Under 21s league

[DmanDmythDledge]

Weekend 24 June 2007 - Series No 1
Bray Wanderers v UCD

Weekend 1 July 2007 - Series No 2
UCD v Ballinasloe Town

Weekend 15 July 2007 - Series No 3
UCD v Athlone Town

Weekend 22 July 2007 - Series No 4
UCD v St Patricks Athletic

Weekend 29 July 2007 - Series No 5
Portlaoise v UCD

Weekend 5 August 2007 - Series No 6
UCD v Longford Town

Weekend 12 August 2006 - Series No 7
Kildare County v UCD

Weekend 19 August 2007 - Series No 8
UCD v Portlaoise

Weekend 2 September 2007 - Series No 9
Ballinasloe Town v UCD

Weekend 9 September 2007 - Series No 10
UCD v Kildare County

Weekend 23 September 2007 - Series No 11
Athlone Town v UCD

Weekend 30 September 2007 - Series No 12
UCD v Bray Wanderers

Weekend 7 October 2007 - Series No 13
Longford Town v UCD

Weekend 14 October 2007 - Series No 14
St Patricks Athletic v UCD

Weekend 21 October 2007 - BACK MATCHES

Weekend 28 October 2007 - LAST 16 KNOCKOUT

Weekend 4 November 2007 - QUARTER-FINALS

Weekend 11 November 2007 - SEMI-FINALS

Weekend 18 November 2007 - FINAL

[pineapple stu]

This is up and running now, so I'm going to try and keep track of things here as usual.

Portlaoise and Ballinasloe drew 3-3 last night. We played in Bray this morning - won 3-2, with Forsyth, O'Sullivan and Purcell all on the mark. Athlone v Longford and Pat's v Kildare are tomorrow.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Any idea of the line up?

[pineapple stu]

Nope.

For what it's worth, the Shield table was as follows, with our result against Shels the only one missing -

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Rovers	5	3	1	1	8	5	3	10
Bray	5	2	3	0	12	8	4	9
Pat's	5	2	1	2	4	6	-2	7
Bohs	5	2	1	2	8	13	-5	7
UCD	4	1	2	1	9	4	5	5
Shels	4	0	0	4	1	6	-5	0

If we assume we beat Shels, we came third, a point off qualifying for the semis. Rovers and Bray ended up in the final, which seems to imply the top teams will again come from the usual areas.

Reigning league champions Salthill lost 2-0 to Galway today as well. Cork lost 3-1 to Limerick. Could be an open season elsewhere.

[pineapple stu]

Other results from Leinster B this weekend -

Portlaoise 3-3 Ballinasloe
Pat's 4-0 Kildare
Athlone 2-1 Longford.

Table after week one so -

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Pat's	1	1	0	0	4	0	4	3
UCD	1	1	0	0	3	2	1	3
Athlone	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	3
P'laoise1	0	1	0	3	3	0	1
B'sloe	1	0	1	0	3	3	0	1
Bray	1	0	0	1	2	3	-1	0
L'ford	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1	0
Kildare	1	0	0	1	0	4	-4	0

Think four go through to the last 16.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Think four go through to the last 16.

Yeah 4. Should be comfortable enough.

[pineapple stu]

Beat Ballinasloe 8-0 this afternoon. Target practice, apparently. Forsyth got 4, Fitzgerald got 2, O'Sullivan got 1 and Ronan Finn got one too. He could well feature on Monday.

Longford v Bray and Athlone v Pat's on Sunday. Port Laoise v Kildare on Monday.

[pineapple stu]

Athlone 0-3 Pat's
Longford 1-4 Bray

[pineapple stu]

Portlaoise 2-2 Kildare.

League table -

Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
UCD	2	2	0	0	11	2	9	6
Pat's	2	2	0	0	7	0	7	6
Bray	2	1	0	1	6	4	2	3
Athlone	2	1	0	1	2	4	-2	3
P'laois	2	0	2	0	5	5	0	2
Kildare	2	0	1	1	2	6	-4	1
B'sloe	2	0	1	1	3	11	-8	1
L'ford	2	0	0	2	2	6	-4	0

Scorers -

6 - Darren Forsyth
3 - David Last
2 - James O'Sullivan, Shane Fitzgerald
1 - Eóin Ó Cinnéide, Greg Bolger, Ronan Finn, Timmy Purcell

Missing Shield scorers v Bray and Shels.

[pineapple stu]

Playing St Pat's on Saturday in the Enda McGuill. Nasty draw, especially in the First Round.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Pineapple given we have almost half of the 21's going to the World Student Games, will we be postponing U 21 games left right and centre during the competition in Thailand next month?

[pineapple stu]

Valid point, I suppose.

Still, it's only two games I think, and we have to let some other teams win too.

[Schumi]

We only need to finish in the top four of the group anyway so I'm sure we'll be OK.

[Schumi]

Any idea of the line up?

A bit late but the line-up for the Bray game was: Darren Quigley; David Last, Evan McMillan, Brian Shortall, Killian Gallagher; James O'Sullivan, Brian King, Greg Bolger, Fran Moran; Timmy Purcell, Darren Forsyth. All bar Moran have played in the first team this year.

[DmanDmythDledge]

A bit late but the line-up for the Bray game was: Darren Quigley; David Last, Evan McMillan, Brian Shortall, Killian Gallagher; James O'Sullivan, Brian King, Greg Bolger, Fran Moran; Timmy Purcell, Darren Forsyth. All bar Moran have played in the first team this year.

Very strong team. Players like Fitzgerald, Kelly and Brennan not there.

[pineapple stu]

Beat Pat's 3-0 in the Cup yesterday - great result. Should have scorers tomorrow.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Beat Pat's 3-0 in the Cup yesterday - great result.

Twas. Pats are no mugs, have a few underage internationals. Just shows the strength of our team. Anything other than a league title this year isn't acceptable imo.

[Aberdonian Stu]

Well if the playoff system is in place this year than failure is acceptable as on any given night anything can happen.

Furthermore you don't need to qualify the statement with "imo" as it already clearly is your opinion, it's just another term that is ruining the English language.

(CTID/pineapple stu will now comment on how they want to destroy the English language).

[Schumi]

(CTID/pineapple stu will now comment on how they want to destroy the English language).

Not in this thread they (or anyone else) won't.

[John83]

Well if the playoff system is in place this year than failure is acceptable as on any given night anything can happen.

Furthermore you don't need to qualify the statement with "imo" as it already clearly is your opinion, it's just another term that is ruining the English language.

(CTID/pineapple stu will now comment on how they want to destroy the English language).

Any sign of those scorers from the Pats game?