**Match Thread** Tues, 4th Nov @21:00 in Newpark - Oak Tree Press V Boardeaux.

homerjay2005

ok lads, after a week off, its back to business. this is a must win game, we need to go on a run now of 4 or 5 wins. these lads seem to be very adventurous, they drew 4-4 with glenwood and 3-3 the last night, so they are not bad team and , going on the basis that we lost glenwood, they will fancy beating us. so we need to up the pace and get stuck in. dont think we have been doing that.

GK -

Daryl -
Clayton -

Defenders -

Martin -
Ed - YES
Dan -
Michael -
Simon -
Keith -
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly -

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry -
Derek -
Peter -
Gav -
Mark -
Robbie -
Peader -
Dave -

Forwards -

Art -
Eddie -
Ciaran -
Karl -

helimachoptor

GK -

Daryl -
Clayton -

Defenders -

Martin -
Ed - YES
Dan -
Michael -
Simon -
Keith - Yes
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly -

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry -
Derek -
Peter -
Gav -
Mark -
Robbie -
Peader -
Dave -

Forwards -

Art -
Eddie -
Ciaran -
Karl -

sockdolage

GK -

Daryl -
Clayton -

Defenders -

Martin -
Ed - YES
Dan -
Michael -
Simon -
Keith - Yes
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly -

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry -
Derek -
Peter -
Gav -
Mark - YES
Robbie -
Peader - YES
Dave -

Forwards -

Art -
Eddie -
Ciaran -
Karl -

LeixlipRed

GK -

Daryl -
Clayton -

Defenders -

Martin - YES
Ed - YES
Dan -
Michael -
Simon -
Keith - Yes
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly -

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry -
Derek -
Peter -
Gav -
Mark - YES
Robbie -
Peader - YES
Dave -

Forwards -

Art -
Eddie -
Ciaran -
Karl -

emc2

GK -

Daryl -
Clayton -

Defenders -

Martin - YES
Ed - YES
Dan -
Michael - YES
Simon -
Keith - Yes
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly -

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry -
Derek -
Peter -
Gav -
Mark - YES
Robbie -
Peader - YES
Dave -

Forwards -

Art -
Eddie -
Ciaran -
Karl -

homerjay2005

Ciaran is in, art, dan and mick should be sound also. i will see what derek is at, he maybe still away with work.
looking to have a strong team already. we really need to 3 points here.

Nunu

emc2 wrote: »

GK -

Daryl -
Clayton -

Defenders -

Martin - YES
Ed - YES
Dan -
Michael - YES
Simon -
Keith - Yes
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly -

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry -
Derek -
Peter -
Gav -
Mark - YES
Robbie -
Peader - YES
Dave -

Forwards -

Art -
Eddie - YES
Ciaran - YES
Karl -

Ed I'm looking for a lift. If there's one going will I meet you at the house because usual spot is not on the way to Blackrock?

dfx-

I'll be there on the sidelines as ever. How do you get there though?

homerjay2005

ive never been there myself daryll...so, dont know. can anybody offer a lift - peter????


eddie, ya, pop down to the house. will suss out tomorrow, but assume we will leave house about 8.10 at the latest.

Baggly

Wont make it to this one. Ed, you do know ive withdrawn from the team and will only make it to the matches to watch, and on an irregular basis at that....

LeixlipRed

dfx- wrote: »

I'll be there on the sidelines as ever. How do you get there though?

It's near Seapoint Dart Station. As in it looks near it on the map. The actual pitch is on Newtownpark Avenue. I'll be coming from the train station anyway

helimachoptor

Directions......... coming from the N11, turn onto Newtownpark Avenue (the opposite road brings you into sandyford up the Leopardstown Rd)

continue down Newtown park avenue, go passed TGI Fridays, Go past the Petrol Station, the road bends to the right and the entrance is on the right at the centre of the bend. If you get to the church/spar you've missed it.

Coming from the dart station will be a bit of a walk,

Those coming from town could get the number 7 bus would leave you about a 10 min walk away.

I can pick someone up from tallaght/knocklyon/templeogue area if you need a lift.

WeAreShels

I will also be there. May be there a few mins after half 8 though cos I've a college presentation that might not end until 8.

dfx-

Looks like the 4a goes to Stradbrook Road, so that seems the nearest walk to it.

homerjay2005

is des going to update on the no posters?

GK -

Daryl - YES
Clayton -

Defenders -

Martin - YES
Ed - YES
Dan - YES
Michael - YES
Simon -
Keith - YES
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly - YES

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry - YES
Derek - NO (AWAY)
Gav -
Mark - YES
Peader - YES
Dave - YES
Gar -

Forwards -

Art - YES
Eddie - YES
Ciaran - YES
Karl -

EDIT - Mark and peader are looking for drive from knocklyon or else they cant make it.................

helimachoptor

homerjay2005 wrote: »

EDIT - Mark and peader are looking for drive from knocklyon or else they cant make it.................

I can take 1, who's the most valuable to the team :eek:

homerjay2005

helimachoptor wrote: »

I can take 1, who's the most valuable to the team :eek:

lol

just in case, (im trying to get ciaran to pick them up, but if not), can you text me your number now please? ill pass on to mark then.....i didnt save your number

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GK -

Daryl - YES
Clayton - YES

Defenders -

Martin - YES
Ed - YES
Dan - YES
Michael - YES
Simon -
Keith - YES
Cathal -
Mick McEvilly - YES

Midfielders -

Lepo -
Larry - YES
Derek - NO (AWAY)
Gav - No (away)
Mark - YES
Peader - YES
Dave - YES
Gar - Yes

Forwards -

Art - YES
Eddie - YES
Ciaran - YES
Karl - Yes

homerjay2005

decent team tonight.....

thelepo

Sorry, haven't been online. I'll be there.

homerjay2005

1-0 win, job done, not our best performance, but who cares, 3 points is 3 points. owned the first half, they didnt get the ball near our goal, but we missed alot of chances. got early goal second half and it looked like it was the worst thing that we could have done, as we slipped for 15 minutes and they dominated. clayton pulled off a save and mick off the line but after that, we got back into it a we should have hit them for at least 3 goals.

positives are another clean sheet and thats only 3 goals conceded in first 4 games. we finally seem to be able to defend and this is a solid base that we have lacked. also, we created plenty of chances.

negatives are , we seemed to loose control of the middle, albeit for only 10-15 mins. also, we have only scored once in 3 games. however, we are creating loads of them and soon, im sure we are going to absolutely batter a team. we just need to get confidence in front of goal.

anyway, job done, no need to dwell on what we didnt do right.

goal scored by Ciaran, great team move and a great finish.

LeixlipRed

Fairly rubbish performance in second half. Win is win and all that. About all I say on that one tbh.

helimachoptor

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Fairly rubbish performance in second half. Win is win and all that. About all I say on that one tbh.

Yeah once we got the goal I think a good spanking for the other team was what we thought was going to happen, luckily for us they didn't have any clear chances just a couple of goal mouth scrambles. They pushed forward once we got the goal but so did our midfield so it left us exposed but they were like toothless tigers.



3 points in the bag and a not very good performance, bar a battling Larry I thought.

Much tougher tests to come.

emc2

It was an ok performance last night, We were a little frantic on the ball at times lastnight. There were stages when we needed to take a minute on the ball, get our heads up and look for a free man in space but we seemed to be too keen to just get rid of the ball.

Good to keep a clean sheet and create lots of chances.

homerjay2005

i think we need just one player in the middle to make a massive difference there. last night we had 5 different players in there, 3 of those playing out of position. i though however ciaran was v good in there in the first half and him and mark worked well together. however, we need him closer to goal and it was a good move by des and mike to put him up there.

we died there in the 2nd half and they over ran us, not the fault of anybody. however, they bunched like f*cks, they had 3 or 4 excellent players, but it was hard to pick them out, as they had no width, they just played everything through the middle and very narrow. at times, it was 4 on 4 when they attacked and keith and mick basically had to play as center halves in the 2nd half.

Derek is back next week and then away the following 2 weeks. however, of the remaining 14 games, he should make up to 10 of those. that should help us solidly in the middle and release players back to their best positions,

LeixlipRed

I reckon Dan could do a job in the middle for us tbh.How fit is Derek? We need someone fit and tenacious a la Dan in there to compliment Mark's ability on the ball.

homerjay2005

that would be robbing peter to pay paul martin. our defence is solid and myself and dan work well together. we tend not to condede goals when the 2 of us are in there, but we struggle when either is missing. add in yourself, keith, mike (2), lepo, catal, simon and we have great options in defence now.

moving anybody out of defence now, is not an option in my opinion .

LeixlipRed

Simon has quit.

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LeixlipRed wrote: »

Simon has quit.

Hasn't told me that.

helimachoptor

homerjay2005 wrote: »

that would be robbing peter to pay paul martin. our defence is solid and myself and dan work well together. we tend not to condede goals when the 2 of us are in there, but we struggle when either is missing. add in yourself, keith, mike (2), lepo, catal, simon and we have great options in defence now.

moving anybody out of defence now, is not an option in my opinion .

I would agree with Ed on this, I think when the 2 of them are playing and Mark in the CM we have a good spine to work from, There are other options there for CB but I think this is the best option. But in saying that and I'm sure Des would agree if Ed/Dan were not performing they'd be bench warming while one of the other options was given a chance. Same for RB & LB and every other position.

We will have a tough game next week and it should give us a serious test and if we are to win we'll need to step up a level at every position on the pitch from this weeks game.

On a side note, what is the new Wesley pitch like? Is it the same surface as the original one?

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Be nice if team picking wasn't discussed here, thanks