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UCFL Challenge Cup
14 September 2013

Ballymount Celtic 4 - 2 Terenure FC 3rds

The time for excuses is rapidly coming to an end for Terenure 3rds as the team again failed to live up to it's potential in this cup encounter. Ballymount have made a poor start to their season a division below us so it was always going to be important to start well and put them under pressure early. Unfortunately the game began in exactly the opposite manner and within two minutes Ballymount had taken the lead. Giving away cheap goals is rapidly becoming this team's Achilles heel and this was no different as we were opened up far too easily at the back, giving the striker an easy chance.
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UCFL Div. 3

19 August 2013

Sportslink Ailesbury 3rds 1 - 1 Terenure FC 3rds

A really tough test out in Sportslink and after a good first half we were eventually fairly glad to leave with a point. With a strong wind behind and continuing our high tempo game from ...

Life in the early stages of the transition to coach/player has certainly been interesting. Won one, drawn one and lost one to date in pre-season. The loss against a very talented Terenure FC under-19 team will have taught us as much, if not more than, the other results. We're putting together a bigger ...

Terenure FC pre-season has been a busy one to date with good numbers training and a few pre-season friendlies already played. The club has high expectations for all of the senior sides this season and the early signs are very promising. Training will continue in Bushy Park on Tuesday and Thursday for ...

Hard to believe it's nearly that time of the year again when we drag our aging bodies back to Bushy Park for pre-season training. Thursday 11 July at 7pm is the date and time to remember. Terenure FC looks likely to have four senior men's teams (3 Saturday, 1 Sunday) and an over 35's side once again, ...

UCFL Div. 3
29 May 2013
Terenure FC 3rds 1 – 3 Limekiln

Wednesday evening drew down the final curtain on what turned out to be a long old season to forget for Terenure FC 3rds. The game proved to be a fitting finale; a good first half, composed, hard-working and effective, followed by a second half collapse and defeat. We actually started this game with more of our regular team than the meeting with the same opposition from the previous week and that seemed to help to make us a more effective unit in the first half. There was a better link between the defence and midfield and we were more composed in possession.
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Same Format as last year – first round is all in – top 16 get through to the knockout stages.

In the case of ties after the FAI cup games I normally use the quarter finals of the EA Sports Cup as a tie-breaker. But as seen as the draw for the Quarter Finals are not made yet. The tie breaker is as follows:

"Predict the number of goals 2012 OFC Nations Cup Champions Tahiti will concede during the forthcoming Confederations Cup in Brazil"

They play 3 games - v Nigeria on the 17th of June in Belo Horizonte, v Spain on the 20th of June in Rio de Janiero and finally against Uruguay on the 23rd of June in Recife.

Should be interesting!
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UCFL Div. 3
20 May 2013

Limekiln 5 – 2 Terenure FC 3rds

Writing these reports is starting to become some sort of ritual torture at this stage. With an ever deepening injury crisis there was a danger we wouldn’t be able to field a team at all for this game, but a few of the lads from the seconds came out and did us a favour, despite their own huge relegation decider looming on Wednesday. Even with the number of changes to the team, including my own first start in a month, it was pretty much the same old story. We tried to play nice football but made too many basic errors and a very organised and experienced Limekiln side capitalised on them.
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UCFL Div. 3
18 May 2013

Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 4 AGP 2nds

After the carnage of Wednesday it was hard to know what to expect on Saturday afternoon. It was agreed that there needed to be a wholesale change in attitude and performance for this game and from the early stages of play this was in evidence. In the first 45 minutes we were pressing high up the pitch, playing at a good tempo and keeping AGP on the back foot. There was a minor hiccup when we conceded a soft penalty for handball but justice was served when Dylan saved comfortably. From that point we looked much the more likely to open the scoring with David Fennelly going closest with a strike off the post.
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UCFL Div. 3
15 May 2013

Walkinstown Athletic 7 - 0 Terenure FC 3rds



So the nightmare continues...

I was back on the sideline for this one but still ruled out of action due to injury. The game had just kicked off when I arrived and there was little of note happening in the early stages. Walkinstown maybe shading it but we were well in the game. The opening goal summed up a lot of our problems this season, a ball into the box, a couple of chances to clear fluffed and it breaks for the striker to score.
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UCFL Div. 3
27 April 2013, 01, 04, 11 May 2013
Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 5 Kill Celtic
Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 1 Fortunestown Celtic
Terenure FC 3rds 0 - 3 Three Trout Rovers
Terenure FC 3rds 2 - 3 St Mary's Boys

This season has taken a major turn for the worse in recent weeks, for me personally and the team as a whole. My cameo from the bench in the dead rubber shield game with Grant resulted in an ankle injury that's kept me out of the last four games and looks like it will keep me out of our last four also. In the meantime we've been dragged right into the relegation battle with defeats to close rivals Three Trout and St Mary's Boys in consecutive games following a narrow win over whipping boys Fortunestown.
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I attended the Soccerex European Forum in Manchester in April and hope to bring you a series of pieces on some of the takeways for the Irish game from the week.

Gianni Infantino, UEFA General Secretary, revealed at the conference that UEFA had agreed a deal with the European Broadcasting Union (“EBU”) for the televised rights for the Euro 2016 and World Cup 2018 qualifiers. Interesting, but what is the relevance for Irish football fans?

RTÉ is one of over thirty national broadcasters which form part of the EBU and therefore this means that games will remain on free to air television in Ireland for the foreseeable future. The broadcaster was keen to publicise the fact, with an article appearing on their website that evening. The main quote, in the article and repeated elsewhere in the media coverage which followed came from Ryle Nugent, Head of Sport.
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UCFL Div. 3 Shield
13, 20, 22 April 2013

Walkinstown Athletic 7 – 2 Terenure FC 3rds
St Mary’s Boys 4 – 3 Terenure FC 3rds
Terenure FC 3rds 1 – 1 Grant City

We went into Monday evening’s game, away to Walkinstown, with high hopes of making it to the shield final but those hopes were left smashed as we dramatically fell apart in the second half of the game. In many ways this has been a strange season, in the early part there was no real regular squad, but as it’s progressed the team has developed and apart from a lack of a regular goalkeeper we have a solid and reliable squad. Results too have generally improved and we were looking at the shield competition as a way of demonstrating the quality of our squad, but after Monday we were left wondering where it all went wrong.
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UCFL Div 3. Shield

Three Trout Rovers 3 - 5 Terenure FC 3rds

I never like missing games and that especially goes for games we win, but I was delighted to hear the news from Greystones on Saturday. According to reports the referee was fairly reluctant to allow the game to go ahead due to the rapidly deteriorating conditions on the Wicklow coast but with the teams eager to go ahead the standing water was ignored.
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