This all makes perfect sense but the problem is the clubs don't want to extend the season as it would mean they have to pay players for the extra 4-6 weeks or whatever the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
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This all makes perfect sense but the problem is the clubs don't want to extend the season as it would mean they have to pay players for the extra 4-6 weeks or whatever the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Cork won just 9 away games last year. Same as a poor Pats teamQuote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Isn't that exactly the sort of amateur thinking that has the league left behind the rest of Europe though? Proper budgeting takes care of that sort of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yossarian
The problem with that is the the big derby games that would get decent crowds get hit. We play Bohs tonight, one of our biggest gates of the season, now a good few hundred is taken off it. I'd much rather we had a Longford or Galway tonight tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
Should only have been a yellow card according to John Caulfield!Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
I saw that challenge by Bolger this am on u tube, it was a wild chop down and there was no reason for him to take the guy down like that, as he was just inside the half. Looked like a moment of madness.
Totally agree on the ridiculous scheduling of games tonight with the additional long trips put on clubs that could easily have been planned better by the lge. Rovers in Donegal, Longford in Cork, Dundalk in Wexford, plus some teams already had very long trips on Fri night.
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Originally Posted by oriel
We have two of our four longest away trips (Derry and Dundalk, with Sligo and Harps being the other two) 7 days apart with a home game thrown in for good measure, there's clearly been no thought put into this.
The other side is that if you put derby games on weekdays the home team would suffer from a reduced crowd. The happy compromise would be to schedule mid week games for bank holidays instead but that doesn't seem to be considered.
Of course. There are only three rounds of games scheduled for midweek this season so surely extending the league season by three weeks at the least wouldn't have a major impact financially, with some proper forward planning (which I realise is a fanciful notion in the LoI).Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
hahaha look at all of you worried about trips for Monday night games.
Premier Division losers.
Sure why don't we just reduce the Premier to 8 teams and play two rounds of seven, like WNL, but do it over three months. THINK OF THE SAVINGS!Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Champions League here we come!
Cork, St Pats & Sligo all 1 up
City 3 up at half time.. should've been more but by the way it's going there probably will be more
Yeah 4-0 now. I had a look at our team and was expecting something like this to be honest. It's going to be a long season I think.
6-0, blow it up ref for the love of god.
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Originally Posted by Longfordian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAUY1J8KizU
Cork City home and away are two completely different animals altogether, As long as it stays that way for their trip to Oriel!
Sounds like it was pretty comfortable for us down in Bray. Another clean sheet and two more for R Patz - things are looking up.
Watched some of it. Bray were bloody awful. Criminal defending for some of the goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton
One mistake cost Harps tonight. Sickening that a penalty separated the sides.
Longford were appalling. We could have scored 10 or 12. They had no fight in them at all, stood off us for the whole game.
dead right. Cousins out Graham Lawlor the real brains of the operation in!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
I feel sorry for you for travelling to see that. Am I right in saying your players barely crossed the half way line to clap ye as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Appalling result tonight. Wasn't expecting to get anything out of tonight but to be beaten 6-0 and lucky to be only that is disgraceful. We're well on the way to proving my prediction for our final league position right!
Shocking from Bray again tonight. No organisation, no commitment, no communication between each other and no desire to win any challenge or ball. Derry should have had the game out of sight by half time. We need something to happen against Longford on Saturday or else we are in big trouble for the season ahead...
Yeah I noticed that they barely even acknowledged their fans afterwards which was very bad especially after what had just happened. Really could've been 10 tonight apart from the goals we hit the post/crossbar 2 or 3 times and Sheppard missed a sitter. We took the foot off the gas after the 2nd goal and longford were able to keep the ball a bit but did absolutely nothing with it. Totally different proposition up in dundalk on Friday. Caulfield made a good few changes tonight and it worked so maybe that gives him a bit of a selection headache. Unfortunately can't make the game, a pity its not on tv.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
I got last half hour of our game tonight via below link, wasn't great, no sound but it was live and free! Give it a go for Friday.
www.live3s.com
Tab on Ireland to the left. It should be up, you might have to X out a few times but good chance it will work.
Fortunate three points for Dundalk tonight.
We controlled most of the possession on a very rough pitch and had good penetration in wide areas. We should have been 2-3 goals up but Wexford always looked dangerous from set pieces and got a deserved goal after a sustained period of pressure. Gary Rogers will not want to see a replay of the goal.
However, the lads upped the pace immediately after conceding and managed to get the winner.
That was the first game we missed Towell's dynamism from central midfield. Finn and McEleney played too much in from of an organised Youths defence and neither looked to run beyond McMillan. We became too predictable as a result.
Bohs were abysmal tonight. Back 4 all over the place, front players awful, midfielders worked hard but didn't do much.
Pats looked better but truthfully weren't up against much
Its games like this you have to win. Tough enough place to go on a Monday after a weekend home game. Three points is three points. Still top with Rovers, should be an interesting fortnight coming up.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Heard rumours Cooke rubbing certain players up the wrong way.Quote:
Originally Posted by dublinwanderer
Yeah yet some of our own fans on Twitter making a laugh out of it. Not much to ask when you've spent that amount of money. If I wanted recognition I surely wouldn't be following a Longford Town, I just think it's the least the players can do at the end of a game.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Agreed, its not a huge thing, but after taking a pasting like that they owe an apology, and recognising that you traveled that far on a Monday night is the very least that they can do. Its a respect thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Longford - Appalling, shocking. Bohs - abysmal and apparently we were abolutely dire against Galway.
So bad that the word 'Hearyesque' has now entered the lexicon of the Sligo Rovers supporter.
Last weekend everybody was sh1te as well!
Should be an interesting season.
God bless the LoI.
I do miss it.
Disappointing game in Finn Park last night,Rovers did just about enough to win ,Solid but unimpressive,injuries to key players for Harps is making it a challenge for us to even create chances nevermind score,I think we'll be ok because one thing we never lack is fight and once we get that little bit of quality that Coll,Molloy,Houston and Rafter possess Id be hopeful of turning more teams over .
I thought a draw would have been a fair result last night against Rovers, neither team created much, McCabe was excellent for Rovers but Harps defence stopped all Rovers attacks except bad decision by Brush to concede the penalty.
Harps are lacking up front and will cost them games
Personally i thought the crowd was larger than 2061.
Sligo were appalling last night, but we failed to make them pay. Their front 2 just didn't look interested at all - yer man getting sent off was his only contribution, but having watched Soccer Republic this morning there was no way it was a red card. Still, if you said we'd have 7 points after 3 games, we'd be delighted.
Wasn't at the match but by all accounts Sligo were appalling. Saw them against Shams and Bohs and they have nothing up front. Their two strikers were described to me as two statues last night. And I'm told their goal was a bit of a fluke into the bargain.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
Haven't seen SR yet but if you strike or make any attempt to strike another player, it's invariably a red card. Three games in and three red cards.
Looks like another difficult season.
It was a slightly mistimed tackle, didn't seem malicious and was right in front of the camera. Will be interesting to see what others think, but not a red for me.
Agreed. Unusual to say, but left the game slightly disappointed that we didn't have it killed off by half time. Bossing a half like that, we should be more than one up.Quote:
Originally Posted by dublinwanderer
Thought Bray's defending was fairly poor, especially for the second goal. There was a general lack of organisation all round.
As for ourselves, we dominated the game really, and probably could have scored a couple more if we committed to it. Good save from Cherrie in the first to deny Patterson, but he made up for it. It's great to see him in scoring form. He's the sort of player we badly missed last season.
I'd share your thoughts on Bray possibly facing trouble this season. It didn't look good at all.
On the plus side though, I was impressed with the programme. Great read.
We ran into the Shams team in Monaghan on the way back up and were chatting away (except to Fenlon, he wouldn't leave the bus :)), they agreed they were lucky to come away from Ballybofey with the win. Also gave out stink about the pitch, but that's to be expected. Thought it was weird that their bus didn't have a toilet though.
Yep, shocking stuff last night, we seem to save those performances for Richmond Pk. Pats will be comfortably fourth, looks like seventh place max for us this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge