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Originally Posted by Cabs88
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sligo rovers friendly is definitely not going ahead this season. pity..:starved:Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
I can hang on to beat them in the cup :cool:
so wait, we were going to have to pay for the pleasure of playing sligo rovers?? ahahahahahahahaha, let them jump! they must be doing anything for money up there these days! what kind of a ****ing bus costs 900 euro to go from sligo to longford and back for what, 6 hours? pull the other one! they would probably try and scam some of the money from the gate aswell, they have previous with that!
Ahh well that's a shame but like tallanted said let's get them in the cup then theyl be sorry :)
me and massop10 will be at the friendly tonight. tommorrow I will put up the team and goalscorers for those that cant make it! interesting to see what sort of shape the lads will be.. I assume JP McDonagh will be playin for newbridge town tonight!
Going to try get down later myself to it, depends on what time I get out of work. Will be at UCD Sunday anyway.
Former Athlone Town player Dave O'Riorden plays for them too. They lost 2-1 against Willow Park in the LSC a few weeks ago
Lost 1-0. Missed a load of chances by the looks of things from extratime's updates. Cousins out...Looked we had a few trialists involved including a couple of foreign lads and Daniel Reilly.
A bit early to be looking for Cousins head! We're first game into pre-season and Newbridge are well into their season so fitness would be on their side.....results don't matter in pre-season really. I remember last season Newcastle got hammered 5-1 at Leyton Orient and went on to stroll the Championship.
I was joking! Come on now, I thought that'd be obvious. I've never been one to take pre season overly seriously. I'm sure it was a useful work out. Roll on the rest of the games.
No walsh, mooney, cowan or hyland at all, a fair few trialists in by looks of it, good oppurtunity to look at them.
I see jp mcdonagh, dean barrett and sean francis all in tbe newbridge squad
How did the former ATFC lads do?
Town played pretty well last night. Newbridge took the lead after 15 mins when ex town player Dean Barrett hit a shot outside the box that keeper Stephen Conlon couldnt hold over the line. Town had a variety of triailists there last nite. The trialists that impressed were Paddy Collins who is six foot five and formed a solid defensive partnership with Barbados international Barry Skeete.Alvin rouse oozed authority in defence and at one stage launched a huge throw from inside his penalty area that landed past the centre circle! ?Daniel Reilly also impressed when he came on.. Des Hope didnt really stand out for me yet but its early days.
Of the triailists that played Graeme Dowling who was no 2 used to play for St Pats. No 6 was Peter Szcerbowski who is polish and livin locally in town and plays for longford celtic. massop 10 can tell you about him as he used to coach him at longford celtic. he may need a few games to get into it. Jack Morley from Crumlin started at no 7 and is very nippy. Austin Skelly at no 9 was excellent for us upfront . He seems a bit of a character and could fast develop into a town favourite. He was the goalkeeper when me and massop 10 took part in that penalty shootout in Lissywollen!
The no 18 was a Y Bentole who was another trialist that I have no information about. Anthony Costigan used to play for Monaghan Utd last season and was no 20. As for the opposition , Seanie Francis is training with them and wasnt involved last nite. I had a great chat to him before the game and he greatly regrets leavin us years ago! John Paul McDonagh limped off injured after a few minutes and Dean Barrett also played from the start. Gary Cronin is still involved with us this season as player coach.
squad:
1. Stephen Conlon
2. Graeme Dowling
3.Michael Lee
4. Des Hope
5. Chris Deans
6. Peter Szcerbowski
7. Jack Morley
8. Mark Salmon
9. Austin Skelly
10. Lee Roche
11.Aidan Roche
12. Niall O'Reilly
13. Barry Skeete
14. Paddy Collins
15. Jason Oladele
16. Cathal Brady
17. Daniel Reilly
18. Y Bentole
19. Gary Cronin
20. Anthony Costigan
21. Alvin Rouse
Alvin rouse is six foot six and has 25 international caps with Barry Skeete. Skeete is over for a few weeks stayin with him in Monaghan tryin to get a club ere. i was talkin to him before the game and he said that he used to play in the Argentinan League.They both are friendly with Eric Lavine whos currently playin for Oranmore Fc in the Galway league.
Yousuff belhout was with bray wanderes, dont think he got a run for the 1st team though, any sign of the lads that weren't involved? Were they injured?
thanks tallanted about yousuff.. Craig Walsh and Don Cowan were in the stand last nite with I think Thomas Hyland. I am not sure if Craig Mooney was there but massop10 can correct me if I stand corrected..Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallanted
Sorry Longfordian...its just early last season some 'fans' on here were calling for Cousins' head when what we needed was stability in the managerial area....apologies!
Marty....would Skeete be a good signing for us or would he be looking to sign for a Premier team and is just with us for fitness reasons?
2pm for that UCD v Longford game on Sunday, by the way.
Does he have a younger brother with UCD?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallanted
Was thinking that; strange name alright. We've Samir Belhout.
God almighty cant help having a go can you we are as much of a fan as anyone else and we are as much entitled to an opinion as anyone else anyway dont want to go off topic here so can i ask what the polish lad is like he got a good report on extratime same question for morley.Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
Yes Youceff's brother plays for UCD.
And Mr/Miss Outspoken....did I mention your name in my post....I think not so calm down. All I said was some 'fans' not Outspoken! Get a grip of yourself man!
Wow....someone is a bit paranoid on here!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Some fans we all know who your refering to I'm not saying it's me your refering to but we all know there's a small section of fans always getting bashed on here and it's not right in my opinion.
We are all town fans I don't know how many times I have to say that , we are all town fans no one better than another once your there every week then there's no one better than anyone else.
Well as your so fond of saying Outspoken 'we are as much entitled to an opinion as anyone else'!
Ill get the popcorn and 3D glasses!
And its one only one game into preseason :rolleyes:
Be interesting to see sunday how many of the trialists are back and do the rest of last seasons team come back in to the mix
Athlone were playing the Clare Oscar Traynor Youth team in a friendly tonight, with apparently one or two former Town players in their ranks.
that polish lad if signed could bring a few extra supporters with him, iirc, pats had a promotion a few years ago in polish, might be worth looking into..
As regards the game, early days yet so would be unfair to make too many judgements so far, when the fitness improves and the players get a few more games under their belts we'll know more
Your dead right cabs I told my polish mate about him playing for us and he had a great intrest , he's coming to a few games now and he has a great intrest in the league now so hopefully a few more will do the same.
Barry has the height. Not much went past Barry and Paddy Collins...Barry is very good pals with Alvin so there would be a great understanding between them. I was talkin to Alvin Rouses girlfriend at the game and the impression I get is that he would prefer to sign for us first but understandably he is keepin his options open..I saw Barry deep in talks with TC before the game started in the clubhouse so maybe hes signing too subject to confirmation from ltfc themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
jack morley was on the wing hes pretty fast like cathal brady so they could be a good combination.. A few of us ( the 4 of us!) werent that impressed with piotr- I thought he was a bit off the pace myself.. ie he couldnt keep up with the pace of the game but its early days . TC obviously seems happy with him.. so he knows better than me when he has signed till june..Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
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Originally Posted by outspoken
You have a friend?!! And a Polish one at that!! :D
Frank we know athlone have feck all fans left but thats no reason to troll the longford forum
Eh did ya have a look in Flancare last year Outspoken? Don't make me laugh!!
Still better than Athlone
I think not my friend, although both clubs have fairly poor following at the minute Athlone's is slightly more than Longfords.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
You only had 120 at last home game vs us the worst home attendance we had this season was 140 and that was a tuesday night
And where did you get those estimates from??? I was over in Flancare for a league game with ye and Mervue and if there was 100 people there you'd be happy!
there was 150 at that game as far as i can remember anyway were after taking this thread miles off topic lets just let it go
You're some tool Outspoken! How in the name of God can you remember that?!!! Fact of the matter is both clubs have poor attendances but Athlone's is slightly better! Well if your that good give me your attendances for your first home game with Salthill, second with Wexford and first with Monaghan?!!!!! Seriously lad you have to be better than anybody else.... no wonder no one gets on with you in here! Ye may have a better team than us but we have more supporters in good and bad times....FACT!