FAI Youth Cup Final

**Youths4Ever** · 14/05/2008, 6:29 PM

Just like to wish our Under 18 team the very best in the FAI Youth Cup Final on Sunday in Ferrycarrig Park.

**Dunny** · 18/05/2008, 1:02 AM

For anyone who cant make it, Dundalk Fm will be covering the game with John Gill on the commentary team.

**dublin_owl** · 18/05/2008, 4:05 PM

Congratulations to the lads and Mick and the whole club and the supporters and Danny Furlong

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Another fantastic achievement in an amazing week for soccer in Wexford.

**Youths4Ever** · 18/05/2008, 7:47 PM

Well done to under 18 the clubs first official piece of silverware. Many more to come.

**balls** · 18/05/2008, 8:12 PM

what was the score in the match today

**ForzaForth** · 18/05/2008, 8:22 PM

Very good win for the Youths today. While Danny rightly grabs all the headlines, most impressive line for me is the defence - Sean Murphy, Warren Broaders, Nobby Kearney and Hopper with Pa Doyle behind, basically don't give the opposition a sniff at goal at this level - Dundalk today and Waterford last week.

Good crowd too. You gotta think this is the start of something big in Wexford football.

**ForzaForth** · 18/05/2008, 8:23 PM

Balls, 4-0 to the Youths with four for Danny Furlong - second was a real beaut. Heard on SE Radio that they might try to take one off him

**oldyouth** · 18/05/2008, 9:18 PM

Great performance. Danny's 2nd was a cracker. Overall the team looked very impressive, no panic under pressure and they looked after eachother.
The future is bright, the future is pink

**5ForKeeps** · 18/05/2008, 9:42 PM

Forza Youths!! Some result thats, 4 goals for Furlong feckin hell....

**ForzaWexford** · 19/05/2008, 11:41 AM

Well done lads. Looking forward to the U20 league starting in September now!

**passinginterest** · 19/05/2008, 11:50 AM

Great result. Great for the official club to win a trophy.

I was listening to the South East Radio broadcast of the Waterford Utd game and the analyst (I think it might have been John Godkin?) was criticising this team, saying that it was a basically a county team playing in a club competition and that it's not something to be proud of!

I think he missed the point completely. Most of the other Eircom League sides also played in this competition and those sides gather talented players from large catchment areas, the Youths are doing no different, it just happens that the catchment area is County Wexford.

If anything I'd see this as a bigger achievement than the inter-league final, considering the strength and history of some of the other club sides in the competition. Congratulations to all involved. Fantastic attendance too by the sound of things.

**ForzaWexford** · 19/05/2008, 12:11 PM

Yeah that was John Godkin alright. He might just be a bit sour as 3 of the team would have been playing for North End's juniors this year + might have saved them from relegation!

It probably is a bigger achievement though. Some of the county sides hardly ever train together whereas all the better teams in this competition would be very well prepared.

**kopite** · 19/05/2008, 8:50 PM

agree with both comments above,bit rich coming from goggie,when his club were/had this same ambition over the years.they've only done so well in the junior and youths league by taking players from others clubs and not by bringing them thru their schoolboy system.this is the only way a club can compete in the fai cups.most dublin sides have none/few dublin players in their top sides.

**ForzaWexford** · 20/05/2008, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by kopite

they've only done so well in the junior and youths league by taking players from others clubs and not by bringing them thru their schoolboy system.

Eh....no. I reckon they have a pretty good schoolboy system, and practically all of their players who get on the Interleague panel have been with the club from the start. I make it 9 in the least 3 seasons - 6 with the club from Day 1, 2 whose schoolboys team had no youths setup and 1 who joined when he came down from Dublin.

**kopite** · 21/05/2008, 8:12 PM

Originally Posted by ForzaWexford

Eh....no. I reckon they have a pretty good schoolboy system, and practically all of their players who get on the Interleague panel have been with the club from the start. I make it 9 in the least 3 seasons - 6 with the club from Day 1, 2 whose schoolboys team had no youths setup and 1 who joined when he came down from Dublin.

i suggest you go a bit further back then 3 seasons,goggie is there a long time,and take a good look at their senior team,at one stage they were taking players from all over the county and from all other local sides in wexford.so my point to his comments are people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.their success over the last 10 yrs has been based on more or less a 50/50 of wexford albion porduced players - fact.