Match Updates: (29th-30th May)

**Straightstory** · 30/05/2010, 11:27 AM

Nightmare scenario: The ultimate '**** ground, no fans' teams UCD and Sporting Fingal finish first and second in league.

**Dalymountrower** · 30/05/2010, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Crazy league this year, 6 points between first and 6th. Any team that can win four or five games in a row will pull clear. It could be an amazing finish over the last few weeks.

Agreed. it will be whoever can sustain a run and sustain injuries to key squad members . Having seen every team play twice, I would still think that the league winner will come from either of the two Rovers and Bohs .
As for the standard this year I would think that the standard of coaching has improved, teams look fitter and are less likely to be intimidated by so -called bigger clubs.

**bennocelt** · 30/05/2010, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by Straightstory

Nightmare scenario: The ultimate '**** ground, no fans' teams UCD and Sporting Fingal finish first and second in league.

I dont think so - both teams play great football, and isnt that what its all about at the end of the day?

**Poor Student** · 30/05/2010, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

I dont think so - both teams play great football, and isnt that what its all about at the end of the day?

No. It's about having hulking stands you can't fill and a hugely impressive couple of thousand fans instead of a couple of hundred.

**oriel** · 30/05/2010, 2:40 PM

UCD were very impressive last night, in the season we are going back to europe, their play at times had an almost continental look about it, crisp passing, excellent movement, fitness & clinical finishing. Granted we allowed them space all over the park, and we were hopeless, actually as bad as many dark day displays of the FD, but take nothing away from their display last night.

We were beaten by a much better side.

PS my first visit to the ground, some people think its a not a proper lge ground, I loved it, very compact, excellent pitch, decent view, lovely drive in and safe to park...........dodgy burgers though (and I had to have two to make sure !!)

**Schumi** · 30/05/2010, 3:15 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

I dont think so - both teams play great football, and isnt that what its all about at the end of the day?

Indeed. Some people seem more interested in watching crowds than football.

**thischarmingman** · 30/05/2010, 4:17 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Indeed. Some people seem more interested in watching crowds than football.

In fairness, there were some pretty interesting cumulonimb- oh...

**RoversHead** · 30/05/2010, 4:58 PM

Originally Posted by placid casual

Yeah sligo are doin very well this year:hypnotized!

Win their game in hand and they will be six points off top spot at the halfway mark,Rovers Bohs and Drogs have shown the lack of quality while Bray through no fault of their own have been out of their dept.Every other side has improved.

**ndrog** · 30/05/2010, 6:19 PM

Originally Posted by danthesaint

its well for some, maybe we should let our opposition fans attack out goalkeeper twice to make up for it. same fine at the end of the day........model club well done..........

on the pats v drog thing, drog are ****in shocking i swear to god.
beat by these 3 time this season holy god
i wish i could give drogs credit, but they dont deserve it, we deserved to get beat tonight, just for the attitude

Here we go ffs ! Keep on suckin that sour grape pal . Pats were the ones who ****in shocking tonite .You offered nothing going forward , you had a good bit of the ball but did nothing with it .We were hungrier and wanted to win . You cant give us credit ? you then state we deserve to win , surely we deserve credit for winning dont we ? You post is confusing tbh . 3 out of 3 against pats so far .Nice ..

**Youths4Ever** · 30/05/2010, 6:35 PM

Wexford 3-2 Mervue. Mervue played the better football to be fair but we stuck in there and got a last minute winner. very impressed with Mervue then seem to have moved on from last year (was not at game earlier in the season) and played some very nice football at times

**Sean South** · 30/05/2010, 7:11 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Indeed. Some people seem more interested in watching crowds than football.

It's the general geeky nature of many of the users of this site. Every time I read this forum there is always a few UCD supporters saying stuff like " I counted 243 at our game" or "I counted 583 fans and a dog at the Galway game" then Patrick Dunne or gufct will say "that didn't include season ticket holders"

**danthesaint** · 30/05/2010, 7:59 PM

Originally Posted by ndrog

Here we go ffs ! Keep on suckin that sour grape pal . Pats were the ones who ****in shocking tonite .You offered nothing going forward , you had a good bit of the ball but did nothing with it .We were hungrier and wanted to win . You cant give us credit ? you then state we deserve to win , surely we deserve credit for winning dont we ? You post is confusing tbh . 3 out of 3 against pats so far .Nice ..

i didnt say you deserved to win, draw would have been a fair result, both teams were gick last night, if paul byrne put his chance in, it might have been a different result not to be, no sour grapes here bud, if we got beat by the better team id say it, but we didnt.....

**PartySaint** · 30/05/2010, 8:23 PM

Worst performance of the season so far

The league is still between Bohs and Rovers, Fingal might push them

**ndrog** · 30/05/2010, 8:36 PM

Originally Posted by danthesaint

i didnt say you deserved to win, draw would have been a fair result, both teams were gick last night, if paul byrne put his chance in, it might have been a different result not to be, no sour grapes here bud, if we got beat by the better team id say it, but we didnt.....

The team that put the ball in the net 2 times instead of 1 won the game i.e Drogs . Pats didnt look like winning the game at any stage and Drogheda actually did , if your post is not sour grapes i dont know what is bud .

**Flume** · 30/05/2010, 8:48 PM

Originally Posted by danthesaint

i didnt say you deserved to win, draw would have been a fair result, both teams were gick last night, if paul byrne put his chance in, it might have been a different result not to be, no sour grapes here bud, if we got beat by the better team id say it, but we didnt.....

We deserved to lose last night. Didn't do enough to win the game and the attitude was shocking. Drogs took advantage and deserved the 3 points.

**PartySaint** · 30/05/2010, 9:02 PM

Originally Posted by ndrog

The team that put the ball in the net 2 times instead of 1 won the game i.e Drogs . Pats didnt look like winning the game at any stage and Drogheda actually did , if your post is not sour grapes i dont know what is bud .

Youse didnt derseve to win the game but why do you care?? We have won games this season that we havent deserved to win and i couldnt gove a toss if people say on the internet that we didnt deserve to win them, just enjoy the result

**KUFCMan** · 30/05/2010, 9:31 PM

Does anyone know who scored all the goals today in the Wexford Youths

**KUFCMan** · 30/05/2010, 9:33 PM

Does anyone know who scored all the goals today in the Wexford Youths V Mervue game today.No livescore site has it and extratime didnt seem to do it.Very shoddy for the 1st Division as usual!

**danthesaint** · 30/05/2010, 9:35 PM

Originally Posted by KUFCMan

Does anyone know who scored all the goals today in the Wexford Youths

From LOI website

Shane Dempsey scored a late winner for the second week running as Youths twice came from behind in this five goal thriller.

Evan Connolly put Mervue in front from a fourth minute penalty after Patsy Malone had handled inside the box.

Though Danny Furlong levelled on 17 minutes, Connolly struck again five minutes later to restore Mervue's lead.

Youths staged a late rally with Shane Sinnott equalising when squeezing the ball home from Dean Broaders cross on 78 minutes.

Dempsey, who scored Youths' late winner at Shelbourne last week, then won it in dramatic fashion three minutes into stoppage time at the death when finishing off Furlong's cross

**marinobohs** · 31/05/2010, 9:57 AM

Originally Posted by Jicked

I presume Setanta didn't show the afters that went on?

After Cronin tried to do a Quigley on Sean O'Connor, he went up to SOC after the final whistle to have a further go. Whatever he said SOC didn't approve and pushed him off, to which Cronin then shoved Sean O'Connor. Both teams clashed, with Pat Flynn desperately trying to get at Killian Brennan or Anto Murphy (I couldn't see which it was), and Pat Fenlon trying to get stuck in to a few Rovers players and jabbing fingers at everyone. Fenlon had to be restrained by his own team, Pat Flynn was grabbed by Barry Murphy to calm him down. It was very heated, a few players shoved to the ground, referee had to come running back over to try to restore order but just ended up in the melee.

After that Bohs came out to warm down, in front of Rovers fans who were being kept back. Fenlon decided to lead the warmdown himself and took the opportunity to start telling Rovers fans how he's going to win five-in-a-row with Bohs. Extremely professional thing to do when you tried to f**k off 6 months ago, your team is struggling badly and you've been lucky to get a point at home. Jason Byrne then started to dance around in front of Rovers fans who were slagging him off which Fenlon seemed to find hilarious. Rovers came out to warm down, only for Killian Brennan (or was it Murphy?) to walk out of his way through the Rovers squad and do the classic 14 year old boy move of dropping the shoulder as you walk in to someone. Rovers pushed him away which meant Fenlon and the Bohs squad came running over from the other side of the pitch to square up to the Rovers team again this time in an almost empty stadium.

They're a classy lot.

Happy enough with a point all the same and to escape without any broken legs, should have won it but Bohs were able to throw a limb in front of every goal bound shot at the last second. What can you do, today was further evidence in my book that Bohs are struggling big time and are nowhere near their first title winning side, or even the team from last year.

Usual nonsense from foot.ie answer to Hans Christian Anderson (I still laugh at Bohs fans pitch invasion to kidnap Twigg at Tallaght

) . Fairly clear what happened, bad tackle by Cronin who went over to the player to see if he was alright, was pushed away and squared up. All players rushed in and handbags all round (couple of half hearted swings but nothing serious). Silly testosterone stuff at the end of a tough commited derby. More embarassing for both sides than anything.

RE fenlons "professionalism", how quickly you forget O'Neills role in the Oriel debacle, his post match comments on Saturday about frees and penos reeked of class as well (not). By the way Nutseys five fingered salute was about the five throphies he has won at Bohs not five in a row titles (bit early to be celebrating that just yet

) but hey you guys know all about Bohs right ? keep on making it up - real "classy"