Limerick Premier Division 2008/09

bit of a gap opening up already from 5th down

Originally Posted by allab

balla 0 ashling 2

went to this game this morning.from a neutral point of view it was a good game imo.ashling matched balla physically and chased and challenged everything.balla got what i thought was a legitimate goal disallowed for offside which would have brought them level.in saying that though balla lost the plot completely after the goal was disallowed.i felt that balla spent far too much time giving out and complaining.if they got on with the game they might have had a chance..thought cummins had a fine game for ashling.he terrorised the 2 centre backs and was unlucky not to have 4 goals on the day.great save from hickey in the balla goal just before halftime to stop a certain goal by cummins.thought that balla were just feeding off long ball scraps.they will need to improve imo if they want to be up towards the top at the end of the season.
things are going to get interesting over the next few weeks.5 teams playing good stuff up at the top.good to see the league opening up a bit.can only be good for the division and will make for some very exciting games for the rest of the season.

Originally Posted by oscar

bit of a gap opening up already from 5th down

very bad result for ye today oscar.what kind of team did ye have out?were ye missing players?alot of people in yer club wont be happy with that result.did ye just not turn up or were pike that much better?

Originally Posted by abbeyvale

Cant see it happening TBH.
I'd fancy Regional to win by 3 clear goals. (Sorry Dared)

looks like you have a career as a pundit when you hang up the boots abbeyvalegood prediction

Originally Posted by oscar

bit of a gap opening up already from 5th down

Yep, I said it at the start of the season, the Prem in Limerick is split into 3 tiers.

The top 5 (Any of who could realistically win the league)
The middle 2 (Boro & Wembley, neither will win the league nor get relegated)
The bottom 5 (Any of who could easily be relegated)

Originally Posted by halo16

went to this game this morning.from a neutral point of view it was a good game imo.ashling matched balla physically and chased and challenged everything.balla got what i thought was a legitimate goal disallowed for offside which would have brought them level.in saying that though balla lost the plot completely after the goal was disallowed.i felt that balla spent far too much time giving out and complaining.if they got on with the game they might have had a chance..thought cummins had a fine game for ashling.he terrorised the 2 centre backs and was unlucky not to have 4 goals on the day.great save from hickey in the balla goal just before halftime to stop a certain goal by cummins.thought that balla were just feeding off long ball scraps.they will need to improve imo if they want to be up towards the top at the end of the season.
things are going to get interesting over the next few weeks.5 teams playing good stuff up at the top.good to see the league opening up a bit.can only be good for the division and will make for some very exciting games for the rest of the season.

Whitestripe's assessment on Cummins a few weeks seems quite justified.Up against a very strong Balla back four and banged in 2!
Ya,good to see the league not fought out between the usual crew.Regional and Aisling seem to be coming to the fore this year........

Originally Posted by Abbey Road

Whitestripe's assessment on Cummins a few weeks seems quite justified.Up against a very strong Balla back four and banged in 2!
Ya,good to see the league not fought out between the usual crew.Regional and Aisling seem to be coming to the fore this year........

Its very early yet, Regional were strong up to Xmas last season and fell away, its just a matter of whether they can be more consistant this season.................If they can they'll have a chance. (Especially as they've played both Pike and View away already).

Originally Posted by oscar

full side out or not thats a shocking result

Ya,not good enough for the 'boro'..............

I seem to remember another asses beaten received up there some years back.I think it was 8-3 or something like that.I can't remember anything since so bad!

Originally Posted by abbeyvale

P W D L F A Pts
Regional Utd 7 6 1 0 16 2 19
Ballynanty Rvs 7 5 1 1 20 7 16
Pike Rovers 6 5 0 1 20 4 15
Aisling Annacotty 6 5 0 1 14 2 15
Fairview Rgs 6 4 1 1 18 5 13
Janesboro 6 1 2 3 11 14 5
Wembley Rvs 5 1 2 2 10 16 5
Granville Rgs 7 1 1 5 5 17 4
Kilmallock 7 1 1 5 11 21 4
Dromore Celtic 6 1 1 4 8 22 4
Carew Park 4 1 0 3 4 11 3
Corbally Utd 5 0 0 5 1 17 0









Results
Sunday 12th October 2008 @ 10.30
Wembley Rovers 2-5 Fairview Rangers (Doyle, Heffernan, Grant (2) Plus another)
Aisling/Annacotty 2-0 Ballynanty Rovers (Cummins (2))
Pike Rovers 5-0 Janesboro (Hartnett 2, Maloney 2, & C Enright)
Dromore Celtic 4-0 Granville Rangers (O'Riordan 2, Frawley & Bourke)
Regional United 3-0 Corbally United (Mullins, O'Donoghue & Stewart)

Just as i predicted, except for granville, i predicted a draw.

watched the first 50 mins of the fairview wembley game wembley keeper had a shocker of a game fairview could of won the game by a lot more .watched the end of the dromore granville game granville never turned up this morning looked like they were missing a few players they had 1 of there defenders in goal but congrats to dromore by far the better team on the day its tight at the bottom

Originally Posted by halo16

looks like you have a career as a pundit when you hang up the boots abbeyvalegood prediction

ya spot on. Didnt think they would win by as much.

Originally Posted by Abbey Road

Whitestripe's assessment on Cummins a few weeks seems quite justified.Up against a very strong Balla back four and banged in 2!
Ya,good to see the league not fought out between the usual crew.Regional and Aisling seem to be coming to the fore this year........

Cummins is an excellent player,ballas defence cannot handle pace - simple as that in my opinion and its been the same for a number of years.

Originally Posted by Balbec77

watched the first 50 mins of the fairview wembley game wembley keeper had a shocker of a game fairview could of won the game by a lot more .watched the end of the dromore granville game granville never turned up this morning looked like they were missing a few players they had 1 of there defenders in goal but congrats to dromore by far the better team on the day its tight at the bottom

Granville keeper went off injured after 5mins, one of their defenders then took over.

Originally Posted by abbeyvale

Granville keeper went off injured after 5mins, one of their defenders then took over.

were they missing any out field players looked a different team that played us two weeks a go tough pitch to play ball on very narrow

Originally Posted by abbeyvale

P W D L F A Pts
Regional Utd 7 6 1 0 16 2 19
Ballynanty Rvs 7 5 1 1 20 7 16
Pike Rovers 6 5 0 1 20 4 15
Aisling Annacotty 6 5 0 1 14 2 15
Fairview Rgs 6 4 1 1 18 5 13
Janesboro 6 1 2 3 11 14 5
Wembley Rvs 5 1 2 2 10 16 5
Granville Rgs 7 1 1 5 5 17 4
Kilmallock 7 1 1 5 11 21 4
Dromore Celtic 6 1 1 4 8 22 4
Carew Park 4 1 0 3 4 11 3
Corbally Utd 5 0 0 5 1 17 0


Results
Sunday 12th October 2008 @ 10.30
Wembley Rovers 2-5 Fairview Rangers (Doyle, Heffernan, Grant (2) Plus another)
Aisling/Annacotty 2-0 Ballynanty Rovers (Cummins (2))
Pike Rovers 5-0 Janesboro (Hartnett 2, Maloney 2, & C Enright)
Dromore Celtic 4-0 Granville Rangers (O'Riordan 2, Frawley & Bourke)
Regional United 3-0 Corbally United (Mullins, O'Donoghue & Stewart)

Balla vs Aisling was played in LIT as a Balla home fixture as Aisling's pitch was deemed unplayable before yesterdays 2pm deadline.....Where as Granville are going to seriously struggle after losing home advantage to Dromore this morning.......By the way John Mullane scored the other for the View and Enright's goal for Pike was from the spot ( to avoid Hartnetts head getting any bigger if he got the hat trick against the Boro)....

Originally Posted by HuRya

Balla vs Aisling was played in LIT as a Balla home fixture as Aisling's pitch was deemed unplayable before yesterdays 2pm deadline.....Where as Granville are going to seriously struggle after losing home advantage to Dromore this morning.......By the way John Mullane scored the other for the View and Enright's goal for Pike was from the spot ( to avoid Hartnetts head getting any bigger if he got the hat trick against the Boro)....

Granville switched the game to Rathuard as their 17s had an FAI game in the afternoon and had it been called off they would have lost home advantage. The return game against Dromore takes place in Glenbrook, they didn't forfeit home advantage.

In that case,

.......Club.......P W D L F A Pts
Regional Utd. 7 6 1 0 16 2 19
Ballynanty Rvs7 5 1 1 20 7 16
Pike Rovers ....6 5 0 1 20 4 15
Aisling A'cotty 6 5 0 1 14 2 15
Fairview Rgs ..6 4 1 1 18 5 13
Janesboro...... 6 1 2 3 11 14 5
Wembley Rvs. 5 1 2 2 10 16 5
Granville Rgs ...7 1 1 5 5 17 4
Kilmallock..... 7 1 1 5 11 21 4
Dromore Celtic 6 1 1 4 8 22 4
Carew Park .....4 1 0 3 4 11 3
Corbally Utd.... 5 0 0 5 1 17 0

Results
Sun 12/10/08
Ballynanty Rvs 0-2 Aisling Annacotty
Dromore Celtic 4-0 Granville Rgs
Pike Rvs 5-0 Janesboro
Regional Utd 3-0 Corbally Utd
Wembley Rvs 2-5 Fairview Rgs

have to agree with halo,balla,s discipline a big problem.ref could have sent off a few more.in fairness to aisling they physically matched balla all through and balla,s back 4 lack of pace was exposed by cummins.

Originally Posted by Fairkop

have to agree with halo,balla,s discipline a big problem.ref could have sent off a few more.in fairness to aisling they physically matched balla all through and balla,s back 4 lack of pace was exposed by cummins.

understandably balla were annoyed that the goal they got was disallowed.i thought it was a legitamite goal and it would have brought them level with 20mins to go.i was just disapointed how they let that particular situation affect the rest of there performance for the remainder of the game.instead of driving on and trying to equalise they resorted to giving away stupid frees which just made aisling wind down the clock.as good as balla are at times they can be there own worse enemies by imploding when a decision goes against them.its a pity really as on there day they can be a fine side.

Originally Posted by Green_Hoop

Pike 5 - 0 Boro'

2 Hartnett, 2 Moloney, Enright(Pen)

Boro' out of the game from the get go, Pikes finest performance to date against a weak Boro' side.

ouch!! very disappointed, its probably very easy for me to say, but that is not good enough.

thank god i wasnt playing or it might have been 7 or 8

surely the boro are better than that