Derry 0-1 UCD

[Poor Student]

The results certainly suggest that. How are other things going? Crowds? If UCD are successful, and say, qualify for europe this year, would you (the club) be attempting to build on that, or will it be business as usual?

Crowds aren't great but our last two home games were Waterford and Bray (teams doing badly) and we hadn't won a game this season before we played them. We have some fairly solid long term plans. We're meeting the FAI's grant and have hired our CPO fulltime, we have plans to establish a full time academy and we're moving to a better ground soon. With the way we're churning out players, if we lose a few more will fall off the conveyor belt.

[DmanDmythDledge]

The results certainly suggest that. How are other things going? Crowds? If UCD are successful, and say, qualify for europe this year, would you (the club) be attempting to build on that, or will it be business as usual?

Don't think the results suggest that just yet. Granted we've just beaten Derry who have been one of the best teams over the past few seasons but our other wins have been against Waterford and Bray.

Crowds seems to be up- average is around 900 at the moment, compared to 500 or 600 previous years. For example there was 744 at the Cork game when in previous years it would only be 400/500.

The club have very high (perhaps unrealistic) ambitions. One of our goals is to win the Premier Division every 5 years.

[Schumi]

The results certainly suggest that. How are other things going? Crowds?

Difficult to tell. The crowds for Waterford and Bray were terrible but they were played respectively on a bank holiday weekend and a Thursday and I don't think they can be considered representative and the Rovers game had a big crowd but loads of Rovers fans so again hard to tell. The Cork game had a better crowd than usual for Cork so maybe crowds will improve, it's too early to tell though.

If UCD are successful, and say, qualify for europe this year, would you (the club) be attempting to build on that, or will it be business as usual?

In terms of marketing, promotion, etc. I would assume so. Out CPO has been putting in a lot of work on this sort of thing and a successful season would only help that. In terms of improving the team, I don't know really. We're clearly not going to throw money we don't have at the team but a successful team will obviously be more attractive to players so we may not need to.

[GavinZac]

we're moving to a better ground soon.

I've never been up to belfield so this one interests me. Is there more info available?

[DmanDmythDledge]

I've never been up to belfield so this one interests me. Is there more info available?

We're moving to the Belfield Bowl, where the rugby team play at the moment. The club hopes to move in there before the end of the season. Some info here.

[Schumi]

Some photos I took There's another thread here too.

[GavinZac]

Some photos I took There's another thread here too.

photobucket is blocked at work, ill take a look at home later.

[pineapple stu]

The problem may be elsewhere but the solution is at left back.

Evan McMillan has done perfectly well at centre-back so far. No problems with Conor Kenna at left-back; certainly no problems or dilemmas (well, no bad dilemmas anyway) in the defence.

The Sun (was down the barbers...) gave Sammon man of the match and Bermingham 7, the best of the defenders. For what that's worth.

[DmanDmythDledge]

The Sun (was down the barbers...)

Don't which one I'm more surprised reading.

[Schumi]

Evan McMillan has done perfectly well at centre-back so far.

Prone to lapses though. The start of the Bray and Waterford game for example.

Don't which one I'm more surprised reading.

[pineapple stu]

Crowds seems to be up- average is around 900 at the moment, compared to 500 or 600 previous years.

You've a game against Rovers in there though, which had a large crowd, so you can't compare the two figures.

Cork was up about 200 on last year, Waterford was up about the same ('cos it wasn't clashing with the World Cup) and Bray was down about 100.

[Poor Student]

The Sun (was down the barbers...) gave Sammon man of the match and Bermingham 7, the best of the defenders. For what that's worth.

They gave Ally Mac and Kenna only a 6 then? I wouldn't give much consideration to those ratings.

[Grey Boy]

You've a game against Rovers in there though, which had a large crowd, so you can't compare the two figures.

Cork was up about 200 on last year, Waterford was up about the same ('cos it wasn't clashing with the World Cup) and Bray was down about 100.

If that game had been on the Friday against Bray you would have had a decent crowd.

[pineapple stu]

Well, a better one anyways. Bray don't really bring much of an away support anyway, but obviously having it on our regular day would have increased the crowd a nice bit. Sillyto have had to go and change it, but it's done now.

[Poor Student]

Oh no, I just checked the fixture list. For some bizarre reason we play Derry at home again on the 25th of May. Let's hope Fenlon can hang on that long.

[pineapple stu]

[Poor Student]

That's 4 league games away. We could be caught out with Derry on the bounce from his sacking.

[pineapple stu]

Cool - didn't realise the link.

I think it's more likely he'll still be lurching towards the inevitable, and we can do the double over them.

[Poor Student]

What's goingn on though, how can we be facing them so soon again?

[DmanDmythDledge]

What's goingn on though, how can we be facing them so soon again?

Basically the first series fixtures were reversed for the second series, except it begins from the 8th game of the first series, going backwards, presumably so teams wouldn't be playing the teams the will be playing 8th, 9th, 10th or 11th too soon.