Leinster Senior Cup

Youths worth the win last night in a game that was more like an U19 pre-season friendly. Not one of or starting 11 against Bray began the match and Craig Wall had played 65 minutes for the Defence Forces earlier in the day. Great to see a lot of them play their 1st game of the season to get rid of the cobwebs. They'll be needed in a long season to come

The difference between the 2 sides was our introduction of 3 senior players as subs towards the end. Our winner came from Chris Kenny, who also scored for the Defence Forces earlier in the afternoon. Must be some sort of record that. Lovely surface, but there is no real substitute for grass. About 75 there, including 2 experienced Carlow IT attendees who brought their own portable seats :)

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Originally Posted by oldyouth

Youths worth the win last night in a game that was more like an U19 pre-season friendly. Not one of or starting 11 against Bray began the match and Craig Wall had played 65 minutes for the Defence Forces earlier in the day. Great to see a lot of them play their 1st game of the season to get rid of the cobwebs. They'll be needed in a long season to come

The difference between the 2 sides was our introduction of 3 senior players as subs towards the end. Our winner came from Chris Kenny, who also scored for the Defence Forces earlier in the afternoon. Must be some sort of record that. Lovely surface, but there is no real substitute for grass. About 75 there, including 2 experienced Carlow IT attendees who brought their own portable seats :)

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Stats nirvana..... that's a gem. :-)

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Originally Posted by oldyouth

Youths worth the win last night in a game that was more like an U19 pre-season friendly. Not one of or starting 11 against Bray began the match and Craig Wall had played 65 minutes for the Defence Forces earlier in the day. Great to see a lot of them play their 1st game of the season to get rid of the cobwebs. They'll be needed in a long season to come

The difference between the 2 sides was our introduction of 3 senior players as subs towards the end. Our winner came from Chris Kenny, who also scored for the Defence Forces earlier in the afternoon. Must be some sort of record that. Lovely surface, but there is no real substitute for grass. About 75 there, including 2 experienced Carlow IT attendees who brought their own portable seats :)

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Oldyouth you dont have a list of our subs that came on last night by any chance? couldnt make game at all as I wanted to give them a break as paid a lot in money to go to two Ireland home matches and the majority of our home and away games..

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Originally Posted by Martinho II

Oldyouth you dont have a list of our subs that came on last night by any chance? couldnt make game at all as I wanted to give them a break as paid a lot in money to go to two Ireland home matches and the majority of our home and away games..

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Sorry, I tend to focus on our own lads and don't really notice the coming & goings of the opposition. Forza Forth from our forum was there and usually takes detailed notes, you might try him

Last two quarters on tonight so - Collinstown v Bray and UCD v Bluebell.

Then a wait for the semis draw I guess.

Collinstown 2-1 Bray.

Worth noting Bray were down to ten men after 20 minutes.

UCD 4-3 Bluebell (aet) in the other quarters. Jason Byrne made his debut.

So UCD, Bohs, Wexford and Collinstown in the semis.

Our first semi in any competition since the 2007 FAI Cup I think. But still an overriding feeling that it's the Leinster Senior Cup...

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Our first semi in any competition since the 2007 FAI Cup I think. But still an overriding feeling that it's the Leinster Senior Cup...

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Shame on you!

The venerable Leinster Senior Cup is one of the oldest and most prestigious competitions in football. A little more respect and decorum please

It's also the first thing we won as a senior club.

But - meh.

Decent bench for Bluebell last night btw. Keith Foy (won the U-16 European Championship with Ireland), Robert Bayly, Ger Rowe and Andy Noonan. Twas like going to a lower-league game in England and finding a random player from years ago you'd completely forgotten about.

Andy Noonan?! There's a blast from the past (assuming itsthe same one), one of the strugglers in the worst Dundalk team in modern times, around 2004.

Same guy. Ex-UCD as well.

An interesting character, shall we say. He's actually been manager at Bluebell since 2011.

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Same guy. Ex-UCD as well.

An interesting character, shall we say. He's actually been manager at Bluebell since 2011.

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Ooh, you big tease! Do tell.

I popped in toward the end of extra time in Belfield. Not many there but those I spoke to said it was a cracking game. UCD have the goals up on youtube but apparently missed Waters' winner.

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Originally Posted by Mark

I popped in toward the end of extra time in Belfield. Not many there but those I spoke to said it was a cracking game. UCD have the goals up on youtube but apparently missed Waters' winner.

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Twas an awful game for the first hour, but in fairness, it got better as it went on.

Reckon there was about 60 for the first half, 40 for the second and 20 for extra-time. Twas absolutely baltic though - and the first day of summer coming up at the weekend. Bloody April...

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Ooh, you big tease! Do tell.

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Have a google. :)

http://m.herald.ie/news/protest-as-m...-27992247.html

http://foot.ie/threads/13797-Andy-No...es-for-Dundalk!

Jayzus, I don't remember hearing any of that. I feel a League of Ireland Crime Call XI coming on.

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Twas absolutely baltic though - and the first day of summer coming up at the weekend. Bloody April...

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To be pedantic, summer begins in and around 20-22 June, actual date depends on the year, its based on the summer solstice. This year it is June 20 at 22:34.

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To be pedantic, summer begins in and around 20-22 June, actual date depends on the year, its based on the summer solstice. This year it is June 20 at 22:34.

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Surely that is midsummer so summer starts 44 1/2 days before that.

Yup - summer in Ireland has always started on 1 May.

In England and the rest of Europe, it starts on 1 June - but that means November is autumn, Feb is winter, etc, which is weird. Met Éireann use this and call it "meteorological summer". Midsummer is big in some scandinavian countries in particular, but they still have summer starting on 1 June, which is just a flat contradiction.

In the US, summer starts on 22 June, which I've never gotten my head around. This is technically "astronomical summer" - but I've never heard anyone in Ireland use it.

The difference between Irish seasons and other seasons is that others group months by temperature, while we group them by the grand aul stretch in the evening - partly because, as the last week has shown, the weather here is just too unreliable to base anything off.