Programme trading by dovorian

[gspain]

You'll pick up early Cork Celtic issues easily enough on ebay 59,60,61,62 - they issued only for home cup semi finals after that AFAIK until the 70's which are scarce. I think they last issued in 76/7 and even then it was pretty sporadic.

All Albert Rovers programmes I've seen from 76/7 claim to be their first issue. I got one from December and gave others a wrong steer then. I've got a couple of others but reckon they issued for all games. They are scarce but wouldn't go mad price wise unless v Shamrock rovers, Sligo or Finn Harps. Cork Alberts issued only a few programmes as did Cork united. The last ever Cork United issue is likely to be Michael Punch's testimonial. They only issued 3 or 4 programmes during 80/1 season which turn up occasionally. They may have issued v Dundalk in 79/80 (although I have my doubts - was told they did by the club at the time) and not at all in 81/2.

Keep an eye on ebay as they are most likely to turn up there.

[seand]

Just on the subject of Cork Alberts, are you aware of whether they had an issue for the 77-8 League Cup final against Dundalk?
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Sean

[dahamsta]

dovorian, I don't care what your physical or mental capabilities are, blasting our forums with programme requests is not on. Our users come here to talk about football, not to feed your personal hobby.

If you're going to join in on the discussions properly, and what you do is a hobby, you may use the Marketplace forum occasionally to post requests.

If you're only here to support a hobby, you may post one thread in the Marketplace forum and update it occasionally if new requests or items come up.

If you're doing it as a business, you need to leave Foot.ie now as we don't allow that.

I'll leave this thread in Support for a couple of days for a reply. If we don't receive a satisfactory response, your account and posts will be deleted.

adam

[Westernblue]

Galway and Thurles both joined the league in 1977 so I assume that was the year in question.

Was that the season of the all Waterford team? I remember John O'Neill playing for them when in his 40's. The also had a couple of all Dublin sides with Neville Steedman easily being their best player. He began his career there before moving to Rovers. Fabulous player but not too popular with Hoops fans these days as he bought a house on the site of Glenmalure Park.

It was our nearest away game and I was at all the Limerick games and even got to Thurles v Dundalk in a midweek back match in 1980 and the friendly v Stoke (including Peter Shilton) in 1977. Either my late grandfather or father were always persuaded to drive the 80 mile roundtrip.

There was a huge crowd at our game in October 79 which ended 3-3. tony Morris scored ahatrick for Limerick with Steedman (I think) netting a very late equaliser. It was the first point we dropped in our league winning season.

Crowds were poor there otherwise The 81/2 game would have been the lowest crowd then that I'd ever seen at an LoI game.

There was never really a football tradition in Thurles. It was always a GAA town. I think Tipperary Town or clonmel would have been better locations for a League of Ireland side.

I was at the Stoke game in 1977. Drove up with a friend of mine on a Suzuki 50!!! Terry Conroy and Peter Shilton were the big attraction at the time. Stayed overnight in Thurles and went to the cinema...no hope of getting drink back then if you under 18!