Waterford & District League 2010/11

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Weekend Results

Tramore 0 Villa 0
Johnville 2 Crystal 2
St.Saviours 1 Carrick Utd 2

big win for Carrick with other results going their way they are starting to look stronger and stronger by the week goals form Nipper Power and Thomas Fitzgerald gave them the victory Paul Coady also made his debut left back

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what are the fixtures in WDL this wknd, also surely someone can spread the word about Waterford thread . We cannot leave it die , as no other site are catering for local soccer in Waterford

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Carrick regain Premier top spot
BY PAUL ELLIOTT

ST SAVIOURS 1 CARRICK UNITED 2
IT was business as usual for Carrick United as the took all three points from an out of form and injury hit St. Saviours, a goal a piece for Anthony Power and Thomas Fitzgerald pushed Carrick back to the top of the Waterford Premier League.

With all the experience that Carrick have plus a large squad of player the reining champions will take some shifting from the top of the table.

Carrick United were quick out of the blocks as they hit the Saints with a goal after just two minutes play.

Bobby Landers took on the home defence before playing the ball into the feet of Thomas Fitzgerald, the Carrick striker fed Anthony Power and he drove a powerful left foot shot into the net from twenty five yards past Graham Cleary. The Saints keeper was in action again four minutes later when he saved well from Eoin Burke.

Things got worst for St. Saviours when Arron O’Neill left the pitch with a bad leg injury O’Neill was replaced by Paul Gahan the substitute whipped in a cracking cross from the right on twenty eight minutes and defender Alan Redmond was forced to head the ball away at the expense of a corner kick while under pressure from Joe Twomey.

Ten minutes later Graham Cleary had to be at his best to save a free kick taken by the Carrick midfield player Alan Ryan. In the dying seconds of the first half Joe Twomey ran on to a pass from Kevin Dolan but his curling shot from the right went narrowly wide of the back post.

Saints manager Alfie Hale rang the changes at half time as Stephen Dalton was introduced to replace Trevor Elliott, this gave St. Saviours more pace upfront and they almost drew level on the hour mark when Paul Gahan got his head to a driven Brian Arrigan cross but Adrian Walsh showed his class with a brilliant save.
Carrick went two up on sixty five minutes, John Walsh sent over a deep cross from the right. Alan Coady headed the ball into the path of Thomas Fitzgerald and the striker swept the ball into the net from close range. St Saviour’s never gave up the fight and they got back into the game with a fine goal from Stephen Dalton.

From mid field Joe Twomey played a pass that somehow got past two Carrick defenders and Dalton raced onto to it before drawing Walsh from line and Dalton slotted home to throw the Saints a life line.

Now it was St. Saviours who were on the attack and with eight minutes left on the clock they went close to an equaliser, Kevin Dolan fed Gerry Connors who raced into the penalty area but Adrian Walsh was quick off his line to block Connors close range effort.

One minute later at the other end Carrick thought they had scored a third when Glen Keane finished from close range after Fitzgerald had struck the upright but Keane’s goal was disallowed for offside.

It is now four defeats in a row for St. Saviours, however pre season the Saints were tipped to be in the title shake up but at the moment it looks as if they will have one hell of a battle to finish in mid table. Carrick on the other hand move back to the top of the Premier League table a position they have held over the last decade.

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JOHNVILLE 2 WATERFORD CRYSTAL 2
A SECOND half strike from Johnville substitute Jamie Flynn was good enough to give his side a share of the spoils against a disappointing Waterford Crystal challenge at St. Martinís Park on Sunday morning last, with the latter missing key players up front.

The league leaders were without their striking duo of Paul Quilty and Joe Watson as they couldnít pick up all three points against a home side that fought and battled to the final whistle to grab another point that could prove crucial at the end of the season.

Crystal went into this game on the back of a five nil drumming of Ferrybank and manager Niall Hogan would have been hoping to build on that result but they just couldnít add a third goal once they put their heads in front in this fixture and paid the price at the final whistle.

However, one would have to give credit to Johnville as they went at their opponentsí from the opening whistle and they got off to the perfect start on three minutes when Gavin McLawrence whipped in a right-wing cross, which wasnít dealt with by Crystal keeper Derek Hearne and Gary Kelly fired home from 12 yards.

It took a brilliant save from the visiting netminder to keep his side in the contest on nine minutes when Gavin Phelanís free kick from the right was flicked on by Valdo Bulvais into the path of Pat Browne, however his close range effort was superbly kept out by the former Irish International.

Crystal were back on level terms with their first real chance of the game on 13 minutes when Liam Coady was fouled out on the right and when Keith Sheridan whipped in the resulting free kick, full back Mitchell Casey powered a header to the roof of the net for his first goal since returning from injury.

There was a lot of midfield play for the majority of the first half before Crystal broke for the lead goal on 37 minutes when Sheridan did well down the left channel and after he fired the ball to the back post, centre forward Niall OíToole was on hand to blast home from close range.

Conor Fell went close to adding a third goal for his side three minutes before the half time whistle when he latched onto a Liam Coady knockdown, however despite turning onto his left-foot, the midfielder dragged his left-footed shot inches wide of the right upright.

Crystal looked comfortable for the opening 25 minutes of the second half as neither side looked like scoring but all of that was soon to change as Derek Hearne was called into action to make a decent stop to deny Valdo Bulvais on 71 minutes.

But there was nothing that the Crystal number one could do to prevent a Johnville equalising goal less than two minutes later as from the resulting corner kick, the ball fell to Gary Kelly, who put the ball on a plate for Jamie Flynn and he steered a right-footed effort to the bottom left-hand corner of the net from 14 yards.

As the visitors pressed for the lead, Mitchell Casey was just off target with a header following a Sheridan corner kick on 82 minutes before Leo Jacques flashed a header over the crossbar seconds later after a superb cross from Alan Ryan.

Both sides missed glorious chances to snatch all three points in the dying minutes when firstly, Conor Fell set up Liam Coady, however he somehow managed to blaze wide of an open goal when he should have hit the target. It was Pat Browne that missed a superb opportunity in the final whistle when firing wide at the back post following a James Casey cross from the left and following four minutes of second half injury time, the two teams had to be happy with a share of the spoils.

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crystal won 2 1 aet against kilmacow , Tramore beat ST Pauls3 2 aet, t Savioursbeat Ferrybank 2 1, all in FAI cup .
Carrick won 1 0 in Villa (John murphy)

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crystal won 2 1 aet against kilmacow , Tramore beat ST Pauls3 2 aet, t Savioursbeat Ferrybank 2 1, all in FAI cup .
Carrick won 1 0 in Villa (John murphy)

How did Johnville V Park Rgs. go in FAI?

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crystal won 2 1 aet against kilmacow , Tramore beat ST Pauls3 2 aet, t Savioursbeat Ferrybank 2 1, all in FAI cup .
Carrick won 1 0 in Villa (John murphy)
Kilmacow are only a 1b side and st pauls are 2a i think these must of being tremendous efforts from both teams to bring decent sides to extra time, I missed carricks game i heard twas a decent performance away from home Spud scoring on is debut is great for him

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How did Johnville V Park Rgs. go in FAI?

Johnville won 4-2. They also had 2 players sent off.


Also, for people looking for fixtures, results and tables, the munster express is pretty good and almost always up to date. Updated usually on a tuesday i think.

http://www.munster-express.ie/sports/soccer-tables/

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Johnville won 4-2. They also had 2 players sent off.


Also, for people looking for fixtures, results and tables, the munster express is pretty good and almost always up to date. Updated usually on a tuesday i think.


http://www.munster-express.ie/sports/soccer-tables/
the tables haven't being updated but results are in from last week!
Mooncoin1 2 De La Salle
Tycor 0 4Kilmacthomas
Tramore3 2 St Pauls
Ferrybank1 2 St Saviours
Bohs 5 1Crusaders
St Josephs 0 2 Dungarvan
Kilmacow 1 2 W. Crystal
Johnville 4 2 Park Rangers

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rumours of alleged " betting scams " in TSDL games surely spreads alarm amoung all in junior circles.
How can any bookmakers get permission to price up matches?
Do they need permission to do so?
Are there any rules involving players/members betting on clubs own games?
also strong rumours that prominent club bet on themselves for last seasons FAI cup .

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rumours of alleged " betting scams " in TSDL games surely spreads alarm amoung all in junior circles.
How can any bookmakers get permission to price up matches?
Do they need permission to do so?
Are there any rules involving players/members betting on clubs own games?
also strong rumours that prominent club bet on themselves for last seasons FAI cup .

there is a big difference on betting to win an FAI junior cup and betting on your team to lose a league game, i've have major issues with PP for starting these markets i the 1st place they are wide open for abuse, its next to near impossible to police if done "correctly", Although not playing for Carrick i have a bet on them every year to win the FAI junior regardless of their strength just in case

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Result from today; Hibernians 2 Tramore 2

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not a good result for tramore, saw them against the Villa and although they played nice football , they lacked Villa`s passion.

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Sunday, 10th October
Premier League
Carrick v Johnville 11.00am
W. Crystal v Hibs 11.00am
Dungarvan v Ferrybank 11.00am

Carrick at home to Johnville a week before they meet in the FAI Junior cup should interesting

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cufc 7pd 17pts
tramore 7 pld 15pts
glass 7pld 14pts
ferryb'k 6pld 10pts
villa 7 pld 8pts
saviors 7pld 7pts
hibs 6pld 6pts
johnville 6pld 5pts
dungar'n 6pld 4pts
bohs 7pld 4pts

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looks to me top three will stay there till may. Bottom three probably same .

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looks to me top three will stay there till may. Bottom three probably same .

Tramore have signed David Grincell and he seems to be in top form - had a great game v Crystal last weekend when Tramore won easy.
They will be hard to beat.

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Tramore have signed David Grincell and he seems to be in top form - had a great game v Crystal last weekend when Tramore won easy.
They will be hard to beat.

He's a very good striker he orginally from kilkenny and signed youths with tramore 4/5 years ago and then went onto play on and off for waterford united himself and Lee Quilty could link up well together

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result from last night- prem league Bohs 0 tramore 2 . tramore go top , bohs deep in bother

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crystal 3 hibs 0 , villa 4 st saviors 1 , dungarvan 2 ferrybank 0 , carrick 4 johnville 0

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Saturday, October 16th Junior Cup 2nd Round
Bohs v Southend 7.00pm
De La Salle v Piltown 2.00pm
Bolton v Grannagh 2.00pm
St Otteran’s v Tramore2 .00pm


Sunday, October 17th Junior Cup 2nd Round
Dungarvan v St Saviour’s 11.00am
Johnville v Carrick 11.00am
Hibs v Kilmacthomas 11.00am
W’Crystal v Villa 11.00am

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Any results from todays FAI games in Waterford?

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Any news on book on history of the league, by guy who did recent history of Waterford Utd.

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Any news on book on history of the league, by guy who did recent history of Waterford Utd.

Its out in December, so I hear.

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What's going on with Waterford Bohs this year lads? I thought you had a golden generation coming up a few years back?

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bohs are in a serious situation, they must be favourites to be relegated. dont know about any "golden generation". bohs always cherry picked best players at
u-14 or 15 at the loss of other city clubs in particular. are all these players returned to their own clubs so putting bohs in bother ,

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What's going on with Waterford Bohs this year lads? I thought you had a golden generation coming up a few years back?

I hope they go down and next year i hope Villa go down purly on the basis of them "cherry picking" underage players from surrounding clubs and further best players with promises of trials and underage caps! Kids will have to realise that they will be spotted if they are good enough.

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I hope they go down and next year i hope Villa go down purly on the basis of them "cherry picking" underage players from surrounding clubs and further best players with promises of trials and underage caps! Kids will have to realise that they will be spotted if they are good enough.

Typical city clubs I suppose. Its the same in most cities Dublin esp! Even in limerick Wembley Rovers get all the best underage talent in the town but after minor they head back to there original clubs. As u said cufc if there good enough they'l be spotted no matter what! Thats what development/ken cup and oscar traynor teams are for also.

Do ye fancy yer chances in the Munster/Fai this year?

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Do ye fancy yer chances in the Munster/Fai this year?
its hard to judge we haven't being tested yet bar waterford cyrstal and have had alot of injuries and fella's finishing up with the gaa, the three signings from rock rovers seem to have added some strength and depth, i hope we get a good run in the cups we have home draws all the way to the out of area section in munster so hopefully we'll be mxing with good company after xmas

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F.A.I. UMBRO JUNIOR CUP 3rd ROUND DRAW


WATERFORD
3rd ROUND
1 Tramore F.C. v St.Saviours
2 Piltown F.C. v Hibernians F.C.
3 Carrick United v Southend Utd.
4 Waterford Crys. v Bolton F.C.

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Tricky one for Carrick Utd on Sunday next in Limerick. Rathkeale going well in Desmond League.

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Tricky one for Carrick Utd on Sunday next in Limerick. Rathkeale going well in Desmond League.

That's in the Munster Senior I presume - wouldn't have thought ye'd be too worried about going out of that - surely ye are focused on the league and MJC & FAI.

Was at the Crystal - Tramore game Sunday morning and thought it was the best game of ball I've seen so far this season (maybe even last year too). Helped in no small way by it being a glorious morning not a cloud in the sky or a breath of wind - maybe that's what coloured my view! Tramore will be kicking themselves to have been knocked out. First half even enough with Tramore giving away 2 soft penalties, first fairly clear cut, second less so particularly having conceded first. Third goal a very good effort by the impressive Paul Quilty. Tramore had scored straight after Crystal's first. Second half was all Tramore with Stephen Grant getting more involved but they missed at least 2 clear chances befoe Grant did score with only a few minutes to go. Couldn't get the equaliser they probably desrved but having said that Crystal did have a few good performances particularly Paul Quilty with his 1st half hat-trick (good footballer & tough cookie) and centre of defence. Tramore played good football but couldn't make it count.

That's how Sunday mornings should be!

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didnt make above game , word has it this was a excellent cup game . as winter approaches efforts to get out of the area will produce this standard of game. Couple of people mentioned poor condition of Crystals pitch , uneven surface and high grass. Was this on purpose , maybe or not , but standards should surely be higher.

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That's in the Munster Senior I presume - wouldn't have thought ye'd be too worried about going out of that - surely ye are focused on the league and MJC & FAI.

Was at the Crystal - Tramore game Sunday morning and thought it was the best game of ball I've seen so far this season (maybe even last year too). Helped in no small way by it being a glorious morning not a cloud in the sky or a breath of wind - maybe that's what coloured my view! Tramore will be kicking themselves to have been knocked out. First half even enough with Tramore giving away 2 soft penalties, first fairly clear cut, second less so particularly having conceded first. Third goal a very good effort by the impressive Paul Quilty. Tramore had scored straight after Crystal's first. Second half was all Tramore with Stephen Grant getting more involved but they missed at least 2 clear chances befoe Grant did score with only a few minutes to go. Couldn't get the equaliser they probably desrved but having said that Crystal did have a few good performances particularly Paul Quilty with his 1st half hat-trick (good footballer & tough cookie) and centre of defence. Tramore played good football but couldn't make it count.

That's how Sunday mornings should be!

Tramore will redouble their efforts in the league now and will surely be fancying their chances. Sunday November 14th in Tom Drohan Park when they visit Carrick Utd. is a must for the diary.

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wow , this could be a watershed fixture. it will be more than a six-pointer. any predictions (score ,cards, ref-who is capable-) Surely biggest attendance this season. A must for diary for sure.

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What is it with Tramore every year they seem to make these great signings and just cant get out of Waterford in national comp.Tramore are great at keeping possession but when it comes to final third there lacking that killer instinct.Great to see a good close league for a change.Its looking like Carrick and the Crystal in next round of Munster, should be interesting.

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Tramore are well packed this season. They picked up Grincell and Grant from Waterford Utd.
Seems to be a regular conveyor belt of players from the RSC to the seaside town. Still , I suppose it makes for an exciting league between those three, Carrick, Crystal and Tramore.

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What is it with Tramore every year they seem to make these great signings and just cant get out of Waterford in national comp.Tramore are great at keeping possession but when it comes to final third there lacking that killer instinct.Great to see a good close league for a change.Its looking like Carrick and the Crystal in next round of Munster, should be interesting.
everyone is waiting for them to kick on form their league success two seasons ago they have an excelent passing team, they probably should have kept a hold of joey watson to compete i later stages of mj and fai. League game in coolnamuck promises to be a facinating incounter as regards officals i hope Andrew "Mash" Mulally dosent get it, nice lad and all but tends to be like a rabbit caught in the head lights at times tramore v carrick last season & carrick v glass earlier this season spring to mind!

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http://www.munster-express.ie/sports/junior-soccer-table/

the latest tables!

Good to see carrick doing well in the lower leagues 1b team had a good win away to abbeyside and the 2b are 5th but if they win sunday they coulld go second other results depending and also david quinlans youths riding high at the top of the youths b table Keep up the good work!!!

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Tricky one for Carrick Utd on Sunday next in Limerick. Rathkeale going well in Desmond League.
turned out to be a good battle with the lads coming out 3 nil winners, away to leeds in next round, this is the round before the senior clubs enter

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Good win for the lads in Rathkeale. Also helpful to be able to give youth players a run.
Division 1B side going great guns also

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Piltown v Hibs tonight at 7 Should be a good game of ball i think piltown mite sneak this 1
Tramore v Saviours sat at 7 tramore should prevail but hopefully not ha ha
waterford glass v bolton sunday 11am fully expect the glass to go through reasonably comfortable
carrick v southend sunday 11 am southend always put up a battle in carrick but they havent set the world alight in 1a carrick 3-1

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Piltown 3-0 Hibs, Alan Walsh with 2, Gerry Walsh with 1. Piltown away would be tricky enough in next round.

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Piltown 3-0 Hibs, Alan Walsh with 2, Gerry Walsh with 1. Piltown away would be tricky enough in next round.

Thats a shock. Carrick better be ready for tomorrow as Southend have picked up lately after a slow start. What a local derby v Piltown if we can win at Tom Drohan Park

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carrick 1 southend 0 very poor game carrick without adrian walsh looked shaky at the back, however when wayne fitzgerald came on he gave carrick some nice impetus and bust thru the southend midfield to lay on for his brother thomas to score a screamer for outside the area, carrick will nedd to pick up the tempo for next sunday,

Tramore 2 saviors 1 in fai also anyone have a result from the glass v bolton

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Carrick v tramore 11am sunday i hope this incoming weather front doesnt ruin the game, hopefully the league doesnt have their first blanket ban of they year these blanket bans do my nut every pitch should be inspected by the ref on the day of the fixture

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by all accounts Carrick were not at their best last sunday v. Southend . no word on Tramore`s
win against St Saviours. This is possibly biggest game this season , if previous "battles" are anything to go on. I would think a tight game with one goal to decide it either way, keepers will be crucial. Could be busy day for refs, any thoughts from either camp.

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Ye Sunday should be very interesting for both teams, Carrick and Tramore really have had sum great battles over the years.Any idea what the Carrick team could be now that everyone is just back expect for Spud and now that macsharry can play??

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the team will be pretty much the same as what finished last sunday Wayne Fitz will probably start instead of Burke left back is up for grabs with P Coady A. Grace and B Landers all in with a shout, Tramore were not supposed to be great versus saviours last week and might have being beaten had things gone the ballybeg mens way

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where has mcsherry been last few seasons? class player when his head is in the game. How are the lads carrick signed from rock rovers getting on with ye. will any of them make yer first 11