QuoteWhen is the draw for the next round of games ?
I saw the article in a newsagents I dont have the paper at all Nr637 sorry!Originally Posted by nr637
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
When is the draw for the next round of games ?
Tomorrow. Not sure about the time though.
Tomorrow at 12:30 live on the FAI YouTube channel
Paaatrick's Agletic
How difficult is it to organise having it on RTE evening News? there's only 8 teams to draw so hardly time consuming. If thats a big no from the RTE TV, after all they have to cut corners on the massive cost of holding a draw, then how about radio, simultaneous on the news channel/website. Little bit of give back from the service national broadcaster after cooking the books - or maybe WeAre Rovers and the health and safety department might deem it a risk to a tv crews life....somehow...and an excuse not to play ball unless its oval shaped or plastered with O'Neills. What about Virgin Media either or others, it cant be that hard to get a 3 minute slot on some budget early evening or radio show if not prime tv news.
It's utterly embarrassing
Who really cares about the cup anyway? id forgotten it was even being played
League of Ireland Group chat(is that still a thing?) will have a whip round to pay for it.
This fantasy about Horgan being a great manager is Bizarre, like Ian Ryan, even the Harps fans admitted he was finished.
Would you take him if Stephen O'Donnell was to leave?
Drogheda v Bohs
Finn Harps v Pats
Galway v Dundalk
Cork v Wexford
To be played the weekend of 15/16/17 September
Paaatrick's Agletic
Drogheda United v Bohemians
Finn Harps v St Pat’s
Galway United v Dundalk
Cork City v Wexford
Pats and Cork will be happy
Bohs not so much
Galway/Dundalk a real intriguing tie aswell….
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Not ideal but will take that, better than the draws Bohs and Dundalk got anyway.
Yep; the real standout I think. Helps that there's no big PL ties (in part because the previous rounds got them out of the way).
You'd probably fancy Bohs, Cork, Pat's and Galway to come out of that? Dundalk and Drogheda could come through instead; don't fancy Harps or Wexford though
As I predicted yesterday - although surprisingly Drogheda get the home draw. Further prediction: Bohs equalise in last minute then win on penalties. (I hate those b******s; I'm not even going to bother watching it).
Just had a look at Harps home form this season - wow! 2 wins, 7 draws, 5 defeats from 14 league games. Ballybofey obviously doesn't carry the threat it used to (unless it's a wet and windy evening like it often is, where anything can happen on that pitch). Hard to see beyond Pats and Cork for two of the semi-final spots (and that's a Final pairing that would pack the Aviva). I genuinely think the other two ties are 50-50, given that Bohs and Dundalk are away.
class draw getting wexford at home. it was a stroll in the park against waterford last night, the gulf between the 2 leagues is still big-ish. shouldnt be any excuses on our side, must be a win with a semi final on the card.
Tell that to the UCD team you failed to beat at home a few weeks ago.
Men against boys at the Bowl.
Somehow UCD managed to play even worse than they did on Friday night. A walk in the park for GUFC last night.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
Happy enough with Galway away, nice trip over and we avoided Pats and Bohs away and also Drogs away too.
Obv wanted a home draw, but look its the QF and hard to get an easy one, plus we have already beaten the favs in R1, its just our form is so hot and cold but unbeaten in last 4 I suppose.
Not sure FD is that good a standard this season, but this is a tricky game all the same, very.
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Looking forward to another big night in FP. I'm under no illusions we stand little chance, just hope we put it up to them. When we've conceded early this year against the better teams we have tended to fall apart which is a major worry against the best team we've faced
Well the tone of my post was meant more to be a roll eyes at Ollie sticking to his M.O. Also that I still think Caulfield is massively overrated. But for the sake of argument, and it is more anacdotal than analytical but since Horgan joined the backroom team at Galway they have a more ruthless. The have been by a long distance the most resourced 1st division club for the last what 3-4 seasons and under Caulfield alone botched promotion. Horgan may have run his course at Harps but he knew how to get out of the first division and also battle relegation. That sort of experience is invaluabe for a promotion push. Caulfield wasnt able to get his Cork side fighting when facing relegation and with a healthy budget. If Horgan had had a Sadlier and a McEneff at Harps they wouldnt have been bench warming, he was willing to play ballers if he had them. Caulfield would bench Lionel Messi in his prime in favour for a brute force player. When Horgan wasnt completely hamstrung by a limited squad on a small budget they were able to play some decent football and Finn Park was never a nice place to go especially during the odd season that there was squad continuity. Would I pick him over O'Donnell, of course not. Do I think he is great manager, no but he has shown that he can be an effective manager with the hand he is is dealt more often than not. It was time for him to move on but I also think if he had stayed the current crop of Harps players would be better organised at minimum and probably would be hanging on to the coat tails of promotion play-off spots.
From a non footballing point of view he is the adorable rogue, more mischief that malice and brings/brough an entertainment value to the league. Caulfield is more of the chip on the shoulder gruff type imo and sees himself as better than he is. It would be a surprise to hear Horgan say that he works hard but wouldnt class himself as the mutts nuts. So basically I believe he has made an important contribution to this Galways dominant promotion season. There are quite a number of past Dundalk managers that Id have had Horgan ahead of. Maybe he is marmite, maybe there is a Derry slew on the opinion of him, but he was no mug at Harps and it'd be no shock that if he had the stomach for it and ended up at a Treaty/Bray type club that he could progress them.
So not greatness not not to be dismissed for what he did manage. It probably suits hi to be an assistant now, like a semi retirement, coaching without an entire clu sitting on his shoulders. Id like to see him in the hotseat again somewhere and if so time will tell whether he is finished or not.
As for the draw, it isnt a good one for Dundalk even if its just that there is winning momentum and consistancy behind Galway. I wouldnt have Dundalk as significant favourites due to our own inconsistency. ED Park will be packed and it will take one of the performances of the season to ensure Dundalk get through this fixture. Hopefully a good result this weekend can cause us to kick on but we've been saying the same all season. Im not being miserable but I think the semis lineup will be Bohs/Pats/GalwayCork with Bohs the eventual winners - just cause Pats are more likely to be still on a title hunt. Ill be very happy to be proven wrong between now and November with a Dundalk FC double....
Dundalk will be favourites to beat Galway, but that's not to say its going to happen !
Bohs won't fancy Drogs away, another tight one to call but they too will be favs for that tie, I'd imagine with Pats flying they will get past FH in normal time (or if there is no replays this year for QF), and I can't see any shocks with Cork City strong favs to beat Wexford.
So Pats and Cork City for me are the only two definities, but who knows.
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