Matches w/e 21 Sept

300 initial allocation. Dundalk fans complained about distribution. 200 more sent up when it was clear we weren't selling out. Dundalk choose to not announce that and have their ceo have a pop at us on twitter before later removing it. Not sure how they were allocated, but people on orielweb aren't happy.

Ye can have a pop at us on here all ye want, but it doesn't deflect from the absolute clusterfu*k your own club made of ticket allocation.

Dundalk haven't brought more than 500 down at any time in recent memory. 500 is a reasonable ticket allocation. It will be 2 blocks when including the mandatory segregation from the Gardaí.

Given we also have our own regulars who sit in that stand, setting aside half the stand to accommodate ye is plenty reasonable.

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Originally Posted by shep

As far as I know there was 180 on a list of people who queued and did not get a ticket on the morning tickets went on sale. It seems most have been sorted now thankfully. Really looking forward to the game now. Hope we stuff yas...should be a cracking atmosphere.

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Honestly, I'm dreading it and can't imagine the atmosphere on our side will be great. It's a lose lose situation. A win for us does nothing but push ye're title win out a week and more importantly restore a little pride after recent weeks. But regardless of scoreline, I won't exactly be walking away after the game celebrating. At best it's a' what might have been'. Draw or lose and the drama continues.

I'm sure ye'll have a ball though!

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Originally Posted by micls

300 initial allocation. Dundalk fans complained about distribution. 200 more sent up when it was clear we weren't selling out. Dundalk choose to not announce that and have their ceo have a pop at us on twitter before later removing it. Not sure how they were allocated, but people on orielweb aren't happy.

Ye can have a pop at us on here all ye want, but it doesn't deflect from the absolute clusterfu*k your own club made of ticket allocation.

Dundalk haven't brought more than 500 down at any time in recent memory. 500 is a reasonable ticket allocation. It will be 2 blocks when including the mandatory segregation from the Gardaí.

Given we also have our own regulars who sit in that stand, setting aside half the stand to accommodate ye is plenty reasonable.

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Even as someone with close ties to Dundalk I thought their outrage over the ticketing was a bit petty even before this revelation around the extra 200 tickets broke. It’s cork home game it’s corks right to decide how many away fans they want to allow in, as you said there’s regulars who sit in that stand and you’ve given up half of it, fair play. The cost of Gardai is one very few ever mention also. Before the Bohs result it was fully expected this would sell out in cork they were right to want as many home fans in as possible.

The 'outrage' centred on how tickets were allocated by Dundalk FC, when it became apparent that Turners Cross wouldnt sell out some annoyance ended up in Cork direction as the problem could be solved by a sending a few more tickets our direction but where told no chance. DFC club CEO said that a request for additional tickets was made but unlikely to happen, DFC fans got cranky. Additional tickets did get allocated in the end and that cleared the waiting list and end of outrage. But then there are claims from Cork fans of the additional tickets being also misallocated? Prior to the additional tickets the club Chairman(not CEO) tweeted on the issue and then took down the tweet when more tickets eventually were allocated. Not announcing the additional tickets was due to them already being 'sold'. You are not incorrect per se micls but your timeline is slightly out.

There is talk of training bust up at Cork this week which Im sure is bs from some Dundalk fan trying to stir, the way football fans tend to do at times and should be ignored, not get offended by faux outrage!

We'll have to disagree on the timeline. The tickets were sent up before your chairman took to twitter to complain publicly about another club (not a great way to build relationships for the future).

Is it the contention of the cork fans on here that dundalk should have covered up the misbehaviour of their CEO??

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Originally Posted by Lim till i die

Is it the contention of the cork fans on here that dundalk should have covered up the misbehaviour of their CEO??

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I don't really understand the question?

I don't expect the dundalk fans to do anything in relation to the CEO, it was just a comment on his actions. The story goes he didn't know more tickets had been sent up when he had a pop, and deleted it when he realised. Who knows though.

My contention is that the allocation was reasonable, more tickets were sent up when we lost to Bohs, as I predicted in my original post, and the real drama has come from dundalks distribution initially, not from ourselves.

The club has also contacted ticketmaster to tell them to move anyone with a dundalk address to the away section. So those who bought home end tickets for fear of missing out are now being accommodated in the away end.

Not sure what more can be expected of the club, despite the complaints that have been going around from dundalk fans. I think it's been handled reasonably.

For starters it was the Chariman who tweeted, Chicago based Mike Tracey, not the CEO Mal Brannigan who is based in Oriel Park. The tweet happened when, Tuesday night, Wednesday morning. There was no sign of additional tickets at that point.

There havent been complaints since people were generally sorted with tickets. Much appreciated CCFC, good work on the Ticketmaster ticketholders too!!!!!

As for building relations between the clubs in the future? I didnt realise Cork fans cared that much!! We shall get on to our chairman and you can have a word with those in Cork especially the official Twitter and fans fora...

I couldn't care less about the relationships your staff chooses to build. Again, an observation. I would however be disappointed if our chairman tweeted similar.

Cork continue where they left off at Dalymount.

Hoban had acres of space.

Was that Chris Shields or Zinedine Zidane?

I preferred you both, when you were in the 1st Division:p

How many times has “long ball up to Cummins” been said already? Very one dimensional from cork. Let it stay that way.

FfS - thought this was a 7.30 kick off. Turn on and there's 20 minutes gone and Dundalk 1 up. Cork seem to have gone to the dogs from what I've seen so far. Bobs will fancy their chances in the semi final.

Caulfield sent to the stand!

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Originally Posted by micls

I couldn't care less about the relationships your staff chooses to build. Again, an observation. I would however be disappointed if our chairman tweeted similar.

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That's what I thought! Why mention it though as an issue? If I were a Cork person (ugh!!) would be disappointed with some of the conduct of Cork officials, players, social media accounts and the like so I et where your disappointment is coming from.

JC showing his discipline as per usual!!

That's typical Caulfield for you. Surely his days are numbered if it stays like this?

Jaysis Cork are abysmal,can't lay a glove on Dundalk,

I see Deadly Buzz has come on for Cork. :D

1-0 down in the 89th minute and they bring on a centre-back :loser:

He knows where the goals are.

Bad night for Cork, outsung and outplayed for 90 minutes.

Pat Hoban doing a Leigh Griffiths at the goalposts, cheeky😝

Fair play to the Cork fans, its not often a Dundalk side gets a standing ovation from their Shed.

Athlone have managed to achieve the unimaginable - an entire season without a single win on the field of play. They are lying in the gutter facedown and no artifical pitch will cover the muck this season has been. It is disgusting what people in privaleged (spelling?) positions in Ireland get away with and the Athlone chairman is a prime example of same.

For the record I have boycotted the club all season but will attend this season's FAI cup final no matter who is in it.

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Originally Posted by White Horse

Fair play to the Cork fans, its not often a Dundalk side gets a standing ovation from their Shed.

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Its showed more class than Caulfield!

jaysis Cork are in a jocker Good job the league is over soon as they may even have been caught for 2nd spot by us or Swindon on Suir. The Northside red and Black will be lickin their chops off with the thoughts of beating Cork and getting to a final.

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Originally Posted by Kingswood Rover

jaysis Cork are in a jocker Good job the league is over soon as they may even have been caught for 2nd spot by us or Swindon on Suir. The Northside red and Black will be lickin their chops off with the thoughts of beating Cork and getting to a final.

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We have to win all our games and they lose all theirs to pip them. Waterford can't.

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Originally Posted by Scrufil

Athlone have managed to achieve the unimaginable - an entire season without a single win on the field of play. They are lying in the gutter facedown and no artifical pitch will cover the muck this season has been. It is disgusting what people in privaleged (spelling?) positions in Ireland get away with and the Athlone chairman is a prime example of same.

For the record I have boycotted the club all season but will attend this season's FAI cup final no matter who is in it.

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Athlone played very positive football last night and the result could easily have gone their way if they took very good chances. Obvious that both sides were very low on confidence

Cork City said they would not give up their title without a fight and they were true to their word.

But while they might have gone down swinging in the tunnel area at half-time, they could not land a punch on the pitch.

https://www.thesun.ie/sport/football...-league-title/

That is just being plain cruel. Taken from Neil O'Riordan's match report.

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Originally Posted by Scrufil

Athlone have managed to achieve the unimaginable - an entire season without a single win on the field of play. They are lying in the gutter facedown and no artifical pitch will cover the muck this season has been. It is disgusting what people in privaleged (spelling?) positions in Ireland get away with and the Athlone chairman is a prime example of same.

For the record I have boycotted the club all season but will attend this season's FAI cup final no matter who is in it.

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whats going to happen to ye Scurfil after the season is over? I really do miss the midland derbies and the proper matches ie 2013 season. Its sad to see this happen to a once great club. MOC I never had much time for him after our two years in the doldrum under him!

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Originally Posted by Johnnie C

Pat Hoban doing a Leigh Griffiths at the goalposts, cheeky

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Not very original & pity there was no one still in the stadium to watch it ;)
At least the groundsman got a souvenir.
Dundalk were streets ahead of us & won handily.
Well done to them. Best team in the League by a long way.

Not sure what we can do against Bohs in the Cup.
We'll be doing well to get a replay from it.

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Originally Posted by disgruntled

Not very original & pity there was no one still in the stadium to watch it ;)
At least the groundsman got a souvenir.

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https://www.sportsfile.com/winshare/...56/1579241.jpg

I had read he'd tied it to the goalpost. Hung it on the goal doesn't have the same ring to it I suppose!

They're deserved champions and gonna celebrate it. Sounds like some of the quality of singing from the dressing room after was far more offensive than a scarf....

It was an odd one in a way. I felt like the dundalk players actually celebrated the first win up in Oriel more than last night at the final whistle. I guess that was a monkey off the back moment, whereas last night the league was won either way.

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Originally Posted by micls

It was an odd one in a way. I felt like the dundalk players actually celebrated the first win up in Oriel more than last night at the final whistle. I guess that was a monkey off the back moment, whereas last night the league was won either way.

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That first game was important as they proved to themselves that they could compete in head to head games against Cork. Over the previous two years, Dundalk would play well against Cork but end up losing.

Kenny altered his tactics against Cork this season. They play longer and don't play out from the back as much. John Mountney was a very important outlet for Dundalk last night. He is great in the air and Rogers plays long to him a lot.

He didnt get a chance to tie it as there was a steward closing in. Either way I think its unnecessary. Ye know that stuff you were saying micls about expecting certain standards rom players and club officials, well this is one of them and i think it was a cheap attempt to antagonise. Waste of a good scarf too! Singing in the dressing room after a result that all but seals the league would have been expected- Maybe f*ck the rebel army was in there as a bit of craic and banter.

I see Caulfield's sending off was in his defence of a player being 'intimidated' according to Cotter. Was that what happened in Waterford, or in Oriel Park this season, he was just defending the honour of his players. Funny that each time he was losing so really he is just a very ill tempered loser isnt he. 3 times in one season is too much for a manager to be in the stands unless you are Ollie Horgan and then in some way its salt of the earth cool!

The singing was certainly expected. I don't think there was anything antagonistic, but not sure your lads version of wonder wall was less painful!

3 times is too much. I don't know the details of what happened last night, but it sounds like Caulfield stepped in to stop Beattie getting sent off. Beyond that, I dunno what happened for the red.

Well maybe if this time he took one for the benefit of the team not being down to 10 men it was a shrewd move but still.

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Originally Posted by micls

but not sure your lads version of wonder wall was less painful!

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Apparently they were signing "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley, which has become an unofficial club anthem over the past few years.

There was a right sing song. Wonderwall definitely got a blast too.