QuoteJesus do you want me killed!Originally Posted by Nesta99
The next name to be used by a LoI side from Cork!
Jesus do you want me killed!
Hilarious from Barry. Kerr's examples proved his point about how Cork play away and Barry argued he should see them at home. Kerr wasn't talking about home performances at all.
Presume the Dublin media line played well in Cork too
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This is a real storm in a tea cup. In effect, both of them are right. We do have the players to play a more flowing game away from home, and personally, I don't know why we don't. Also, our game is much more flowing at home. I don't really see the Dublin-Cork bias argument here. I don't even think Barry was saying that. Kerr made a judgement on a completely different gameplan that we for some reason employ away from home, something which he was right to criticise.
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Cork must be doing something right at home if they get 5,000 through the turnstiles.
I have yet to see them this season but reports indicate a very defensive set up away from home. If the goal is to win the league, winning away from home is important.
If I didn't know any better I'd think Johnny C put him up to it!
Yeah, they are winning games and up the business end of the table. Not really a comment on the football they are playing. In fairness Corks ability to generate crowds when doing well should be the envy of everyone in the league. I'd love 5,000 every week at Richmond.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Subtle change to your comment!
Lads, it's not as if they've stumbled upon some secret formula. The evidence is clear: just commit no fouls or break the rules in any way and the fans will flock in to watch such virtuous football. I'll be the first to admit my own club could learn a thing or two.
While winning is the trigger, there has been a huge amount of work done for about 15 years through schools and other community projects. So it hasn't just happened overnight. What I've noticed in recent times is a complete change of attitude towards the LOI. The blank stares have seemingly become a rarity and supporting your LOI club is now as socially acceptable as I can remember.
The funniest thing about this running joke is that we finished second in the fair play behind Dundalk. If we had been even more virtuous we clearly would have been Champions. Though UCD finished third and were relegated...
I know, that's why it's really funny.
If you had drawn even one of the 3 games you lost to Dundalk last year (agg score of 8-1), you could have been champions! The two in Oriel Park were quite comprehensive defeats, but that was a missed opportunity in TX last August. However even with the late winner for us, we probably did deserve to win the game, but it just shows you the fine margins and how valuable every single point is.
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#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
You don't need to tell me that. I was saying that from before your second win over us. I've said many times here how the 1998-99 season was horrible for me, and it was exactly the same. We lost 3 times in the league to St. Pats, and one draw would have been enough for the title.
To be fair, I enjoyed large parts of both seasons.
There are incredibly fine margins in all leagues, another one for us was back in 1988/89, defending double champions, unbeaten at home all season and still 'only' came second.
That was some League run Cork went on to be fair from the middle of August to the middle of October last season.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
I'd argue that run has been going on for a little bit longer, and still continues.
(Though those 6 Wins in a row, and 10 game unbeaten streak was pretty special and made many of us believe we could do it, I for one was not prepared for defeat that day).
The last time someone other than Dundalk beat City in the League was Bohs last July. Before that Pats last May. Before that, Shamrock Rovers September 2013.
Since Tommy Dunne left/was sacked Cork City have played 50 league games. 46 of those are against teams not named Dundalk. 33 Wins, 10 Draws and 3 losses for an average PPG of 2.37, form of Champions its fair to say. None of those losses came at Turners Cross either.
The other 4 games against Dundalk have not gone as well. Dundalk have beaten us 4 times by an aggregate of 12-1. Granted three of those games were in Dundalk, but if we're going to be successful this year we need to reverse that trend, or at least stop it.
Most pleasing is that in that 18 months or so we have only lost one game at home. In Dunnes last few months we were coughing up unbeaten home records left right and centre. Rovers and Derry had both gone a decade without league wins in Cork and we gifted them both three points. The worst was Bray though. 21 years I think it was. They not only beat us they battered us. 3-1 was a flattering scoreline.
Feckin' plastic pitch advantage.
Great pitch back then, nothing like a game the week after staging the Tug Of War World Championships.
Assume that's a joke guys, this was 1988/89 season I'm on about, unbeaten.
Those are fair stats EP, very solid results, and fair point on the home record with only one defeat in 18 months.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
Think I saw this before, was this not 1978?Great pitch back then, nothing like a game the week after staging the Tug Of War World Championships.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
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