Finn Harps Thread

NIMAN wrote: »

Why?;)

Would it not be handy for you?

Funny I think us Derry fans are hoping to get you in the semi's, surprise surprise.

im willing to bet yourselves, pats and shams all want us tis great to be popular!

personally pats away would be my least favoured, reckon it would be the lowest gate for us. not going to be gutted by any draw though, we are gonna be massive underdogs no matter who so doesnt really matter

2 buses running (so far) to the semi. One from the north via lifford the other by the south of the county via Donegal town & ballyshannon. 54crew admins on facebook will help ya out or pm me and Il put you in touch with the relevant people.

Club has announced tickets on sale in the ground on Friday v shels. Allocation is thought to be small... Not that pats will get anywhere near selling out the rest of the ground

Mr_A wrote: »

Really looking forward to the game. Nice to get a bit of exposure and increase the club's profile again. The Shels game shows we can play good football, but also that we we can gift goals to opposition teams.

yea they were two poor goals to give away. going to need to tighten up again at the back. Been the one good aspect to our game all season so hopefully it wont let us down now!

10 seats remaining on the north donegal bus
4 on the south dongegal bus. think its going to be left at 3!

Thought id restore this with the season so close!
Bus to the first game away to Shels in 2 weeks, running Letterkenny 2, Finn Park 2.30, Lifford 2.45... usual sources (neish or nigel) or pm me if ya dont know em!

Late in the day but Last Man Standing competition... the last one only took 6 weeks to end! deadline is kickoff tomorrow though

Have yet to concede in preseason, which isnt bad considering it includes a 1-0 win v cork, 3-0 v colraine (altho supposedly a poor team), 0-0 v galway, cockhill & Inishowen league either side of those games.
Sligo Rovers in the showgrounds tomorrow.

Squad has come together nicely, been improved where needed and players kept where we were solid. Ciaran Gallagher back will give us a solid goalkeeper behind our good defence. still amazing to think we had the second best defensive record in the league going into the last round of games considering who was in goals.

French man Tagbo who scored v cork and another game is having issues getting clearance from Bulgaria where he last played. havnt seen him but he sounds promising. With the likes of Foy, McNamee, Donelan, a hopefully fit McGroary, Keating Back and a few others we may have a decent attack this year to go with our defense...

Goalkeepers:
Ciaran Gallagher
James Gallagher
Lee McCarron (u-19)

Defenders:
Keith Cowan,
Thomas McMonagle
Damien McNulty
Ciaran Coll
Matthew Crossan
Packie Mailey
Rory Gartlan

Midfielders:

Michael Funston
Tony McNamee
Gareth Harkin
Brian McGroary
Raymond Foy
James McCahill (u19)
Jordan Toland
Josh Mailey
Darragh Black (u19)
Ger O'Callaghan
Oisin Hassett (u19)
Adam Clarke
Regan Donnelan (Loan from Sligo)

Attackers:

Kevin McHugh
Marc Brolly
Garbhan Friel
Ruairi Keating (loan from Sligo)
Nathan Boyle (loan from Derry)
Wilfried Tagbo (pending international clearance)

New Kit... i have no idea how to resize. 3 year deal with Legea apparently
One sale at the first home game which is great to hear after last years debacle with Macron
in other news... friendly in the brandywell, 3pm tomorrow

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Hows the new ground development going?

Sloooooowwwwww

soon!

NIMAN wrote: »

Good 3pts for you tonight.

As for the 'lovely weather':rolleyes:, yeah it was great. I have never been colder at the Brandywell. Frozen to the bone.:(

Ah lovely just means not raining! The soup will keep ya warm!

harpstilidie wrote: »

Was perfect conditions for football. No rain or wind at all. Cold yes- but us folk in the North West are used to that!

Goals are here by the way

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=392238280957655

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=392242570957226

haha love ollie in the background!

sure we had the same odds to win the league before it started!
will be daylight robbery!

Sorry overshoot but the photo you posted is copyrighted so had to be removed.







and I even had it resized for you before I spotted it

overshoot wrote: »

poor game, we were asking for Cobh to equalise but got away with it. So can still enjoy being second only by goal difference! massive step up needed away to UCD next week and Athlone in Finn Park the week after could be massive. Mailey was by far MOM but good effort from Tagbo too, Friel probably should have had 2.

Video of Tagbo's aerobatic opener - sometimes you just cant argue with route 1

McHugh picking up No 2 here


Picture of tagbos opener via Gary Foy... ok muffler how do u resize on boards.... preferably without photoshop?!

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I remember seeing McHugh high up on the list of LoI all time scorers.

Any chance he could move up a place this season? Its his last, isn't it?

Just found an out-of-date list, I know he has scored since this and is a few places higher

All-Time (until end of 2012)

1. Brendan Bradley 235
2. Jason Byrne 193 *
3. Pat Morley 182
4. Turlough O'Connor 178
5. Donal Leahy 162
6. Glen Crowe 159
7. Stephen Geoghegan 158
8. Johnny Matthews 156
9. Kevin McHugh 154

Always liked him as a player, should have got a bucketful for us and been much further up that list, had he been played as an out-and-out centre forward of course!

NIMAN wrote: »

Always liked him as a player, should have got a bucketful for us and been much further up that list, had he been played as an out-and-out centre forward of course!

Yea he is being played in a deeper position for us now too. He seems to be really enjoying himself tho, little flicks and that. Skillwise hes still ahead of anyone else on the team. He had a few years with linfield too after ye which would have put another dent in his total. They were pretty injury plagued years tho.

Cheers muffler, I actually have photoshop. I though boards might have had a display as x size function or something that i was missing. Would save uploading it and linking. Will stop being lazy and making u do the work so!!

soo... after the first round of games, a quarter of the season, and going away to 3 of our 4 promotion rivals....

top of the league, by 5 pts with 6 clean sheets in 7 games...
table looks great! Home to Shels on Friday.... wonder could we break the 1000 attendance!

grand stuff, only been to homes games and galway away but tried to get the ball down and play when the opportunity allowed. (pitch was very heavy for the first 2 homes games). I was pleasantly surprised at the open play against a premier side down in galway.

think he was more referring to the lads getting overly stuck in, bit more like last season. sounded like Funston (whoever was in no7) put in a very poor tackle and could have been off near the start. tagbo was stupid a youths fan summary of foot.ie said

The excellent Tagbo tried to impede him and both players ended up eyeball to eyeball. Tagbo moved his head forward enough to make contact and although Lee didn't go down, the ref flashed a red to bring Harps down to ten.

hes still a bit raw & over enthusiastic but chases every ball, serious work horse. I can only really put a poor late tackle in galway against him but we were in the dying mins and chasing a third to equalise. He injured 2 against shels jumping for headers but not heard of anything malicious in them and didnt get a card either.

to be honest, Athlone did it in Finn Park last week, away teams are always going to get stuck in against their promotion rivals. We are still carrying last years deserved reputation too. Higher quality refs who could have a word and stamp it out early in a match would go a long way... but its LOI, unbiased is all we can hope for!

Sums up last year to this...
PP odds before the season started
Shelbourne 7/4
Athlone 10/3
Wexford 10/3
UCD 10/3
Waterford 20/1
Cobh Ramblers 25/1
Finn Harps 25/1
Cabinteely FC 40/1

PP odds after 7 games
Wexford 11/4
Harps 3/1
Athlone 7/2
UCD 4/1
Shels 9/2
Waterford 50/1
Cobh 50/1
Cabinteely 100/1

Damn the my rule of never betting on my own team

If we could keep up this pace (near impossible but lets dream) we would finish 8pts ahead of last years champions total and 16pts ahead of second

Link to Funstons goal for us, 17 seconds into the game, little nutmeg and 25 yard drive. Even Messi world be proud. Shame half the crowd wasnt in! absolute cracker
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=415241961990620

made much harder work of it than we should have but 3pts, still top and extended our advantage to 3rd & 4th to 9pts

around 2000 raised for Mark Farren too i believe which is good to see

change to go 9 clear tonight (if youths lose to 4th placed athlone) and a record 12 unbeaten from the start of a season, currently tied on 11 with 2 other years.

so when your finished voting... Finn Park is looking like a carpet as probably our biggest threat comes to town!

match poster is also class