FAI Cup 2018

**nigel-harps1954** · 14/08/2018, 2:03 PM

Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

A train company ?

Surely you meant Connolly or Heuston ?

A what company?

**EatYerGreens** · 14/08/2018, 2:51 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Tut tut!

CIÉ is all three - Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann.

So in the last round, they could say they owned Dublin Bus. And they'd be literally correct

My bad !

I love the reference to the Dublin Bus v CIE Ranch game as 'El Traffico'

**NeverFeltBetter** · 14/08/2018, 5:53 PM

The Between The Stripes podcast is saying the Sligo team have paid " a substantial portion" of their wages back to the club after going out to Longford?

**Martinho II** · 14/08/2018, 6:48 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Happy out with that. Non-league side and presumably a new ground.

Where do CIE play?

the time we played CIE Ranch in the FAI Cup in 02/03 away that was played in Richmond Park.

**Martinho II** · 14/08/2018, 6:57 PM

by the way this is very spooky in 1969 we beat Sligo Rovers in the first round of the FAI cup and guess what in the second round we were drawn against Shels but got knocked out.

Its our first meeting with Shels in the FAI Cup since the 90/91 season when we lost 3-0 to them in Abbeycartron. Even in our glory years in the FAI Cup the two sides were kept apart.

**kksaints** · 14/08/2018, 8:39 PM

https://www.ticketmaster.ie/fai-iris...&minorcatid=11

Early bird offer on the premium level tickets for the final.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 14/08/2018, 8:50 PM

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

The Between The Stripes podcast is saying the Sligo team have paid " a substantial portion" of their wages back to the club after going out to Longford?

Deservedly so as well

http://www.offtheball.com/Soccer/Sli...r-FAI-Cup-loss

**nigel-harps1954** · 14/08/2018, 9:05 PM

Originally Posted by kksaints

https://www.ticketmaster.ie/fai-iris...&minorcatid=11

Early bird offer on the premium level tickets for the final.

That's a cracking deal. Only two blocks open but at €10 I'll be buying a few of them.

**Louth4sam** · 15/08/2018, 6:58 AM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

That's a cracking deal. Only two blocks open but at €10 I'll be buying a few of them.

Doesn't matter with premium tickets. You can just walk around and sit where you like

**NeverFeltBetter** · 15/08/2018, 8:09 AM

Weren't Premium seats that cheap before? Sligo/Drogs?

**dong** · 15/08/2018, 5:38 PM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

Deservedly so as well

http://www.offtheball.com/Soccer/Sli...r-FAI-Cup-loss

Just play better and keep your wages for yourself.

Another embarrassment heaped on top of what has been a rank season and its far from done yet.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 16/08/2018, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by Philosophizer

That's crazy. Hope it's a mistake. Maynooth Uni have a lovely grass pitch right next to the astro.

Did this go ahead on the astro does anyone know? Just curious.

**seand** · 16/08/2018, 12:01 PM

It was on the astro, presumably because that's where the first team play most of their home games, so maximising home advantage. There was zero attempt to make an occasion of it or encourage a crowd. Now, the opposition wasn't exactly glamorous but it was a missed opportunity. Maynooth were very good incidentally and should have won by more. They know their system and pllay good patient possession football. Cork City will be some step up though! Leeds were poor and had four or five players looking unfit carrying a lot of weight.