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Shamrock Rovers 1-2 Cobh Ramblers
Pats currently 3-1 up against Cork.
Bradley outQuote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Sligo Rovers 5-4 Derry City.
5-4 to us against Derry today. Derry had a penalty saved as well. Ellis Chapman with a hat trick in his first appearance which he’ll never be able to live up to.
Finished 4-1 in the end. Keating, Lennon, Forrester and an OG for Pats, not sure who got the Cork goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack B
That's a cracking friendly scoreline in that Sligo-Derry game.
UCD v St Mochta's kicked off at 5pm - despite being advertised for Monday on the original fixtures list. The joy of the LSC...
St Mochta's just took the lead coming up to half-time.
UCD went full strength team as well. Hopefully a better performance 2nd half
Rovers 2 treaty 1.
Bradser can stay
3-0 now Mochtas v UCD....the air rapidly leaving my pre season balloon
Finner must be wondering what he's let himself in for
Is he coaching now.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Finner was very clear in his post signing interview. He's not coaching and has no aspirations to that career direction. He's in UCD as a mature student to do a masters. This is an interesting result. When the LOI teams play LSL teams in July August in FAI Cup, the LSL lads are always in the middle of two mths holidays, and the LSL teams are on the beer. But play them in January the other way round, different story. Didn't Rovers only beat Lucan 2-0 last week ? The first division is not much better if better at all than the LSL, maybe the likes of Cork are potentially better, but the rest are dross.
Yeah Finner will go into the business side of football, not coaching. He's talked about it a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bowler
Wouldn't read too much into our friendly v Lucan. Sure we lost to Cobh today.
Don’t put much stock in pre season tbh. It’s nice to win of course but it’s more important to get new signings to gel and get the fitness back up to match level.Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheotherhand
Handy 3-1 for us over Malahide, would been more only for their keeper pulling off some great saves
Coldest I've been at a game in a long time and that includes a freezing Oriel on Thursday just gone where the club hadn't even the facilities to offer a cup of tea to anyone
Strongly disagree with you there.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bowler
Agreed, results mean very little. You do always hope to see some improvements in weak areas from last year but it's so hard to tell if there is any improvement because it may not be your starting 11 come day 1 of the season, the team your playing could be considerably worse than you and a multitude of other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
In addition, the head coach may have his own perspective on weaknesses and strengths. Sometimes I think it is easier to change the head coach to fix the weaknesses in a team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Another Bohemia
agreed. it's about minutes in the legs. we play a mix of kids and first teamers and there's no real cohesion to the play. just a run out and a chance for a few fringe players to get noticed.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
The LSC now.....that's the real deal.
isnt the LSC under 20s this season?
No, unless Robbie Benson and Daryl Horgan etc that played in it yesterday have some dodgy birth certs ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
i think two or 3 overage are allowed play down as well........not sure thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Dundalk had 12 players 20 and over in their squad yesterday, there are no age limitations in the competitionQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Most LOI clubs will play a good few under U19s (now U20s) along with first team players which may make some LSC games appear like an underage competition
Rovers team v longford tonight is 100% last year's under 19s. No first team players even on the bench.
Pats playing a mixed team tonight. We have several young players but also a few first team players aswell.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Edit: The game v Usher finished 3-3. Our scorers were Forester , Cian Kavanagh & Mason Melia.
Rovers beat longford 2 nil. Deserved win. The pace in the rovers attack had me feeling sorry for the longford backline
Which, donning my Kerry cap for a second, suggests Cian Barrett will at least get some few minutes off the bench this season, if he's being spared LSC duty.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Speaking of SR u19's. Any insight on Carl Lennox and Cian Curtis? Both have signed for Wexford this coming seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Four penalties sounds like an entertaining game!Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
Some of them were pretty dubious but yeah bit of a mad game. Pats defence was 3 under 19s lads and Alfie Taylor who was playing his first senior game of his career and the lack of experience in that back line showed at times with some clumsy challenges. Mason Melia seems to have bulked up/grown taller over the last few months, it’s mad to think he’s 16 years old looking at him.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
On a side note, the astro at Grangegorman is a class little set up, you can watch from a height above the pitch on one side with a barrier to lean on. One side also has 3 large steps so people can watch games from different vantage points without having to stand behind someone on the same level as you. Decent crowd at the game too id say around 3 or 4 hundred. It rivalled Bray for coldness tonight though!
Our preseason game against Sligo was called off earlier today. I saw pictures of the pitch earlier. It looked very waterlogged.
Just back from Pats 1-1 Bohs at Abbotstown. Pats played a 5-3-2 formation with last seasons Waterford captain Giles Phillips playing left centre back and another unknown right centre back beside Keeley. I didn’t recognise him from last seasons u19s so I assume he could be a trialist
That's an interesting one. Felt like centre back was one of the positions we'd filled for the season but I suppose that largely depends on when Grivosti returns. More than anything I'd still like another quality midfielder.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
Wasn't Alfie Taylor by any chance? The lad we have on loan from Hull.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
I was thinking that initially but he defo looked different to AlfieQuote:
Originally Posted by kksaints
For whatever reason Long just didn't fancy Giles Phillips, he was handily our best player during the play-off against Cork.
Funny one this! Long didn’t fancy Wassim either who absolutely schooled Radkowski in Cup semi buying 2 yellows off him meanwhile Giles was immense in playoffs, scoring winner v Cobh and taking City’s only attacking threat out of the final game. Now Long has signed Radkowski and Phillips is lining out with Ruari. Waterford’s other preferred CB at the moment seems to be Darragh Leahy who can’t be anymore than 5’7’’ - maybe Keith thinks he’s Carnavaro…I wouldn’t be so sure….