vs Shamrock Rovers (EA Sports Cup)

[Aberdonian Stu]

It'll be interesting to see who, if anyone, from Friday's big win gets a game seeing as we've Rovers again on Friday. Hard to say what sort of a side Rovers will field either. Makes for an interesting match-up in any event.

Once again we'll have a live blog over on Action81.com

[Poor Student]

As you've indicated, these games are always something of a complete unknown. I'd guess we'll be rotating a lot of players but we have a strong second string who are well blooded at this stage. I have no idea how Rovers will approach this one. I like to remember our second round clash from 2005. The Rod himself says how he'll be playing a full strength team as he wants to win the trophy, UCD send out a bunch of inexperienced youngsters and the embarrassingly off the pace Paul Whitmarsh, and we go on to dump them out courtesy of the aforementioned pensioner's only goal for the club.

[Aberdonian Stu]

That live blog is under way now

[Schumi]

Fairly comfortable 1-0 win for Rovers, they didn't really get out of 2nd or 3rd gear though we could have nicked a draw in injury time. They had a strong team out compared to our 2 or 3 regular starters but it's hard to draw many conclusions about them from tonight as they weren't really pushing that hard.

[John83]

Fairly clueless article on extratime: http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/3445/ They didn't notice that we had rested most of the starting team. Imagine that happening to someone covering Bolton v Hull or something? It's ridiculous.

[pineapple stu]

Yeah, it sounds like you'd have to draw encouragement from that performance ahead of Friday. That Rovers team looks reasonably strong, whereas we made 9 changes from the Bray game.

Curious that Billy was in goals. Would have thought Ger would have gotten a run.