Friendlies

[HarpoJoyce]

Ger Barron (1st half) Billy Brennan (2nd Half), 2. Sean Harding, 3. Gareth Matthews, 4. John Dineen, 5. Andy Doyle, 6. Greg Bolger,7. Keith Ward, 8. Peter McMahon, 9. Dave McMillan, 10 Ronan Finn 11. John Reilly.

UCD started the brighest with Ronan Finn having a clean shot straight at the 'keeper. UCD continued to play the ball through midfield and had another shot blocked before John 'Rocco' Reilly ended a good run on the left-wing with a near post shot. Galway were being given alot of space in the UCD box and after a couple of headers, Ger Barron had to save and Galway's number 5 scored from the corner.
Later in the half a run into the UCD box ended with a tap on the ankle and an impressive dive, although there was alot of air. Declan Edwards on-loan from Stockport County scored the peno.

The second half continued with Ronan Finn controlling alot of what UCD did. One strong run, ball out to ward on the left he beat his man and his far post cross was headed into the arms of the Galway 'keepe.
New signing, tall forward Ciaran Kilduff was a second half sub. and he held the ball up but was closed down quickly by the Galway defence.

Cheers to the Galway Utd. fans that made the game, they were in good form.

(As Poor Student posted, I mentioned Finn and Ward in my earlier text because I knew I had a good chance of spelling their names right.)

[HarpoJoyce]

UCD: 1. Ger Barron (1st half)/ Billy Brennan (2nd half), 2. Sean Harding, 3. James Timmons 4. Brian Connaughton 5. Andy Doyle 6. Greg Bolger 7. Keith Ward 8. Ronan Finn 9. Ciaran Kilduff 10. Chris Mulhall 11. John Reilly Subs Ciaran Nangle, M. Kelly (maybe Michael but I didn't recognise him), Paul O'Connor, Niall Daly.

Bray presented a strong test for UCD. UCD's midfeilfers and defence were the busiest on the night. Romero for Bray scored direct from a free kick. UCD could have taken the lead early in the first half.
The game was pretty quiet for much of the first half and all of the second. Kilduff scored the equaliser for UCD at the death.
Paddy Kavanagh and Darren Forsyth as sub. played for Bray.
(1-1)

[pineapple stu]

Interesting team.

Presume there's some others (like the McMillans) unavailable this week with the Collingwood on.

[Poor Student]

According to Pineapple we lost 1-0 to Derry with a last minute winner.

We finished the pre-season with two draws and three defeats. It's always going to be tougher in the First when you're main option for opponents are going to be Premier Division sides. Still, we received no hammerings and from the accounts I've read or heard we seem to have performed well enough. Hopefully the sterner opposition will have set us up nicely for Limerick next Friday.

[pineapple stu]

Doherty, Eddie, Mark McChrystal, Clive, Pizza, Liam Kearney, Barry, Ruairi Higgins, Gareth McGlynn, Mark Farren and Sammy Morrow.

Subs Used James McClean for Mark McChrystal, Ciarán Martin for Higgins, Scullion for McGlynn, Stewart for Kearney

Derry's team from their forum - pretty much full strength. Happy enough with a 1-0 defeat in those circumstances. Sounds an awful game from their posts; no shots after half an hour anyway.

Edit - quote from the Derry forum

Use looked energetic, full of running and well organised. We found it hard to break use down whether that was due to it being a friendly and lack of urgency, who knows but we will know come Friday. Use only played one up front and offered nothing as an attacking force, we had all the position it was attack against defence sort of game. The usual when UCD visit the Brandywell.

Same old, same old so!

[DmanDmythDledge]

UCD: 1. Ger Barron (1st half)/ Billy Brennan (2nd half), 2. Sean Harding, 3. James Timmons 4. Brian Connaughton 5. Andy Doyle 6. Greg Bolger 7. Keith Ward 8. Ronan Finn 9. Ciaran Kilduff 10. Chris Mulhall 11. John Reilly Subs Ciaran Nangle, M. Kelly (maybe Michael but I didn't recognise him), Paul O'Connor, Niall Daly.

Bray presented a strong test for UCD. UCD's midfeilfers and defence were the busiest on the night. Romero for Bray scored direct from a free kick. UCD could have taken the lead early in the first half.
The game was pretty quiet for much of the first half and all of the second. Kilduff scored the equaliser for UCD at the death.
Paddy Kavanagh and Darren Forsyth as sub. played for Bray.
(1-1)

Pretty good report from extratime.
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/11261/2/

[John83]

Same old, same old so!

A first division side consisting largely of kids yet to make senior competitive debuts, in the Brandywell. We should have gone 3-4-3 and pinned them back into their own box, right?

[HarpoJoyce]

Pretty good report from extratime.
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/11261/2/

DmanDmythDledge thanks for that.
Going by the lineup at the bottom it was the author I took our line-up from.
I let him know some of the queries but I suppose if we have a Timmons in the side he wanted to introduce a 'Kenny'.

For the record there's the line-up versus Galway Utd. on this thread also.
After Edit:
It was brave of him to go with the first names anyway.