Full time. Bohs lose 3-1
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Full time. Bohs lose 3-1
Paul Cummins gone off for Limerick with a broken leg. Playing 10 minutes injury time now.
Full time in Sligo.
Title race now wide open.
:D
League break couldn't have come at a worse time for us!
terrible news.Quote:
Originally Posted by atfconline
Hynes on for Madden.
Anything we get out of this will be a pure mugging.
Mons 2 - UCD 2
Scorer 9 Ciaran Kilduff 85min
Mons sub 4 conor mc mahon replaced by 12 stephen mc crossan
Mons 2 - UCD 3 scorer 14 Timmy Purcell 89min
FT Mons 2 - UCD 3
Still 0-0 at Tolka.
3 minutes for the great escape.
I'll give you the money meself! :D
1 nil
The money's safe.
All over at Tolka. 1-0 Shels. No quibbles, best team didn't win by enough! :)
Harps 2 up on Mervue.
I must say Padraig Sutton is right up with the worst referees in Ireland after an incompetent display tonight, surely Drogheda will agree.
Jay missed a penalty after half an hour, and he made it easy for the keeper.
Derek O'Brien and David Cooke were brutal, Cooke is not good enough for the Premier
Very happy with the performance tonight. We played great football for once instead of all the hoofing we usually do. Turning point was when Mansaram went off injured and Mulvenna moved up top with Rowe.
First two goals were great finishes and Mulvenna deserved his luck for the third goal.
Bray where simply awful tonight, how in the name of god are they not last, completly different team that played us earlier in the season!
They announced FT Mons 2 - Ucd 1 in Tolka. Was so excited :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Ah well. Decent 3 points for us anyway.
Bray were very poor alright - dont think that they even created a single clear cut chance - and a four or five goal win would not have flattered Dundalk. Mansaram going off injured changed the attacking style for the better, with little emphasis on the long ball rubbish - Mulvenna and Rowe did very well tonight as central strikersQuote:
Originally Posted by Black and White
Drogheda, Sligo, Pats and Galway have also been poor at Oriel Park this season (despite Pats & Sligo winning). It's all the more reason for both disappointment for results to date, and optimism about the potential to achieve 5th, 6th or 7th by seasons end
Bray seem to be getting worse all the time. Mathews is a cute whore; wouldn't be surprised to see him keep Drawda up.
More like, how in the name of God did they beat us 3-1?! I reckon they will finish 9th or 10th.Quote:
Originally Posted by Black and White
It was the plastic pitch. Clearly! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Black and White
Bray have problems with injuries and suspensions at the moment. Our squad is young, and small, and it's playing havoc with the overall ability and cohesion of the starting XI we're able to put out each week. Hopefully we'll be able to get a bit of stability back, because when we play well, we can play very well.
I thought ye where only missing Paddy Kavanagh and Deans tonight?seemed to be a full team other than that! Your defence was destroyed by Rowe and Mulvenna tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
Great result tonight. Not only did we win but we played quite well and deserved it. Hopefully Mark O Briens alright. Looked like a bad knock. Hopefully we can follow in from this win. Its just a shame our next league match isnt for 2 weeks.
[quote=GalwayRed;1172959]Great result tonight. Not only did we win but we played quite well and deserved it. Hopefully Mark O Briens alright. Looked like a bad knock. Hopefully we can follow in from this win. Its just a shame our next league match isnt for 2 weeks.[/quote]
I think alot of teams will be thinking the exact same dude. We couldnt have had a worse possible time for the cup break to come because our next game is at Cork who aint doing well atm and I think we could have got a result down there if that game took place next week!
In all the games I've seen this season, the best I've seen any team play against us was Bray's second half at the Carlisle Grounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Black and White
Yeah, I think tonight's one of those big, big results for UCD- being able to grind out an important result away from home, especially after not winning in a couple of games.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlasnevinRed
What happened? Was it just a bad collision?Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayRed
Great performance from Harps tonight, 6 or 7 nil would not have flattered us. We had 3 attempts cleared off the line and the Mervue 'keeper made 2 top notch saves.
Saying that, Mervue are a very poor side but at least we are putting away that kind of side.
7 points out a possible 9 lately :eek: Title race wide open :p
2 weeks? Consider yourself lucky. We don't play at home again until the first week in July, and we are meant to survive until then on a paltry attendance of less than 500 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayRed
Yeah it was a collision with O Brien going up for a header. He took a bad knock to the head and had to be stretchered off. He was down for quite a few minutes before being moved onto the stretcher. Hopefully hes alright.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
I'm not gonna say what happened O'Brien was an accident, because it wasn't. I know the typical thing to say in situations like that is that it isn't in his character and all that, but the chap should be ashamed of himself, pure violence. Just hope Mark is ok. Excellent performance, Flood is too good.
Less then 500:eek: Thats worse than the Derry game and I thought that was only bad because it was a Thursday.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufc2000
Sure our next home league game isnt until the start of July either and I cant imagine Crumlin on a Tuesday night will attract the masses. Technically crumlin are the home team anyway.
Maybe you were in a better position to see it then me? What did he do? Looked like a routine challenge for a header to me but I was behind the goals so not the best position to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by CSFShels
You sound shocked by our attendance. I'm not, the Galway public have deserted usQuote:
Originally Posted by GalwayRed
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Originally Posted by gufc2000
I'm surprised, your doing well in the league this year, would've espected biger attendances this year after a relegation battle last year.
I am. I was shocked at the Derry match with how few people showed up. Why the desertion? Last year attendences at Terryland were higher and you were fighting relegation all season. This year youre mid table and have lowered ticket prices. Less than 500 at a premier division match is pretty shocking to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufc2000
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Originally Posted by sligofan4ever
Agree with ye lads, its bemusing. 500 is shocking, and with us only almost half way through the season, they could drop even more. Back in 2007 we played hoofball for 90 minutes under Cousins, defended for our lives and rarely scored, but got crowds of 2000+. Now Foster has us playing our best footbaal for a while and we are defying odds, but now there is usually less than 1000Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayRed
Yeah it was right in front of where I was sitting, the chap just went straight through him, one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life, I honestly feared for Mark. It was blatantly clear he wasn't getting near the ball, but he wasn't backing down anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayRed
First game I've enjoyed in months. 9 players out injured and we thoroughly deserved to beat Bohs.
Jester getting a cracker topped the night
When are we going to get some luck? :-(
and a new keeper?:mad:
Why?..... Our last year in the First Division was semi-successful, we were challenging for the league and crowds got quite large towards the end of that season.Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayRed
From that the hype from been back in the premier along with the on the field success of the previous season saw bumper crowds arrive up to Terryland, a home win wasn't forthcoming until after the half way mark of the season, the crowds were slowly dropping and were around the 2k mark when we won that game.
Finished the season with around 2/3 home wins
On to last season, again a good starting crowd of round the 2,500 mark, again another loss and with each passing game the crowds were slowly dropping off, we finished last season again with 2/3 home wins.
So that's around 6 home league wins in two seasons taking us into this year, i think most of them have had enough, we were consistently picking up points away from home only to draw/lose in front of the paying crowd.
This year isnt looking much better, aside frm the Dundalk win there hasn't been much of note.... no cluib could ever maintain decent crowds when they rarely win at home
Bearing this in mind I still find crowds around the 500-600 mark shockingly low. I know the majority of people in Ireland dont care about the league but are there honestly only 600-700 people in galway(factoring in Mervues crowds) that are interested in live football. Galway are 5th in the league and playing some good football based on the 3 games ive seen this season. So far this season you have played 8 home games. You have won 3 of them, drawn 2 and lost 3. I mean I dont see how your crowds have dropped this season. Your home form has clearly improved and yet crowds have decreased rapidly. As ive said you also decreased ticket prices not to mention the fact that Terryland is a great venue to host matches. So yes i can honestly say Im shocked Galway had less than 500 at the Drogs game and only 600 versus Derry.Quote:
Originally Posted by gilberto_eire
Now you know how the rest of us felt after your late goals all season. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GlasnevinRed
Very poor performance from us. Monaghan weren't very good but we didn't hold onto the ball at all and were lucky to get the win in the end. Both Monaghan goals were uncontested headers from crosses which should have been dealt with. Our second was a nice move on the break but overall we didn't play well.