agreed. u10s and some games at all youth levels should be on astro. a lot easier coach kids to pass the ball on an astro than on a wet mucky pitch. they're the way forward
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agreed. u10s and some games at all youth levels should be on astro. a lot easier coach kids to pass the ball on an astro than on a wet mucky pitch. they're the way forward
From wat i have heard from ppl seems to be a god amount travelling, think this weather will encourage a few more to travel aswel!!Quote:
Originally Posted by east utd
just a matter of interest are there any local bookies providing odds on todays game???
Looking forward to a good game of football and hopefully not the type of battle that happened when the teams played last!!
Good LUck to connachts oldest soccer club today in Terryland park. Hopefuly ye can do it and get the result ye deserve.
All the best to Willie Grant and Tom Lallys team , 15 mins away from kick off in the final .Hope its a good sporting match , enjoy the game Castlerea but hope West win it .
west utd 0-2 castlerea
congrats to castlerea!! :ball:
Originally Posted by TheRealMuller http://foot.ie/forums/images/buttons/viewpost.gif
castlerea celtic made it into the semi's after a win against manulla today, could they be the surprise package??
delighted to say that we were the surprise package today in what was a very hard fought game, def had a bit of luck on our side not to concede but i think that is needed to win any nevermind when your up against quality opposition. Great to see such a good turn for a junior final and alot of credit has to be given to west utd and the manager willie grant who were very gracious in defeat!!!
Well done to Castlerea Celtic
Yes well done on your great win yesterday.No one gave ye a chance and its a nice change from the usual top teams winning this cup.Karma does exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRealMuller
well done castlerea celtic, sounds like ye were deserved winners on the day and played really well, and kepper pulling off a great penalty save for ye. I'm sure some are still out celebrating the win :D
Well done to Castlerea on yere deserved win in the final yesterday . The better team on the day won , deservedly so . The goal from the full back was as good a goal as you would see anywhere . Your keeper if he was still there today would not be beaten , excellent display .Your supporters all 700 of them were a credit to your club , town and county lovly sporting people .
The setting was absolutely magnificent , everyone could see why the Terryland park surface has won top pitch in hte league of Ireland for the last number of years .Bathed in warm sunshine , most Galwegians cannot remember a warm Terryland , normally artic wind coming straight down the Corrib .
West I think froze on the day and didnt really get going until it was too late and the game over . Young side , if they can stay together , with Willie still in charge they can only improve over the next number of years .
Again very well done Castlerea .
well done castlerea from all at west utd,your win was well deserved,we'll come back next year and try again,no excuses,the ref was good the pitch was perfect,missing no players,everything was there for us but we weren't good enough on the day,i was glad to hear you say west were gracious in defeat because they always are,i must say castlerea were gracious in victory which is even more important,they never rubbed it in,good sportmen all round,just a little footnote to show how sporting west are and not like some other teams,they were informed after the game by a member of the connacht fa that you can only use 3 subs from 5 which is 16 on the card but castlerea named 18 and i think brought on no.17 in injury time,west were told to object and go through the proper channels and they would get a replay,the words from the west manager,stick your replay were not w**tp**t,we got beaten by the better team on the day end of story.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRealMuller
fair play, as has been said before if you are beaten on the day you are beaten on the day. end of.Quote:
Originally Posted by west awake
was surprised to hear the result but it is good to have the odd shock winner every now and again. opens up the whole competition. it will be even more open anymore seen as more than likely celtic, mervue and salthill are unlikely winners with their second teams. makes it more interesting
True for you , not a shock though re Castlerea , they were looking good form the very start . Note you mention Salthill as not being in the mix re Connacht cup , I may be wrong but I would be fairly cerain the have never won it , maybe not even in a final ? I know for certain they only ever won a single premier league in Galway , despite all their facilities and huge number of players . Mervues team in this years Connacht cup was a combination of their 3rd and 4th teams who play in the premier and first div in Galway , their second team are in the Eircom u 20 league .
Outside bet for next years competition with a bit of luck Oranmore FC . Galway Hibs , of whom some of their very recently retired players had three and four Connacht cup medals are a few years off the mark yet , so West look the best Galway bet again as Athenry are in a bit of (outside ) player fuelled turmoil .
fair play to the west manager for saying that, not everyone tries to go to such measures as westport did when they lose a game. well done to castlerea!!Quote:
Originally Posted by west awake
exactly the best team won on the day and if west won it in a replay it wouldn't be like winning at all if you ask me,not alone was manager against appealing,the club as a whole felt they just didn't deserve anything on the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by threefivetwo
Are they really Connachts oldest soccer club ? Galway Rovers date back to 1937 and I think UCG ( now NUI, G) have records going back to at least 1906 . When were Castlerea formed ? Is Donald Egan still involved with the club ? "hooda " or something like that he was called inthe very early 90s .Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
1894, was the first game played, an Uncle has a picture from around 1906 or so I think. They used to play games near what was the dance hall and whats the mart now as well from the 50s onwards.
There are more informed people than me on here probably, but they disbanded and reformed again around 1958 i think. Having said that the uncle said he played early 50s(and he has a pic from sometime around then as a young fella as well in a celtic jersey) so I'm not sure thats exactly the right date.....but the point is they were definitely around in 1894 :)
There were a good few egans involved in the club down through the years I beleive!!
Thanks for that Paul , at that rate they must be one of the oldest teams in the country ! Bet they won't have as long a wait til there next cup win !
while sad to see west lose,it gives hope to the rest of the clubs that t is happening,[personally]a level off in overall standard in connaught ..any team can beat anyone on a particular day.can tell you we are very dissapointed not to have beaten west,most neutrals gave us no chance ,but fair play to them they won.west,wesport castlebar top 3 but outside that any team can break trough
just a little footnote to show how sporting west are and not like some other teams,they were informed after the game by a member of the connacht fa that you can only use 3 subs from 5 which is 16 on the card but castlerea named 18 and i think brought on no.17 in injury time,west were told to object and go through the proper channels and they would get a replay,the words from the west manager,stick your replay were not w**tp**t,we got beaten by the better team on the day end of story.[/quote]
What do ye want, a medal.
If ye had larry, curley and mo from the westport match as officials you`d have cruised to victory,but you had no one to hide behind and were found out.
Justice was served!
What do ye want, a medal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
If ye had larry, curley and mo from the westport match as officials you`d have cruised to victory,but you had no one to hide behind and were found out.
Justice was served![/QUOTE]get over it WESTSIDE,castlerea are champions,worry about beating an athenry team that west finished 16 points ahead of in the league,good luck in your connacht senior cup final,hope ye win,don't want to be hearing who's fault it is if ye don't:)
get over it WESTSIDE,castlerea are champions,worry about beating an athenry team that west finished 16 points ahead of in the league,good luck in your connacht senior cup final,hope ye win,don't want to be hearing who's fault it is if ye don't:)[/quote]Quote:
Originally Posted by west awake
Wer`e well over it but ye don`t seem to be, as you keep bringing westports name into your posts as though ye are saints and we don`t want your fake good wishes either.
Wer`e well over it but ye don`t seem to be, as you keep bringing westports name into your posts as though ye are saints and we don`t want your fake good wishes either.[/QUOTE]the good wishes weren't fake,that was sarcasm:)good luck in the super league!Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
westport wont have much challenge in super league with our first team gone unless it comes from manulla, erris, ballina. they should win it again and they'll be back again next season for conn cup which they haven't won for a while. this competition will be very open again next season
over the last 5 years how has the conn cup gone in terms of which leagues have won it? Im assuming RandDL have won it twice now with ballinasloe and mayo twice as well is it? Who was the last galway side to win it?
Athenry won it 2 years in a row 2007/2008 and Abbey Utd sligo won it in 2006 ballinasloe won it in 2005 i think
Last year Athenry , previous year Athenry , going back past five years it was carved up between Mervue Unitd and Hibernians on too many occassions , good to see it going around !Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
What do ye want, a medal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
If ye had larry, curley and mo from the westport match as officials you`d have cruised to victory,but you had no one to hide behind and were found out.
Justice was served![/quote]
Just a point to the administrator , actually seeking info more like it . I am relativly new to this site and have been ticked off over a letter , in my humble opinion , no more "offensive " than the above quoted post re stirring things up , and more or less told to stick to football comments , which I have since tried to do . Where is the dividing line between acceptable or not acceptable ? Genuine question .
Just a point to the administrator , actually seeking info more like it . I am relativly new to this site and have been ticked off over a letter , in my humble opinion , no more "offensive " than the above quoted post re stirring things up , and more or less told to stick to football comments , which I have since tried to do . Where is the dividing line between acceptable or not acceptable ? Genuine question .[/QUOTE]
Good to see you're still around,the dividing line I suppose is if I or the owner think something might or would likely provoke a flame war it's deemed not acceptable.
Sometimes I get it wrong but more than likely I tend to head off something before it gets out of hand.
Regards
12 th man
Just a point to the administrator , actually seeking info more like it . I am relativly new to this site and have been ticked off over a letter , in my humble opinion , no more "offensive " than the above quoted post re stirring things up , and more or less told to stick to football comments , which I have since tried to do . Where is the dividing line between acceptable or not acceptable ? Genuine question .[/quote]
Whats all the squealing about.You had plenty to say after the quarter final against westport.You were letting on you were some sort of neutral observer,but you saw enough to defend the indefensible that day.
I made a point that west utd had got too much cover from the officials that day and were out on a limb in the final,do you want sympathy for it.
In Frank Lynch's history of Athlone Town, there first opponents were Castlerea who had also been founded by Oliver Coote some 5 years earlier, though I suspect this was a misprint and was 5 months earlier. But the point being soccer was played in Castlrea in 1880's.Quote:
Originally Posted by murty
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Originally Posted by the 12 th man
Good to see you're still around,the dividing line I suppose is if I or the owner think something might or would likely provoke a flame war it's deemed not acceptable.
Sometimes I get it wrong but more than likely I tend to head off something before it gets out of hand.
Regards
12 th man[/quote]
Thank you for your reply .
Whats all the squealing about.You had plenty to say after the quarter final against westport.You were letting on you were some sort of neutral observer,but you saw enough to defend the indefensible that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
I made a point that west utd had got too much cover from the officials that day and were out on a limb in the final,do you want sympathy for it.[/quote]
Some sort of neutral observer , what is that ? Squealing ...... can I not ask a genuine question , turns out I got a reply , with which I am happy about , now as regards footballing matters ....can we move on . The best team won the Connacht Cup , they beat West in the final which I was at as , on the day , a supporter of West United because they are from the league I play in end of .
What do ye want, a medal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Westside142
If ye had larry, curley and mo from the westport match as officials you`d have cruised to victory,but you had no one to hide behind and were found out.
Justice was served![/quote]
Indeed it was.
Orlando Coote founded Castlrea Celtic in 1882 as far as I know. I have a programme somewhere from the game between Athlone and Castlrea to mark the 100th yearQuote:
Originally Posted by historynut
Could be wrong but read that crea celtic are the second oldest team around!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by historynut
There are alot of claims as to who is the oldest club, when was Castlerea "officially" founded. Football was being played in westport long before its "official" foundation.
Did BR not say above?!