LOI Week 1

[Charlie Darwin]

Ten minutes in and no thread yet? Lads...

Cork City –v–St Patrick’s Athletic
Drogheda United –v–Dundalk
Limerick FC –v–Bray Wanderers
UCD –v–Bohemians
Sligo Rovers –v–Athlone Town
Shamrock Rovers –v–Derry City

Galway FC –v– Longford Town
Finn Harps –v– Waterford United
Shelbourne –v– Wexford Youths
Cobh Ramblers –v– Shamrock Rovers B

[Mr A]

Nary a goal in sight.

Worst.

Season.

Ever.

[McNasara]

Bohs 1
Paddy Kavanagh

and Drogs 1
Eric Foley

[Mr A]

Bohs 1 up and have so far outscored all the rest of the teams in the league combined.

[Mr A]

Drogheda 1 up as Dundalk completely fall apart after their great season last year.

[McNasara]

Cork 1
Garry Buckley

[Mr A]

3-0 Drogheda. Jeepers.

[McNasara]

More red cards than goals tonight, nearly!

[CraftyToePoke]

Fairly uninspired evening in Limerick by the sound of the updates too.

[adamd164]

Not a bad point against Pats considering we played over 20 mins with 10 men. Half the team had been booked by half time, Padraig Sutton was incredibly card happy.

We showed a lot of commitment and we looked very solid defensively. We also showed Pats respect by playing 5 in midfield, I'd expect us to go at lesser teams a lot more.

I think we've improved dramatically on last season.

[pineapple stu]

Bohs have improved anyway.

[Yossarian]

Well I'm not sure where to start with that. It looked like we gathered up 11 lads before the game who'd never met. Towell was anonymous and our defence was woeful. Higgins offered nothing in front of the back four. We had a couple of chances that we didn't take and were punished. I didn't see any positives for us and Drogs did well in pressing us and being clinical from their set pieces. Whatever about losing, that wouldn't bother me as much as the abject performances and complete lack of ideas.

[Longfordian]

Great result for Town in Galway. Good game, great crowd. I think we deserved it on the night. We look strong.

[SeanDrog]

Great result - I would have taken draw at the start. Shame Brennan got sent off . RTE saying a player from each side sent off at half time????

Great crowd - guessing around 4000 (1500 Dundalk 2500 Drogs) ... Guessing , hopefully official figure is released soon as I'm curious.

Some gate receipts

Obviously delighted by the result.

[SeanDrog]

Appears rte are right, two subs sent off at half time - Hughes for drogs

Good report here . Our squad is too small to have people sent off for stupid stuff

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/news/...h-local-rivals

[Terry]

Great result for Town in Galway. Good game, great crowd. I think we deserved it on the night. We look strong.

Enjoyable night with 2 good teams playing good football. Longford were rock solid at the back and they wont concede many goals this season. Fair play to their fans also, never stopped singing.

I think when Manning, Walsh, Murphy etc return to the team we will be much stronger.

[Acer]

Appears rte are right, two subs sent off at half time - Hughes for drogs

Good report here . Our squad is too small to have people sent off for stupid stuff

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/news/...h-local-rivals

The red was very harsh and I'd be very surprised if we didn't win an appeal on it.

The gate was great, credit to both teams for that. Doubt we'll see an "official figure" though!

I heard the issue at half time started with 2 other players but those two got involved and suffered for it.

The game itself was just a continuation of the Malone cup game, except this time we took our chances. I thought Dundalk looked better for the first 20 minutes of so but then we took control. We were different class in the second half.

[legendz]

Cork 1-1 St Pat’s,
Drogheda 4-1 Dundalk,
Limerick 0-0 Bray,
UCD 0-3 Bohemians.

Good start to the season for Bohs. This time 3 days time to see the goals!!!

[Longfordian]

Enjoyable night with 2 good teams playing good football. Longford were rock solid at the back and they wont concede many goals this season. Fair play to their fans also, never stopped singing.

I think when Manning, Walsh, Murphy etc return to the team we will be much stronger.

Yeah I expect ye'll be right up there. Connolly was good for ye. Great set up down there and very well run match night by the way. Great to have ye back

[NeverFeltBetter]

Should have a pool on the amount of red cards this season. Already its groan inducing.