Pre Season 2014

[gufc2000]

According to the Connacht Tribune, Galway FC are due to play St Pats in Inchicore on February 8th. Yet to be officially announced on website, likewise a friendly with Athlone

[Professor K]

List of friendlies so far:

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/news/5202-pre-season-friendlies-approved

[Pablo Escobar]

Cork City 3-1 Avondale at Bishopstown this afternoon. Shane Clarke with the first and Michael Rafter with 2.

[Neish]

Harps were beat 2-1 in their first Pre-Season friendly by local amateur side Cockhill Celtic now manager by ex Harps & Derry City player Donal O'Brein. New Harps manager Ollie Horgan fielded a team made up of mainly trailists for the game. Report for local press here http://donegalnews.com/2014/01/finn-harps-trialists-lose-in-friendly-by-cockhill-celtic/

Next up for Ollie Horgan's men is another local amateur team Drumkeen United on Wednesday night at the Finn Valley Athletic Club

[Conroy]

Dundalk FC V Barnsley FC - Friday 24th January

[dundalkfc10]

Dundalk FC V Barnsley FC - Friday 24th January

With a full Barnsley squad coming over aswell, Might get a decent crowd up Fri night

[McNasara]

January:
Avondale United 1:3 Cork City (18/01/14)
Cockhill Celtic 2:1 Finn Harps (19/01/14)
Limavady United v Derry City (21/01/14) canceled
Glebe North 1:5 Drogheda United (21/01/14)
Drumkeen United v Finn Harps (22/01/14)
Carlow IT v Wexford Youths (22/01/14)
Dundalk v Barnsley (24/01/2014)
Waterford v Cork City (25/01/14)
Ballymun United v Drogheda United (26/01/14)
Dundalk v Wexford Youths (28/01/14)
Coleraine v Derry City (28/01/14)
Drogheda United v Waterford United (31/01/14)

February:
Mervue United v Cork City (01/02/14)
Wexford Youths v Drogheda (01/02/14)
Galway FC v Sligo Rovers (01/02/14)
Cork City v Finn Harps (02/02/14)
Drogheda United v Longford Town (04/02/14)
Bray Wanderers v Longford Town (04/02/14)
Galway FC v Limerick FC (06/02/14)
Longford Town v Athlone Town (07/02/14)
Shamrock Rovers v Wexford Youths (07/02/14)
Drogheda United v Dundalk (07/02/14)
Institute v Derry City (07/02/14)
Waterford v Bohemians (07/02/14)
Ballinamallard Utd v Sligo Rovers (10/02/14)
Sligo Rovers v Longford Town (11/02/14)
Shelbourne v Shamrock Rovers (11/02/14)
Finn Harps v Sligo Rovers (15/02/14)
Cork City v Longford Town (15/02/14)
Waterford v Shamrock Rovers (15/02/14)
Sandyhill Shangan v Bohemians (16/02/14)
Finn Harps v FAI Schools X1 (19/02/14)
Waterford v Limerick (19/02/14)
Shelbourne v Bohemians (20/02/14)
Longford Town v Limerick (22/02/14)
Dundalk v Finn Harps (28/02/14)
Drogheda United v Longford Town (28/02/14)

March:
Athlone Town v Wexford Youths (01/03/14)
Updated

[Acer]

Drogheda beat Glebe 5-1. Goals from Holohan, Gav Brennan, Philly Hughes and a cracker from Gary O'Neill.

[Guitd]

Galway v Limerick is 6th February

Game moved to Moyne villas ground in Headford

[nigel-harps1954]

Cork City v Finn Harps will take place in Drom soccer park in Galway.

[Jofspring]

Game moved to Moyne villas ground in Headford

Going to hit a good few that were going to travel up for it.

[vinnie]

Drogheda beat Glebe 5-1. Goals from Holohan, Gav Brennan, Philly Hughes and a cracker from Gary O'Neill.


Lovely to see Gary O'Neill back, best of luck to him

[nigel-harps1954]

Finn Harps 2-1 Drumkeen united. More trial players involved including Gerard O'Callaghan formerly of UCD and Daryl Carrigy of Derby County who may be coming in on loan.

[legendz]

We started early because of the new manager, hence the 6th.

Ridiculously long off season means ridiculously long pre-season I guess.

Is there any appetite within clubs for a shorter off season? I suppose those giving players contracts for 42 weeks or so prefer it. I always think the weekend in February where there's no 6 nations games after the first two weekends is the ideal weekend to start.

[nigel-harps1954]

Is there any appetite within clubs for a shorter off season? I suppose those giving players contracts for 42 weeks or so prefer it. I always think the weekend in February where there's no 6 nations games after the first two weekends is the ideal weekend to start.

Always thought that myself. The off-season is far too long in the League of Ireland.

The problem is, the Premier Division could comfortably run from February - November with a mid season break, but the First Division would still only work from March - Oct with the lack of teams.

[Martinho II]

Finn Harps 2-1 Drumkeen united. More trial players involved including Gerard O'Callaghan formerly of UCD and Daryl Carrigy of Derby County who may be coming in on loan.

daryl is from Ardagh Co Longford and is a midfielder. he has being over the last few years and is a midfielder. Derby got him from one of the schoolboy clubs in Dublin whose name I am strugglin to remember.

[Cuyahoga]

[QUOTE=Martinho II;1732960]daryl is from Ardagh Co Longford and is a midfielder. he has being over the last few years and is a midfielder. Derby got him from one of the schoolboy clubs in Dublin whose name I am strugglin to remember.
The Club is Stella Maris

[nigel-harps1954]

daryl is from Ardagh Co Longford and is a midfielder. he has being over the last few years and is a midfielder. Derby got him from one of the schoolboy clubs in Dublin whose name I am strugglin to remember.

Played on the wing and as a striker in the game on Wednesday night. Greatly impressed those watching and had a lot of people chatting about him. Still only 17 years old too I'm told.

[sadloserkid]

Game moved to Moyne villas ground in Headford


Going to hit a good few that were going to travel up for it.

On the plus side it suits me better.

[Fester]

Latest: Dundalk 1 - 2 Barnsley

[White Horse]

FT: Dundalk 1- 4 Barnsley

Good first half by Dundalk but they were dead on their feet in the second half. Big gulf in fitness.

[Charlie Darwin]

Hopefully there were plenty of Irish Barnsley fans in attendance who've decided the LOI is full of overweight no-marks based on a game played the second week of pre-season against full-time athletes.

[McNasara]

Lovely to see Gary O'Neill back, best of luck to him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOzXbA1Igxk

[adamd164]

Cork City 3-0 Waterford Utd in today's friendly.

Goals came from Billy Dennehy, Michael Rafter and Anthony Elding.

[Keen2win]

daryl is from Ardagh Co Longford and is a midfielder. he has being over the last few years and is a midfielder. Derby got him from one of the schoolboy clubs in Dublin whose name I am strugglin to remember.

He's from Moydow!

[Sam_Heggy]

Cork City 3-0 Waterford Utd in today's friendly.

Goals came from Billy Dennehy, Michael Rafter and Anthony Elding.

Did Elding celebrate?

If he didn't celebrate he's clearly not happy and wants away.

[brendy_éire]

Coleraine - Derry match due for tomorrow night is now cancelled. That's our third pre-season match cancellation in the space of week.

How people can contemplate playing winter football in this country is beyond me.

[Briuk]

What was the result of Ballymun - Drogheda?

[wonder88]

Agree that the weather of recent days make any consideration of returning to winter soccer redundant. I know one of the mns pundits (ex-Shels player in Ollie Byrne team) supports the idea but I think he is wrong.

[GCdfc]

Agree that the weather of recent days make any consideration of returning to winter soccer redundant. I know one of the mns pundits (ex-Shels player in Ollie Byrne team) supports the idea but I think he is wrong.

You missed "about everything" at the end.

[legendz]

The weekend mid-February 15/16 is an opportunity for pre-season friendlies against teams from across the water. There's a few teams who've been knocked out over the previous rounds of their domestic cup.

[Fester]

Dundalk v Wexford Youths tonight 28/01/14 at 7:45pm

[Fester]

Dundalk 2 - 0 Wexford Youths FT

[atfconline]

Athlone Town away to Drogheda Town this Sunday at 12 noon.

[markc1184]

What was the result of Ballymun - Drogheda?

it was called off Saturday evening.

[Sam_Heggy]

Derry 2-3 Institute

[KUFCMan]

Cork City away to Mervue Saturday!
What Mervue team will that be,theyve a junior team in the Galway Junior Premier Division?

[adamd164]

Not sure... Without knowing the ins and outs of it, I assume the only reason that we're not playing Galway is that when our pre-season schedule was being put together they couldn't commit to dates as they were only assembling a squad at that stage.

We're also due to play Harps in Galway on Sunday.

At any rate, with this weather we'll be lucky to get to play the game.

[nigel-harps1954]

Harps are playing a non-league Galway side on Saturday too before playing Cork in Drom on Sunday.

[Guitd]

Harps are playing a non-league Galway side on Saturday too before playing Cork in Drom on Sunday.

news from drom that no games taking place this weekend pitches closed

[Fester]

Drogheda Utd v Waterford Utd Fri 31/01 7:45pm

[Longfordian]

Drogheda Utd v Waterford Utd Fri 31/01 7:45pm

Drogs 5-0 up in half an hour. Hmm, best not to read anything into it but still..not ideal.

[Jofspring]

0-6 at half time.

[Acer]

FT: Drogs win 6-2.

We're going to win the league.

[D24Saint]

Who got the goals,drogs must have switched off a ht or was it Waterford showed up.

[Acer]

Who got the goals,drogs must have switched off a ht or was it Waterford showed up.

Goals for Foley, Fabio, o'neill, Brady and Gav Brennan. We made changes at ht and throughout the second half.

[blue til i die]

Goals for Foley, Fabio, o'neill, Brady and Gav Brennan. We made changes at ht and throughout the second half.

Don't think you could blame not having a shot on target in the second half on the changes tbh, give us some credit for the second half ;) Drogs looked very sharp first half tho, O'Neill and Fabio especially, and our goals weren't bad :) Far too many mistakes from us in the first half, more solid second half. Horrid wind didnt help either teams too!

[adamd164]

Wouldn't read much into any preseason games. Drogs p*ssed their way through the early stages of the setanta cup last year, as did we.


The real test comes in March.

[CrowdedHouse]

Galway - Sligo Rovers

Eamonn Deacy Park unplayable, pointlessly moved to Mervue Fahy's Field astro 7.30pm. No charge for entry.

[Guitd]

Galway - Sligo Rovers

Eamonn Deacy Park unplayable, pointlessly moved to Mervue Fahy's Field astro 7.30pm. No charge for entry.

Ladies league cup game there at 2pm tomorrow so decision made to move friendly