Congratulations UCD on winning the first division. Less said about our game the better, a complete horror show. Thank god I'm in Krakow next week so will miss the dundalk game.
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Congratulations UCD on winning the first division. Less said about our game the better, a complete horror show. Thank god I'm in Krakow next week so will miss the dundalk game.
Whatever about having no fans, etc, UCD have always been a great addition in how they play football with decent young players. Other clubs could learn a lesson from them in that regard.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Missed our match lastnight but delighted with the result. I think it’d be a shame for our lads not to go up. While not at level as UCD, I’ve been delighted in how weve attempted to play the right way, with some good young players. Our squad isn’t the strongest but would like to see some of our young lads get another crack at the premier league (and some of them might if we don’t go up :-(
This was different - the interviewer even raised the same point to him - have a listen on their podcast. Anyhow just my view - congrats on your playoff spot - you were looking shakey early in the season but pulled through.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Congratulations to UCD. Well-deserved.
Congrats PS. Always enjoyed going to Belfield. Nice ground. Great to see the stand full.
Best 1st 45 I’ve seen in Dalyer for years. Don’t ever remember a Bohs side getting a standing ovation coming off at HT. Cork had a horror show in defense and couldn’t cope with the pace of Kelly.
That is football, highs and lows.Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickccfc
I kept reading about Cork not playing well, but still winning. That rarely lasts over a season, league winners need to be playing well for most of the season.
I think this season illustrates Caulfield's deficiencies as a manager. Success in LOI terms means losing players and having to replace them. Good managers have a firm idea of the playing style of their team and recruit players that fit into that style. I don't see that with Caulfield, did he have any plan to integrate Sadlier and McNamee?
It looks like Cork will have to rebuild and will have to decide whether Caulfield has the ability to do this.
How Sheppard stayed on the pitch is a miracle. He was even starting to walk off the pitch himself, then the ref only gave him a yellow!?!
Gutted with our result. 1-0 up and on top we allowed drogs creep back into the game then they score off a free kick that shouldn’t have been but that’s the story of our season. Second half we had 2 glorious chances to win it and didn’t take them then we leave ourselves totally open and concede from our own set piece. Last action was our keeper coming up and skimming the post with a header. It was in our hands, it’s gone now. Unbelievable crowd up from Longford
When you consider some of the players contracted for next season, the scale of the rebuilding job becomes apparent. There is a lot of deadwood in that list. With the likelihood of a reduced playing budget, it is a huge job for anyone to undertake - Caulfied may be part of the problem, rather than part of the solutionQuote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Mark McNulty (2019)
Danny Kane (2019)
Alan Bennett (2019)
Aaron Barry (2019)
Gearoid Morrissey (2019)
Conor McCormack (2019)
Graham Cummins (2019)
Damien Delaney (2019)
Ronan Coughlan (2019)
Karl Sheppard (2019)
Conor McCarthy (2019)
Colm Horgan (2019)
Cian Murphy (2019)
Garry Buckley (2019)
Seán McLoughlin (2019)
Very unfamiliar UCD love-in here the last fortnight! Premier absence must make the heart grow fonder. I trust next season will be back to the usual complaints about no atmosphere and cold temperature. :)
I look forward to the UCD fans joining the growing boycott of Oriel Park:DQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Fair play to UCD - winning a league is always difficult, winning with young, developing players especially so
Was a very tough game to ref because it was so physical but the ref didn't get a handle on it at all. Foul after foul after foul after foul went unpunished. Don't think he was biased, just badQuote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Easy win for Rovers against an utterly woejus Limerick side.
There's definitely a few levels within the premier league, and Limerick & Bray are definitely in a league of their own.
Congrats to the students ( *bag o ****e!).
I look forward to walking to a game next season.
* For all you paul calf fans .
Congrats to UCD, watched the highlights of the Waterford game and they outplayed those overpaid spoofers from the Suir.Wouldnt be surprised if they beat Dundalk.What a nightmare for the FAI that would be !
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Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Wasn't any worse than Penders tackle from behind on Sheppard & he only got a yellow as well.
Great first half display from Bohs. Really played some lovely stuff at times.
Did the same in Cork earlier on in the season & were very unlucky then not to go away with something from the game.
If Bohs can keep hold of their players & build on it they will be a fine side.
Some very exciting young talent there.
massive congrats to UCD on their success. long overdue.
as for us mcglade hasnt being the same player since before the cork cup match. I strongly suspect hes off at the end of the season. ref yet again awful. the free that drogs scored from that wall was 15 yards back instead of 10 yards as per norm. We have being too inconsistent this season. The injuries that were building up week by week didnt help matters to say the least.
I have a feeling that Bohs will beat Derry next week and will beat Cork in the FAI Cup. I think they are a sneaky bet for the FAI Cup!
11/1 to win the cup. That's not attractive enough odds, considering Bohs have to overcome Derry (away) and Cork (home) before beating either Dundalk or UCD in the final to collect the betQuote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
BUT,BUT,....sure according to all and sundry who think they matter down here Tommy is doing a great job after being handed a turkey at seasons start and the whole squad are going through a brick wall etc,etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
Two observations from last night.
The First Division medals are crap. Probably cost €2 each. The FAI outdoing themselves once again.
The First Division trophy is 6 years old, and it's in bits. It's bent at the neck, the base is loose and the band lifts off.
Tis a great aul league we have...
One who didn't know better might imagine that rowdy UCD fans had damaged it and are covering their tracks.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
It was fine when we had it a few years ago.
A scurrilous accusation. Sure you saw John83 on facebook denying that very possibility! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Very fond memories of Ryano/rhino Ian Ryan here in Dundalk.
Got a raw deal along with John Gill after promotion in 2008.
Eh actually think we might have put the dent in it hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
**** club, no fans, bring nothing to the PD. Happy:pQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Was watching on TV so I obviously didn't see any off the ball stuff but something tells me you might be exaggerating it a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
As for Sheppard, the ball barely made it into the box and he obviously thought he could nick it from Supple before he could pick it up. Mistimed. You're also conveniently forgetting "scumbag" Supple dragging Shep to the ground by the neck.
I see Brendan Clarke scored a penalty for Pats against Sligo last night
I remember Matt Gregg scoring for UCD against Cobh 10 years ago, have any other goalkeepers scored goals in the LOI before?
Limerick keeper scored with a long punt that bounced over Galway keeper Van Boxtel about 20 years ago on a cold night in Galway.Quote:
Originally Posted by total hoofball
Was it Eddie Hickey?
Billy Brennan missed a penalty in a League Cup quarter-final the same year Matt Gregg scored against Cobh. He'd already scored five for the 21s by that stage. I don't think any senior club (anywhere, possibly) has had two keepers score in the same season.
As a kid i remember a goal scored direct from a kick out in oriel park. It was league game in the late 70’s I think. Richie Blackmore (Dundalk) and Alex Ludzig (Prob Waterford) were the two keepers, I just can’t recall which one scored !!!!
Edit: It was Alex Ludzig who scored for Cork Alberts* v Richie Blackmore of Dundalk, late 70’s still the period.
*There was also a club called Cork Albert (no s) around this time, so it was def v whoever was in the league that season.
At the time I thought it looked a straight red for Sheppard, on replay it was a yellow, just shows how hard it is for refs at times to make a decision on the spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by sullanefc
The complete absence of this kind of talk is a symbol of the marked decline of foot.ie over the past decade.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Quite a few others as well as those mentioned. I think Jody Byrne scored one for Monaghan about 20 years ago, and there was one at a UCD match in the past 10 years or so. Tom Lally was Galway's top scorer with 4 penalties their first season in the leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by total hoofball
Anyone catch an official attendance figure for Bohs v Cork City?
Thanks
On this topic (and completely off-thread), I was at the U16 FAI cup final in 2009 (I had to look that part up), between Greenwood and Salthill Devon, and current Cork Hurler & Footballer Damien Cahalane, who was on goal for Greenwood, scored from his hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Match report here. https://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/j...-27912023.html
It's interesting to note that as well as Cahalane, Greenwood had current Irish international and Sheffield Utd. player John Egan, and the now former Cork City and Cobh Ramblers player Eoin McGreevey. Salthill had Daryl Horgan and Enda Curran in their side.
So we have a few penos and a couple of length of the field punts, but has a League of Ireland keeper ever scored coming up for a corner/free? I remember Barry Murphy putting a header narrowly over in a Rovers-Bohs match and I rememeber Tony O'Dowd coming up for a late Pats corner at Dundalk only for Brian Byrne to score on the break, but I can't remember an incident of a keeper scoring a header or goal mouth melee.
Our keeper Mick Kelly glanced a header a whisker wide in the last play of the game on Friday up in Drogheda. I was sure it was going in at the time. Can be watched on the highlights on Town's youtube channel. I don't know of one myself but I'm sure there has been one scored like this at some stage though.Quote:
Originally Posted by seand
Matt Gregg scored coming up for a free; that's the UCD one mentioned above.
Also, Conor Kearns scored a bicycle kick from a corner for UCD U19s away to Cork a couple of years back and got invited onto Soccer AM to recreate it. He's our first choice keeper now.
Excellent collection! I had thought Gregg's was a long punt. There's a video of Kearns' effort isn't there?