Limerick away to Cork this Saturday. Sweet jesus, do we even have 11 players to field?
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Limerick away to Cork this Saturday. Sweet jesus, do we even have 11 players to field?
List of pre-season fixtures
12/01/2019 - Cork City v Limerick, O'Shea Park, Blarney, 2pm
12/01/2019 - Wexford v St. Patrick's Athletic, Carlow IT, 2pm
15/01/2019 - Waterford v Hibernians (Waterford), Ozier Park, 7pm
15/01/2019 - Finn Harps v Galway United, MacSharry Park, 7.45pm
16/01/2019 - Cork City v St. Mary's, Kilcully Park, 7.30pm
19/01/2019 - Shamrock Rovers v Bray Wanderers, Roadstone, 3pm
19/01/2019 - Waterford v Wexford, Regional Sports Centre, 3pm
19/01/2019 - Finn Harps v Limerick, FAI National Training Centre, 5pm
22/01/2019 - Bohemians v Shelbourne, FAI National Training Centre, 7.30pm
24/01/2019 - Cork City v Killarney Celtic, Celtic Park, Killarney, 7pm
25/01/2019 - Cork City v Kerry District League, Mounthawk Park, 7pm
25/01/2019 - U.C.D. v Shelbourne, The UCD Bowl, 7.30pm
26/01/2019 - Shamrock Rovers v Longford Town, Roadstone, 11.30am
26/01/2019 - Shamrock Rovers v Cobh Ramblers, Tallaght Stadium, 3pm
26/01/2019 - Sligo Rovers v Galway United, Celtic Park, Castlebar, TBC
27/01/2019 - Waterford v Limerick, Regional Sports Centre, TBC
29/01/2019 - Beggsboro v Shelbourne, Kilkieran Road, 7.30pm
01/02/2019 - Shelbourne v St. Patrick's Athletic, FAI National Training Centre, 7.30pm
02/02/2019 - Shamrock Rovers v Cabinteely, Roadstone, 11.30am
02/02/2019 - Waterford v Bray Wanderers, Regional Sports Centre, 3pm
08/02/2019 - Shamrock Rovers v Brentford "B", Tallaght Stadium, 7.30pm
08/02/2019 - Shelbourne v Waterford, Tolka Park, 7.30pm
V Wexford in Carlow the wacky world of the Loi is back and I love it.
This was the 11000th thread started on here.
Let's all pause for a moment to reflect in silence.
We beat UCC 6-2 in a friendly today. Darragh Rainsford among the scorers. Charlie Lyons, a defender from Preston and expected to join us, got some game time. Can't see much more about the game.
The pitch in Carlow is a good quality floodlit astro. Unfortunately, there is no seating and not even a railing around the pitch to lean on. You can get nice an close to the action though
Limerick playing three friendlies, all away, two against top tier opposition likely to stuff us and the other against the team that has relegated us twice in the last few years. I suppose it will be good prep for the First Division experience.
Any Limerick fans have any idea how many they'll have for tomorrow? would expect quite a few underage trialists? only 12 players signed.
Out of interest. What 15 do Limerick have signed up?
Decent run out in Carlow with a 3-0 win, goals from Shaw, Drennan and a cracker from Trialist.
our squad for 2019 season is:
Goalkeepers
Lee Stacey
Uli Keller
Defenders
Shane Elworthy
Mick McDonnell
Tristan Noack Hofmann
Joe Manley
Kevin Knight
Anto Breslin
Adam Evans
Midfielders
Dean Zambra
Paul OConnor
Jamie Hollywood
Peter Hopkins
Aaron Dobbs
Carlton Ubaezuonu
Aodh Dervin
Strikers
Jamie Doyle
Dean Byrne
Karl Chambers
Karl Fitzsimons
Paddy OSullivan
Apologises if its in the wrong thread but heres our Ins:
Aaron Dobbs Wexford
Adam Evans Shels
Lee Stacey Shels
Anto Breslin Wolves
Carlton Ubaezuonu Dundalk
Kevin Knight Cabinteely
Joe Manley St Pats
Karl Fitzsimons Dundalk
Paul OConnor Bray Wanderers
OConnor is the standout signing for us. He has gone backwards since he left Sligo for Limerick. He has being in the top flight continously since 2010 so its a serious gamble but him and our no 2 Daire Doyle played together at Drogs so hopefully move will work out for him.
Encouraging performance by Wexford in Carlow today and it was only after a raft of subs came on that Pats made their superiority tell. Wexford had 18 players at the game and those that I recognised included Corey Chambers, Colm Feeney, Danny Doyle, Sean Kelly, Daire O'Connor, Ryan Nolan, Owen McCormack, Sean Roche, Ethan O'Neill, Caelan Travers-Devlin, Ivan Meegan and about seven trialists. First half was relatively and surprisingly even with Pats having two chances, one hit the post and the other the side netting and Wexford having the ball in the net twice but both were ruled out for offside. Changes started from half-time and it allowed Pats to gain a grip on the game. First goal came on the hour mark when Gary Shaw headed home after good work down the right from Simon Madden. The other two goals came in the final ten minutes with a nice curling effort by Pats and a header with a couple of minutes to go. Wexford looked best at centre half where Owen and Daire did well, with Sean Kelly excellent in front of them and Sean Roche lively up front. 3-0 to Pats at full-time.
Five nil win for City against Limerick today. Not too much to learn from that game except that Limerick are awful. Think we played with 10 men for about half an hour as the subs had all been made (and left for showers) and Ronan Coughlan took a knock. Young Ronan Hurley impressed again, he could stake a claim for a first team spot this year at left back.
Harry Kenny is getting to know the Rovers experience "off-site" as you will, before he takes over next year.
Pats are a club that are not in my sphere one way or the other, but I'm interested to see how Madden Miele and Shaw link up. Madden & Shaw were always good lads for Rovers.
Seems hard to find any word on who these trialists are for Pats. The lad that scored (quality finish too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLxUdYw4rNs) apparently plays for Liffey Wanderers in the LSL but that's about the extent of the information. Be interesting to see if they'll be used to finish off the squad as there's only a couple more additions needed at most with not many known LOI players available to fill them.
I feel like yous have made some signings that would have had you in a great position had you managed to hold onto even a couple of the lads that have left, but as it stands it seems a bit underwhelming from the outside looking in, which is disappointing as I've always liked Longford (cup final aside, anyway). The playoffs should still be achievable though given the struggles of certain teams you'd otherwise be expecting to challenge.
Also
Friday 25th Jan Bray Wanderers v St Patrick’s Athletic, KO 7.30pm Abbotstown
Friday 8th Feb Bray Wanderers v Bohemians FC, KO 7.45pm Carlisle Grounds.
Dundalk V Drogheda 25th Jan 7.45PM in Oriel Jim Malone Cup
2 Games in Spain the following week at a training camp
Dundalk V Longford 5th Feb 7.45Pm in Oriel
Cork V Dundalk 9th Feb 5.30pm in Cork
Thats our pre-season schedule complete. Play Athlone in Leinster Senior the Monday after the first league game
Waterford opened pre season matches with an 8-0 win over local Premier opposition Hibernian FC tonight.
Good blow out with 22 players used including 8 trialists some of whom were very impressive.
Goals from Zak Elbouzedi (2), Shane Duggan (2), JJ Lunney, Izzy Akinade, Cory Galvin and Trialist
Harps beat Galway 2-0 in Sligo tonight.
Galway were very, very poor. Harps without the likes of Cretaro, Todd, Gallagher, Timlin, Harkin, McAleer, Verdon, Place and still were comfortable.
Lot of trialists in both teams, couple of very decent players on the Harps side.