Hard luck on Friday night but ye're first team had a good season and are in pole position to win the League next year... on to more pressing matters..
The Under 21 Final is tomorrow @ 3:30 in Belfield Park... The Jury's Montrose does a nice carvery lunch between 12:30 and 2:30 and is reasonably priced.
Hope to see a fair number of ye at the match.... but obviously ccfcgirl, niamh etc would be particularly welcome !
COme on the College
Last edited by CollegeTillIDie; 20/11/2004 at 9:08 AM.
City 1-0 UCD
Shane long after 20 mins
Whatever it was I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?
half time its 1-1. UCD equalised from a penalty after a foul by lopez
and shane long's gone off with a suspected broken leg
Whatever it was I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?
Sorry to hear lads, hope we didn't do anything reckless.Originally Posted by Ruairi
and shane long's gone off with a suspected broken leg
2-1 UCD apparently. another penalty and mcnulty sent off. my source tells me there were some fairly heavy tackles coming and the ref did nothing about it
2-2. behan free kick. come on city!!!
Damn, pity I missed this one due to work, sounds good. Must be heading into extra time?
3-2 ucd
Whatever it was I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?
Full time? Rgula time? Extra time?
Full time I see. Hard luck lads. It had to be double heart break for one of us this weekend. The important thing is though that for the third year in a row you've had a great U-21 team. It'll serve us well as it has you already. Good luck next season.
congrats to UCD, sounded like a cracker of a game. pity about the result though
Whatever it was I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?
Once again Bellfeld proves to be a graveyard for City - Ref Tom Connolly managed to be even worse than Stokes when he allowed UCD to kick city around for most of the match, the tackle that ended Shane Long's participation in the match was the 2nd on him and how he did not red card the UCD player was beyond belief. Of the City team only Beehan seemed to be up to getting stuck in although in the second half Kevin Murray was strong in a number of tackles. Have not seen Lopez this year but today he touch was poor,he does not get into tackles and his distribution left a lot to be desired. The sending off of McNulty added to the ref's day of shame with at least 1 city defender goal side of McNulty when he foulded the UCD player. One of the City centre halfs was struck in the face off the ball which neither the ref nor the linesman saw - the killer part of this was that the same player Conor Sammon went on to score the winning goal for UCD.
There was about 60 to 70 City fans at the match which was not even matched by the Students who showed that they have very little support.
Overall it was a poor city performance not helped by a woefull ref..............
Hope that Shane Long did not get a broken ankle/leg and that some of this team will be back next year.
Mick Devine need not worry that Stephen O Flynn will challange him for the Keepers Jersey next year but I hope that SOF can meet up with JOF and co and do city proud again next year.
Watch out for the ref named Tom Connolly and hope that City do not get to see much of him next year.
For the record considerably less than 1/4 of our regular support was at the game. There was quite a decent crowd for an Under 21 game . And I thought personally there were more than 70 City fans at the game . Seemed to be nearer the 100 mark to my eyes anyway.
P.S. City were physical very physical. The worst shower we have seen in Belfield since the 1998 vintage Limerick FC... so if we kicked we gave as good as we received
Last edited by CollegeTillIDie; 21/11/2004 at 6:10 PM.
Go way ya l*nger.....
City SHOULD have dished it out, I would like to have seen how a bunch of diving, whinging thugs would have taken some of the treatment they dished out themselves.
btw, How did all the members of the "Abbeyleix Thirteen" finish out their night?..
Last edited by patsh; 22/11/2004 at 8:19 AM.
There were 350 at that game, not 100. Please don't post false attendances to get a cheap dig at the club again.
So there were 60/70 Cork fans, less UCD fans than that and yet 350-400 at the game? Sounds like the kind of maths which means Hibs aren't around any more...
Don't be stupid. Cork were the dirtiest team I've seen all season. Yes, we put in a couple of heavy challenges, but the majority were coming from Cork. I've not seen a more indisciplined team all season (well, maybe Cobh) - four yellows and at least three reds - your entire bench was sent off almost! (Certainly assistant manager and at least one sub) Cork are a decent team, but they got what they deserved from not having a sub keeper on the bench. The foul for the second penalty (which saw the keeper sent off) was as cynical as they come. Gannon was kicked out of it with a nasty late challenge in the second half - ref didn't even book the Cork number 9 - and was wrestled to the ground as well. Course the Cork fans were quick to abuse any UCD player as being a cheat without paying any heed to whether he was hurt or not, which I find disgusting. If you are going to defend that sort of behaviour by putting all the blame on us and turning a blind eye on your part, then there's a problem there which needs to be addressed.
Think that sums you lot up - arrogant and filthy for no good reason. Even our players were commenting on that after the match - said it made them even more up for the match.
The better team lost on the night, but the more disciplined team won and deserved it.
Go away ya pr*ck and take your blinkers off.
UCD put a team of cheats and thugs on the field yesterday...
"even our players were commenting after the game...."
Did any of them give a further display of diving, the old elbowin the face trick or how to kick a player on the ground so hard that a suspected broken leg is the outcome?
It would have been nice to congratulate a side who deserved to win, but you didn't so I won't
Wow, what a literate, cogent argument. You've just won the entire argument with that.
The player doesn't have a broken leg - he was walking on the leg at the end of the match, sure! (Admittedly with help, but he wouldn't have been walking at all with a broken leg). It's an ankle injury as far as I know, and he managed to go home on the team bus and will get a check down in Cork. So it's nowhere near as serious as you make it out to be. And I've admitted it was a bad tackle. Maybe you'd like to stop being bad losers and admit that your players gave out most of the filthy tackles?
Purely for their discipline and overly physical style of play, Cork did not deserve to win that match. Cork were the better team, but we deserved to win, by default if for no other reason. It's sad that you can't bring yourself to criticise your team and admit that fact.
Last edited by pineapple stu; 22/11/2004 at 11:56 AM.
Well, idiot, you've summed yourself up nicely there.
How?
All I see is you attacking the poster and not the post again. And making absolutely no points to back your "argument" up.
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