Weekend Latest (w/e 11 March)

**howsyourtouch** · 14/03/2011, 8:47 PM

town match finished 2-1, don cowan and craig walshe scored for us im hearing. cowan is starting to get into his stride now, from seeing him in pre season aswell, bodes well for us. ucd in next round i think, in flancare!

**sligoman** · 14/03/2011, 8:52 PM

Salthill 2-0 Fanad FT

**bingoballs** · 14/03/2011, 8:58 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

There are 10 teams in the league, 4 of them are in Dublin. So you have just 8 league games in Dublin from 18 to pick and choose from.

The "standard" of game shouldn't come into it. 15,000 Sligo fans came to Lansdowne last year to watch a 0-0 draw with barely a shot on target. Bray games are the same as Galway games or Derry games, they're all 3 points to play for.

Seriously? There are 7 clubs around the pale ffs. Thats 14 trips across the country on a friday evening trying to make a 745 kick off, 14 friday afternoons that you have to try and take off early from work, 14 fills of juice for your car you can ill afford......... I'm neither self employed nor flush with cash, I have to pick and choose any away game I go to carefully

**Longfordian** · 14/03/2011, 9:08 PM

Originally Posted by howsyourtouch

town match finished 2-1, don cowan and craig walshe scored for us im hearing. cowan is starting to get into his stride now, from seeing him in pre season aswell, bodes well for us. ucd in next round i think, in flancare!

Yep, should have been three or four up at HT but we dropped a gear or two and let them back into it. Athlone couldn't handle Cowan at all, resorting to fouling him most of the time, excellent strike for his goal and a nice free kick from Walsh for the first. Coffey got Athlone's goal.

**Sam_Heggy** · 14/03/2011, 9:15 PM

Originally Posted by bingoballs

Seriously? There are 7 clubs around the pale ffs. Thats 14 trips across the country on a friday evening trying to make a 745 kick off, 14 friday afternoons that you have to try and take off early from work, 14 fills of juice for your car you can ill afford......... I'm neither self employed nor flush with cash, I have to pick and choose any away game I go to carefully

Come back to me when you try out the discover Ireland division. We'd be pretty delighted with only having to travel to the pale.

**El-Pietro** · 14/03/2011, 9:30 PM

Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy

Come back to me when you try out the discover Ireland division. We'd be pretty delighted with only having to travel to the pale.

you get bored of it pretty quickly trust me.

at least in this division its somewhere new each week. though they are almost all pretty far for the likes of us

**EAFC_rdfl** · 14/03/2011, 9:45 PM

salthill 2 fanad 0, salthill had a penalty saved by paul given in the first half but went ahead soon after, quick counter attack of a fanad free kick. second half fanad battered them but couldnt score, salthill got the 2nd in injury time with given (and everyone else) up for a corner the forward lobbed him as he tried to make it back to his own net. very young fanad team, if they get a couple of older heads back involved they might do ok in the A champ

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 14/03/2011, 9:47 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

There are 10 teams in the league, 4 of them are in Dublin. So you have just 8 league games in Dublin from 18 to pick and choose from.

The "standard" of game shouldn't come into it. 15,000 Sligo fans came to Lansdowne last year to watch a 0-0 draw with barely a shot on target. Bray games are the same as Galway games or Derry games, they're all 3 points to play for.

Ye brought 15,00 to the cup final as well. Where were they all for the Dundalk game?

**Dunny** · 14/03/2011, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

Where were they all for the Dundalk game?

Tallaght Garda station.

**PartySaint** · 14/03/2011, 10:08 PM

Bray 0-2 Saints

Should have been more, We dominated most of the game, Had a strong-ish side out, Stand out performances for me were Daryl Kavanagh and Jordon Keegan

**mypost** · 14/03/2011, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by bingoballs

Seriously? There are 7 clubs around the pale ffs. Thats 14 trips across the country on a friday evening trying to make a 745 kick off, 14 friday afternoons that you have to try and take off early from work, 14 fills of juice for your car you can ill afford......... I'm neither self employed nor flush with cash, I have to pick and choose any away game I go to carefully

Dublin is half an hour from Sligo with Aer Arann on a Friday evening. For the price of a 3 hour car/bus/train journey. Most of the Dublin based grounds are within 30 minutes of the airport. Drogheda is another half hour away, Dundalk a few minutes more. You can be in Sligo at 6pm and still make ko in Bray. You also have an extra 15 minutes to get to Tallaght. And you don't need taxis from the airport either.

I hate playing Fridays as well, but if you're resourceful, there's lots of ways and means of getting to games that save time and money.

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

Where were they all for the Dundalk game?

They were all squeezed in to the biggest attendance at any game that weekend.

**osarusan** · 14/03/2011, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Dublin is half an hour from Sligo with Aer Arann on a Friday evening.

And it's only 90 quid round trip, with the return flight the next day! Those lazy Sligo barstooling losers.

**mypost** · 14/03/2011, 10:38 PM

**bullit** · 14/03/2011, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Aer Arran never accept my card,the hoors

**mypost** · 14/03/2011, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

And it's only 90 quid round trip, with the return flight the next day! Those lazy Sligo barstooling losers.

Who needs a return flight? The deadline is the ko, not getting home.

Roughly 30 Euro flight, 2-5 Euro for a bus, 15 Euro Game, 15 Euro for bus back. Free if getting a "lift". You don't have to pay it all on the spot either.

As I say, there's ways and means of getting there and saving money, even if you're on a budget. It's difficult certainly, but not impossible.

**osarusan** · 14/03/2011, 11:04 PM

45 euro one way according to their website. You may say that there are ways of saving money, but a flight clearly isn't one.

**poster** · 14/03/2011, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Dublin is half an hour from Sligo with Aer Arann on a Friday evening. For the price of a 3 hour car/bus/train journey. Most of the Dublin based grounds are within 30 minutes of the airport. Drogheda is another half hour away, Dundalk a few minutes more. You can be in Sligo at 6pm and still make ko in Bray. You also have an extra 15 minutes to get to Tallaght. And you don't need taxis from the airport either.

Oh.My.God.

It costs €92 to go to Dublin this Friday and back the next day. The flight leaves at 6.15, in Dublin at 7. Takes at least an hour to get through airport and to a Dart station, that's 8pm. Then depending on what time you get the Dart at it could be 8.45 before you arrive in Bray. You see one half of the match and have to stay in a hotel for the night in Bray/ Dublin costing about €50. Food, tickets etc.

So you pay about €150 to see one half of a game in Bray.

As for your half an hour to Drogheda from Dublin and just over a half hour to Dundalk on a Friday night...

**harleyleeds** · 14/03/2011, 11:43 PM

A good crowd went to Derry probably alot on the back of the final . Still contributed to a good atmosphere and so might encourage some to return . When new or not so often fans go the idea would be to give them a reason to return so imo facilities would be a big plus . entertainment on the field but also off the field . Maybe back to Sunday afternoon or Saturday night . Hotels in the area could put on football specials with entertainment after game or something . bus trips can be fun (not dooley at final but proper buses ) for parents and kids , songs etc . Shams crowd at Showgies would have contributed to great atmosphere and these are the chances to convince the odd timers too return . A lot of people are (from what I read ) putting a huge voluntary effort in so hopefully it will pay off and crowds return . I'm sure its not easy for a lot of people these days what with low funds and/or worry about job so big away support from anyone should be appreciated but smaller efforts count too .

**Charlie Darwin** · 14/03/2011, 11:57 PM

Would having more Saturday night games not make sense? The only thing they'd clash with would be Spanish football on Sky and far more convenient for travelling fans. Certainly among the bigger teams like last week's Sligo-Rovers clash. Perhaps it's not great for TV but we don't get much of that anyway.

**colinf** · 15/03/2011, 12:21 AM

if sligo rovers fans had to travel only between 30-60 minutes to the majority of away games we'd take hundreds every week. takes at least 3 hours to get to any ground apart from derry and galway for us.

loved the post about the aer arann flight. brilliant