Pre Season 2014

[gufcfan]

Teams sheets for Galway v Athlone in Terryland

Galway (https://twitter.com/Galway_FC/status/437304056206618625)

Athlone (https://twitter.com/Galway_FC/status/437310799271718914)

[Longfordian]

Longford 3-0 up on Limerick at the moment

[Town Legend]

Sully, Shannon and Russell with the goals. Sully also missed a penalty.

Town team: Bennion, Mulhall, Sullivan, Flynn, G. O'Connor, Shannon, Rice, Gorman, Russell, O'Sullivan, Cowan.

[Town Legend]

Longford made 8 substitutions. Hunt, Deans, Haverty, Tyrell, K. O'Connor, O,Brien, Shaw and Hynes all came on. Limerick then pull a goal back.

[gufcfan]

Galway FC 1-0 Athlone Town latest. About 10 mins left.
Stephen Walsh 70'


https://twitter.com/Galway_FC/status/437335592196911105
Sexton parried Keegan's header but Stephen Walsh followed up and smashed the ball past both defender and keeper on the line. 1-0.

[Town Legend]

3-1 result at CCS.

[gufcfan]

Galway FC 1-0 Athlone Town FT

Report (http://galwayfc.ie/index.php/report-galway-fc-athlone-town/)

[gufc2000]

Two more fixtures for Galway FC:

Thursday February 27th vs. Mervue Utd- Fahy's Field, KO 7.15pm

Saturday March 1st vs. UCD- Drom, KO 3pm

[brendy_éire]

Limavady-Derry City re-arranged for Wednesday 26th at 19:45 at the Limavady Showgrounds.

Derry City-Coleraine re-arranged for Saturday 1st March in the Brandywell at 13:00. Proceeds from that match going to Mark Farren.

[thomas72]

Athletic bilboa B v Limerick fc tomorrow night in Spain

[Fivesilver]

Athletic bilboa B v Limerick fc tomorrow night in Spain

Is that Rocky's young fella?

[Jofspring]

Athletic Bilbao 19's 3-1 Limerick FC HT

Shane Tracy again for us. A goal in every game so far this pre-season.

[Jofspring]

Athletic Bilbao 19's 4-3 Limerick FC

Shane Tracy x2, Darragh Rainsford.

[The Donie Forde]

Athletic Bilbao B 4-3 Limerick FC

Shane Tracy x2, Darragh Rainsford.

Is that the FT? Do you know the venue where it was played?

Thanks

[Jofspring]

Ya full time and it was played in Lezama.

[The Donie Forde]

Ya full time and it was played in Lezama.

Thanks for that!

[colinf]

Any friendlies in Dublin Saturday evening?

[DRDoc]

Any friendlies in Dublin Saturday evening?

Rovers Cliftonville at 3pm

[Charlie Darwin]

Rovers Cliftonville at 3pm
Weird how Cliftonville have time for a friendly but no time in their schedule for their probable two game elimination from the Setanta Cup.

[bluewhitearmy]

Limerick lost 2-1 to Amorobrieta today.

[sulywaterfordfc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_G_6hTuqng Highlights of the Waterford Limerick friendly for last Wednesday. Game finished 1-1.

[brendy_éire]

Limavady 1-3 Derry City.
Pitch was soft so Roddy didn't want to risk the senior players. Was basically our U19 team playing.

[legendz]

Limerick head to Spain for pre-season and took in two games. Did any other teams leave the island or Ireland?

[gufc2000]

Galway FC 6-2 Mervue Utd

[Charlie Darwin]

Galway FC 6-2 Mervue Utd
Galway FC 6 - 2 Galway FC

[gufcfan]

Galway FC 6 - 2 Galway FC

Mervue LOI 6-2 Mervue Juniors

[adamd164]

How many of the Galway starting XI are likely to be from that Mervue squad last season? They've made some good signings from outside also.

[Terry]

I would say a minimum of 6 would have started for Mervue last season. Its hard to tell really as we have a large squad, with some fantastic signings from outside of the mervue/salthill links as well. Watch out for Jake Keegan, he will score a good few goals for us this season IMO.

[eL Bettor]

Shelbourne 3-0 Shamrock Rovers last night.
Rovers a mix of A and B teams

[adamd164]

Shelbourne 3-0 Shamrock Rovers last night.
Rovers a mix of A and B teams

I thought pre-season games between teams from the same division aren't allowed? Should have been the A team players only.

[Mr A]

There's no rule about that that I know of- it's just generally not done since teams play so often anyway.

[adamd164]

I thought it was actually a rule but I could be wrong.

[Charlie Darwin]

Nah, Rovers played a friendly against UCD last year. It's uncommon but not banned.

[Longfordian]

Nah, Rovers played a friendly against UCD last year. It's uncommon but not banned.

It's not illegal, just frowned upon.

[sadloserkid]

It's not illegal, just frowned upon.

Why is it even frowned upon? :confused: We've done it several times before too. There's not an abundance of senior clubs in the country to choose from like?

[Charlie Darwin]

By whom is it frowned upon? It's fine but it's fairly stupid when you're going to be playing the same teams up to 6 times during the season and there is an entire other division here as well as the Irish League to play against.

[gufcfan]

Report: Mervue United 2-6 Galway FC (http://galwayfc.ie/index.php/report-mervue-united-2-6-galway-fc/)

[Longfordian]

By whom is it frowned upon? It's fine but it's fairly stupid when you're going to be playing the same teams up to 6 times during the season and there is an entire other division here as well as the Irish League to play against.

It's not actually frowned upon I was just being facetious really, paraphrasing a line I heard somewhere, "It's like marrying your cousin, it's not illegal but it is frowned upon".

To change the subject, Drogs are 5/4 to beat us tonight. Worth a pound or two

[atfconline]

It's not actually frowned upon I was just being facetious really, paraphrasing a line I heard somewhere, "It's like marrying your cousin, it's not illegal but it is frowned upon".

Longford small talk, eh?

[Longfordian]

Longford small talk, eh?

Yes I do love a family reunion

[OldNassau]

Galway beaten by UCD today 3-0. scorers for UCD Wilson, Benson and Morrison

[pineapple stu]

That's a bit of a surprise to be honest.

[eitoof]

What was Luke Giverin like?


He only came on after about an hour and didn't do much wrong but then he didn't see much of the ball either, it was hard to judge as the game had become quite disjointed through subs at that stage.

Is Giverin still with Cork? Saw a bit of him with United reserves and thought him a tidy player.

[adamd164]

I think he's gone from us a while now, Caulfield said that Dave O'Leary from Limerick was likely to be the last remaining signing (assuming that happens).

[Pablo Escobar]

I think he's gone from us a while now, Caulfield said that Dave O'Leary from Limerick was likely to be the last remaining signing (assuming that happens).

Even if O'Leary doesn't sign I'm happy enough with our squad at this stage. We'll be far more physical this season and there's more goals in us. We'll still leak them, but at least the games should be entertaining.

[disgruntled]

What was Luke Giverin like?



Is Giverin still with Cork? Saw a bit of him with United reserves and thought him a tidy player.




He played for some part of a friendly but Caulfield said even though he was a good player he wasn't any better that what we already had.

[adamd164]

O'Leary from Limerick has signed for us.

http://www.corkcityfc.ie/home/2014/03/05/david-oleary-signs/

[Charlie Darwin]

There's no mid-season friendlies thread so I'll just throw this in here: http://www.independent.ie/sport/liverpool-set-to-return-to-dublin-in-glamour-friendly-with-shamrock-rovers-30124205.html