UCD 2-1 Longford today. Rob Manley for Longford; Paul Doyle and Liam Kerrigan for UCD.
About five months too late, but I guess we'll take it.
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UCD 2-1 Longford today. Rob Manley for Longford; Paul Doyle and Liam Kerrigan for UCD.
About five months too late, but I guess we'll take it.
Rovers 3 bray 3 this morning at 12.
Rovers playing athlone at 5pm, giving full squad a run out.
Watched the last fifteen minutes or so. UCD look like they'll be competitive this year, played their usual nice style of football.
Galway Utd 1-0 Finn Harps
Francley Lombato
Cork 1-2 Pats
A great day for Ronan's everywhere. Ronan Coughlan and Ronan Murray (who is on trial) scored for Pats with Ronan Hurley scoring Cork's goal
Bohs beat Shels 2 nil at AUL. First half goals from Oluwa and Burt.
Rovers beat athlone 2 nil in the sexond match today. Goals from Max Murphy and danny mandroiu
Bohs 2 Shels o.
Goals from new signings Burt and Odayme
Is there only certain dates allotted for pre season games or was today just the first day back everyone was allowed play ? A lot of games on.
Yeah it was the first day clubs were allowed to play games by the governmentQuote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
Derry 5-1 Harps, Derry keeper scored from his own box
Thats a surprising result i felt Harps would be good this season based on how they finished last season.
Was it a proper match ....if you know what i mean
Harps played in Galway on Sunday too so maybe that affected them.
Wouldn't read too much into it Harps team was made up mostly of young lads and trialists, Derry had been originally scheduled to play Dundalk tonight who pulled out due to injuries
We beat Athlone 3-0
Harps always have rubbish results pre season...I usually be in a state of panic before the season begins so I wouldn't be too worried
We were hammered by Derry last season in pre-season in the Brandywell too. Generally think nothing of it. Don't remember us having a particularly good pre-season under Ollie in 5 or 6 years now.
Agreed! St Pats win every preseason...Quote:
Originally Posted by thebronze14
I'd love for someone to do a study on the relationship between preseason results and league performance worldwide. I reckon it's almost a cert it would find a big correlation between good preseason results and underperformance in the league. I think I remember Stephen Kenny's Rovers side looking like Guardiola's Barcelona in preseason, and Man Utd have looked world class in most of the preseasons since Ferguson.
Pity about the important part the actual season , we keep slipping up on that part since 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Pity ye didnt slip up a bit more in 2013 too...Yes I am greedy!
Longford 1- 3 Cobh...
Longford only had three players on the bench... why is that ? Bit of a bad sign.
Apparently we made a lot of changes at half time so for whatever reason the team sheet was wrong. I know it doesn't matter but I don't like losing pre season games, especially to teams from the division below.
Decent work out today by both teams in the Dundalk v Bohs game, sloppy play but a good finish put Bohs 1-0 at HT, then two quick fire goals by McMillan and Junior saw DFC win 2-1.
The standout player for me was Latvian defender Jurkovskis, he was excellent, raided the right wing and perfect ball in for McMillan for the equaliser.
I watched this myself earlier, was very impressed by the young lad Ryan O'Kane for Dundalk, couldn’t believe it when I heard he’s only 17!Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Burt looked decent in flashes for Bohs and took his goal well.
Pats beat Wexford 4–0 tonight, Ben McCormack, Chris Forrester, Jamie Lennon and Billy King with the goals
Just saw the second half of dundalk v Bohs.Thought it was a good standard for pre season.
Comparing it to the same friendly fixture from last year, when Dundalk beat us out the gate, there wasn't much between both teams yesterday.
Bohs beat UCD 2 -0 later on yesterday.
What sort of team did bohs have out against Dundalk?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
I would say three/4 short of what will be the first 11.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Promising start from your former under 19 player of the year.Great potential.
I think Bohs shaded the second half irrespective of the 2 second half goals for Dundalk. The usual preseason subs likely disrupted things for Dundalk. It was interesting that Bohs were keeping most of the starters on and then with a 2nd game v UCD I think, to give others game time. I love watching Keith Ward play, he is such a good baller, he never looks particularly conditioned but is full of energy, puts in a shift, always looking to get on the ball and pull the strings. He did miss a good chance drifting in to the back post in a preseason like way. Oluwa is a real handful and if Hery keeps the level of effort nobody will get it easy playing them - bring back the Rovers Dublin Derby hoodoo!! Burt got a right clatter of ball to the head and was obviously dazed - ref reacted quickly and both Bohs and Dundalk medical people were promptly out and sub made so good to see that kind of thinking happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Duffy, Hoban, Garts and Murray unavailable for Dundalk.
Was he the player of the year??? didnt think so tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Hopefully he does well for himself, he is fast but end product has been poor, having said that he is very young so plenty of time to smarten up
Yes of course, I forgot to mention the 17 yo local lad O'Kane for Dundalk yesterday, he was excellent, looks two footed also, and had a brilliant run through the middle and almost scored on a 1 on 1. Good to see him get a 3 year pro contract a few weeks ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
He is young but on that showing at 17 its great business to get him on a proper contract. Lots of players show potential but I think O'Kane has an awful lot going for him. Family steeped in Dundalk football, sound and level headed people too!! Great to get some local talent back in contention for the 1st team even if its via Bellurgan (Booooo!!). Itd be great if he carved out a career at his home town club but he could be destined for bigger things in due course.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Doss anybody know where and when Treaty are playing Waterford?
Pats beat Wexford 4-0 in Richmond. It was
Ben McCormack, Chris Forrester, Jamie Lennon and Billy King on the scoresheet. I have high hopes for McCormack , he appears to be an excellent prospect.
Rovers beat Cobh today 3 to 1 goals from Greene 2 and Dean Willaims
Also played Cork and beat them 2 to 1 goals from Gaffney and Hoare.
Cabo beat Longford 2 to 1 today , Longford not looking good so far but pre season prob doesnt mean a lot
Sligo 0-0 Harps today as well
Wasn’t bad viewing apart from the camerawork. We had the better of first half and Harps the better of the second half.
Tuesday night in Waterford at WIT Arena. Probably 7pm.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueblood
Enjoyable enough game for a preseason nil-nil. Had to laugh at Harps practicing their set pieces. And by set pieces I mean their long throws into the box.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Camerawork seemed very ropey alright but it appears there was a problem with the upload to youtube or something. Preseason friendly is the time for teething problems I suppose.
Do you know ifnits being streamed?Quote:
Originally Posted by bluemovie