Best Victory

[Troy.McClure]

In responce to the other thread about your worst losses, this is one to gloat in

In no particular order:

City v Rovers in the Cup when Hartigan scored the only goal for us to win the League Cup, because it was the first thing that I saw the club win and there was a great atmosphere that day

Shels v City when Cahil scored the only goal in Tolka to take the title to Bohs (or should I say, from Shels). We needed the win to get into the Intertoto cup in a season that religation wasnt too far from peoples minds with Mountfields time in charge.

City v Shels to win the first and only FAI Cup for the club. Great header by big Der.

City 3 Malmo 1. Didnt know what to expect from Malmo but didnt expect to whoop them off the pitch, great day, great night

[TonyD]

Since this was started by a Cork fan, I'll start with,

Pats 2 Cork 1, Turners Cross January 99. Best athmosphere I've ever witnessed at a League match, and a great turnaround in a game Pats looked to be dead and buried in at Half Time.

Pats 1 Rijeka 0 - First ever victory in Europe, Special.

Pats 3 Ghent 1 - An even beter game than the Rjieka one. Superb performance, heartbreaking to lose out on away goals in the tie though.

Pats 2 Kilkenny 1 - May 1998 - Forgettable game really, unbelievable climax to the season. Winning the league when we didn't really expect it.

[Dodge]

Fair few but apart from league wins and that type of stuff, it's the 3-2 Cup game v rovers in Inchicore with the "headcase section" ( (c) Tom McGibney) and Davey Byrne's shinner

[pete]

10k fans packed into the cross for League Cup win against Rovers.

NEC 0 City 0 Best ever away atmosphere in nice compact ground.

City 1 NEC 0, Great Atmosphere & shed probably at twice capacity.

[sligoman]

From what I can think of a the top of my head it would have to be the game against Shels in Tolka Park in the FAI cup replay in 2003. We bet them 3-2 in extra time and deservedly so too.

Also the first game in the Showgrounds which ended 0-0 was a great game too.

[dfx-]

In responce to the other thread about your worst losses, this is one to gloat in

Damn positive thinking....

I'd have to think about this one...what springs to mind first of all is the win against Shels in the RDS to keep the title away from Cork ...and the win at Shels a few weeks ago

Another one sticking out would be when we won 1-0 in a packed Turners Cross in the Cup a few years ago with an og from 35-40 yards (?).

[Troy.McClure]

Another one sticking out would be when we won 1-0 in a packed Turners Cross in the Cup a few years ago with an og from 35-40 yards (?).

Thank Alan Bennet for that one, he was seriously unlucky at the start of his career. I actually got to the ground 5 or 10 min late and didnt know that we had conseeded (cant the X get a score board? ) and went away thinking, 'at least we have another bite of the cherry next week' until someone who was quite pi$$ed off looking said it to me

[dfx-]

Could you not judge by our celebrations.......?

That sticks in my mind because it was a game where we actually held onto a 0-1 lead in Cork

....which doesn't/didn't happen very often - making it all the sweeter...

[Dr.Nightdub]

Apart from the ones already mentioned (Gent in the Intertoto, Rovers in the Cup, League win in Kilkenny, etc), a couple of other specials were:

Pats 4 Bohs 3, Cup semi replay. Always nice to win an epic game

Pats 4 Shels 1, in the foot-and-mouth year. 1-0 down, Michael Holt tackled the keeper "robustly", tackled Scully into the dugout five minutes later and I think Liam Kelly went on to score a hat-trick

Pats 4 Cork 1, in the Dolan Out year. Probably the only decent ninety minutes we played in the League all that season and my god, we were sublime that night, Charlie, Liam Kelly and Tony Bird were carving through Cork at will. At one stage, I really did start thinking about double figures.

[jfogarty]

Fair few but apart from league wins and that type of stuff, it's the 3-2 Cup game v rovers in Inchicore with the "headcase section" ( (c) Tom McGibney) and Davey Byrne's shinner

that was my first match in over a year due to travelling and what a night. when davey hit the ball it was going a yard wide. still not too sure how it went in

[superfrank]

Shels v City when Cahil scored the only goal in Tolka to take the title to Bohs (or should I say, from Shels). We needed the win to get into the Intertoto cup in a season that religation wasnt too far from peoples minds with Mountfields time in charge.

Grrr, it would've been our InterToto place if yez hadn't won!

The best wins I remember:

4-1 against Pats at the Carlsile on the last day of the 2000/2001 season. Great game of football, Davy Williamson played brilliant for us. I can't remember who scored. We finished fourth that season, thanks to Cork.

The '99 cup final against Harps. The drama of the first two matches and then Daz(?) scoring the winner in Tolka! Again, I don't remember the scorers. I think Daz scored in one of the matches, Foxy too.

And this season 2-1 against Pats at the Carlisle. Great atmosphere. I remember Daz scored a cracking volley and Zayed scored too. Then in the last few minutes, with all the Pats fans leaving Robbie Doyle scored. When the final whistle went, we went mad.

[Terry]

There is only really one for us, beating Rovers 1-0 in the cup final of '99.

Others would be beating Cork in the league cup final in turners cross, beating monaghan 8-0 in a Mannion come back special or beating sligo 5-0.

[Conor H]

Ya that Monaghan game was the funniest game ever.

[De Town]

Obviously for Town fans, it would be the cup wins, all 3 of them, but apart from that:

Cobh 0-2 LTFC - the night we got promoted, will never forget it, LTFC fans outnumber Cobh fans 3-1. One of the best nights ever.

Harps 3-2 LTFC, LTFC win 5-4 on pens - in our second season in the top flight, we finished in the play-off spot. Won the first leg in Flancare 1-0, Fergal Coleman scored, up to Finn Park 4 days later, 0-0 at half time. LAvine scores in the opening seconds of the 2nd half while I'm running in from the chipper! Kev McQ equalises. We're still staying up. Reynolds sent off for LTFC. McQ scores again. Extra time. Down to 10 men, we'd take pens now, McQ scores, felt sick, we're going down, Shay Zellor wins a pen out of nothing, Paul McNally scores, the relief, into shootout, Digger's the hero, saves Harps last penalty, LTFC Fans go wild!

LTFC 4-1 Shels - Last season - Shels win, they win the title, we tear them apart, Prunty's 3rd goal one of the best ever seen in Flancare.

[loudy macloud]

we dont have much cause for celebration these days
but i can remember a 4-2 at home against shamrock rovers a few years back
we had the monster barry murphy and frank derby at the back, and rod de khors in the middle, we were 2-1 at one stage

2-1 win over monaghan, the year we lost to UCD in the plyoffs
1-0 with 5 to go and up pops myler to knock in 2 goals, the place went nuts, that was back when we got a crowd

even the away leg against UCD in the playoffs, we lost on penalties but the atmosphere was amazing

[Schumi]

This is much harder than the other thread!

The playoff at home to Athlone would be the obvious one: 2-1 down after the first leg, Swan scores after a minute to level it (no away goals), go 2-0 up before Andy ****ing Myler equalises. Swan misses a penalty in extra time and we win in a shoot out. Magic!

[Éanna]

Shels v City when Cahil scored the only goal in Tolka to take the title to Bohs (or should I say, from Shels). We needed the win to get into the Intertoto cup in a season that religation wasnt too far from peoples minds with Mountfields time in charge.

Yeah, thats my favourite.

[wanderette]

the three 99 cup finals obviously, but for me the semi final against shelbourne in tolka was even more special. good old mick doohan with one of those goals where he just swung his body at the ball and in it went. and then the second half with us clinging on for dear life, breakaway attack and tresson sprints a full sixty yards to collect a pass and finish coolly. that was the year that he was really one of the best players in the league, and that goal and match epitomised it.

1996 first division shield final, 3-0 down after the first leg in waterford, they came up and we won 3-0 and then on penalties. great stuff!

a mid winter six-pointer match in dundalk about 5 or six seasons ago when we were both struggling to survive in the premier, we won 1-0, a mick doohan header. terrible football on a freezing night but nail biting stuff - the reason we wathc eircom league football.

a first division match against finn harps at home, towards the end of the season, a 1st v 2nd match. won 4-1, walked them off the park. richie parsons pulled a beautiful dummy for somebody (tarzan?) to score. the only first divsion match that season that the highlights were on the telly. i still have the tape...

[Bald Student]

The playoff at home to Athlone would be the obvious one:

No way. 5-0 away to Drogheda to qualify for europe. I don't remember the exact details of the match but I do remember that Barry Ryan was held accountable for the defouling of the toilets in the montrose hotel after.

[pineapple stu]

No way. 5-0 away to Drogheda to qualify for europe.

Definitely.

I don't remember the exact details of the match but I do remember that Barry Ryan was held accountable for the defouling of the toilets in the montrose hotel after.

Not so definitely!