I thought you were taking about Hugo MacNeill for a second until you mentioned the 1930s! He was decent for you in the B division or so I've heard.Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I thought you were taking about Hugo MacNeill for a second until you mentioned the 1930s! He was decent for you in the B division or so I've heard.
There's a legend he scored a rake of goals (46 I think the story was) in the LoI B Division but it's not true. I don't think he scored any. He won a Collingwood and that's about it - he was a Trinity student for the most part.
Paddy Crean was the guy in the 30s.
None at all?! 46 did sound a bit high alright but in that case that legend certainly grew legs!
Yeah, no idea where it came from! We rarely scored 46 at non-league level as a team, let alone one player
I have most of our non-league scorers in the 70s and he's not one. And also never played LoI (and you'd expect anyone who scored a rake of goals for the Bs to make at least one senior appearance)
Checked that with him for the book - can't remember the exact response now but certainly the goalscoring feats aren't true
An Ulster Senior Cup and a Connacht Senior Cup should be a step closer following the National League announcement. The Munster Senior Cup will need to be tweaked a bit to include three NL clubs. Presumably they might enter before the Last 16. The Munster FA will have to decide do they rank NL clubs as equals or higher than MSL clubs.
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined.
First Division 2014: 7 first teams and a B team.
Opportunity lost for new clubs to join GLITW.
Cork City confirm a friendly with Kerry on Wednesday February 4th in Bishopstown.
There’s about 25 odd friendlies involving LOI teams on the FAI Connect app. If you search ‘League of Ireland Friendlies 2026’ in the competitions search field you’ll see them all
Paaatrick's Agletic
Shamrock Rovers in Mounthawk Park is the pre season friendly I'd like to see. Be interested to see what crowd would attend and if it could be an LoI friendly sell out. Thought there was enough good will off the back of the semi final, despite the red card that should have been given, for a friendly to be agreed.
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined.
First Division 2014: 7 first teams and a B team.
Opportunity lost for new clubs to join GLITW.
Seems the reason all the friendlies are away (Treaty and Waterford now also confirmed) is that the Mounthawk astro is being relaid between now and the start of the season.
Oh right, that puts paid to that. Cobh Wanderers is a home game. Might that be played in the home of the neighbours in Killarney?
Thank the fcuking lord.
Longford playing home farm tonight, must be the earliest pre season friendly ever
The annual "friendly" against Killarney Celtic is on the 6th of January.
The Derry City - Sligo Rovers match in the Brandywell tonight is now "strictly behind closed doors", so plenty of lads on trial, we can assume.
Bohs v Drogheda 1pm
No Todd or Hickey in the Bohs team..
Dungannon at 2pm
Hickey was the player listed as a trialist in the line up apparently, played as a centre half too.
Bohs had 4 trialists, any of them new faces or are they recently signed and not on the register. Like as you say Hickey is today
Another one was Hugh Martin, the young lad signed from UCD. Haven't heard anything about the other two so I assume they were actually trialists.
Cheers.
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