Midweek Sessions

Savman

Ok I'll start the ball rolling with what suits me and what doesn't.

Monday: no
Tuesday: yes
Wednesday: yes
Thursday: yes
Friday: some
Saturday: no
Sunday: yes

LoBo

Monday: no
Tuesday: not really, but would cancel other game for training
Wed: sure
Thurs: sure
Fri: egads no
Sat: sure
Sun: sure

I'll see if I can get through to a couple southside places i've played at before to check availability during the week

FrankGrimes

Nice one for that Colm.

With the nature of my work I can never guarantee what time I'll get out of work at, but I'll be making every effort to get to any midweek sessions we can arrange that suits a good few players. So for me any midweek time is as good as any, and Saturday afternoon I can also do.

Hope everyone can make a big effort to try and make these sessions, and the first one for sure.

First thing we'll go through in the first tactics session is marking at goal-kicks, which has been poor. Things like that can result in a tangible benefit from even focusing on them for 10 minutes.

BlackWizard

Depends on location and time but hopefully:

Monday: sure
Tuesday: sure
Wed: sure
Thurs: sure
Fri: sure
Sat: sure
Sun: sure

Q_Ball

Monday: nope
Tuesday: I can put off squash for a training session
Wednesday: not for the next 10 weeks
Thursday: I usually do circuit training thursdays so i'd prefer to keep this up but if thursday suits everyone it will suit me too.
Friday: yup
Saturday: yup

murtagh

Cant train with you during the week lads, as i work (and live) in Athlone Mon-Fri.
I would be available on most sat afternoons.

Gileadi

My hours can vary wildly each week so cant give definites, will make every effort to make ant session though

FrankGrimes

Any luck Colm?

Anyone have any numbers for places that would be worth calling to check availability? If a few of us each ring a few places it'll be easy enough to get a good few places checked out.

kaizersoze123

Can play any evening except Tuesdays.

BlackWizard

FrankGrimes wrote:

Anyone have any numbers for places that would be worth calling to check availability?

On the north-side there is a complex called ALSAA that has an 8 or 9-aside pitch.
I rang them just there and its available anytime Wednesday,Thursday and Friday
evening. Saturday after 12 and all day Sunday.

Price could be near 40 euro. I can ring back later to find this out.

They also have indoor football but its hard to book. I find it hard to book even
for a bunch of members. Indoor football is 6-aside

Also on the northside is the DCU 5-aside pitches. They are really good and
cheap but are only 5-aside - E20

L5

BlackWizard wrote:

On the north-side there is a complex called ALSAA that has an 8 or 9-aside pitch.
I rang them just there and its available anytime Wednesday,Thursday and Friday
evening. Saturday after 12 and all day Sunday.

Price could be near 40 euro. I can ring back later to find this out.

They also have indoor football but its hard to book. I find it hard to book even
for a bunch of members. Indoor football is 6-aside

Also on the northside is the DCU 5-aside pitches. They are really good and
cheap but are only 5-aside - E20

I wouldn't rule out 5 a side. We'll be doing well to get 10 people for a mid week session anyway seeing as we get 12-13 for most matches.

Mikie

Hi there Lads:

I'm free:

Wednesday nights.
Friday nights - not too late.
Saturday.

Cheers,

Mikie.

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kaizersoze123 wrote:

Can play any evening except Tuesdays.

L5 wrote:

I wouldn't rule out 5 a side. We'll be doing well to get 10 people for a mid week session anyway seeing as we get 12-13 for most matches.

*boggle*

:eek:

erm...welcome back....Shay....:cool:

kaizersoze123

seansouth wrote:

*boggle*

:eek:

erm...welcome back....Shay....:cool:

Sorry that was confusing
I'll be using this username from now on

Savman

Yeah has to be 5-a-side, if there's more than 10 than we might get 3 small teams and do a "winner stays on" with each game timed at 5 mins.

MrJones

i can't do tuesday nights.
i can do wednesdays only after 8.30.
would be available the other week night.
i reckon even a 5- aside indoor would be great. Especially for first touch, passing and movement.

kaizersoze123

Wednesday seems to be the one night so far that suits most people.
5-a side pitches seem to be the best option.

We have : DCU , can be booked for 20 euro. Question...do they let non students play there?, I remember they used to charge non DCU students a lot more for their indoor pitches.

Any other 5 a side pitches, either indoor or astro that anyone knows of?

Savman

There's astro pitches in Finglas at the new Swimming Pool click
We have a lot of options, there's a fair few astro's around now.

kaizersoze123

Phoned the place in Finglas there, they're all block booked every evening.
Is DCU too far for people? Its 2 minutes off the M50 Ballymun exit.

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DCU is fine for me, any night.

LoBo

There's 5-a-side outdoor (but caged) pitches in irishtown at the ESB Sportsco. I'll add them to my list of people to ring about availability, haven't had a chance so far this week

Savman

Have to remember some folks who'll be bussing it out, DCU is easier to reach in that sense.
I'll go anywhere really.

Q_Ball

finglas sports and leisure centre have 5-a-sde caged pitches too. They were always empty an 10 on a saturday morning and only cost €20.

BlackWizard

The bus from town to ALSAA takes over a half an hour from town ,thats why I
thought that would be handy. Its about 5mins from DCU.

There are the Liffey Valley pitches. But I dont know about their price or avilability.

I can find out tomorrow though.

kaizersoze123

BlackWizard wrote:

The bus from town to ALSAA takes over a half an hour from town ,thats why I
thought that would be handy. Its about 5mins from DCU.

There are the Liffey Valley pitches. But I dont know about their price or avilability.

I can find out tomorrow though.

Could you check with DCU darragh, seeing as your the only DCU student (with enda being away of course)

FrankGrimes

lads, I've been seriously busy all week in work, even working today and tomorrow, so didn't get a chance to look into this. Looks like a few have and as we reckoned, it'll be hard to get a pitch to suit us. But that 9-a-side pitch sounds ideal, maybe if we could get that and fill any empty spaces with mates it'd do the job.

For this week we'll just have to try get everyone there as early as possible tomorrow, defo a full 30 minutes before the kick-off, and go through our setup at set pieces.

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Okay lads, i think it was generally agreed this evening that Wednesday will be good for most people. As late as possible, I'm thinking about 9 o'clock?

DCU or ALSAA would be fine for me, it shouldn't be too hard to get to either place at that time of an evening.

Darragh, will you look into either venue?

ALSAA sounds like the perfect location, especially if it can be got for nowt, but DCU would certainly be handier.

bugs90

I'm available wednesdays, either place is fine!

BlackWizard

Ill post back tomorrow with all the details I can get.

But I have an IOU with ALSAA so I can get this session for free. Even if we end
up with a preference for DCU at least this is free and it gets the ball rolling on
midweek sessions.

9 sounds good to me.

kaizersoze123

Yeah 9 is good. Either place for me too. Once we get something booked we can confirm numbers so we know if we need to bring mates etc...

Q_Ball

i might actually be able to make it for 9. I have a class finishing at 8 in town but i dont fancy bringing my guitar I'll see if i can organise something

BlackWizard

Looks like we will have to use DCU for this one lads. The flood lights apparently
have been neglected up in ALSAA. Without them its too messy and dangerous
The as***e I was talking to during the week never told me this.

Is Enda able to book the DCU pitches? The DCU pitches are 30 euro for an hour.
They are 5 or 6-a-side I think. If anyone doesn't have a student card its 50 :eek:

So I'm wondering If Enda has booked this before. I can't imagine them walking
out to check we have student cards during or after the game...

kaizersoze123

Enda is in japan for 3 weeks i think. If you can book it then pay the 30 , tell them we all have student cards. if they come out and check ,we can pay the extra, or else make a run for it

BlackWizard

Both of them know my voice on the phone So they will know what Im up to
and will surely check for student IDs.

If someone could ring up and book it by credit card with my student ID number
and play stupid and say we are all students that would be much better. With
all 9 pitches booked they wont check student cards unless they are suspicious.
Also I don't have a credit card.

I wont be in DCU till maybe Thursday so I cant book it in person.

kaizersoze123

BlackWizard wrote:

Both of them know my voice on the phone So they will know what Im up to
and will surely check for student IDs.

If someone could ring up and book it by credit card with my student ID number
and play stupid and say we are all students that would be much better. With
all 9 pitches booked they wont check student cards unless they are suspicious.
Also I don't have a credit card.

I wont be in DCU till maybe Thursday so I cant book it in person.

Hmmmm, maybe we should pay the 5 euro each instead of 3 euro. Too much hassle trying to get around it. I'm sure no-one will object to paying a fiver? :eek:

BlackWizard

Sure let the gaffer make the call on this one

I doubt the pitches will be all booked by tonight and hopefully Des will get in
touch then. Plus I can borrow a credit card tonight and book it tomorrow morning.

Either way, we are training at 9:00pm in DCU this Wednesday.

Do we have enough Boardeaux players or do we have to find friends?

Edit:

Grabbed these few from this thread that said they can make it Wednesday. Not a bad list if we can get this many.
Im dicey on the names so let us know if I got them wrong.

Savman - Shane? Sav
LoBo - Colm?
FrankGrimes - Jules
BlackWizard - Darragh
Gileadi - Simon
Mikie - Mikie?
Kaizersoze123 - Shea?
MrJones - Mark/Mart
Seansouth - Des (Coach)
Bugs90 - Bernard?
Q_ball - Darren?

Draupnir

I wont make this wednesday boys, I've got a work thing I cant get out of. Next week for sure.

kaizersoze123

BlackWizard wrote:

Sure let the gaffer make the call on this one

I doubt the pitches will be all booked by tonight and hopefully Des will get in
touch then. Plus I can borrow a credit card tonight and book it tomorrow morning.

Either way, we are training at 9:00pm in DCU this Wednesday.

Do we have enough Boardeaux players or do we have to find friends?

Edit:

Grabbed these few from this thread that said they can make it Wednesday. Not a bad list if we can get this many.
Im dicey on the names so let us know if I got them wrong.

Savman - Shane? Sav
LoBo - Colm?
FrankGrimes - Jules
BlackWizard - Darragh
Gileadi - Simon
Mikie - Mikie
Kaizersoze123 - Shea?
MrJones - Mark/Mart
Seansouth - Des (Coach)
Bugs90 - Bernard?
Q_ball - Darren?

MrJones is brian, Bugs90 is Joe i think. I can make it anyway, be good if the rest on the list can confirm

emc2

I am not 100% sure if I can make it this week with work but I'll et you know as soon as I know.

LoBo

I certainly can make it this wed. I'll check if peter will come out of retirement too

Gileadi

I'll be there, Lepo seemed up for it also

Serbian

I'll be there!

Savman

So its 9pm in DCU?
Ok here.

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Serbian wrote:

I'll be there!

:eek:

Anyway.

I think we should pay the fiver each.

Now, can everyone please make sure to bring a fiver. Not a fifty, not a twenty, a fiver.

Darragh, are you booking this? Or if you want me to, PM the number and I'll book it Tuesday morning.

Cheers.

FrankGrimes

Fair play for organising this lads.

I've a major deadline on Thursday in work but I'd say 80% I should make 9pm.

BlackWizard

It been booked.

Tomorrow at 9:00 , pitch 3

Dunno if we have access to the changing rooms so I'd come kitted out just in
case.

kaizersoze123

BlackWizard wrote:

It been booked.

Tomorrow at 9:00 , pitch 3

Dunno if we have access to the changing rooms so I'd come kitted out just in
case.

Nice one, good work Darragh. So how many are turning up? Hope we don't end up with more than 5 a side

Savman

Let's make it 8.45pm (time is money and all that)

Can I just ask is this in the main DCU campus itself or in St. Clare's on the Ballymun Road (where we played a few games)??

kaizersoze123

It's the campus.There is an entrance on the Ballymun road, that road runs around past the student accomodation area towards the pitches. I dont know if there is parking there though. There is also an entrance from Collins Avenue, you can park in the multi-storey there and make your way over to the pitches from there.
Here's a map with where the pitches are (i havent played on them yet but have been told this is where they are,can you confirm Darragh?)

http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=campusxe9.gif

bugs90

This seems like the turnout for tomorrow:

Serbian - Peter
Savman - Sav
LoBo - Colm
FrankGrimes - Jules
BlackWizard - Darragh
Gileadi - Simon
Mikie - Mikie
Kaizersoze123 - Shay/Shea
MrJones - Brian
Bugs90 - Joe
Q_ball - Darren?
Lepo
Des

Not a bad turnout for the first one with not much notice.
If anyone cant make it then post so we can make up the numbers.

Joe

Savman

kaizersoze123 wrote:

It's the campus.There is an entrance on the Ballymun road, that road runs around past the student accomodation area towards the pitches. I dont know if there is parking there though. There is also an entrance from Collins Avenue, you can park in the multi-storey there and make your way over to the pitches from there.
Here's a map with where the pitches are (i havent played on them yet but have been told this is where they are,can you confirm Darragh?)

http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=campusxe9.gif

Good man, think I know it