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Some really big "moments of truth" approaching for several teams this weekend
Pats / Rovers
&
Cork / Sligo
will be especially interesting!
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Premier Division
Bohemians v Limerick FC
Cork City v Sligo Rovers
Derry City v Athlone Town
Drogheda United v Bray Wanderers
St. Patricks Athletic v Shamrock Rovers
UCD v Dundalk
First Division
Galway FC v Shelbourne
Finn Harps v Wexford Youths
Cobh Ramblers v Waterford United
Shamrock Rovers B v Longford Town
great series of games in the Premier
Couple of relatively big First Division games this weekend too. The only one that can really only be expected to go one way is Shamrock Rovers v Longford, but saying that, Rovers have a few ex-Longford players in their squad that'll be out to prove a point.
Hard to really predict what way the weekend will go.
It's a big one for us anyway. I feel that Sligo probably haven't got the points on the board that they've deserved due to not taking their chances, and generally not having enough goals in the team. We've been much more economical, however, but when you look at them team sheets it'll be hard to pick a winner. Moment of truth, indeed.
Feel Cork/Rovers will be one nil to Cork or scoreless draw. We're dead sound at the back but just can't get it over the liune at the other end.
Roddy will be under serious pressure if Derry don't beat Athlone. Hopefully we'll keep our good run of form going before Rovers visit twice next week.
You're not doing to shabby on the old predictions front!Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Be far from one sided considering rovers have 3 senior players to call on, they are a very different side playing on Sundays as their recent draw with Shels showed. Saying that 1 or 2 decent players shouldn't be able to derail a squad of good players so I'll be extremely disappointed if we don't win this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
They played against Harps on a Sunday and didn't call on any senior players.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
They love Harps though. It'll be an interesting one, we have about six ex Rovers players in our squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Cork will have no problems against us.
Shamrock Rovers CQuote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
But they had a Setanta match the following day as far as I remember?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
In the same way that Galway are Mervue B ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
Nice try. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
Joking aside, I feel this will be our toughest game so far.
I like extratime.ie but it always crashes with around 5 mins to go.
Good win for us tonight.
Same as, every week.
Bohs / Lims anyone ?
Yep same here re extra time, so Pats won then !!
Limerick 1-0. FTQuote:
Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
And Sligo just scored, could it get any better for us?
1-1 Cork, some finish to this game now as its behind time with that injury. Peno
FT Now
Dundalk 2 points clear with a game more played. Hoban back to form with 2 goals tonight, good to see.
Cork only unbeaten side now as Drogs lost 2-0 to Bray.
Cork must be cat...
Dundalk top of the league too, it's a mad season so far.
This 'None' player on RTE.ie scored 86th minute for Dundalk and then nipped down to Turners Cross to smash a peno in 88th minute for Cork what a player!
Happy with that point tonight was a close enough game great chances at either end. Dennehy ruled out and buckley going off early wasn't good for us along with healy out you could notice the difference in us.. thanks must go to kalen spillane giving his old club a hand
Have to say I didn't expect us to come away with anything from Turners Cross.Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
We were so unlucky with injuries. It's killing us. Buckley is our engine and losing him after a few minutes knocked the stuffing out of us. Also, it was a clear penalty which was an added kick in the teeth.Quote:
Originally Posted by dong
A well-deserved 3 points for Bray tonight. They've improved on last year but that was our worst performance of the season. We created nothing. Brennan and Daly have been poor this season but they reached new depths tonight. Our 'goalkeeper' was brutal again. More flapping and another goal conceded. Thankfully Schlingerman is due back next week. Back to the drawing board.
Very honest Acer, have to say I was thinking you might lose over the next week or so but never saw it coming tonight.
Happy enough with that, Billy is very composed at slotting the penos away.
Acceptable point considering our injury problems, hopefully they'll clear up before Drogs next week.
Harsh on Daly. He is pound for pound our best player IMO. I wasn't there tonight though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acer
Not sure why you think that is mad.Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
Because of where Sligo are :)Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Just home from Richmond. Decent attendance but poor game of football from both teams, although Pats were the better side before the sending off. My first impression of the penalty/red card was that Byrne nicked the ball away as it changed direction and it seems people in the gantry agreed. Even if it was a foul, I don't see how it was a clear goalscoring opportunity when he had three players to get past, but those are the breaks. Pats look a shadow of the team they were last season. They were wasting time with over 20 minutes to go and showed no ambition whatsoever to kill the game off in the second half. If that was Dundalk or Cork, they'd have murdered us. The league winners at home 1-0 up and a man advantage trying to run the clock down for most of the second half against a side who had barely threatened all game... I've never seen anything like it.
Bohs are absolutely poison.
We're only slightly less toxic.
Great result to get but man was she ugly!!
Both teams were poison .Limericks aggtession shaded it for them.5 yellows for them their number 3 and 10 should have had reds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
One chance and rhey took it. Re considering whether to go to Thomond to see another sisplay of hoofs and elb ows.
You'd swear Cork were the only team who ever had lads injured.
Yet another game where we should have picked up more points then we left with. Say it every week but we'll surely start to take our chances soon.
What are you talking about? The fact that people are happy with a point against a team that finished above us last year when half our ideal first 11 is injured? What's wrong with that? I'm sure most fans of other teams would feel the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Not much to complain about last night. Started off well, went ahead with a nice goal but Dundalk improved throughout the game whereas we didn't really have another gear. We were still better than last year, so can't really mind that much about being beaten by a better team.
But from being top half when we were 1-0 up, we're now a point clear of the play-offs. Familiar, but worrying. Going to be very tight down there. Feel sorry for Athlone fans on their big return, but I suppose it's worth noting that this time last year, we had one point!
I'm talking about the fact that Cork weren't the only lads playing in Turners Cross last night who had injury problems. It happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
Great crowd there again
Again, I don't see your point. No one claimed we were the only ones with injury problems. No one claimed anything other than 'it happens'. People just said they were happy with the point as a result.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
If we had our full squad available last night (and no injuries during the game), people would probably have been disappointed with a point. Not because we're entitled to win or anything, but because we've been on a great run, and ye've been getting poor results relative to ye're ability. However, not having the squad, and having a vital player taken to hospital means people are happy rather than disappointed with it.