27th Round LOI September 5th-8th

[gael353]

****ing Athlone and 90th minute equalisers again. They have eleventh, I'm full sure. We only started playing at 2-0 down, just like last week. Don't know where the points are going to come from. Limerick could have been reduced to ten for pulling Benson back by the neck - a yellow for the foul as he'd gone past the guy, but grabbing him around the neck was needlessly dangerous. Would probably have been a harsh red, but at the moment, we're getting nothing. And not helping ourselves either.

Yee had zero shots on target in the first half. Your goal came from a misplaced pass to your winger by one of ours. For ery scramble chance which ucd had in the last 15 mins (against a defense with only a full back is a reg starter) limerick had 3, with gaffney, lynch. Doherty, tracy and turner all having numerous chances. You have a clearly demented manager in charge who is leading you into the first division. Limerick are a mid table side, some (2/3) of your players would walk onto pats or dundalk teams but your manager hasn't a clue after previously failing at longford and bohs.

[Louth4sam]

Thought Pats were the better team in first half and sat back and let us attack in second. Hard to know what would've happened if we had of nicked an early goal but Pats soaked up the pressure well and limited us to half chances. Team selection and tactics by buckley were spot on. Kenny's however were terrible. Lost our shape completely with both Higgins and Shields in the team and there was a huge gap between midfield and Hoban. Subs made a difference but he made the wrong ones

i thought the ref done well.

I thought he had a stinker. Give a load of random frees to Dundalk early in the first half, soft yellows to both Higgins and Horgan and then didn't book them for far worse tackles later. I have no idea how Higgins wasn't sent off at the end of the first half. Bolger also kicked about 6 of our players before getting booked for a tackle that deserved red. His linesman in front of Dundalk fans was worse, a clear as day corner for each team missed by both him and ref and he didn't make one decision all night.

[Flexy]

The Dundalk v Derry game is coming at the wrong time for Cork, I dont know what team Derry will put out against Dundalk cause of the Cup Game on Friday against Drogs. Before anyone says it Derry wont lie down but cant see their minds and Peter Huttons mind being on the game as much as the make or break season game against Drogs nxt friday. Id love to see our good friends from Cork win the league but cant see Derry beating Dundalk on Monday. I know Dundalk have the cup next weekend too but Dundalks main priority is to win the league and the cup as a bonus so Dundalk wil be much stonger than the Derry team.

[adamd164]

The Dundalk v Derry game is coming at the wrong time for Cork, I dont know what team Derry will put out against Dundalk cause of the Cup Game on Friday against Drogs. Before anyone says it Derry wont lie down but cant see their minds and Peter Huttons mind being on the game as much as the make or break season game against Drogs nxt friday. Id love to see our good friends from Cork win the league but cant see Derry beating Dundalk on Monday. I know Dundalk have the cup next weekend too but Dundalks main priority is to win the league and the cup as a bonus so Dundalk wil be much stonger than the Derry team.

I'm just not going to expect anything but a Dundalk win, anything else is a bonus from our point of view. I would hope for Derry to give Dundalk a decent game though with confidence high.

To have any chance to win it, we'll have to be no more than 2 points behind going into the final game v Dundalk, so we need to make up 1 more point over the course of the next 5 games.

[brendy_éire]

The Dundalk v Derry game is coming at the wrong time for Cork, I dont know what team Derry will put out against Dundalk cause of the Cup Game on Friday against Drogs.

It'll be "experimental" according to Hutton. Dundalk will win ahndy enough, ye'd imagine.

Good win for us last night, played some lovely football. Similar the Cork and Pats home games, we dominated the match, just really struggled to finish off our chances.
The star of the show however was the ref, Dave McKeon. Mental stuff altogether. Denied us at least one penalty, if not too. Giving corners instead of goal kicks, giving random free outs from corners, inconsistent bookings, sent off Hutton, denied Sligo a stonewall penalty in injury time and produced a yellow for diving. Mad stuff.

[jinxy lilywhite]

Experimental lol.

Big game for us to get back on track. Any type of victory will do for us.

Derry always come to Dundalk for a game with the exception of the last time when Roddy parked the bus and would not let any of the Derry players leave their penalty area.

I expect Derry to smell blood and to be really up for this

[outspoken]

Thought Pats were the better team in first half and sat back and let us attack in second. Hard to know what would've happened if we had of nicked an early goal but Pats soaked up the pressure well and limited us to half chances. Team selection and tactics by buckley were spot on. Kenny's however were terrible. Lost our shape completely with both Higgins and Shields in the team and there was a huge gap between midfield and Hoban. Subs made a difference but he made the wrong ones



I thought he had a stinker. Give a load of random frees to Dundalk early in the first half, soft yellows to both Higgins and Horgan and then didn't book them for far worse tackles later. I have no idea how Higgins wasn't sent off at the end of the first half. Bolger also kicked about 6 of our players before getting booked for a tackle that deserved red. His linesman in front of Dundalk fans was worse, a clear as day corner for each team missed by both him and ref and he didn't make one decision all night.

Have to agree the ref was shocking should have been a red card on each side so at least it evened it self out. Was a hard hitting game alright but sometimes that's good to see when there is a certain skill element in the game also as we are the ones always complaining about the game going soft but then again a few of the tackles last night were well over the top,,,,,literally.

[outspoken]

Yee had zero shots on target in the first half. Your goal came from a misplaced pass to your winger by one of ours. For ery scramble chance which ucd had in the last 15 mins (against a defense with only a full back is a reg starter) limerick had 3, with gaffney, lynch. Doherty, tracy and turner all having numerous chances. You have a clearly demented manager in charge who is leading you into the first division. Limerick are a mid table side, some (2/3) of your players would walk onto pats or dundalk teams but your manager hasn't a clue after previously failing at longford and bohs.

He may be a great coach acceding to all reports but feck me he is an absolute spoofer of a manager, UCD dug themselves a hole letting Russell go for what ever reason and it's going to cost them dear.

[pineapple stu]

We didn't let Russell go.

Gael may have some valid points, but I have to laugh at his post - the angriest I've ever seen someone after a 3-1 away win!

[DRDoc]

We didn't let Russell go.

What did happen there exactly?

[Longfordian]

What did happen there exactly?

He took them to court for unpaid wages didn't he? Presume there were two sides to that story as UCD wouldn't really be in financial difficulty but it wasn't an amicable parting of the ways by the looks of things.

[pineapple stu]

He resigned to move on to a different club - all fair enough when he'd been with us eight or nine years. We appointed a new manager. When Russell didn't get a job, he changed his mind about having resigned - but of course couldn't have his old job back. Sued for wrongful dismissal.

So far as I know anyway.

[Charlie Darwin]

FT 2-2 in Longford, a late Gary Shaw header salvaging a point for the (just about) league leaders. Pat Sullivan doing what Pat Sullivan does best and getting sent off at the end.

[Longfordian]

Wasn't at it but apparently the ref screwed us. We don't do pressure very well but it could be a valuable point yet. That was in theory our hardest game of the run in, except perhaps Harps away but that's on the last day so who knows what we'll need from that. Have to hope someone (Galway maybe) can take something off Shels and give us a little room to breathe as it's hard to see us winning our last four.

[The Insider]

Haven't posted on this in ages but after tonight I felt I had to. To say the performance of the ref tonight in CCS was terrible is an understatement. Two penos that weren't penalties and the sending off was hilarious pity it didnt make Town supporters laugh - Furlong jumps all over Sullivan, the two players fall, Sullivan actually gets injured and sent off. Unreal. The quietest of Town supporters went mental tonight and even the Wexford fans were bemused by some of the decisions.

[outspoken]

I still don't understand what pat Sullivan was at though? He had 5 yards on the ball if his legs were going all he had to do was hack it into section O but instead he blocked the forwards path and while it probably wasn't a sending off he was already on a yellow so could have gone for a second yellow anyway. Certaintly didn't help his cause by then booting the ball into the stand and taking an age to get off the pitch. Sullivan has been superb this season and by all accounts is a lovely fella but he seriously needs to stop this Craic of mouthing off at every decision. Stupid cards and suspensions being picked up.

[Terry]

Galway win 3-0 this evening to put a gap of 5 points between ourselves and Wexford plus a very healthy goal difference.

Coming good now in the last round of games with 3 straight wins against Longford, Waterford and rovers b.

[Martinho II]

Galway win 3-0 this evening to put a gap of 5 points between ourselves and Wexford plus a very healthy goal difference.


Coming good now in the last round of games with 3 straight wins against Longford, Waterford and rovers b.

when are ye playing Shels? Can you do us a favour please Terry??

[Terry]

Second last game of the season if I recall correctly.

[SwanVsDalton]

Peter Hutton has made seven changes from the Sligo match. Includes Ciaran Gallagher, Josh Tracey, Nathan Boyle, Ryan Curran and Shay Dunlop, a youth player making his debut.

I presume the thinking is to save ourselves for the cup game. But if Cork City fans are utterly furious, I wouldn't blame them.