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This weeks Eircom League

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Pighead wrote: »
    ? You're green smileying yourself there Dessy me old old pal! It was you who said Shels would lose tonight not me. You said it would be because of the pitch.
    Yep.

    The pitch cost us the goal.

    By the way, who are them two wallies on Dundalk FM or whatever it's called? Do you know them?
    Pighead wrote: »
    I said Dundalk were top of the league and therefore the best team in the division. And they still are.
    Not for long on that result.

    This will kickstart our season.

    Your lot should never have let Flood go.

    And this.
    Pighead wrote: »
    Dessy
    Please, don't call me Dessy again, thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Pighead wrote: »
    Oh and were the fcuk did they get that spanner of a ref from. Worst display ever! Fair play to Shels though, played with 10 men for most of game and still got the job done. Massive result for them tonight.
    I believe he had to be told to send Keddy off, by the bleedin' Tannoy Announcer.

    And probably got your second red wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    He couldn't have got the second wrong. It was on the advice of the linesman, so if anyone was wrong it was the linesman.

    Either way, what an amazing night. I've never had so much fun at a game. Dundalk are a good side but I really think we're in a great position to go on and win this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,227 ✭✭✭20 Times 20 Times


    First game back in the swing of things and OMG , where did the ref and linesman come from!!!!! Fair enough I would hold up my hand to heart and say we deserved to lose but that ref must of had a bet on with the bookies for some of them decisions.

    Disgraceful.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    Shels have looked strong the few times I've seen them this season. Big win tonight for anyone in the ABD promotion camp too.:cool:

    Kilkenny back when Boez won the league there on the last day were truly the worst side I've ever seen in the premier. Something like seven points all season?

    Derry might just be the right side for Rovers to play before a huge game at Harps next week.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭ibh


    [QUOTE=DesF;55881153
    By the way, who are them two wallies on Dundalk FM or whatever it's called? Do you know them?
    [/QUOTE]

    John Murphy (former Dundalk captain) and Larry O' Rourke. In fairness, i just treat it as light entertainment and there's no point taking them to seriously. It's just biased commentary, but some of the stuff they come out with is truley hilarious.. Like whenever it looks like Trevor Vaughan is going to come on you'll just hear John groan and say "ah not this fella. we all not what i think of him./ I dunno what he is, but its not a footballer anyway...!)

    Referee may have been poor but didn't deserve to get anything out of the game. Good to see an away team bring some fans with them as well.

    Wouldn't be getting to carried away yet about who's going to win the league. It was a poor result at home but as we found out last year, it's a long season.
    One defeat isn't going to break this team, and i still think we have a good enough team to win this league.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    ibh wrote: »
    Good to see an away team bring some fans with them as well.

    :eek::eek:

    Praise for a Shels crowd.

    lol

    I don't believe it.
    :D
    ibh wrote: »
    Wouldn't be getting to carried away yet about who's going to win the league. It was a poor result at home but as we found out last year, it's a long season.
    A poor result at home against title challengers.

    Not as bad as a poor result against a lower placed team, but that's four points we've had off you this season already.

    Is this the start of the Dundalk implosion?

    I think so.
    ibh wrote: »
    One defeat isn't going to break this team, and i still think we have a good enough team to win this league.
    Of course you do, the question is with the manager imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭ibh


    DesF wrote: »
    :eek::eek:

    Praise for a Shels crowd.

    lol

    I don't believe it.
    :D

    I like a good atmosphere at matches. And away fans contribute to this atmosphere.

    For example the biggest contribution by away supporters at Oriel before last night was when Crawley cleared to touch (again!!) and knocked a cup of tea out of one of the (5) Monaghan fans hand...!


    A poor result at home against title challengers.

    Not as bad as a poor result against a lower placed team, but that's four points we've had off you this season already.

    Yea i think we have to step it up and not lose at home anymore. But on the plus side, we have put away the lower placed teams both home and away this season. I never expected us to go unbeaten so hopefully it'll just serve as a kick up the ar$e for the players.

    Is this the start of the Dundalk implosion?

    I think so.

    I don't think so. But i may be wrong. I think we'll survive it.

    Of course you do, the question is with the manager imo.

    My biggest concern for the team is the same as I've had all season. Apart from Mulvenna up front i don't think the strikers will score enough goals. Thus far our midfield has weighed in with goals (Cassidy & Duffy) and the odd defender. Again, we'll have to wait and see. I can't see us signing a striker in the transfer window though.. Anto Flood maybe?? He looks like he could step up to the next level.:D


    Made a bit of a fcuk up with the quoting in this post.. Not too hot on this whole interweb thing..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    ibh wrote: »
    Anto Flood maybe?? He looks like he could step up to the next level.:D
    Hopefully people look at his time with SPA and decide not to take a punt on him, although he is quoted as saying last night, after the match,
    I'm staying at this club [Shels] and I'm staying here next year. I'm enjoying me football here, so there's no reason to move.

    Which makes me happy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    Reckon we'll be top of the league by next Friday. Can see Dundalk slipping up away to Monaghan especially without Cassidy.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,776 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    Anto Flood was useful in the first division for Rovers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    SantryRed wrote: »
    Reckon we'll be top of the league by next Friday. Can see Dundalk slipping up away to Monaghan especially without Cassidy.
    Are you having a laugh? Monaghan is the perfect game to get back on track. Dundalk love playing Monaghan. We've played them about 15 times in the past few years and won almost all of them. And lets not forget that they've lost their last 2 league games 4-0 and 5-0. As I said perfect game to get back on track.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    Pighead wrote: »
    Are you having a laugh? Monaghan is the perfect game to get back on track. Dundalk love playing Monaghan. We've played them about 15 times in the past few years and won almost all of them. And lets not forget that they've lost their last 2 league games 4-0 and 5-0. As I said perfect game to get back on track.

    They'll turn it around next Friday.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    SantryRed wrote: »
    They'll turn it around next Friday.;)
    And how shall they do that?! Have they acquired some magic dust? Did the manager make a wish to the dream fairy who promised him a victory against all the odds? You're a clever lad Santry Red. c'mon buddy face it. There will be no turning around for teh Monaghan muckers next weekend. 4 days later is when they will turn their season around.;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Pighead wrote: »
    a victory against all the odds
    Like Shels got last night.

    Tannoy announcer or no tannoy announcer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    DesF wrote: »
    Like Shels got last night.

    Tannoy announcer or no tannoy announcer.
    Ah c'mon DesF, give your team a bit more credit than that. Your lot are streets ahead of Monaghan. Last nights result was slightly surprising but a Monaghan win against Dundalk would shake the nation to its very core.

    By the way do you still hate Oriel Park? Surely you'd rather play on a surface like last night than on a bumpy lumpy pig of a field in Gortakeegan?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Pighead wrote: »
    By the way do you still hate Oriel Park?
    Yes
    Pighead wrote: »
    Surely you'd rather play on a surface like last night than on a bumpy lumpy pig of a field in Gortakeegan?
    At least it has grass.;

    You saw yourself, the pitch affected our defence last night, Daisy Brennan was caught for your goal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    DesF wrote: »
    Yes


    At least it has grass.;

    You saw yourself, the pitch affected our defence last night, Daisy Brennan was caught for your goal.
    Yep, that it did. But it was just as likely if not more likely to happen on a grass pitch with divots bumps and lumps galore. Come on Des face it, your lot and our lot like to play football and there was some nice football played last night. Some of which would have been impossible in certain other pitches in our league.

    Oriel Park is helping the league create sexy football and you and I both know it. So in summation: Oriel Park=Sexy. Dundalk=Sexy. Pighead=Sexy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Pighead wrote: »
    Yep, that it did. But it was just as likely if not more likely to happen on a grass pitch with divots bumps and lumps galore. Come on Des face it, your lot and our lot like to play football and there was some nice football played last night. Some of which would have been impossible in certain other pitches in our league.
    A player is more likely to be able to judge the way a ball will bounce on a grass pitch, than on a surface he plays on twice a season.

    It gives Dundalk an advantage. An unfair one.
    Pighead wrote: »
    Oriel Park is helping the league create sexy football and you and I both know it.
    eL First Division will never be sexy.

    Pighead wrote: »
    So in summation: Oriel Park=Sexy.
    No
    Pighead wrote: »
    Dundalk=Sexy.
    No
    Pighead wrote: »
    Pighead=Sexy.
    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    DesF wrote: »
    Yes.
    Was gonna argue the toss with you re the pitches, but not gonna bother now. You think I'm sexy, nothing else really matters anymore.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Jonny Arson


    so gutted i couldn't make the match at Oriel last night :( but what a f**King result! :D :cool:

    the last number of games things are really beginning to click, confidence is high,the attitude and effort has improved dramatically but there are still a few areas of the team that are vulnerable. however, if Anto '24 goals in 27 games' Flood keeps things up we won't need to rely on any goals from the rest of the team!

    title is wide open now but...

    Dundalk will have their annual implosion unless they dump Gill
    Waterford are heading for financial meltdown and (hopefully not) could go bust if the rumours are true and
    Sporting Franchise throwing buckets of cash around the place during the window will only attract the wrong type of chequebook players

    i'm becoming increasingly confident its going to be our year and i'm a right pessimistic f**ker! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    In all fairness, Oriel Park is some kip though.

    Limerick is the only other ground in the league I hate going to more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    SantryRed wrote: »
    In all fairness, Oriel Park is some kip though.

    Limerick is the only other ground in the league I hate going to more.
    Hmmmm so you went to the biggest stadium in the 1st division to a match which had the best atmosphere you've experienced this season and seen your team play football on the best surface you've seen this season yet you still think its a kip.

    You are definitely having a laugh at this stage laughing boy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    Pighead wrote: »
    Hmmmm so you went to the biggest stadium in the 1st division to a match which had the best atmosphere you've experienced this season and seen your team play football on the best surface you've seen this season yet you still think its a kip.

    You are definitely having a laugh at this stage laughing boy.

    Biggest stadium in the first division?:confused:

    I just don't like the place. Sorry, but I just don't:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    SantryRed wrote: »
    Biggest stadium in the first division?:confused:
    Where's bigger than "Oriel Park The Stadium of Lilywhite Dreams and Sexy Football"? I'll tell you where: NOWHERE.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭Töpher


    Pighead wrote: »
    Where's bigger than "Oriel Park The Stadium of Lilywhite Dreams and Sexy Football"? I'll tell you where: NOWHERE.
    Still rather be there than Oriel!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,881 ✭✭✭bohsman


    Some great results tonight from Bohs point of view, Drogs lost, Pats drew, Derry drew, chance to go 4 points behind Pats and 4 points clear of Derry if we beat Cobh tomorrow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Beep...beep...beep....beep.... the sound of the UCD bus reversing in front of their goal :(

    Played flat back 10 no intention of doing anything other than putting men in the way, it worked and the worst thing ever dawned on as i was leaving they will they up this season by one point :(



    kdjac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Great result for Bray.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    Beep...beep...beep....beep.... the sound of the UCD bus reversing in front of their goal :(

    Played flat back 10 no intention of doing anything other than putting men in the way, it worked and the worst thing ever dawned on as i was leaving they will they up this season by one point :(

    Beaten at your own game? Boo Hoo.

    Rovers actually quite unlucky to be held by Derry, to my pleasent surprise. Great buzz with the news on the stadium that seemed to reflect onto the pitch. Maguire as a stop gap center midfielder and did a serious job!

    But, guess what, Kelly, yet again, was the main talking point. As soon as I saw who was referee, I knew. What seemed to be a soft penalty for Rovers in the first half cancelled out by, and I am not overdoing it here, the most blatant peno claim ever in the second not given plus the usual irratic decisions. Both sets of fans abusing him which is usually a good barometer.

    Decent game almost destroyed by poser in black.


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