Pre Season 2014

**sulywaterfordfc** · 27/02/2014, 9:33 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_G_6hTuqng Highlights of the Waterford Limerick friendly for last Wednesday. Game finished 1-1.

**brendy_�ire** · 27/02/2014, 12:18 PM

Limavady 1-3 Derry City.
Pitch was soft so Roddy didn't want to risk the senior players. Was basically our U19 team playing.

**legendz** · 27/02/2014, 8:49 PM

Limerick head to Spain for pre-season and took in two games. Did any other teams leave the island or Ireland?

**gufc2000** · 27/02/2014, 8:59 PM

Galway FC 6-2 Mervue Utd

**Charlie Darwin** · 27/02/2014, 9:05 PM

Originally Posted by gufc2000

Galway FC 6-2 Mervue Utd

Galway FC 6 - 2 Galway FC

**gufcfan** · 27/02/2014, 9:50 PM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Galway FC 6 - 2 Galway FC

Mervue LOI 6-2 Mervue Juniors

**adamd164** · 27/02/2014, 9:55 PM

How many of the Galway starting XI are likely to be from that Mervue squad last season? They've made some good signings from outside also.

**Terry** · 28/02/2014, 8:10 AM

I would say a minimum of 6 would have started for Mervue last season. Its hard to tell really as we have a large squad, with some fantastic signings from outside of the mervue/salthill links as well. Watch out for Jake Keegan, he will score a good few goals for us this season IMO.

**eL Bettor** · 28/02/2014, 9:09 AM

Shelbourne 3-0 Shamrock Rovers last night.
Rovers a mix of A and B teams

**adamd164** · 28/02/2014, 9:15 AM

Originally Posted by eL Bettor

Shelbourne 3-0 Shamrock Rovers last night.
Rovers a mix of A and B teams

I thought pre-season games between teams from the same division aren't allowed? Should have been the A team players only.

**Mr A** · 28/02/2014, 10:11 AM

There's no rule about that that I know of- it's just generally not done since teams play so often anyway.

**adamd164** · 28/02/2014, 11:15 AM

I thought it was actually a rule but I could be wrong.

**Charlie Darwin** · 28/02/2014, 11:43 AM

Nah, Rovers played a friendly against UCD last year. It's uncommon but not banned.

**Longfordian** · 28/02/2014, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Nah, Rovers played a friendly against UCD last year. It's uncommon but not banned.

It's not illegal, just frowned upon.

**sadloserkid** · 28/02/2014, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Longfordian

It's not illegal, just frowned upon.

Why is it even frowned upon?

We've done it several times before too. There's not an abundance of senior clubs in the country to choose from like?

**Charlie Darwin** · 28/02/2014, 1:00 PM

By whom is it frowned upon? It's fine but it's fairly stupid when you're going to be playing the same teams up to 6 times during the season and there is an entire other division here as well as the Irish League to play against.

**gufcfan** · 28/02/2014, 2:04 PM

Report: Mervue United 2-6 Galway FC

**Longfordian** · 28/02/2014, 3:20 PM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

By whom is it frowned upon? It's fine but it's fairly stupid when you're going to be playing the same teams up to 6 times during the season and there is an entire other division here as well as the Irish League to play against.

It's not actually frowned upon I was just being facetious really, paraphrasing a line I heard somewhere, "It's like marrying your cousin, it's not illegal but it is frowned upon".

To change the subject, Drogs are 5/4 to beat us tonight. Worth a pound or two

**atfconline** · 28/02/2014, 3:44 PM

Originally Posted by Longfordian

It's not actually frowned upon I was just being facetious really, paraphrasing a line I heard somewhere, "It's like marrying your cousin, it's not illegal but it is frowned upon".

Longford small talk, eh?