View Full Version : Your biggest hammering for a home game ?
Sheridan
05/05/2007, 1:12 PM
A heavy defeat to Dublin City at Richmond in 2004 springs to mind as well.
Wasn't that heavy, 3-1 (although it could have been far more.) Our first goal was a fluke by Cottsy (tackle/chip which looped over the keeper) and I vaguely remember Keith O'Halloran levelling it just before half-time.
Our worst home defeat (in terms of the margin involved) was 0-4 at home to Shamrock Rovers in the summer of 2004, a bizarre game which we dominated for an hour, hitting the post twice, before Stephen Grant scored a hat-trick in the space of about nine seconds. Made it to the pub in time to see the Portugal-England penalty shoot-out, which softened the blow somewhat.
Cobh beating Kildare County 4-0 just last season is the one I can think off.
Wasn't that heavy, 3-1 (although it could have been far more.) Our first goal was a fluke by Cottsy (tackle/chip which looped over the keeper) and I vaguely remember Keith O'Halloran levelling it just before half-time.
Our worst home defeat (in terms of the margin involved) was 0-4 at home to Shamrock Rovers in the summer of 2004
It was a comprehensive win though, could've and should've been more as you say..how the striker missed an open goal to make it 4-1 at the end I don't know.
That 0-4 game was the lowest crowd at a game I've ever seen and am ever likely to see.
Cici900
05/05/2007, 4:50 PM
Our biggest win at home:8-1 against monaghan 2 years ago(I think)
Paddyfield
05/05/2007, 9:02 PM
or the match against Galway in 1994 in the RDS it was 5-2 or 5-3 to Galway cant remember the score exactly as im trying to erase that one from my brain. we still won the league that year though :)
Yeah, Galway United won 5 - 2 in the RDS. The Rovers keeper (Dermot O'Neill?) went off injured early in first half when Rovers were 2 down and Wexford native Padraig Redmond made his debut in goals and probably quit football forever the following day. Rovers went on to win the league and United finished 3rd.
Galway United lost 6 - 0 at home to Derry when current Limerick37 manager Paul McGee was in charge as a player/manager.I reckon it was the 89/90 season. A few months previouly, United went 1-0 up in the Brandywell only to allow NINE in. Pat Dolan was centre half that day for Galway United. After the game. McGee told the media "we are the first team to score in the Brandywell this season and I am proud of my boys etc etc". That 9 - 1 defeat in the Brandywell must be Derry's biggest home win ever.
I actually met McGee in Galway last week and slagged him about that 9-1 game but he blamed United left back Jimmy Nolan for disrupting the patern of the game because he (Nolan) broke Derry's Stuart Gauld's leg in the game. I think that happened in a different game though.
Later in the season, United lost 3 -0 to Derry and McGee got the sack. Almost twenty years later, he got the Limerick job.
In 1993ish, Cobh Ramblers beat us 5 - 0 in Crowley Park (home of Galwegians RFC where GUFC played whilst Terryland was being renovated - it is up for sale at the moment with a €15M price tag)
Ramblers were on fire that day but went on a marathon winless streak after that.
CollegeTillIDie
05/05/2007, 10:18 PM
Well the record books say we lost 0-7 at home to Limerick United in our debut season in the League. I wasn't at that game.
The biggest hiding I saw was in a friendly. In 1991 we hosted a team from , what is now called , The Czech Republic in a pre-season friendly. Banik Ostrava arrived in Belfield and meted out a football lesson beating us 6-0. The thing was UCD didn't play badly at all , and carved out 2 or 3 chances. But the difference in class at that time between Czechoslovakian First Division football and League of Ireland First Division football was a gulf of enormous proportions.
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