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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
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You care enough to mention it...Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Am I right in thinking that Harps have hardly ever beaten Derry? Like no more than once or twice?
This was the 2nd time in the leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
6th time in 60 games in all competitions
And last league win was 18 years ago, says the RTÉ feed just seconds after you posted.
Sure we've only played them a couple of times.....
Well, when around 1,000 quid worth of flags were destroyed it's hard to overlook it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Hard to put into words what it means for a Harps fan to beat them,how would a Bohs fans feel if they hadn't won a league game in 19 years against Rovers??? Means the world however this season goes we'll always have this night!!!
Northerners are weird about flegs.
It's growing up in an alien culture.
Frankly we could do without them coming down here with their strange money and accents.
Derry would **** the Irish league.
Win win for everyone.
First time I've ever witnessed us beating the muckers fantastic night, the majority of Derry fans were fine, a few idiots threw a number of smoke bombs and flares onto the pitch and after we went 2-0 up some decided to take their frustration out on Harps banners which they shouldn't of been anywhere near
First time in Ferrycarrig Park tonight, grand facilities especially the clubhouse but feckin hell it's exposed and it was bloody cold with that wind going through you. As for the game the wind ruined it, Youths look very fit and strong but lacking real creativity. Our defence surprised and impressed me, Rossiter is half the size he was last season and was excellent alongside Haverty.
Good one, Nige. Reasoned contribution, as always.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Haven't seen or heard what happened to the flags, but I presume the ones affected were those attached behind the goal. No mitigation if so, some fans need a good hard look.
Wasn't too impressed with whoever came up with the idea of have City fans go single file into the away end (behind the goal was taped off down to the wall at the touchline - the tape didn't last long). Well intentioned maybe, but it made france all sense in execution with the numbers of Derry fans trying to get into the oversubscribed away end. If the entire area behind the goal is unavailable for safety reasons, then come up with a different idea rather than funnelling hundreds into a tight area. Not least when you're funnelling them past the home fans with plenty of room in their covered stand...
On the pitch, the more organised, aggressive and stouter team deserved to win. It was a bogging game, but Harps clearly the better drilled side. Derry defended poorly and didn't get much going. Had a poor view of the second goal, but if Curran wasn't offside the our defence need to have a hard think about what they're at. Laughable. Looking like a long season.
That pitch is a pile of gack and plays like one.
Special word for Tomas Connolly - made no impact on the result, but slowed the game to a crawl with his fusspot reffing. Maddening to an already poor spectacle.
Horrendous game, we sat so deep against them and let a poor side play. Wouldn't be overly confident after watching that. Nice to start with a win tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Strange match. We looked fairly comfortable till the goal. After that we went to pieces. Anto had a mare. Some positives to take from the game but I worry about us in the final third. On to next week. It's been a long winter.
Thought Bohs looked very comfortable in the first half, to be fair Cork did what they had to do in the second half and closed the game out fairly easily. Maguire took his goals well.
Big surprise at Richmond, but heard Galway were well worth it. I'm sure the Harps fans enjoyed their win, as rare as they have been in the past 20 years or so. Decent start for Longford away in Wexford, and it won't get easier for the men in pink away to Rovers next week.
Finn Park was submerged in water a few weeks ago in the flooding. The pitch was sanded last week but another bad week of weather didn't help.
It definitely affected the game, was a very poor spectacle. The horrible performance of the ref didn't help who seemed to give a free for every tackle.
Harps were definitely the better drilled side, very solid at the back, dangerous from set pieces and pressed the ball well all over the pitch.
Derry had no fight, poor use of the ball and gave away 2 very soft goals. Could be a long season for them.
Fantastic crowd at the game, great to see the old place packed to the rafters again.
As for the Derry fans, the majority were no problem. I don't blame them for going up the river end, better view. The flags destroyed was poor form and the guys standing ****ing on the big flag was childish but you get those types of clowns at these games and might not see them the rest of the season.
The flow of Derry fans out after our 2nd goal was a surprise though. Almost half the Derry support was gone with 20 mins to go.
The FAI and Gardai were the source of the organisation of the crowd control and segregation. It wasn't ideal by any stretch, but it will definitely have to be looked at by Harps in relation to future big away crowds. A proper fence or a wall would have to be built if this plan was to continue.Quote:
Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton
It was interesting watching Cork last night. There is a definite attempt to play a different brand of football. A lot of this resolves around Bolger, I thought he was very influential last night and provides a lot more than Healy or Miller.
It will be interesting to see how they line up in away matches as this is where Caulfield typically lacks confidence in his players and himself.
Seems to have been some poor games across the league last night. Our game in Ferrycarrig was awful to watch.
Anyone any idea if the games were on trackchamp? Completely forgot about it myself. Great to have the football back and a couple of brilliant results for Harps and Galway to kick start the season to boot. Hopefully we kick off well v Bray tonight, very strange goings on there over the off season and I can see them giving a lot of teams problems this year, if they don't go through another 5 managers and all the other assorted madness again this season!
There was new high end looking camera attached to our main stand I assume it was part of the new system for betting companies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uk5pKW...ature=youtu.be
Great goal by Marco Chindea last night
Bray have 2 ticket sellers tonight for a possible 2000 attendance. Crazy
It was the same for their first home game v Drogheda last year I missed the first 15 mins.
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Originally Posted by D24Saint
no games were available so far and again none tonight to stream. any ideas on why this isnt working?
FT Limerick fc 4 UCD 1
Arron greene 2, shane Tracey, Chris mullhall
Impressively misspelling three of your own players names :p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by thomas72
Limerick will be hard to stop in the First Division this year.
Looks like Sligo have adopted Ollie Horgan's football philosophy .................
First Division Champions 2016 Limerick FC really should have scored another 5 or 6 tonight.
When are the Premier Fixtures for 2017 out?
Did extra time see into the future somehow?
Bray Wanderers 1 - 3 Dundalk
45' + 3' - And that's it. The champions had to work very hard for their win, but it was fully merited on the second half which was played almost exclusively in Seagulls territory. Mick Cooke will rue the three individual mistakes that led Dundalk's goals, and he knows he'll have a lot of work to do to make them into a top-half club.
Bray Wanderers 1 - 3 Dundalk
81' - Goal - It takes less than a minute for Dundalk to make the extra man count as Ronan Finn beats Peter Cherrie with a shot from outside his box. It wasn't a great shot by any means, but Cherrie found himself rooted to the spot as he was beaten on his near post.
Handy win for us in the end tonight. bray as per every Cooke team. hoofed and kicked lumps. pitch was in an awful state also. football couldn't be played on it. bobbled everywhere. Ref as with normal league standards was shocking.
Full Time : Sligo Rovers 0 Shamrock Rovers 2 .
It was a massacre in Limerick tonight. Seriously, we chould have had 8, or even 10.
Aaron Greene went past UCD players like I go past my 5-year old son in the park.
Refereeing was a joke about 8 yellows and two reds in a game that lacked any intensity, players afraid of their lives to get involved. Brought a non regular up he now regards the league as a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuyahoga
Pitch was horrible alright but same for both sides.Thought the ref was ok although he fairly dished out the cards in the 2nd half(prob had enough of the persistent Bray fouling).Getting into the ground was a fiasco,half the Dundalk crowd was still outside the ground when Kilduff scored his first,like 2 gates open for what Bray knew would be a huge away support is very poor to put it mildly.Finn is brilliant,masterclass out there tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quayman
I was expecting more from Bray. There are some decent players there. The number of cards and fouls gives the impression of a high intensity performance on their part but it wasn't like that. They were very flat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quayman
A controlled performance from Dundalk. Finn and O'Donnell imperious.
The pitch looked great when we arrived at the ground, but when the game started the ball couldn't roll without bobbling all over the place. The same for both teams but it curtailed the quality of football that could be played.
The two real negatives for me was Bray having two ticket sellers for a game that was always going to attract a big crowd. The second negative was the numerous flares. They don't care that it will just result in fines. Selfish idiots.
Totally agree on both negative points, the flares were just being let off one after the other too. There should have been better organisation on selling tickets, fans were queuing from 715 -720 and loads didn't get in until almost 10 mins into the match and missed the first goal.
Dundalk were very comfortable in the end, but we needed that third goal, well taken too by Finn who had a great game with O'Donnell.
Overall a very good start and great to see one of the strikers get off and running with two goals.
Shamrock Rovers fans apparently displayed a banner calling Dave Robertson a war criminal tonight ...................
Apparently also burned one of their own flags too when burning a Sligo one.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Pity we can't play them Easter week.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
They also clouted oaps over the head in the pub on Churchill.