QuoteIn watching the game. There could easily be up to 1500 to 2000 there. That is more than I thought.
2-0 City. Beautiful cross from O Connell and Maguire with the finish. Only 3 City players started who started in the Cup Final.
In watching the game. There could easily be up to 1500 to 2000 there. That is more than I thought.
1850 according to the club. Gartland sent off for two yellows.Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar
I think the club will be well happy with that. And a win and a good performance to add a bit of buzz before the Bohs game next week. Hopefully a big crowd for that. Has to be a psychological boost for our players too, it might only have been a pre-season game in reality, but it's the first win against Dundalk in any form in 3 years.
We were superb there. More of the same please.
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I'll deal with the controversial stuff first: We Are The Champions was played at the end, and there was no guard of honour for Dundalk coming on or City going off.
It was feisty to say the least, particularly in the first half. While wary of reading too much into one pre-season game, there was a notable increase in midfield drive with Morrissey back for City, and a corresponding drop for Dundalk without Towell.
A man can have no greater love than give 90 minutes for his friends.
Seriously, what?
Yes, it's only a preseason game, but what struck me was our physicality. It was the first time we've out-matched them in that area since before we went down to the first division.
Also, Eoghan O'Connell is going to be a big player for us until he goes back to Celtic.
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Bloody ridiculous. Only found out 5 mins from the end!
2-0 actually flattered Dundalk, even before the red card. Could easily have been 4 or 5. Saying that, McNulty, O'Connell and Massey should all have been sent off just before half time, would have been a very different game.
I think if we had lost that it would have been a big deal. As it is, we won a warm up game, and got a slight edge over Dundalk, or get a slight edge back from them maybe but the real stuff starts next week.
Does that red card carry over into the league by the way?
Dreadful display by Dundalk, but to be fair that was a very good performance by Cork, better all over the park and totally deserved the 2-0 win.
I'd have taken 3 points next Sat night over Bray instead of winning today, but still disappointing to lose, and more so in that manner, definitely one of the worst displays since losing 4-1 away to Drogs on the opening night of 2014.
Nice to see the live stream still, even though I only found out about it after the first goal.
So that's 3 home wins now for the newly revamped Presidents Cup Final, Pats, Dundalk, now Cork.
PS, is this Cauldfield's first trophy with Cork as a manager?
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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).
Apparently it does.
Added to the one's mentioned above, O'Donnell and Bolger should have got 2nd yellow cards for separate incidents towards the end of the game too.
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you seen with Arsenal beating Chelsea at the start of the premiership in the shield that they were going to dominate the season coming up and it hasnt quite worked like that at all! think the loi title will be way clsr than last yr!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Congrats to Cork - by all accounts totally deserve the win.
It was bound to happen eventually that Cork succeed - I think the first time they have managed that against Dundalk in the Kenny era.
While Cork are likely to get a morale boost from the result, in the long run it may be of more benefit to Dundalk in giving them a shake-up against complacency. Every time Dundalk have had a set-back in the last few seasons they have responded really well.
This Dundalk team are not used to losing - I expect to see a response to this defeat in the performance next week
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I heard the opposite, that he'd be suspended for the next friendly, that sound mad though
I don't know for sure because the FAI don't publish rules about anything, but far as I know it's for the next friendly but if there's no friendly it's carried into the first league game.
Bear in mind this is the association that banned half the league from opening day last year.
This is the same association that carries over yellow card suspensions from the previous season.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Surely they will arrange a friendly so and play the under 12s 😂
Very odd that the live stream was kept a secret. I only picked up on it cos I happened to be on Twitter in the first few minutes of the game. Very high quality stream too. Cork looked the better team, Dundalk looked a lot less intense than usual. Ok, it's a glorified friendly, but would expect better from Dundalk. Hopefully that's a kick up the arse for them. As has been said it was fairly feisty, Boyle could have gone for the late challenge that caused the handbags before half time, so I reckon looking at this thread it could've finished 7 a side.
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