Under 21s league

[DmanDmythDledge]

Weekend 24 June 2007 - Series No 1
Bray Wanderers v UCD

Weekend 1 July 2007 - Series No 2
UCD v Ballinasloe Town

Weekend 15 July 2007 - Series No 3
UCD v Athlone Town

Weekend 22 July 2007 - Series No 4
UCD v St Patricks Athletic

Weekend 29 July 2007 - Series No 5
Portlaoise v UCD

Weekend 5 August 2007 - Series No 6
UCD v Longford Town

Weekend 12 August 2006 - Series No 7
Kildare County v UCD

Weekend 19 August 2007 - Series No 8
UCD v Portlaoise

Weekend 2 September 2007 - Series No 9
Ballinasloe Town v UCD

Weekend 9 September 2007 - Series No 10
UCD v Kildare County

Weekend 23 September 2007 - Series No 11
Athlone Town v UCD

Weekend 30 September 2007 - Series No 12
UCD v Bray Wanderers

Weekend 7 October 2007 - Series No 13
Longford Town v UCD

Weekend 14 October 2007 - Series No 14
St Patricks Athletic v UCD

Weekend 21 October 2007 - BACK MATCHES

Weekend 28 October 2007 - LAST 16 KNOCKOUT

Weekend 4 November 2007 - QUARTER-FINALS

Weekend 11 November 2007 - SEMI-FINALS

Weekend 18 November 2007 - FINAL

[pineapple stu]

This is up and running now, so I'm going to try and keep track of things here as usual.

Portlaoise and Ballinasloe drew 3-3 last night. We played in Bray this morning - won 3-2, with Forsyth, O'Sullivan and Purcell all on the mark. Athlone v Longford and Pat's v Kildare are tomorrow.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Any idea of the line up?

[pineapple stu]

Nope.

For what it's worth, the Shield table was as follows, with our result against Shels the only one missing -


Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Rovers 5 3 1 1 8 5 3 10
Bray 5 2 3 0 12 8 4 9
Pat's 5 2 1 2 4 6 -2 7
Bohs 5 2 1 2 8 13 -5 7
UCD 4 1 2 1 9 4 5 5
Shels 4 0 0 4 1 6 -5 0
If we assume we beat Shels, we came third, a point off qualifying for the semis. Rovers and Bray ended up in the final, which seems to imply the top teams will again come from the usual areas.

Reigning league champions Salthill lost 2-0 to Galway today as well. Cork lost 3-1 to Limerick. Could be an open season elsewhere.

[pineapple stu]

Other results from Leinster B this weekend -

Portlaoise 3-3 Ballinasloe
Pat's 4-0 Kildare
Athlone 2-1 Longford.

Table after week one so -


Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Pat's 1 1 0 0 4 0 4 3
UCD 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3
Athlone 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
P'laoise1 0 1 0 3 3 0 1
B'sloe 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 1
Bray 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
L'ford 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
Kildare 1 0 0 1 0 4 -4 0

Think four go through to the last 16.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Think four go through to the last 16.
Yeah 4. Should be comfortable enough.

[pineapple stu]

Beat Ballinasloe 8-0 this afternoon. Target practice, apparently. Forsyth got 4, Fitzgerald got 2, O'Sullivan got 1 and Ronan Finn got one too. He could well feature on Monday.

Longford v Bray and Athlone v Pat's on Sunday. Port Laoise v Kildare on Monday.

[pineapple stu]

Athlone 0-3 Pat's
Longford 1-4 Bray

[pineapple stu]

Portlaoise 2-2 Kildare.

League table -


Team P W D L F A GD Pts
UCD 2 2 0 0 11 2 9 6
Pat's 2 2 0 0 7 0 7 6
Bray 2 1 0 1 6 4 2 3
Athlone 2 1 0 1 2 4 -2 3
P'laois 2 0 2 0 5 5 0 2
Kildare 2 0 1 1 2 6 -4 1
B'sloe 2 0 1 1 3 11 -8 1
L'ford 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 0

Scorers -

6 - Darren Forsyth
3 - David Last
2 - James O'Sullivan, Shane Fitzgerald
1 - Eóin Ó Cinnéide, Greg Bolger, Ronan Finn, Timmy Purcell

Missing Shield scorers v Bray and Shels.

[pineapple stu]

Playing St Pat's on Saturday in the Enda McGuill. Nasty draw, especially in the First Round.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Pineapple given we have almost half of the 21's going to the World Student Games, will we be postponing U 21 games left right and centre during the competition in Thailand next month?

[pineapple stu]

Valid point, I suppose.

Still, it's only two games I think, and we have to let some other teams win too.

[Schumi]

We only need to finish in the top four of the group anyway so I'm sure we'll be OK.

[Schumi]

Any idea of the line up?A bit late but the line-up for the Bray game was: Darren Quigley; David Last, Evan McMillan, Brian Shortall, Killian Gallagher; James O'Sullivan, Brian King, Greg Bolger, Fran Moran; Timmy Purcell, Darren Forsyth. All bar Moran have played in the first team this year.

[DmanDmythDledge]

A bit late but the line-up for the Bray game was: Darren Quigley; David Last, Evan McMillan, Brian Shortall, Killian Gallagher; James O'Sullivan, Brian King, Greg Bolger, Fran Moran; Timmy Purcell, Darren Forsyth. All bar Moran have played in the first team this year.
Very strong team. Players like Fitzgerald, Kelly and Brennan not there.

[pineapple stu]

Beat Pat's 3-0 in the Cup yesterday - great result. Should have scorers tomorrow.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Beat Pat's 3-0 in the Cup yesterday - great result.
Twas. Pats are no mugs, have a few underage internationals. Just shows the strength of our team. Anything other than a league title this year isn't acceptable imo.

[Aberdonian Stu]

Well if the playoff system is in place this year than failure is acceptable as on any given night anything can happen.

Furthermore you don't need to qualify the statement with "imo" as it already clearly is your opinion, it's just another term that is ruining the English language.

(CTID/pineapple stu will now comment on how they want to destroy the English language).

[Schumi]

(CTID/pineapple stu will now comment on how they want to destroy the English language).Not in this thread they (or anyone else) won't.

[John83]

Well if the playoff system is in place this year than failure is acceptable as on any given night anything can happen.

Furthermore you don't need to qualify the statement with "imo" as it already clearly is your opinion, it's just another term that is ruining the English language.

(CTID/pineapple stu will now comment on how they want to destroy the English language).
Any sign of those scorers from the Pats game?

[Angus]

[QUOTE=DmanDmythDledge;699501]
Weekend 15 July 2007 - Series No 3
UCD v Athlone Town

Anybody know details of this game / date / time / location ?

[Schumi]

Anybody know details of this game / date / time / location ?Home games last year were usually at 12:00 on Sundays either in Belfield Park or on the Foster's Avenue pitch.

[Poor Student]

Twas. Pats are no mugs, have a few underage internationals. Just shows the strength of our team. Anything other than a league title this year isn't acceptable imo.

Not true. The U-21 league employs a playoff system. Look at the US sports and see how often the No.1 team wins the playoffs. We should finish top two in our conference but it's madness to talk of what is and isn't acceptable at underage. The primary goal of the U-21 setup is to produce player capable of progressing on and to give them experience.

[pineapple stu]

Any sign of those scorers from the Pats game?
Timmy, Kinger and Fran Moran.

Aertel p 235 is actually fairly good for keeping tabs on 21 games - just check it on the Thursday.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Well if the playoff system is in place this year than failure is acceptable as on any given night anything can happen.
I know anything can happen on the night but a poor performance shouldn't be excused just because it's a one-off.

[John83]

And a poor performance isn't the same thing as a loss. Don't make me quote Star Wars at you.

[CollegeTillIDie]

And a poor performance isn't the same thing as a loss. Don't make me quote Star Wars at you.

Can we FORCE you?:D

[Schumi]

Home games last year were usually at 12:00 on Sundays either in Belfield Park or on the Foster's Avenue pitch.It's on Saturday at 2:00 according to Aertel (yes I know!). It says Belfield Park but I don't know if that's right. It'll be either Belfield Park or the Foster's Avenue pitch anyway so it wouldn't take much effort to check both.

[Poor Student]

Aertel says we beat Athlone 2-0 yesterday. Angus did text me telling me we were 2-0 up and Athlone were down to 10 men. Bray drew 2-2 with Portlaoise yesterday. Pat's v Ballinalsoe and Kildare v Longford were postponed.

[Angus]

Yes, 2 - 0 and a decent standard of game.

It was effectively over as a contest when Athlone went down to 10 men. Our firsty goal was from the 7, Tony Doyle and the second was directly from a free kick from the 8.

We should have had a hatful and were caught offside 10 - 12 times in the second half. Notable performances from Evan McMillen and Fitzgerald when he came on but the stand out performance for me was from the 2 the right full back, Declan O'Donnell.

Top drawer - strong in ther air, flawless on the ground, excellent positioning (except for getting caught once in the second half).

This is the first game I have seen but the pattern is similiair to the seniors - solid defence, lots of effort but a disconnect between solid midfield play and actually creating chances.

[pineapple stu]

Greg Bolger got the second.

[pineapple stu]

Updated league table -


Team P W D L F A GD Pts
UCD 3 3 0 0 13 2 11 9
Pat's 2 2 0 0 7 0 7 6
Bray 3 1 1 1 8 6 2 4
P'laois 3 0 3 0 7 7 0 3
Athlone 3 1 0 2 2 6 -4 3
Kildare 2 0 1 1 2 6 -4 1
B'sloe 2 0 1 1 3 11 -8 1
L'ford 2 0 0 2 2 6 -4 0

Scorers -
6 - Darren Forsyth
3 - David Last
2 - Greg Bolger, James O'Sullivan, Shane Fitzgerald, Timmy Purcell
1 - Brian King, Eóin Ó Cinnéide, Fran Moran, Ronan Finn, Tony Doyle

Goals include Cup and Shield, but I don't have all the details.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Schumi any chance of separating the league stuff (from post 13) into a new thread? It's a bit annoying always having to search the thread for the fixtures...

[DmanDmythDledge]

Lost 2-1 to Pats today, Bolger with the goal.

[Poor Student]

We've got Athlone away in the Enda McGill according to this thread: http://foot.ie/showthread.php?p=730834#post730834

[Angus]

Decent performance last night. 3 - 1 against Kildare. I only saw the last 20 minutes of the first half and the first 20 of the second and saw our goals.

Kildare have a few nice players and certainly deserved a goal - not sure if they deserved a point - I think our boys were probably too strong. The 6, the 7 and the 8 for KIldare looked lively and the big lad up front looked decent.

Best for us in the period I saw were Timmy, Kinger, Declan O'Donnell, Killian, McWalter.

Sully scored the first - a volley from the edge of the 6 yard box after good work down the left by Podge, having been released by a super move involving Timmy and Killian. The second was a bullet header from Kinger after a super corner. The third, I think, came as a deflection off Timmy.

McWalter was taken off shortly after half time and was replaced by Fitzy. Not sure if this has relevance for Friday.

The word last night was that McFaul has a hamstring and not a hip injury - don't know reliability of source.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Was the Kildare game a league match?

[Schumi]

Was the Kildare game a league match?I assume so. We don't have them in the cup.

[pineapple stu]

Bray beat Athlone 4-1. Anyone get the results last weekend so I can update the table?

[atfconline]

Bray beat Athlone 4-1. Anyone get the results last weekend so I can update the table?

Here? (http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=66245)

[pineapple stu]

That'd do!

I'll post an update shortly so. Cheers.

[pineapple stu]

That thread has a league table as well, but sure I'll post it here as it's just a copy and paste job from Excel -


Team P W D L F A GD Pts
UCD 5 4 0 1 17 5 12 12
Bray 5 3 1 1 16 8 8 10
Pat's 3 3 0 0 9 1 8 9
Athlone 5 2 0 3 5 11 -6 6
P'laois 4 0 3 1 8 9 -1 3
L'ford 3 1 0 2 4 7 -3 3
B'sloe 3 0 1 2 4 13 -9 1
Kildare 4 0 1 3 4 13 -9 1

Scorers -
Darren Forsyth 6
David Last 3
Greg Bolger 3
James O'Sullivan 3
Timmy Purcell 3
Brian King 2
Shane Fitzgerald 2
Eóin Ó Cinnéide 1
Fran Moran 1
Ronan Finn 1
Tony Doyle 1

Missing three goals plus any goals from the Shels Shield game.

[pineapple stu]

Pat's 1-1 Longford.
Ballinasloe 1-2 Kildare.


Team P W D L F A GD Pts
UCD 5 4 0 1 17 5 12 12
Bray 5 3 1 1 16 8 8 10
Pat's 4 3 1 0 10 2 8 10
Athlone 5 2 0 3 5 11 -6 6
L'ford 4 1 1 2 5 8 -3 4
Kildare 5 1 1 3 6 14 -8 4
P'laois 4 0 3 1 8 9 -1 3
B'sloe 4 0 1 3 5 15 -10 1

Already eight points clear of the cut off for the play offs.

[pineapple stu]

Athlone Town 0 - 2 Kildare County
Bray Wanderers 7 - 2 Ballinasloe Town

[pineapple stu]

Pat's 2-2 Bray
Longford 4-1 Portlaoise


Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Bray 7 4 2 1 25 12 13 14
UCD 5 4 0 1 17 5 12 12
Pat's 5 3 2 0 12 4 8 11
Kildare 6 2 1 3 8 14 -6 7
Athlone 6 2 0 4 5 13 -8 6
L'ford 5 2 1 2 9 9 0 7
P'laois 5 0 3 2 9 13 -4 3
B'sloe 5 0 1 4 7 22 -15 1

[JR_Ewing]

A strong u21 team beat Malahide 2-1 in a friendly yesterday. First half performance was apparently good but second half in need of improvement! Good for the lads to keep ticking over.

[Angus]

Page 235 says that we are playing Portaloise at 7.45pm Tuesday evening - presumably this means it will be in Belfield and not on Fosters Avenue - anybody know for certain ?

[Schumi]

No floodlights on Foster's Avenue so it'll have to be in Belfield Park.

[pineapple stu]

Also no technical area in Foster's Avenue.

[JR_Ewing]

unless someone got the paint and roller out :)