Jim Roddy - All-Ireland League

[Student Mullet]

Actually, I think it was just a tongue in cheek post.I'm sure Bald Student can speak for himself but I tought the 'infinity and counting' comment made that quite clear.

[Student Mullet]

Well I doubt we'd lose 4-0 to Cardiff with a team capable of winning the Premier Division, F.A.I. Cup and League Cup here , but I could be wrong about that !:DThere are at least two reasons why that comment is true!

[Student Mullet]

The simple reason why UCD have been able to maintain their record of not losing a home game in Europe is because you so rarely get to play in it. Yes - you had 2 relatively good home results in the last 20+ years.I don't think anyone (except maybe Pineapple) will disagree with you there Steve, save that I would have considered all four games to have been relatively good and I don't see why you started the clock 2 milennia ago.

Personally I think this is an example of why Bald Student's policy of not using smileys is self defeating ;).

[dcfcsteve]

Well I doubt we'd lose 4-0 to Cardiff with a team capable of winning the Premier Division, F.A.I. Cup and League Cup here , but I could be wrong about that !

Really ??? So you think the best team in the Eircom League wouldn't struggle to knock Cardiff City out of Europe, should they both meet ?? If so - you're suggesting that the top teams in the Eircom League would be capable of vying for a spot with teams in the English Championship promotion play-off zone :eek: A very brave call.....

On top of that - the gulf between League of Ireland football and the likes of Cardiff City in 1989 was even larger then than it is now. We didn't have a hope in-hell of knocking them out that year. Though we did register a home draw against them - so we have our own wee record to celebrate of never losing on home soil in Europe to a Welsh team.... :p

One think we can be sure of - I was reliably informed by a Cardiff fan at the Carmarthen v Longford game (now, THERE'S an embarassing defeat to a Welsh team... :o ) that in his many decades as a Cardiff season ticket holder he'd never seen as big an away support at Ninnian Park as when Derry played there. No danger of UCD toppling that record - even if you went as the best team in Ireland

[Poor Student]

Well I doubt we'd lose 4-0 to Cardiff with a team capable of winning the Premier Division, F.A.I. Cup and League Cup here , but I could be wrong about that !:D

If we had a team capable of winning the treble then we wouldn't be ourselves, we'd just be a hypothetical dream team. That doesn't make any sense.:confused:

Do you mean Cardiff now or then? Cardiff are currently 8th in the Championship. Back then they finished 14th in the Third Division (i.e. the third flight).