Absolutely desperate lack of coverage tonight.
Extratime continue their wonderful coverage of Longford Town with zero updates or even team lineups tonight v Harps.
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Absolutely desperate lack of coverage tonight.
Extratime continue their wonderful coverage of Longford Town with zero updates or even team lineups tonight v Harps.
Shamrock Rovers 2-0 Cork City HT
Mervue beat Waterford 1-0 at home earlier today. Keeps them well in touch of a play-off spot.
Longford 1-0 Harps after 20 minutes.
Shamrock Rovers 2-1 Cork City
Limerick 0-0 Pat's
Bohs 0-1 Sligo
Longford 1-0 Harps
Cobh 0-1 Athlone
Wexford 0-0 Salthill Devon
50 minutes gone in Longford v Harps, still can't find a team lineup anywhere for Harps.
Team pushing for promotion can't even organise any sort of updates. No match programme there either, just a sheet of paper. Disgrace.
2-0 in Longford now. No idea who scored.
Rovers 2-1 Cork FT
Longford 3-0 Harps
Longford 3-1 Harps
Bohs 0-2 Sligo
Wexford 1-1 Salthill
Great weekend for Shamrock Rovers, 3 pts and the leaders drop 2 points.
massive game in Oriel Park tomorrow.
Rovers' title march continues.Quote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
Really big game for Dundalk against Drogheda, they have to win it if they hope to claim the title. Pats lacking upfront these days; they miss Russell's passing from midfield and I don't think that Fagan is good enough to be starting in a team that is top of the table. Still Pats favorite for me (just about). Mervue with the players they have have under-achieved again this year, but can still make the play-offs.
The Extratime updates are put up by volunteers and usually fans from the clubs. It would be more to do with no Longford or Finn Harps supporters covering the match. Extratime is by far the best League of Ireland website.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
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Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
It's about time this has clicked with you boys.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Daniel McDonnell and Stuey Byrne among others have been calling this for weeks.....gap down to 16 points now
It's probably the most important Louth Derby in a generation - another win would take Dundalk level with PatsQuote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
Thats a bit OTT. The result is vital, but the league wont be won or lost in Oriel on Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
However it could clarify if a win is required for Dundalk on 20 Sept in Richmond
The bookies will probably agree with you - but they have been calling it wrong on Dundalk all seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
If Dundalk are level with Pats after they meet ..................
100% it's the best website for League of Ireland football. It's coverage has been completely lacking right across the board in the First Division this year though. I've never seen a year so bad on Extratime since it started. I've always been hugely complimentary toward Extratime, I always thought it was fantastic, but this year, they're lagging behind badly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guinney
lagging behind who exactly? The league is run by the FAI not extratime.ie! So stop complaining about extratime when its the people running the league that fail to provide any real news or updates on games.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
I note the owner of ET, on Twitter, stating frequently enough that the running of the site is increasingly time consuming and exhausting lately.
Delighted with the Limerick result tonight. A lot of doom merchants insisting we're in a relegation battle. I genuinely don't see it. Seven games left, nine points clear of play-off spot, with no team below us likely to manage results to overtake.
Just to clear it up, as I've already said, I think Extratime is fantastic. It's voluntarily run and it's an example to all for League of Ireland coverage generally.
It's not a dig at Extratime themselves, the Longford reporter has barely turned up most games this season.
Quite a number of First Division games have had no reporter which is just poor form.
Longford Town had no source of updates on the game whatsoever tonight. They constantly cry out as to how they've poor crowds, maybe that's why? They make zero effort to publicise.
How do you know the Longford reporter hasn't turned up at games Nigel? For your information she works for the local media and has been to most Longford games this season - maybe her paying job is a bit more important to her. I know that today she rushed from a local GAA game to get to CCS - she's friends with my girlfriend & had told her that due to work commitments she wouldn't be doing updates. Bit annoying not to have extratime updates when you are away but I survived with texts.
The club should really take a look at this. One post on the Facebook a week is pure ****e.
Gotta love Mervue. League has to be ours now. Great night in Cobh. Come on The Town
The reason we had no match programme was down to a problem with the local printers nothing to do with the club. We had the programme finalised and sent off ready for printing only to be informed late the other night that they couldn't so all we could do was a team sheet. The people behind the match programme put in a huge amount of work and its without a doubt one of the better first division ones produced, it's come on leaps and bounds in recent years. As for the lack of coverage our 2 local reporters were late to the game as they were covering the local GAA championship and unfortunately that's what they are paid to do so no complaints there. We usually have twitter updates but the person who runs them must have been away too, agree with L.T.F.C that the Facebook page needs some serious work, section O's page was only set up at the end of last year and its flying.
Although well intentioned, this post gives a glimpse of the sorry state of LOI in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
not for the first time this season at longford the teams were not even announced before kick off . . . .
Dundalk leave it late to score the winner against Drogheda.
No hiding place for Pats now, we're coming to get you.
Are Iceland making a late surge for the title?
September 20th just got even bigger. Will be the biggest league game at home since Cork in April 99. (Which we won - with Bucko in charge btw :)Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Massive massive win, such a cool finish by O'Donnell with 2 mins to go. As expected Drogs caused us problems all evening, battled very hard in midfield and will probably think themselves unlucky not to have gotten a point.
The roar around the ground was something else when the goal went in, really starting to believe we have the momentum to go on and win it now.
Lovely touch by the team holding the RIP banner at the end of the game of possibly our greatest supporter who died suddenly last night. Photos are on twitter.
Drogheda can consider themselves very unlucky not to get a point.
They made it a battle and Dundalk were unable to play football, particularly in the first half.
Bringing on Dillon and McCaffrey shored up the midfield and Drogheda ceased to be a threat in the second half. However, I still couldn't see a goal coming for Dundalk but I have to hand it to O'Donnell. He chased and harried and eventually ceased up a sloppy pass from the goalkeeper.
I was convinced, going in to the game, that tonight would be our most difficult remaining fixture. That is how it turned out.
after a performance like that I don't know how Drogheda Utd can call themselves a football club. they hacked us from start to finish.
thanks to captain fantastic he got what was needed, games like that can be the difference between 1st & 2nd. Delighted for the victory. Bring on shels in the cup
Something that really annoys the home fans, no excuse for it I agree with you there, anyone can read out a few names.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRDoc
John Mountney summed it up in a tweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
"Great win tonight. Best of luck to Drogheda in the six nations next year"
I was textin pauro 7 at the game with updates for town twitter. I unfortunately didnt have the harps team so was concentrating more from a longford town perspective... It was last minute stuff so I apologise for not having a Harps team put on town twitter.. I made the presentation to chris Bennion for player of the month before the game and stadium announcer wasnt there ten mins before KO.. He had arrived when I finished doing my bit.. But it was poor form from the club not to announce the teams... I know that things were against us regards the match programme but there could have being more teamsheets produced as one harps fan I was supposed to get one for I forgot to get it but by the time I came back to the programme sellers they had gone!Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
After enduring 90 minutes of horrible hoofball I can understand better why the crowds are so poor in Drogheda this season.
The "direct" approach is effective to an extent but hard to watch. That said, Dundalk did not manage to get the normal passing game going and were poor.
Ultimately the 3 points is really all that matters.
Drogs were away from home, to be completely fair. I know Dundalk have been playing good football this season, but yous did more or less the same when you came to Tallaght, hoofing the ball and kicking people's heels. Managers set up their teams differently depending on where they are, especially when you're playing superior opposition like Drogs were.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Drogheda took hoofball to a new level tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
That is not a criticism. In fact, they did it very well and deserved a point from the game.
Is there a new level of hoofball that's possible to reach in this league? I agree it's a strange approach to take at Oriel where the percentage approach would be to play it on the ground and take the weird bounce out of the equation. Mick Cooke has done an incredible job with that club against all the odds.
That was a fantastic result but a terrible performance. Drogheda had a very effective game plan and putting Byrne in front of the back four was a good move by Cooke.
The main thing though was the win,with so few games left only the points matter.
It's going to be some game in Inchicore now. A winner in that game should win the league.
You agree? With White Horse?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin