fans should be ashamed of their team. Abysmal stuff from their full strength side. Connor having a laugh and a joke with us in the stand after too. What a ****.

**Longfordian** · 13/04/2009, 9:44 PM

Aertel says a 5-3 win on penos for da Yoofs. Not that it matters really.

**ForzaForth** · 13/04/2009, 9:50 PM

Extratime showing a penalty win for Limerick. Anyone got a confirmed result?

**ForzaForth** · 13/04/2009, 9:52 PM

Youths board now confirming a penalty shoot-out win for Youths. Excellent!

**Gareth** · 13/04/2009, 10:10 PM

We have a report on the Galway win and the Limerick report is following shortly. Shels report is up and the Rovers report is following soon. Bray was earlier and up now.

**gufc2000** · 13/04/2009, 10:10 PM

Attendance of about 150 in Terryland, where we got a rude awakening in the second half. O'Shea and Edwards got our goals

**osarusan** · 13/04/2009, 10:26 PM

Limerick 1 - 1 Wexford Youths. Youths win 5-3 on penalties.

Limerick shaded the first half in terms of possession, but no real chances for either team. Youths took the lead with a cracking free-kick about 5 minutes into the second half, Limerick pressed and missed a penalty (which I thought should have been a free to Wexford), kept pressing and got an equaliser late on.

Extra-time produced very little, and penalties went Wexford's way. Their keeper saved 2 - 1 during the game and 1 in the shootout.

Well done Wexford.

**CSFShels** · 13/04/2009, 10:29 PM

Abusing Georgie every time he touched the ball made a great night perfect. He was ****e.

**Jicked** · 13/04/2009, 10:38 PM

About 1,500 at Tallaght (off the top of my head) to see Rovers brush aside a really awful Kildare team. I simply feel bad for the players and their few travelling fans, can't be easy travelling across the country to play for or watch a team as uncompetitive as that, it must take real dedication. Rovers weren't very good, but still could have won 6-0 or so.

**Rory H** · 13/04/2009, 10:53 PM

i'd say 1800....kildare are ridiculousy bad.

**Red&White Rover** · 13/04/2009, 11:00 PM

They really must be atrocious.

What does a team like Kildare add to the league?

**GlasnevinRed** · 13/04/2009, 11:04 PM

The problem with Kildare is they were preparing for the A-League so don't have much of a squad. I'm surprised Rovers only beat them 3-0. They're really shocking though. Franchise beat them 8-0 and we beat them 5-1 in a friendly out their way.

**Dunny** · 13/04/2009, 11:11 PM

Il always love Kildare. but Cobh should be up, not them.

**Kildare Lad** · 13/04/2009, 11:24 PM

Didnt go tonight, but yes, we are by far and away the worst team in the LoI. I can honestly see us finishing with just the 1 point this season.

This year I think there is 2 reasons why we are so bad - 1) We were preparing for the A Championship and 2) Going with locally based players only this year.

Now I'm all for giving locals and youngsters a chance to represent their county, but it just really isn't working. Especially in a county so close to Dublin, the best players will always go to Dublin to play, Noel Haverty of St.Pats (Irish U.19 captain?) is from down here for example, but just travels a short distance to Inchicore, and even they train in Celbridge if I've heard correctly so it is probably easier for him there then it would be with Kildare County. I just think at the moment this team is destined to fail. Makes me realise how much of a good job is being done down at Wexford if they can make the local approach work too.

**Jicked** · 13/04/2009, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by GlasnevinRed

The problem with Kildare is they were preparing for the A-League so don't have much of a squad. I'm surprised Rovers only beat them 3-0. They're really shocking though. Franchise beat them 8-0 and we beat them 5-1 in a friendly out their way.

Yeah it's hard to blame Kildare's players. They seemed to have two or three keepers on the bench, and some woefully out of condition guys. They're essentially a local LSL team suddenly thrust in to a much higher level and its simply unfair to expect them to compete.

It only finished 3-0 because Rovers played a lot of the game at a very slow pace, unlucky finishing (hit the post a few times, narrow misses often and a wrongfully disallowed goal), some poor finishing and trying to walk it in to the net, and a couple of nice saves from Kildare's keeper. Like I said, could have been 6-0 minimum, that was with a weakened Rovers side, and the impression was if they ever needed to step it up a gear they could have had more.

Tough on Kildare, will take a lot of mental strength to get through this season, they had one good player though, didn't catch his name but their number 6, a black guy, I'm sure someone will know who he is, got through a lot of work and was plainly a much better class of player then his teammates.

**eamo1** · 13/04/2009, 11:34 PM

Kildare shouldnt be worried about just getting 1 point,what will their goal difference be at the end of the season?Kilkenny's gaelic football team finished their league campaign with a score difference of -196 pts from 7 games,shocking stuff.Could kildare get relatively(games played etc) close to that??

Galway Utd were very poor in the second half and in extra time tonight.could have been 4/5 up at h.t but was only 2 but very bad to take foot off the pedal the way they did.
Still we are through to face Derry.
Anyone have confirmed dates for next round?