Nightmare scenario: The ultimate '**** ground, no fans' teams UCD and Sporting Fingal finish first and second in league.
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Nightmare scenario: The ultimate '**** ground, no fans' teams UCD and Sporting Fingal finish first and second in league.
Agreed. it will be whoever can sustain a run and sustain injuries to key squad members . Having seen every team play twice, I would still think that the league winner will come from either of the two Rovers and Bohs .Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
As for the standard this year I would think that the standard of coaching has improved, teams look fitter and are less likely to be intimidated by so -called bigger clubs.
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Originally Posted by Straightstory
I dont think so - both teams play great football, and isnt that what its all about at the end of the day?
No. It's about having hulking stands you can't fill and a hugely impressive couple of thousand fans instead of a couple of hundred.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
UCD were very impressive last night, in the season we are going back to europe, their play at times had an almost continental look about it, crisp passing, excellent movement, fitness & clinical finishing. Granted we allowed them space all over the park, and we were hopeless, actually as bad as many dark day displays of the FD, but take nothing away from their display last night.
We were beaten by a much better side.
PS my first visit to the ground, some people think its a not a proper lge ground, I loved it, very compact, excellent pitch, decent view, lovely drive in and safe to park...........dodgy burgers though (and I had to have two to make sure !!)
Indeed. Some people seem more interested in watching crowds than football.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
In fairness, there were some pretty interesting cumulonimb- oh...Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
Win their game in hand and they will be six points off top spot at the halfway mark,Rovers Bohs and Drogs have shown the lack of quality while Bray through no fault of their own have been out of their dept.Every other side has improved.Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
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Originally Posted by danthesaint
Here we go ffs ! Keep on suckin that sour grape pal . Pats were the ones who ****in shocking tonite .You offered nothing going forward , you had a good bit of the ball but did nothing with it .We were hungrier and wanted to win . You cant give us credit ? you then state we deserve to win , surely we deserve credit for winning dont we ? You post is confusing tbh . 3 out of 3 against pats so far .Nice ..
Wexford 3-2 Mervue. Mervue played the better football to be fair but we stuck in there and got a last minute winner. very impressed with Mervue then seem to have moved on from last year (was not at game earlier in the season) and played some very nice football at times
It's the general geeky nature of many of the users of this site. Every time I read this forum there is always a few UCD supporters saying stuff like " I counted 243 at our game" or "I counted 583 fans and a dog at the Galway game" then Patrick Dunne or gufct will say "that didn't include season ticket holders"Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
i didnt say you deserved to win, draw would have been a fair result, both teams were gick last night, if paul byrne put his chance in, it might have been a different result not to be, no sour grapes here bud, if we got beat by the better team id say it, but we didnt.....Quote:
Originally Posted by ndrog
Worst performance of the season so far
The league is still between Bohs and Rovers, Fingal might push them
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Originally Posted by danthesaint
The team that put the ball in the net 2 times instead of 1 won the game i.e Drogs . Pats didnt look like winning the game at any stage and Drogheda actually did , if your post is not sour grapes i dont know what is bud .
We deserved to lose last night. Didn't do enough to win the game and the attitude was shocking. Drogs took advantage and deserved the 3 points.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthesaint
Youse didnt derseve to win the game but why do you care?? We have won games this season that we havent deserved to win and i couldnt gove a toss if people say on the internet that we didnt deserve to win them, just enjoy the resultQuote:
Originally Posted by ndrog
Does anyone know who scored all the goals today in the Wexford Youths
Does anyone know who scored all the goals today in the Wexford Youths V Mervue game today.No livescore site has it and extratime didnt seem to do it.Very shoddy for the 1st Division as usual!
From LOI websiteQuote:
Originally Posted by KUFCMan
Shane Dempsey scored a late winner for the second week running as Youths twice came from behind in this five goal thriller.
Evan Connolly put Mervue in front from a fourth minute penalty after Patsy Malone had handled inside the box.
Though Danny Furlong levelled on 17 minutes, Connolly struck again five minutes later to restore Mervue's lead.
Youths staged a late rally with Shane Sinnott equalising when squeezing the ball home from Dean Broaders cross on 78 minutes.
Dempsey, who scored Youths' late winner at Shelbourne last week, then won it in dramatic fashion three minutes into stoppage time at the death when finishing off Furlong's cross
Usual nonsense from foot.ie answer to Hans Christian Anderson (I still laugh at Bohs fans pitch invasion to kidnap Twigg at Tallaght :p) . Fairly clear what happened, bad tackle by Cronin who went over to the player to see if he was alright, was pushed away and squared up. All players rushed in and handbags all round (couple of half hearted swings but nothing serious). Silly testosterone stuff at the end of a tough commited derby. More embarassing for both sides than anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
RE fenlons "professionalism", how quickly you forget O'Neills role in the Oriel debacle, his post match comments on Saturday about frees and penos reeked of class as well (not). By the way Nutseys five fingered salute was about the five throphies he has won at Bohs not five in a row titles (bit early to be celebrating that just yet ;)) but hey you guys know all about Bohs right ? keep on making it up - real "classy"
I don't remember talking about a pitch invasion seriously, some Bohs fan did lean over the railings to take a swinging punch at him though which is probably what I was talking about?
You also won't have found me defending O'Neill's actions at Oriel Park after the referee sent off Chambers. If he was whinging about the referee after the game on Saturday I wouldn't be too surprised - we got a player booked for diving when there clearly should have been a foul or penalty (I haven't seen a replay if inside or outside box) and for the second week in a row Bohs should have had a player sent off for an ugly challenge but didn't.
As for Fenlon, 5 trophies? If that's what it's for, fair enough. But he was doing the exact same salute to Bohs fans at the end of last season at the Carlise Grounds, and since then has won the Setanta Cup? Still reckon its for five trophies won?
Outside as far as I remember. Definitely looked like a foul though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
Red would have been harsh for that one I thought. Nowhere near as bad as the Pats one.Quote:
and for the second week in a row Bohs should have had a player sent off for an ugly challenge but didn't.
Would take some doing to be as bad as the Quigley challenge, but from a few feet away it looked very bad at the time. Late, deliberate, two-footed and with venom. I'll wait to see it again on MNS tonight for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
Bohs employ snake poison tactic in Dublin derby shocker!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
Please....less of the hyperbole. It was a tough challenge and a foul. Nothing more nothing less.
Like I said, I'll see it agin from another angle on MNS tonight, at the time though from what I saw I don't think saying it was late or two footed or deliberate is exactly hyperbole?
Are you sure you're not from Mayo?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
[QUOTE=Jicked;1363984]I don't remember talking about a pitch invasion seriously, some Bohs fan did lean over the railings to take a swinging punch at him though which is probably what I was talking about?
You also won't have found me defending O'Neill's actions at Oriel Park after the referee sent off Chambers. If he was whinging about the referee after the game on Saturday I wouldn't be too surprised - we got a player booked for diving when there clearly should have been a foul or penalty (I haven't seen a replay if inside or outside box) and for the second week in a row Bohs should have had a player sent off for an ugly challenge but didn't.
As for Fenlon, 5 trophies? If that's what it's for, fair enough. But he was doing the exact same salute to Bohs fans at the end of last season at the Carlise Grounds, and since then has won the Setanta Cup? Still reckon its for five trophies won?[/QUOTE]
Last year (at the Carlisle ground) he gave a four fingered salute - some fans took that as referring to doing four Leagues in a row until he explained it was the four throphies won todate. Since the Setanta Cup win its now five. Hope this clears up that one.
Thought the match was full on persperation and short on inspiration. Bohs had a lot of possesion but created very little. The introduction of Baker did liven up shams and they deffo finished the stronger. Didnt feel either side did enough over the 90 mins to win it. Great commitment but both teams were not unhappy with a point and in the light of later results it is probobly a point gained.
Can whoever sets up the "Tonight's latest" thread in the future do one for Bohs' and Rovers' games and one for the rest of the league?
Good plan. And can the mods then move the Bohs Rovers one to rubbish?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I ask you to do work A, not the other way around. :p
(But seriously, let's assume the problem was cos Bohs and Rovers were playing each other and it'll be that bit more refined next week. If not, we'll have a look see)
what exactly is the problem? "If you have problems with posts report them" instead of trying to be a smartarse all the time. Would you rather if Bohs and Rovers fans didnt discuss the game at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Exactly, there's been what, a dozen posts about the biggest derby in the league between two title challengers, which featured a clash between both squads at the end of the game, twice. Reasonably interesting stuff.
Obviously we can't all be as cuddly, fluffy and blandly inoffensive as UCD or one of the other small clubs around here
My initial post was actually meant to be tongue in cheek, but the point (and "problem" was admittedly the wrong word to use) is that Bohs-Rovers squabbles are like air bubbles in wallpaper - once one goes down, another pops up somewhere else, annoying everyone else. There's a fair few split in the rubbish forum for example.
Obviously no-one's going to stop the more reasonable ones (including this one in the main, although analysis of what gestures Fenlon gave Rovers fans is much more annoying), but if Bohs and Rovers fans enjoy them and everyone else is bored by them clogging up threads, the obvious solution is to split the thread, which is all I was suggesting.
Replay just there on MNS of the Cronin challenge, I stand by what I said earlier. For me that's a red card. There was intent to hit the player, not a mistimed tackle, he could have snapped his ankle and has followed through with the other foot to be completely sure he stopped him. He's ended up with the same punishment as if he'd tugged his jersey in that situation.
Exactly. I would have no problem with what was discussed between Bohs/Shams fans on this issue. Hardly hijacked the thread either.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Was the biggest game of the weekend, like it or not its the biggest game in our league and with a bit of controversy thrown in so actually quite interesting to hear what the respective fans thought of what went on.
Yeah, looked worse on the replay than I remembered from Saturday. Probably should have been red as it was so late and only that the Rovers player got off the ground, he could have broken an ankle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
I think you'll find he gave four fingers in Bray at the end of the season, and five after we won the Setanta Cup. Understand it now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jicked
thanks for clearing that up then.
and just to clarify.. it wasnt for the number, in thousands that nutsy fenlon is owed in wages from the club in phibsboro no ?
see you in august, at a proper ground, with a full stadium.
I thought the Aviva option had been knocked on the head? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual