Limerick FC 2012

jay92 · 07-08-2012 12:02am

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

There is a lot to worry about after tonight's game...

We were shocking, there was no fight, organisation or anything that looked like a good side. We struggled against Salthill and Athlone too don't forget, only to be saved with 84 and 86 minute winners.

The super clown in goals(Barry Ryan) could make a number of mistakes to cost us the league. Also tonight our midfield was no where to be seen and Dom Foley looks like he doesn't give a ****.

Our biggest problem from what I can see is that we play well enough to put teams away and win 3-4 nil but as you said we seem to leave it late. That just wont be good enough when it comes to crunch time. If it wasnt for gaffney we,d be f****d. I can see him moving on to a bigger team at the end of the season too which will be a worry. As the saying goes the next few weeks will be squeaky bum time

Jofspring · 07-08-2012 1:37am

Brutal showing from us.

Some very weird decisions again made by the manager re: substitutions.

At least the one important game of the weekend didn't go too bad picking up a point and playing relatively well in that one. We need to seriously get our act together for the next two games though or we are in big trouble.

osarusan · 11-08-2012 12:26am

Wexford 1 - 3 Limerick

(Gaffney, Judge, Foley)

We went one down but equalised quickly and went on to win. Waterford hopes badly damaged with a 0-0 result at home to Athlone. Limerick 6 points clear at the top, but Longford play a game in hand at home to Finn Harps tonight.

osarusan · 11-08-2012 11:49pm

Finn Harps grab a 1-0 win away at Longford, so Limerick are 6 points clear at the top with 7 games to go. We have a significantly better goal difference too.

Game against Harps next week.

A_Sober_Paddy · 12-08-2012 12:08am

We won the league tonight lads...can not see us throwing away 6 points and our massive goal difference

banjobongo · 14-08-2012 4:33pm

I was passing the Market Fields this afternoon on the way back from town, and it got me wondering.....
I know that in the medium term the plan is for Limerick FC to develop the Market Fields. I was just noticing as I passed it that there would be nowhere to park your car, so unless there are lots of car packing spaces inside there (as well as room for pitches, seating area, etc), that car parking on match days will be a nightmare, its bad enough in Jackman Park on match day. Anybody know what the car parking plans are for Market Fields if/when its developed?

Soulcrew09 · 14-08-2012 5:22pm

banjobongo wrote: »

Anybody know what the car parking plans are for Market Fields if/when its developed?

Already a car park on the Mulgrave St side of the ground and what we dont realise is the size of the site, cant be that hard to extend the existing car park. At the moment in Jackman most people I know park by the Peoples Park and Pery Square and its no bother whatsoever.

phog · 14-08-2012 8:51pm

Soulcrew09 wrote: »

Already a car park on the Mulgrave St side of the ground and what we dont realise is the size of the site, cant be that hard to extend the existing car park. At the moment in Jackman most people I know park by the Peoples Park and Pery Square and its no bother whatsoever.

I seriously doubt Joe Public will ever get near the car park in the Market's field, also on street parking near Jackman Park is a lot more available than it will be on Mulgrave St, especially when evening courses start back in the college.

Best bet would be park in town and walk out.

Soulcrew09 · 14-08-2012 10:31pm

Joe Public and his family are the ones running the club so I am sure if the car park was extended there would be a nice bit of space for some of his offspring, failing that I would park it by the hospital, Johns Square. Moose Bar no problem.

banjobongo · 16-08-2012 11:25am

about the car park for the new stadium....there was an article in the Leader today about the new stadium, nice picture showing what it might look like, and the article talked about all the new facilities it will have, which is all great, but no reference anywhere to car parking and I dont see any space on the artists picture for spaces for car parking....have they thought about this issue? I presume they have!
anyway, moving back on topic its great to see Limerick FC 6 points clear, assuming we are promoted, I wonder how we will perform next year against the big clubs? Will we improve our game as we are playing better teams, or will we struggle? Will be intersting to see....

Jofspring · 16-08-2012 4:11pm

banjobongo wrote: »

about the car park for the new stadium....there was an article in the Leader today about the new stadium, nice picture showing what it might look like, and the article talked about all the new facilities it will have, which is all great, but no reference anywhere to car parking and I dont see any space on the artists picture for spaces for car parking....have they thought about this issue? I presume they have!
anyway, moving back on topic its great to see Limerick FC 6 points clear, assuming we are promoted, I wonder how we will perform next year against the big clubs? Will we improve our game as we are playing better teams, or will we struggle? Will be intersting to see....

Parking would be fantastic but I wouldn't think there will be for people attending games at least. Maybe a deal could be made with summer street car park to stay open late or something as its only 5 mins down the road.

I can't think of many grounds in a city that supply parking. Thomond park has no parking, Gaelic rounds does but never seem to open it up to the public. Aviva stadium, Croke park, Tallaght stadium and turners cross don't have parking facilities either for fans on matchdays and if they do they are very very limited. Most grounds with ample parking are purpose built grounds outside of cities e.g flancare park, rsc, athlone town stadium.

Jofspring · 17-08-2012 9:51pm

Waterford 1-2 Wexford Youths

A win tomorrow can move us 9 points clear of them going into the match in Jackman next Friday.

A tough task a head though against an inform Harps team tomorrow night up in Ballybofey.

A_Sober_Paddy · 17-08-2012 10:45pm

Jofspring wrote: »

Waterford 1-2 Wexford Youths

A win tomorrow can move us 9 points clear of them going into the match in Jackman next Friday.

A tough task a head though against an inform Harps team tomorrow night up in Ballybofey.

Is it not next Friday week 31st?

Jofspring · 17-08-2012 10:49pm

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Is it not next Friday week 31st?

Ya your right, forgot FAI Cup next week.

grenache · 19-08-2012 2:09am

1-1 draw not too bad I guess. Did anyone go? 6 point gap still intact.

Aidric · 19-08-2012 9:54am

grenache wrote: »

6 point gap still intact.

The gap is 4.

Vanolder · 19-08-2012 9:59am

4 point lead at the top.

A_Sober_Paddy · 19-08-2012 10:10am

Aidric wrote: »

The gap is 4.

Vanolder wrote: »

4 point lead at the top.

Our goal difference is still twice that of Longford so its effectively 5 points of a lead we have. Our next 2 games are Waterford & Mervue(both at home), should be getting 6 points out of those, while Longford have Athlone(Away) and Youths(Home), you'd expect 6 points from them there, but the Athlone one is a derby.

Lads don't panic just yet we are still on track to win promotion by winning the league

Our Brian · 19-08-2012 2:39pm

A draw is good result up there. they are on a good run aswell.

Soulcrew09 · 20-08-2012 10:39am

Poor performance, team was outfought by a team who have nothing to play for. Very few chances for either side.

Our Brian · 30-08-2012 5:09pm

Big one tomorrow night, should be a big crowd aswell. Hope Scully does'nt do his usual mad team selections. I'll go two one Limerick.

banjobongo · 31-08-2012 10:03pm

I was at the match tonight, I think we played the first half pretty well but the second half looked like a different team to me, I dont know what happened but it was very dissapointing, and a poor result for a home game this far in the season.

phog · 31-08-2012 10:23pm

banjobongo wrote: »

I was at the match tonight, I think we played the first half pretty well but the second half looked like a different team to me, I dont know what happened but it was very dissapointing, and a poor result for a home game this far in the season.

What was the result?

Jofspring · 31-08-2012 11:17pm

Limerick 0-1 Waterford

Brutal again against a promotion rival. No matter what happens between now and the end of the season, Scullys tenure will be remembered for losing all the big important games.

A_Sober_Paddy · 31-08-2012 11:38pm

Jofspring wrote: »

Limerick 0-1 Waterford

Brutal again against a promotion rival. No matter what happens between now and the end of the season, Scullys tenure will be remembered for losing all the big important games.

Rumour has it Scully in big trouble. The team, Scully and Pat locked in the dressing room for over an hour after the game, with Pat and the players turning on Scully...Lets just hope Scully is finished

Jofspring · 01-09-2012 9:22am

Heard they were locked in for over an hour and a half alright but I also heard Pat O Sullivan was gone home soon after the final whistle. Scully got a bit of abuse from fans when going into the dressing room at the end and it's hard to blame them. Paying money in every game to see crazy decisions year after year. The players have to take some responsibility but it seems Scully never wants to take any responsibility for bad decisions.

Our Brian · 01-09-2012 11:57am

Nothing short of disgracefull was that performance last night. Not only was Scully to blame but a lot of the players aswell, they just did'nt look to be interested for most of the game. If we go up this year and its a big if now Scully has to go or we'll go straight back down.

A_Sober_Paddy · 01-09-2012 7:45pm

After sleeping on my thoughts of that thing last night.

We were dreadful, now the players are accountable for their abject performance, but ultimately Scully is the problem there. Look at your team, we have the best players in the division, and grand football isn't played on paper...but that just makes you look at harder at Scully, under him we had looked very unorganised.

We'll still win the league(I fcuking hope), but Scully will need to go, before we can push on and become a big club in the premier.

Maire2009 · 03-09-2012 10:00pm

I'm surprised Scully is still in the job - suppose can you get rid of someone when you're top of the league? We played far better football under Ski McGee IMO

Jofspring · 03-09-2012 11:16pm

The best football I ever saw us play was the second half of the season under Mike Kerely around 2008/09. We were on fire playing attacking football and I think from the middle of the season onwards we were undefeated, only conceding a few and scoring a bag full.

osarusan · 04-09-2012 6:26am

Jofspring wrote: »

The best football I ever saw us play was the second half of the season under Mike Kerely around 2008/09. We were on fire playing attacking football and I think from the middle of the season onwards we were undefeated, only conceding a few and scoring a bag full.

Did we not lose 2-1 at home to Kildare in the game before the last game of the season when we drew with shels? Or was that a different season?

Either way, we were playing some great stuff then - beat Waterford 5-1, won away at Dundalk.

Jofspring · 04-09-2012 9:13am

osarusan wrote: »

Jofspring wrote: »

The best football I ever saw us play was the second half of the season under Mike Kerely around 2008/09. We were on fire playing attacking football and I think from the middle of the season onwards we were undefeated, only conceding a few and scoring a bag full.

Did we not lose 2-1 at home to Kildare in the game before the last game of the season when we drew with shels? Or was that a different season?

Either way, we were playing some great stuff then - beat Waterford 5-1, won away at Dundalk.

Ya your right actually. Brian Collopy let a Philly Hughes shot slip through his hands on his debut. At that time we seemed to have an annual end of season loss to Kildare County.

osarusan · 08-09-2012 1:56am

Limerick 4 - 0 Mervue

Tracy pen, O'Leary, Gaffney, Behan.

Sound like a comfortable win after a shaky first 30 mins. The sending off leading to the penalty seems like it ended Mervue's challenge.

Waterford won 1-0 so we are still 4 points clear of them, and Longford play at home to Wexford tonight. A win will see them close the gap to 3 points.

League table here: http://www.extratime.ie/leagues/2012/101/

Basically, we win 3 of our last 4 games and we're champions.

Our 4 remaining fixtures are:

Sept 21st - away to Salthill (beaten them all 3 times so far this season)

Sept 28th - home to Athlone (beaten them all 3 times so far)

Oct 6th - away to Longford (win, draw, and loss so far)

Oct 13th - home to Wexford (beaten them all 3 times so far)

Jofspring · 20-09-2012 11:10am

Back in action tomorrow night away to SD Galway in Deacy Park (Terryland Park)

Some bad news though Top Scorer Rory Gaffney has broke a metatarsal in his foot and is out for the rest of the season.

We should still be looking to win comfortably. A 3-0 win will be excellent for goal difference.

Swiper the fox · 20-09-2012 11:16am

Did I hear yesterday that they are expanding the premier division next year, this guarantees Limerick premier football but will take from their achievement slightly assuming they win the league.

Limerick Dude · 20-09-2012 11:32am

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Did I hear yesterday that they are expanding the premier division next year, this guarantees Limerick premier football but will take from their achievement slightly assuming they win the league.

It will still be 12 teams in the Premier. The only reason that they are 'expanding' it is because there are currently 11 teams in the Premier due to Monaghan leaving the league. Limerick will still have to finish first for automatic promotion or will have to play 2nd or 3rd team in the first division (if Limerick finish 2nd or 3rd) and then play a team from the Premier to achieve promotion.

Swiper the fox · 20-09-2012 11:58am

Limerick Dude wrote: »

It will still be 12 teams in the Premier. The only reason that they are 'expanding' it is because there are currently 11 teams in the Premier due to Monaghan leaving the league. Limerick will still have to finish first for automatic promotion or will have to play 2nd or 3rd team in the first division (if Limerick finish 2nd or 3rd) and then play a team from the Premier to achieve promotion.

That makes sense, just caught the end of a news report yesterday, seemed crazy to increase the size of the league considering the poor attendances etc,
Will Limerick be playing in the Markets Field next year?

Limerick Dude · 20-09-2012 1:03pm

Swiper the fox wrote: »

That makes sense, just caught the end of a news report yesterday, seemed crazy to increase the size of the league considering the poor attendances etc,
Will Limerick be playing in the Markets Field next year?

Think that is the plan, but from what I have been hearing they haven't really made any progress with regards to the the redevelopment.

magma69 · 20-09-2012 3:32pm

osarusan wrote: »

Limerick 4 - 0 Mervue

Tracy pen, O'Leary, Gaffney, Behan.

Sound like a comfortable win after a shaky first 30 mins. The sending off leading to the penalty seems like it ended Mervue's challenge.

Waterford won 1-0 so we are still 4 points clear of them, and Longford play at home to Wexford tonight. A win will see them close the gap to 3 points.

League table here: http://www.extratime.ie/leagues/2012/101/

Basically, we win 3 of our last 4 games and we're champions.

Our 4 remaining fixtures are:

Sept 21st - away to Salthill (beaten them all 3 times so far this season)

Sept 28th - home to Athlone (beaten them all 3 times so far)

Oct 6th - away to Longford (win, draw, and loss so far)

Oct 13th - home to Wexford (beaten them all 3 times so far)

They should get 6 points against Salthill and Athlone. Athlone being the tougher fixture imo. Last two games will be mental! Can't wait for it. Should be a huge turnout for the Wexford game.

Swiper the fox · 20-09-2012 4:53pm

They should have it wrapped up before then, if they needed a result it would be mental.

On a slightly off tangent issue, what kind of crowds could Limerick attract if they were flying high in the premier division?

Jofspring · 20-09-2012 4:59pm

Swiper the fox wrote: »

They should have it wrapped up before then, if they needed a result it would be mental.

On a slightly off tangent issue, what kind of crowds could Limerick attract if they were flying high in the premier division?

Very hard to know but flying high in the premier in the markets field you could be looking at about 2,000+. The jump from small crowds to big crowds can happen very fast if the going is good.

Soulcrew09 · 21-09-2012 12:32am

Getting a lot of 700/800 crowds this year, easily double that if your playing well in the prem. Visits of Rovers and Cork would be boosted by the away support. so crowds of 2k+ could be the norm, then again the visits of UCD/Bray with Scully style football could see some crowds in the hundreds again.

Hope there is only one division next year, dont care if it takes away from us getting promoted ourselves (still in the balance btw). If there is a Prem and 1st Div the FAI will go out of their way not to let us up. The ground issue sticks out already

Soulcrew09 · 21-09-2012 12:36am

Limerick Dude wrote: »

Think that is the plan, but from what I have been hearing they haven't really made any progress with regards to the the redevelopment.

The LEDP are the ones in control of the development. If anyone has JP on speed dial give him a buzz.

Insect Overlord · 21-09-2012 10:13pm

Sounds like things went our way tonight, if early reports of the results are to be believed.

washman3 · 21-09-2012 11:12pm

Won 1-0 away to SD Galway.
Had a player (Guthrie) red carded after 30 mins but Joe Gamble scored what proved to be the winner on 45mins.
Longford lost away to Waterford 3-2 and had 2 players red carded.
So Waterford move into second place on 52pts, 4 pts behind Limerick with Longford now 6 pts adrift of the leaders.
Limerick can only lose it now. (fingers crossed)

banjobongo · 24-09-2012 8:52am

so if we beat Athlone at home on Friday how will that effect our promotion chances, will it leave us just needing one more win to top the table?

Jofspring · 24-09-2012 10:45am

banjobongo wrote: »

so if we beat Athlone at home on Friday how will that effect our promotion chances, will it leave us just needing one more win to top the table?

We still need Waterford to lose next week to mathematically win the league but with the vast goal difference we could probably consider it won.

Waterford still have 9 points to play for and are only 4 points behind us so we still can be caught.

I wouldn't be getting a head of ourselves anyway.

supackofidiots · 28-09-2012 5:28pm

how much are tickets for tonights game?

Maire2009 · 28-09-2012 5:54pm

supackofidiots wrote: »

how much are tickets for tonights game?

Same as usual I'd say - €10 for terrace, €12 for stand

ShatterProof · 28-09-2012 6:11pm

FAI would have been embarrassed by the collapse of Limerick FC so they interferred with "Independent" process.

linky here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0928/1224324534441.html

Jaysus they dont neeed anybody help when it comes to embarrassing themselves.

Limerick FC 2012

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