Cork 1 up O Brien 4 minutes.
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Cork 1 up O Brien 4 minutes.
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100 total at the pats match :p
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Cork City look way superior to Dungannon.
How poor are the teams in the lower half of the league?
City have few kids playing but I suspect Dungannon also resting players. Its like a training match.
Think Glentoran and Portadown have been awful. Especially Glentoran's attitude as a club as a whole has been disheartening.
Think Dungannon have played some good football at times
1-0 Pats Lynch
:)
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There is a future of course how insulting to the northern teams that attitude, I think it can only force an improvement in the Northern teams and soccer as a whole on the Island can improve as a result
How do you figure that? I would be fairly sure that the 4 irish teams will get one player who is better than what they have in July (Pats already have) how can the NI teams compete if we strive to improve constantly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tis-smeee
And do you believe they will improve enough to compete with possibly any 4 from:
Drogs
Cork
Bohs
Pats
Rovers
Derry
Dundalk .....lol
Next season? Rovers would be only one i would be sure wont buy but Scully will find another player that fits his team in july.
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2-0 pats O Connor
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clarke saves peno :D
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I dount this competition will last. Apart from Linfield, there is no competition. OK the Glens beat us but we were playing awful. The IL IMO dosnt have an interest in the competition
So your saying the Northern teams will just throw in the towel and say fair enough lets take the beating each season, Surely they will also try and improve be it with players in the summer or whatever, and surely the setanta cup money goes someway to redressing the balanceQuote:
Originally Posted by kdjaC
only two? mediocre :pQuote:
Originally Posted by kdjaC
Why isnt aertel updating the pats score?
bbc is bang on
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No they wont throw in the towel, its all down to one thing, their ****e!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tis-smeee
€30 grand does not go anywhere toward providing funds to catch up, and attendances have been poor. more importantly, it doesnt provide much credibility or interest, and setanta will be slow to renew its sponsorship of an all ireland competition after the 5 years is up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tis-smeee
3-0Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
O Connor again
loads of time :D
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Originally Posted by GavinZac
AHEM - Dungannon pull one back. Hee Hee :D
Typical City - anything to keep the fans entertained, no wonder we provide the best product! :D I wont be surprised if we give them the game, in an attempt to save the competition :pQuote:
Originally Posted by TonyD
Remember watching the BBC NI Sports programme one night and it had an IFA official and a local journalist and they both rejected the idea of an all Ireland league.
Backward, Depressing and Pathetic.
Like our league only a few short years ago.
Rte catch up from 0-0 with 5 to go too 3-0 with goal scored nearly 40 minutes ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by kdjaC
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Kildare UCD gone into ET
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I think we were unable to get out of first gear when at 2-1. O'Donovan booking was idiotic. :mad:
Dungannon have done well in the competition but aside from the first season Portadown have been pathetic. FFS i think only 250 at Cork City game & 100 tonight. Is there any wonder Setanta won't do live tv games from Shamrock Park... Maybe there should be minimum crowd requirement?
BBC match report.Quote:
Sean O'Connor scored a brace as Portadown ended their miserable Setanta Cup Group Two campaign by losing 3-0 to St Pat's at Shamrock Park on Monday.
Eamonn Lynch netted the opener after 52 minutes and O'Connor grabbed his first on 62 before Brendan Clarke saved a Marc McCann penalty soon after.
The Ports were made to pay as O'Connor scored again in the 76th minute.
St Pat's ended on top of the group and will have a home draw in the semi-final against the Group One runners-up.
kdjac
UCD won on penos.
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Cork 2 - 1 Dungannon
Not very impressive,Cork stumbling over the finishing line!
We won....;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint MacDara
To be fair, the LOI has shown the IL up this year, I will give you that.
But one thing I can say is, the IL is experiancing a lull at the moment. Glentoran are a terrible side as are Portadown. Dungannon are a decent side but no punch up front.
Next season you will see Cliftonville in the Setanta replacing either Dungannon or Portadown.
Cliftonville are the best team Linfield has faced this season, they gave us a good royal hammering on the first day of the league season 3-0.
I would expect Cliftonville to beat LOI teams as often as LOI teams would beat Cliftonville.
Linfield will obviously still be a force as always.
Glentoran WILL be better next season. They are going through a stage at the moment where they have too many passangers and only a few good players. There will be a big clear out in the summer and they will pick up better players.
I will also say another thing, our league has 16 teams. Our pool of players is a small pool and when it is spread out to 16 teams, very average players who shouldn't be in the league come into these teams.
The season after next the league will go down to 10 or 12 teams. This on it's own will make the league more competitive as the rubbish players will be relegated and there is less teams to share a pool of the better players.
I would give it 3 years and IL teams will be competing pretty well with LOI teams.
Linfield and Cliftonville are by far and away better than the rest of the league. The reason it looks so tight is because there are so many bad teams that any team with a bit of talent could go on a big run.
That's assuming the LOI doesn't improve in the meantime and the setanta cup is still around in three years time ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
I'm not trying to take a dig at the IL but LOI clubs will continue "to show the IL up" if the competition continues simply because the LOI is much further down the professionalism road than what the IL is.
Well you are the longest lasting franchise team in Irish football.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
You could have said we stumbled over the finish line if we'd lost last night by 6 goals!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint MacDara
And you are the only premier team to survive with as many fans as you could fit in a lecture hall! congrats :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
Collectively we're living Ronan Seery's dream.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
Setanta guy wrote in the programme last night that they have signed up for 2009-2012.
Far more than 250 at the Cross last night.
less than a 1,000 though. 900 Max i would say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
To be expected i guess. A reserve team ina nothing match. Barely more than a training spin.
I thought there'd be less.
Was surprised at the Dungannon support.
Brought down a good few and made themselves heard.
I think the reference made earlier was to Portadown's home game with Cork.Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
Dunno - we have some pretty big lecture halls in UCD. It's not a crappy out of the way country college for those who can't afford the train fare to the big shmoke like UCC like. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
If the IL is experiencing a lull then I don't know what is happening to the eLOI with such an exodus to the UK in the close season.
I don't want to offend anyone but Portadown lost 6-0 & 11-0 on aggregate to St Pats & Cork City. At least Dungannon put up a fight. :rolleyes: