QuoteOriginally Posted by thomas72
As far as I remember the press release stated a full squad would travel. No one ever mentioned a full squad would play.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I don't think the Limerick public who paid out good money for this one will be pleased. Farcical!
What was the final score?
Show me one place it said they would play a full team?
look at all the friedlies that have been on in the last few weeks.None of them had anything that would resemble a starting prem team. Its a pre season friendly,get over it. Good crowd and nice atmoshphere. Hopefully we might get a few more up to our next home game.
Never saw so many limerick tops in my life!! where are these people on a Friday night? Not in Jackman park thats for sure. Most important thing from tonight is the profile of LFc to the general public.
"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
did not expect a full squad to play but they did not even send over a full squad , joe hart did not play, clichy , lescott, milner, dzeko . santa cruz , nasri so technically four first team players started page 20 -21 limerick post balotelli, nasri , yaya toure and the rest dont miss it and big picture of silva, kompany & balotelli ? premeir league champions manchester city.
but delighted they got a decent crowd at it and hopefully they can continue to attract big name teams to thomond in the future.
Last edited by old git; 05/08/2012 at 10:13 PM.
" football is a simple game "
good crowd which for future reference will make it easier to attract teams of citys stature,surely people cant be surprised at city sending was was in essence a reserve team,they did play in germany last night where the big names were always going to play,still even at training session pace they were a joy to watch and a comfy seat as well so i enjoyed it.however best entertainment all night was listening to the two expert soccer guru,s on 95fm on the headphones,where do they find these guys.
Full team came over but not all played as expected.
Was a nice night out and a run around for our lads too.
Friday was a bigger game and as of now tomorrow is a bigger game too.
This match was a big one for the nuetrals but that's it.
I agree with most on here great event for the city but we were promised the big stars were where they?
Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Milner, Santa Cruz, Dzecko - what other club-organised friendly had even two players of that stature since the Rovers-Madrid game?
And hey, Ticketmaster had me promised it was a Limerick City team I'd be seeing and all I got was Limerick FC - y'don't hear me complaining . . .
Listen lads I'd get over it but there was a a lot of people around me that expected to see the big names from city and were left massively disappointed when the city squad was called out the superstars that were promised and on the advertising boards were not there. But overall great turn out great atmosphere we Limerick tried hard
Well done to limerick FC and pat osullivan in particular,a very well organised pre season friendly for man city,massive crowd out there,ok would have being nice to see ballotelli there and aguero,but you can't have them all,a big bualidh bos to limerick FC for an enjoyable night.
By the way hopefully a limericks legend son will be playing with limerick next year,probably the best centre mid in the country.
Do you ever stop complaining, there was some great players on show its a freindly that we are not used to so let us enjoy it in peace.
Sounds promising. Has he signed with the under 19's?
sounds like the shane duggan forecast to me.
The only people who would've been disappointed last night would've been those who are not clued in. Look at all of City's pre season games - it's ALWAYS a mix of first teamers and youngfellas. Balotelli and Silva are not back yet and didn't feature against Wolfsburg either. Aguero went off injured 10 mins from time against Wolfsburg so he was never appearing last night.
On the pitch last night were 4 players from Euro2012 - Clichy, Nasri, Lescott and Milner. There was easily €150m worth of talent on the pitch. Denis Suarez and Boyata are two top class young players who City have huge hopes for. That was a very good side they fielded to be fair so no one should be complaining
That was a stronger line-up than I would have expected. People seem a mite surprise that Mancini wasn't treating this game with the same degree of seriousness as the opening EPL fixture.
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