Setanta Cup 2011

**oriel** · 13/02/2011, 7:24 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Will Dundalk FM be covering the 1st leg in Windsor?

If there's one thing I've missed in the off-season it's Larry and Gerry's commentary

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Yeah the boys are great, pure comedy entertainment, funniest one for me last year, and I only hear the first 5 mins as I`m at most of the home games. Think v Galway in Sept, 'ok we`ve to start this weeks show with an apology, after taking legal advise, we`d like to apologise to Ian Foster for comments we made last week.............now thats all cleared up, welcome to oriel park everyone for tonights game'..................classic

Looking forward to the trip to Belfast tomorrrow, think we have 7 or 8 coaches going, and more based in Belfast, should be a good night.

Pauliek : Yes we`ll have a full strenght team with the exception of Shaun Maher (signing not complete pending medical) & Stephen Maher (not fit) prob line up like this

Cherrie
Madden - Bennett - Hawkins - Murphy (Nathan)
Kearns - Bolger - Keith Ward - Gaynor
Jason Byrne & Mark Quigley

**pineapple stu** · 13/02/2011, 7:24 PM

Against H&W Welders. Brought about because Portadown equalised in the last minute. The Nordy Cup is great. (Linfield drew with Dunmurry Rec as well).

Really looking forward to tomorrow night now. Just a shame we're not playing in our own home. Genuinely no idea how we'll fare.

**pauliek** · 13/02/2011, 7:42 PM

Originally Posted by oriel

Cherrie
Madden - Bennett - Hawkins - Murphy (Nathan)
Kearns - Bolger - Keith Ward - Gaynor
Jason Byrne & Mark Quigley

Oh Jesus, thats some team with 3/1 odds. Scary stuff now, decide how big to go

**Ezeikial** · 13/02/2011, 8:15 PM

Originally Posted by pauliek

Dundalk putting out a full team? 3/1 looks great to me

3/1 seems attractive, as does 9/4 the draw.

If anything I would expect the price to fall, The availability of Hawkins in particular and Greg Bolger should see some new money going down on Dundalk. Up to the weekend there was a lot of nervousness with no recognised centre half available and injury doubts about Osbourne who was earmarked to play there.

Although Linfield had a fine 4-0 win against Dungannon Swifts a week ago that was sandwiched between two poor home draws - 0-0 against Ballymens and last Saturday a 1-1 against junior side Dunmurry Rec.

**micls** · 14/02/2011, 9:03 AM

I went for the draw. Linfield have a good record in this at home but I think Dundalk are strong enough for the draw at least.

**eL Bettor** · 14/02/2011, 10:21 AM

Lisburn to win or draw versus UCD looks great value to me.

**ifk101** · 14/02/2011, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by eL Bettor

Lisburn to win or draw versus UCD looks great value to me.

Hard to know. Depends on whether Distillery field their strongest side. No pressure on UCD.

**pineapple stu** · 14/02/2011, 11:37 AM

Depends on a fair few things. Our pre-season's gone quite well - decent wins over Longford and Monaghan, and the college football means we'd arguably be in better pre-season shape than most teams. Glenn Ferguson played the whole 90 minutes for Distillery on Saturday; hard to know if he can manage another 90 today at his age; would be a big boost for us if he was on the bench. We'll have a full team out anyway bar a couple of injuries - it's basically another friendly for us. Distillery's Cup replay against Ballinamallard means they're up to ten games in Feb alone.

**KUFCMan** · 14/02/2011, 12:39 PM

What will your team be like Stu,can u give us your probable starting 11 please
Im thinking of backing yous at 5-4

**pineapple stu** · 14/02/2011, 12:55 PM

We've only played two friendlies - with some line-up changes - and there a fair few inexperienced lads, but it'll probably be something like -

Barron
Harding
Nangle
Leahy
Boyle
Corry
Creevy
Marshall
O'Conor
Rusk
Meenan