(LOI): League Of Ireland fixtures (WEEK 4): 23-25 March 2012

Mushy · 23-03-2012 11:46pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

19 red cards now for the season, 23 games played.

As bad as some are, Dane Massey is an idiot. Just go behind 2-1 and then get sent off for something so petty and stupid. In saying that, the ref had an absolute nightmare of a game. Two head injuries, one caused by an elbow (with massive bloodflow and a trip to the hospital), the other with a boot, and he kept the game going.

EDIT: Just remembering Marty Waters being booked. With tackles like that getting bookings, its no wonder players are getting sent off.

dreamers75 · 23-03-2012 11:47pm

applehunter wrote: »

5000 at the Rovers match including President Higgins.

3000 at the Derry game.

Great to see.

Dont watch Bohs and Pats on sunday, i would be shocked if theres more than a 1000 at it.

Sigh so bored.....talking to the wife

Richard Hillman · 23-03-2012 11:53pm

Ebbs wrote: »

Great banner from Shels, put ours to shame. Bar that good crowd from yous understandably quiet though. What was the big Gardai rush for? Breaking chairs or?

2 kids were fighting over their favourite NDubz album or something along those lines

doncarlos · 23-03-2012 11:54pm

Ebbs wrote: »

McCabe's sending off never should have been, I dont know how that was simulation considering he was sandwiched.

Maybe all the diving he has being doing for years the referees have finally copped on to him. Delighted for him. Probably the player I hate most in the league.

stovelid · 24-03-2012 12:06am

Paul Tergat · 24-03-2012 12:32am

applehunter wrote: »

5000 at the Rovers match including President Higgins.

3000 at the Derry game.

Great to see.

Are they big crowds? Like what would the average be for a Dublin derby?

Just curious btw as would have no idea what they pull in. Been to UCD matches before with **** all people there

stovelid · 24-03-2012 12:33am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Sigh so bored.....talking to the wife

You should have come up to Tallaght.

Pighead · 24-03-2012 12:35am

Pighead wrote: »

Dundalk starting with a 16 year old at left back this evening. The great Jim McLaughlin's grandson Ben will make his debut.

I know McCaffrey has said he's building a team for the future but surely playing 16 year olds is pushing it a bit. Anyway hoping for our first goal of the season tonight. To Oriel!

Cracking debut for the young fella. Looked confident and has decent technique. Our best performance by far. Played some lovely football for the first hour or so.

Tired a bit towards the end and were hanging on slightly but deserved the win and I'm a bit more confident about avoiding relegation this evening. Having Chris Shields back was the difference.

Probably eight or nine hundred at the game. Not great but pretty standard for a UCD match.

dreamers75 · 24-03-2012 12:36am

stovelid wrote: »

You should have come up to Tallaght.

Nah would explode with rage, 2 different types of hate. Weirdly they shade it slightly.....

Cant wait for Friday :cool:

stovelid · 24-03-2012 12:46am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Cant wait for Friday :cool:

Friday week mate. We've Bohs next Friday and youse on Good Friday.

CSF · 24-03-2012 12:48am

Fair play to Rovers, no excuses on our part. We really need a better sub keeper.

Would like to think that was a one-off freak result, in between the ridiculous individual errors we played decent enough I thought.

dreamers75 · 24-03-2012 12:49am

stovelid wrote: »

Friday week mate. We've Bohs next Friday and youse on Good Friday.

We have Shels away next week, its not all about you Stovie

Bohs 1st

Gonna miss most of it, on the brightside my lad signing for Pats under 13s who are fairly decent.

CSF · 24-03-2012 12:51am

dreamers75 wrote: »

We have Shels away next week, its not all about you Stovie

Bohs 1st Gonna miss most of it, on the brightside my lad signing for Pats under 13s who are fairly decent.

What league do Pats schoolboys play in? Have seen no sign of them in schoolboys upto this point.

born2bwild · 24-03-2012 12:52am

CSF wrote: »

Fair play to Rovers, no excuses on our part. We really need a better sub keeper.

Would like to think that was a one-off freak result, in between the ridiculous individual errors we played decent enough I thought.

Agreed. Shels' defence was a complete farce. Stunning.
Don't think it was a great idea to take Conan Byrne off either - the game was over anyway but he was actually having a decent enough match.

dreamers75 · 24-03-2012 1:00am

CSF wrote: »

What league do Pats schoolboys play in? Have seen no sign of them in schoolboys upto this point.

Should be in 13 A next season, there was some "issues" when Mahon was here. Seem to be resolved and the club actually own the schoolboys now. if not my kid aint signing.

CSF · 24-03-2012 1:08am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Should be in 13 A next season, there was some "issues" when Mahon was here. Seem to be resolved and the club actually own the schoolboys now. if not my kid aint signing.

DDSL?

dreamers75 · 24-03-2012 1:08am

CSF wrote: »

DDSL?

yup

stovelid · 24-03-2012 1:21am

Fair play Dreamers. You must be chuffed. My fear is that my sons will want to play Gah because my area is heavy into it.

dreamers75 · 24-03-2012 1:28am

stovelid wrote: »

Fair play Dreamers. You must be chuffed. My fear is that my sons will want to play Gah because my area is heavy into it.

My lad has heard about Gah, the fcuk he playing it

..... played for SDFL league team but needed to move from the "worst team in Dublin" to a premier side but wanted to stay with his mates.

Nothing better than answering the door to "certain" DDSL clubs looking to sign your kid (midseason) with an offer of free boots and trip to Man Citys stadium.....with a Pats jersey on. One of them even had a picture of Robbie Keane

SantryRed · 24-03-2012 1:33am

No complaints about tonight. Sending off ruined the game but everyone I talked to said it was a red and a peno so can't complain. Was still in the queue buying tickets at that stage. I thought at 1-0 we were the better team but then individual errors cost us from there. No surprise who the errors came from though. Gareth Matthews, Ian Ryan and Paul Skinner are all first division standard players and it showed tonight. I'd actually blame Matthews more than Hurley for the own goal. I think we are good enough to challenge for the Europa League spots on the back of our first four games. If I'd been offered 7 points from playing 4 games which included the top 3 from last year, I'd have bitten your hand off.

Ebbs · 24-03-2012 1:50am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Nothing better than answering the door to "certain" DDSL clubs looking to sign your kid (midseason) with an offer of free boots and trip to Man Citys stadium.....with a Pats jersey on. One of them even had a picture of Robbie Keane

Back when I played underage ball the likes of Lourdes/Belvo and such used to go around to the poorer lower level league teams and offer the best players a dishwasher/dryer/washing machine if they came to play in the premier/major.

Hilarious this stuff still goes on.

dreamers75 · 24-03-2012 1:52am

Ebbs wrote: »

Hilarious this stuff still goes on.

**** im old it was windows in my day

stovelid · 24-03-2012 1:53am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Nothing better than answering the door to "certain" DDSL clubs looking to sign your kid (midseason) with an offer of free boots and trip to Man Citys stadium.....with a Pats jersey on. One of them even had a picture of Robbie Keane

As bad a mafia as the gah, some of them.

dfx- · 24-03-2012 2:23am

Excellent crowd, longest queues I've seen before a game, easily 200-300 when I was going in at 7.55. A lot of 'covert' Shels fans around me too.

Excellent game...:pac:

So it's only Bohs left to score their first goal..

dreamers75 · 24-03-2012 2:25am

dfx- wrote: »

So it's only Bohs left to score their first goal..

Cnut you just had to say it

dfx- · 24-03-2012 2:29am

As long as it's not next week...

monkey9 · 24-03-2012 3:07am

CSF wrote: »

Fair play to Rovers, no excuses on our part. We really need a better sub keeper.

Would like to think that was a one-off freak result, in between the ridiculous individual errors we played decent enough I thought.

At 4-0?? I'd struggle myself to look for any!! You're back in the big time now. I notice Fatty Hughes didn't score tonight!!!

Gavin "shels" · 24-03-2012 3:49am

Ebbs wrote: »

Great banner from Shels, put ours to shame. Bar that good crowd from yous understandably quiet though. What was the big Gardai rush for? Breaking chairs or?

Banner nearly didn't go to plan, got a bit "tangled" trying to bring it up! The rush was because of a minor dispute within the stand between two lads nothing more.

dfx- wrote: »

Excellent crowd, longest queues I've seen before a game, easily 200-300 when I was going in at 7.55.

Always great to see matches delayed by 10 minutes tbh in LoI.

monkey9 wrote: »

I notice Fatty Hughes didn't score tonight!!!

Wait till Friday!

dfx- · 24-03-2012 5:06am

Anything good for Shels did come through Hughes though.

The pattern of the game was Rovers passing the ball around, Shels get it up to Hughes, he falls over, Shels win a freekick, the freekick is looped up where Jansson claims or punches and repeat. Oman could've been sent off in the first half for three or four 'fouls' on him and maybe why he was taken off at HT.

Dub XV · 24-03-2012 10:33am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Nothing better than answering the door to "certain" DDSL clubs looking to sign your kid (midseason) with an offer of free boots and trip to Man Citys stadium.....with a Pats jersey on. One of them even had a picture of Robbie Keane

Cherry Orchard by any chance?

Darkglasses · 25-03-2012 2:45am

Wexford Youths picked up a win away to Finn Harps tonight. Amazing turn around from last season, Shane Keegan could go far.

AgileMyth · 25-03-2012 2:49am

Darkglasses wrote: »

Wexford Youths picked up a win away to Finn Harps tonight. Amazing turn around from last season, Shane Keegan could go far.

Speaking of players that could go far Lee Lynch played well again last night. The lad is the absolute balls.

upandcumming · 25-03-2012 2:57am

Longford win AGAIN! Top of the league!

3-2 agin Waterford. Two crackers from Waterford which were allowed bu our lax defending and not closing the ball down. Don't give a fuck though, we scored three!!

Darkglasses · 25-03-2012 2:57am

Something's going very right up there for sure, Drogs will be safe enough this year. Shane Keegan's actually our manager though, very different approach to football from Wallace for sure!

AgileMyth · 25-03-2012 3:05am

Darkglasses wrote: »

Something's going very right up there for sure, Drogs will be safe enough this year. Shane Keegan's actually our manager though, very different approach to football from Wallace for sure!

Ah sorry about that. Haven't followed the comings and goings in the first for a while.

Lynch plays for Sligo Rovers now btw..

dreamers75 · 25-03-2012 3:21pm

Team v Bohs; Clarke, O'Brien Bermingham Kenna Browne, Chambers Russell Bolger, Meenan O'Connor O'Flynn

Subs; Murphy Flynn Carroll Forrester J Kelly Daly Fagan

Right off to kids match, phone off as far i will know when i watch it later it will be live

applehunter · 25-03-2012 4:04pm

Never a good sign when you can makeout the letter on the seating.

ah, where are the Bohs supporters?

applehunter · 25-03-2012 4:28pm

How the mighty have fallen.

Bohs look very limited.

applehunter · 25-03-2012 4:34pm

George Hamilton is very underwhelmed by it all.

His cardiologist will be happy.

Ebbs · 25-03-2012 4:48pm

How Id love to have O'Brien back playing in green and white hoops.

Not an overly bad crowd for a sunny Sunday, with one side being arguably being one of the main candidates for relegation. Im not sure if Pats didnt sell their tiny allocation or if they opened up more of the stand. They look like they're closer to the Bohs fans than we were allowed.

antomorro-sei · 25-03-2012 4:50pm

That was definitely the worst 45 minutes of football I've ever watched. Shocking stuff.

applehunter · 25-03-2012 5:05pm

Absolutely shocking.

Pats should be showing their class here but seem to be just as content to go long and watch the ball sail over Russel and Bolger's heads.

Don't know what Aaron Callaghan can do with that lot. They don't look to have any creativity and some of the players don't look fit enough.

applehunter · 25-03-2012 5:16pm

HOOF HOOF HOOF HOOF

AAAAAGHHHHHHHHH

SantryRed · 25-03-2012 5:28pm

I thought this was on rte one so put that channel on first, seen there was hockey on so switched to rte two to watch this. After ten mins of this drivel I resorted to going back to watch the hockey :pac: Pile of sh1te.

applehunter · 25-03-2012 5:31pm

What genius in RTE thought this would be worth televising.

SantryRed · 25-03-2012 5:38pm

At least Shels are good at playing this way! These are just muck and if we can stop Pats playing ball on Friday I'm very confident we can get something from the game.

applehunter · 25-03-2012 5:39pm

Are we seriously sending this Bohs team to represent Ireland in Europe this season?

applehunter · 25-03-2012 5:52pm

BOOO!

Everything about this game was complete rubbish.

antomorro-sei · 25-03-2012 5:53pm

Second time I've seen us play this year. We don't look very good at all, imo. Still, should have scored two chances in that match, but the game was absolutely awful.

Mr.Crinklewood · 25-03-2012 5:55pm

First time I have ever seen a guy in a fluorescent jacket present a man of the match award.

(LOI): League Of Ireland fixtures (WEEK 4): 23-25 March 2012

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