QuoteNo groundsmen men in the bowl tonight wtf
What is the story with the LoI stream of the Bray Dundalk game, every so often sponsors come up on the full screen blocking the game, even when it’s in play.
No groundsmen men in the bowl tonight wtf
What was a groundsman going to do? Hold an umbrella over the pitch? Drink the excess water?
What work as could be done had been done. It's torrential out. And that's the first UCD game I ever recall being abandoned at halftime, so hardly as if we've a bad record in that regard
Minimum of fuss for Harps,scored the 5th on the hour and emptied the bench,tough for the non league sides to compete for the most part….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Easy for harps tonight. Early goals killed it. Skerries were the smallest team I've ever seen! Kilbarrack were much better
UCD/Galway refixed for Monday….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Thought that was pretty strange. Obviously it'll generate a few quid, but was almost American in it's application.Originally Posted by Yossarian
Small how? As in short?
Yep...Their CB was about 6 foot, the rest much shorter
Think it was because the weather was affecting the stream quality as my screen got blurred on a few occasions during the 2nd half and the sponsor came up for a couple of seconds before the stream came back as normal.
Skerries were very, very bad. Another four or five goals wouldn't have flattered Harps, if truth be told.
A professional job though and into the quarter finals.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
That’s interesting. I would have thought see out the 45 would be more appropriate, tough on Galway and whilst not UCD’s fault weather was bad, not Galway’s either and certainly UCD’s fault they were 0-2 down.
I understand a full replay if scores level but hard to understand the rational about a full replay from 0-0 when one team already has the game half won.
Of course it's not UCD's fault that the weather was terrible, but the weather was also awful in Dalymount, at the Carlisle Grounds, but both of those games finished.... there was little or no work done on the pitch pre game or at half time by groundstaff, which was farcical.
I read that there was surface water on the pitch at the Carlisle Grounds, but that game finished. Amateur enough stuff last night.
Of course UCD were happy enough for it to be postponed, they were getting pasted and it could've been 3 or 4-0 by HT alone last night. It's a free hit for them on Monday, which they didn't deserve, but it is what it is. Let's be honest, if we're not beating that UCD team, then we don't deserve to go to the next round anyway.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
Well I presume it's a full replay (on Monday at 7:45 as Joey notes). I've never known an LoI game to restart from midway through a game as happens in other leagues
Tough on Galway for sure but the pitch made a nonsense of the game for both sides. In particular UCD could say we were impacted by standing water on the edge of the Galway box which made it harder for us to attack. Galway's second goal involved a player in the middle of the park playing a pass forward but ultimately picking up on it himself as the water held it up, so that turns things into a bit of a lottery too.
I don't doubt Galway will win on Monday but in a way it wasn't entirely our fault we were 2-0 down.
Tell me how you know what work was done on the pitch during the day?
By halftime the game was clearly going to be abandoned. The first half was already problematic, the standing water patch was growing, and the rain was getting heavier.
I arrived at the game at around 7.00pm and it was as clear as day that water was starting to pool up in certain areas of the pitch, little or no work was being done to disperse it. I've been at games before where you had cases like this and 5-6 people were working with brushes, rakes, etc to shift surface water.
The rain was heavy in Dalymount and Bray, I saw pictures of pools of water on the pitch at Bray, yet they both finished... maybe they had more than one guy working on the pitch... I wonder could that have contributed.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
Kerry were very competitive in their first test against a Premier opponent. Been the story of the summer, competitive but no result to show for their efforts. Unlucky not to take the game to extra time. Kerry probably need 4 wins from their remaining 9 games for some kind of respectable points total. Only one league win on the board so far and at least 12 league points left behind since the summer break.
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
No one is blaming Ucd for the weather but their was zero work done on the pitch from when the 1st of the United fans arrived and at half time one lad went out with a rake and fork for no more than 2 minutes. Total lack of respect for the gufc supporters who travelled in such large numbers and have to face back into another long journey on Monday.
In defense of non-league teams, their season is just up and running a few weeks or even in pre-season. Very hard to get up to speed and try and match a LOI team.
"oh my, that was some beer we had last night, I think I feel like getting sick" Effin Eddie
Reminded me of watching MLB games but even they are more subtle than to block the entire screen.
There is so much fuss about pitches these days/ Yes in an ideal world all pitches should be like carpets (cough), hoping that the standard is maximised. But mucky, wet, soft, snow, dry, hard etc all throw up different challanges. People will talk about injury potential but Ive not seen (not sayin doesnt exist) evidence that less than optimum pitches significantly increase risk of injury - certainly a soft/mucky pitch any more than a hard dry pitch or artificial surfaces even. I think too much is made of this, too much being careful by refs in case they get targeted for not calling off games. As mentioned, who is to say that the pitch in Bray was any worse than UCD but a differnt ref has a different opinion. I enjoyed that old days where top level games on a mud bath was a leveller in games. RoI made a success of it, tactically using a torn up Rugby pitch in Landsdowne to beat the likes of Spain. I enjoyed playing in condiitions where you could slide half the length of a pitch, digging hands and studs in to the surface to try and stop.
Its all a bit gone soft imo, with many other aspects of the game eg diving, rolling around at minimal contact etc.
As for accusations of UCD not doing work on the pitch - so what, prior to the game it may have suited to enhance home advantage against possibly a better footballing side. Maybe it was known or not, but why try and make the pitch better for the visitors and improve their stock. When 2 down and there is a chance of a match abandoned with a refixture starting from scratch - do you go out to do everything to make sure you are knocked out by trying to drain or water a pitch so a losing match can continue!? It is what it is and if Galway had been 2 down the same thing would have beneftted them.
While I dont remember it, I have heard any times about an Athlone(?) keeper swinging out of the crossbar in Oriel to break it and force a match abandoned, oviously not in the same league as a game being rained off but Im still a bit 'fair dues' he acted up but it worked.
If Dundalk were playig a Pep Barcelona in Oriel during a real grass pitch days, id have the grass like a meadow, ploughed , and watered for weeks solid - try yer tika taka on that, while we went a fashinable purist route 1 making sure the keeper was clobbered under the high ball every few minutes.
Last edited by Nesta99; 19/08/2023 at 12:58 PM.
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