He has been in charge just three or four times in LOI beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
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He has been in charge just three or four times in LOI beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Is he related to Ben or Tomás?
Well, he appears to be from the 'North' but now lives in Letterkenny according to this piece: http://ulsterherald.com/2015/03/03/c...ai-elite-list/
Never a dull moment to say the least..................
Greatest League In the World
I don't think we can argue too much about the standard of football in general but you'll rarely leave a LOI match without a bucket load of talking points. Never a dull moment. How could you not love this league?
Does he only do our games? Last night was the 4th time we've had him.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRDoc
Connolly used to be an IFA ref. From Strabane, he's also a GAA ref. Usually fourth official at Finn Park and by accounts of folk up here he's as bad a referee you'll ever see.
Nothing*Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Sligo are fairly awful, no creativity at all. They still have good players, obviously just something not right at the moment down there
*well I got a cup of coffee because I snuck through the gate when the steward wasn't looking, like some sort of Ninja
*up thereQuote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
Was told last night that he is not allowed ref up there anymore. Wasnt told why.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
He fell out with a local league executive committee and ended up being banned from IFA competition because of it, or something along those lines. Ban was eventually lifted but he went off to the Ulster Senior League and onto League of Ireland this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by ATFC-1887
Lee Duffy must be near the top of LOI goalscorers. Some season he is having.
http://soccer-stats.irishtimes.com/?...tr=Comp_ScorerQuote:
Originally Posted by MeathDrog
According to that he has 5.
Danny Furlong top of First Division with 17 goals in 18 games. Serious stuff from him all season.
Such a shame it didn't work out for him during his time with us. I was very excited when we signed him, but it's good to see him doing well againQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Yeah had a look, tonight was his 6th goal. Feels like he's scored more. I suppose it's because he struggle for goals without him.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Bizarre game in Dalymount on Friday, could easily have been 6-4 for Derry. In their frustration their centre half spear tackled Akinade, a League of Ireland first .Paddy Kavanagh got an elbow in the head 20 mins later. Both players had to be taken off.The ref took no action
Hard to decide which of Derry or Sligo most deserve to be relegated.
We had a lot of kids playing on Friday night. Apart from Puri and Cawley don't think any of our team would have gotten anywhere near your squad. That's where a lot of the problem is.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
I presume, yet again, that the Bohs lads didn't do a bad tackle the whole game. Looking forward to the game with Cork on Friday. Won't be a need for a ref at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Delighted with the win on Friday I thought the first half was poor enough , Sligo remind me of Pats under Jeff Kenna they need a steady pair of hands in charge I wouldn't trust Ndo with a kids team. The second half was a huge improvement & when we got the goal we went on to dominate. It was a good debut by Ian Morris out of position & his first game in a year he looks decent , good on ball & cool.The other big plus was another great performance from Jamie McGrath a rising star in the league & the chap just oozes class he is clearly going places , we will be lucky to hang onto him for another year.
An 18 year old, a 19 year old and the rest were all over 23. Average age of your starting team was 24.9. Just sayin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Yeah, hear Fenlon is interested alright.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
Finished 1-1 in oriel park. An improvement on our recent visits but definitely suits dundalk more than us
6 of last years under 19s played. Started with 3 of them, played 45 minutes with 4 of them ended up with 5 of them on the pitch for the last 25 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Just sayin'.
Rovers eased past a woeful Limerick.
Could any Rovers fans on Sean Russell's side hear the abuse he was getting for the last 30 mins? I wonder if he was too far away to hear it.
Jaysus, Harps are - agricultural. Seven yellows all told? Could have had a red before they did. Great win for us though; hopefully sets us up for a promotion run in now
All 7 of those cards were the referees fault of courseQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Sign of any good side, as Caulfield will testify
His father was getting more anyway and I would be shocked if he couldn't hear it.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
You lot are far too used to soft European football.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yup; no nasty tackles in European football...
Tis only a flesh wound.
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All right, we'll call it a draw.
Lot of very silly yellows for professional fouls. Tommy McMonagle needs a kick up the hole for his sending off. Saying that, McNulty was booked for the very first tackle in the game, ref was very trigger happy. Raymond Foy got booked for being taken down inside the UCD box, handful of neutrals there agreed it was a stonewall penalty.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
A pretty poor game though all being said. Neither side played to their best, and Harps ended up with absolutely zero shots on target which tells it's own story. A big win for UCD.
Rovers/Pats would have beat us today. Cork are shocking. How we never got another penalty when Mountany was taking down. Even the Cork fans were laughing
makes up for the joke of a penalty you got in the first half. would someone tell towell to get up off his arse too, wouldn't surprise me if he was still rolling around. at one point he dived up into one of players and fell over and the ref bought it.
dundalk are shocking. played with no striker for the last half an hour. we had them rattled.
terrible crowd for a big game too
No doubt about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
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Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
Both of you are right,2 shoite sides in a very poor game that never lived up to the hype.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
I actually thought it was a very entertaining game, if a little short on quality. Two teams cancelled each other out to an extent but it was played with high tensity and I felt that either team could score at any point, unlike our draws with Rovers where I wanted to burn my retinas out rather than continue watching that dross.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
It was an alright, scrappy game. Dundalk marginally the better team in my entirely unbiased opinion, but far and away the best performance I've seen from Cork since 2012 ;-) Thought we got a soft pen but we're denied a clear one. Overall a decent result for Dundalk, not an easy game after BATE on Wed, so to keep six points clear was grand for us.
Maybe my imagination but Caulfield's sending off probably helped Cork, they seemed to settle after it and dared to play a little bit of football when he wasn't just doing the GAA manager sideline ranting.
Incidentally, Cork's record v Dundalk/Pats/Rovers this season W 0 D 4, L 1.