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Great win, great fans, long long drive. It was disappointing to see lee jay on the bench (injured) as with him playing we would have been at our strongest. His replacement well, hopefully a club can be found for him cos hes very very poor. How he stays on for 90 is a joke and quite embarrassing. His signing this season wasnt even announced, just snuck in after ten winning games. Yes we changed a winning team to accommodate him. We should always play our strongest team where possible and russell jnr is not part of that strength.
For the final I believe the fai take most if not all of the gate so I dont mind if its in Dublin

The Final needs to be in Limerick for a support perspective. Winning a final in Limerick as well as the league and getting promoted could see us tagging on a lot more fans for next season or even for the last couple of games. It might mean nothing in the pocket initially but long term it would be great. I also think the two finalists get a percentage of the gate after all costs are covered.

Russell shouldn't be starting but he hasn't been terrible either. If lynch wasn't injured you'd have to assume he would
have started.

Russell shouldn't be starting but he hasn't been terrible either. If lynch wasn't injured you'd have to assume he would
have started.
Ah ha thats where you'd be wrong. kelly, lee jay, kenny, aaron greene, tracy and chris mulhall are and have been dropped to accommodate this.....talent

Sean Russell had the assist for the only goal of the game and set up what should have been another goal early in second half.

No serious alternative to playing him last night. I'd have a gripe with him wide left and Greene number 10 (switch them surely?) but in fairness Sean Russell doesn't pick the team.

Is he one of our better players?? No

Does he get singled out because he's the bosses son?? Absolutely

Ffs we get to a final and one of the first comments on here is to complain about someone can we never just be a bit of positive and enjoy things a bit. As LTID said to me at half time lastnight their are other people on the team that make the exact same mistakes as Sean does and it goes completely un-noticed but he does the tiniest thing and all of a sudden its a huge deal cos people are looking for him to make a mistake. As LTID said too if he had been in the 10 and Greene on the left I'd have had no problem when first seeing the team but as things stand we beat the team 3rd in the premier up in the Brandywell so I think its safe to say the way Martin set up was ok.

Anyway the positives. I said in the lead up to this we could see the best of Paul O Conor going up against a better team and he was brilliant covered a lot of ground breaking things up and keeping it simple to get us going forward. Probably the best game Paudie has ever had for us reminded me of the time he went up against Marky Sull against Cork same with Shane Tracy I can't remember seeing a better game from him defensively strong in the tackle and calm bringing it out. Chris Mulhall is an absolute animal too he ran himself into the ground he always does but he went the extra mile lastnight often chasing down from right back all the way across the field to the left back never giving them time on it. Freddy too was fantastic some of his saves were top top class. Fantastic night in front of a great away support for such a long trip. Buzzing still from it.

Lads, gael is a constant moaner. Every win is followed by a post whinging about one thing or person or similar. I've posted before that we need to enjoy this season and a good cup run is brilliant but getting to a final is fantastic. Well done the Superblues and also the supporters last night, they sounded great.

What a great result,team[ALL the team] and manager take a bow.

Very unfair to come on here and find a negative angle and focus in on it after that result last night.

Well done to all involved, great night for the club and the game in these parts. Delighted.

Poor poor performance for most of that match clear they were suffering after Derry and I think its fair enough considering all they put int the game Monday. But my god what fantastic attitude and spirit this lot have they could easily have just given up and seen the game out and I don't think anyone could have complained too much. Instead they battled and battled and gave us another unbelievable moment for this season fantastic scenes when that header went in I thought Freddy Hall was going to end up inside the stand with us at one stage.

Also what about Sean Russell getting from half way line back to get that ball off the line that would have ended the game and then whipping in a great cross for the equaliser.

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Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy

Also what about Sean Russell getting from half way line back to get that ball off the line that would have ended the game and then whipping in a great cross for the equaliser.

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What was he doing at the half way line..........drop him.

Looks like Pats in the final then.. Would people have preferred to pay Rovers or happy with this one?

Probably Rovers because they would have brought a bigger crowd you would imagine. We should have a big enough crowd if it's in the Markets Field regardless.

Who do you reckon is better for us playing wise? Russell has done well v Pats with us but Fagan is a huge threat.

Probably six of one. Both teams have been patchy this season but both would have been favourites against us anyway. I don't think it will make a huge difference. Fagan will be deadly if we are sloppy. Outside of him I wouldn't be extremely worried about any of their players. Should be a good game with both attacking minded teams.

Suppose we are at a stage now where while it would be disappointing to lose its hardly the end of the world its just unbelievable to be in the final.

I would have liked to play Rovers with Bradley and Clarke's Limerick links. Either way, I'm excited to be there. Derry away in 2002 was an early high water mark for me as a Limerick fan.

Anybody hear of an injury to Sean Russell?

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Originally Posted by LK37oldskool

Anybody hear of an injury to Sean Russell?

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Just that he is out for the rest of the season.

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Originally Posted by Jofspring

Just that he is out for the rest of the season.

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Might not be now depending on when he can get surgery.

Dull game today atmosphere and game completely flat but one point to go so how bad.