What three-week break? They call it a fortnight, but it's only a one-weekend break any year to date!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevor Carey
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What three-week break? They call it a fortnight, but it's only a one-weekend break any year to date!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevor Carey
Cork's squad is pretty thin due to injuries, to be fair. O'Connor is their only left-back for a start. They have a bigger squad than Dundalk but they still had to sign 78 year old Dave Mulcahy as defensive cover. It's reasonable that any LOI team would have a game called off. The interesting thing is this will mean Horgan is available to play them, which means it may backfire.Quote:
Originally Posted by GCdfc
You did have probably your easiest non-Longford win of the season against us though. Although, to be fair, you'd have beaten us either way so maybe you have a point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevor Carey
That's what I didn't understand. Were Wexford told to lump it by the FAI or did all teams agree? I can see how it suits Bohs and Dundalk, but not Wexford.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldyouth
Bohs aren't happy about it. They finish the league with 3 away games now
They get a Friday night home game with Dundalk instead of a midweek though so a bigger gate. You might be right though - I assume Bohs weren't consulted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
All three clubs should not only have been consulted but also have agreed.
It would be very unfair to Bohs and Wexford to pay the price for Corks lack of confidence in their squad.
If it were the other way round, would Dundalk play the game if they were to do without Horgan and McMillan? Twive we've done it now this season, regardless of playing a strong Dundalk or a weak Shamrock Rovers and Finn Harps.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
There should simply be no League fixtures on international weekends, and scrap the summer break.
Boohoo. We went 7 weeks without a home game.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Congratulations. I'm very happy for you. However, that doesn't make any difference to Finn Harps financial situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olander
Get on with it. You didn't see us putting out statements moaning like babies and our situation was far more severe than Finn Harps.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Horgan would have been available anyway, he'll serve the second game of his suspension in the cup this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
http://connachttribune.ie/dunne-unha...ome-games-433/Quote:
Originally Posted by Olander
Tommy Dunne wasn't too happy with it anyway. There's an awful lot more moaning in that than what Harps have said.
Besides this, I don't think anyone at Harps were 'moaning like babies'. What exactly was more severe for Galway? Harps have gone three, four weeks and five weeks separately earlier in the season without home games. September 16th is our next home game. Many other clubs are in the same boat though. Fixture planning and dealing with postponements are a shambles in this league.
Post match reaction with a journalist from a local newspaper and a club releasing a statement crying, hardly the same now is it? I'm unsure as to why you're linking that article.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
But what exactly was wrong with that statement? I'm struggling to understand your view here. There was nothing particularly whinge or moany about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olander
What?! That is utterly bizarre. There has to be more to it than that. What are Wexford getting in return?Quote:
Originally Posted by oldyouth
If I was Cork, I'd have played the Dundalk and Finn Harps games and tried to keep the pressure on, especially with the calendar Dundalk have next 3 months.
Now they have two games themselves to re-fix. They could easily have coped with O'Sullivan and/or Shephard up front, I get the point on O'Connor, but that's really only one position. Dundalk played Grimes as left full in Wexford, and started Kilduff away to Galway. Then again, the rule clearly states that any club can request a cancellation if two players are called up, so they must obviously think it is in their best interest. I'd still have gambled and tried to have got points on board.
Cork will also be facing a mid week trip up to Dundalk now instead of a Friday night, also if Cork draw away to Rovers in the cup (not an unlikely event) they could be playing Rovers 3 times in a week.
Think it was mentioned before here, Dundalk definitely fortunate to have only one away game in EL before the league season ends, and that is the closest one, v Alkmaar.
On our re-arranged match v Bohs on Fri, good to see this could have been arranged so quick, its another one out of the way.
Interesting that Dundalk fans don't see missing O'Connor as a big deal, but every single City fan thinks postponing these games is a good idea. We can't afford to play without him. We haven't had a tonne of injuries this season, but they have all come in the back line. John Dunleavy was our first choice right back and second choice left back at the start of the season. Michael McSweeney was our fourth choice centre half and third choice right back and until recently we were playing him at right back every week, hes since been dropped in favour of Stephen Beattie which I don't entirely understand. With him at right back and without Dunleavy we had no backups at centre back, no back ups at right back, and only Kevin O'Connor at left back.
We probably should have done more to strengthen these positions in the window but we have to deal with our squad as it is currently composed. Playing Dundalk without Sean would have been difficult, playing without Kevin would have been impossible.
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Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Its just difficult to understand how a team who are challenging for the title are afraid to play without their first choice left back. Their left back, FFS.
If you saw him play more often then you do then you'd understand.
Maybe they understand they need to be at their best to get a result against the defending champions.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Once the Bohemians match was re-fixed for this weekend, it is no issue for Dundalk that Cork exercised their prerogative to postpone.
Have to say I'm not comfortable with the league fooking Bohs and Wexford around to suit Dundalk. Still, the silver lining is that it's negated Cork's (entirely legitimate) attempt to game the fixture list themselves.
It's hard to balance though, I feel the league have an obligation to support the clubs in Europe, but it's hard to do that without messing up everyone else's fixtures. And someone up thread suggested we should have no league fixtures on an international weekend- that'd help!!
Really? You think our aim was to game the fixture list? Did you notice we also requested the Finn Harps game be postponed? If we were trying to make life difficult for Dundalk why would we have both games postponed? Perhaps we just wanted our full squad available for the games we have to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by seand
Heres a tip, the entire world doesn't revolve around Dundalk.
Yep that's actually a fair point, from having no league game on Friday we now have one to replace the Cork game, albeit its away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
When the Dlk v Cork game is re-fixed, it will almost certainly be a first for a mid week league fixture between the two clubs.
There were cup replays in the past, (almost sure 1987-88 was one) but I can't recall any league games mid week ever.
Fortunately :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Obvs not considering we "COULD" be 10 points clear before you play another league game! If we lose tomorrow and get a game re-fixed for nxt Fri night (Bohs at home still be to played from july) it could be 13 points!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
I dont think Cork thought at all!
It is entirely Cork's prerogative to invoke the postponements (irrespective of the motivations), but it would hardly be feasible to request the postponement of only one of the affected matches.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Come on now - of course not, but the destiny of this years league title probably doesQuote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Do you think Cork would have sought to have both games postponed if they were against, say, Wexford and Harps? I doubt itQuote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Absolutely, I think it'd be fair to say that Cork City's title challenge does though.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Impossible to say. But we did postpone the Harps game, we were under no obligation to do so. We could easily have postponed the Dundalk game and played the Harps game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Rumours in Dundalk today that our game V you will be 2nd last game of season on a Monday, you will be able to give us a guard of honour onto the field as we will have it wrapped up by thenQuote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
If ye have then good for you but don't you think you need to win a few games first ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
Wow talk about tempting faith !!Quote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
if we drop 10 points in our last 12 games, we would finish on 75 points.Quote:
Originally Posted by disgruntled
Cork would need to pick up 31 points out of 36 to win the league. (30 points if they can get back the 10 gd)
Im quite confident 3 in a row will be on way to Oriel
Can't argue with the maths if you drop 10 points from last 12 matches etc. Worth noting perhaps that you have dropped 6 in your last 3 games....Quote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
Cork can be backed for the league title at 5/2 currently
I think that is probably a decent bet.
http://www.oddschecker.com/football/...ivision/winner
It's not easy for both clubs with the fixture back log with both of us playing twice a week for most of the run-in. Dundalk are favourites I think with the GD effectively giving them a 5 point advantage. Both of us still have to go to Sligo which will be a tricky one for both sides. The game that was postponed Friday would've had a massive bearing on the run-in, if dundalk won then it would've been hard to see past them winning it, had we won then it would makes things interesting. Both sides will drop points, I just hope our inability to capitalize on our recent games in hand doesn't come back to haunt us, as had we won them we would be in a great position now.
I don't think you could have 'easily'. I think if you asked for only one game, you'd have been laughed out of itQuote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10