Youths worth the win last night in a game that was more like an U19 pre-season friendly. Not one of or starting 11 against Bray began the match and Craig Wall had played 65 minutes for the Defence Forces earlier in the day. Great to see a lot of them play their 1st game of the season to get rid of the cobwebs. They'll be needed in a long season to come
The difference between the 2 sides was our introduction of 3 senior players as subs towards the end. Our winner came from Chris Kenny, who also scored for the Defence Forces earlier in the afternoon. Must be some sort of record that. Lovely surface, but there is no real substitute for grass. About 75 there, including 2 experienced Carlow IT attendees who brought their own portable seats
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Last two quarters on tonight so - Collinstown v Bray and UCD v Bluebell.
Then a wait for the semis draw I guess.
Collinstown 2-1 Bray.
All you zombies tweet tweet tweet.
Worth noting Bray were down to ten men after 20 minutes.
UCD 4-3 Bluebell (aet) in the other quarters. Jason Byrne made his debut.
So UCD, Bohs, Wexford and Collinstown in the semis.
Our first semi in any competition since the 2007 FAI Cup I think. But still an overriding feeling that it's the Leinster Senior Cup...
It's also the first thing we won as a senior club.
But - meh.
Decent bench for Bluebell last night btw. Keith Foy (won the U-16 European Championship with Ireland), Robert Bayly, Ger Rowe and Andy Noonan. Twas like going to a lower-league game in England and finding a random player from years ago you'd completely forgotten about.
Andy Noonan?! There's a blast from the past (assuming itsthe same one), one of the strugglers in the worst Dundalk team in modern times, around 2004.
Same guy. Ex-UCD as well.
An interesting character, shall we say. He's actually been manager at Bluebell since 2011.
I popped in toward the end of extra time in Belfield. Not many there but those I spoke to said it was a cracking game. UCD have the goals up on youtube but apparently missed Waters' winner.
Twas an awful game for the first hour, but in fairness, it got better as it went on.
Reckon there was about 60 for the first half, 40 for the second and 20 for extra-time. Twas absolutely baltic though - and the first day of summer coming up at the weekend. Bloody April...
Have a google.
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Jayzus, I don't remember hearing any of that. I feel a League of Ireland Crime Call XI coming on.
Yup - summer in Ireland has always started on 1 May.
In England and the rest of Europe, it starts on 1 June - but that means November is autumn, Feb is winter, etc, which is weird. Met Éireann use this and call it "meteorological summer". Midsummer is big in some scandinavian countries in particular, but they still have summer starting on 1 June, which is just a flat contradiction.
In the US, summer starts on 22 June, which I've never gotten my head around. This is technically "astronomical summer" - but I've never heard anyone in Ireland use it.
The difference between Irish seasons and other seasons is that others group months by temperature, while we group them by the grand aul stretch in the evening - partly because, as the last week has shown, the weather here is just too unreliable to base anything off.
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