LOI 32nd Round and play-off fixture. Friday17th October

[micls]

What ticket allocation did Dundalk give Cork? Are yee running a train up to Dundalk?
If ye need any help with digs,pubs or grub recommendations ask away.

600 is the number being thrown about but I'm not sure. Few more on top of that from the tickets on sale last week online. What's the capacity?

[El-Pietro]

It's absolutely hilarious if Dundalk have managed to throw the league away to a poor Cork side right at the end. Cork should be able to secure at least a draw there now.
a poor Cork side with 72 points, 22 wins, and 17 clean sheets.

Goals win games, Defences win Championships.

[White Horse]

600 is the number being thrown about but I'm not sure. Few more on top of that from the tickets on sale last week online. What's the capacity?

Oriel Park has 3,200 seats with room for up to an additional 1,800 standing fans.

Cork will be allocated the away section which has a capacity of 600 for security and segregation purposes.

Ticket sales are going well in Dundalk with the stand almost sold out.

[PartySaint]

Cheers Derry

A well deserved win for Athlone last night, could have been more than 2. First goal was a cracker.

I wonder if we can apply to the FAI just to skip our game against Sligo next week and call it a 0-0 draw?

What a finish we have in store next Friday, top and bottom. I hope Cork win it just because it would be hilarious if Dundalk threw it away.

[poster]

Limerick should have won by 3 or 4. Sligo had about a dozen supporters at the game. O'Sullivan says he cannot be depended on as a sugar daddy! Limerick require 2500 on a regular basis was his opinion.

There were about 40 Rovers fans at the game.

O'Sullivan's half-time rant was very Delia Smith. Seemed to be having a go at the supporters who actually go to games, as if it's their fault that Limerick doesn't care about its football team. Screaming down the microphone like a mad man.

[dundalkfc10]

Oriel Park has 3,200 seats with room for up to an additional 1,800 standing fans.

Cork will be allocated the away section which has a capacity of 600 for security and segregation purposes.

Ticket sales are going well in Dundalk with the stand almost sold out.

Stand SOLD OUT

Remaining ground tickets on sale from Oriel on Monday, Dundalk are advising that they expect it to be sold out by Tues or Weds

[jinxy lilywhite]

I would like to be the first to congratulate Cork on their league victory

[patrickccfc]

I would like to be the first to congratulate Cork on their league victory
Ah now what's this reverse psychology? Don't be jinxing us now ha.. All I'm worried about is getting a ticket on Monday first, already have bus booked but those tickets won't last long. Can see us having to soak up a lot of pressure but I'm very confident in our defense. That being said I want us to attack ourselves and go for the win. A lot of nerves would be settled if we went ahead

[White Horse]

Ah now what's this reverse psychology? Don't be jinxing us now ha.. All I'm worried about is getting a ticket on Monday first, already have bus booked but those tickets won't last long. Can see us having to soak up a lot of pressure but I'm very confident in our defense. That being said I want us to attack ourselves and go for the win. A lot of nerves would be settled if we went ahead

I hope the 10 Cork lads that routinely turn up in Oriel Park will get tickets. It would be ridiculous if they are forgotten about.

I expect Cork to sit deep. They have a habit of sitting off teams when they are in the lead (which they effectively are in this tie).

[patrickccfc]

The club are making sure the real fans get the the tickets with trustees and members getting tickets today and tomorrow and season ticket holders like myself on Monday. Yeah we annoyingly sit way too deep but one goal for ye and its all changed so yes we will have to our fair share of defending but also important to try for a goal when possible. No chance of a temporary stand? Ye would make a killing off it for sure

[Sheridan]

Dundalk are still big favourites, IMO. This has probably worked out quite well for them. Kenny would have been reduced to a gibbering wreck by the pressure and uncertainty of sending a team out to draw. Now they can simply play without inhibitions.

[patrickccfc]

Dundalk are still big favourites, IMO. This has probably worked out quite well for them. Kenny would have been reduced to a gibbering wreck by the pressure and uncertainty of sending a team out to draw. Now they can simply play without inhibitions.
I agree Dundalk are probably still favourites to win it but we have just put ourselves in a great position where we can afford a draw. Also refreshing to hear Billy dennehy say that the plastic pitch doesn't make any difference so hoping that argument won't be a part in the build up to this game. This time around Colin Healy has to play instead of being left out over the worry of an injury on the astro turf, too big of a game to leave a big player like him out

[patrickccfc]

http://www.joe.ie/football/has-this-cork-bar-just-bribed-its-team-to-the-verge-of-the-premier-division-title/472231 ha found this funny

[Charlie Darwin]

Could the FAI not insist on a temporary stand for this match? And then stop people from sitting in it.

[White Horse]

No chance of a temporary stand? Ye would make a killing off it for sure

The problem is that we are unlikely to be able to fit in all the home fans who are looking for tickets. If we were to put up an additional temporary stand for Cork fans, we would have to turn away home fans. You could imagine the reaction to that in Dundalk.

It's a pity we cannot cater for all the Cork fans who want to come. I know some clubs who would leave parts of their ground empty rather then accommodate away fans. However, this is not what is happening.

[patrickccfc]

Ah suppose never thought of that alright.. shame as we would of brought double if not triple of what will be there I'd say but yeah also a lot of your fans will miss out too which is unfortunate

[sadloserkid]

O'Sullivan's half-time rant was very Delia Smith. Seemed to be having a go at the supporters who actually go to games, as if it's their fault that Limerick doesn't care about its football team. Screaming down the microphone like a mad man.

I felt the same as you as I stood there in the rain, with flu, having travelled up from Cork straight after work to watch. I should have brought my extended family if I was a real fan apparently. Not sure he really needed to be on the pitch to deliver his address either. :)

[strikeforce]

The problem is that we are unlikely to be able to fit in all the home fans who are looking for tickets. If we were to put up an additional temporary stand for Cork fans, we would have to turn away home fans. You could imagine the reaction to that in Dundalk.

It's a pity we cannot cater for all the Cork fans who want to come. I know some clubs who would leave parts of their ground empty rather then accommodate away fans. However, this is not what is happening.
You could always change the game and come down to the cross.:highfive:

[strikeforce]

[QUOTE=sligoman;1785176]It's absolutely hilarious if Dundalk have managed to throw the league away to a poor Cork side right at the end. Cork should be able to secure at least a draw there now.[/QUOTE
Does that mean that sligo are **** so.

[strikeforce]

The club are making sure the real fans get the the tickets with trustees and members getting tickets today and tomorrow and season ticket holders like myself on Monday. Yeah we annoyingly sit way too deep but one goal for ye and its all changed so yes we will have to our fair share of defending but also important to try for a goal when possible. No chance of a temporary stand? Ye would make a killing off it for sure
Now Now Patrick whats this about REAL FANS. So the club I support and have done since 1984 has 300 or so REAL FANS. Foras members and Season ticket holders are real fans now eh. What about the other 3,500 of us that turn up week in week out and attend away game's as well. The forgotten majority.

[patrickccfc]

Maybe that came across a bit harsh on the people that are not members or ticket holders, bit of selfishness too as I can't relax not being sure about getting a ticket tomorrow.. so to refrase I don't care who gets a ticket as long as I do

[redobit]

Does that mean that sligo are **** so.

Our results (or lack of) in Turners Cross have probably played a part in Corks point total this season. The first game there we were the better team and lost and in the second game we missed a last minute penalty to grab a deserved draw. Story of our season really.

[Charlie Darwin]

Our results (or lack of) in Turners Cross have probably played a part in Corks point total this season. The first game there we were the better team and lost and in the second game we missed a last minute penalty to grab a deserved draw. Story of our season really.
Any truth to these Owen Heary rumours, does anyone know?

[El-Pietro]

first ive heard, care to elaborate?

And redobit, you drew in your first game in Cork thanks to a late penalty given away by substitute defender Kalen Spillane, while you lost a few weeks ago due to a penalty save by McNulty. That penalty was given away by Michael McSweeney, who was a substitute defender.

[Charlie Darwin]

Some people in Sligo are saying Heary is all but signed up to manage them next season.

[micls]

I hope the 10 Cork lads that routinely turn up in Oriel Park will get tickets. It would be ridiculous if they are forgotten about.


Tickets are being distributed as fairly as possible. Members first, then season ticket holders. I would assume most of the away travelling lads or 1 or both (the ones I know are anyway).

In fairness, it's always been stated that FORAS members would get first dibs on tickets, as they should, at any time in the last couple of weeks people could have signed up. Tickets were also sold online for a spell.

[El-Pietro]

With so few tickets being made available there are bound to be people let down. You have to give Members first refusal and then season ticket holders or else theres no benefit to paying all that money. I've been paying two memberships for 5 years now and that equates to over 5000 euro. I've only claimed one ticket for that but even if I had taken two I'd deserve it.

There may be some lads who travel to every away game and if they aren't season ticket holders at the very least you'd have to ask why not? If we were selling out every game every week then maybe you could look at an away travel scheme but this has so rarely been an issue in LOI history.

I have friends who are season ticket holders and travel to 10-15 away games a season but who aren't guaranteed a ticket for this game and I'll be gutted if they don't get one but we all knew for months this game was coming and if it mattered this was likely to be the situation.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Some people in Sligo are saying Heary is all but signed up to manage them next season.

That's the rumours alright. Only rumours mind.

[desaintsno.12]

said it all season.... Cork have a chance.

It will be a bit of a travesty and a slap in the face to good football, but all that matters is who's top at the end of the year. How poor they are compared to previous champions is meaningless.

[Mr A]

Personally the only definition of good football I think is worth anything is outscoring your opposition. Agree though that comparisons to previous years are meaningless. People always, always think the league is getting progressively worse with the possible exeption of the years when several clubs were in the process of spending themselves to near or actual death.

[White Horse]

What constitutes good football is subjective. What makes a team into champions is points.

[seand]

You could always change the game and come down to the cross.:highfive:

1991 all over again ;)

[White Horse]

Manic scenes in Oriel Park this morning. Huge queue of peole buying tickets. I understand that they sold out by lunchtime.

[patrickccfc]

Got a ticket absolutely delighted.. had to get the gf to queue up from half 1 to 5 as I was at work and she hates football ha what a woman.. can't bloody wait for Friday but I'm already a nervous wreck about it

[PartySaint]

Got a ticket absolutely delighted.. had to get the gf to queue up from half 1 to 5 as I was at work and she hates football ha what a woman.. can't bloody wait for Friday but I'm already a nervous wreck about it

That's brilliant :D

[jinxy lilywhite]

Got a ticket absolutely delighted.. had to get the gf to queue up from half 1 to 5 as I was at work and she hates football ha what a woman.. can't bloody wait for Friday but I'm already a nervous wreck about it

Patrick you need to wine her and dine her with a romantic weekend away to Delightful Dundalk. To some its the Paris of the north east

[patrickccfc]

Patrick you need to wine her and dine her with a romantic weekend away to Delightful Dundalk. To some its the Paris of the north east
haha yup will defo have to do something special for her now, hmm Dundalk wouldn't be the first place to spring to mind but I'm sure it will look beautiful if we win on Friday

[outspoken]

Got a ticket absolutely delighted.. had to get the gf to queue up from half 1 to 5 as I was at work and she hates football ha what a woman.. can't bloody wait for Friday but I'm already a nervous wreck about it

She's a keeper

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Got a ticket absolutely delighted.. had to get the gf to queue up from half 1 to 5 as I was at work and she hates football ha what a woman.. can't bloody wait for Friday but I'm already a nervous wreck about it

Does she have a sister?

[patrickccfc]

Does she have a sister?
she has a brother if you swing that way

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

she has a brother if you swing that way

That's not you I hope

[poster]

Does that mean that sligo are **** so.

Pretty much. :arrogant:

[patrickccfc]

That's not you I hope
I'm from cork, not Drogheda

[Real ale Madrid]

She's a keeper

How do you know that ? She could be a full-back?

[nigel-harps1954]

How do you know that ? She could be a full-back?

I hear she's quite good up front.

[patrickccfc]

She's good in many positions to be fair