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Originally Posted by LeviathanNI
Leave us out of it. I was enjoying all these rantings from Cork without having to comment.
BTW anyone know the official attendance for the game that this thread is about?
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Originally Posted by LeviathanNI
Leave us out of it. I was enjoying all these rantings from Cork without having to comment.
BTW anyone know the official attendance for the game that this thread is about?
Less than half as many people as watched us beat you 2-0 in Turners Cross to lift the title.Quote:
Originally Posted by lofty9
The biggest club in Ireland were resting their 12th Man for the final. :rolleyes:
because that always happens in sport, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
Easy Easy Easy Easy
Peadar, Gav, please desist with the inflammatory comments, there are some fans here trying to love each other
Obviously we cannot partake because nobody likes us.
:( Boo Hoo :(
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Originally Posted by Peadar
Just had a look at their official site match report:
http://www.linfieldfc.com/matchreport.asp?mid=420
Aidan O’Kane stepped up in the 85th minute to give the Blues the lead and to send 2500 Linfield supporters wild. Mulgrew crossed from the right, Devine flapped at it, Gamble (Setanta's MOTM !!) fluffed it, and O’Kane stole the ball off his toe to blast the ball home from four yards on the left.
For a semi final? Shocking.
it does if you are gracious loser
And 147 of them from the so called 'best supported team in the EL'Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Do you not find that number to be very suspect?Quote:
Originally Posted by lofty9
Considering there was officially 2647 attendance, 147 where Cork fans. So the media/Linfield are telling us Linfield had exactly 2500 fans in the ground.
Incidently there was probably around 3500 bluemen. Although not fantastic, by any stretch of the imagination, but Linfield has had many big games lately and this match wasn't close to our biggest.
But to be honest 50,000 or 200 the fact of the matter is Linfield are through
Now don't be giving them any facts that would quash there myths;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cosmo
Lads, this is all getting very petty, everyone needs to get back to the football and turn on Setanta tonight to watch the two best football teams on the island. At least that's something that everyone can agree on.
:pI wasn't at the game. The official attendance could be seen by some observers then as a ruse from Linfield to decrease VAT on gate receipts and therefore defraud the Queen's estate. tut tut:p .Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
The so-called "biscuit tin" theory...Quote:
Originally Posted by lofty9
After the final whistle, only 3 Cork players stayed on the pitch to shake hands with our players and to acknowledge their 147 fans!! I'll quote what I said on ILF & let foot.ie users decide about Cork City!!!
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Originally Posted by Bleus avant tout
Evidently "bucket bake the gurn" was more interested in girning to the media than being a sportsman! :rolleyes:
And..according to the tax man, we reguarly get 2-3000 at games ;)
2500? That would mean the South [3000] & Kop [4000] stands were only round a third full.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
I'd be surprised, but given previous IL attendances in this competition, maybe not.
You'd have to wonder how long some of these Cork boys have been following football.
Any experienced fan knows that sometimes you dominate games but still end up on the losing side, thems the breaks.
Given some of the opinions expressed about the IL on here you'd wonder why the galacticos in the south deign to play us. It must really stick in their craw that the best of our bad bunch continue to put manners on them where it matters most, on the pitch.
Preach it, brother, preach it!!! :cool: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AnnaghRed
Of course we know that :rolleyes: its just this "winning ugly" line thats being trotted out is entirely inappropriate for a game when for 85 minutes of the match you were outclassed on the pitch apart from one stupid **** up by the best player on the pitch, and out sung, as cosmo so helpfully points out, by 147 fans off it. Winning ugly is grinding out results in the face of pressure or adversity; what happened monday night was the football equivalent of finding a tenner down the back of a sofa.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnnaghRed
Cosmo, just how many people did you expect to travel in fantastic weather around exam time for 22 hours to see a secondary cup football game on a monday, after 2 changes of plan? All four or five thousand that were in the ground tonight for the important match this week? :confused: It wasn't long ago 147 would be a decent attendance at a cobh v drogheda game :rolleyes:
This "secondary football game on a Monday" is worth at least 80,000 Euro to the winners of the semi-final, possibly 150,000 Euro! :cool: There is no club on this island that would turn down this dinero, if it had the chance to win it! ;)
Linfield lads on here, telling each other how great they are, as they assemble in a circle, for a bit of mutual back slapping, only backed up by drogs, who are desperate to secure a ground sharing deal, for when drog park is shut down. If it wasn't so contrived, it might actually be funny!
According to our chairman 2 weeks ago, we get 3000 average excluding the glentoran game.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeviathanNI
You really do over estimate your dominance. It took you over an hour to force a save from our keeper.Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
We should have been 1 nil up at the start when Maccers back passed the ball rather than rattled it. Our heads went down after that and Cork capitalised.
But to say that you dominated to the extreme that your portraying is laughable at best. Yes you dominated, but to be honest there was only 1 or 2 times I was sweating.
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Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
That's to be expected when you parked 10 men behind the ball.
We expected that though, just didn't expect you to be completely unable to string two passes together!
Your completely rested team were playing a team that had had a tough game 3 nights earlier and had to travel up & down the country twice, yet you couldn't manage any significant period of possession!
Lucky for you the semi-finals aren't a two legged affair.
Our completely rested team who has played near 60 games? Dead on mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
Missing our star striker, our main left midfielder, our main center midfielder, our two main Setanta center halfs and because our main left back was covering our main left midfielder, we had to field our aging and past his best left back.
You where practically playing our second string. A team that you still couldn't beat even though you have us down as the worst team to ever take the field.
We played terrible on Monday, everyone agrees, but if you think that is how Linfield plays week in and week out, you need your head checked.
Cork still aren't the best team we have played this season, a long way off in fact.
If it was a 2 legged affair we would have beat yous down there as well. We played that bad and still beat you, what would have happened if we played like our normal selves? We would have tanked you into oblivian.
Can I also point out to Real Cork fans, that you finished 2nd in your group a massive 6 points behind St Pats, whilst Linfield came top of our group with Drogs coming 2nd.
Drogs went and played the strong team in your group, beat them and are in the final.
Cork went to play the strongest team in our group and got beat and where sent home crying(and still are).
So what does that really tell you? Our group, which was the group of death are both in the final. You can go on about 1 game where you where the better team ON THE NIGHT, but this tournement is bigger than one game and Linfield and Drogs have proved to be the better teams in the tournement by consistantly getting the good results. And that my little Mourinhos is what it's all about.
Of course you don't, because you've got no half decent teams to play against, so you can dictate matters. Once you were up against an actual football team of significant merit, you were shown up for the class-less outfit you really are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
Well thats why we entered it, isn't it? Mind you, we'll be getting far more than that for the sale of a striker we didn't even have playing when gave you "a lesson in football", and heres hoping doyler is snapped up in the summer when we'll get a few multiples of that aswell. We won't worry about it, but its bloody hilarious to see ye get so defensive. Obviously it means a fair bit more to you lads since that kind of money is unknown in your mickey mouse league, and no-one ever gives you credit for walking it every year. Hence the "No, well, er, winning ugly, not every week, er, bit tired, thems the breaks". Wheres the actual critical analysis of why your players let us walk all over them?Quote:
Originally Posted by BleusAvantTout
I feel I am debating with "simple minds" so I'll make this a simple post to enable the intellectually challenged to understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
The prime object of a football game is to score goals - the side that scores the most goals wins the game. It is not rocket science. I have seen Linfield F.C. pulverise various teams over the years and lose because they couldn't score goals! Losing is second best - that's how CCFC finished on Monday night. Get over it and move on. The team you appear to be referring to as one of "significant merit" appears to be your own but you lost the game because you were unable to meet the winning criteria as set out in the rules of Association Football! Ya dig?
Linfield have been the most consistent side, North and South, since the Setanta Sports Cup began. They have never been overrun by any Eircom League side. That tells me your League is big, but only in your own minds. We play in our national league which is the right place for us to play. When we play against the Eircom League's "finest" we have not been overwhelmed or disgraced.
Do you have a mental block or something? We have shown we are capable of beating anyone on this island, by beating every one over 3 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
We have only ever got beat twice in 18 games in the Setanta cup. You have been beaten that amount of times this season alone.
I think you should actually read up a bit more on football because you seriously come across lacking in knowledge.
:confused: Did you go to the game? Are you part of the famous home support that didnt show up? The other linfield fans are of course right in saying that its about putting your shots away so we can't have that many complaints except to our own players - but what on earth are you talking about?Quote:
Originally Posted by BleusAvantTout
You wheren't that dangerous, that's what he was talking about. You where decent untill the final 3rd, we only had 1 or 2 sweats the whole game. By and large you are decent team, but not great. Certainly not as good as Drogheda or Derry City(even though they are going through a rough time).Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
I think unless Cork win the FAI cup, you will be in the intertoto this year if your lucky. Your not good enough to win the league.(or challange)
lads, seriously, look at the "shots off target" stats. we had one decent striker on the field who was half fit - Mssr O'Donovan would've put you to the sword like he did portadown. all ifs and buts, i know, but come on... 1 or 2? how many times were our strikers clean through on goal and wasted the chance? your defence was absolutely terrible and thats why behan/flynn got such a berating from their own team mates and fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
:confused: we trounced derry 4-1 away, and we would've deservedly beaten drogs 2-1 away save for a bizarre keeper **** up. Meanwhile, the real team we weren't expected to beat is St. Pats and we won deservedly against them too.Quote:
By and large you are decent team, but not great. Certainly not as good as Drogheda or Derry City(even though they are going through a rough time).
If we're lucky? :D Who's going to finish above us then? We have 2 irish internationals waiting on the sidelines dying to get on, and a striker on the way in june. by then sean kelly will be back in the defence - we won't be "lucky" to be challenging. stick to what you know, provincial football.Quote:
I think unless Cork win the FAI cup, you will be in the intertoto this year if your lucky. Your not good enough to win the league.(or challange)
In plain English......if you don't score you don't win. Linfield have not been overwhelmed by any Southern side who we have played in the Setanta!!Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
I was at the game and the CCFC fans I met were all sound. I hope they are not the ones on here and just about to contact the Samaritans!!! You brought at least 9 players back every time we had a "set piece" in your half. That kinda looked to me you were a side wanting to hit us on the break. This debate is going nowhere. It's like debating with tunnel visioned politicians!! :rolleyes:
In our current weakened state I agree. Post July 1st when we have Healy & Farrelly available we'll certainly be a more formidable side, add to that a striker or two which are obviously badly needed and I definitely think we'll challenge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
Thread is going nowhere overall, Linfield mugged us ,as did Drogheda in last years final, and fair dues to them.
Its not even debate, you clearly don't understand the word overwhelmed enough to be using it regularly. And we defended set pieces :confused: thats unusual now? we have full time players, they have the fitness to get back out when (if) we win the ball back.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleusAvantTout
Pardon us for not taking a pre-season competiton seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleusAvantTout
Yeah I forgot you don't need the prize money :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
The missus is coming to our game in the cross later this month, I'll tell her not to get any lemon in her vodka and coke as its bitter enough already down Cork way!
You would be too! Only, you've never qualified.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Exactly, and the final is going to be a battle of the balaclavas as the two greatest muggers try to nab the swag.Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
Could even result in the ball remaining static in the centre circle for 90 minutes, as both sides lump everyone behind the ball and wait for the other to attack.
Read bold.Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac