2015 Fixtures

[gael353]

Sean Russell taking a free kick in perfect position for Shane Tracy and basically chipping it over the bar against Pats quite annoying too and you could see it bother lads on the pitch aswell.

Yep he demanded the free kick, robbie tina and tracy all fancied it but all walked away. And he just chipped it over the bar. Useless.

[gael353]

another 90 mins of sean russell playing out of his depth. harding for the first, o'donnell for the 2nd and 5th, russell for the 3rd an offside and an OG off tony whithead. when you see the goals you'll understand why this will surely be the end for o'donnell. hughes on the right wing to accommodate sean russell. and he just won't take him off.
oh and fat harmless vinny faherty....whats the point god help us

[NeverFeltBetter]

I imagine Russell's job is on the line for the Bray game. If he isn't removed before.

[fieldofmarkets]

Would have liked to see Prince and Ali start lastnight. Might not have changed the result lastnight, but they must start next week and it would have been a game under their belt.

[Jofspring]

Next week i'd like to see:

Abass

Harding
Paudie
Price
Williams

Prince
Duggan

Turner
Hughes
Tracey

Clarke

[osarusan]

Next week i'd like to see:

Abass

Harding
Paudie
Price
Williams

Prince
Duggan

Turner
Hughes
Tracey

Clarke

Swap positions for Duggan and Hughes and I would like to see the same team.

[Treaty Gooner]

FFS, we're doomed. Can we not do everything we can to get a team like: Barry Ryan, Wayne Colbert, Shane Tracy, Robbie Williams, Paudie, Duggan, Lee J, Hughes, Shane Waters, Alex Purcell, Shane Clarke? It couldn't be a bigger playing budget than we currently have, it'd put bums on seats and for the love of God, maybe a bit of bite to have mostly local lads playing for their local club in a dogfight.

[Treaty Gooner]

Manager is clutching at straws, the board need to have the balls to do something about this, the chairman is passing the buck after, to be fair, a lot of investment. We're doomed lads.

[Jofspring]

Awful result for us tonight. Sligo are 7 points clear of us and will definitely pick up more points. Bray have gone 9 points clear of us. We basically need to sign 15 new players if we are expected to turn that around cause there is no way this team can go from zero wins to winning a minimum 6 or 7 games before the end of the season.

[bluewhitearmy]

Awful result for us tonight. Sligo are 7 points clear of us and will definitely pick up more points. Bray have gone 12 points clear of us. We basically need to sign 15 new players if we are expected to turn that around cause there is no way this team can go from zero wins to winning a minimum 6 or 7 games before the end of the season.

Bray are 9 Sligo are 7 as far as I know.

[Jofspring]

Bray are 9 Sligo are 7 as far as I know.

Ya changed it. Didn't realise the table I was looking at had already given bray tonight's 3 points.

[da bishop]

expected a beating but not that kind of beating.those of us who have asked.... the serious question ...for quite a while now are starting to sound boring as when we ask it we are repeating the same reasons for doing so as in ...O Donnell,russell,style of play etc etc,...so GAEL has a ..point ..when he says whats the point???one thing does need to be stressed however,this notion that manager Russell is a good manager,people need to take a good hard long look at it,and face facts,like this one ....19 games NO WIN.

[gael353]

Team ppl want: abass, harding, o'connor, price, williams, prince, Duggan tracy clarke, hughes tina.

Team you'll get from russell v bray

Holland, whitehead, price williams tracy
Tina, duggan, o connor, rainsford,.russell and clarke

[nr637]

Limerick v Bray 6.30pm Markets Field Sat. July 4th

What kind of crowd could be enticed to this game considering the new facilities as against the teams position in the league!

[Lims4ever]

I'd say around the 800 mark can't see us beating bray either ,

[Jofspring]

If we announce a few signings and they are available we might see 1,000-1,200. If we don't then I reckon between 500-700.

[LFC Blue]

Bray in turmoil. Croly resigns due to players cheques bouncing. Hopefully Limerick can capitalise. I presume we have no new signings for tomorrow although the Post has reported Lee Lynch has signed. I'll go for a 2-1 Limerick win.

[NeverFeltBetter]

Chairman is on the radio with Liam Aherne tomorrow at 10 to talk about the state of the club, if anyone is interested.

[donnrua]

Jaysus, we finally get in two decent midfielders, and our manager continues to pick his Son ahead of Hughes and Agyemang. Should be thankful that Lynch is in ahead of Rainsford I suppose. And O'Donnell is still in goal - Phucking painful:mad:

[Jofspring]

Do depressed right now.

Actually feel like crying.

Devestaded.

[Treaty Gooner]

Well that's pretty much that. Hate to see a fella lose his job but Russell's got to go. Team selection has been terrible. Persisting with Price? And O'Connor? And Russell Jr.? It's over now, let's get rid, go someway local with a gaffer and players who have nothing to lose really. Stick a fork in us.

[bluewhitearmy]

No matter how much people want to keep the myth of him being a great manager going Russell should be sacked not much to work with but when you still haven't a clue how to use what little you have we haven't a hope. Lack of effort by some players most of this season has been disgusting and again tonight.

[LK37oldskool]

That was a horrible display. Russel is a joke. He has picked the same team every week and it keeps losing. That's a sure sign of madness. A must win home game and he plays 1 up front. Agree with previous poster bout Russel jnr & co. What was the point of bringing Prince back if your not going to play him? Its all too late now anyway, its First Division football from here on in. 1400 was a great attendance but sad it wont come back with the tripe that was out there tonight.

[Lim till i die]

Genuine question for people if the club had the twenty grand or whatever to get rid of Russell in the mornin would you rather they spend it on sacking him or on two or three players??

Lookin at a serious wedge of money to keep us up now and were so far gone it would be very risky money anyway. Is the will there within the club to spend it??

[bluewhitearmy]

Genuine question for people if the club had the twenty grand or whatever to get rid of Russell in the mornin would you rather they spend it on sacking him or on two or three players??

Lookin at a serious wedge of money to keep us up now and were so far gone it would be very risky money anyway. Is the will there within the club to spend it??

Sack him. Sign anyone you want now and we are still going down.

[Lim till i die]

Not just keep him and save the few quid for the first division then? :P

I think we ll actually romp the first division next year it looks terrible

[Lim till i die]

And Cabinteely have a bar in their ground

[bluewhitearmy]

Not just keep him and save the few quid for the first division then? :P

I think we ll actually romp the first division next year it looks terrible

Its worth the few quid to not see his son anymore.

[thomas72]

Lads Russell is going nowhere I don't know if ye heard pat o sullivan this morning on live95fm he said absolutely 100% Russell will be staying ( wait for it) for as long as he wants.
So unless he walks he will be here for a good while yet.

On the game o Donnell is the worst keeper iv seen ever at Limerick he sets up the wall scully runs up to strike the ball o Donnell runs across to the side his wall is protecting trying to anticipate if he actually stood on his side were he was suppose to he would of dropped his hat on it. It was embarrassing.

[donnrua]

I can't wait for the b******t Russell comes out with on Soccer Republic for that display - phucking shocking, pure p*ss from start to finish. He should be sacked pronto!

[NeverFeltBetter]

God damn, that is very dissapointing. Can't really defend Russell anymore, when his team can't beat a side training themselves without pay. All of the promo the club accounts have been doing for second MF game ring so hollow. Decent crowd again, and another awful advertisement.

Think only an off-field implosion at Bray will save Limerick now. You have to wonder how competitive the club would be in the First Division on the basis of this season. As good as Harps or Youths? Not really. That's really worrying.

[Lims4ever]

The biggest complains I'd have of Russell tonight is leaving his son on for 90mins when he done **** all again , bringing on rainsford to do absolutely **** all again only lose the ball as usual, I'd agree we should have played 2 up front but the only thing I'll say to that is who else do you play??? None of the rest are good enough Hanlon dreadful Faherty not enough effort. Do I blame Russell for the season we've had no , how anyone taught that team was anywhere near capable of staying in prem not too sure what they expected. What a crying shame the club gets good momentum with markets field move but it came way too late in the season just like trying to bring in players now should have happened pre season.

[gael353]

3 of our players will not pass the ball to sean russell. Tracy, Duggan and williams. All very experienced so shows what they think of him. Clarke has lost his bottle. Our club has a habbit of rewarding failure (scullys 2 year contract extension) so if Russell stays so will his un substitutetional son and the real players leave. We started with 10 players tonight and sean russell,,,,,got a man sent off at went down to 9 wiith rainsford joining fellow passenger russell. Wait for the "we have the best man in place to take us up" stories

[delboyderis]

I said it at the start of the season that the team wouldnt be good enough for the season ahead.18 games without a win is scandalous and the buck stops with the manager.every week there is an excuse.unless they manage to get in a few quality players its down to the first div and they deserve it as results dont lie.half the current squad or more are just not good enough for this level.

[osarusan]

Duggan, Clarke, are players who would get a game for another premier division club. Tracy, Williams, maybe.

The rest are not good enough, and in most cases, nowhere near good enough. To what extent that squad was patched together as cheaply as possible, I don't know. What choices in personnel Russell made before the season, I don't know. Were there players he could have signed, but didn't? Who were they, and who did he bring in instead? Would Russel have known privately that we were totally screwed before the season started, or did he misjudge the quality of the squad?

I don't think we could get any manager who would keep that squad in the premier division. They are weak all over the field, deficient in almost every position. The only way we will stay up (I don't think there is any hope of that, to be honest) is if we get in a load of decent players. If there is another manager who would be able to bring a few quality players with him, then get him in, but lets hope he knows how to get a team promoted too.

What bothers me more than that is that we have not really altered our play in any way since the start of the season. We are still passing it aimlessly around the back. We are are atill looking for the ball over the top to Clarke every time. There is still a gaping hole between our midfield and our defence in every game, with loads of space for the opposition to exploit.

Russell doesn't address these problems, either between games or during games - yesterday Bray had acres of space between our midfield and back 3. It was crying out for Jason Hughes or somebody to fill that space and protect them, but he never made the switch, and we were under pressure there for most of the 2nd half.

And, while in most cases, our squad is so uniformly poor that I don't have too many complaints about who he selects over other players (Raisford, Hanlon, or Faherty alongside Clarke - it doesn't matter, none of them can do the job), his persistence with his son is unforgiveable.

[da bishop]

60 seconds is a long time in football,lynch misses a sitter at one end and one minute later harding ,who was being hammered by Brays winger,acts the clown and gets sent off so Bray who would have gladly taken a point now had the incentive for all three and they went and got them.now at the risk of sounding like the ould broken record ,.....ffs better not sure everyone knows it already,however what was Russell doing with the shape of the team with ten men ??and those who think lynch will be some sort of saviour better think again young and possibly talented but how many clubs is it now[lack of game time or not he had a shocker ]this Bray team came in to this in turmoiland at times made us look so poor and shapeless.best players on the pitch Duggan[again] ,Brays right full and the ref.....oh ya ..might as well 20 GAMES NO WIN.

[fieldofmarkets]

I would like to see Prince and Hughes in for O'Connor and Russell next week. And Abass in goal. Actually thought we played quiet well for a lot of the game lastnight and did not deserve to lose at all. Was that even a foul for the free kick?

[bluewhitearmy]

I would like to see Prince and Hughes in for O'Connor and Russell next week. And Abass in goal. Actually thought we played quiet well for a lot of the game lastnight and did not deserve to lose at all. Was that even a foul for the free kick?

I thought Bray had the best of the opening 15 mins of the game then we had the rest of the first half but don't think we kept it going in the 2nd half at all. I can only remember one chance in the 2nd half really and that was Lynches.

Ali is supposedly in quarantine in the regional with suspected malaria I was told.

Looked a definite foul for free from my view thought they could very well have had a penalty too.

[Jofspring]

I thought Bray had the best of the opening 15 mins of the game then we had the rest of the first half but don't think we kept it going in the 2nd half at all. I can only remember one chance in the 2nd half really and that was Lynches.

Ali is supposedly in quarantine in the regional with suspected malaria I was told.

Looked a definite foul for free from my view thought they could very well have had a penalty too.

Jesus of that's true hopefully he makes a speedy recovery.

[bluewhitearmy]

Jesus of that's true hopefully he makes a speedy recovery.

Ya would hope if it is the case the lad will be ok. New keeper arriving before next game apparently.

[bluewhitearmy]

I really wonder about some of the decisions made at times at the club and if its Russell making them like it surely is then imo his judgment is dreadful. We turn down Peter Cherrie a goalkeeper with years of experience in this league and who has played at a very good level while in the league and go bring in some unknown Bermudan lad that has had 4 different clubs since the start of 2014 and on top of that from what I am told Darragh Rainsford has had his deal extended if thats true then it is absolutely shocking he has offered nothing to the team in any form at all.

[Jofspring]

Heard we had a keeper on trial alright. If we have a keeper on trial I would prefer to see Holland given a run of games. Unless we are bringing in an experienced keeper that would be guaranteed to walk straight into the team, I can't see the point in it.

[LFC Blue]

Is this Bermuda keeper available tomorrow night....All the transfer rumours have amounted to very little unfortunately......

[Jofspring]

No one really knows. If people think the same starting 11 will be playing again tomorrow night then the crowd will be awful.

[LK37oldskool]

With the Limerick hurlers on at 5, tomorrow the crowd will be abysmal, especially after last weeks performance. Williams and Harding suspended for tomorrows game.

[NeverFeltBetter]

Just skipped my mind the hurlers were on the same time. Going to be last few games in Thomond level at MF so. Not like the team has done anything to entice people away from GAA though.

[harpin]

With the Limerick hurlers on at 5, tomorrow the crowd will be abysmal, especially after last weeks performance. Williams and Harding suspended for tomorrows game.

Is Costelloe injured I know he got roasted up in Jackman when he came on as sub for that weapon Harding but surely deserves another chance considering the other fella has been blowing out his arse after 25mins of every game...and after last week could also be brain dead

[Jofspring]

If Costello is available at this stage I'd like him playing the rest of the season. We are pretty much relegated so may as well give the local lads as many games as possible now. Especially the ones that will most like be part of the first division team next season.

Hoping for

Holland

Costello
O'Connor
Price/Whitehead
Tracey

Duggy
Hughes

Lee Jay
Prince
Turner

Clarke

[gael353]

It will be.
Burmuda john
Hughes, whithead, paudie, tracy
Duggan o connor turner russell
Clarke and vinnie faherty.


Galway minus one in the bookies me thinks

[donnrua]

F*ckin' hell he's starting with his son again...