Need I say more? Big interest around the town already it seems. Big game = big crowd = big loss. :p
Take a draw but if we pox a win and we peg em back to 4 points......:D
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Need I say more? Big interest around the town already it seems. Big game = big crowd = big loss. :p
Take a draw but if we pox a win and we peg em back to 4 points......:D
This is most likely what will happen but........Quote:
Big game = big crowd = big loss
According to the Derry fans Derry have been very poor since the break in June so no reason Limerick couldn't get a win here.
I'm going to go for it to be a 1-1 finish with att: 800
1-0 Limerick.
There'd be nothing better than an edgy last 10 minutes with Derry pouring on the pressure, but we hold out for a win.
I like the ad in the Chronicle today for the match. Its something different.
I reckon we will beat Derry. Unlucky not to get a point against them last time they came down, and we are now a much better team. Hopefully Steve O firing on all cylinders will make the difference. Limerick 2 - 1 Derry, and the title momentum well and truly with the Super Blues.
This has to be the biggest game this season if not the biggest in the last few years.Could be a defining moment in the clubs history!!! A win will surely push us on to promotion i believe. 2 nil to the Super Blues and over 1000 to witness it. :D
Step up Mr Clarke. Your time is now!
O'Flynn, O'Leary and Sullivan are massive losses. Lucky for us we have a decent squad.
Guess it all depends on HOW bad this bad patch of Derry's really is?
For friday night people, arrive early. If you can get out to Knockalisheen or to ticketmaster and buy your tickets early.
steve was carrying that injury at the mervue game, you could see he was struggling, but dont think we will beat Derry without him, hope Im wrong
Steve may make it for Friday yet but even if he doesn't i think Clarkey and JT have enough to cause problems.
I agree with Monkfish on the big crowd thing though.
Are Peter White and Sean Kelly available or are they injured? With O Sullivan and O Leary out i think it will be important to have a strong defense so having Kelly at right full and White sitting infront of the back 4 like he has in previous games would set us up nicely i think. Will be hoping for a line up like this:
...................Ryan...................
Kelly.....Purcell....Rogers.....Deady
.................White...................
...Ryan........Lyons..........Tracey
........Tierney/OFlynn......Clarke....
Edit: I forgot about Heary. Thought he did very well last week, much better than the previous week. Maybe put White at right full and Heary in front of the back four.
Sorry guys, but can't make this one. :(
Jackman Park
Arrangements for Limerick FC v Derry City, Friday 20th August
Wednesday 18th August 2010
The following arrangements will be in place for Limerick FC's match against Derry City on Friday 20th August:
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have to say that was brutal tonight. :mad:Every big game at home this year Limerick have bottled it.We'll be back to the same couple of hundred heads for the rest of the season. They gave Derry far to much respect.Another year in Div1 i'm afraid.
Ya absolutely ****e. Limerick set up to be defensive at home. ****ing ridiculous setting up like that. Limerick hadn't got to second in the league by sitting back and defending. Never ever looked like scoring. A couple of chances that Derry defended well. We let them have all the ball and paid the price. Much deserved win. Derry celebrated big time at the final whistle and rightly so. I said in another thread if they win tonight they will go on to beat Waterford next week and win the league handy in the end. Looks like this will be the case.
Waterford 1pt
Cork 3pts
Monaghan 1pt
Derry 6pts
Thats 11 pts given up at home to teams at the top. That is way too high a tally if you ask me and Cork are yet to come to Jackman Park again.
Tonights match was nearly a carbon copy of the game against them earlier in the season. The tactic didn't work then and it didn't work tonight. G
I get the feeling even if we make the playoffs we will bottle it in those big games.
spot on. yet again when the big games arrives limerick and the manager bottle it and to be honest limerick GAA footballers are the same winning line in sight and bottle it same with hurling. it runs through limerick city sporting capital my arse. o sullivan in the middle of the field was the best player on show and scully takes him off everyone around me could not believe it. sean kelly right full your better off havin sean kelly the cyclist a RF shocking headless chicken. clarke did not do a tap should of been hooked at half time. bobby ryan might aswell go to pike now harmless all he wants is his money and the end of the week.
limerick writing on newspapers begging to come down and support them when they get the crowd they yet again fail to turn up how do they expect to get support
Agree with you Thomas, O Sullivan was one of only two players actually playing well. Purcell was the other. Heary couldn't handle the pace of the game at all. I think White could have done a much better job than him had he been on since the start.
I think Clarke really messed his chances up of starting again for the next couple of games. Every time Clarke seems to get a few starts he gets very lazy. He was excellent when he came on against Athlone, wasn't up to too much against Mervue but worked hard and was non existent tonight. Same goes for O Flynn. The one thing i will say in their defense is that they seemed to be asked to play very defensive and anytime either of them got any bit of ball they where totally isolated.
Yes far far far superior. Wouldn't say the same about the other teams but definitely Derry are way ahead of Limerick.
Gutted, awful performance. Derry deserved the win, even if it appeared we were asleep for their goalscorer to race through. Every big game, every big crowd, we don't show up...that's too much of a pattern now lads, that's a Scully problem. I was hoping O'Flynn would be out for JT & Clarke to start up front. Stevo is a big name but he has been awful the last few games (tonight, Mervue, Athlone). I was happy enough to see the 3 changes being made so early but its always a risk and they wouldn't have been needed if the starting 11 hadn't been so wrong or the team had been prepared properly or a decent gameplan was used.
Derry were in the Savoy Thursday night....obviously took the prep very seriously and have the money to spend. (I'm assuming perhaps incorrectly that a 2 night stay is not normal for a 1st division game).
Great crowd...and unlike the 1400 against Cork on Good Friday it was heavily a home crowd, makes the performance even more disappointing. Feck it, playoffs are still a possibility, lets hope we finish 3rd and have to play away.
hi Lads, I was at the game tonight and thought Kelly did ok against there lad as he was a really good player...one of the bst wingers i have seen in Loi, Did not see anything special in sullivan to be honest , he passed it well when it came to him but did not win any tackles and looked to be strolling . i would have brought Judge on earlier for Heary and maybe Kiely and JT FOR THE pace, Btw the shed was unusually quiet tonight
Thats because we are sick of the same old s**t every year .
We were crap absolute crap Stevo too comfortable with his 2 year contract maybe? Doesn't look to me like he gives a f**k.
Any junior 3b teams want Sean Kelly?
Wont get promoted will fold under any kind of pressure.
I agree i think O'flynn thinks his a big time charlie never wants to put in work...Limerick were lacking a play maker i thought Ryan would be that type of player but doesnt look so hopefully i am wrong...Why all doom and gloom ye lost but ye still have a great chance for promotion..this has been the best season in years for limerick
In fairness, Dave Ryan smashes the ball up in the air, and by the time it gets to him, he had a Derry defender behind him and one either side of him, and no Limerick player within 20 yards. There's not much he could do tonight with the way he was marked.