(LOI): League Of Ireland fixtures (WEEK 4): 23-25 March 2012

stovelid

Premier Division



All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Friday 23 Mar 2012

Shamrock Rovers vs Shelbourne - Tallaght Stadium (8PM)

Bray Wanderers vs Drogheda United - Carlisle Grounds

Derry City vs Cork City - Brandywell Stadium

Dundalk vs UCD - Oriel Park

Monaghan United vs Sligo Rovers - Kingspan Century Park (8PM)

Sunday 25 Mar 2012

Bohemian FC vs St. Patrick´s Athletic - Dalymount Park (4PM) (LIVE RTE 2)

First Division



All games are 7.45 PM KO unless otherwise stated.

Friday 23 Mar 2012

Limerick vs SD Galway - Jackman Park

Mervue United vs Athlone Town - Terryland Park

Saturday 24 Mar 2012

Finn Harps vs Wexford Youths - Finn Park

Longford Town vs Waterford United - Flancare Park (7.30PM)


General info

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/irish-soccer/

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/

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Try out a game near you. See club sites for ticket info:

Shamrock Rovers FC
Shelbourne FC
ST Patrick's Athletic
Sligo Rovers
Bray Wanderers
Cork City
Monaghan United
Derry City
Drogheda United
Dundalk FC
UCD AFC
Bohemians

Wexford Youths
Limerick
Longford Town
Athlone Town
Finn Harps
SD Galway
Mervue United
Waterford United

CSF

Reckon our great start probably ends here.

The_Kew_Tour

Can't make it to Brandywell on Friday, so might head along to Tallaght instead.

Thats if they don't mind neutral going along;)

stovelid

If we play like we did last night, we'll get properly turned over.

upandcumming

Real challenge for us against Waterford. Can't look too much into that loss against Wexford. Hopefully our good form will continue. Getting excited about it already.

That_Guy

If Bohs don't buck up their ideas (particularly at the back) they're gonna get slaughtered on Sunday.

dfx-

The thoughts of Philly Hughes (or to a lesser extent Kavanagh) getting a winner fills me with dread. That sort of thing is very hard to clean from your mind..

Not confident going into this one, Shels may not be challenging for the title over the long run, but they have momentum and belief from recent results.

Whereas Rovers still have to settle into an attacking rhythm and Jansson I don't think has played in front of the same back four for more than a single game in succession yet, including pre-season.

dreamers75

Stupid fcuking sunday matches

Wont even see it on tv

Fagan will make his league debut and Forrester is on fire at the moment. Hopefully our swapsies dont have decent games.

doncarlos

It's a sad state of affairs when you're worrying about a home match against UCD...

AgileMyth

I'd be confident we can take three points in Monaghan but it won't be easy. Quigley's joke of a suspension could affect our whole season badly.

SantryRed

AgileMyth wrote: »

I'd be confident we can take three points in Monaghan but it won't be easy. Quigley's joke of a suspension could affect our whole season badly.

What was he suspended for?

AgileMyth

SantryRed wrote: »

What was he suspended for?

6 games for the incident in the game against ye. Apparently he put his hand on the ref's shoulder.

6 games is more than you get for racial abuse in this league.

GLaDOS

Big improvement on yesterdays performance needed if we're to get anything from Sunday.

SantryRed

AgileMyth wrote: »

6 games for the incident in the game against ye. Apparently he put his hand on the ref's shoulder.

6 games is more than you get for racial abuse in this league.

Was an official press release never made about it? It's very strange.

TangyZizzle

Any decent reds local to the Southside that are free before KO on Friday. I'd appreciate it greatly if you could come and hold up my store so's I can get out to Tallaght for this one. Cheers.

stovelid

AgileMyth wrote: »

6 games for the incident in the game against ye. Apparently he put his hand on the ref's shoulder.

Not like Quigley to do something like that.

Hopefully he can use the time off to catch up on his flower-pressing and yoga.

holidaysong

Please let us score a goal!

Dub XV

stovelid wrote: »

Premier Division

Where did you stroke the league table from?

dan1895

stovelid wrote: »

AgileMyth wrote: »

6 games for the incident in the game against ye. Apparently he put his hand on the ref's shoulder.

Not like Quigley to do something like that.

Hopefully he can use the time off to catch up on his flower-pressing and yoga.

I'd be happy if he just got a haircut

Gavin "shels"

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Any decent reds local to the Southside that are free before KO on Friday. I'd appreciate it greatly if you could come and hold up my store so's I can get out to Tallaght for this one. Cheers.

About 1.30 suit? Finish college then and don't want to eat into too much of my drinking time!


As for Friday, can't wait, got my ticket last Friday, if Caso, Dawson and Paiso are 100% fit we could get something from the game.

Mushy

Roll on another week. The pits of mediocrity for the league at the Carlisle this time around, too early in the season to say how it'll go. A win be great, a draw wouldn't be a disaster. I think Bray may nick it though.

applehunter

Don't expect to get much change out of Derry, but there are positives for us to take from last Friday and Derry were pedestrian enough against Linfield for me to have some hope.

Shane O'Connor will be lucky to keep his place. Can't afford passengers up there.

AgileMyth

stovelid wrote: »

Not like Quigley to do something like that.

Hopefully he can use the time off to catch up on his flower-pressing and yoga.

Maybe he could use the time to bet against his own team, because apparantly that carries a less severe ban than whatever he did.

You can bet your arse he wouldn't have gotten a ban like that if he was wearing hoops...

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applehunter wrote: »

Don't expect to get much change out of Derry, but there are positives for us to take from last Friday and Derry were pedestrian enough against Linfield for me to have some hope.

Shane O'Connor will be lucky to keep his place. Can't afford passengers up there.

Derry are beatable, as we showed last week. I didn't think they were anything great at all, and can't really see them making any kind of sustained push for a title. Where that talk came from I don't know really.

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We won't get anything in SDCC, so I'd be absolutely delighted to come away with a draw of any kind (last minute equalisers for Shamrock excepted).

Hopefully we can keep our run of no red cards going, might get to Europe on a fairplay rule

stovelid

AgileMyth wrote: »

You can bet your arse he wouldn't have gotten a ban like that if he was wearing hoops...

That knacker won't be back with us. He's beter off with Diarrhea FC

stovelid

Dub XV wrote: »

Where did you stroke the league table from?

http://www.rte.ie/sport/results/soccer/airtricity-league-premier-division/16603/

Pighead

doncarlos wrote: »

It's a sad state of affairs when you're worrying about a home match against UCD...

Even sadder state of affairs is the fact we haven't scored a single goal yet this season. Including our Leinster Senior Cup game we've gone 360 minutes without a goal. Bleak.

CSF

stovelid wrote: »

AgileMyth wrote: »

You can bet your arse he wouldn't have gotten a ban like that if he was wearing hoops...

That knacker won't be back with us. He's beter off with Diarrhea FC

Who?

stovelid

CSF wrote: »

Who?

The bus defecaters of the North-West.

dfx-

Des wrote: »

Derry are beatable, as we showed last week. I didn't think they were anything great at all, and can't really see them making any kind of sustained push for a title. Where that talk came from I don't know really.

On a given day, most teams can beat each other, but over a long spell, the squads come through. Derry drew 2-2 with Drogheda early last season I think which was an unbelievable achievement given Drogheda at the start of last season, but Derry were in the title hunt in the end.

Richard Hillman

dan1895 wrote: »

I'd be happy if he just got a haircut

His hair is down with da kidz

Gavin "shels"

Anyone heading out to SDCC tonight the Luas is only going to/from Heuston.

SantryRed

Where's the best place to park for getting to the SDCC stadium?

dfx-

Best place to park is Woodies across the road, but depending on segregation, you might be all herded towards the Square and Woodies closes at 10pm, so the Square is there at a cost and a queue at machines to pay for it. There's estates around which are safe enough.

Gavin "shels"

SantryRed wrote: »

Where's the best place to park for getting to the SDCC stadium?

Let down!

stovelid

I really shocked and offended by all these SDCC references. It makes me so hurt and angry.

We will get back to the sumptuous luxury of tolka one day if its the last thing we do.

Gavin "shels"

stovelid wrote: »

We will get back to the sumptuous luxury of tolka one day if its the last thing we do.

Yous weren't complaining about the luxury a few seasons back, happily paying us a few bob!

dfx-

stovelid wrote: »

I really shocked and offended by all these SDCC references. It makes me so hurt and angry.

We will get back to the sumptuous luxury of tolka one day if its the last thing we do.

Not a moment has passed when it hasn't bothered me since this thread was opened. I've had trouble sleeping too.

The_Kew_Tour

if you were to take offense to everything said here about your club you would age 20 years;)

stovelid

Gavin "shels" wrote: »

Yous weren't complaining about the luxury a few seasons back, happily paying us a few bob!

And now youse will be paying into tallaght in your hundreds twice this season.

Make sure and buy some food too.

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stovelid wrote: »

I really shocked and offended by all these SDCC references. It makes me so hurt and angry.

Well, it got a bite anyway

Alias G

Gavin shels wrote: »

Yous weren't complaining about the luxury a few seasons back, happily paying us a few bob!

Its not like youse own Tolka in fairness.

Ebbs

Alias G wrote: »

Its not like youse own Tolka in fairness.

Not sure if half of them are aware of their own irony. Not many teams own their stadium in this league. Out of the three best stadiums in this league, Tallaght, Bradywell and Turners Cross, two are owned by the council and the other by the FAI.

Pighead

Dundalk starting with a 16 year old at left back this evening. The great Jim McLaughlin's grandson Ben will make his debut.

I know McCaffrey has said he's building a team for the future but surely playing 16 year olds is pushing it a bit. Anyway hoping for our first goal of the season tonight. To Oriel!

dreamers75

Des wrote: »

Hopefully we can keep our run of no red cards going, might get to Europe on a fairplay rule

4 minutes...... thats how long that lasted, rovers 1 up.

17th red card of the season.

CiaranC

Its nice to have Shels back to laugh at. They were comically bad tonight.

Huge crowd and a bumper win, the futures bright, the futures green and white.

dreamers75

19 red cards now for the season, 23 games played.

dan1895

dreamers75 wrote: »

19 red cards now for the season, 23 games played.

That's some stat.
In relation to the game.......BOLL*X!!!!!!

applehunter

Cream rising to the top.

applehunter

5000 at the Rovers match including President Higgins.

3000 at the Derry game.

Great to see.

Ebbs

While we were the better team, all four goals were a gift. Both Shels keepers were muck. No idea how billy beat him to the ball but a stone wall peno. We were gifted two goals and then we just turned off. Hot the post and bar too.

McCabe's sending off never should have been, I dont know how that was simulation considering he was sandwiched. Even if it wasnt a foul he went down under a challenge, thought it was a free myself.

Great banner from Shels, put ours to shame. Bar that good crowd from yous understandably quiet though. What was the big Gardai rush for? Breaking chairs or?