Bus to Wexford

Hi everyone, I'm sure you've all seen on the usual social media pages etc that we have a bus running to Wexford on Friday night but I thought of just throw it up here for anyone who might have missed it and I'd also like to thank everyone who's put their name down so far because at present we stand to bring our biggest ever away following down to Ferrycarrig Park so it's great to see the team getting such backing away from home. You can contact Kieran on 0831670304 to book your place if interested. Thanks.

Make sure the driver know the way this time!!!

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Make sure the driver know the way this time!!!

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Thanks for that 😴😴😴😴

Anyone driving from Dublin tomorrow?

Sorry can't help but train from Connolly at 16.37 gets into Wexford 19.05 Kick off at 8pm so that might be an option, lots of the players live in Wicklow/Dublin some of thier friends and family might be going maybe they could sort you out if you tweet them, no harm in asking

On we go again! Yet another clean sheet, 7 in a row and 8 in our last 9 I make it. Confidence must be sky high these days. Another long trip ahead next weekend, Cobh are improving but we should have too much for them. Touch wood.

Good win, performance wasn't as good as the past 2 weeks but the beach surface didn't help! Never looked like conceding and could of had another 3 or 4.

Anyone notice at the end of the game out on the pitch there was a lad in a Town track suit chatting to a Youths player and shaking hands with another few. I didn't recognise him as a current Town player, so I'm wondering if it's a new signing that we didn't hear of?

Have to give the lads and Tony credit, unexpectedly wonderful turnaround in the past 2 months.

Credit where it's due. I was one looking for Cousins to be ousted, since then things have turned dramatically. Maybe I should take a bit of credit for that ;)Defence is playing great stuff altogether. Going by his stint with Athlone last season it looks as if Lawlor's input has been immense.

It's hard to know how much of the outstanding defence is down to coaching and how much of it is down to Sullivan and Flynn as a pairing being ridiculously good for this division. Though as you say Athlone were very well drilled last year too once Lawlor came in so maybe he has been a big part of it.

Just looking through twitter and noticed our former goalkeeping coach Joe Donohoe is giving Outspoken/Burko a bit of a bashing!

Paul Hunt deserve a mention as well, much more football being played with him in goal,(although maybe not last night) unbeaten sinse he has been first choice keeper, personally I thought we were pretty poor and Wexford were worse, but it's another 3 points so at the end of the game that's all we wanted

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Just looking through twitter and noticed our former goalkeeping coach Joe Donohoe is giving Outspoken/Burko a bit of a bashing!

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Saw that. I'm sure a man like outspoken must have taken worse abuse! On a related note Paul Hunt has by all accounts done little wrong in any of the games since getting into the team in fairness to him.

Hunt looked dodgy against Galway and Shel's with one or two back passes but apart from that looked solid. Last night he was consistent with his back passes and caught 2 or 3 high crosses off Wexford heads in a crowded box. Has improved immensely from when he first joined us.

Conor O'Brien was at the game and in a Town tracksuit. Maybe it was him you saw. I presume he's injured.

Not as good a performance as last week, but always looked in control. Hynes' miss at the end summed him up as a player perfectly. Shannon's hard work wasted by him. I hope the others on the team gave Hynes the slagging he deserved on the way home.

Interesting international addition to Section O last night. The young lad singing was gas as well. Ye certainly added a bit of noise to what would have been a quiet ground otherwise. Fair play, although the lad who roared at the locals a couple of times telling them where to stick their strawberries was an idiot. Embarrassing to listen to.

O'Brien was in a car accident a few weeks ago according to TC on Shannonside recently. He wasn't seriously hurt but he might have picked up an injury. Hunt is still young for a keeper in fairness what is he 22/23?

You could be right, haven't seen O'Brien yet so that could of been him. As you said the young lad singing was hilarious but the fool who roared abuse was out of order. No need for it and reflects bad on the club to have an eejit like that come out with that crap. Section O bring a bit of noise with them which is well recepted but as a former Section O member myself I hope the other members gave him an earful.

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You could be right, haven't seen O'Brien yet so that could of been him. As you said the young lad singing was hilarious but the fool who roared abuse was out of order. No need for it and reflects bad on the club to have an eejit like that come out with that crap. Section O bring a bit of noise with them which is well recepted but as a former Section O member myself I hope the other members gave him an earful.

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Great to see the young supporter involved in the chanting as well if you seen it he was only maybe 4 or 5 years old but section O incorporated him into a rendition of red and black army which was great to see. Juan is the name of our newest Spanish supporter and he is a hero some great new chants as a result. As for the tweets I haven't seen them so won't comment. As for the strawberries chant the young fella was only having a laugh to be fair as we really do get on so well with the youths fans who deserve huge credit by the way for the work they are doing down there, they doubled the attendance since our last visit.

On the game itself, very very comfortable and as I said on here a few times recently the best thing is we never look like losing games we know the least we go home with is a point. Expecting either a goal feast or a scrappy one goal win in cork next weekend which is already shaping up to be a great away day with interest high.

That 'young fella' or eejit as a lot of us might call him might of been having a laugh but as you said ye had a 4 or 5 year old in your presence and he comes out with crap like that. Not to mention all the other kids who were at the game. That's something you'd expect to hear Bohs, Shel's or Athlone fans to come out with. The Town pride themselves on been a real family club and chants like that only does harm. Ye had a strawberries chant which was funny and got a laugh even from the Wexford fans but when that eejit came out with his crap he embarrassed himself and made his fellow Town fans look bad. No need for it and I hope the respectable members in Section O had a word with him. Times like that on Friday made me realise I made the right decision not to go back to Section O.

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That 'young fella' or eejit as a lot of us might call him might of been having a laugh but as you said ye had a 4 or 5 year old in your presence and he comes out with crap like that. Not to mention all the other kids who were at the game. That's something you'd expect to hear Bohs, Shel's or Athlone fans to come out with. The Town pride themselves on been a real family club and chants like that only does harm. Ye had a strawberries chant which was funny and got a laugh even from the Wexford fans but when that eejit came out with his crap he embarrassed himself and made his fellow Town fans look bad. No need for it and I hope the respectable members in Section O had a word with him. Times like that on Friday made me realise I made the right decision not to go back to Section O.

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Fair enough I take your point but I feel the fact no one in section O joined in with the chant was pretty much a way of saying look just stop it so wouldn't expect it to happen again and again yes I totally get your point regarding young kids etc so that's fair enough.

As for the tweets regarding myself all I can say is yes I was one of the most vocal critics of TC but no one is more delighted than myself to see the team playing so well and I will be in tears of joy if we go up this season. The supporters have been excellent towards the team and TC in recent weeks with chants of Tony Cousins red and black army heard for the first time and I am delighted to see that so yes Joe is right that perhaps I might have gone OTT with some of my criticism of Tony but that's easy to happen when you've been supporting a team home and away for 12 years and love the club so much so that's all il say on the matter and hopefully wel see another great win Saturday night. C'mon de town!

No I agree, fair play to the rest of the lads for not joining in. He made himself look like a fool. As regards Joe's tweets he must have a chip on his shoulder with you because you weren't the only one calling for TC's head earlier in the season!! There was a lot more involved in that including myself! Maybe the late season collapse was fresh in our minds and the bad early start to this season was frustrating us. But he has turned things around, hopefully they keep it going and not rest on their laurels.

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No I agree, fair play to the rest of the lads for not joining in. He made himself look like a fool. As regards Joe's tweets he must have a chip on his shoulder with you because you weren't the only one calling for TC's head earlier in the season!! There was a lot more involved in that including myself! Maybe the late season collapse was fresh in our minds and the bad early start to this season was frustrating us. But he has turned things around, hopefully they keep it going and not rest on their laurels.

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At the end of the day we are entitled to our opinion and so is he and everyone else so I've no problem with Joe's tweets but if anyone thinks that those of us who were in the cousins out camp would take any joy from another mid season collapse they are totally off their heads. We love this club and are so desperate for promotion that some times it pushes us over the edge and no matter what happens we are there week in week out from Longford to harps to cobh we will always be there and will always back the team.

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That 'young fella' or eejit as a lot of us might call him might of been having a laugh but as you said ye had a 4 or 5 year old in your presence and he comes out with crap like that. Not to mention all the other kids who were at the game. That's something you'd expect to hear Bohs, Shel's or Athlone fans to come out with. The Town pride themselves on been a real family club and chants like that only does harm. Ye had a strawberries chant which was funny and got a laugh even from the Wexford fans but when that eejit came out with his crap he embarrassed himself and made his fellow Town fans look bad. No need for it and I hope the respectable members in Section O had a word with him. Times like that on Friday made me realise I made the right decision not to go back to Section O.

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Find it bit harsh that you would not come to section o due to one persons mistake.From my point of view All the things section o have done in the last while such as fundraisers , running of buses and the online promotion gets overshadowed as people in general tend to pick on a negative aspect to talk about,such as a comment made,which was clearly of poor taste and made by one person out of a bunch of say 12, who as said did not join in.

The point I'm trying to make is its a pity that one stupid comment ect gets focused on and talked about rather than just the good aspects section o bring, such as the young spanish fan and town fan starting chants.

As for the whole TC out debate ,Id love it more than anyone to see us get promoted but i still would not rate TC as a manager at all!

If we do get promoted would ye like to see TC stay on as manager?

I've been decidedly anti Cousins since about mid way through last season, but as I said in an earlier post, you have to give himself, the staff and the players the credit they deserve. The last two months have been exceptional and this could turn out to be a very memorable season. Hon the Leinster Senior Cup!!

If we go up, he will get his chance, and you can't begrudge him that. It wouldn't be wise to do what rovers and Limerick did to Scully, as we wouldn't be in quite the same position of strength as they were upon promotion. Eventually TC's time with us will run its course, I just hope it's after promotion and achieving safety the following year!

I can't see him being let go or leaving, we could win the league or get promoted and win a cup or 2, you would have to let him have at least 1 season at the top level, but you never know maybe he will leave for another club who might temp him away if he has a successful year here, I can't see that happening but stranger things have happened,

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I can't see him being let go or leaving, we could win the league or get promoted and win a cup or 2, you would have to let him have at least 1 season at the top level, but you never know maybe he will leave for another club who might temp him away if he has a successful year here, I can't see that happening but stranger things have happened,

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To be fair to cousins he turned down approaches from clubs in the past to see out this project and I for one would not begrudge him his chance at the top flight should he get it I think it would be the respectful thing to do as a club unlike Scully and Limerick. As said above if we win the league and the LSC it will have been a truly unique and historic season for the club and in our 90th anniversary too

I think the club would see it that way too. Anyway let's just worry about getting up first. Still a fair way to go.

Anyway let's just worry about getting up first. Still a fair way to go.[/QUOTE]

couldn't agree with you more