Home Farm v City

**adamcarr** · 06/05/2004, 9:52 PM

Great Result. Two wins at home and then we will be going up to the sheepshaggers full of confidence!

**pineapple stu** · 06/05/2004, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Gary

As for 1000 in Belfield in the Premier? Any time I was there, never more than 350-400. Maybe there was 1000 when playing another Dub team, and they made up those numbers.

900 for the first Cork game last season - that's three times HF?'s equivalent crowd this season, for all that means! Course 500 in Belfield at least looks better than 300 in Tolka...!

Appalling game to watch - three points is three points, maybe, but if I were a Cork fan, I'd be concerned about the team's complete inability to actually pass to each other. Dublin City offered very little, though they could have perhaps scraped a draw with more composure in front of goal. Robbie Horgan was very nearly the first keeper I've ever seen to be sent off for two yellow cards for two fouls outside his box!

**tiktok** · 06/05/2004, 11:32 PM

Brutal game.

Dublin City were well organised and closed the game down well, between an awful pitch and an awful (and dare i say biased) referree both dragging any continuity out of city, it was a scrappy, stop-start game. City never really got going, a lot of the players didn't really look that interested in what was going on (Nwankwo and Woods barely left their own half), we barely strung two passes together, but we ground out an away win, have two on the trot and up to third (however briefly the stay will be).

We'll have to improve against Rovers to make it three in a row, but a win's a win. Hopefully Fenn's injury isn't too serious.

highlights:

Brief chat with Brian Kerr before the Game, nice bloke.
Georgie's goal was very well taken.
The 'home fans' (average age eight) making more noise than Bohs on Friday

and best of all...

Seeing Tom the Gom wreck Ollie Cahill's head at half time talking about 'giant cheques'

**Peadar** · 07/05/2004, 8:04 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Dublin City offered very little, though they could have perhaps scraped a draw with more composure in front of goal.

Listen mate if we had a bit more composure in front of goal we'd have won 0-3 at least. Two clear chances in the second half where George tried to place his shot but hit wide and over the right corner by about a metre. Jamie Nolan dragged a shot low, across the box and narrowly wide of the same post. Any team would have looked poor against DC because their depressing style takes the life out of the game. Colin T and Dan Murray were mainly at fault where the passing was concerned but as we saw against Bohs, that's not such an issue when the level of the game is higher.

I sincerly doubt there was 300 at Tolka last night.
If you remove the two under 8 teams and their "Soccer Moms" who were there to provide the halftime entertainment and the fact that a good few of us got complimentary passes to the game then only a handful of people paid in.
Sad really.

**pete** · 07/05/2004, 10:54 AM

I'd put attendance @ 200 & be surprised if mote than a 1/4 of that paid in.

City very poor against dire team. O'Neill has been getting good reviews but didn't show any of it last night as Home farm tried to find him with long balls. "Home" team had lots of possession but most in their own half. Fenn injury didn't look serious. Woods & Nwanko particularily poor but Kearney not much better.

Ref was shocking & blew up for almost every nudge & then of course let a couple of heavy tackles go plus a possibly red card for Home Farm in 1st half.

**�anna** · 07/05/2004, 10:59 AM

crap crowd? on pitch thuggery? dodgy refereeing? and they play in tolka? funny that

3 points is 3 points however we get it. our away record now is very good: 3 wins, 2 draws and one defeat if I'm not mistaken. If we improve our home form, we should have a very good season.

**WindmillWarrior** · 07/05/2004, 2:19 PM

The crowd was about 200 alright, 30 Cork fans, 2 Drogs fans, I also seen a couple of Shels and Bohs fans and there was obviously a couple of UCD fans there as well! (Assuming you have mates Stu

) See, Home Farm are right to play their games on a thursday, look at all those neutrals!

Well it means alot to Home Farm anyway!

**tiktok** · 07/05/2004, 2:28 PM

Originally Posted by WindmillWarrior

30 Cork fans

the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.

**WindmillWarrior** · 07/05/2004, 3:02 PM

Originally Posted by tiktok

the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.

Well, you must have counted those pesky little kids that were sitting beside you as well

**tiktok** · 07/05/2004, 3:13 PM

Originally Posted by WindmillWarrior

Well, you must have counted those pesky little kids that were sitting beside you as well

christ, there must have been hundreds of them

i assumed all the gang standing around where i was were all city fans, maybe there was a few neutrals among us that padded out the difference between our estimates.

in any event, the attendance was shocking

**Schumi** · 07/05/2004, 3:18 PM

Originally Posted by tiktok

the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.

Looked like more to me, I would have put the Cork crowd in the new stand at about 60 or so. With pineapple, myself and some other UCD punter at the game, more than 1% of the crowd were UCD fans!

Terrible game, HF's style doesn't make for good games. 1 up front and long balls up to him leads to boring football. Cork defended well and didn't give O'Neill any space to run onto the ball and so HF didn't get any decent shots in. Their defensive set-up closed O'Callaghan down well and that seemed to stop Cork from playing.

$hite game, �10 student price and a smaller crowd than in Belfield, I don't think I'll be going back there in a hurry!

**tiktok** · 07/05/2004, 3:32 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Looked like more to me, I would have put the Cork crowd in the new stand at about 60 or so. !

i did my sad counting bit just after half time, there was a few stragglers from the bar after that

Sheridan · 07/05/2004, 3:33 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

$hite game, �10 student price and a smaller crowd than in Belfield, I don't think I'll be going back there in a hurry!

Two students are admitted for the price of one upon production of ID. Should have been more widely publicised, that.

**markdit** · 07/05/2004, 3:40 PM

Originally Posted by adamcarr

Great Result. Two wins at home and then we will be going up to the sheepshaggers full of confidence!

who are the sheep shaggers????

**Troy.McClure** · 07/05/2004, 4:53 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

some other UCD punter at the game,

???

Snore of a game, Ive seen preseason/MSL games with more attendance, home atmosphere (credit to anyone who bothered comming up from Cork) and edge to it. I think that City did as much as they really needed to do.

Highlights: 3 points, Nwanko comming off and Dan's step-overs

**Colm** · 07/05/2004, 5:20 PM

It was a boring game but that's to be expected with Dublin City. I thought Georgie, Danny Murphy and Lordan were the best for us.
Overall we played reasonably well but it is difficult to play any proper football against such rubbish negative teams like DC. We were never in danger of not winning and if we had had better finishing etc we could have won by 3 or 4.

the game was that bad that i actually counted, there was forty five of us behind the goals a few minutes into the second half, with another eight or nine choosing to sit in the stand.

I'd say there was still a lot of people in the bar at that stage. I would have thought there was somewhere between 60 and 80 City fans there, which is very good considering the factors (no bus, thursday, Dublin City).
btw, did you count the two "directors" in the directors box?!

Anyway, another away win, our third win in Dublin now this season. Wasn't a great match to watch and it's depressing to see a football stadium so empty (I'd say there were only about 50 paying customers) but we got the job done and had an absolutely great night out in Dublin after.

**pineapple stu** · 07/05/2004, 8:19 PM

Originally Posted by Troy.McClure

???

Somebody in a two-year old UCDAFC tracksuit - no idea who though.

**A face** · 07/05/2004, 8:20 PM

FT Shamrock Rovers [3 - 0] Shelbourne

25' [1 - 0] Gough

36' [2 - 0] O�Halloran

55' Rogers

90' [3 - 0] Grant

OH MYYYYY GAAAWWWWD !!!
ROLL ON THE NEXT TWO HOME GAMES