Limerick Match

**DonO'Bate** · 29/04/2005, 9:34 PM

Limerick 2 - Galway United 1.
McCarthy O'Dowd
McAuley

Any feedback from those who were at the game would be appreciated.

**Westside** · 30/04/2005, 4:57 AM

We didn't play too badly in the 1st half but from the 15 min to the 75 min. in the 2nd half we were asleep, that was definetley yere best period in the game, �nd ye scored from it, although our full back was chopped down as he was trying to clear the ball leading up to the goal.Another ref would have given a free out, as for the ref he was shocking for both sides.You are right though ye were poor, because we are not at our best either, we left a game in Dundalk after us last week, this league is wide open this year, if teams can win their home matches and pick up a few wins away or at least not get beat away then you never know. We've gone from 2nd bottom to mid-table in 1 game, 4 points off the leaders. Chin-up guys, long way to go...........leagues or promotion is never won in April (well not in Eire anyway)..............

**Conor H** · 30/04/2005, 9:53 AM

Agree with vinny's match report we swere once again tactically lost with no aim or desire to win.im also p****d off with the lack of acknowledgement shown to us by the players. it was us who had to pay to watch that piece of s**t

**marooned5** · 30/04/2005, 12:50 PM

Superstars don't do fan acknowledgement scenes, it's beneath them. Just watch how many of the players sign autographs for the little kids after the home games, they just walk straight past them. Derek McCarthy was never good enough to play for us anyway, best player on the pitch last night,not that it would have been very hard to gain that accolade.

**Eire06** · 30/04/2005, 1:05 PM

Didn't see any of the match but by the match reports from papers telly and here all say the same thing..
Something has to be done.. The team are all over the place at the moment, we have some good players on the side but they just aren't being used to their full potential, keeping players like O'Dowd and O'Reilly on the bench is a load of crap... They aren't working well as a team and the midfield is still a shambles

Something has to be done and fast, because every match were loosing or drawing against bad and mediocre teams were moving down further in the league and I want to be in the Premier division next year

**Conor H** · 30/04/2005, 4:15 PM

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**sadloserkid** · 30/04/2005, 4:39 PM

Originally Posted by Eire06

Something has to be done.. The team are all over the place at the moment, we have some good players on the side but they just aren't being used to their full potential, They aren't working well as a team and the midfield is still a shambles

What's funny is that we've been saying this all season about our bunch too.

**Patrick Dunne** · 30/04/2005, 7:22 PM

and application was evident last night. The back five seemed reasonably solid (I missed the first goal) with Williamson in particular very comfortable on the ball. For large parts of the game we dominated posession, but we posed little or no attacking threat. The front two weren't even challenging for crosses.

In football, when you have most of the possession, and fail to use it, the opposition normally do, and Limerick did last night. O'Dowd made an impact when he came on, for workrate alone he must keep his place. We also need a mobile, physically imposing midfielder.

I'm not too bothered about lack of acknowledgement by players after the game. I would prefer ninety minutes of committment rather than an empty and patronising hands over head gesture.

Derek McCarthy has scored more goals this season for Limerick than the entire of last season. Fair play to the cheat, he had a good year in Galway, plenty of drinking, taking home two wage packets. GUFC at this stage are seen as a kind of retirement home/soft touch for rejects from surrounding clubs, and indeed for some locals. Sean Flannery is another example. These cheats love Galway because the wages are good, the cheques never bounce, the nightlife is great and there is no expectation of success, so you never get shouted at by management or supporters, as would happen with other clubs.

This season is rapidly going down the drain, sadly no-one at the club gives a fcuk. The members of the board and executive do not view on-field success as crucial. I doubt if many choked on their cornflakes reading the match report.

**JC_GUFC** · 01/05/2005, 10:46 AM

3rd from bottom which is anyone's mind should be unacceptable.

It's all well and good getting things in order off the pitch but there needs to be a plan for on-field development.

A few years ago Drogheda were in a similar (possibly even worse) position than we are now but they had a plan and are now serious challengers for Europe - is there any similar plan that United will get promoted and become fully professional - or are the plans on staying in Division 1 and treating the club as a Junior football one while making money from off-field activities?

**joeSoap** · 01/05/2005, 6:18 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick Dunne

Derek McCarthy has scored more goals this season for Limerick than the entire of last season. Fair play to the cheat, he had a good year in Galway, plenty of drinking, taking home two wage packets. GUFC at this stage are seen as a kind of retirement home/soft touch for rejects from surrounding clubs, and indeed for some locals. Sean Flannery is another example. These cheats love Galway because the wages are good, the cheques never bounce, the nightlife is great and there is no expectation of success, so you never get shouted at by management or supporters, as would happen with other clubs.

And I presume you know Derek personally, do you?? Derek never cheated at anything in his life, as a footballer anyway.Perhaps you should ask yourself about the influence Tony Mannion had on the club during his managerial career, and seems to still have today, as an 'upstairs director of football'.

Derek was signed by Mannion having scored 14 goals the previous season with an average side that nearly got promoted. He suddenly 'forgot' how to score when he went to Galway under Mannions tutelage?? Mannion didn't like him because Derek didn't fit into the military style that Mannion likes. I saw Mannion on Friday night, and in my opinion he's not allowing Lally do his job, and still has a huge say in what goes on on the pitch.Now Dereks back, playing under different circumstances, and is doing what he does best....score goals. He is a confidence player, and maybe needs constant encouragement from those around him in order to get the best out of him. Mannion certainly didn't do this, and neither did certain players with the club now, who were 'invited' to train last year, perhaps with the intention to bust up players like Derek and leave them with stitches over an eye wound, deliberately inflicted....

Class players don't become flops overnight...and Dereks proving that this season. Ask Damian Dupuy why he wouldn't re-sign with ye....Get rid of Mannion, and maybe then people can start being themselves, not afraid of whos aound the corner.

**Terry** · 03/05/2005, 1:03 PM

Agree with what you are saying there joesoap.

One player (a good friend of mine) this season has been left on the sidelines this season, for the reason he has been told, because mannion wont let him play for the club anymore after a disagreement they had at the end of last season. Lally would like to play this player but his own job may become indangered if he went against Mannion.

How is Lally supossed to accomplish anything when Mannion is still controlling what goes on on the pitch ??

Re-election position here we come, and all welcome Salthill Devon FC to the eircom league!