Jim Roddy - All-Ireland League

[CollegeTillIDie]

Who was beaten 4:0 by a Welsh team......?

dcfcsteve

Pineapple stu got it on the nose.. and by the way that was your famous treble winning team too.

[dcfcsteve]

Derry 0-4 Cardiff, 1988/89 Cup Winners' Cup.

By the way, do you want me to explain the difference between "baseless personal assumptions" and relevant facts in case law?

Facts, Steve, facts!

Ahhhh - I thought you were talking about recent results (e.g Longford).

Just you UCD boys keep patting yourselves on the back for the colossal strides you've made on behalf of Irish football over the years. Bravo chaps - we can never thank you enough...

And please do explain what the feck you're banging on about it PS - but do so in a PM so as to not bore the arse off anyone else on this. Interesting to hear you're still asserting that you know more about a particular footballing scenario than the FIFA rep who was directly involved in the establishment of that scenario in law in the first place. Have you family in the 'Flat Earth Society' or something....?

[CollegeTillIDie]

Ahhhh - I thought you were talking about recent results (e.g Longford).

Just you UCD boys keep patting yourselves on the back for the colossal strides you've made on behalf of Irish football over the years. Bravo chaps - we can never thank you enough...

And please do explain what the feck you're banging on about it PS - but do so in a PM so as to not bore the arse off anyone else on this. Interesting to hear you're still asserting that you know more about a particular footballing scenario than the FIFA rep who was directly involved in the establishment of that scenario in law in the first place. Have you family in the 'Flat Earth Society' or something....?

And where exactly do you think your club acquired Ciaran Martyn?
Where exactly did Clive Delaney make his name in the EL?
and No it wasn't St.Pat's!

[dcfcsteve]

And where exactly do you think your club acquired Ciaran Martyn?
Where exactly did Clive Delaney make his name in the EL?
and No it wasn't St.Pat's!

So we bought a player off UCD. Woo-hoo - your team must be rammered with Brazilian internationals then.

Hibs bought Ivan Sproule from Institute. That doesn't make Sproule a bad player, or Institute anything other than the muck team they are.

But thank God we have UCD's proud European heritage to save Ireland's tarnished history in Europe. PLEASE win the league this year and beat Barcelona in the 2007 Champions League Final. A club with your powerful European record can't turn it's back on the Eircom League in our hour of need !!!!

UCD for the World Club Championship !!

[pineapple stu]

Just you UCD boys keep patting yourselves on the back for the colossal strides you've made on behalf of Irish football over the years. Bravo chaps - we can never thank you enough...

Show me where we said that? Please resort to using facts rather than groundless personal opinions in your posts more, Steve. It's getting tiresome at this stage.

Mods - think a lock is in order?

[Student Mullet]

Steve,
I think you might be over reacting here a bit. All that Bald Student said was that we'd never lost a home game in europe, not that we were likely to win any european trophies.

In any case I think we've wandered a tad off topic.

[dcfcsteve]

Steve,
I think you might be over reacting here a bit. All that Bald Student said was that we'd never lost a home game in europe, not that we were likely to win any european trophies.

Not at all. UCD's lack of home defeat in Europe was presented as some sort of proud boast. In reality it's just a reflection of the medicority of the club.

The simple reason why UCD have been able to maintain their record of not losing a home game in Europe is because you so rarely get to play in it. Yes - you had 2 relatively good home results in the last 20+ years. But if you were playing in Europe more frequently than your current once-every-millenia appearance rate, you'd be clocking-up all manner of results - good, bad and ugly !

[dcfcsteve]

Show me where we said that? Please resort to using facts rather than groundless personal opinions in your posts more, Steve. It's getting tiresome at this stage.

[Poor Student]

Not at all. UCD's lack of home defeat in Europe was presented as some sort of proud boast.

Actually, I think it was just a tongue in cheek post.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Not at all. UCD's lack of home defeat in Europe was presented as some sort of proud boast. In reality it's just a reflection of the medicority of the club.

The simple reason why UCD have been able to maintain their record of not losing a home game in Europe is because you so rarely get to play in it. Yes - you had 2 relatively good home results in the last 20+ years. But if you were playing in Europe more frequently than your current once-every-millenia appearance rate, you'd be clocking-up all manner of results - good, bad and ugly !

Well I doubt we'd lose 4-0 to Cardiff with a team capable of winning the Premier Division, F.A.I. Cup and League Cup here , but I could be wrong about that !

[Student Mullet]

Actually, I think it was just a tongue in cheek post.

I'm sure Bald Student can speak for himself but I tought the 'infinity and counting' comment made that quite clear.

[Student Mullet]

Well I doubt we'd lose 4-0 to Cardiff with a team capable of winning the Premier Division, F.A.I. Cup and League Cup here , but I could be wrong about that !

There are at least two reasons why that comment is true!

[Student Mullet]

The simple reason why UCD have been able to maintain their record of not losing a home game in Europe is because you so rarely get to play in it. Yes - you had 2 relatively good home results in the last 20+ years.

I don't think anyone (except maybe Pineapple) will disagree with you there Steve, save that I would have considered all four games to have been relatively good and I don't see why you started the clock 2 milennia ago.

Personally I think this is an example of why Bald Student's policy of not using smileys is self defeating .

[dcfcsteve]

Well I doubt we'd lose 4-0 to Cardiff with a team capable of winning the Premier Division, F.A.I. Cup and League Cup here , but I could be wrong about that !

Really ??? So you think the best team in the Eircom League wouldn't struggle to knock Cardiff City out of Europe, should they both meet ?? If so - you're suggesting that the top teams in the Eircom League would be capable of vying for a spot with teams in the English Championship promotion play-off zone A very brave call.....

On top of that - the gulf between League of Ireland football and the likes of Cardiff City in 1989 was even larger then than it is now. We didn't have a hope in-hell of knocking them out that year. Though we did register a home draw against them - so we have our own wee record to celebrate of never losing on home soil in Europe to a Welsh team....

One think we can be sure of - I was reliably informed by a Cardiff fan at the Carmarthen v Longford game (now, THERE'S an embarassing defeat to a Welsh team... ) that in his many decades as a Cardiff season ticket holder he'd never seen as big an away support at Ninnian Park as when Derry played there. No danger of UCD toppling that record - even if you went as the best team in Ireland

[Poor Student]

Well I doubt we'd lose 4-0 to Cardiff with a team capable of winning the Premier Division, F.A.I. Cup and League Cup here , but I could be wrong about that !

If we had a team capable of winning the treble then we wouldn't be ourselves, we'd just be a hypothetical dream team. That doesn't make any sense.

Do you mean Cardiff now or then? Cardiff are currently 8th in the Championship. Back then they finished 14th in the Third Division (i.e. the third flight).