2015 FAI Senior Cup

**Dodge** · 30/05/2015, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by placid casual

If you think Rovers are awful i cant imagine what you think of your own team!
I really do hope your happy to have a team of mcguinness,brennan and greene in your side -i'll give you desmond ,who does look a player

any team in the premier division with a recognisable striker would have beat youse comfortably last night.
Pats scored from 2 Rovers mistakes.

you have no chance of retaining the cup, unless you manage to draw Leinster Senior teams all the way to the final

Love the bitterness. That team of McGuinnes, Brennan and Greene fairly handily beat Rovers last night. And yet you seem to think Pats fans should be most annoyed at that. Good man

**PartySaint** · 30/05/2015, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Love the bitterness. That team of McGuinnes, Brennan and Greene fairly handily beat Rovers last night. And yet you seem to think Pats fans should be most annoyed at that. Good man

Rovers fans trying to explain the game to PC coming out of Richmond last night with a big smile on his face..

We lost Cyril....

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**Charlie Darwin** · 30/05/2015, 1:47 PM

Get over yourselves, lads. We're concentrating on the EA Sports Cup this year.

**Ezeikial** · 30/05/2015, 1:58 PM

Originally Posted by PartySaint

Lee Desmond is a future irish international, thanks for that one Shels

Strange how Chambers and Browne were both picked ahead of him last week.

**Ezeikial** · 30/05/2015, 2:12 PM

Originally Posted by placid casual

If you think Rovers are awful i cant imagine what you think of your own team!
I really do hope your happy to have a team of mcguinness,brennan and greene in your side -i'll give you desmond ,who does look a player

any team in the premier division with a recognisable striker would have beat youse comfortably last night.
Pats scored from 2 Rovers mistakes.

you have no chance of retaining the cup, unless you manage to draw Leinster Senior teams all the way to the final

It is very admirable how Rovers fans are so graceful in defeat

**poster** · 30/05/2015, 2:13 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Longford should have been down to ten men a few minutes before McNulty was sent off for an almost identical tackle in the middle of the park.

LOL. It was nowhere near as bad as McNulty's. Harps are a decent side but one of the dirtiest I've seen in a while.

You don't happen to have a recording of McNulty's tackle to post up here, do you?

**nigel-harps1954** · 30/05/2015, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by poster

LOL. It was nowhere near as bad as McNulty's. Harps are a decent side but one of the dirtiest I've seen in a while.

You don't happen to have a recording of McNulty's tackle to post up here, do you?

I don't do the recordings. It'll be on Soccer Republic on Monday night for all to see.

**L.T.F.C.** · 30/05/2015, 2:38 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Longford should have been down to ten men a few minutes before McNulty was sent off for an almost identical tackle in the middle of the park.

20 years ago, that tackle by McNulty would have been seen as a perfect tackle, got the feet on the ball and momentum took the player down, but sadly, you just can't go in with studs showing at all anymore, no matter how much of the ball you get.

Harps fans applaud our players, shock horror. It was a red card, yes, but we're not exactly going to go over and roar abuse at our own.

Stephen Rice is a disgrace. He kicked, elbowed, pushed and pulled his way around the box and the ref done nothing about it, all the while Rice laughed his way through it. He couldn't believe what he was getting away with. Rob Rogers has a serious problem with Harps, he's the same man that had Ciaran Coll sent off against Drogheda in the cup two years ago and has never been kind to Harps since. Two red cards and 6 yellow I counted for Harps last night, almost more than we've had all season otherwise.

We went down there to restrict Longford playing football and to frustrate them, and we done exactly that. None of us expected to be going down there to see Harps play a pure possession game against a team 6th in the Premier Division. Second half was all 10 men behind the ball and it worked. Despite this, one cracking ball and a run from Harkin totally cut open the Longford defence to put us 1-0 up. Monday night will be a different story altogether and I'd expect to see much more football on a better surface.

It wasn't remotely identical Nigel. One was mistimed. The other was two footed and out of control. You can dress it up how you please. I don't applaud players that make tackles like that. Few do. Anyway, you'll see the error of your ways on Monday.

Rice in fairness was on the receiving end plenty. And he is well known for enjoying his football, I'm sure he was smiling. And as one of your colleagues said: "Grow some balls. This is real football, not that overpaid ****e that you watch each week on Tv."

**nigel-harps1954** · 30/05/2015, 2:54 PM

Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.

It wasn't remotely identical Nigel. One was mistimed. The other was two footed and out of control. You can dress it up how you please. I don't applaud players that make tackles like that. Few do. Anyway, you'll see the error of your ways on Monday.

Because a challenge was mistimed, that makes it okay? I have said already, I believe it was a red card, but that 20 years ago it wouldn't have been at all. I'll stand by the fact all day and all week that McNulty got the ball first. Red card was simply because the studs were showing. If Soccer Republic proves different, I'll hold my hands up no problem whatsoever.

Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.

Rice in fairness was on the receiving end plenty. And he is well known for enjoying his football, I'm sure he was smiling. And as one of your colleagues said: "Grow some balls. This is real football, not that overpaid ****e that you watch each week on Tv."

There's enjoying your football, and then there's being a dirty pr!ck. Rice was certainly the latter last night. Besides, I don't watch football on TV each week. If Harps are as dirty as people seem to be making out, I am watching that every week.