Pre Season games

[Longfordian]

I was joking! Come on now, I thought that'd be obvious. I've never been one to take pre season overly seriously. I'm sure it was a useful work out. Roll on the rest of the games.

[Tallanted]

No walsh, mooney, cowan or hyland at all, a fair few trialists in by looks of it, good oppurtunity to look at them.
I see jp mcdonagh, dean barrett and sean francis all in tbe newbridge squad

[Ash]

How did the former ATFC lads do?

[Martinho II]

Town played pretty well last night. Newbridge took the lead after 15 mins when ex town player Dean Barrett hit a shot outside the box that keeper Stephen Conlon couldnt hold over the line. Town had a variety of triailists there last nite. The trialists that impressed were Paddy Collins who is six foot five and formed a solid defensive partnership with Barbados international Barry Skeete.Alvin rouse oozed authority in defence and at one stage launched a huge throw from inside his penalty area that landed past the centre circle! ?Daniel Reilly also impressed when he came on.. Des Hope didnt really stand out for me yet but its early days.

Of the triailists that played Graeme Dowling who was no 2 used to play for St Pats. No 6 was Peter Szcerbowski who is polish and livin locally in town and plays for longford celtic. massop 10 can tell you about him as he used to coach him at longford celtic. he may need a few games to get into it. Jack Morley from Crumlin started at no 7 and is very nippy. Austin Skelly at no 9 was excellent for us upfront . He seems a bit of a character and could fast develop into a town favourite. He was the goalkeeper when me and massop 10 took part in that penalty shootout in Lissywollen!

The no 18 was a Y Bentole who was another trialist that I have no information about. Anthony Costigan used to play for Monaghan Utd last season and was no 20. As for the opposition , Seanie Francis is training with them and wasnt involved last nite. I had a great chat to him before the game and he greatly regrets leavin us years ago! John Paul McDonagh limped off injured after a few minutes and Dean Barrett also played from the start. Gary Cronin is still involved with us this season as player coach.

squad:
1. Stephen Conlon
2. Graeme Dowling
3.Michael Lee
4. Des Hope
5. Chris Deans
6. Peter Szcerbowski
7. Jack Morley
8. Mark Salmon
9. Austin Skelly
10. Lee Roche
11.Aidan Roche
12. Niall O'Reilly
13. Barry Skeete
14. Paddy Collins
15. Jason Oladele
16. Cathal Brady
17. Daniel Reilly
18. Y Bentole
19. Gary Cronin
20. Anthony Costigan
21. Alvin Rouse
Alvin rouse is six foot six and has 25 international caps with Barry Skeete. Skeete is over for a few weeks stayin with him in Monaghan tryin to get a club ere. i was talkin to him before the game and he said that he used to play in the Argentinan League.They both are friendly with Eric Lavine whos currently playin for Oranmore Fc in the Galway league.

[Tallanted]

Yousuff belhout was with bray wanderes, dont think he got a run for the 1st team though, any sign of the lads that weren't involved? Were they injured?

[Martinho II]

Yousuff belhout was with bray wanderes, dont think he got a run for the 1st team though, any sign of the lads that weren't involved? Were they injured?

thanks tallanted about yousuff.. Craig Walsh and Don Cowan were in the stand last nite with I think Thomas Hyland. I am not sure if Craig Mooney was there but massop10 can correct me if I stand corrected..

[Town Legend]

Sorry Longfordian...its just early last season some 'fans' on here were calling for Cousins' head when what we needed was stability in the managerial area....apologies!

Marty....would Skeete be a good signing for us or would he be looking to sign for a Premier team and is just with us for fitness reasons?

[pineapple stu]

2pm for that UCD v Longford game on Sunday, by the way.

[the 12 th man]

Yousuff belhout was with bray wanderes,

Does he have a younger brother with UCD?

[pineapple stu]

Was thinking that; strange name alright. We've Samir Belhout.

[outspoken]

some 'fans'


God almighty cant help having a go can you we are as much of a fan as anyone else and we are as much entitled to an opinion as anyone else anyway dont want to go off topic here so can i ask what the polish lad is like he got a good report on extratime same question for morley.

[Town Legend]

Yes Youceff's brother plays for UCD.

And Mr/Miss Outspoken....did I mention your name in my post....I think not so calm down. All I said was some 'fans' not Outspoken! Get a grip of yourself man!

[Frank76]

God almighty cant help having a go can you we are as much of a fan as anyone else and we are as much entitled to an opinion as anyone else anyway dont want to go off topic here so can i ask what the polish lad is like he got a good report on extratime same question for morley.

Wow....someone is a bit paranoid on here!!!

[outspoken]

Some fans we all know who your refering to I'm not saying it's me your refering to but we all know there's a small section of fans always getting bashed on here and it's not right in my opinion.

We are all town fans I don't know how many times I have to say that , we are all town fans no one better than another once your there every week then there's no one better than anyone else.

[Town Legend]

Well as your so fond of saying Outspoken 'we are as much entitled to an opinion as anyone else'!

[Tallanted]

Ill get the popcorn and 3D glasses!

And its one only one game into preseason :rolleyes:

Be interesting to see sunday how many of the trialists are back and do the rest of last seasons team come back in to the mix

[Town Legend]

Athlone were playing the Clare Oscar Traynor Youth team in a friendly tonight, with apparently one or two former Town players in their ranks.

[Cabs88]

that polish lad if signed could bring a few extra supporters with him, iirc, pats had a promotion a few years ago in polish, might be worth looking into..


As regards the game, early days yet so would be unfair to make too many judgements so far, when the fitness improves and the players get a few more games under their belts we'll know more

[outspoken]

Your dead right cabs I told my polish mate about him playing for us and he had a great intrest , he's coming to a few games now and he has a great intrest in the league now so hopefully a few more will do the same.

[Martinho II]

Sorry Longfordian...its just early last season some 'fans' on here were calling for Cousins' head when what we needed was stability in the managerial area....apologies!

Marty....would Skeete be a good signing for us or would he be looking to sign for a Premier team and is just with us for fitness reasons?

Barry has the height. Not much went past Barry and Paddy Collins...Barry is very good pals with Alvin so there would be a great understanding between them. I was talkin to Alvin Rouses girlfriend at the game and the impression I get is that he would prefer to sign for us first but understandably he is keepin his options open..I saw Barry deep in talks with TC before the game started in the clubhouse so maybe hes signing too subject to confirmation from ltfc themselves.

[Martinho II]

God almighty cant help having a go can you we are as much of a fan as anyone else and we are as much entitled to an opinion as anyone else anyway dont want to go off topic here so can i ask what the polish lad is like he got a good report on extratime same question for morley.

jack morley was on the wing hes pretty fast like cathal brady so they could be a good combination.. A few of us ( the 4 of us!) werent that impressed with piotr- I thought he was a bit off the pace myself.. ie he couldnt keep up with the pace of the game but its early days . TC obviously seems happy with him.. so he knows better than me when he has signed till june..

[Frank76]

Your dead right cabs I told my polish mate about him playing for us and he had a great intrest , he's coming to a few games now and he has a great intrest in the league now so hopefully a few more will do the same.


You have a friend?!! And a Polish one at that!! :D

[outspoken]

Frank we know athlone have feck all fans left but thats no reason to troll the longford forum

[Frank76]

Eh did ya have a look in Flancare last year Outspoken? Don't make me laugh!!

[outspoken]

Still better than Athlone

[Frank76]

Still better than Athlone

I think not my friend, although both clubs have fairly poor following at the minute Athlone's is slightly more than Longfords.

[outspoken]

You only had 120 at last home game vs us the worst home attendance we had this season was 140 and that was a tuesday night

[Frank76]

And where did you get those estimates from??? I was over in Flancare for a league game with ye and Mervue and if there was 100 people there you'd be happy!

[outspoken]

there was 150 at that game as far as i can remember anyway were after taking this thread miles off topic lets just let it go

[Frank76]

You're some tool Outspoken! How in the name of God can you remember that?!!! Fact of the matter is both clubs have poor attendances but Athlone's is slightly better! Well if your that good give me your attendances for your first home game with Salthill, second with Wexford and first with Monaghan?!!!!! Seriously lad you have to be better than anybody else.... no wonder no one gets on with you in here! Ye may have a better team than us but we have more supporters in good and bad times....FACT!

[Longfordian]

Bloody hell you pair. Both our crowds are terrible, if one is less terrible than the other it's nothing to be crowing about. League position is different obviously :cool:

[poster]

so wait, we were going to have to pay for the pleasure of playing sligo rovers?? ahahahahahahahaha, let them jump! they must be doing anything for money up there these days! what kind of a ****ing bus costs 900 euro to go from sligo to longford and back for what, 6 hours? pull the other one! they would probably try and scam some of the money from the gate aswell, they have previous with that!

Heard it was €9,000, not €900

We'll also run into the turnstiles in Flancare and take all yer money. Actually that's the only reason we go to some of Longford's game is to take money from your turnstile. Watch us next time, we are evil.

[L.T.F.C.]

Town lost two nil today. I'll report later when I'm less tired.

[howsyourtouch]

Heard it was €9,000, not €900

We'll also run into the turnstiles in Flancare and take all yer money. Actually that's the only reason we go to some of Longford's game is to take money from your turnstile. Watch us next time, we are evil.

posted wasnt aimed at yer fans!

[Martinho II]

I texted our PRO just now and its confirmed that we are playin Derry City at 7.45pm next thursday in flancare 10th of february. I have also sent a text to Simon O'Gorman who reported for extratime at both our games so far to get the date changed on their website.

[Martinho II]

http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/4863/

confirmation that the date has changed..

[Awwwwh Farrell]

Are admission prices remaining the same for the coming season?

[L.T.F.C.]

Are admission prices remaining the same for the coming season?

Theres some pity thanks for ya Farrell!

[Macy]

http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/4863/

confirmation that the date has changed..
How is it confirmed when you texted them to change it? :)


Watch us next time, we are evil
I personally always felt ye were a malign influence on certain members of the Town support.

[Martinho II]

How is it confirmed when you texted them to change it? :)
good point macy! the date was wrong though and I met Simon O 'Gorman at the Newbridge game so had to let him know too! I know it sounds a tad suspicious though!

I personally always felt ye were a malign influence on certain members of the Town support. seems my head has being blackened so!!

btw its confirmed on the general forum by sorbo that the bohs friendly has definitely being postponed.

[outspoken]

Confirmation that Bohs V longford is off
http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/4874/

[Martinho II]

I am not sure if I posted elsewhere but this wednesday Tolka Rovers are playing Killester in the Leinster Senior Cup replay. We should know soon when we will play the winners of this tie.

[outspoken]

I am not sure if I posted elsewhere but this wednesday Tolka Rovers are playing Killester in the Leinster Senior Cup replay. We should know soon when we will play the winners of this tie.

Was it not in the leader or something the other day , the date for our LSC game that is?

[Martinho II]

Was it not in the leader or something the other day , the date for our LSC game that is?

no the wrong information was given to our PRO. thats why I am posting this up now. Simon O'Gorman of extratime told me the information was completely wrong.

[outspoken]

Ohh right thanks

[Tallanted]

Killester won 4-0

[Martinho II]

http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/12448/2/

last nights match report here. town played not bad lee roche should have scored from his header that hit the crossbar. I thought a draw was a fair result. Gareth McGlynn missed a penalty for Derry. Stephen Conlon had a poor game imo too many miskicks but he did a good save from Patrick McEleney but unfortunately the ball came back out to patrick and he did a good lob over conlon even though imo conlon could have done better to stop it. otherwise it was a good workout for the town.

Kevin Dawson was on trial for us from defunct club Sporting Fingal.Town have made further signings in Graeme Dowling from St Pats and Daniel Reilly from Athlone Town. Don Cowan was on colleges duty and out injured were Cathal Brady, Craig Walsh and Austin Skelly.

[pineapple stu]

How do Derry compare to us, having seen both of them?

[Town Legend]

Although I haven't seen ye play Stu I thought Derry were poor enough last night. Only for that dodgy goal I felt we were the better team. Wasn't sure about the penalty decision but I was at the far end so souldn't say for sure if it was one or not. It was put well wide in the end! Who were the subs brought on? Would I be right in saying Conlon, Collins, Dowling, Cronin, Bell, Szerbowksi, Morley were all we used?

[Cabs88]

although early days was very impressed with the performance last night, I thought for so early in the season we looked sharp and played some good football at times.
Sammon had a great game, bossed everything in the middle, my only concern will be a premier club coming in for him. In the first half I was a bit surprised that we kept trying to hold a high line, as there were 3 occasions in the first 20 mins that balls over the top nearly cost us.. Of the new players and im still not sure of there names, I thought morley did well wide left in the second half, des hope played and one or two others. Conlon was very poor when he came on, lets hope Rouse holds on to the number 1 shirt.
As I said, very early doors, but i'm cautiously optimistic for the coming season :ball: