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The League Cup Final is due to be played on either Mon 19th/Tues 20th September.
AFAIK there will be a draw to determine who at home. It would be a disaster if the final was to be played at Belfield. There would be a couple of hundred there but if it's in the Brandywell there will be a few thousand. For both teams a match in the Brandywell would be financially better. Let's hope the 'draw' gives Derry a home game!!
Shouldn't the game be played over two legs, home and away, with the rules about away goals clear before they kick off?
Sounds like you're trying to influence the draw! :eek: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dee75
While you have a bigger support than us I don't think it's more fair that we'd have to make the trek to Derry on a weekday than you coming down here. It may well prove impossible to arrange. On a very bad day we can get a couple of hundred. I think the crowd would be 1,000 at Belfield given your away fans, our home fans and some interested neutrals.
I think the only fair way to decide is with the toss of a coin.
If we have to travel to Dublin then so be it.
Great feeling coming back up with the first trophy of the season ;)
Thats the way we had to do it when we kicked ye're asses in 2002 :D ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by rerun
I remember big confusion on the night over the away goals rule; we won the home leg 2-1 and lot the second leg 1-0(DODGY DIVING LIAM COYLE BASTRAD) and ye thought ye won on away goals......
The rest is history as they say...ha ha ha
Never!! I'm sure the FAI can make sure the draw 'suits' everyone!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Not to mention the gate receipts for the first leg going "missing"Quote:
Originally Posted by joeSoap
If it is to "suit" the FAI then the game will be in Tolka. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee75
You should expect that anything not locked down in Limerick will go missing. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Maribor
Unfortunately, and somewhat embarrassingly, that was a different club administration entirely, and I do not for one minute condone what happened then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maribor
We still kicked ye're asses on pens in the Brandywell tho... :D :D
I seem to remember kicking ye're asses too in an earlier round of the competition that year...and ye had a pretty full strength side out too...surely you can come up with a better reference to Limericks crime problem than that.Thats Limerick by the way, where there hasn't been a murder or serious crime in 15 months...how have the newspapers filled their pages, other than spending time on Leeside maybe?? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
What a proud boast. It's almost like saying "We kicked your ass at flipping a coin..." :DQuote:
Originally Posted by joeSoap
Fair play to Limerick for shocking a very lazy Derry team that year. To be honest, though, you were a bit short of cash at the time and we thought you wanted the cup so you could sell it. We therefore tried to make it easy for you, but you still had to rely on penalties..... :p
Wasn't having a dig Joe, but it is just one of my memories of that game :p
If you remember the game in the Brandywell, ye only beat us 1-0 due to a penalty given for a Liam Coyle dive two yards outside the box but the referee couldn't keep up with the play.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Also, bear in mind that we were bottom of the first division at the time...ye must have been majorly embarrassed.
No problem...a sad but true fact though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maribor
I'd say Derry will win. Might toddle down to the match considering how close it could be.
Fair play to UCD for getting this far but I can't see past Derry. Also, can you imagine how Belfield would look in the Setanta Cup?
Now that we know the finalists would it not make sense to play it in a neutral venue equidistant from both clubs? For example in Longford.
Totally unfair to play a final in the opposition's ground. Another reason why this competition is a joke.
Congrats to UCD though. If Derry stay in the top 2 UCD will be in the Setanta Cup regardless what happens in the final. Also if UCD can do the whole league a favour and win saturday so we wont be embarrassed in Europe again next season. Also thanks for the 3 points!
KOH
No they'll need to win it, if Derry win it goes to the league not the runners up.Quote:
Originally Posted by NY Hoop
A UCD fan mentioned on another thread that if they lose, the Setanta Cup place goes to the next team in the League.
So Longford could still get in there.......
I didn't see us getting past Rovers, Waterford or Shels either! Belfield Park on telly would look like Belfield Park in real life. The away fans would fill it up nicely and make a bit of noise...unless we're playing Dungannon Swifts!Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Incidentally, the last two LC finals were one-legged and won by the home team. I can see us not opting for that option with the Setanta Cup at stake! I think the two teams arrange the final details themselves, so I would hope it'd be either a two-legged game or a neutral venue.