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This is great prize money and i think every team taking part has a decent chance...not sure about how we will get on against Northern teams until the matches are played...there will be big crowds for these and i am looking forward to these more than the U.E.F.A Cup games...
How many times did you beat Shels last season :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
Games are being played on Mondays and Tuesdays apparently and are taking priority over League games in that if there's any kind of a clash it's the league game which will be changed. It'll be interesting to see how it goes crowds and viewing figures-wise
Sh*t!....Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Was looking forward to at least one weekend up North.....:(
we know when it starts and when it ends but when will the individual matches be played, or do we have to wait for the draw first.
boys who do u want in your teams' group??? :confused:
Glentoran and Portadown :ball:Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
would the 'irish' league teams be ranked much lower than the el teams involved?Quote:
Originally Posted by DE TOWN
Id say so. I picked those 2 because I think that would be the easiest draw we could get.Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
Ideally for the competitions sake imo the draw would be Shels, Cork and their cup winners in one group with their first and second placed team with Longford in another group. It gives the most chance of a North V South final, it'd be a bit of an anti climax really if the final was an all Southern affair imo, or even all Northern affair :eek:
From Shels point of view I'd like to avoid Cork really, they'll be better than any of the Northern teams and Longford I'd say.
Are you approaching a mid life crisis or what Slashed? :cool:
why do you use apostrophies around the word 'irish'? They are quite entitled to use those terms. Let's not forget who broke away from whom.Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis
[and before anyone shouts me down, I'm well aware of the problem southern football had in relation to the IFA prior to 1921; I'm just pointing out that the boys in Belfast wanted to keep an all-Ireland team and league]
On the draw, I'd really like to see Glentoran or especially Linfield in Cork. Portadown is less attractive (in more ways than one)!
I'm not.Quote:
Originally Posted by crc
Can ya just give me a brief history lesson post there please?
Seriously.
How did the old league dissolve?
really a cork person even giving others a chance this a first :D :pQuote:
Originally Posted by RedX
Savour it ... it happens few and far between !! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Enda M
It's a bit like Cork winning the league :pQuote:
Originally Posted by A face
agreed. but thats gonna change this year jackQuote:
Originally Posted by Slash/ED
Of course it is, sure we've never heard that from Cork before :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pablo
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Originally Posted by Slash/ED
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I'm open to correction but I think the 1921 Cup final was between either Shels or Bohs and a Belfast team. The first game ended in a draw and was played in Belfast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
The Dublin team wanted the replay held in Dublin but the IFA fixed it for Belfast due to the security situation at the time in the South. There was probably more to it than that but at the end the clubs broke away to form the FAI.
Curiously one of the first teams to win the FAI Cup were Alton Utd, who were from Belfast so the breakaway wasn't a completely Southern thing.
Cheers.
So they never finished that final?
There's a lack of history books out there on irish domestic football for young 'uns like me.
For instance i'm unawares as to how Derry came to be in the LOI.
They couldn't guarantee the security of away fans at the Branywell?
Sorry for going off-topic.