I'd say McGeady was certain to start if he wasn't injured so I don't think he'd change the formation this late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
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I'd say McGeady was certain to start if he wasn't injured so I don't think he'd change the formation this late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
It could be a 4-3-3 as Andrews, Gibson and Lawrence would suit that. Keogh could drop off the front two.
If 4-4-2 it's just wrong. Only one natural wide player, and right footed so somebody would have to be playing on the wrong side, and neither would be as versatile in that regard as Duff or McGeady, or even Hunt.
Trap would have to be a very good mood to hand out a free role.
so wonder will the fai deceide to hand out free tickets tomorrow ... usually you would normally release a load of free schoolboy tickets to try and increase attendance ... :confused::confused: then again when you let most of your first choice 11 return to clubs in england seems to show a total lack of respect to the paying fans .. christ i have a feeling it is going to be a brutal game with no atmosphere at all..:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Colbert Report
I take it you can buy tickets at the gate?
The great Munster sporting public eh! Counting the days until a return to Lawnsdowne. Playing in the RDS or Tallaght Stadium with the temp stands up ala the Real Madrid game would even have been preferable to a crowd of 9,000 or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by old git
O'Shea and McGeady have been excused from the game because of injury fears.
this game could set a new record for first starts.
dont think the location has anything to do with the poor sales of tickets........if the game was on in dublin they would still struggle to sell tickets, especially with the poor quality of players on showQuote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
Not sure if that's just a typo but the team was announced earlier Tets. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
http://foot.ie/forums/showpost.php?p...4&postcount=36
With a population about a dozen times bigger, even the same ratio of atendees per population would fill a 26,000 seater stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by abbeyvale
I live in Limerick, and apart from a few flags on O'Connell street and on the roads around Thomond Park, I've seen nothing anywhere about the game. The FAI seems to have seriously over-estimated the interest Limerick people will have in attending an "event", even when that event is meaningless.
I'm going, but only because I got a free ticket from Limerick FC.
I have a spare East Terrace ticket for this which I'll sell for €20. PM if interested
d;oh, missed thatQuote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
saw the report on skysports.com and just dumped it at the end of the thread
fair point ,,, but it also helps if fai try and sell games a bit more only real advertisment i have seen is on their website .. hardly a mention of games in local press ./ radio etc.. me thinks fai just asumed the paying public would turn up to watch the mighty aussies and the mighty south africa and in fairness performance against australia was s**t and then you let 9 first team players return to england before tomorrow nights match.. overall a pr diaster by the fai ... looks like the great munster sporting public don't follow soccer ... but then again why are the great leinster / connacht public not coming down to limerick to support ireland :mad::mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
they should never play friendly games down in limerick again. disaster.
Unfortunately it will probably be the last game played outside Dublin for many a year. Whether it be the lack of advertising, the resession, absence of star players or whatever the reason: the sporting public of the area have declined the chance to see the team play. If the game was played in Dublin, you could expect 25,000 at the game.
Must admit I debating myself whether to go or not, its not a long journey from Galway but on a miserable wet day going to see the 2nd string in a brutal atmostphere isnt the most appealing prospect in the world.
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Originally Posted by Duggie
Lads, back up in fairness. I think it'd be a very interesting exercise to find out what proportion of whoever does turn up are locals and how many dubs bothered their @rses to travel on these very rare occasions they've been asked to do so. The rest of us have to travel for every game and do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
The population of Limerick is about 80,000 when the colleges are closed and closer to 100,000 during semester. Did you seriously expect 1 in 4 of the local population to buy overpriced tickets to watch an underperforming team in a less than glamouous midweek friendly? (I'm not remotely bothered by the absentees btw ...happy to see them get game time)
its got nothing to do with ticket prices or who is in the starting eleven IMO. think its just nobody cares about soccer much in limerick or the surrounding areas. rugby country and thats fine. sooner lansdown is open again the better.
no soccer fans in Cork then? Or Galway? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
I think the fact that the fringe players are been given a run out is a great idea and will make the friendly much more competitive and interesting than if the best regular XI started. At least we'll learn something tonight.
Interesting tactic by the FAI to get numbers in tonight, tickets for Italy game going on sale in Thomond Park tonight:
http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=c...tid=1&Itemid=8