LOI Matches 13/14 July

[ToberonaTornado]

Was hoping to get to the Shels v Drog match but tyre punctured outside Newry and took me an age to change the b*strd thing!!:mad:

Premier Division
Bohs v Sligo Rovers

First Division
Athlone Town vCabinteely
Shelbourne v Drogheda United
Finn Harps v Longford Town
Wexford v UCD

Saturday, 14th July:

First Division
Cobh Rambler v Galway United

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Fully undeserved 2-0 lead for us here. Bohs have been all over us.

[Philosophizer]

Sligo somehow came away from Dalymount with a 3-0 win tonight.
Bohs played some lovely stuff in the 1st half but couldn't score. Sligo played some nice stuff themselves and seemed to take almost every chance they got.
Pender was sent off early in the second for a knee high challenge. Even with 10 men the game was v even and Bohs created a few chances. Couldn't score for love nor money though.

[nigel-harps1954]

Finn Harps beat Longford 3-0 without really hitting top gear.

That was quite pleasing.

[Longfordian]

Finn Harps beat Longford 3-0 without really hitting top gear.

That was quite pleasing.

Fair play, sounds like it was well deserved. Our worst performance of the season according to Fenn. We have a serious consistency problem which is going to cost us.

[Charlie Darwin]

Sligo somehow came away from Dalymount with a 3-0 win tonight.
Bohs played some lovely stuff in the 1st half but couldn't score. Sligo played some nice stuff themselves and seemed to take almost every chance they got.
Pender was sent off early in the second for a knee high challenge. Even with 10 men the game was v even and Bohs created a few chances. Couldn't score for love nor money though.
I was at this and have to say Bohs were the better side in general play but set pieces killed them and then obviously the red card, which looked a bit harsh. Bohs seem to lack a bit of energy in the middle without Watts. I like the look of Lunney but he's not the same player and Ward slows the game down too much.

[nigel-harps1954]

Fair play, sounds like it was well deserved. Our worst performance of the season according to Fenn. We have a serious consistency problem which is going to cost us.

Yeah, heard Fenn mention that alright. There was an elderly Longford fan who said leaving the ground to a Harps fan that it was the best performance by anyone against Longford this season in his opinion. Take from that what you will.

[wonder88]

Galway's win tonight keeps the interest going for another week. The best of Galway was displayed at the home fixture against UCD and something similar is required up at Belfield next week. Been a fairly disappointing season from Galway from the start and if one is making a comparison with the Tommy Dunne side that got promoted the current squad has not reached that level.

[marinobohs]

Sligo somehow came away from Dalymount with a 3-0 win tonight.
Bohs played some lovely stuff in the 1st half but couldn't score. Sligo played some nice stuff themselves and seemed to take almost every chance they got.
Pender was sent off early in the second for a knee high challenge. Even with 10 men the game was v even and Bohs created a few chances. Couldn't score for love nor money though.

The difference was Sligo did the basics right Bohs didn't. Solid defending and actually having a plan going forward (Sligo) versus key stone cop defending and aimless passing on a bumpy pitch - even chasing the game Bohs never deviated from one up front (Corcoran) who won some ball but had no option to lay off.
The defending was nothing short of shambolic, Sligo were not particularly brilliant (by any stretch ;)) but did the basics and took their chances arising from awful set pieces on first two goals and poor defending on third.

Probably Bohs worst performance of the season and massive improvement needed for next weeks relegation 6 pointer. With Bray as good as relegated (barring a miracle) its looking like its between Limerick Bohs and Sligo for play off spot.

[ToberonaTornado]

ANyone have a link for a stream to the Pats v lims match?
cant get on to my Eir a/c atm

[White Horse]

The Richmond Park pitch looks suberb.

It's a pity that the 4,000 people who came to watch Newcastle have chosen to stay away.

[CorribsideSteve]

The Richmond Park pitch looks suberb.

It's a pity that the 4,000 people who came to watch Newcastle have chosen to stay away.

It's a pity that they get 1 - 1.5 k max for most games. Conan Byrne turns the game around. 2-1 now. Lovely football at times by Pats

[pineapple stu]

Big win for UCD in the Bowl tonight, especially with Galway missing an early penalty.

Beat Athlone, Cabo and Cobh in the next three - by no means a guarantee - and we'll have at least a 5-point gap into the last three games, which are Drogheda, Harps and Longford...

Neil Farrugia is every bit as good as Georgie Kelly, albeit that he's a winger instead of a forward. But he's just back from injury, which will really help offset Kelly's loss.

Galway keeper came up for a corner in injury time at 2-0 down, which was a bit strange. Think his defence had a bit of a go at him over it.

[White Horse]

It's a pity that they get 1 - 1.5 k max for most games. Conan Byrne turns the game around. 2-1 now. Lovely football at times by Pats

Limerick denied a perfectly good equaliser. No way was that offside.

[CorribsideSteve]

Ya i thought that myself, looked a soft offside

[NeverFeltBetter]

Didn't see who got the head on it, but thought he was beyond the last man.

Did alright in the first half, FitzGerald especially. Just retreated in the second, and it was just a question of whether we would concede one or more. Could have used some kind of result after the week that was, but we're just not good enough.

[CorribsideSteve]

Another bad result for Galway. Somehow, still in with a chance of playoffs though.

[NeverFeltBetter]

I think any of the teams chasing promotion will be good enough to beat Limerick.

[mcgonigle]

Neil Farrugia is every bit as good as Georgie Kelly.


Thanks for the heads up 😉

Right or left sided?

[TonyD]

Didn't see who got the head on it, but thought he was beyond the last man.

Did alright in the first half, FitzGerald especially. Just retreated in the second, and it was just a question of whether we would concede one or more. Could have used some kind of result after the week that was, but we're just not good enough.

Limerick hustled us out of it in the first half and we were awful, for the first half hour especially. We had more urgency in the second half and it told. Huge relief to get the win, finally. Don't know about the offside, couldn't tell from where I was sitting. Looked a penalty to me on Killian Brennan in the first half, possibly even more so than the one that was given on Conan. Need to see them again on tv though.

Lee Desmond was outstanding tonight for Pats, becoming a real leader in the team. Conor Clifford was poor I though, as were Ryan Brennan and Dean Clarke. I thought the wrong Brennan came off at half time.

[blueblood]

Limerick looking for trouble tonight trying to defend a 1 goal lead and as usual the officials feck up to change the outcome of a game. How is the standard in the league so poor this carry on happens every week. Most of the time it goes unnoticed ie free kicks or throw ins but how are they all soooo bad its so annoying

[blueblood]

Limerick hustled us out of it in the first half and we were awful, for the first half hour especially. We had more urgency in the second half and it told. Huge relief to get the win, finally. Don't know about the offside, couldn't tell from where I was sitting. Looked a penalty to me on Killian Brennan in the first half, possibly even more so than the one that was given on Conan. Need to see them again on tv though.

Lee Desmond was outstanding tonight for Pats, becoming a real leader in the team. Conor Clifford was poor I though, as were Ryan Brennan and Dean Clarke. I thought the wrong Brennan came off at half time.

Hahaha definitely not a penalty for Brennan if the ref was any good he'd have given him a yellow card

[Lim till i die]

Why are women allowed officiate men's games? They are not up to even the low standards set.

It's unfair to expect them to be. Women's football is slower. Much slower. Much much slower.

Limerick are a bad men's team. Yet they would absolutely batter the women's league champions.

And you have that silly girl costing them a point tonight.

Bloody political correctness gone mad I tell you.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Why are women allowed officiate men's games? They are not up to even the low standards set.

It's unfair to expect them to be. Women's football is slower. Much slower. Much much slower.

Limerick are a bad men's team. Yet they would absolutely batter the women's league champions.

And you have that silly girl costing them a point tonight.

Bloody political correctness gone mad I tell you.

Shocking comment, there are many equally poor and worse male officials in the league and there are some female officials that are better than many of their male counterparts.
Being a good match official, especially an assistant, has absolutely nothing to do with gender. When you want to join the rest of us in the 21st century youre more than welcome.

[Charlie Darwin]

I thought Limerick deserved at least a point tonight but then we'd have been spared that delicious tantrum. Bizarre.

[Lim till i die]

Not only were Limerick denied a point but there was some man somewhere who had to cook his own tea!!

[NeverFeltBetter]

I will admit I wasn't expecting a critique of the WNL to be the main take away of last night.

[gael353]

.....:)

[SeanDrog]

Shocking comment, there are many equally poor and worse male officials in the league and there are some female officials that are better than many of their male counterparts.
Being a good match official, especially an assistant, has absolutely nothing to do with gender. When you want to join the rest of us in the 21st century youre more than welcome.

Hear hear.

Anytime we’ve had female officials they have been very good.

[Dalymountrower]

Michelle o Neiil is the best assistant ref in the country.Another woman is close to the worst.It is competency that makes a good official, not gender.

[osarusan]

Limerick hustled us out of it in the first half and we were awful, for the first half hour especially. We had more urgency in the second half and it told. Huge relief to get the win, finally. Don't know about the offside, couldn't tell from where I was sitting. Looked a penalty to me on Killian Brennan in the first half, possibly even more so than the one that was given on Conan. Need to see them again on tv though.

Lee Desmond was outstanding tonight for Pats, becoming a real leader in the team. Conor Clifford was poor I though, as were Ryan Brennan and Dean Clarke. I thought the wrong Brennan came off at half time.

Pretty much my take on things, except that the penalty claim in the first half wasn't even close. The penalty on the second was one alright, just a little tug on Byrne, no complaints from Limerick really.

The offside decison seemed tight, I thought he was on, some other lads thought he was off - then they saw some twitter photos or videos that showed him to be on...I haven' seen those.

Anyway, excellent first half, but the problem is we don't have the energy to do that for 90 minutes, and when we stop it almost inevitably results in a siege of our goal, as happened at the start of the second half last night. I actually thought we had seen off that period pressure, but you came back again. Tommy Holland had to make a couple of superb saves before you scored.

We were probably worth more than a one goal lead at halftime, but we just don't have the quality up front, and so often, we end up paying for our failure to make full use of the good periods of play we have. Home to Pats was another example of that actually.

[White Horse]

The offside decison seemed tight, I thought he was on, some other lads thought he was off - then they saw some twitter photos or videos that showed him to be on...I haven' seen those.

He was clearly on, and the player playing him on was between him and the linesman.

A shocking decision, and one that is all too frequent in the league.

[Martinho II]

Another bad result for Galway. Somehow, still in with a chance of playoffs though.

think its a battle between us and ye for final playoff spot. we play ucd I think in our last game of the season.

[TonyD]

He was clearly on, and the player playing him on was between him and the linesman.

A shocking decision, and one that is all too frequent in the league.

Saved us a much needed two points though. So, you know, every cloud and all that.....:cool:

[HarpoJoyce]

Thanks for the heads up 

Right or left sided?

Neil Farrugia (number 12) plays on both wings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zqdv6VFcg8

[Kingswood Rover]

Why are women allowed officiate men's games? They are not up to even the low standards set.

It's unfair to expect them to be. Women's football is slower. Much slower. Much much slower.

Limerick are a bad men's team. Yet they would absolutely batter the women's league champions.

And you have that silly girl costing them a point tonight.

Bloody political correctness gone mad I tell you.

Bloody sexism still mad i tell you

[outspoken]

Michelle o Neiil is the best assistant ref in the country.Another woman is close to the worst.It is competency that makes a good official, not gender.

Michelle O’Neill is absolutely useless. Seen her give offside from a throw in in Longford before.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Big win for Rovers in Waterford yesterday with what looked to be a big crowd.

[Ezeikial]

Big win for Rovers in Waterford yesterday with what looked to be a big crowd.

Credit where credit is due - that's an impressive result

It's probably fair to say that Rovers have a decent shout at a Europa league place.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Just watched the highlights of the Rovers game, where's this penalty Waterford fans want? Surely its not that time Duffus went down?

[El-Pietro]

Comfortable win for City and a very good performance. Jimmy Keohane had an especially good game and got a goal for his troubles. Damien Delaney was incredible. He might be the best passer of a ball in the league!