FAI Junior Cup 2011/12

[hula4]

Tolka

[liamo]

Cardonagh beat tramore after penalties

[KUFCMan]

RESULT

KUFC 1-0 Carrick

Amazing scenes here in Kilbarrack,the fans are on the pitch.There will be some session here tonite.Kilbarrack reach the 1/4 finals for the 1ST IN THEIR 42 YR HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!

[buddygeary23]

Broadford beaten by o devany 3-1

[KUFCMan]

RESULTS
Kilbarrack 1-0 Carrick
O Devany 3-1 Broadford
Ballymun 1-1 MIdleton-(extra time being played)
Sheriff yc 2-1 St micks
Peakevilla 1-2 Sandyhill

[nigel-harps1954]

4 nil pike,hope your man was in milford at 9/2,the same fella said pike are bad,the 2 full backs outstanding today


Well DONE Hotspur,U knew,U and the Bookies - LOL

Nobody said Pike are bad?

[hotspur]

Nobody said Pike are bad?
Not you pal,another fella,said it.after pikes results against balla,wayside and caherdavin.he knows who it is himself.great crowd of lads by the in donegal,wish milford all the best for the rest for the rest of their season.

[AB84]

RESULTS
Kilbarrack 1-0 Carrick
O Devany 3-1 Broadford
Ballymun 1-1 MIdleton-(extra time being played)
Sheriff yc 2-1 St micks
Peakevilla 1-2 Sandyhill


Clonmel Celtic won 3-1 too

[Hollywood Hogan]

Congrats to pike rovers on a great result today, great club. Fair play to their supporters aswell, heard they had 50/60 supporters travelling today, a round trip of over 400 miles. They will take beating from here on.

[KUFCMan]

1/4 FINALISTS

Kilbarrack Utd
Ballymun Utd
O Devaney
Sandyhill Celtic
Sheriff YC
Pike Rovers
Carndonagh
Clonmel Celtic

Draw to appear in Mondays Herald

[gameon]

FAI UMBRO JUNIOR CUP
7TH ROUND DRAW

Millford Utd v Pike Rvs, Pike to win by the odd goal or 2
Tramore v Carndonagh, Tramore to win handy
O’ Devaney Dunard v Broadford, Broadford maybe on pens, have a decent side this year
Sheriff v St. Michaels, Sheriff to win 2-1
Peake villa v Sandyhill Cel, 50/50 peake are no world beaters but home advantage should see them win
Kilbarrack Utd v Ballymote OR Carrick Utd, Carrick
Clonmel Cel v Trinity Cor, Clonmel celtic
Middleton v Ballymun Utd Ballymun

Is the draw for quarters going to be done before sunday like previous rounds?

tramore to win handy what do you think now balls?
great result for carndonagh and inishowen league soccer,hope you get a home draw next round,then the rest of inishowen can get behind you and cheer you on.
unlucky milford i had a feeling pike would be strong for you.

[hotspur]

Pike home to clonmel.

[gameon]

Pike home to clonmel.

hotspur is that a prediction or is that the next round draw

[buddygeary23]

Pike home to clonmel celtic
O devany home to sherriff yc

Dunno the rest

[Eric]

What was the final score in the Midleton/Ballymun game?

[KUFCMan]

Kufc v Sandyhill
Carn v BAllymun

Dont know the 2 others

BAllymun won on pens after 1-1

[buddygeary23]

Kufc v Sandyhill
Carn v BAllymun
O devany v sheriff yc
Pike v clonmel

That's the 1/4 final draw

[cufc champions]

Best of luck to Kilbarrack in the rest of the competition, We just could not score today hitting the post and underside of the crossbar in injury time. Great crowd in Dublin the noise was fantastic.

[balls]

tramore to win handy what do you think now balls?
great result for carndonagh and inishowen league soccer,hope you get a home draw next round,then the rest of inishowen can get behind you and cheer you on.
unlucky milford i had a feeling pike would be strong for you.

Great result from cardonagh, i hadnt seen tramore play but was hearing great things about them. so abit surprised with the result.

2 best teams left probably pike and sheriff would make great final

[nigel-harps1954]

Congrats to pike rovers on a great result today, great club. Fair play to their supporters aswell, heard they had 50/60 supporters travelling today, a round trip of over 400 miles. They will take beating from here on.

Heard there was a fairly big crowd there alright. Only too disappointed I couldn't make the match in the end up. But fair played to Pike, from what I hear they just absolutely ran the show and Milford hadn't a look in. Supreme performance by a class outfit.

Delighted for Carndonagh to get through to the quarters. Not a big club by any means so it's huge for them to get that far.

[Draper]

Broadford surely had the biggest away crowd today with over 100 supporters going to Dublin. O'Devaney scored a wonder goal on 12 mins through number 10, very good player.
They scored again around the half hour for 2:0. Micheal Reidy hit the butt of the post from a free kick on the stroke of half time for Broadford.
Johnny Shanahan scored 30 seconds into the 2nd half to make it 2:1 and Broadford dominated for 25 minutes but couldnt force an equaliser.
15 minutes to go Broadford went 3 at the back but still couldnt force it and their number 7, the guy with the glasses, their best player, scored a breakaway goal to finish 3:1. In fairness Devaney just about shaded it and deserved the win, just about.
Best of luck Devaney against Sheriff but just one thing, you'd feed an army on €50 of sandwitchs, we were on the road since 8am, you shoulda done it.

[magpie]

midleton 1-1 ballymun ballymun won on pens 3-2,

midleton went 1 up deserved their lead and dominated the first half. Ballymun had a man sent off and this changed the game as ballymun went 3-4-2 and really dominated possession up untill their very controversial equalizer. Midleton made a challenge right on the edge of the box, which left its mark on the sod, the ref gave a penalty from 15 yards away which was almost impossible to have made this decision from where he was. He then approached the lines man who was a mere 12 yards from the incident with a perfect view, who told him that the challenge was outside the pen area, but the ref chose to ignore this advice and awarded the penalty.

game went on with nothing betwwen the 2 teams as both defense's kept things tight at the back. Ballymun went on to win it on pen kicks.

This game left me wondering why the ref did not take the advice of the assistant, and what roll does he have when it comes to these big decisions.

Disgraceful decision..

[Galla]

Tramore made a mess of it yesterday - no way should they have been knocked out by a big (tallest team I've ever seen - only 2 players under 6'2" I'd say) but fairly limited side. They controlled the game for all but the last 5 minutes of the 1st half and maybe 10 of the second half. Carndonagh didn't have an effort on goal for the whole game. That said Tramore didn't create a hatful of chances either - a couple of good opportunities from corners but for all their control they lacked the intensity and drive that is needed in the FAI. I'd contrast their approach with that of Carrick's in the 'big ones'. Any team going to Carrick knows they are going to have everything thrown at them - you win in Carrick and you've earned it. Yesterday Carndonagh increased in confidence as the game went on. Tramore missed that extra spark / bite that's needed in these games. Fair play to Carndonagh and their fans - made the trip home a lot easier and with a home draw in next round - a great prize.

Tramore still lots to play for but they will question themselves after yesterday.

[KUFCMan]

I thought Carrick scored in the last minute,it could well have been over the line.We rode our luck at times in the 2nd half but with 10 men youd expect that.we had some great chances ourselves to go two up but your keeper made some great saves one on one.
i got an infraction for using caps,but what can u expect using a phone in the freezing cold,whilst trying to keep providing updates.

[hotspur]

midleton 1-1 ballymun ballymun won on pens 3-2,

midleton went 1 up deserved their lead and dominated the first half. Ballymun had a man sent off and this changed the game as ballymun went 3-4-2 and really dominated possession up untill their very controversial equalizer. Midleton made a challenge right on the edge of the box, which left its mark on the sod, the ref gave a penalty from 15 yards away which was almost impossible to have made this decision from where he was. He then approached the lines man who was a mere 12 yards from the incident with a perfect view, who told him that the challenge was outside the pen area, but the ref chose to ignore this advice and awarded the penalty.

game went on with nothing betwwen the 2 teams as both defense's kept things tight at the back. Ballymun went on to win it on pen kicks.

This game left me wondering why the ref did not take the advice of the assistant, and what roll does he have when it comes to these big decisions.

Disgraceful decision..

Karma.what goes around comes around.

[republican]

after watching sheriff yesterday it will take a very good team to beat them having said that saints had their moments in 2nd half and had rafters free kick went in instead of hitting post i think saints would have won but thats the way it goes. best of luck to sheriff a sound bunch of lads. special mention to the referee who i thought handled the game very well overall.

[cufc champions]

@ KUFCman we thought scored too, did the keeper get a touch if he did it was a fine save, nobody could judge it if was over the line let alone the ref or linesman. Nice touch from Kilbarrack clapping off the defeated team down the steps, nice gesture.
Adrian pulled off two good saves alright, your number 10 is playing below himself playing junior football an exceptional player and gave an exhibition of playing up front on your until he dropped off into midfield 2nd half.

[magpie]

Karma.what goes around comes around.

at least u didn't collect your "grade"...wait till sheriff get a hold of ye.... im officially an A.B.P!!

[Minesapint]

Not you pal,another fella,said it.after pikes results against balla,wayside and caherdavin.he knows who it is himself.great crowd of lads by the in donegal,wish milford all the best for the rest for the rest of their season.
I got that one wrong, i didnt see that coming hotspur not an easy game in the next round against clonmel celtic i wont predict that one ha ha ha ha ha , i heard from a friend that was at the match that pike rovers showed great respect to milford after the game best of luck next round i will be at the next one.

[passandmove]

Well done pike great win,get a fully fit tierney back into that team and they will take some stopping.

[Minesapint]

Well done pike great win,get a fully fit tierney back into that team and they will take some stopping.
It would be great from limerick soccer if they could win it again i thought milford at 9/2 were a good bet, passandmove wembley seem to be getting results.

[passandmove]

Agreed minesapint we should all support pike the last team standing in limerick,Wembley doing ok lad winning without playing great to be fair,Fairview this weekend will test our metal!!!

[MilfordUtd]

I`d like to take this oppurtunity to wish Pike rovers all the best in the Fai junior cup from all at Milford Utd. We were handed a footballing lesson by a far superior team last sunday. They were by far the best side we have ever played in this competition and they really put on a great display of football for the large crowd In Milford. Pike travelled the Long distance with A great support behind them and they had a great weekend in the town and after the game both teams had a great bit of banter in the local pub and as one Post said earlier they Showed my team the upmost respect and I`m sure i speak on behalf of all my town people we will be watching out for Pikes results in the future and hopefully they can go on to retain the trophy. Many people have knocked Pike on here so far but from what i seen on sunday i think most of it is down to Jealousy, as they are a quality side who will take alot of beating and that was with John Tierney sitting on the Bench.

[Minesapint]

Agreed minesapint we should all support pike the last team standing in limerick,Wembley doing ok lad winning without playing great to be fair,Fairview this weekend will test our metal!!!
i will go to that one where is it on and what time.

[passandmove]

2pm Rathuard Minesapint.

[gameon]

thats what i call being gracious in defeat.
I`d like to take this oppurtunity to wish Pike rovers all the best in the Fai junior cup from all at Milford Utd. We were handed a footballing lesson by a far superior team last sunday. They were by far the best side we have ever played in this competition and they really put on a great display of football for the large crowd In Milford. Pike travelled the Long distance with A great support behind them and they had a great weekend in the town and after the game both teams had a great bit of banter in the local pub and as one Post said earlier they Showed my team the upmost respect and I`m sure i speak on behalf of all my town people we will be watching out for Pikes results in the future and hopefully they can go on to retain the trophy. Many people have knocked Pike on here so far but from what i seen on sunday i think most of it is down to Jealousy, as they are a quality side who will take alot of beating and that was with John Tierney sitting on the Bench.

[Begrudger]

I`d like to take this oppurtunity to wish Pike rovers all the best in the Fai junior cup from all at Milford Utd. We were handed a footballing lesson by a far superior team last sunday. They were by far the best side we have ever played in this competition and they really put on a great display of football for the large crowd In Milford. Pike travelled the Long distance with A great support behind them and they had a great weekend in the town and after the game both teams had a great bit of banter in the local pub and as one Post said earlier they Showed my team the upmost respect and I`m sure i speak on behalf of all my town people we will be watching out for Pikes results in the future and hopefully they can go on to retain the trophy. Many people have knocked Pike on here so far but from what i seen on sunday i think most of it is down to Jealousy, as they are a quality side who will take alot of beating and that was with John Tierney sitting on the Bench.

No one is jealous of a club that is ruthless in their pursuit of silverware and have gone about their business with no regard for the other clubs in Limerick poaching players is the scurge of limerick football. No one at any other club can take pleasure in the success of that shower up in crossagala

[hotspur]

No one is jealous of a club that is ruthless in their pursuit of silverware and have gone about their business with no regard for the other clubs in Limerick poaching players is the scurge of limerick football. No one at any other club can take pleasure in the success of that shower up in crossagala
Who have they taken players off,players move from club to club willy nilly nowdays,have they taken players from your club,view doing it for years and boro but yet you have a problem with pike,most of the players have played most if not all their junior football with pike.grow up

[Longshanks]

Lads I take an interest in Junior soccer, most notably the FAI, Connacht and Munster Junior Cups and enjoy reading the posts to keep up to date. Given that Pike were beaten yesterday and the lack of any match report from the usual Pike followers, you know the ones who gloat and look down at other clubs. Well there are 2 posts, one on this page by @hotspur 13/02/2012 1:13pm 'Karma.what goes around comes around. ' to the Midelton lads after losing to Ballymun and more disturbing one by @theboywonder8 15/01/2012 12:45pm 'can you post todays score please' on the Castlebar Celtic FC thread on the day they lost to Sherriff.

to me these 2 posts are bang out of order and show a lack of grace and its thing like this that get Pike fans a bad rap on here, I'm pretty sure that the 2 posters arent representative of the vast majority of Pike fans, but it does leave a bad taste. I can only concur with MilfordFC when he congratulates Pike on their team and travelling support as I mentioned before my only dealings with Pike were similar to Milfords, we also got handed a football lesson but the Pike people carried themselves with a humility and dignity that can be only but admired.

anyway just wanted to get that off my chest and want to confirm that I am not tarring all Pike people with the same brush.

Best of luck to all 8 teams left

[villaman10]

Lads I take an interest in Junior soccer, most notably the FAI, Connacht and Munster Junior Cups and enjoy reading the posts to keep up to date. Given that Pike were beaten yesterday and the lack of any match report from the usual Pike followers, you know the ones who gloat and look down at other clubs. Well there are 2 posts, one on this page by @hotspur 13/02/2012 1:13pm 'Karma.what goes around comes around. ' to the Midelton lads after losing to Ballymun and more disturbing one by @theboywonder8 15/01/2012 12:45pm 'can you post todays score please' on the Castlebar Celtic FC thread on the day they lost to Sherriff.

to me these 2 posts are bang out of order and show a lack of grace and its thing like this that get Pike fans a bad rap on here, I'm pretty sure that the 2 posters arent representative of the vast majority of Pike fans, but it does leave a bad taste. I can only concur with MilfordFC when he congratulates Pike on their team and travelling support as I mentioned before my only dealings with Pike were similar to Milfords, we also got handed a football lesson but the Pike people carried themselves with a humility and dignity that can be only but admired.

anyway just wanted to get that off my chest and want to confirm that I am not tarring all Pike people with the same brush.

Best of luck to all 8 teams left

great post and very accurate!!

[balls]

Lads I take an interest in Junior soccer, most notably the FAI, Connacht and Munster Junior Cups and enjoy reading the posts to keep up to date. Given that Pike were beaten yesterday and the lack of any match report from the usual Pike followers, you know the ones who gloat and look down at other clubs. Well there are 2 posts, one on this page by @hotspur 13/02/2012 1:13pm 'Karma.what goes around comes around. ' to the Midelton lads after losing to Ballymun and more disturbing one by @theboywonder8 15/01/2012 12:45pm 'can you post todays score please' on the Castlebar Celtic FC thread on the day they lost to Sherriff.

to me these 2 posts are bang out of order and show a lack of grace and its thing like this that get Pike fans a bad rap on here, I'm pretty sure that the 2 posters arent representative of the vast majority of Pike fans, but it does leave a bad taste. I can only concur with MilfordFC when he congratulates Pike on their team and travelling support as I mentioned before my only dealings with Pike were similar to Milfords, we also got handed a football lesson but the Pike people carried themselves with a humility and dignity that can be only but admired.

anyway just wanted to get that off my chest and want to confirm that I am not tarring all Pike people with the same brush.

Best of luck to all 8 teams left

good post , pike are great club. just a handfull of supporters let them down. I think Boywonder8 got banned of foot.ie few weeks back so that might explain his lack of activity. Not sure bout rest of there foot.ie posters but im sure they will all be back on this if pike beat clonmel in fai in 2 weeks time

[hotspur]

Longshanks,that was said for a reason,since you went to the bother of going through the posts,you might just go through the rest of them,after the appalling officials in the pike B mj game they midleton lads came on here whinging about the officials in their fai game,and that was why i said it.

[Begrudger]

Who have they taken players off,players move from club to club willy nilly nowdays,have they taken players from your club,view doing it for years and boro but yet you have a problem with pike,most of the players have played most if not all their junior football with pike.grow up

Tell me this whats sean kelly doing playing his football with pike. Makes perfect sense a league of ireland player from kerry playing his football with a junior club in limerick he must have heard great things about pike up with limerick fc. Get back in your box and dont be waffling on here about boro and fairview. Between
poaching best players in town and recruitng players from all over the country its junior football not the premier league i couldnt care less if ye won the fai or if ye dispanded yere a disgrace.

[hotspur]

Tell me this whats sean kelly doing playing his football with pike. Makes perfect sense a league of ireland player from kerry playing his football with a junior club in limerick he must have heard great things about pike up with limerick fc. Get back in your box and dont be waffling on here about boro and fairview. Between
poaching best players in town and recruitng players from all over the country its junior football not the premier league i couldnt care less if ye won the fai or if ye dispanded yere a disgrace.

For starters he's a regraded junior player like ALL the other ex loi players playing with different clubs like the boro and view and the rest.and secondly why does it bother you so much?

[Longshanks]

Longshanks,that was said for a reason,since you went to the bother of going through the posts,you might just go through the rest of them,after the appalling officials in the pike B mj game they midleton lads came on here whinging about the officials in their fai game,and that was why i said it.

hotspur,

in fairness every team that gets beaten in a tight game can and usually will point to an unfavourable decision that went against them as a turning point. The Midleton lad was saying the pen against Ballymun was a harsh call, if Ballymun had been beaten on Pens and a Ballymun lad came on here saying the sending off was harsh would you be willing to stick the knife in? It just struck me(the karma post) of being a bit childish and that it made you look like a sore loser after the Pike 'B' team losing in the Munster Junior Cup. Its probably not too often that a 'B' team get that far in a provincial cup and the defeat must've been hard to take, but suck it up and move on.

Its not that often that Pike lose a big game these last few years but when they do these threads generally turn into a bitch fest.

A wise man once told me, 'Son to be a good winner you have to learn how to be a good loser'

[Roberto]

I think Pike should take a lesson in humility from Milford. They lost 6-0 to Pike but a poster from Milford was still decent enough to come on here with a post that was full of praise for their victors. Pike had a rare defeat last Sunday and there was hardly a sentence on the match here never mind giving a bit of credit to the team that beat them. For those that were looking for a report on this match I was there and believe me the Pike keeper may have made a mistake but Clonmel Celtic were worthy winners. Pike didn't create a decent chance in the whole game. For Pike followers who think they had an off day and will easily reverse the result in 2 weeks I should point out that I have seen Celtic play better as well. There is a good chance you will win in 2 weeks but I hope ye will be ready for one hell of a battle.

[Notaclue]

Looking at the last 8 has anyone an opinion as to why the AUL have 5 teams left. The powerbases of Limerick Tipperary and Waterford seem to be waning, not saying that neither of the 2 from the south won't go and win it. Could it be that the Dublin teams are more focused on junior soccer and less on infighting?

[balls]

Looking at the last 8 has anyone an opinion as to why the AUL have 5 teams left. The powerbases of Limerick Tipperary and Waterford seem to be waning, not saying that neither of the 2 from the south won't go and win it. Could it be that the Dublin teams are more focused on junior soccer and less on infighting?

teams in limerick were just hard done by with the draw. pike knocked out janesboro and ballananty this season. 2 clubs who could easily still be involved in the competion if they did not draw pike. Carew Park are decent also but played a stinker against a killester 2nd 11 and were knocked out in 5th round. fairview are not the force they once wore but after winning the competion in 2010 there not going to panic about 1 or 2 bad years and will rebuild. In tipperary saint michaels drew sheriff and were beaten fair and square on the day by the better team. Clonmel celtic still in competion and a much improved peake villa were unlucky to be beaten by the odd goal in last 16. To agree with your point one of the power houses Clonmel town are struggling at present and will take abit of time to get back to competing at national level, but there record in the fai was superb over past 10-15 years and its very difficult to sustain that level year in year out. But i have no doubt they will be back. In waterford again carrick united like clonmel have lost a lot of players who brought huge success to the club domestically, at provincial and national level over past 10 years but are making a damn good fist at staying competitve at the top level and were unlucky to go out again in the last 16 by the odd goal. tramore the coming force in waterford were a dissapointment to go out in last 16 i expected more but maybe the defeat to cardonagh was just a blip ( these things happen in cup footbal) and they should do well over the coming years.

To finish it was a good point you raised but the dublin Aul is a decent league and fair play to them having 5 teams in last 8 but i think it was 2 years ago limerick had a similar number in last 8 and the tipp league could have easily had 3 this year if peake and saints had won. So these things go in cycles. If the aul were getting 5 and 6 into last 8 for a sustained period of say 4 or 5 years on the trot then it would be time to worry. But i cant see that happening at least i hope not anyway :)

[Notaclue]

Thanks for that balls. Great response. I'm aware that the luck of the draw doesn't help when top sides get drawn against each other early on. However I still did not think that the AUL league would dominate the Q/Fs this year to such an extent. There are still some heavy hitters left so it should make for some great stuff yet.

[Longshanks]

As I said earlier I have been following the Junior Cup for a few years and here is the county by county of the last 8 since 2005:

Dublin 16
Limerick 13
Tipp 8
Waterford 6
Galway 5
Mayo 2
Comb. Co 3
Wexford 2
Meath 2
Donegal 2
Cork 1
Kerry 1
Leitrim 1

If I get a chance I'll list the teams but I have them in an excel format that doesnt copy and paste well