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Originally Posted by BobtheDrog
:D :D :D
1 and a half matches against premier opposition now and a win and a draw under our belt. Bring on the harps on the 4th of march!
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Originally Posted by BobtheDrog
:D :D :D
1 and a half matches against premier opposition now and a win and a draw under our belt. Bring on the harps on the 4th of march!
Sevilla (La Liga) v Longford
Wednesday night
In Seville
Rovers in Omagh tomorrow night. Wonder will a car full of b**z fans go up?! :D
KOH
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Originally Posted by NY Hoop
Watch you don't run into a load of Linfield fans trying to get to the Brandy :eek:
Omagh V Rovers is off tomorrow . SOme problem with their floodlights apparently.
Sunday 27th Feb - Finn Harps V Lisburn Distillery - Finn Park, KO 3.00pm (may be changed to 1pm)
Tuesday 1st March - Coleraine V Finn Harps - Coleraine Showgrounds, 7.30pm
Friday 4th March - Galway Utd V Finn Harps - Terryland Park, 7.30pm
Sunday 6th March - Sligo Rovers V Finn Harps - Showgrounds, 3.00pm
Tuesday 8th March - Finn Harps V Northern Ireland Youths - Finn Park, 7.45pm
St James's Gate v Monaghan United, scheduled for the Iveagh Grounds tonight is OFF due to the inclement weather.
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Originally Posted by DE TOWN
ooooh are yiz gettin an appearance fee :D
Naturally :) ..We're also playing a team from the Danish Premier League FC Mijtylland or something like that, finished 2nd last season seemingly, that's being played in Spain this week too
Derry 1 - 1 Linfield.
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A crowd of around 2,000 are at the Brandywell and there are no reports of any trouble before the game.
Recent signing Brian Cash has a great early chance for Derry after being set up by Gary Beckett but Linfield goalkeeper Greg Shannon makes a fine save.
Killian Brennan is fouled in the box by Linfield's Barry Spence in the 10th minute and Alan Murphy makes no mistake from the spot to put Derry ahead.
Brian Cash has another great chance but he nods a backpost header wide.
Gary Beckett misses another great chance moments later as Derry continue to dominate against a below-strength Blues line-up.
Linfield improve in the 15 minutes before half-time without creating any real chances and Derry lead 1-0 at the interval.
Shea Campbell has Linfield's best chance of the game in the 61st minute but Derry goalkeeper David Forde saves with his legs.
Gary Beckett has a chance for Derry three minutes later but shoots over the bar.
Goalscorer Murphy is denied by Greg Shannon 17 minutes from time.
Linfield level seven minutes from time with Mark Picking hammering in a great shot from 16 yards after Derry fail to clear following a Blues corner.
The match finishes in a 1-1 draw and there appears to be nothing untoward to report off the field despite the security worries before the game.
Sevilla 3 Longford Town 2..Town were 2-0 up with an hour gone but got caught a little for fitness against a strong Sevilla team
Herald says it was a makeshift Seville team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Shels drew 0-0 with spanish 2nd division side Marbella
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Originally Posted by Roo69
Mirror says there were 6 first team regulars in the Seville team
6 first teamers featured at some stage as far as im aware. Let's face it, any side Sevilla put out is bound to be decent. All their players were available and full mangement and coaching staff were in charge
drogs lost 2-1 to newry tuesday night alan reilly with the goal, declan 'fabio' o brien missing a penalty. new signing finnish international sami ristilia was stretchered off with 5 minutes gone after injuring his knee
Taken from the official Shels site....
We're looking good pre season.Quote:
Shels see off Swiss in Spain
Friday 25 Feb 2005 --Shelbourne 4 - 1 FC Chiasso
Shelbourne completed their week-long training camp in Marbella Spain, on a high note, running out easy four one winners over FC Chiasso from Switzerland. Earlier in the week, the Irish champions had drawn nil all with local side Marbella.
Glen Crowe and Gary O'Neill were on the mark again - both having scored two weeks ago in the first pre-season game against Kildare County. Jason Byrne, who was a later starter back training because of illness, also opened his account scoring in the second half when he came on as a substitute.
Overall, manager Pat Fenlon was very happy with the weeks work in Spain. He told Shelsweb: " It was great to have all the lads together for a full week, particulary the five new signings we've added.We got through a huge amount of work and it helps to gel the squad together." There's good news on the injury front too with all players reporting a clean bill of health apart from a couple of very minor knocks.
Team: S Williams. O Heary, K Doherty, D Rogers, D Crawley. R Baker, A Cawley, J Crawford, O Cahill, G O'Neill, G Rowe.
Subs at half-time: C Hawkins for Rogers. J Byrne for O'Neill. G Crowe for Rowe. S Byrne for Crawford. B Ryan for Baker.
Scorers: G O'Neill, J Byrne, G Crowe(2)
What division are Chiasso in?
The one below the premier, that everyones favourite side, FC Vaduz, play in. They're fifth, there's a table here. Seems odd for them to goto Spain to play us in a friendly during their season.
Currently fifth in the Swiss second flight with a game in hand on fourth. Ten points behind Vaduz after 17 games!
FC Midtjylland finished 6th last season but are however in 2nd place this season 10 points behind Brondby.
Seville also played in the UEFA Cup midweek so Im not too sure now regular these first team regualrs were? Has anyone got the Seville team line up.
Oh and FC Chaisso also beat FC Vaduz in their second last league game the played :D
I highly doubt that seeing as they were involved in a uefa cup match 2 days later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Also, St. Pats beat Kildare 5-0 today in Richmond Park. Robbie Doyle, Gaey McPhee, Colm Foley and 2 from Daragh Maguire
FC Midtjylland 1-0 Longford Town
Dont know what sort of teams were put out etc.
It was 5-2, Kildare scored twice in the last five minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roo69
UCD 3- 0 Kilkenny
Sligo Rovers 1-1 Shamrock Rovers
Kupono Low for Rovers, cant remember who scored for Shams(Willo something I think)
Kildare seem to be struggling...6-1 v. Shels and 5-2 v. Pat's? I would have had them up for the First Division title race!
Pat McWalter, Adrian Murphy (on his debut) and Mick O'Donnell scored for UCD.
McDonagh scored for Shamrock Rovers.
i left with 5/10 to go when st. pats made a rake load of changesQuote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
What about Drogs? Beaten by Galway 1-0, and beat by Newry 2-1.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
We drew 2-2 with Athlone
True. Rovers not doing too well either.
Makes our 3-0 win v. Kilkenny look like European form! :D
I never said first team regulars, just meant players that have played for their first team. By all accounts it was mainly younger players and senior players returning from injury but included some Spanish U-21 internationals and such like. Either way it doesn't really matter, they were going to be fairly good. FC Midtjylland had a full strength team out as did we. From all reports the training trip was highly beneficial and it was good to play different opposition. No point making quick judgements on pre-season games really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roo69
Finn Harps 0-1 Lisburn Distillery
Harps fielded a mainly young team for there first freindly of the season. Not much to report from this one I heard the goal was a bit of a Goalkeeping blunder(keeping with the times :D ). Left at half time to watch the rugby
Harpskid or someone else may be able to fill in all the gorry details
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Originally Posted by dancinpants
Shocking match, we made serious defending errors, 2 goals scored by two defenders too....big Delaney actually knocked one in :eek:
Smallest crowd ever at the Brandywell, official figure was 174 I hear.
Sunday at 5pm does not work especially with the Rugby and British league cup final on tv.
Our defence was terrible for the first but the second was surely offside!Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
We worked hard for the draw though, almost nicked a win near the end
with Alan Kellys half volley.
Danny O'Leary had a stormer for us in goal.
Not much action tbh Neish. Felix fielded a blend of the new youngsters and the experienced heads and experimented with a few different formations. The lads look really fit and also tried to play football rather than the auld route one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neish
Goal came courtesy of a mistake by James Gallagher.
I was impressed with Seamus Browne who played the second half, was unlucky not to score a couple of times.
Good run out and hopefully Felix will have learned a lot about the lads.
Next run out is away to Coleraine tomorrow night
Pre season friendly results mean nothing. I wouldn't get carried away if we won every pre season game.
Shels are away to Hartlepool today. It's a strange one, we played the exact same fixture last season, not sure if it's just coincidence or what.
Finished 0-0. Awful weather conditions ruined the game, apparently.
Shamrock Rovers 3 - 2 Irish Amateurs
Ticket prices confirmed for Drogs-Leeds clash
February 27, 2005
The ticket prices for the March 20th charity meeting of eircom League Premier Division club Drogheda United and English Championship side Leeds United have been confirmed, with half of the gate receipts to go to the Gary Kelly Cancer Support Centre.
Kelly will be in the Leeds side for the friendly meeting against his hometown club.
Admission to the game, which has a 12 noon kick-off on Sunday, March 20th, has been announced as €25 (stand), €20 (ground) and €10 for students and old-age pensioners.
Leeds, currently in 10th place in the Championship table, have no game in England that weekend and consequently will be expected to bring a strong squad to United Park.
The game is sure to be an emotional homecoming for Kelly, who lost his sister Mandy to cancer in 1998, a bereavement which prompted him to set up the Cancer Support Centre in Drogheda last year
Harps were beaten 3-1 by Coleraine last night in the Pat Mc Allister testmonial game. Kevin Mc Hugh grabbed Harps goal.