FAI Cup 2008

Originally Posted by sligo23

does anyone know the actual kick-off time for the shams vs sligo rovers game??
i've seen it advertised fo 7:30, 7:45 and 8:00

7.30 is kick off time

Originally Posted by oldyouth

It appears that we will be fielding at least 4 of our U18s with some senior players missing. Roughly the same line out that got beaten 5-0 by Dundalk a few weeks back. Happy Days......

Hmmm I was thinking of having a bet on your lot tonight. Killester don't give a tosh about this and it's a distraction for them more than anything else. They've a few lads away on holidays too. From what I've heard they are more or less putting out their second side.

Has the Senior Cup lost some of its appeal? Down here in the real capital there seems to be little build-up, even with 4 non-league teams all at home and the two Eircom League teams away.
Rockmount look best placed to cause an upset in this round, but they've had a long, hard season..... Marys were promoted in a playoff on Wed night, which went to extra time.... 'Hall host the champions which will be a really tough task, again at the end of a hard season.... Everton playing Carrick on Sunday morning would also seem to be well placed to advance.
The non-league sides (country wide) are all at the end of their seasons and it seems a difficult task to rise up to the challenges in the FAI Cup. Back in the days when the Senior Cup was in the middle of the (non-league) season, there seemed to be more media impetus, thus more interest, thus more crowds, thus more rewards (€...) for the non-league teams.

Dont think Carrick are too pushed about this cup. They have reached their Holy Grail , the FAI Junior Cup, this season and are still celebrating that success as only they can!

Surely Carrick being the best junior team in the country could be good enough against Everton.Killester beat Bangor in the last round and are as good as any Intermediate team and Carrick are as good if not better than Killester.Are Carrick taking this serious and have they any injury problems?

Originally Posted by smasher

Dont think Carrick are too pushed about this cup. They have reached their Holy Grail , the FAI Junior Cup, this season and are still celebrating that success as only they can!

Exactly!!! As I said, the FAI Senior Cup seems to have lost some appeal. Is this the impact of Summer football? Junior and Intermediate Cup competitions run through the winter, and then the Junior and Intermediate sides need to row into the Summer schedule.

In general Eircom League seems to have benefitted, but the Cup is suffering - at least the participation of the non-league sides is suffering.

Originally Posted by KUFCMan

Surely Carrick being the best junior team in the country could be good enough against Everton.Killester beat Bangor in the last round and are as good as any Intermediate team and Carrick are as good if not better than Killester.Are Carrick taking this serious and have they any injury problems?

Nope - I disagree - Everton at home will be very difficult to overturn. I strongly fancy Everton to advance

Athlone have a good record against us down there, its going to be a very close match.

I will go for 2-1 Athlone or 2-2 draw

Holmes to score for Harps.

PS: Hope we get knocked out and concentrate on survival

Originally Posted by finnpark

Athlone have a good record against us down there, its going to be a very close match.

I will go for 2-1 Athlone or 2-2 draw

Holmes to score for Harps.

PS: Hope we get knocked out and concentrate on survival

Holmes is out so thats one prediction out the window.

But cant see how losing to the worst side in the first division will help us in anyway.Here's hoping for a morale boosting win!!

Some FAI Cup Predictions

St Pats 4 Longford 0
Galway 1 Waterford 1
Shels 1 Dundalk 0
Shamrock 2 Sligo 3

Originally Posted by Raheny Red

Hmmm I was thinking of having a bet on your lot tonight. Killester don't give a tosh about this and it's a distraction for them more than anything else. They've a few lads away on holidays too. From what I've heard they are more or less putting out their second side.

Withour Conor Sinnott, who is our main playmaker and Patsy Malone (either the ball or the man sometimes gets by Patsy, never both). I hear some of ours are on holidays too, which is strange. Should be interesting

Originally Posted by oldyouth

Patsy Malone (either the ball or the man sometimes gets by Patsy, never both).

I seen him action last season against us in buckley park. Was well impressed with his style of play. Best player on the pitch that night.

Bohs 1-0 up. JP Kelly after 14 mins

Derry 1-0 after 58 secs. Kevin Deery I think.

Bohs 2-0. Jason Byrne

Dundalk 1 up at Shels
Douglas Hall 0-1 Drogs (Hughes)

Hughes doubles Drogs lead 2-0

Pats 1-0 Longford

G O Neill

O Brien puts Galway 1-0 up v Waterford.

Athlone 1-0 Harps.
Lim 37 0-1 Cork (Mooney peno)

EDIT Athlone now 2 up.

Originally Posted by finnpark

Athlone have a good record against us down there, its going to be a very close match.

I will go for 2-1 Athlone or 2-2 draw

Holmes to score for Harps.

PS: Hope we get knocked out and concentrate on survival

Only Holmes let me down

Glad we are out.

Originally Posted by joey B

Holmes is out so thats one prediction out the window.

But cant see how losing to the worst side in the first division will help us in anyway.Here's hoping for a morale boosting win!!

Well the rest was spot on

No real shocks with tonights results.

Originally Posted by sligoman

No real shocks with tonights results.

No and Rovers-Sligo to finish 2-3 to Sligo, 0-0 or 1-0 Shams