Sligo at home. Nice one.
Fancy our chances on a decent surface, unlike yesterday.
Sligo at home. Nice one.
Fancy our chances on a decent surface, unlike yesterday.
FAI Ford Cup - Second Round Draw
Dundalk v Sligo Rovers
Belgrove/Home Farm v Finn Harps
Drogheda United v Cockhill Celtic
Limerick FC v Bohemians
Cobh Ramblers v Derry City
Athlone Town v Longford Town
Wexford Youths v Bray Wanderers
Shelbourne v Waterford United
St Patrick’s CY v St Patrick’s Athletic
Mayfield United v Malahide United
Ballynanty Rovers v Phoenix FC
UCC v St Michael’s
UCD v Galway FC
Collinstown v Avondale United
Cork City v St Mochtas
Sheriff YC v Shamrock Rovers
Nigel Harps, me auld segotia.
Cockhill Celtic, isn't that the team that had a lad sent off less than a minutes after coming on as sub v Harps last year.
He bucked the ball at the ref didn't he.
Not very often I get the exact draw I wanted 👍
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Belgrove/Home Farm when did they amalgamate ??
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
I'd presume that Sligo fans will travel for this moreso than the Setanta final? If so then it would be disappointing not to get around 3000 in attendance. Its obviously a tough draw but once its at home and I hate drawing non-league sides....still haunted by Ashtownvilla.
I'd imagine is the distance they have to travel every second week, same with Derry and Cork (albeit it's easier for Sligo to travel to Dublin). Fans would have to pick and choose which away games they're going to go to as it would be difficult to get to most of them.
Last edited by PartySaint; 13/05/2014 at 12:07 PM.
Here on a technicality.
Based on that logic Cork should be bringing the most away support to every away game.
Distance and timing of the games makes a huge difference. Dundalk have 6 away games that are closer then our nearest one for example.
For all the Dublin/Louth clubs from what I can see they make a day and night out of the trips to The Showgrounds as it's the best fixture around to do such a thing as people don't need to take time off work.
It's very difficult in this part of the country to get any sort of away support. Likewise, it's strange to see a large away support travelling up here.
For us, this season, we're lucky to get anything over than 50 or 60 people travelling to an away game, and everyone has to pick and choose which games they're able to attend. It was fantastic in the first series of games for us to be able to go to Dublin twice in the space of three weeks. Shelbourne fans will complain about the length of journey to Finn Park, but for us, that was a short journey to Tolka.
Our shortest journey this season is Longford, 2.5 hours away, and we couldn't bring any sort of a crowd to the following away game in Waterford the week after due to the expense of travelling so much in two weeks.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
All valid points regarding travel I suppose and maybe something we take for granted east coast. I do think though that Irish people in general see distance to travel as a much greater challange, or more prohibitive than it actually is, certainly in comparison to say England. People commute 2+ hours to work in other countries without it being considered a major problem. Roads have improved and roadblocks like Drogheda are by-passed but attitudes are the same as when hours were spent stuck in Abbeyleix, Dunleer and the like. Certainly in Dundalks 1st division days you nearly always had at least a coach load travelling to Cobh, Limerick, Waterford, Galway, Donegal & not quite as far, Longford and Athlone(of course thats when we were in the hunt for promotion). Dundalk to cork is a little over 3 hours, Sligo 2.5hrs not crazy prohibitive. Anyway just my opinion that we overthink the perception of travel times.
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