It will be an extra fantastic night if we win the league. I've got a great feeling we will. COME ON CITY!Originally Posted by ccfcgirl
Yes it has been a brilliant experience. Myself and a couple of lads in work are all planning to buy season tickets next year. Where else could you get such good value for entertainment and excitement of this standard.
Hmmm. I haven't seen the Dolan Out thread surfacing for a while.
Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jnr.
Dolan OUT !I haven't seen the Dolan Out thread surfacing for a while.
sshhhh!!
ye will start peadar off again
pat dolan speaking before tonights big big big BIG game
from corkcityfc.ie
REBEL ARMY
[size=4]Fenlon looks to finish with a victory[/size]
Emmet Malone, Soccer Correspondent
National League decisive games
If recent experience of title races that go the distance is anything to go by then about 9.15 tonight they'll be celebrating down at Turner's Cross. Logic may suggest it is the current leaders of the Eircom League, Shelbourne, who will clinch another championship but history is most definitely in the Cork City corner and sometimes, it seems, that it is the most powerful force of all.
This will be the sixth time in 13 seasons the destination of the domestic game's biggest prize is decided by the last round of games. In four of the previous five the team in front at kick-off time has lost out with Shelbourne the victims in both 1998 and 2001.
Pat Fenlon has long insisted the record doesn't concern him but at a club that, more than any other these days, budgets for success the pressure will be intense as he and his players head for Inchicore for tonight's televised game. Despite having shown somewhat erratic form in recent weeks Shelbourne should be capable of beating a St Patrick's side that long looked threatened with relegation and only last week became the first team since early August to be beaten by Shamrock Rovers.
The visitors don't need to win, however, for a point against a team they have already beaten three times in the league this season would be enough to guarantee them the championship and another crack at the Champions League qualifiers next year. Even defeat would not be fatal if Cork fail to beat Bohemians. Needless to say Fenlon insists his men will aim to take all three points.
"We are going for a win," he says, "we're not looking for a point. You might be a bit cautious in European games but in our own league we feel we're capable of beating teams and this game is no different. It's a tough game but if we perform we should be able to pick up the points we need."
The league leaders are without suspended centre back Dave Rogers who will almost certainly be replaced by Kevin Doherty while Owen Heary and Wes Hoolahan have been troubled by a stomach bug but both should be fit to feature from the start.
Heary's presence will be particularly important to Fenlon on a night when his team need only keep a clean sheet to be sure of being crowned champions but most important will be the team's ability to keep its nerve.
It's an issue that has niggled with Fenlon in recent weeks. Now, he insists, his players will take their opportunity to show they have both the character and appetite for success required to be champions.
"The players confirmed their character last year when Bohs went ahead of us but we clawed it back," he said. "This year they have played in some of the top countries in Europe and held their own. We want to be there every season. The Champions League is where the club want to be."
Cork City, of course, want to be there too and Dolan could cite his own side's achievements in the InterToto Cup as evidence Shelbourne are not the only club here capable of approaching next year's early qualifying rounds with some degree of confidence.
Before they get the chance, however, Dolan knows they must win tonight and hope for good news, just as his St Patrick's Athletic side did in 1998 when victory at Buckley Park combined with Shelbourne's defeat by Dundalk earned them the title.
"If we don't get it right at our end there's no chance of winning the title, that's the first thing," he says. "So we'll look at it the way we do any other game - like our lives depend on it and we need the win. If we get the result then we can start worrying about what happens in Dublin but until then there's no point, we have to concentrate on doing our best here."
Dolan is without George O'Callaghan who is suspended and may also be missing the hero of the club's emphatic revival of late, Kevin Doyle, who has been struggling with a foot injury. Joe Gamble will start in midfield for O'Callaghan while Neale Fenn would replace Doyle if the young striker misses out.
The game is set to draw the largest attendance of the league season with 4,500 tickets having been sold by Wednesday evening but, like the one at Richmond Park, it is subject to a pitch inspection. The Dublin derby was last night felt to be the more vulnerable but if either ground is felt to be unplayable then both will be rescheduled, probably for Sunday afternoon.
Dublin City's game with Shamrock Rovers, which had to be called off last night, has already been refixed for Sunday (3 p.m.).
© The Irish Times
Fcuking hell. couldnt take another few days of waiting
Hmmm. On a big night like this, it would be a real pity if Fenn had to play and did not strike form.
Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jnr.
osam is doubtful as well
from redfm interview
Red FM: Win lose or draw it has been an absolutely brilliant season.
Pat Dolan: "yea.. i just hope its the start of something. I really feel that there have been other clubs competing against us that have been here year on year, have invested heavily as a football club, have the structures in place and I just hope we can reward the supporters for the away support we've had. the Rebl Army, I think thats been the story of the season. forget about the players, forget about.... you know the supporters we have.. you know... the way we get treated around this town, the goodwill towards us since i've come down here, the way the cork public have looked after me, made me feel at home, you know it makes me feel very proud and I'd just like to thank everyone on behalf of the players for their support because we do feel it, we love it and we give it everything every single day and we just hope its the start of something, because you know if we get things right we can have wonderful times here because you know what, this is the best football city in the country"
Yes it has been a brilliant experience. Myself and a couple of lads in work are all planning to buy season tickets next year. Where else could you get such good value for entertainment and excitement of this standard.
Hmmm. I haven't seen the Dolan Out thread surfacing for a while.
Yes it has!
I like the sound of that!
PAT DOLAN'S REBEL ARMY!
Champions!
did he get that speech from buzz fm
Not long more to kick off ,come on the rebel army.
CAn't wait, all excited!
j'accuse!
Visited the club shop with the kids around 3.00pm. Staff looked exhausted. While I was there (less than 10 minutes) I counted 6 people who came to the door, all looking for 2 or more tickets. I reckon this is the first domestic soccer game in Ireland since CCFC -v- Derry City 2 years ago sold out in advance of the evening of the match.
Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jnr.
Its 3.15am Saturday morning here in Manila, Philippines. That's 7.15pm Friday night in Cork. Only half an hour to kick off. Strangely, most of the locals here arent too bothered about the game. Time to open up 103fm like the rest of the exiles....
COME ON CITY !!! There could be dancing in the streets of Manila at about 5.35am.
Same story here in a wonderful() South Laaandan suburb. God knows why there's no interest!
It 2.25 in the afternoon in Boston, MA - working from home is the business on days like this - apart from being at the Cross (did leave the Cork City scarf which graces my desk at work there!!!)
Effenberg played like my grandmother!
Lol. Same here, scarf out the window, 103fm are on now-Billy Barry(LEGEND) and Johnny C.
PS-DOYLER IS FIT!!
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