Pre-season friendlies..

[Patrick Dunne]

Presumably, neither club will be using Terryland as a venue for friendlies.
Mervue Uniteds ground at Fahys Field is well above the standard required to
host a friendly against a Premier Division side.

[eamo1]

So will we(Utd) play a pre season game up in Drom?We did a few years ago i remember.

[Magicme]

or in Newbridge where we had the famous Lavine getting a piggy back from Leggy incident!

[Martinho II]

or in Newbridge where we had the famous Lavine getting a piggy back from Leggy incident!

explain yoursself magicme!

[GalwayRed]

I think you could use that excuse for a lot of teams in the league this season...just a thought...if drogheda were to manage to get out of examinership next week or whenever the meeting is, and it took them a further four weeks to get a backroom team together and a team...will they have time to have friendlies??
What did Shels do 3 years ago when Keely had to get a team together in a week...did they manage a game or two before the league started??

We did yeah we managed a game just before the start of the season against a waterford united selection team at Tolka. Won it as well. 1-0

[Magicme]

explain yoursself magicme!

A few years ago we played Galway United in a place called Newbridge near Galway and one of our players called Leggy, who is a bit vertically challenged, went for a ball and stopped and Lavine didnt stop and ended up jumping on his back and they fell to the ground.

Was really funny and cant get that image out of my head.

[The Lilywhites]

All pre-season games can be found at: http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/teams/2/

Just go to the individual teams.

[Martinho II]

A few years ago we played Galway United in a place called Newbridge near Galway and one of our players called Leggy, who is a bit vertically challenged, went for a ball and stopped and Lavine didnt stop and ended up jumping on his back and they fell to the ground.

Was really funny and cant get that image out of my head.

thanks for that magicme.. im sure its not the first time that someone has jumped on lavines back..

[Magicme]

thanks for that magicme.. im sure its not the first time that someone has jumped on lavines back..

Lavine was the one juming on Leggy's back and it was just so funny coz of the height difference and the face on Lavine!

[pineapple stu]

Team participating in Europe get the FAI training grant. Derry are also going, as they have done in previous years. We also drew 1-1 with a side from Moscow a couple of years back though can't remember if it was Locomotiv.

Apparently teams participating in the Champions League get a pre-season training/tour allowance from UEFA.

Didn't know that; thanks. Bad memories of Doolin taking UCD off to a training camp in Malta, which did nothing but waste the club's money as we lost the first eight games of the season.

[Dodge]

Last year pats wanted to go to Limerick to do pre season in the national training centre there but it worked out far, far cheaper to go to Spain for the week. We played one of the Soviet teams too

[KevB76]

Last year pats wanted to go to Limerick to do pre season in the national training centre there but it worked out far, far cheaper to go to Spain for the week. We played one of the Soviet teams too

I heard Mervue are going abroad for pre-season training, also to Spain I believe.

[HarpoJoyce]

Last year pats wanted to go to Limerick to do pre season in the national training centre there but it worked out far, far cheaper to go to Spain for the week. We played one of the Soviet teams too

Soviet teams right...... FC Submarine Murmansk or someone like that?

Pats have had adventurist tours in the past they played Islamic Republic of Iran (0-0) and Persepolis FC(?) big team from Tehran which use to claim had 2 million supporters.

Another year, Pats were dissuaded from traveling to J. Libya by at least one Irish Institutation.
(Brian Kerr does like to collect stamps in his passport.)
I think both were planned for summer.

[Guitd]

I heard Mervue are going abroad for pre-season training, also to Spain I believe.

no portugal --and the players are paying for it themselves by selling lotto tickets

[MariborKev]

Team participating in Europe get the FAI training grant. Derry are also going, as they have done in previous years. We also drew 1-1 with a side from Moscow a couple of years back though can't remember if it was Locomotiv.

It was Dynamo. The game and result features in the recent "FC Dynamo" book about modern Russian footbal. Certainly caught me by surprise when I read it.

In terms of cost,I don't think the FAI grant comes to covering it.....

[Dodge]

In the early 90s we drew 0-0 with iran before losing to that club side 2-0. Both games watched by 80,000. We also drew 0-0 with Tunisia shoprtly after winning the 1990 league title. A half Pats/half Bohs side did eventually go to play Libya in 1991 (possibly 92). I can't recall the score.

We also beat Finland 2-1 in a friendly in dalymount (in front of less than 1,000 people).

For the record this year Pats are not going to Spain

[Raheny Red]

Shels went Dutch early this month for a game but was more of a **** up than anything else. All expenses were paid by the hosts

[GalwayRed]

Is that for definite

Its for defintie now confirmed on the website. We will be playing Letterkenny Rovers.

[dcfcsteve]

In the early 90s we drew 0-0 with iran before losing to that club side 2-0. Both games watched by 80,000. We also drew 0-0 with Tunisia shoprtly after winning the 1990 league title. A half Pats/half Bohs side did eventually go to play Libya in 1991 (possibly 92). I can't recall the score.

We also beat Finland 2-1 in a friendly in dalymount (in front of less than 1,000 people).

They're the kind of mad-cap friendlies that Irish teams should play more of !

I'm sure the Pats players who made that tour of Iran have been dining out on the story of it for some time since. Did any fans make it over ?

[Dodge]

Don't think so. In 1990 flights to Tunisia and Tehran weren't quite as handy as these days. Prices to London were about £300...