you'll be lucky, heard there was a problem with the print run so they only had something like 90 copies for sale and they were long gone before kick off.
I wonder what a limited edition of that would fetch on e-bay?
Hi did anyone go to the game with Mervue and have a spare programme that they wish to sell on .
I am in UK but can get Euro Notes or Paypal
Please email if you can help
Thank you .
you'll be lucky, heard there was a problem with the print run so they only had something like 90 copies for sale and they were long gone before kick off.
I wonder what a limited edition of that would fetch on e-bay?
"We've had a lot of good times, but you don't know how good they are until you have the bad ones" Tony Adams
Thank you for your comment re the print run, apparentaly my message to Limerick was received and they have acopy for me .
Wonder how definate your info is,but I am not in the hobbyto requst things then stick them on ebay , unless i have a spare .
thanks again for your help
john
Due to technical problems with the printing of the programme, there were indeed less than 90 copies available on the night. Unfortunately, we just had to abandon ship with what we had in order to get to the ground in time.
But there should be some copies available from the club this week. So anyone who really wants one, email your request to info@limerickfc.ie (I'm not sure if programme@limerickfc.ie is working properly yet) and I'll make sure it gets put aside for you. If anyone wants to buy from far flung places, just email the club and you'll be sent a PayPal invoice with payment details.
Fight the good fight!
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Hi I believe UCD became members of the LOI for season 79-80 and understand their opening AWAY fixture to be at HOME FARM.
Can anyone advise if this is correct, and if so what was the date.
Who did they play in their opening HOME match and what date.
Were programmes issued andif NOT which games saw the first programmes.
Does any viewer have any of these available to buy please
thank you
john
can anyone advise please who Thurles played in their 1st and last HOME and AWAY games , were programmes issued.
IF PROGRAMME/TEAMSHEET WERE NOT ISSUED< which games were the relevant ones.
Does any viewer have any of these issues spare please
thankyou
john
Do they still exist in local leagues or anything?
I would like one.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
Thurles's first programme is v Sligo Rovers in 1977. One sold on ebay recently for about a tenner. They did play a friendly v Stoke but didn't issue.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/28-8-77-First-...QQcmdZViewItem
Thurles issued regularly through their LoI career. Crowds had dwindled and only a handful were at games in 81/2. I was at the Limerick game late on that season and there were less than 100 there mainly from Limerick. The programme was a couple of folded gestetnered sheets and only a handful were done. I'd need to lookup who their last home game was against. 81/2 issues are quite scarce but price would vary depending on the opposition.
There have been quite a few Thurles homes on ebay recently varying from unsold at £3 to £26. The opposition dictates the price with Rovers, Sligo and Harps issues in demand.
Last edited by gspain; 15/03/2009 at 5:51 PM. Reason: typo
somebody in Portadown selling them on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LIMERICK-V-MER...QQcmdZViewItem
Assume he ordered them from the club. Hardly worth his while unless the end price is big which I doubt.
ya are second bottom of the premier in north tipp leagueOriginally Posted by gufc2000
SNIPPET: Galway Rovers (now Galway United) first ever win in the League of Ireland was against Thurles Town in 1976.
Nobody knows us, we don't care
They must have been really bad so
Hi I understand that NONE of the above clubs issued for their opening HOME GAMES IN IFA but did any of them subsebquently issue.
does anyone have he relevant clubs 1st AWAYS spare .
Thank you
john
They must have been really bad so
AH it was easy for Galway - beating a team a full year before they were formed.
That Sligo game resulted in a 5-1 win for the newly crowned league champions against a Thurles side managed by Jimmy McGeogh and made up almost entirely of Waterford imports.
Galway and Thurles both joined the league in 1977 so I assume that was the year in question.
Was that the season of the all Waterford team? I remember John O'Neill playing for them when in his 40's. The also had a couple of all Dublin sides with Neville Steedman easily being their best player. He began his career there before moving to Rovers. Fabulous player but not too popular with Hoops fans these days as he bought a house on the site of Glenmalure Park.
It was our nearest away game and I was at all the Limerick games and even got to Thurles v Dundalk in a midweek back match in 1980 and the friendly v Stoke (including Peter Shilton) in 1977. Either my late grandfather or father were always persuaded to drive the 80 mile roundtrip.
There was a huge crowd at our game in October 79 which ended 3-3. tony Morris scored ahatrick for Limerick with Steedman (I think) netting a very late equaliser. It was the first point we dropped in our league winning season.
Crowds were poor there otherwise The 81/2 game would have been the lowest crowd then that I'd ever seen at an LoI game.
There was never really a football tradition in Thurles. It was always a GAA town. I think Tipperary Town or clonmel would have been better locations for a League of Ireland side.
Last edited by gspain; 16/03/2009 at 11:01 AM. Reason: typo
Thurles v Sligo 28/8/77 was their first LoI game and therefore their first programme.
Their last game in the LoI was also v Sligo on April 18th 1982. Sligo would almost certainly have issued for that game. Their last home game was v Waterford on April 11th 1982.
My memory is not as good as I thought. We last played there on October 4th 1981 and not late in the season as I thought. The last Thurles programme I have is v St Pats on January 24th 1982. The only other issue I have from that season (apart from Limerick) is v Shamrock Rovers December 27th 1981. All 3 are pretty basic efforts.
Thurles may have stopped issuing late in the season. We met them late in 78/9 and they resold the leftover cup programmes from a few weeks earlier rather than issue a new programme. Clubs often stopped producing programmes near the end of the season in those days. They did issue for all other league games v Limerick. I know Galway issued regularly in both 77/8 & 78/9 but failed to issue for home games v Limerick late in both seasons.
gary
Thanks you have completed somegaps i my notes but there are many more forother clubs.
john
I remember Steedman right enough!
Just about every journeyman dub washed up in Thurles at one stage or another - I think the committee just got fed up of provisi=ding employment for them in the end.
One such was a lad called Alan Lyons. Journeyman Dub he may have been but talk about committment! Where others came to collect a brown envelope - he came to play.
I also remember a three game cup saga with Limeirck at the time before they edged through.
If anyone wants a copy of the Limerick FC v Mervue Utd match programme from last friday night, just email programme@limerickfc.ie with "Programme Request Mervue 13 March" in the subject line.
You will be sent a PayPal invoice by reply, from which you'll be able to make your purchase.
Price €3.00 + P&P €1.30
Or just the €3.00 if you can pay and collect in person.
Fight the good fight!
(Now with my very own account on foot.ie - How cool am I? - 15/02/07)
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