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The only extra cost is travelling to the Premier Division teams such as Dundalk, Derry and Drogheda. The other teams such as Salthill & Tullamore are in the same situation. This weekend would you perfer to be playing Erris or Tullamore Town? I think I would know the answer for most clubs in the Mayo League (no disrespect to Erris, just using them as an example for this weekend's fixtures.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
I was talking to one of the Westport lads last night and he said there is war going on between there a & b team for players and tensions were high between the managments.
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Originally Posted by paddyirishman
3 1 when it was 11 v 11, red cards did'nt make a difference.
Same old story from the westport sideline. Grand when they're winning, everybody's against them when they're getting beat.
I was wondering when that would be noticed! Not our greatest hour in fairness, considering there were a good few ideas put forward for it, including a competition between local schools to come up with one for us! Er.... imitation is the highest form of flattery and we are all huge Notts County fans here at Fahy..Quote:
Originally Posted by pixiehead
Calm down, ye are like dogs on leashes ready to pounce when someone goes down. Westport are due a bad patch.Quote:
Originally Posted by No. 7
Think the problem is Westport are reliant on 2 or 3 players who have scored 90% of their goals this season so they were bound to be found out sooner or later.
I still say they'll win the league though...
and we may well have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for erikson and all the recent publicity for notts county!!!:D:pQuote:
Originally Posted by FahyForever
Im sure you can change it down the road. cant believe someone couldnt come up with an original. AH well keep yer head down till the copyright police are gone ;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by FahyForever
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Originally Posted by threefivetwo
LOL, no disrespect to Snugboro but its easier for our "Journey men" to take a beating from Derry City. Still I do note we didn't throw the toys out of the pram like the 2 lads sent off for ye last night.
For your interest there Westside, I noted you tried to find the A Championship. The LOI website is where all the Eircom leagues are available not the Fai.ie website.
From there you will visibly see Celtic in the A Championship. I am trying to find out where Westport United are mentioned on the LOI site but I am having no joy.
Just to save you the bother ; http://lmgtfy.com/?q=www.loi.ie
Best concentrate on Erris away this weekend, the wheels could badly come off if you don't get 3 this weekend.
Sounds like the english national team.. when they winning everyone is full of praise and when they losing..everyone is too quick to point the finger..Quote:
Originally Posted by No. 7
Bad way to be...
Fair play t da boro either way!
I am not having a go at westport here but I was at the game last night and they were well and truly beaten by a better team,the biggest disappointment was there players and management,when things were not going right it was the whole worlds fault,Dave Hoban was sent off when Snugboro were 3- 1 up so for anyone to say snugboro won cause wesport were reduced to 9 men after dessie was sent off is unfair to the boro lads.After all the boro dhad Stevie G sent off as well.Snugboro were well worth there victory,Im not trying to rub salt into wetport wounds but it could have been a lot more if the boro lads had there shooting boots on.I still believe that westport will win the league but they have to get there house in order and that includes thier management.Quote:
Originally Posted by paddyirishman
No i won`t waste my time on that mickey mouse site.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishyop
Everyone is sticking the knife in to westport at the moment but this is to be expected from you and your other cronies from c/bar.Ye all sound like a crowd who talk to each other on bebo,faceache and twitter as a sad bunch to me.
Come back at the seasons end when your "L.O.I. team" have nothing to show from their nomad league only a large bill from the bus company.
And all you do is whinge,whinge whinge,it s always someone elses fault when things go wrong for westport..If your club had the foresight to go into the A League you would not be talking the crap you are....By the way you still never answered any of my questions............All hot airQuote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
Any chance you might clarify why the L.O.I website is a "mickey mouse site"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
Its fun reading your jealous rants, but maybe a cup of hot sugary tea and a lie down is in order at this stage?
Your team are joint top of the Super League, a nice few honours gathered over the years, the players & management have worked hard and earned the respect of clubs the length and breath of Ireland as formidable opponents and yet you still insist on concentrating all your energies on rubbishing Castlebar Celtic.
I still reckon ye have enough to take the super league despite the last two results.
westside,
norm is right, just give up. you are getting slated left, right and centre, everyone can see that you are wrong but you.
you seriously need to get over this obsession you have with trying to run a bigger club (us) down. concentrate on getting your own club back on track as at the moment its going down the drain for ye lot.
and this thing about the loi website being 'mickey mouse,' can you please back up that statement??
great win for the 'boro last night, really opens up the league.
will dessie o'malley and hoban lad get 3 games seen as they were straight reds does anyone know?? they will definetley miss the trip to erris, automatic one match ban
I`m entitled to my opinion because i am right in what i am saying here.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoop4life
I am not running your club down in general,just your ignorance in being sucked into the A league with promises of progress a long way down the line.If westport were given a choice of entering this vacuum i would be against it as junior soccer has more to offer in terms of competitions.
Westport will get their grounds sorted out in time as facilities don`t equal having to leave local football.
As for the league we will get back on track again with the injuries we have no other club would recover from.
Explain how the official site for the countrys National league is Mickey Mouse :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
i think we should end this debate, there is no point going on with it for any longer. westside has his opinion, fair enough and no offence, but i nor anyone else can seem to see where you are coming from with this opinion. i don't know why you don't think it is good for mayo to have a loi club. if the shoe was on the other foot, ye would be wished the best of luck
good luck in the super league, i like most other people still think ye have enough to win it, its just getting out of this sticky patch that ye are in
What utter rubbish. If ye were capable of entering a team in the A league ye would. The simple fact of the matter is a club of Westports size should easily have enough players to cope with a few injuries, but instead of building on their success of the past few years to develop a more solid youths structure, they instead decided to basically continue with more or less the same group of players at junior level for the past number of seasons. Now these players are needed but no strenght in dept as far as players go exist within the club. Maybe if some of yere players had not been played two matchs every weekend it would have eased yere injury list:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
Rubbish talk keeps us all going, liking the way this forum is more lively now anyway, makes for interesting reading for the last 5 mins of work ;)
This forum is for SL only lads so try and keep A LEAGUE talk to a different forum!
I think Erris will win this weekend. A Westport team without Scahill, Hoban, O'Malley and Horkan is very average? Erris at home too so would be expected to win if they are genuine title contenders.
Ballina probably expect to hammer us as they did to Celtic last week, looking forward to what will be a tough one. We might be contenders ourselves if we beat them :rolleyes:
LOL aww we have to feel sorry for you though, you have to be the first person on foot.ie bullied eh ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
Still waiting to see why you think that www.loi.ie is a mickey mouse site?
Its facebook chief but then again maybe its you lack of friends which makes it pointless for you to be on it eh :D
Anyway back on topic, you not looking forward to Ballina then Fahy, you never know how that will go, I wouldn't be 1/2 suprised to see ye make it very tough for them. Good luck with it anyway.
Good spot pixie,i saw the crest on Sky News and then realised where that mad looking crest came from.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by pixiehead
absolute rubbish.:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by rava
Fahy 1 Ballina 3
Fahy did make it tough for Ballina but some silly mistakes cost us dearly. Fahy opened the scoring after a very controversial free kick where the ref penalised the keeper for... who knows??? I think it was catching the ball, dropping it and picking it up again? Or something? Goodfootball might have seen it better. Seemed fairly innocuous to me anyway. Gary Goggins set up Mick Goggins who slammed it home. Ballina equalised soon after when a punt forward took our defence by surprise, splitting them in two. Simple finish. Just before half time they scored another when an intended cross found the inside of the back post. We felt hard done by. Fahy were on top in the second half, but it was all scrappy stuff and Ballina defended well, if a bit unsportsmanly (hoofing it as far into the adjoining field as possible over and over again). We never looked like scoring anyway. The game was decided when one of our midfielders (who will remain nameless to save his embarrassment!) inexplicably played a beautiful through ball for a Ballina forward, who really could not miss. Even then Fahy battled hard but it wasn't to be. Not a match for purists, but a very determined performance that might have earned us a bit more. What of Westport? Heard they were one up at half time!
iorras 0-3 westport - great result for them, credit where credit is due
manulla 2-4 snugboro
kilmore beat s&f, dont know score
Not sure what your confused about, the player in question mentioned that A team management have been unhappy a number of times with the use of players in the B team. VOM was playing 2 matchs a weekend and apparently even played 2 matchs on the one day this season:eek:.Quote:
Originally Posted by quay heart
Goalkeeper caught ball as it was going out for goal kick, dropped it and a few of us shouted he cant pick it up again and he did. Indirect free kick was the correct decision. Refs dont normally notice this but fair play to the ref on this occasion :DQuote:
Originally Posted by FahyForever
Ballina are very organised at the back, not world beaters but are very hard to break down. 2 horse race now with Westport I think.
Fair play to Kilmore for first win, takes a bit of pressure off us :)
Not sure what your confused about, the player in question mentioned that A team management have been unhappy a number of times with the use of players in the B team. VOM was playing 2 matchs a weekend and apparently even played 2 matchs on the one day this season:eek:.Quote:
Originally Posted by quay heart
From what I could make out from the Manulla keeper's protests, and from the opinion of some Fahy fans, Peyton only palmed the ball initially, thusly allowing him to pick it up after. Didn't see it so that's only what I heard.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoodFootball
Agree with you about Ballina, hard to break down, we really never looked like scoring from open play. Westport should be good enough to see them off though. The next round of matches could be huge for us, if we can beat Celtic, there is a fair chance that Ballyheane and Manulla lose, which would put us to fifth and give us a big lead over the bottom teams. All conjecture I know, but a possibility if we can give Celtic a game. Speaking of Celtic, fair play to hoop4life for giving 'credit where credit's due', I wonder if it would be reciprocated if the shoe was on the other foot?
you said there was war between managers this not true.vom wanted to play b this season with one or two others but injury to few first teamers ment he played both.Quote:
Originally Posted by rava
Thanks for that comment hoop4life.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoop4life
Westside is currently away recieving treatment and under observation in a straight jacket.:)
We have no connection only our westport alliances but no doubt he will surface soon.
That was some result considering the recent results and many injuries we have so credit to all who rallied around the cause.
it was a huge result for ye so in fairness ye do deserve a bit of credit, i think everyone will agree.
as said , it is probably a 2 horse race, as for the bottom, big gap between bottom 3 and the rest, bar a miracle, its a dog fight between them 3
Thats a very good result to get down there, when the chips were down it showed Wport can pull it out. Could have been a more interesting SL this year if Erris had taken the points but it looks more like normal service resumed!!!
Hard luck Fahy, still not a bad scoreline!
What does the A league have to offer? We have already beaten Mervue and won the senior cup. They are a division above the A Championship, the standard is not much higher in the A Championship than Junior fopotball. The only reason Celtic entered it is because they couldnt win the Mayo League even with all their league of Ireland players their own and players they inherited from other clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by rava
I think saturdays result answers your question about players being brought through.........
Some of the clubs in the A Championship wil struggle financially and will get fed up with having no success and revert back to Junior Football, in these recessionary times they will find it hard to get the finance to keep going
what does the a league have to offer?? what kind of statement is that?? is the the third tier of the league of ireland, it is a stepping stone to the first division and on to the premier. i'm not saying we will be in the premier anytime soon but the first division in the next few years is a realistic possibility. i suppose when we get there that will be no better than junior football either.
how can you say junior football is as good as loi, read this statement back to yourself, junior football is as good as loi, doesn't make sense does it??
you think we only entered it cause of you lot, we entered it beause we have ambition to play in the first division and beyond and unlike ye, we have the players coming through that are good enough to play loi football and have the determination and ambition to make it in the loi.
ye bet mervues second 11, their fringe players.
also, what does saturdays result prove. were you at the game?? if so, you would have seen that tullamore played with 10 players behind the ball for the game and used every dirty trick in the book to get what they came here for, which was a draw. what about the 2 results before that, 3-1 against sligo and 5-0 against dundalk, i suppose they were just flukes and you'll tell me that dundalk and sligo and useless, ya.
everyone in mayo can see that we have taken a positive step forward in joining the loi apart from you and your westport colleague. stop the jealous rant lads, ye know well that this is a good thing for us but yer pride won't let ye admit it. :ball:
Hoop, I think when Leveller said that about 'Saturdays result answers your question about players being brought through' he was talking about the Westport Erris match. His point being that Westport were missing a lot of players and had to use younger ones (Tom Mc Ging, Paul Groden etc) who came through the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoop4life
Apart from that I think that almost everyone realises that the A championship is a step in the right direction for a club with ambition like Celtic. Seen as how Celtic are achieving so much at underage levels I think they are dead right to aim high and think of the future. No reason why they can't perform at the highest level. Fair play to them.
fair enough, misinterpretation on my behalf.Quote:
Originally Posted by FahyForever
cheers for proving my point aswell that everyone sees its a good thing for us
Any other club bar Celtic from Mayo had joined the LOI is would have been great. Look we could say you were lucky to beat our B team who were missing three or four lads so were does that leave your team. Still the best in Mayo and those players would stand out in the A league but your club had not the fore sight in joining a higher standard league. It’s a pity because everyone would love to see how far this Utd team could go even to Div 1 I would say. So stopping knocking us for moving up on and feeling jealous and bitter about your own club lacking the bottle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leveller
You beat Mervue's 2nd team, not the same Mervue that is in the LOI 1st Division. I think one of the best things to come out of Celtic joining the A Championship i believe is the fact that the a can enter the U-20 league, offering Mayo u-20 players a chance to play at a decent level of football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leveller
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Right i`m back...where do i start?
I tried to explain this to that crowd up the road and got slated for it.
They`ll soon get fed up with this toothless league but if thats what they want,we should ditch this row as their argument isn`t holding water.
Back to the proper football and a massive result on saturday with half the regulars missing.
so our national senior league isn't proper football is it?? and the mayo league is??
also, you keep talking about finance. this has been said already by another poster, celtic have planned for the costs of entering the loi and have made sure that it will not put a strain on the club. if there was any financial danger, celtic would not have entered. very good organisation and planning by those in charge