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Neil
06/05/2004, 7:11 PM
Any updates?

Éanna
06/05/2004, 7:11 PM
nothin yet. livescore and aertel have it at 0-0

adamcarr
06/05/2004, 7:14 PM
Same team as Bowez! :)

Éanna
06/05/2004, 7:29 PM
1-0 to city. Georgie scored. WOOOOHOOO :D

Neil
06/05/2004, 7:29 PM
1 - 0 City!

Georgie after Fenn hit the cross bar with a free kick.

jofyisgod
06/05/2004, 7:33 PM
Well done George. A certain Mr. Kerr is also in attendance watching from the end that City are playing into!

Neil
06/05/2004, 7:35 PM
Well done George. A certain Mr. Kerr is also in attendance watching from the end that City are playing into!

Keeping an eye on Doyler...

Is Flynny on the bench?

Gary
06/05/2004, 7:39 PM
HF were apparently playing for a draw with 5 across the middle. Good goal by all accounts, it led from a Fenn Free kick.

Same line up as last Friday.

jofyisgod
06/05/2004, 7:39 PM
Not too sure. Anyone have any idea as to whether JOF will play any part tonight. Must be about half-time now.

Éanna
06/05/2004, 7:48 PM
HF were apparently playing for a draw with 5 across the middle.
as they do every week. hopefully they'll have to come out and go for a goal and we can get another few on the break. just hope city don't drop too deep and concede a late one from a set piece.......again :mad:

About 70 city fans there apparently. city doing ok, but HF not making it easy for them. anyone know what the overall attendance is like?

Éanna
06/05/2004, 7:49 PM
apparently the overall attendance is about 300. get these horrible *****s out of our league :mad:

jofyisgod
06/05/2004, 7:55 PM
apparently the overall attendance is about 300. get these horrible *****s out of our league :mad:

300! :D :D :eek: :eek:

That is disgraceful. Then again, what kind of fcuking night is Thursday to be playing? Agree with Eanna, the sooner they are gone, the better.

Gary
06/05/2004, 7:58 PM
In fairness Eanna, UCD wouldnt do much better, nor would Bray. Love of God, Shams only have 5-600 at some of their games.

As for the Thursday comment, well, I reckon it wouldnt matter when they play, they would still get no one. Of course, Thursdays dont help.

Strange, Ken O Connor had a good piece in the Echo today about them, how they are a bloody disgrace.

Anyway, Flynny was warming up at pitchside, though i doubt that makes too much difference, as he was doing the same at the Kerry DL game, and he wasnt a named sub at that.

Éanna
06/05/2004, 7:59 PM
In fairness Eanna, UCD wouldnt do much better, nor would Bray. Love of God, Shams only have 5-600 at some of their games.

thats true too. not defending them either. but HF are really dragging things down even further

Gary
06/05/2004, 8:06 PM
Someone on another thread said of them that they play on thursdays in the hopes that a bored SPA/Shams/Bohs etc fan will go out and watch them.

To me thats utter bo£lox. Is that just another term of franchise, little different from the MK Dons in London?

jofyisgod
06/05/2004, 8:21 PM
Neale Fenn gone off injuried. Jamie Nolan has replaced him, and Liam Kearney is on for Mick Nwankwo. Apparantly ref is very poor, slowing game right down, no change there then...

Edit- Malmo FF 0 - 0 AIK Stockholm also tonight

Gary
06/05/2004, 8:43 PM
Brillaint. Couldnt care less if it was a horrible game to watch.

3 points are 3 points. As someone said in another thread, any result away from home is a good result.

With 2 home games on the way now..................fingers Xed

CollegeTillIDie
06/05/2004, 8:45 PM
300 in the Premier Division?

lads we are getting 300 in the First Division this season.
We had around 1,000 in the Premier Division last season.
To be fair Dublin City had more supporters last season when they won the First Division. Maybe they should not have got rid of the players they did.
Obviously the extra supporters were friends and family of the guys who have since left the club :D

patsh
06/05/2004, 8:46 PM
Excellent result
and
No DODGY last minutes penalties.... :D

Gary
06/05/2004, 8:52 PM
No DODGY last minutes penalties.... :D

Thats coz Doyler didnt score!

As for 1000 in Belfield in the premier? Any time i was there, never more than 350-400. Maybe there was 1000 when playing another Dub team, and they made up those numbers.

adamcarr
06/05/2004, 9:52 PM
Great Result. Two wins at home and then we will be going up to the sheepshaggers full of confidence! :)

pineapple stu
06/05/2004, 11:01 PM
As for 1000 in Belfield in the Premier? Any time I was there, never more than 350-400. Maybe there was 1000 when playing another Dub team, and they made up those numbers.

900 for the first Cork game last season - that's three times HF?'s equivalent crowd this season, for all that means! Course 500 in Belfield at least looks better than 300 in Tolka...!

Appalling game to watch - three points is three points, maybe, but if I were a Cork fan, I'd be concerned about the team's complete inability to actually pass to each other. Dublin City offered very little, though they could have perhaps scraped a draw with more composure in front of goal. Robbie Horgan was very nearly the first keeper I've ever seen to be sent off for two yellow cards for two fouls outside his box! :eek: :D

tiktok
06/05/2004, 11:32 PM
Brutal game.

Dublin City were well organised and closed the game down well, between an awful pitch and an awful (and dare i say biased) referree both dragging any continuity out of city, it was a scrappy, stop-start game. City never really got going, a lot of the players didn't really look that interested in what was going on (Nwankwo and Woods barely left their own half), we barely strung two passes together, but we ground out an away win, have two on the trot and up to third (however briefly the stay will be).

We'll have to improve against Rovers to make it three in a row, but a win's a win. Hopefully Fenn's injury isn't too serious.

highlights:

Brief chat with Brian Kerr before the Game, nice bloke.
Georgie's goal was very well taken.
The 'home fans' (average age eight) making more noise than Bohs on Friday ;)

and best of all...

Seeing Tom the Gom wreck Ollie Cahill's head at half time talking about 'giant cheques' :D :D

Peadar
07/05/2004, 8:04 AM
Dublin City offered very little, though they could have perhaps scraped a draw with more composure in front of goal.

Listen mate if we had a bit more composure in front of goal we'd have won 0-3 at least. Two clear chances in the second half where George tried to place his shot but hit wide and over the right corner by about a metre. Jamie Nolan dragged a shot low, across the box and narrowly wide of the same post. Any team would have looked poor against DC because their depressing style takes the life out of the game. Colin T and Dan Murray were mainly at fault where the passing was concerned but as we saw against Bohs, that's not such an issue when the level of the game is higher.

I sincerly doubt there was 300 at Tolka last night.
If you remove the two under 8 teams and their "Soccer Moms" who were there to provide the halftime entertainment and the fact that a good few of us got complimentary passes to the game then only a handful of people paid in.
Sad really.

pete
07/05/2004, 10:54 AM
I'd put attendance @ 200 & be surprised if mote than a 1/4 of that paid in.

City very poor against dire team. O'Neill has been getting good reviews but didn't show any of it last night as Home farm tried to find him with long balls. "Home" team had lots of possession but most in their own half. Fenn injury didn't look serious. Woods & Nwanko particularily poor but Kearney not much better.

Ref was shocking & blew up for almost every nudge & then of course let a couple of heavy tackles go plus a possibly red card for Home Farm in 1st half.

Éanna
07/05/2004, 10:59 AM
crap crowd? on pitch thuggery? dodgy refereeing? and they play in tolka? funny that :D :D

3 points is 3 points however we get it. our away record now is very good: 3 wins, 2 draws and one defeat if I'm not mistaken. If we improve our home form, we should have a very good season.

WindmillWarrior
07/05/2004, 2:19 PM
The crowd was about 200 alright, 30 Cork fans, 2 Drogs fans, I also seen a couple of Shels and Bohs fans and there was obviously a couple of UCD fans there as well! (Assuming you have mates Stu ;) ) See, Home Farm are right to play their games on a thursday, look at all those neutrals! :rolleyes: Well it means alot to Home Farm anyway!

tiktok
07/05/2004, 2:28 PM
30 Cork fans

the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.

WindmillWarrior
07/05/2004, 3:02 PM
the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.

Well, you must have counted those pesky little kids that were sitting beside you as well ;)

tiktok
07/05/2004, 3:13 PM
Well, you must have counted those pesky little kids that were sitting beside you as well ;)

christ, there must have been hundreds of them :D

i assumed all the gang standing around where i was were all city fans, maybe there was a few neutrals among us that padded out the difference between our estimates.

in any event, the attendance was shocking

Schumi
07/05/2004, 3:18 PM
the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.
Looked like more to me, I would have put the Cork crowd in the new stand at about 60 or so. With pineapple, myself and some other UCD punter at the game, more than 1% of the crowd were UCD fans!

Terrible game, HF's style doesn't make for good games. 1 up front and long balls up to him leads to boring football. Cork defended well and didn't give O'Neill any space to run onto the ball and so HF didn't get any decent shots in. Their defensive set-up closed O'Callaghan down well and that seemed to stop Cork from playing.

$hite game, €10 student price and a smaller crowd than in Belfield, I don't think I'll be going back there in a hurry!

tiktok
07/05/2004, 3:32 PM
Looked like more to me, I would have put the Cork crowd in the new stand at about 60 or so. !

i did my sad counting bit just after half time, there was a few stragglers from the bar after that ;)

Sheridan
07/05/2004, 3:33 PM
$hite game, €10 student price and a smaller crowd than in Belfield, I don't think I'll be going back there in a hurry!
Two students are admitted for the price of one upon production of ID. Should have been more widely publicised, that.

markdit
07/05/2004, 3:40 PM
Great Result. Two wins at home and then we will be going up to the sheepshaggers full of confidence! :)

who are the sheep shaggers????
:confused:

Troy.McClure
07/05/2004, 4:53 PM
some other UCD punter at the game,

??? :confused: :confused: :confused:

Snore of a game, Ive seen preseason/MSL games with more attendance, home atmosphere (credit to anyone who bothered comming up from Cork) and edge to it. I think that City did as much as they really needed to do.

Highlights: 3 points, Nwanko comming off and Dan's step-overs :D

Colm
07/05/2004, 5:20 PM
It was a boring game but that's to be expected with Dublin City. I thought Georgie, Danny Murphy and Lordan were the best for us.
Overall we played reasonably well but it is difficult to play any proper football against such rubbish negative teams like DC. We were never in danger of not winning and if we had had better finishing etc we could have won by 3 or 4.


the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.

I'd say there was still a lot of people in the bar at that stage. I would have thought there was somewhere between 60 and 80 City fans there, which is very good considering the factors (no bus, thursday, Dublin City).
btw, did you count the two "directors" in the directors box?! ;) :)

Anyway, another away win, our third win in Dublin now this season. Wasn't a great match to watch and it's depressing to see a football stadium so empty (I'd say there were only about 50 paying customers) but we got the job done and had an absolutely great night out in Dublin after. :)

pineapple stu
07/05/2004, 8:19 PM
??? :confused: :confused: :confused:


Somebody in a two-year old UCDAFC tracksuit - no idea who though.

A face
07/05/2004, 8:20 PM
FT Shamrock Rovers [3 - 0] Shelbourne

25' [1 - 0] Gough

36' [2 - 0] O´Halloran

55' Rogers

90' [3 - 0] Grant



OH MYYYYY GAAAWWWWD !!!
ROLL ON THE NEXT TWO HOME GAMES

A face
07/05/2004, 8:23 PM
36' [2 - 0] O´Halloran

OH MYYYYY GAAAWWWWD !!!



IS HE WITH US NOW OR WHAT .... IS HE COMING OR GOING ???

Pablo
07/05/2004, 8:32 PM
i did my sad counting bit just after half time, there was a few stragglers from the bar after that ;)

yeah we 'took' the directors box after half time! some funny stares from Pat Devlin and Eoin Hand when we started chanting ha ha

razor
07/05/2004, 9:22 PM
OH MYYYYY GAAAWWWWD !!!



IS HE WITH US NOW OR WHAT .... IS HE COMING OR GOING ???

Keith O'Halloran, Relax the body.

A face
07/05/2004, 9:49 PM
Keith O'Halloran, Relax the body.

Nice one :)