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Usher from LSL 3rd tier lead a strong enough Bray 3-1 after 60 minutes. The 1st Division is really not very good, as evidenced by a bang average Galway team running away with it
Make that 4-1, now we are into embarrassing territory
A few intermediate teams would do ok in the First Division I think,bad bad league….
Bray charging 15 euro into the LSC is a bit of a joke …..
I would hope that is joke because that would be as ridiculous as some of the stuff the North Koreans got up toQuote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Rumours of certain fans being refused entry, tweets referencing supporters club bus to longford on saturday being hidden by club account, things may be better on the pitch but off it....
Shels into the semi final with a handy 2-0 win in heavy rain and a partially waterlogged pitch.
Shels v Bohs semi final set for July 3rd.
Bohs playing the u19s against Shels tonight. Shels a mix of that and senior players by the looks of it. Game is on YouTube for those interested https://www.youtube.com/live/K5HB4pITivE?feature=share
Looks like a half decent attendance - LSC capturing the interest of the sporting public too!?! Has to be a symptom of covid or we are in an alternate reality.
Quite like that Bohs kit for some reason!
Thoroughly enjoyable game this with in now 3-3. So much for flat atmosphere Monday night games.
Caught the second half of this on the above link. Shels subs 3-4 Bohs under 19s. Poor quality but high entertainment value on show with Bohs deserving of the win against a much more experienced shels side who were poor. Cian Byrne at the back for Bohs looks a great prospect
Everyone loves a final.
Yes, poor quality, but a score of 3-4 made my evening :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Bohs looked better, they deserved to win.
Good crowd at Tolka by the looks of it. Shows the value of the LSC. I remember it being the first trophy won by Brian Kerr with St Patricks, and reading a column by Con Houlihan afterwards in the Evening Press about the great joy the club got from it. Fair play to Damian Duff for standing up for the historic competition. Now we need the league cup back, especially for clubs outside Leinster.
Meh - I think one or the other is fine, but not both
The Laague Cup was a fantastic tournament, a tournament that benefited the great Dundalk sides of 2014-2019Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Someone posted an image of the Bohs away following at Tolka in an estimated crowd of 2,000 for this LSC tie!Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
I remember the days when suspensions could be used in the LSC! At the drop of a hat matches would be re-arranged so players wouldn't miss an important league game.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I'd definitely welcome the League Cup back - I enjoyed in the 90s when it was a pre-season group competition. Teams play each other pre-season anyway so why not just have a competitive edge to them? I guess this would rule out the possibility of playing "A Trialist".
I think if you leave the European teams out of it, 4 groups of 4 teams, or even just start from a last 16.
I see Cork are playing Cobh in the Munster Senior Cup final tonight - has to be the Kerry dream for 2024!
They should call it the Senior Association Munster cup. Or 'SAM' for short.Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
Kerry for Sam!
Cobh won this 3-1,Cork player a mostly reserve team I think….Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
Congratulations Ramblers! There wasn't a cow milked in Cobh today by all accounts.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Should that not be sheep sheared?Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
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Originally Posted by joey B
Mainly a Cobh Ramblers second team out as well . No Jack Doherty, Wilson Waweru or Lee Steacy in the matchday squad last night and made 8 changes from team that played Bray last Friday.
Surprising thing in todays Irish Sun was that they had a match report on MSC final which is great to see! Never seen it before!
I don't think there's too many of either left on the Great Island anymore.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
The Munster Senior Cup format has been slightly tweaked for the forthcoming season, with the five senior clubs joining at the last 16 stage, rather than the QFs as previously:
https://munsterfootball.ie/wp-conten...2023-2024.xlsx
Treaty United in January: We have been drawn at home to Cobh Ramblers in the Semi-Final of the Munster Senior Cup.
The tie will be played at a neutral venue in our region with fixture details to be confirmed.
The neutral venue in their region was nonsense. This sort of stuff has me thinking the Munster clubs would be better off in some form of Munster League Cup. They seem committed however to putting up with the Cork Munster FA.
Final on tonight, bohs 1-0 up atm.
2-0 to Bohs at half time. Bohs playing the 2nd string. Usher have a couple of useful players though. The no9 and the goalie at least look like they’d be up to 1st Div level no probs.
5-0 to Bohs in the end. The last 30 mins was mostly their youths team and still Usher couldn’t get anything. It might sound mad but Bohs actually didn’t play great - lots of sloppy mistakes. One or two Usher lads were a tad rough/dirty at the end but luckily no injuries.
Over 3000 there tonight. I remember a time we might not get that amount with a league trophy being presented.
You remember being presented with a league trophy? What was it like in the olden days grandad?Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
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Good crowd all the same.
Hard to know what Bohs current level of attendance would be at the moment without the capacity restrictions. 3k+ on a Monday night for a LSC game, albeit a final, is some going. Usher had a bigger crowd than I would've expected in fairness. 2 blocks in the Jodi and a healthy number in the Mono Stand. They opened the Des Kelly End during the first half and I moved over as we couldn't get seats together. Brought my 2 young kids with me, great night. Kids don't care or know about the prestige of the competition so enjoyed the scoreline and trophy presentation.
Will there be an open top bus parade through North Dublin?
Nice crowd to see the winning of a nice trophy! Its quite remarkable really and I hope that this period of LoI Cool will be sustaied. I do believe in the 'rising tides raises all boats' thinking so long may t continue and that clubs make hay while the sun shines and not waste this unexpected popularity of LoI - it wont last for ever if there is no effort seen to increase crowds and improve facilities!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Should be one for that Trophy to go on public display every years as it is a fine thing indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
I think it will, because it''s been very embryonic. It's not a bubble, as it hasn't been linked to anything specific that the league or clubs have done. Some clubs are now seeing the fruits of years of work plugging away in their local communities, but there's been no big bang to increase the attendances, so I don't see a big drop off being likely either. I think we're just in a growth phase for domestic fotball in the country currently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
It's also important to remember that the country's population is growing quite fast too - particularly in the cities and larger towns, which is where most LOI clubs are based. The population of the State grew by almost 390,000 in the 5yrs between 2016 and 2021. If only 1% of that growth was attracted to domestic football (not an unreasonable presumption in my view), then that would be almost 4,000 extra fans every week. Which for our league would be a hell of an increase across the board for each game. If only 0.5% of the growth was attracted, that would still be a 2,000 per game uplift. So even if nothing else happens, population growth alone would probably have a noticeable impact on LOI crowds.
I do think and hope you're right. To be fair we were coming from a fairly low base too. The league has needed better facilities for a long time regardless but now needs larger capacities (admittedly low capacities have largely come as a result of unsafe grounds being restricted). Incremental upgrades do have to start happening fairly rapidly though and that hasn't really happened at an acceptable rate. Presuming the youth sections of LOI clubs remain as the elite level of underage football in this country, we should continue to attract more interest than we did before that was the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens