LOI fixtures 8/9/10 July 2016

[ToberonaTornado]

Fixtures well spread over the weekend.
Any streams welcome.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cm2xKnAWEAAB1YL.jpg

[TheBoss]

I have to say that Airtricity League's twitter account has put in some decent effort in recent months compared to nonexistence of about a year ago.

[Longfordian]

Noticed that alright they're even announcing signings for clubs. Saves our committee from doing it :)

[ATFC-1887]

Athlone beating shels 1-0

[ToberonaTornado]

The Athlone Town v Shels match is being live streamed over on the Shels Facebook page atm.Athlone 1 up there.
lims 1 up on Waterford on a pitch at the RSC that resembles a ploughed field.

[pineapple stu]

Bayly equalises for Waterford.

This is the player Limerick fans had a bucket collection so Waterford could sign him - and he scores against Limerick.

Got to love this league.

[El-Pietro]

One goal a game dur dur

[pineapple stu]

5-1 Limerick now.

Seems a reasonable response to the Bayly matter.

[gufc2000]

Harps are 1-0 up against us

[Longfordian]

So yeah.. Athlone u12s beat Shels.

[nigel-harps1954]

Massive three points for Harps. Can now look up instead of down.

[nigel-harps1954]

Sean Houstons goal for Harps v Galway tonight.

507502949460687

[ger121]

I have to say that Airtricity League's twitter account has put in some decent effort in recent months compared to nonexistence of about a year ago.

Was literally just thinking that as well this week. Good to see.

[Lim till i die]

So yeah.. Athlone u12s beat Shels.

Athlone were 16/1 at one stage.

On a completely unrelated note there's a long and proud history of strange, long odds bets coming in against shelbourne fc.

[Lim till i die]

First Division Champions 2016 Limerick FC have now scored the same amount of goals as wexford managed in the whole of last season.

We have one striker on our books :D

[El-Pietro]

63 goals in 16 games is incredible. We scored 70 in our promotion winning season. Cummins set a First Division record of 24 goals that season.

Now that I've been nice to Limerick I'm gonna go back to my own agenda, Limerick are 19 points clear but have conceded only one goal fewer than Drogheda (who play Cobh tomorrow).

[Lim till i die]

I fancy cobh to hit drogheda for seven or eight though.

[Sam_Heggy]

Brilliant result for Harps. Thats 3 wins and 3 clean sheets on the bounce.
15 clear of Longford now.
Bray away next.

[D24Saint]

Brilliant result for Harps. Thats 3 wins and 3 clean sheets on the bounce.
15 clear of Longford now.
Bray away next.

huge sequence of results for harps

[outspoken]

15 clear of us, not sure why people are even mentioning harps and town in the same breath. I said weeks ago that we wouldn't be anywhere near harps in the final standings and I was proven right. Our manager keeps spouting ****€ tho and the pathetic board believe every word he says

[pineapple stu]

Brilliant result for Harps. Thats 3 wins and 3 clean sheets on the bounce.
15 clear of Longford now.
Bray away next.

Interesting that Bray are on their own mini-run - 5 clean sheets in a row, including the win against Falkirk. 3 0-0s in that though. Could be a very tight game in the Carlisle.

[Sam_Heggy]

Interesting that Bray are on their own mini-run - 5 clean sheets in a row, including the win against Falkirk. 3 0-0s in that though. Could be a very tight game in the Carlisle.

Guaranteed handy money at the bookies. Lump on btts.

Yeah since out hammerings to Dundalk and Pats plus cup exit to Crumlin we've drew 1-1 v Rovers, beat Sligo 3-0, Longford 2-0 & Galway 1-0.
Great bit of work.

Win against Bray and Ollie might actually start looking up rather than down haha.

Level on points with Galway and Pats now. Delighted.

[donnrua]

63 goals in 16 games is incredible. We scored 70 in our promotion winning season. Cummins set a First Division record of 24 goals that season.

Now that I've been nice to Limerick I'm gonna go back to my own agenda, Limerick are 19 points clear but have conceded only one goal fewer than Drogheda (who play Cobh tomorrow).

Limerick's GD is +42 Drogheda's is +4. And let's be honest, no-one gives a fiddler's f**k how many we concede this season when we're scoring for fun!

[joey B]

Great win for us,the one bit of quality in the game won it for us.Galway huffed and puffed but looked bereft of ideas going forward! Ps Galways left back Walsh is an ars**ole more worried about abusing the linesman than playing the game and then trying to start Keating when he came on.

[White Horse]

“It’s fairly obvious that we’re probably going to finish second but we have the opportunity of finishing first. Sunday’s game is so big to us as we have to stay in there."

John Caulfield in the Sun today. An odd thing to say. Does he really believe in his team?

[Nesta99]

A very poor effort of trying to dampen any expectation for the Cork faithful.

[jinxy lilywhite]

“It’s fairly obvious that we’re probably going to finish second but we have the opportunity of finishing first. Sunday’s game is so big to us as we have to stay in there."

John Caulfield in the Sun today. An odd thing to say. Does he really believe in his team?

Especially against a side who you have beaten twice already in the league.

#choke

[Olander]

We are in serious trouble.

Our season has gone to shít completely. Worrying times.

[nigel-harps1954]

We are in serious trouble.

Our season has gone to shít completely. Worrying times.

Not at all. Wouldn't be worrying after an away defeat to Harps. We've the fourth best home record in the Premier Division this year. If it wasn't for our crap away record, and those two horrible games against Dundalk and Pat's that really damaged our goal difference, we'd be well up the table.

[Olander]

Not at all. Wouldn't be worrying after an away defeat to Harps. We've the fourth best home record in the Premier Division this year. If it wasn't for our crap away record, and those two horrible games against Dundalk and Pat's that really damaged our goal difference, we'd be well up the table.
I'm not basing it solely on last night, look at our results since May.

Relegation form.

[outspoken]

I'm not basing it solely on last night, look at our results since May.

Relegation form.

Calm yourself down pal. We've Tony cousins guiding this sinking ship. You aren't going anywhere

[nigel-harps1954]

I'm not basing it solely on last night, look at our results since May.

Relegation form.

Sure Harps had a crap run of form too for a while. Shipped 11 goals in two games and lost to a non-league side in the cup. Went 9 games without a win in all competitions. It's easy to forget that a small change in fortunes can make a big difference in the league table. Galway can turn it around just as quick again, it only takes one big result to raise the confidence levels.

[Martinho II]

Read it somewhere that Harps hadnt won against Galway in years. When was the previous occasion that harps beat Galway before this weekend?

[dong]

Just woke up and read the results. That's a fantastic result for us even allowing for the fact that Pats seem to be a far inferior incarnation this season. Seems we are doing just about enough to stay out of relegation trouble.
Considering the start we made I am more than happy.

[joey B]

Read it somewhere that Harps hadnt won against Galway in years. When was the previous occasion that harps beat Galway before this weekend?

3rd November 2000 according to Flashscore might be wrong I'm not sure.

[White Horse]

Fair play to Pats fans for sticking by Bucko. Most fans would have called for his head long ago.

[bluewhitearmy]

Fair play to Pats fans for sticking by Bucko. Most fans would have called for his head long ago.

A section of em are.

[WoodquayBoy]

3rd November 2000 according to Flashscore might be wrong I'm not sure.
That's definitely wrong - ye beat us twice in the league in 2004 when ye won the First Division title. Ye also beat us in second leg of promotion semi-final in 2003. Granted, the last Premier Division win ye recorded over us was indeed in November 2000, a 1-0 win in Ballybofey, so that Premier win must be what Flashscore is referring to

[gufcfan]

3rd November 2000 according to Flashscore might be wrong I'm not sure.

4-2 on penalties in Ballybofey after scoreless 120 mins in FAI Cup 2nd Round Replay in 2007, after a 2-2 in Terryland.

[thomas72]

Cobh 2 Drogheda 1.

That result leaves Limerick 19pts clear at the top and only 5 wins away from been crowned first divsion champions providing UCD And Drogheda will all there remaining games.
2 or 3 wins could do it imo.

[Pablo Escobar]

“It’s fairly obvious that we’re probably going to finish second but we have the opportunity of finishing first. Sunday’s game is so big to us as we have to stay in there."

John Caulfield in the Sun today. An odd thing to say. Does he really believe in his team?

While it is a strange thing to say, I think it reflects his opinion on the rest of the league. The league is now effectively out of our hands and the other clubs appear incapable of taking points of Dundalk.

[White Horse]

The league is now effectively out of our hands and the other clubs appear incapable of taking points of Dundalk.


The bottom team came to Dundalk a few days ago and looked very capable of taking something from the game. It took a goal in the 92nd minute to get all three points.

There is a lot of football yet to be played.

I'm not sure what Cork players will make of Caulfield's resigned and defeated attitude.

[Ezeikial]

While it is a strange thing to say, I think it reflects his opinion on the rest of the league. The league is now effectively out of our hands and the other clubs appear incapable of taking points of Dundalk.

If lowering supporters expectations was Caulfields intention, it appears to have worked.

The winning of the league is still in Corks own hands, even if you and JC don't believe it is possible

[marty]

Cobh 2 Drogheda 1.

That result leaves Limerick 19pts clear at the top and only 5 wins away from been crowned first divsion champions providing UCD And Drogheda will all there remaining games.
2 or 3 wins could do it imo.

Cobb still in the hunt!! For second though so your theory still holds....

[White Horse]

Cork leave out Bolger, Maguire, Dooley, and McSweeney.

A lot of teams have struggled in Wexord but Caulfield seems to be very confident of the three points.

[ToberonaTornado]

McSweeney started,Browne injured in warm up.

Radio commentary -http://mixlr.com/wexfordyouths/

TURN YOUR VOLUME WAY UP TO 11 ;)

[nigel-harps1954]

Wexford 0-1 Cork FT

Watched a fair bit of it via Trackchamp stream, which has one of the poorer quality ones in the league at Ferrycarraig. Cork weren't really overly threatened and probably should have scored another couple themselves. Wexford had two very good chances late on through free-kicks to get an equaliser but wasted both of them from good positions.

[Lim till i die]

https://youtu.be/kLxCX2H-fgo

Two things of note here.

1. We now appear to have two mentally broken goalkeepers on our books.

2. Our last four goals all came within roughly 29 seconds of each other.

[Ezeikial]

If lowering supporters expectations was Caulfields intention, it appears to have worked.

The winning of the league is still in Corks own hands, even if you and JC don't believe it is possible

Caulfield's motivational magic continues to confound

First Pablo Escobar was taken in, and now Greg Bolger seems to agree that the winning of the league is no longer in Corks own hands



Dundalk don't seem like dropping points. It's getting tougher for us. We need to win every game. We need to keep winning and hopefully they drop a few points along the way.
"We just need to stick in there and hopefully some team can do us a favour and take a few points off them."
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/0711/801732-greg-bolger/

[El-Pietro]

Caulfield's motivational magic continues to confound

First Pablo Escobar was taken in, and now Greg Bolger seems to agree that the winning of the league is no longer in Corks own hands


http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/0711/801732-greg-bolger/
Its literally not in our own hands. We could win every game until the end of the season and lose on goal difference. I suppose we could make up the goal difference but thats really unlikely.

I think Dundalk will drop points though, no team can win every game or virtually every game against all but one team.