Limerick Premier Division 2012/13

[hotspur]

Pike are at home so i will take the draw what are the prices in the bookies

Draw no bet,they're not up yet.

[abbeyvale]

Premier League P W D L F A Pts
Carew Park 9 7 2 0 30 10 23
Pike Rovers 8 7 0 1 22 8 21
Fairview Rgs 9 6 2 1 20 11 20
Janesboro 9 4 2 3 33 20 14
Geraldines 7 4 1 2 16 10 13
Ballynanty Rvs 9 3 3 3 13 13 12
Corbally Utd 9 3 3 3 18 23 12
Regional Utd 8 3 1 4 14 15 10
Wembley Rvs 8 2 1 5 16 22 7
Aisling Ann 9 2 1 6 15 23 7
Kilmallock 9 1 2 6 13 25 5
Shannon Hibs 8 0 0 8 7 37 0



Fixtures
Sat 27/10/12
Aisling Annacotty v Wembley Rvs, 7.00, M Kiely


Sun 28/10/12
Pike Rvs v Carew Park, 10.30, A Buttimer
Shannon Hibs v Regional Utd, 10.30, J McNamara
Fairview Rgs v Geraldines, 10.30, R Peiper
Ballynanty Rvs v Kilmallock, Shelbourne Park, 10.30, G Clancy

[deadly man]

Predictions

Pike 1-1 Carew park
Shannon Hibs 0-3 Regional
Fairview 1-1 Geraldines
Ballynanty 4-0 Kilmallock

[dirtfree]

Predictions

Pike 1-1 Carew park
Shannon Hibs 0-3 Regional
Fairview 1-1 Geraldines
Ballynanty 4-0 Kilmallock

Ill go

Pike 0-0 Carew
Hibs 2-1 regional
Fairview 2-1 dines
Balla 2-0 killmallock

[passandmove]

Aisling Wembley is a big game also Down the bottom of the league,we are missing 4 of the Pallas lads who are playing county final,and another 4 or 5 are out through either work or injuries,getting 11 out is an achievement in itself at the minute,get beaten again tomorrow and I fear for our season.

[mrman]

Ill go

Pike 5-1 Carew
Hibs 0-4 regional
Fairview 4-2 dines
Balla 2-0 killmallock

[Hibs7772]

Predictions

Pike 1-1 Carew park
Shannon Hibs 0-3 Regional
Fairview 1-1 Geraldines
Ballynanty 4-0 Kilmallock

Ill go

Pike 0-0 Carew
Hibs 2-1 regional
Fairview 2-1 dines
Balla 2-0 killmallock

Ill go

Pike 5-1 Carew
Hibs 0-4 regional
Fairview 4-2 dines
Balla 2-0 killmallock

Pike 3-1 Carew
Fairview 2-2 dines
Balla 4-1 killmallock

[Hollywood Hogan]

Pike 2-0 carew
Balla 5-0 kilmallock
View 2-1 dines
Shannon 0-3 regional
Ashling 2-0 wembley

Pike just know how to win big local games, over the last five years they win the big games, like last year when boro only needed a result at home, pike proved too strong. A lot of the local sides are beat before they go out on the pitch. Should be good game and what a start to Super Sunday!!!

[oscar]

Pike to win by 3

[dirtfree]

How would the front pitch be unplayable it was perfect last week and weather has been good all week

[mrman]

Heard it is to be played on the back pitch as the front pitch is unplayable.may not suit pike as it is alot shorter.

there must be a lot of betting on Carew to win, just like the Corbally game a few weeks a go. hint, hint, wink, wink, put your money on Carew Lads if the game is been played on the back pitch.

[hotspur]

there must be a lot of betting on Carew to win, just like the Corbally game a few weeks a go. hint, hint, wink, wink, put your money on Carew Lads if the game is been played on the back pitch.

Lads ye'd swallow the Shannon Bridge,and that's a fact.Did you win a few bob on the Corbally match mrman,I very much doubt it.

[mrman]

Lads ye'd swallow the Shannon Bridge,and that's a fact.Did you win a few bob on the Corbally match mrman,I very much doubt it.

looks like losing the Corbally game could come back to haunt ye. ye lost it too early in the season, won nothing in corbally game or this game, heard you lost €50 and were seen handing it over after the game, great win for Carew, they totally deserved it. great club for the future

[thomas72]

Pike 1 Carew park 2, Steven grant, mark keane,

brilliant result against a fantastic team we had to work very very hard but we deserved the win it was backs to the wall for the last 10mins but both mark keane and mark sla were outstanding big mention to john boyle brilliant performance good 3pts.

[AlanOB]

Pike Rovers 1-2 Carew Park

Carew should be making a mould of Pa Boyle's left foot after this one. His Charlie Adam-esque set piece deliveries were the difference between the two sides today.

Carew started slow and seemed to be feeling the occasion. Errors and misplaced passes were rampant, and the flowing possession football that has become their calling card this season was nowhere to be seen. Pike were dominating the midfield area with Grant and Boyle failing to get tight enough to Colbert and Tierney. Yet, it was Carew who took the lead against the run of play after 20 minutes through an inswinging free kick from Pa Boyle, glanced home by right full Gary Griffin.

Pike's dominance in the centre was to translate into goals soon after however, and on 35 minutes, Wayne Colbert had the time and space to play a through pass to Alan Barry, who slotted home after evading his marker Keane with a run to the left of the box. 1-1 at half time.

The second half began by following the same pattern. Pike dominated possession, only to see Carew again go ahead from a set piece. This time it was a Pa Boyle corner, headed home by captain Mark Keane. Then, strangely, Carew had their best spell of the game. Brian Ahern was removed from the right flank (inexplicably, considering how poor Somers was on the left) and replaced by Jamie O'Sullivan, and his arrival contributed to a period of dominance for the away side. Eventually, however, Carew retreated, and the last 15 minutes were played exclusively in their half. Ronan Power made a couple of excellent saves to keep the scoreline in their favour, and substitute Keith Hartnett missed a late free header at the back post to level the scores. But generally Carew defended extremely well and gave up few chances. Mark Slattery was the standout performer in that regard. He saw off Paul Doona and his replacement Dave Ryan. And despite struggling against Barry in the first half (particularly aerially), Mark Keane dominated him in the second.

Pike went 3-1-4-2 for the last few minutes, removing Enright, but they couldn't break down the Carew door, even with the baffling 7 minutes of injury time granted to them by referee Buttimer. There were some positives today for the home side (new signing Colbert in the holding role was sensational) but they are lacking in key areas. Defending from set pieces was atrocious, and the contribution from both the wide players and the strikers was not good enough. Despite dominating the middle, Tierney and Colbert has very little to work with in terms of movement from their teammates. Far too static.

Carew will be delighted. They nicked the lead and defended brilliantly to keep it. Champions elect?

[Hibs7772]

Shannon Hibs 1-2 Regional...Eddie Dunne with the Hibs goal

[neverseenit]

Pike Rovers 1-2 Carew Park

Carew should be making a mould of Pa Boyle's left foot after this one. His Charlie Adam-esque set piece deliveries were the difference between the two sides today.

Carew started slow and seemed to be feeling the occasion. Errors and misplaced passes were rampant, and the flowing possession football that has become their calling card this season was nowhere to be seen. Pike were dominating the midfield area with Grant and Boyle failing to get tight enough to Colbert and Tierney. Yet, it was Carew who took the lead against the run of play after 20 minutes through an inswinging free kick from Pa Boyle, glanced home by right full Gary Griffin.

Pike's dominance in the centre was to translate into goals soon after however, and on 35 minutes, Wayne Colbert had the time and space to play a through pass to Alan Barry, who slotted home after evading his marker Keane with a run to the left of the box. 1-1 at half time.

The second half began by following the same pattern. Pike dominated possession, only to see Carew again go ahead from a set piece. This time it was a Pa Boyle corner, headed home by captain Mark Keane. Then, strangely, Carew had their best spell of the game. Brian Ahern was removed from the right flank (inexplicably, considering how poor Somers was on the left) and replaced by Jamie O'Sullivan, and his arrival contributed to a period of dominance for the away side. Eventually, however, Carew retreated, and the last 15 minutes were played exclusively in their half. Ronan Power made a couple of excellent saves to keep the scoreline in their favour, and substitute Keith Hartnett missed a late free header at the back post to level the scores. But generally Carew defended extremely well and gave up few chances. Mark Slattery was the standout performer in that regard. He saw off Paul Doona and his replacement Dave Ryan. And despite struggling against Barry in the first half (particularly aerially), Mark Keane dominated him in the second.

Pike went 3-1-4-2 for the last few minutes, removing Enright, but they couldn't break down the Carew door, even with the baffling 7 minutes of injury time granted to them by referee Buttimer. There were some positives today for the home side (new signing Colbert in the holding role was sensational) but they are lacking in key areas. Defending from set pieces was atrocious, and the contribution from both the wide players and the strikers was not good enough. Despite dominating the middle, Tierney and Colbert has very little to work with in terms of movement from their teammates. Far too static.

Carew will be delighted. They nicked the lead and defended brilliantly to keep it. Champions elect?

Firstly it was an og by pa Mullins for first goal .. Secondly it was a free from Boyle for second goal...not a great report on a great game but I think Keane was motm.. Followed closely by John Boyle..

[AlanOB]

Yeah, your report was much better.

And Keane wasn't even the best Carew centre half on the field today. He lost Barry for the Pike goal and barely won a header against him in the first half. While he was excellent in the second, Slattery outshone him completely. Barely put a foot wrong.

Man of the match for me, despite being on the losing side, was Colbert. By a distance.

[thomas72]

Alanob your posts and match reports are normal spot on but as good as Wayne is to say he was motm yesterday your way off mark keane was motm every pike player i was talking to agreed with me he scored the winner and defended outstanding in fact reading your match report Im wondering were your really at the game.

[AlanOB]

The fact remains that he was at fault for the Pike goal.

Anyway, splitting hairs over man of the match is pretty pointless.

From above, you seem to think it was a "brilliant performance" from your lads when it was far from it. Any actual analysis that differs from that skewed viewpoint is obviously going to be one that you'll have a problem with.

I may have misremembered a couple of minor facts. But at least I attempt to provide an objective view.