Pre-Season Friendlies

[Jd2793]

is galways friendly with rovers still on, on saturday? rovers have LSC + a waterford game down aswell for the same day

[sbgawa]

is galways friendly with rovers still on, on saturday? rovers have LSC + a waterford game down aswell for the same day
nno its off from what i hear

[Shinkicker]

Mixed information out there too. Aalborg said the game was called off because of illness in the Derry camp, and Derry said it was a waterlogged pitch.
I repeat!! There has been little or no rain in Alicante area since December. No local games called off due to weather.

[dundalkfc10]

Drogheda beat Dundalk 6-5 on penos after a 0-0 draw in the annual Malone Cup game

Excellent crowd for a friendly, about 1200 with 250 or so away fans. Decent atmosphere and some tasty tackles (would have been at least 2 reds in a league game)

Was very impressed with Connor Malley for ourselves looks an excellent player, glides past players with ease

[Guitd]

Galway 0 Cork city 0 played last night in EDP Galway we’re much the better side looked fit and sharp had most of the chances if that’s Corks best side I would be worried unless some players have to come in

[Saintgags]

Friday Night Cobh 5 - Kilnamanagh 0
Today Kilnamanagh 1 - Longford 1

[Shearer]

Shelbourne 2-1 Treaty United

[Jack B]

Pats with quite a comfortable 2-0 against Sligo in Richmond just there. Jake Mulraney in the first half and Jamie Lennon with a belter in the second. Pats started quite well then looked happy to see it out with the two goals, Sligo played some tidy stuff but had zero going forward.

[outspoken]

Kilnamanagh 1-1 Longford

Not much of a game in truth.

[trevy]

Waterford beat Shamrock Rovers 2 0 at Rovers training ground with goals from new signings Chris Conn Clarke and Barry Baggley.

[TonyD]

Pats with quite a comfortable 2-0 against Sligo in Richmond just there. Jake Mulraney in the first half and Jamie Lennon with a belter in the second. Pats started quite well then looked happy to see it out with the two goals, Sligo played some tidy stuff but had zero going forward.

Yeah, not sure what to make of that. Pats quite comfortable winners, without being outstanding. Mulraney looks like he has a nice turn of pace. The new Estonian lad in the middle (Kreida ?) looked neat and tidy on the ball and seems to like a tackle. Lewis at centre back did well too, though as Jack says, Sligo didn’t offer much of a threat.

[Jack B]

Yeah, not sure what to make of that. Pats quite comfortable winners, without being outstanding. Mulraney looks like he has a nice turn of pace. The new Estonian lad in the middle (Kreida ?) looked neat and tidy on the ball and seems to like a tackle. Lewis at centre back did well too, though as Jack says, Sligo didn’t offer much of a threat.

Always best not to read too much into a friendly but still and all better to have positives than not. Mulraney looks to have a lot of quality about him in the couple of appearances so far, he's fast and his delivery looks excellent. Some nice strikes too. Was my first time watching Kreida but it gave me a bit of comfort if that performance is anything to go off, thought he looked a player and more importantly the type of one we've been lacking as well.

Just think we're sorely lacking in depth in certain areas, but the first 13 or so in the squad are looking good. Couple of full backs in (one on either side) could be done with for me as if Breslin in particular is missing for any game it doesn't look good.

[gufct]

Drew one all with shels last night. We were as good as I’ve seen us in a long time and Ronan Manning’s goal was class. Shels started well in the first 20 but after that we were well on top .

[Dermobohs]

Bohs won 2-1 in Wexford yesterday. Coote and Flores with the goals. Longford at 12 today in the aul

[Shearer]

Limerick District League Selection 0-2 Treaty United

Game marked the 50th anniversary of Jackman Park.

[Kingdom]

Bohs won 2-1 in Wexford yesterday. Coote and Flores with the goals. Longford at 12 today in the aul

So Coote is staying? I thought he was on the way out with Burt?

[RealJohn91]

So Coote is staying? I thought he was on the way out with Burt?
Looked that way at the end of last season but he still had a year on his contract so he's still with us.

[SPXcyan]

Waterford 0-2 St. Pat's.

[joey B]

Sligo 2- 0 Harps

[Dermobohs]

Bohs1-0 Longford, young lad Gilmore from the u19s the score

[DCSIL]

Did nobody go to, or watch, the President's cup game on Friday?

[outspoken]

Did nobody go to, or watch, the President's cup game on Friday?

LSC 4th round > Presidents Cup

[brendy_éire]

Did nobody go to, or watch, the President's cup game on Friday?

Enjoyable enough game; was it a friendly or competitive?
The players seemed up for it, from both sides. Plenty of competitive challges going in. Not too arsed with the result myself, most of the crowd seemed the same.
Game-wise, I thought we were pretty controlling, Rovers restricted. Second half was more even than the first. In general, we seemed more aggressive going forward, though Rovers had some lovely passing moves which we couldn't deal with.
Not sure about Rovers playing it out from the back, which they did frequently. Reminded me of us during Kenny Shiel's time; it's not the only option, you can change it up.

Not sure I'd read much into the forthcoming season from the result, but nice to get the win all the same. The game sold out, and you'd expect every game this season to be the same.

[EatYerGreens]

Rovers stayed overnght in Derry for the game, which would suggest they were taking it fairly seriously.

[Kingswood Rover]

Rovers lacked that cutting edge up front. Derry were really good, aggressive and controlled in their pressing. Rovers passed the ball well and i thought were very comfortable until conceding. The howler from Leon is just one of those things and hopefully he will put it behind him. Lots of unforced errors then after the 2nd. Same in this last year we were pants against Pats and blessed to win on Peno's. Going to be a lot closer this year and with 2 away games to start that game in Tallaght is going to be crucial for both teams.

[Calcio Jack]

Rovers lacked that cutting edge up front. Derry were really good, aggressive and controlled in their pressing. Rovers passed the ball well and i thought were very comfortable until conceding. The howler from Leon is just one of those things and hopefully he will put it behind him. Lots of unforced errors then after the 2nd. Same in this last year we were pants against Pats and blessed to win on Peno's. Going to be a lot closer this year and with 2 away games to start that game in Tallaght is going to be crucial for both teams.

Rovers took the game seriously only up to a point as starting 11 included only 3/4 who will start against Sligo ( not sure was it the same for Derry selection?) we did bring on the likes of Byrne and Burke which made little difference so hard to glean too much from Friday except that it was good work out for both sides

[Candystripe]

Rovers took the game seriously only up to a point as starting 11 included only 3/4 who will start against Sligo ( not sure was it the same for Derry selection?) we did bring on the likes of Byrne and Burke which made little difference so hard to glean too much from Friday except that it was good work out for both sides

Derry were missing Fats, Dummigan, Boyce, Mc Jannitt and Harkin. Four definite starters.
Rovers travelled up on the Thursday and trained on the pitch that night and according to Bradley they were taking the game very serious.

[sbgawa]

Derry were missing Fats, Dummigan, Boyce, Mc Jannitt and Harkin. Four definite starters.
Rovers travelled up on the Thursday and trained on the pitch that night and according to Bradley they were taking the game very serious.

If Rovers have a match they want to win, Finn Byrne and Burke are the first 3 names on the sheet as well as Pico and Manus (Finn rarely misses the big games although doesnt play them all obv). The fact that Pico was the only starter tells me it was a "like to win" rather than "really care".
Id say the same for Derry though

I have no idea why Pohls is at the club tbh. we'd have been better getting Brendan Clarke in as back up for Manus. A reasonably competant back up keeper is a must

[pineapple stu]

UU 0-10 UCD and UCD 4-0 UCC in the Collingwood Cup in UU this week. Final v UL is later today. Don't remember such big results in the Collingwood before, even when we had ridiculously strong teams (like Gary O'Neill, Niall Corbet, Greg Sloggett, Josh Collins, Jason McClelland and Liam Scales all in the same team, with Georgie Kelly on the bench)

[Yossarian]

UU 0-10 UCD and UCD 4-0 UCC in the Collingwood Cup in UU this week. Final v UL is later today. Don't remember such big results in the Collingwood before, even when we had ridiculously strong teams (like Gary O'Neill, Niall Corbet, Greg Sloggett, Josh Collins, Jason McClelland and Liam Scales all in the same team, with Georgie Kelly on the bench)

What was does the UCD team work for this, are there likely to be many players playing today who will be playing in the league on Friday?

[pineapple stu]

They'll probably be ok for Friday, but I know in 2017 the final clashed with our opening league game (against Cabo), so we had the reserves playing in the LoI (and they won)

The three games this week are probably seen as good training ahead of Friday tbh. Healy, Gallagher, Keaney, Keane, Higgins, Kinsella-Bishop and maybe Ciarán Behan would all be in the first-team squad and they all started this week for example. Plus Danny Norris who was on the bench (but scored in the 10-0).

[sbgawa]

They'll probably be ok for Friday, but I know in 2017 the final clashed with our opening league game (against Cabo), so we had the reserves playing in the LoI (and they won)

The three games this week are probably seen as good training ahead of Friday tbh. Healy, Gallagher, Keaney, Keane, Higgins, Kinsella-Bishop and maybe Ciarán Behan would all be in the first-team squad and they all started this week for example. Plus Danny Norris who was on the bench (but scored in the 10-0).

Thats some achievement to be fair assuming the bench was up towards the halfway line.

[pineapple stu]

If Stojkovic can manage it...!

(But yeah - I meant he started on the bench of course)


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