LOI Weekend 10th/11th July

[Dunny]

Premier Division

Saturday

Bray Wanderers v Derry City 5:45pm

Limerick FC v Galway United 6:30pm

Sligo Rovers v Longford Town

First Division

Friday

Cabinteely FC v Shelbourne

Waterford United v Finn Harps

Saturday

Cobh Ramblers v Wexford Youths

Sunday

UCDAFC v Athlone Town POSTPONED (YEOoOWWW)

Referees:
http://www.sseairtricityleague.ie/news/6229-match-officials-appointed-to-sse-airtricity-league-matches

Suspensions:
http://www.sseairtricityleague.ie/news/6227-weekend-suspension-list-from-july-6

Betting:
http://www.paddypower.com/football/football-matches/ireland

[outspoken]

Very confident of claiming all 3 points this weekend. Cmon de town.

[Acornvilla]

But Dave Barry said we'll lose, all hope is lost.

[Longfordian]

The glamour tie of the weekend. I haven't seen much of Sligo either pre or post Heary so not best placed to make a prediction. That's never stopped me before however so I'll go with 1-1.

[nigel-harps1954]

The glamour tie of the weekend. I haven't seen much of Sligo either pre or post Heary so not best placed to make a prediction. That's never stopped me before however so I'll go with 1-1.

You sure about that? Don't forget, Ollie Horgan faces off against Roddy Collins tonight. Both are suspended, so I'm expecting all out war between the two of them in the stands. Either way, it'll be fun to watch.

[Longfordian]

Less glamourous nigel but potentially explosive I'll give you that

[nigel-harps1954]

Less glamourous nigel but potentially explosive I'll give you that

Don't even think about telling Roddy Collins that anything is less glamorous than him.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Very confident of claiming all 3 points this weekend. Cmon de town.

Have you you not seen our big team news. Kevin Devaney is back.

We've been a bit better since the Heary heave but wouldn't be putting any money on us tomorrow night.

[nigel-harps1954]

Harps 3-0 up in Waterford with Nathan Boyle scoring two on his debut. Back on top of the league temporarily at least.

[Comic Book Guy]

Harps 3-0 up in Waterford with Nathan Boyle scoring two on his debut. Back on top of the league temporarily at least.
We'll see if we can do something about that for you tomorrow night. Can't promise anything but..

[nigel-harps1954]

Cabinteely 0-1 Shelbourne in Stradbrook tonight.

FT in Waterford at 3-0 to Harps too. Great to be back to winning ways and two clean sheets in a row is handy too going into a tough run of games.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Roddy better quit before he gets relegated.

[WoodquayBoy]

What happened with Horgan - he seems to be banned for every game, has he been in the dugout at all this season!?

[Longfordian]

Literally nothing he could have done would be any great surprise. He's completely mental.

[Sam_Heggy]

Horgan has been a breath of fresh air into the club. Passionate, an encyclopedia on players in the country, an intelligent man and most of all a very good manager who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Maybe the FAI want a manager to sit on the bench with his legs crossed in a nice suit and not say a word during the game.

[nigel-harps1954]

Horgan is the best thing to happen to Harps in years. He's a bit mental on the sideline at times, but as alluded to above, is much preferred to someone who sits there, says nothing, and motivates nobody. The most passionate football man I've ever met, and witnessed his encyclopedic knowledge of football and footballers first hand. Incredible stuff, knows almost every player in the country inside out.

[nigel-harps1954]

Waterford defending calamitous at times but here Harps goals last night:

Nathan Boyle 1-0:

438210179693798 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=438210179693798)


Ray Foy 2-0:

438210923027057 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=438210923027057)


Nathan Boyle 3-0:

438212459693570 (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=438212459693570)

[nigel-harps1954]

FT in Bray:

Bray 1-0 Derry


Latest:

Limerick 1-2 Galway
Sligo 0-0 Longford

Cobh 0-0 Wexford

[Acornvilla]

It's all Dave Barry's fault.

[brendy_éire]

Shocking stuff from ourselves tonight again. We weren't terrible in the first half; but were appalling in the second.
Bray aren't a great side, loads of mistakes made. The goal was well taken, though we gave serious space for Bray to play in.

Very difficult result for Pizza. Could be gone after that.

[nigel-harps1954]

Full time:

Limerick 2-4 Galway

Latest:

Sligo 3-0 Longford


Derry drop into relegation play-off spot. :cool:

[Longfordian]

The cheek of Sligo to pick this game to finally turn up.

[nigel-harps1954]

Cobh 0-1 Wexford: 63 mins gone.

[nigel-harps1954]

Longford pull one back via Mark Salmon penalty.

Sligo 3-1 Longford

[nigel-harps1954]

Be a tight last few minutes in Sligo with Longford now pegging them back to 3-2.

Wexford top of the First Division again, 3-0 win in Cobh. They've now scored 41 goals in 17 games.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Very confident of claiming all 3 points this weekend. Cmon de town.

Post of the year

[nigel-harps1954]

An English football blogger had his first taste of LOI football on Friday night taking in Waterford v Harps.

http://footballspoon.net/2015/07/12/it-should-have-been-you/

Also took in Cobh v Wexford last night with that report due tomorrow.

[ForzaForth]

Own half goal for Youth's third against Cobh. Good assist by the keeper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beSPqxsveaE&feature=youtu.be

[outspoken]

Post of the year

Worst half performance ever from a longford team. No passion, no closing down, just zero effort from anyone on the pitch at all. Second half we got tighter, got in Sligos faces and in particular Rice and Salmo got the whole team going and up the pitch and we could have got a draw in the end as injust as it would have been. The players better show that kind of effort for 90 minutes next week

[Martinho II]

Worst half performance ever from a longford team. No passion, no closing down, just zero effort from anyone on the pitch at all. Second half we got tighter, got in Sligos faces and in particular Rice and Salmo got the whole team going and up the pitch and we could have got a draw in the end as injust as it would have been. The players better show that kind of effort for 90 minutes next week

that game brought back memories of ten years ago of our second half performance in Wales when we collapsed! I went on the **** big time after the game to drown our sorrows! that game marked the end of an era which has taken years for us to recover!

[Dunny]

Tonight

Cabinteely v Waterford United 1945

[outspoken]

Tonight

Cabinteely v Waterford United 1945

Why are they playing tonight?

[nigel-harps1954]

Full time in Stradbrook:

Cabinteely 1-1 Waterford

[bennocelt]

Full time in Stradbrook:

Cabinteely 1-1 Waterford

Nice edit, ha:p

[nigel-harps1954]

Nice edit, ha:p

8 minutes of injury time were played! Madness.

[Dunny]

8 minutes of injury time were played! Madness.

Cabo player Lloyd Cairns got a serious head injury 2nd half according to updates hence 8mins injury time.He was brought to hospital but is fine i believe.


Why are they playing tonight?

No idea what the craic was with this fixture :confused:

[trevy]

The match was moved to tonight because Waterford are playing Liverpool XI in RSC on Friday night.

[nigel-harps1954]

The match was moved to tonight because Waterford are playing Liverpool XI in RSC on Friday night.

That's incredibly sad that a competitive league match had to be moved to suit Liverpools under-21 team.

[outspoken]

That's incredibly sad that a competitive league match had to be moved to suit Liverpools under-21 team.

Totally agree

[WoodquayBoy]

At least they get the U-21 side. We're playing the U-18 squad on Saturday
http://www.liverpoolfc.com/fixtures2015/academy/galway-united-v-liverpool-u18s-8428/next-match-preview
Same crowd that beat Cork 2-0.

[PartySaint]

Went out to the Cabinteely Waterford game last night, Waterford unlucky not to hang onto the win, they looked comfortable for the whole game but a last minute deflected goal undone them.

I was out at the Cabinteely Shels match on Friday as well, Cabinteely have absolutely no creativity whatsoever.

I haven't seen Waterford play in years, I like the look of their number 6 and 7, striker isn't great and their number 4 wants nothing to do with the ball at all but he's a decent enough defender.

Dylan McGalde for Shels looks a decent player and Philly Hughes still a class above the first division.

Fair play to the Waterford fans who made the trip upto Dublin on a Monday night