Limerick Vs Waterford

Mate are you having a laugh, yes the penalty was contentious but we had one shot in the whole game, we simply didnt compete with a bigger more physical side, that is not Mark Gough's fault. Very few performed up to scratch and where is the football we played on the deck last season. I was dissapointed for the big crowd and i feel like we will strugle against the big sides this season. Good to see Cummins and Tierney back, we badly need guys with an eye for goal, hopefully they will be back to full fitness soon

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Originally Posted by SeniorBlue

Mate are you having a laugh, yes the penalty was contentious but we had one shot in the whole game, we simply didnt compete with a bigger more physical side, that is not Mark Gough's fault. Very few performed up to scratch and where is the football we played on the deck last season. I was dissapointed for the big crowd and i feel like we will strugle against the big sides this season. Good to see Cummins and Tierney back, we badly need guys with an eye for goal, hopefully they will be back to full fitness soon

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Yes, but even a draw would have been a reasonable result and their first goal was offside. And it is beyond me how that was a penalty. The ball bounced up off his upper arm. It was a great match up until Mark Gough ruined it. On the plus side it was great to see a big crowd at the match, hopefully they will keep coming back.

We didnt deserve to win this make no mistake but did Waterford? what did they do only score an offside goal and convert a peno which wasent. We were poor in fairness but this business with Gough is gone far enough, every single time he refs a Limerick game he does his best to screw us but tonight was a disgrace. I know the referee standards are poor in the league but this fella needs to fcuk off back doing under 10s games.

Only good points were getting over a thousand in and the return of Tierney and Cummins during the game.

I was disapointed with the standard of fooball played,having said that wayne colbert looked a class above.,,,,,,,,davy ryan was man handled by the full back and gave away a lot of ball,danagher was very keane to stick the ball out for touch and imo didn't look the grade at all,bad points aside the atmosphere was fantastic the lads in the shed were top class,i

A draw would have been a fair result, the first 15 minutes was the only time they were on top, very evenly matched after that. We were very unlucky for the first goal...miss hit shot and an offside...and the penalty was an easy one to give he moved his arm to the ball. Wayne was unlucky in the first half if we had went a goal up we wouldnt have been beaten.

No17fan how can you slate Danagher? His distribution may not be perfect, whose is in this division, but he's a very good defender

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Originally Posted by SeniorBlue

Very few performed up to scratch and where is the football we played on the deck last season. I was dissapointed for the big crowd and i feel like we will strugle against the big sides this season.

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We are playing a very different game this season note the change in manager. As for struggling against the big teams, I don't think we will, the team as a whole is very well organised, watch how quickly they get back in position after conceding possession, our problem will be how quickly we support the front man

what was the attendence last night ?

The back 4 looked solid (as you'd expect from a P.Scully team)and were more so when Brian came on,his reading of the game is second to none.We look like we're going to struggle to score however.don't know what game your were watchin Seniorblue but apart from the first 15min Limerick controled the game,as other poster here agree.Gough is a very poor ref and if thats the standard their churning out from the FAI this game will always be stuck in the duldrums.
A big crowd last night with a lot of first timers will not be impressed with that performance.

I was watching the one where Limerick had one shot in the whole 90 minutes, the one where Limerick were physically shoved off every 50/50 challenge and the one that seriously exposed the same weaknesses of the last couple of years. Wake up and smell the coffee, we don't have the resources and we don't have the players to play the kind of games Scully is trying to impose. Stop making people believe things about last night that quite simply aren't true, we were very poor last night and the season will be one of mediocrity but i accept that and i will continue to go to the games to support the lads coz they give it their all, just because they are not competing at the top doesn't mean you have to defend the club everytime someone makes a constructive comment

thats not how it works here,see if you have an opinion different to a select few you get branded a wum and a juniorballer,they then get on to their mod friends to dish out infractions,bit childish really...i went to Limerick matches for years but stopped going 2 years ago because i was sick of wasting my money,it was the same story every year,this is our year,we have a new chairman,we have plans for Jackman,we have a new manager,now i still look out for results and the current regime seem to be doing a good job and best of luck to them but Limerick FC is going nowhere until they get their own ground(not some second rate hovel with dressing rooms you couldn't swing a cat in) and spend some money on proven LOI players(easier said then done i know)now i must sit back and await the backlash

Well oscar i think we all think that, and its so frustrating that guys come on here and pretend things are moving in the right direction but whats the point in saying it, i just want to go up and support the team, i was goin to the Pike club a few years ago when about 100 others were there on a saturday afternoon and it was all because i support senior soccer. However like you say you can't have an honest opinion on this site coz there are guys on this with an agenda. Like i say i will continue to support the club, they are doing the best with the worst resources in the league so at least senior soccer is alive and we have games to go to

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Originally Posted by Trevor Mcnurkey

what was the attendance last night ?

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Attendance was 1054

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Well oscar i think we all think that, and its so frustrating that guys come on here and pretend things are moving in the right direction but whats the point in saying it, i just want to go up and support the team, i was goin to the Pike club a few years ago when about 100 others were there on a saturday afternoon and it was all because i support senior soccer. However like you say you can't have an honest opinion on this site coz there are guys on this with an agenda. Like i say i will continue to support the club, they are doing the best with the worst resources in the league so at least senior soccer is alive and we have games to go to

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true my friend

Lads theres a great little spot in town called Riddlers where you could continue your conversation. :)

ya heard you're a regular down there.....

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ya heard you're a regular down there.....

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You asking for me again? :cool:

i was ya:rolleyes:

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i was ya:rolleyes:

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Knew it was you! :p

Hate to break up your lovefest Oscar/seniorblue but at the game last night that i was at Waterford had 2 attempts at goal ,one offside and one a very dubious pen. other than that they never looked like scoring. i agree with you that we did not creat many scoring chance's ourselves but to write off the club as you are is crazy.there were many positive aspects to Limericks approach and with Cummins/Tierney on the way to full fitness things will get better.

Waterford did control the first 15 minutes but Limerick got into it then and played some nice football. It was pretty even then and looked like the game would probably finish all square, that is until Waterford got the first goal. Limerick where still there or there abouts in the game but when the penalty was given (which was a joke, Deady swung at the ball at the edge of the box to clear it and it bounced up off his hand. Very harsh, especially where he was placed in the box. The ball hitting his hand in no way infringed on Waterford going for goal) it killed Limerick off. Even when Limerick had posession they wasted it which poor passes and awful long balls. Walshe over all looked very good as did Purcell. Scanlon is really struggling when he comes up against big strong defenders i.e last night and also against Monaghan. He chased all night but was easily pushed off the ball and was second to everything in the air. In saying that Gough seemed to miss numerous pushes in scanlons back and was awful overall in the game.

If Wayne had converted that early chance when Limerick where ontop i think it could have been a different game. Improvement is to be made but once again it looks like it will be next season before Limerick are really challenging unless they can get 4 or 5 wins in a row which doesn't look likely at the moment.