League of Ireland fixtures - Premier Division - 16th/17th Feb 2018

[ToberonaTornado]

FRIDAY:

Bohemian FC v Shamrock Rovers - 7:30pm *LIVE on RTÉ

Dundalk FC v Bray Wanderers - 7:45pm

Saint Patrick's Ath. v Cork City - 7:45pm

Waterford v Derry City - 7:45pm

SATURDAY:

Sligo Rovers v Limerick FC - 7:45pm

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*LIVE match coverage on RTÉ starts at 7pm


Bohemians v Shamrock Rovers (Kick-off 7.30pm). Coverage of the Premier Division match from Dalymount Park, where the Dublin-based rivals face each other. Peter Collins presents, with analysis from Alan Cawley and Declan Devine, commentary from George Hamilton and Brian Kerr, and reports by Tony o'Donoghue.

[TonyD]

Was down collecting my season ticket this evening. Excitement is building. Really looking forward to tomorrow. Think we'll put it up to Cork.

[sbgawa]

Trevor clarke suspended for bohs and dundalk matches....should have enough for bohs will be a big miss against dundalk

[patrickccfc]

Was down collecting my season ticket this evening. Excitement is building. Really looking forward to tomorrow. Think we'll put it up to Cork.

Always a tough game up there. The 3-0 win in 2009 is the only comfortable one I can think of. Looking forward to this now though, hoping to see a good performance and a win to start off

[Longfordian]

Waterford asking for volunteers to help get surface water off the pitch so the game can go ahead!

[ToberonaTornado]

Waterford asking for volunteers to help get surface water off the pitch so the game can go ahead!

and RTÉ news just after doing a brilliant report about their return to the premier league :(
Hope it go's ahead.

[nigel-harps1954]

Waterford v Derry goes ahead.

[total hoofball]

That Rovers kit.... :eek:

[El-Pietro]

Is it Ethan Boyle or Eth - an Boyle? George Hamilton is going with the latter.

[nigel-harps1954]

It's George Hamilton..of course he's getting it wrong.

[pineapple stu]

In fairness, Hamilton is well known for researching names and pronunciation.

Elsewhere, Cork go top of the league; Pats going down.

[El-Pietro]

Barry McNamee scores for City early on after some good interplay between Shep and Cummins, back post side foot finish from a Cummins cross.

Apparently all Pats though.... and its two nil. Cummins! We've only had two chances.

[El-Pietro]

Eth-an is such a bizarre pronunciation though that I'd assumed he must be correct. Bohs look very poor at the back.

[El-Pietro]

Cummins sent off for either an elbow while contesting a header. Either innoncuous or criminal depending on who you support. Hes making quite the impact on his return

[El-Pietro]

2-1 City. Pats score from a corner. Poor goal to give away. Game on here.

[CorribsideSteve]

The Jodi stand looks great when it's full. Poor enough game so far, but a nice goal from Finn. In the Graveyard, it's 0-0 between Shels and Galway, with as little action in Tolka as there is in Dalymount by the sounds of things. It's a miserable night weather wise in Dublin, which definitely isn't helping the football.

[osarusan]

ETHan gets a yellow. Where is Hamilton getting that? Never heard anybody with that name having it pronounced that way.

[El-Pietro]

2-2 in Inchicore. We do not know how to defend

[CorribsideSteve]

Brian Kerr calling Robert Cornwall as CornWELL is worse. As has been previously said, to be fair to George, he's usually been good at correct pronunciation when it comes to players.

[pineapple stu]

The Jodi stand looks great when it's full. Poor enough game so far, but a nice goal from Finn. In the Graveyard, it's 0-0 between Shels and Galway, with as little action in Tolka as there is in Dalymount by the sounds of things. It's a miserable night weather wise in Dublin, which definitely isn't helping the football.
Shels v Galway is a friendly. Graveyard starts next week

[pineapple stu]

Loving the celebrations in the chipper van as Bohs take the lead

[pineapple stu]

Who's in nets for Rovers?

He's ****e

[CorribsideSteve]

that's slightly embarrassing on my part :) I had a feeling something was wrong after I'd posted... Amazing finish in Dalymount. Poor goalkeeping for the 3rd goal. Great finish for the 2nd.

[osarusan]

Bohs chants coming through crystal clear on TV;)

[El-Pietro]

2-3 to City. Sadlier direct from a corner. We deserve nothing from this game.

[pineapple stu]

Elephant in the closet is that Bray are still level up in Oriel.

And Waterford have taken the lead v Derry

This could be a more open season than previously thought

[Nesta99]

2490 in Oriel tonight. Poor fare in general. Rogers with a couple of top saves so it could have been worse. Midfield struggled to get a foothold in the game again. Next week v Rovers is all the more interesting now with both sides already needing a performance. Cork still have that ability to dig out wins when up against it - coming from 2 behind last week and getting 3 points with 10 men after being pegged back so are still the standard bearers for the rest. Great night for Waterford back up.

[osarusan]

Bohs 3-1 Rovers
Dundlk 0-0 Bray
St Pats 2-3 Cork
Waterford 2-1 Derry

[peadar1987]

Great point for Bray, nice to get points on the board before everything inevitably goes absolutely bonkers later in the season.

[Straightstory]

Dreadful fare at Dalymount (watched it on the telly). Complete hoofball from beginning to end. How many free kicks were there? How many times did the ball go out of play? Maybe the conditions had something to do with it - but that was dire, especially from Rovers.

[dong]

Dreadful fare at Dalymount (watched it on the telly). Complete hoofball from beginning to end. How many free kicks were there? How many times did the ball go out of play? Maybe the conditions had something to do with it - but that was dire, especially from Rovers.
It was dire. I went along and actually was questioning how that could be top flight football. No composure from anyone. I started trying to count 3 passes in succession from either team and gave up in the second half. So stop/start it was almost unwatchable.

[legendz]

Well done to Bohs, Cork and Waterford. The first half in Dalymount was terrible to watch but sure it's only the first game. There weren't any signs from Rovers that whey will be challenging the top 2 but again it's only the first game.

[ToberonaTornado]

Dundalk awful tonight,totally disjointed and very lucky not to lose.We spunked our cash on that Dylan Connolly it seems,he was terrible,expect him to be loaned out soon to any first division that will have him.Bray were v good and only for the much maligned Gary rogers playing a cracker in nets they could have won the match.

Plenty of work ahead for SK in the coming months.

[sbgawa]

Rovers got sucked into playing like bohs. Bad start but long league ahead. Great results for bray and cofk

[bennocelt]

First half and most of second was brutal to watch, hoof ball, not a pass in sight, jeez I know it was wet but come on you would expect players to play a simple square ball. Rovers not going to win with that joker managing them.

[Nesta99]

I hope thats tongue in cheek sbgawa (whats with that name?)

[WoodquayBoy]

Who's in nets for Rovers?

He's ****e
Kevin Horgan, younger brother of Daryl (ex Sligo, Cork and Dundalk, now with Preston NE)

[nigel-harps1954]

Brutal game in Dalymount. Big fanfare over the season opener. Hope there wasn't too many tuning in for the first time taking that as their judge of the standard of the league overall.

I'd expect Drogheda v Harps to be of a higher quality than that next weekend.

[sbgawa]

I hope thats tongue in cheek sbgawa (whats with that name?)

I meant it in the context of we have been playing good football in preseason and then turn up and play poorly tonight. Crowd atmosphere conditions loads of excuses but bottom line bad play bad start. Anyway move on. What happened against bray? Had you down for a certain 3 points

[oriel]

What a dreadful display by Dundalk tonight, even saying to a mate on 90, in the (highly) unlikely event had he scored, we wouldn't have deserved it.

[EnzoScifo10]

Great start by Limerick who are currently 6th after tonight's results, not many thought we would be ahead of Sligo (L before S),Pats, Derry and Shams at this stage, could be the highlight of our season ;)

[Nesta99]

What happened against bray? Had you down for a certain 3 points

It felt like a pre season opener. Disjointed, flat, sloppy passing and couple looked off being match fit. But it was a bit of a cobbled together side with illness and injuries to the squad and signings of the last few days having to play and obviously not match sharp. Established players didnt perform but then they had roles that they are not in the squad for like Shields the midfield creativity rather than the usual spoiling role he plays. The wingers werent good but with centre midfield struggling that was no surprise. Murray isnt a lone striker but had to play that position, Hoban was better when he came on but musnt be up to a full 90 minutes yet. Benson was poor but was ill last week also. Connolly is keeping his footballing brain to himself at the moment. Another week should make a difference for the 5 or 6 players that need to shake off any lingering virus. Byrne/Cleary even just the week training with the squad will help. O'Donnell is supposed to be near a return from injury. We could have shipped a couple of goals tonight and lost, we wont be as poor again though that wouldnt be hard. At a quick count 10 of the squad are injured or were sick in the last week and 2 signed in the last coupl of days.

[EatYerGreens]

Dreadful fare at Dalymount (watched it on the telly). Complete hoofball from beginning to end. How many free kicks were there? How many times did the ball go out of play? Maybe the conditions had something to do with it - but that was dire, especially from Rovers.

Yet there are people on the Televised Games thread on here portraying Bohs-Rovers as some sort of mouth watering classic that the media just couldn't ignore.

It was really bad football, of the kind that would probably have seen a huge drop in viewing figures after about 30mins in.

Pats v Cork was always likely to be a better fixture, and I thought there was an unwritten tradition of airing the champions in the first game of the season?

[total hoofball]

If you had listened to all the 'pundits' or the FAI propaganda machine before the season kick-off you would have been told that "the league is in on the up", "the standard has improved year on year over the past 5 years", "achievements in Europe have brought the league to another level" etc.

Then you have the league's biggest derby on prime-time TV with two teams of the same standard of what you would have seen in the First Division 10 years ago - but that would be no surprise to anyone watching the football deteriorate over the past 10 years losing talented players to UK/US every season hand over fist.

Like with the madness going-on in the EPL, the LOI is now on a very smaller level talking itself up with a rubbish footballing product on show

[sullanefc]

Like with the madness going-on in the EPL, the LOI is now on a very smaller level talking itself up with a rubbish footballing product on show
#GreatestLeagueInTheWorld

[Dalymountrower]

Rovers got sucked into playing like bohs. Bad start but long league ahead. Great results for bray and cofk
Deluded. So it's Bohs fault that you pay big money for talentless unmotivated players?
Presumably also Bohs fault for your fans and their Cardiff National Front mates for breaking into Dalymount on Thursday night and beating up one of our club officials?

[sbgawa]

Delusion would be making judgements after the first game of the season .....move on to next match.

[TonyD]

2-3 to City. Sadlier direct from a corner. We deserve nothing from this game.

Thought Pats played quite well (even allowing for the fact it was 11 v 10 fo a large part of the game) and should have got at least a point. Got caught by a sucker punch at the end. Papers say the last goal was direct from the corner, couldn't really tell from where I was.

[Pablo Escobar]

Thought Pats played quite well (even allowing for the fact it was 11 v 10 fo a large part of the game) and should have got at least a point. Got caught by a sucker punch at the end. Papers say the last goal was direct from the corner, couldn't really tell from where I was.
Yeah I was right in line with it. It looked like it went straight in.

Pats played the better football all night. Our game plan was effective until the sending off, then we had nothing and Pats dominated. The equaliser was inevitable at HT I felt. Keohane and Griffen were poor for us and when Morrissey replaced Keohane the game swung and we got into it. It was a very lucky winner, but you have to be in it to win it.

Some of the refereeing decisions in the first half I felt were really harsh on us, particularly McCormack being forced to leave the pitch after the Pats player received a yellow cards. The red didn't look like anything. I'm looking forward to seeing that again.

[trevy]

Great start for Waterford on our return to the top division. 2500 there despite the terrible weather which badly affected the pitch with the ball getting caught in water on the muddy pitch and players slipping. Derry weren't great and Waterford deserved the win with a super individual goal from Holohan and a great team goal finished by Dean O Halloran to win it. Hery was class in midfield. Kenny Shiels gave a typically sour interview after the game blaming the pitch, referee and Waterford's experience (even though it was our first Premier game for 10 years with a new squad) for the defeat.