Ucd (h) 16-08-13

[fieldofmarkets]

I would say we will be better next year because Taylor will have a deeper squad and made up of players which he has picked.

I guess tactics are one of those things that can be debated without ever having a real conclusion and preferences are subjective. I like this seasons' tactics, just prefer watching them.

We eventually won the league with Scully. I was delighted, but it certainly wasn't pretty.

[kingpin4]

I would say we will be better next year because Taylor will have a deeper squad and made up of players which he has picked.

He's picked nearly all the players, very few were already signed when he got in because there was a lot of nervousness on here about starting pre season with only 4 (? I'm happy to be corrected) players signed. Gamble, Bradley, O'Leary and Purcell are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Granted he probably doesn't have as many signed as he'd like, but remember he had Mernagh, Long, Michael Daly, Garry Shanahan, Derek O'Brien and a few more all training for a few weeks and offered them nothing. Before we get into are they good enough to start or not, they'd certainly be better options than what we've had on the bench for most of the season.

I'm obviously for giving him time and building slowly, but to have the 6th biggest budget and barely survive would not constitute a successful season in my eyes.
People are definitely being influenced by all the post match negativity though, we'll all mellow during the week and think we'll win Friday again

[delboyderis]

dont be making excuses about the junior soccer season and hurling on which affected the crowd numbers.its the die hard fans who support limerick week in week out.you have guys who
























excuses like junior soccer season and hurling dont wash.its the die hard lads who support the team week in week out that keep it going.also a lot of people support english soccer but wont support their own and yet they hate the english?i wouldnt say that limerick are safe yet from relegation with the form they are in.its going to be an anxious end to the season and what promised so much has withered away to a really poor first season in the top flight.




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[NeverFeltBetter]

I keep saying this over and over again, but Limerick are not the Irish Man City. Finishing in 10th is a successful season in your first year back in the PD, and I fully believe the team will finish several places higher than that, and higher again next season.

[sadloserkid]

what promised so much has withered away to a really poor first season in the top flight

I'm not disappointed at all, quite encouraged by where we are to be honest. As you noted it's our first season in the top flight, it's gone o.k. overall.

[bluewhitearmy]

I keep saying this over and over again, but Limerick are not the Irish Man City. Finishing in 10th is a successful season in your first year back in the PD, and I fully believe the team will finish several places higher than that, and higher again next season.

I'm not disappointed at all, quite encouraged by where we are to be honest. As you noted it's our first season in the top flight, it's gone o.k. overall.

No lads remember its not good enough if we are not challenging for the league in our first season up or at least Europe. After all "With the squad we have we should be winning" with out first team full of players with loads of LOI winning experience and our bench of superstars i think its only fair that we win everything.

Seriously though some people around Limerick seem to have no understanding at all of football let alone LOI with their expectations. Something that you will get with going up and getting bigger crowds though i suppose.

[NeverFeltBetter]

The sort of comments the Facebook page gets during matches are the worst example of that. There are people there who really think Limerick are Abu Dhabi United.

[bluewhitearmy]

The sort of comments the Facebook page gets during matches are the worst example of that. There are people there who really think Limerick are Abu Dhabi United.

The best for me is "With the players we brought in from the UK we should be doing better" id love to know what people are basing it on seen as i think its safe to say that none of them had ever heard of let alone seen Axel,Folan,Nzuzi and Curran play before and one or two may have heard of Galbraith and Williams but i bet ya very little or none have seen them play more then twice.

They seem to expect these lads to be as good as the players playing in England and Scotland, if they were they wouldnt be here.

[sadloserkid]

Shur Folan and Nzuzi had basically never played first team football anywhere before, you can't get that sort of experience on the cheap.

I feel I should stress that I don't think we've had a perfect season by any stretch but the level of expectation that some people seem to have brought with them this year beggars belief.

[Jofspring]

This is something I feel a lot of our fans (and Pat Dolan) need to realise.

Malky Thomson: Shane Costelloe was the youngest to line out in Friday’s home game against UCD, but the 18-year-old was joined in defence by Stephen Folan (21) and Patrick Nzuzi (20), in a back four that had an average age of just 20.75 years.

Also on the pitch were the likes of 21-year-old David O’Leary and the quartet of Shaun Kelly, Danny Galbraith, Axel Bossekota and Craig Curran who are all 24 or under.

The average age of the seven-man bench was just over 19, with 17-year-olds Tony Whitehead and Colm Murphy included among the substitutes and Rory Gaffney (23) and Darragh Rainsford (18) coming on in the second half.

Despite one or two older lads the vast majority of the team this season are youngfellas and are still learning the game.

[da bishop]

poor judgement call by malkey there ,the age thing is certainly irrelevent i terms of the ucd game,did he have the calculator ready near the end of the game to help evaluate the poor performance in terms of age?....ucd average age i.e. whole team is probably 20.75.WE DID NOT SPEND BIG for sure people do need to realise that ,but we are paying handsome wages and looking after the players well ,some being fulltime so our budget is quite large and some players would want to realise that and buck up.ya overall a midtable finish would be acceptable imo,but anything less would be disappointing,tbf most can see what taylor is trying to achieve ,he deserves time to do it but it does not mean he or the players are beyond a question or two every now and then and lately thats getting a regular thing.

[Jofspring]

Malky was talking about in the bigger scheme of things like the future rather than the UCD match in particular.