QuoteNo, you're absolutely right!Originally Posted by Martinho II
Yeap one of the worst draws we could have got. A very tough game ahead. I wouldn’t be too confident on recent form but with Joe Redmond back we could improve in the next few weeks in the run up to the game. His return should keep Harvey Norman on the bench and away from being near a football.
No, you're absolutely right!
It’s an absolute stinker of a draw. Worst we could have got. Not really confident at all, though as you say, Joe Redmond will surely make us more solid defensively. Having said that, don’t think Derry will be overly pleased either. At least they are at home though.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Galway will destroy UCD.
I think it could be Bohs' year.
What weekend are the games being played?
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Waterford would destroy them, if we win it will be because we probably just wore them down and bored them into submission.
If we secure the First Division it will be by not losing games, as opposed to winning them, 2 very different things.
We have a quality defence to mainly thank for our position - our top scorer is a midfielder who has a raft of penalties in his 14 goals. Will be interesting to see how we fare against a top-flight side
I think that's incredibly harsh on Galway United's season. They've won 20/23 games with +51 goal difference, there's no way it can be fair to summarise the season as simply 'not losing games'.
Coming into the season I've never been more downbeat on our promotion chances with another year of JC with the muck we were served up last season, the latter months in particular were grim watching.
But it's been an incredible season and even without playing well this past month the points have kept accumulating. Can't see there ever being a more productive season for Galway in my lifetime so I'm trying my best to enjoy every game as much as I can. There's going to be a lot of disappointing Fridays next season.
Was hoping for a big team in Terryland in the draw but happy enough to be given a 60/40 tie and see what comes in the next round.
I reckon Bohs or Pat's could bring close to a 1000 to Galway and make the game a sell out if it worked out like that.
I meant that from the suggestion that we’d destroy Harps. That hasn’t been our style in the last few weeks: our last 3 games have been two 1-0 wins and a 1-1 draw. Even the game before that mini run we were muck in the first half against Longford and only turned it on in second half.
You say yourself “even without playing well this past month the points have kept accumulating” - that is exactly my point!
We have been very good this season but have morphed from a team that destroyed opponents into one that just doesn’t lose games. Nothing wrong with that, it gets the job done, but if I had to pick a side to win by 3 goals against anyone right now, I would
be more confident putting my fiver on Waterford and Ronan Coughlan than on ourselves and our lack of a goal-scoring striker this season.
Daniel Lafferty given a six-match ban for his red card against Drogheda on Friday,what the hell did he do?
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Was for hitting out? Seems a bit much.
What did Brush do, other than mouth off? He got three games.
Must be a punch,hard to tell from the video...
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
According to the below article Lafferty's 6 game ban is not just for the incident with Kyle Robinson but also for comments he made to officials
https://www.thesun.ie/sport/football...h-ban-fai-cup/
Paaatrick's Agletic
I was at the game, he loafed Robinson and then took a good while to leave the pitch.
Decent draw for Dundalk though Ive always felt playing at home is the 1st hope. Some nice fixtures, Derry V St Pats people will call as the stand out one but Cork v Waterford will be as much an interesting one for the neutral. A number of the smaller clubs will progress. Chalks off another few tricky draws in the next round. Not the done thing to be looking beyond the next game these days but Ive a gut feeling that Dundalk and Drogheda will be pitted against each other at some point along the way.
Misbehavior must be punished. But I think a 6-match ban is too harsh a punishment.
It’s one of those that you can’t really comment on whether it was justified or not without knowing the facts of what was said. The incident itself would normally be a 3 game ban so whatever he’s said has probably added on another 3 games but without knowing the severity of what was said it’s all just speculation
Paaatrick's Agletic
I know I could find it somewhere if I really looked but does anyone have the dates of Quarter-Final, Semi-Final and Final handy?
I phoned the speaking clock to hear a voice speak, it said - "At the tone you will be very much alone"
I have the weekend of 18/09, 08/10 and 12/11 noted in the UCD programme.
Full round of league fixtures down for those days, so postponements would be required of course.
Drogheda tickets were released this afternoon - Main Stand and East Terrace already sold out, so well on course for a full house to be confirmed either tomorrow or the day after.
Main Stand and East Terrace are on Season Ticket sale. Some might go on release after. Tickets did go on sale briefly but the blunder of not giving season ticket holders first choice to buy was quickly spotted. Kerry FC avoided an own goal. Own goals like that can leave staunch supporters disgruntled.
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