Favourite City Goal Poll

[rebel yell]

What's the goal that you've seen city score that beats all others- and deep down you know you'll probably its like again will never see again? My knee-trembler is Dave Barry's against against
Borussia Munchengladbach In Europe. Better than losing your virginity and the ball stayed in the net longer too.

[dalo]

you have comitted a terrible error in the above statement. i am too embarrassed to point it out.

favourite goals

gerry dobbs volley into the top corner against waterford in the cross 1998

greg o'halloran 25 yard screamer against pat's at the cross 1999

ollie goals against shams up in tolka april 1998
and st pat's this season (the drop-volley)

derek couglan 35 metre lob against drogeda at the cross dec 1997

[Ali-G]

Depends what you mean by favourite goal.

If you mean the goal that gave the greatest satisfaction, it was Colin O Brien against rovers last game of the season a few years ago. He scored from a flowing move in injury time, which meant that we beat rovers (yet again), and also that we qualified for europe.

If you mean the best goal, then mickey mellon in tolka about 6 or 7 years ago. or billy woods against bohs in bishopstown.

[dalo]

i have heard a lot about billy woods goal. what was it like?

[pete]

Billy Woods v Bohs at Bishopstown prob best goal - think Billy took the ball just inside his own half on the left (stand side) went pass a couple of bohs players then cut inside & continued to dribble his way until smashed a 30 yarder into top corner. Keeper not a hope.

League winning season, penultimate game, midweek versus Derry, city score last minute winner to keep league chances alive, half the people elft the ground, tears all round, no idea who scored...

Keiran Nagle volley from edge of the box, at the cross around 1990/91.

Johhny Glynns 'mud goal' at Bishopstown v rovers!

[Seanie]

Greg O'Halloran's goal against Pat's in 1999 was sweet particularly after what had happened the three previous League games the season before. But Hartigan's goal against Rovers in the League Cup the previous Christmas remains top of my list.
By the way you have to admire's rebel yell's splendid spelling of Munchengladbach - pity about the howler!

[dalo]

who is the least favourite person at Borussia Munchengladbach games?

The supporter who shouts "Give me a B, give me a O.......

[pete]

That would the Borussia Munchengladbach that Effengerg, Caesar etc.. played for back then?

[James]

ok fav goal

woods out in the farm, as earlier described..great goal
dave barry against bayern
and paul bannon's in the RDS to win the league after that rediculous series of playoff's

other maybe greg's 25 yarder v pats and any goal against scumrock rovers

of course you also have Ollie's wonder goal up in richer earlier this year..i'm going to have to get on this one me thinks and sit comfortably on the fence for the moment

[dalo]

funny enough if the title in 92/93 was decided on goal differance (as it should have been) shels would have won the league. however consdiering we blew it 2 years earlier to dundalk perhaps it was fair dues

to be honest I felt we won the league in slightly farcial circumstances. the team in 98/99 should have won the league anyway as well

the fai the following season in 1993/1994 then instigated the goal differance rule to decide title races. what a farce

[Pablo]

ah lads ye are leaving out a good one. i know Hartigol and great aint normally in the same sentance but what about the winner in the league cup final in 1999? flowing football out of defence to attack and a sweet finish. If it had been ManU it would have been raved about......

[James]

true fair point Pablo, remember the game well, its just as you said dont normally associate hartigan and great goal in the same sentence...come to think of until recently who would have thought of hartigan and any sort of a goal in the same sentence

[Pablo]

i suppose as long as he keeps scoring it doesent matter if he is lazy..... as soon as he draws a blank he should be dropped again though.....

[Gerry Desmond]

Originally posted by dalo
funny enough if the title in 92/93 was decided on goal differance (as it should have been) ....
the fai the following season in 1993/1994 then instigated the goal differance rule to decide title races. what a farce

Why should it have been decided on goal difference? League titles should always be decided on the field of play, not by mathematicians. Arsenal, for example, can claim to have once won a title by 0.27 of a goal or something ludicrous like that. What kind of stupid criterion is that to decide a CHAMPION club?
Granted, that was in the days of goal average, but even so what makes goal difference any better? Why not decide it by fewest goals conceded? Equally stupid, you'll probably agree.

Equal points, have a play-off. The problem in 92-93 was that 3 teams were involved, and the initial round-robin failed to seperate them. My solution: two teams tied after 33 games: play-off. 3 (or more) teams tied: use goal difference to ditch the third team and top two play-off.

It's good enough for Serie A, but naturally our lads prefer to kowtow to the British way of doing things...

Gerry

[James]

get that chip off your shoulder man its weighing u down

i think nothing is wrong with goal diff, and it should have IMO been used to decide the 92/92 title...
isnt goal diff determined on the pitch Gerry?

[Gerry Desmond]

Originally posted by James
get that chip off your shoulder man its weighing u down

i think nothing is wrong with goal diff, and it should have IMO been used to decide the 92/92 title...
isnt goal diff determined on the pitch Gerry?

There was one game that season when Bohs stuffed Waterford 6:0 after the Blues' keeper had been sent off. Had the title been decided by a single goal, would you have been happy with that red card deciding the destiny of the championship after nine months of effort by the team that lost the title? Do you assume referees, for instance, are infallible? Are you willing to accept all their decisions - the disallowed goal here, the red card that SHOULD have been awarded there?
Championships should be decided by POINTS, not GOALS. That's why championships were invented. We could have stuck with Cup competitions otherwise...

Gerry

[pete]

Yup would be crazy to lose a league just because you only beat the worst team by 6 instead of & goals or something.

In the Serie A they decide a lot of things by playoffs when level on points; relegation, european places etc....

Another alternative could be the results between the teams that are level but if 3 rounds of fixtures that would be unfair to the team playing away twice.

I actually like the way Uefa decide by only taking the results of the top 4 teams in qualifying groups who comes 2nd in the group. Again its stupid to lose out on euro or WC place because you didn't put 10 goals past Andorra.

BTW wasn't Bohs who finished first on goal difference that time? I'll never forget the manner in which everyone thought bohs had it wrapped up only for them to compleylt brew it & the bus breaking down drama

[niamh]

Greg's versus St. Pat's and, I can't remember which one, but Ollie scored a cracker against Pats in Dublin this season. Fabulous goal.

[rebel yell]

Could the moderator make a poll on this one? I'd be interested
to see the result and maybe Gerry could feature the winner in his programme, show fotos, interview the player- and pay a modest fee to Foot.Ie. Enough to cover the moderators' Xmas booze-up I'd say!

[Éanna]

greg's left footer -v- pats, morley's -v- pats on the telly, the hartigol strike in de league cup final, and ollie's at inchicore this year all stand out.