Athlone at home on Tuesday Feb 10th.
http://athlonetownfc.ie/pre-season-programme/
Very good, although I would have preferred to go up to their place and give them a taste of their own medicineOriginally Posted by hollocaine
Confirmed on ltfc.ie:
Friendly Tuesday 03/02/15 Shelbourne Longford Town Leixlip Amenity Centre 6.30 pm Leinster Senior Cup Thursday 05/02/15 Longford Town Drogheda United City Calling Stadium 7.45 pm Friendly Tuesday 10/02/15 Longford Town Athlone Town City Calling Stadium 7.45 pm Friendly Saturday 14/02/15 Cobh Ramblers Longford Town St. Colman’s Park 2.30 pm Friendly Saturday 21/02/15 Longford Town U.C.D. City Calling Stadium 2.30 pm Friendly Friday 27/02/15 Waterford United Longford Town R.S.C. 7.00 pm
Many heading to the athlone game tonight lads?
I cant make it due to work. Will only be able to make UCD friendly but should be able to make majority of first half of season by using annual leave due to me!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
will the new away jersey be on sale tonight
1st Division Champs 2014 roll on next season
Town in yellow..starting XI is hunt,sullivan,powell,morris,flynn,rice,o'connor,sa lmon,shannon,cowan,shaw..looks like 4-3-3
Last edited by RockofGibraltar; 10/02/2015 at 7:08 PM.
1-0 town..don cowan buried it following scramble from a corner
Finished 4-3 to Town. I think Cowan got three, not sure who got the other one but updates were thin on the ground.
Edit - Cowan 2, Dave Sully, and Tom Morris apparently.
Last edited by Longfordian; 10/02/2015 at 9:33 PM.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Not a thriller as the scoreline suggests mainly down to the pitch being totally sh1te. 2 of our goals (just like last week) were goalkeeper errors (even though I thought hunt may have been fouled for the first but not many else do).
The goalkeeper situation is very worrying that's 4 goals in 2 pre-season games down to goalkeeper error from 3 different keepers.
Back 4 looks solid as youl get, Pat Sully could play right full if he's not up against a pacey winger, Tom Morris has been one of the stand out performers from the first two games and is a real goal threat as he showed last season. Powell looks a solid act at left full, Rossiter looks like he's lacking Match fitness which is understandable having not played much in the last while.
Midfield again looks defensively solid with Ricer and Salmo in supreme condition and I was inpressed with the way Don came inside time after time to create scoring chances and took his 2 goals well, should have had a hattrick. On the other wing, Shannon's set pieces seemed to have improved quite a lot but his general in play cross, like Don is still not up to scratch so a bit worried about that. Rhys and Kevin O'Connor looked good in the creative role. Sully and Shaw look in top condition, especially Sully who scored the goal of the night with a supreme half volley over the keepers head from about 25 yards out. However, again if one of those get injured You'd be very worried.
Like I said pitch was awful tonight so a lot of long ball unlike last week when we had a perfect surface in Lexlip to play on (never played one long pass last week) so hard to read too much into tonight but Athlone had one or two tidy players and created a fair amount of chances so expect them to be right up there this season.
While people will criticse Don's end product, like I said he came in to the centre a lot tonight and got 2 goals so I honestly think if he keeps that up the pace of the premier will suit him and he could score a lot of goals for us. Id be worried about a lack of goals from the other side but despite being mainly focused on the defensive side of things I can see Rice and Salmo grabbing a fair share among the midfielders so that should help with Sully and Shaw's goals too.
If we can sort out giving silly goals away and the back 4 lives up to its billing we should be more than fine this season.
Last edited by outspoken; 10/02/2015 at 9:59 PM.
Any performances of note from the subs? Was it mainly senior players that came on or did he dip into the u19s again?
Wouldnt be too concerned about mistakes just yet in fairness that's what pre-season is for.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
One or 2 19's played but mostly senior players. Stand out performances Morris, Don and Sully.
I for the first time that I can remember wont be able to make any of the preseason games.. I was hoping to make Saturdays game but will be in my bed asleep from doing night duty and there is no way that I am getting up for it! if it was an evening game I would have made all of it. oh well will have to hold out for Dundalk game which I am certainly goin to!
btw there was an interview with Ricer in todays Mirror where he wants us to walk before we can run to stay up in this years Premier Division!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
No visit to the Markets Field for us on March 21st it seems:
http://www.limerickfc.ie/statement-f...-markets-field
Report from Monday game.
http://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/3942/...alties?ICID=SP
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