Pre-season friendlies

**Jofspring** · 10/02/2013, 9:47 AM

It's better to learn lessons and shake off the cob webs now than on march 8th.

Look at us two years ago, we beat everyone in friendlies scoring something like 25 goals and only conceding 3 or 4 and ended up finishing 4th in the first division.

**Mr A** · 10/02/2013, 10:36 AM

Was it last year that Waterford got battered in a bunch of their pre season games? Means feck all really, although obviously it's best avoided!

**outspoken** · 10/02/2013, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Jofspring

It's better to learn lessons and shake off the cob webs now than on march 8th.

Look at us two years ago, we beat everyone in friendlies scoring something like 25 goals and only conceding 3 or 4 and ended up finishing 4th in the first division.

To be fair finishing 4th in that 1st division was probably a better achievement than finishing 2nd or 3rd in last seasons considering how bad the standard was last year.

**outspoken** · 10/02/2013, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Mr A

Was it last year that Waterford got battered in a bunch of their pre season games? Means feck all really, although obviously it's best avoided!

Ye I think it was Rovers that beat them 5 or 6-0

**adamd164** · 10/02/2013, 11:03 AM

Waterford did start the season very poorly last year though, probably cost them the league.

**donnrua** · 10/02/2013, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by outspoken

Ye I think it was Rovers that beat them 5 or 6-0

I believe Rovers hit Waterford for 8 in that game and Wexford put 6 past them first or second game of the season.

**L.T.F.C.** · 10/02/2013, 10:16 PM

I don't think we won one pre-season game last year.

**mardyke** · 10/02/2013, 10:38 PM

Have Athlone under Roddy Collins played any friendlies he seems to have got in alot of new faces might be worth looking at for the 1st division title.

**SkStu** · 10/02/2013, 11:45 PM

Howya Roddy...

**pineapple stu** · 11/02/2013, 6:36 AM

They lost to UCD and got thumped by Pat's

**gormacha** · 11/02/2013, 8:00 AM

Originally Posted by adamd164

Waterford did start the season very poorly last year though, probably cost them the league.

It did cost us the league. Three losses, two draws and only two wins in the first series. We ended up losing the league by four points.

**bluemovie** · 11/02/2013, 10:55 AM

Yeah we lost 3-0 to Cork, 5-0 at Bray and 8-1 at Rovers, then were hammered 6-0 in Wexford on opening night so it looked fairly bleak. It took until the second series of games to get the shape right in the team with Peter White going into midfield alongside Dempsey and most notably (and amazingly) for Seanie Maguire to get into the first eleven. We were already miles behind by then.

On the flipside, in 2010, we had a superb pre-season and then won our first six league games (still finished 3 points off Derry in the end unfortunately). Largely based on this, I figure that pre-season results only make a difference if they are either extreme. A really good or bad run will have an effect on confidence, but anywhere in the middle and they don't matter.

**gspain01** · 11/02/2013, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by bluemovie

Yeah we lost 3-0 to Cork, 5-0 at Bray and 8-1 at Rovers, then were hammered 6-0 in Wexford on opening night so it looked fairly bleak. It took until the second series of games to get the shape right in the team with Peter White going into midfield alongside Dempsey and most notably (and amazingly) for Seanie Maguire to get into the first eleven. We were already miles behind by then.

On the flipside, in 2010, we had a superb pre-season and then won our first six league games (still finished 3 points off Derry in the end unfortunately). Largely based on this, I figure that pre-season results only make a difference if they are either extreme. A really good or bad run will have an effect on confidence, but anywhere in the middle and they don't matter.

Seanie Maguire only made the bench for your 2nd game of the season v Limerick. Unfortunately he didn't stay there.

**bluemovie** · 11/02/2013, 12:51 PM

Yeah, he only came on for the last ten minutes at 1-1. Rounded Barry Ryan with his first touch, scored with his second, almost scored again. By second series of games, I meant games 8 to 14. Think he only started two of the first seven with the plan being to ease him in more gently than we did in the end.