Pre-Season Friendlies

[BobtheDrog]

drogheda goals scored by David Freeman, Gavin Whelan and Stuart Malcolm.

Monaghan United: Horgan, Whelan, Foy, Malone, Doyle, Gerry Quinn, Burke, Heffernan, Ciaran Quinn, Lee, Hughes.
Subs: Kelly (for Gerry Quinn), White (for Malone), Nicholas Treanor (for Kelly), Murphy (for Heffernan), Douglas (for Lee), Munteanu (not used)

Drogheda United: Connor, Tyrrell, Lynch, Gartland, Malcolm, Bradley, Whelan, Reilly, Freeman, Sandvliet, Rooney
Subs: Bird, Leech, O'Brien, Sullivan, Rogers, Robinson

full match report here: http://www.monaghanunited.ie/News/LatestNews.htm

[joey B]

Harps beat LYIT 5-0 in a friendly last night.

[BobtheDrog]

Drogs 1 Leeds 1
The Drogs held Leeds to a 1-1 draw at sunny United Park this morning when an Alan Reilly second half penalty brought the Drogs into the match after Leeds had taken a first half lead. Facing what appeared to be a stong Leeds side with Gary as Captain, the drogs lined out with Tony O'Dowd in Goal, Lynch and Jermaine at full with Grayser and Derek Tyrell in the centre. Sami, Shane R.Stephen Bradley and Alan Reilly were in midfield and Fabio and Tony Bird were up front. Both teams started well and the Drogs defence, particularly Grayser and Derek T took anything Leeds could throw at them and the midfield really started to work well and Tony Bird was unlucky from a great Robinson cross. But slackness in defence allowed Joachim through to beat O'Dowd at the half hour. The Second half saw the introduction of Mark Leech to partner Fabio in attack, with Graham G & Malcolm replacing Tyrell and Grayser and dan C back in goal. We appeared a different team in the second half, and showed the moves and tenacity most of us were expecting on Friday night. Lynch hit a blistering shot just wide, Fabio turned to be tackled awkwardly in thre box - penalty - Alan Reilly smashed it to the net. Then we had a great Robinson shot just wide. Alan Reilly inches over - and we were playing good football with Steven Bradley looking very good.And even in defence Dan Connor pulled off great saves and looked the part.

Drogheda lineout
1 Tony O'Dowd, 2 Damien Lynch, 3 Jermaine Sandvliet, 4 Stephen Gray,
5 Derek Tyrell, 6 Sami Ristilia, 7 Shane Robinson, 8 Stephen Bradley,
9 Declan O'Brien, 10 Tony Bird, 11 Alan Reilly
subs 16 Dan Connor replaced tony o'dowd
17 Graham Gartland relpaced Stephen Gray
15 Stuart Malcolm replaced Derek Tyrell
13 Mark Rooney replaced Alan Reilly
14 Mark Leech replaced Tony Bird
16 David Freeman replaced Sami Ristilia

Leeds Lineout:
1 kevin Pressman, 2 Gary Kelly, 3 Danny Pugh, 4 Jermaine Wright, 5 Clarke Carlisle, 6 Matthew Kilgallon, 7 Matthew Spring, 8 Seth Johnson, 9 Julian Joachim, 10 Brian Deane, 11 Gylfi Einarsson
dont know subs except that Michael Gray came on for Jermaine Wright