Longford Town 0-1 Cork City

[thecorner]

looks like we have found our new penalty taker

stand up georgie boy

[thecorner]

full time 1-0 city

a win on saturday should put us right back in to contention for europe

[joe]

Georgie with a penalty late on

City:
Devine,
Hoggie, D Murray, Derek, Woods,
Colin T, Greg, K Murray, Kearney,
Georgie, Doyler

[SSS]

Originally posted by thecorner
looks like we have found our new penalty taker

stand up georgie boy

I was going to post the same thing.
George has tucked away a few in non-league games this season. Don't think he has missed one.
A peno so near the end..pressure.
Lucky Flynn was injured or he'd a missed it
;)


Interesting to see the line-up.
Would have thought that Beno would be better than Murray in the middle.

Hope our luck has changed.
An away win with a late peno, a "home" away game to rovers to come...

[joe]

btw Georgie revealed a t-shirt under his jersey saying



Top Gun
John O'Flynn
Played 45, Scored 30
To be continued

[patsh]

Great result..:)
Any subs used?
I saw Mucka road building down towards Carrigaline @ about 6ish, so he didn't come on anyway...;)

[NorthoftheLee]

Top Gun
John O'Flynn
Played 45, Scored 30
To be continued



hahhahh thats class...........

so how did the team play and how did Doyle do up front???? also how did kearney play after his promising debut???

[Ali-G]

According to the report in the examiner, we were lucky. Any reports from the lads at the game.

24/09/03
Late O’Callaghan penalty hands City win

Longford Town 0 Cork City 1
John O’Mahony
LONGFORD TOWN were dominant for most of this uninspiring game last night but their inability to convert many chances cost them dearly as George O’Callaghan slotted home the game’s only goal from the penalty spot two minutes from time.


Longford enjoyed the lion’s share of early possession. Alan Kirby thought he had put the home side in front after 11 minutes but his fiercely struck shot was somehow cleared by former Longford player Greg O’Halloran.

Derek Coughlan headed wide for Cork two minutes later and the enthusiastic midweek crowd in Flancare Park had to wait a further 22 minutes for the game’s next opening.

Again it fell to the home side. Eric Lavine’s effort was blocked out for a corner by City’s Neill Horgan.

Cork’s best chance of the half fell to Colin T O’Brien in the 37th minute. He found himself on the end of Kevin Doyle’s cross but could only manage to direct his header over Stephen O’Brien’s crossbar.

Longford had another superb chance to hit the front five minutes from the break but Lavine headed badly wide with the Cork keeper Michael Divine well beaten.

Brian McGovern and Sean Francis had further chances for the midlanders in the early stages of the second half. Another chance fell to Sean Dillon in the 73rd minute. His well-struck shot was well saved by Divine as Cork continued to struggle to carve any openings.

However, Pat Dolan and his charges needn’t have worried as in the 88th minute Colin P O’Brien was fouled inside the penalty area by Longford substitute Vinny Perth and George O’Callaghan fired home the game’s only goal from the resultant spot kick.

LONGFORD TOWN: O’Brien; Dillon; Gartland; McGovern; Ferguson; Keogh; Kirby; Sheridan; Lavine; Francis; Prunty. Subs: Mulvihill for Prunty (71 mins); Perth for Sheridan (85 mins).

CORK CITY: Divine; Doyle; Horgan; K. Murray; Coughlan; D. Murray; Colin P. O’Brien; O’Halloran; Kearney; O’Callaghan; Woods. Subs: Bennett for Doyle (93 mins).

Referee: D. Hanney (Dublin).

[joe]

Originally posted by Ali-G
According to the report in the examiner, we were lucky. Any reports from the lads at the game.


'scarcely deserved' were the words used!

[razor]

Originally posted by joe
'scarcely deserved' were the words used!

Who cares we'll take it.

[patsh]

Originally posted by joe
'scarcely deserved' were the words used!
Well given that our last 3 league games yielded "scarcely deserved" points for the opposition, we are due some luck..;)

[NorthoftheLee]

Originally posted by patsh
Well given that our last 3 league games yielded "scarcely deserved" points for the opposition, we are due some luck


well said patsh....maybe the tide of luck will turn our way for a while

[pete]

Yeah we hardly deserved more than a point but as they say these things even themselves out. ;)

Can't think of any good performances on the night.

8-1 on agg :D

[golly]

i thought kearney did well

[Eric]

I don't even think we deserved a point from the game let alone all three!!!!

It was a ****e match in total. very stop and start as there were a lot of frees given. Longford had the most possession and the better chances too.

No-one really stood out fot City as to having a really good game. Don't agree with Kevin Murray in centre midfield, he looked totally out of place last night. Thought Kearney played well in the second half, he didn't get much ball in the first half.

thought the best move of the night was the sandwiches we got in The Tangled Web after the match!!!!
:D :D

[pete]

Originally posted by Eric
No-one really stood out fot City as to having a really good game. Don't agree with Kevin Murray in centre midfield, he looked totally out of place last night. Thought Kearney played well in the second half, he didn't get much ball in the first half.

Yeah Murray basically just plays a blocker in midfield so may a s well play 5 at the back. Very hard to judge any player on that game but thought Kearney lost the ball a bit too often but never really saw the play in the attacking third...

[Seanie]

Who actually played?

Joe has C.T. in the line-up which I'm assuming is correct. But the Examiner have C.P. in theirs and mention him as being fouled for the penalty. Can I assume this is incorrect cos the Examiner also mentions C.T. in the report?

[James]

joe or the examiner
i know who my moneys on

Examiner OUT :D

[Gary]

We mugged em plain and simple. If it wasnt for Paddy Mulvihill being a w@nker in front of goal they would have easily won. easily.

Thought Kearney did very well. He is so small though. Doyle played very well without ever coming close.

Nul pointe to the LTFC committee who wouldnt allow us bring the flag poles in.

Mad George tshirt. He looked so proud of it. Dolan made him come down to us at the end so we could read it properly. Magic.

[Colm]

Overall it was a very poor game, both teams squandered chance after chance and in the end we only barely deserved the win. Longford played horrible football and did nothing but hoof it for the entire game, it was difficult for City to combat this.

George played well as always, lovely cheeky penalty.
Kearney did very well, the fact that he's so tiny didn't seem to efect him that much even with the physically big Longford players.
Dan Murray also played very well, as did Doyler.

Good showing form the 20 or so City fans behind the goal, non-stop singing for the whole game. The flags looked good draped over the seats and added a bit of colour to the place, however, they would have looked far better had we been allowed to wave them!

[SÓC]

Though the ref ruined the game he was so whistle happy.

Georgies peno was class, he used his hit the bar technique:)

I didnt think Murray played that poorly, he threw himself about and got into the box a few times.

Kearney played well but maybe if he lerned to fall more he'd get us alot of frees the was Duff does for Ireland, he doesnt dive but when he gets hit he makes sure to get his free.