Winter 2012/12 Discussion thread

homerjay2005

lads, new season is about 3 weeks away, fancy a friendly next week, monday or tuesday?

if ye can get a team, ill sort the pitch, ref and my lads to play.

Mgoraf

Are you guys looking for any new players?

helimachoptor

Ed, we're up for this.
Can you sort out the pitch?

FrankGrimes

Mgoraf wrote: »

Are you guys looking for any new players?

Probably, yeh. Best to send 'Des' a PM and copy emc2 and me (in case Des has something on his plate one of us will get back to you), if you've played before it's handy to mention where, positions etc. but the idea of having friendlies will be to give new lads a run out before the squad for next season is picked so I'll hopefully see you there.

homerjay2005

helimachoptor wrote: »

Ed, we're up for this.
Can you sort out the pitch?

keith ill text you later. ill try sort a pitch but its probably too late to get this sorted for monday. do u reckon u will have a team if we go tuesday?

helimachoptor

homerjay2005 wrote: »

keith ill text you later. ill try sort a pitch but its probably too late to get this sorted for monday. do u reckon u will have a team if we go tuesday?

Tuesday best I' say Ed, yep we can get a team but will need to know tonight I'd say

homerjay2005

helimachoptor wrote: »

Tuesday best I' say Ed, yep we can get a team but will need to know tonight I'd say

probably too late not keith, will we try set this up for next week instead?

helimachoptor

homerjay2005 wrote: »

probably too late not keith, will we try set this up for next week instead?

Yep thats good Ed, Say Wesley @ 8?

mang0

Hey fellas, Andrew from Full Irish here.

I sent Des a PM yesterday. We've got Colmcilles booked on Tues 4th at 9pm or Tues 11th at 8pm for a friendly.

Looks like you have something for next week but would the 11th suit?

FrankGrimes

mang0 wrote: »

Hey fellas, Andrew from Full Irish here.

I sent Des a PM yesterday. We've got Colmcilles booked on Tues 4th at 9pm or Tues 11th at 8pm for a friendly.

Looks like you have something for next week but would the 11th suit?

Hey, how's the form? Nice one, I say we're good to sign-up for that game on the 11th at 20:00 in Colmcilles, should be no problem making sure we have numbers.

FrankGrimes

Ed, nice one, we should go ahead with a friendly next Tuesday if possible. I'll be away with work myself but I think we should be fine for numbers, have a few new players looking to join so should work out well. Please go ahead and book the pitch and either Des, Mick or Keith will work out the details with you.


To the new players that have PMed me - thanks for the interest and sorry for the delay. We definitely want you to come down to have a game in one of the 2 upcoming friendlies so please keep an eye out here for details, but one of us should be getting back to you on PM shortly.

mang0

FrankGrimes wrote: »

Hey, how's the form? Nice one, I say we're good to sign-up for that game on the 11th at 20:00 in Colmcilles, should be no problem making sure we have numbers.

Good stuff. I'll pencil you in, and I'll be in touch to firm things up.

homerjay2005

lads, astro just emailed me to say we can have the pitch Tuesday night in Colmcilles at 9.00. are we on for that?

ill get a mail out to my lads now, we probably need to confirm this tonight.

mang0 wrote: »

Hey fellas, Andrew from Full Irish here.

I sent Des a PM yesterday. We've got Colmcilles booked on Tues 4th at 9pm or Tues 11th at 8pm for a friendly.

hey andrew, can you confirm that they have not double booked us as it appears to be the slot or have you told them since you posted you dont need it?!

mang0

The email I have from Astro says:

Hi Andrew, the 4th is available at 9pm, 7pm and 8pm are being used for cup quarter finals.
The 11th is available at 8pm.

I then confirmed that booking with them

That's done Andrew,, you can let us know about the ref closer to the dates.

Regards,
Astro.ie

At 13:42 03/08/2012, Andrew Mangan wrote:
Hi guys,

cool - 4th @ 9pm, 11th @ 8pm, would be perfect.

thanks

As it is we're still looking for opposition for Tuesday if you fancy it, but do you want to double check with Astro re: your booking?

homerjay2005

ive emailed him not to confirm whats happening.


either way lads (boards), my team is available anyway and once we sort the pitch and if you have 11, we are good to go!

homerjay2005

lads,

this game is moved to Wesley at 8.15 on Tuesday as Astro have doubled booked the other pitch as pointed out above.

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See you there.

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Don't know who's who but thanks for the game was enjoyable.

See you next week

Darren.

helimachoptor

Was a good game with new faces, next week will be a good test against the TFI and we'll have gelled that bit more i think

Mall10357

What Was The

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Mall10357 wrote: »

What Was The

We lost 0-1, but that's ok as we had no real GK, and six or seven new faces in our eleven

DeviantD

Hi lads,
Thanks for the game last night, pity about the score but for the first match together i think we done well.
Derek.

mang0

Hi, lads. Can you confirm you're around next Tuesday at 8pm in Colmcilles for the friendly?

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mang0 wrote: »

Hi, lads. Can you confirm you're around next Tuesday at 8pm in Colmcilles for the friendly?

Confirmed, thanks Andy. See you then.

mang0

Nice one, Des. Cheers.

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mang0 wrote: »

Nice one, Des. Cheers.

Thanks for the game Andy, good workout for both sides.

We took a loan of a player second half to keep it competitive.

1-2 to The Full Irish.

mang0

Cheers Des, and thanks lads for the game. Competitive and evenly matched as always.

What happened that you needed to borrow one of ours? I missed that!

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mang0 wrote: »

Cheers Des, and thanks lads for the game. Competitive and evenly matched as always.

What happened that you needed to borrow one of ours? I missed that!

I was expecting 12, but only 11 arrived, then we got an injury about halfway through the first half.

We asked one of your lads to jump in for the second half at centre back.

I think he let you score twice

mang0

heh, he's a company man all right

sReq | uTeK

Good game guys, thanks a million.

homerjay2005

Friendly arranged again Rocco V Boards Tuesday, 9pm in Comcilles.

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GG 3-2 to Rocco.

It was a good game for the most part with a good healthy rivalry, it's just such a shame to see 30 somethings throw their toys out the pram and lash out on a pitch embarrassing both themselves and their team especially in a friendly.

Hi Homer.

helimachoptor

Sure it wouldnt be an astro game with Ed unless the toys were thrown out of the pram :pac::pac:

No it was a good game and plenty of spirit from both teams and a hunger to win which is what you want in the last (possible) game of pre-season.

Still a couple of places for boards to work on and as Jules said last night in the final 10 mins is where you need to dig deep and keep going.

Draupnir

A couple of the goals we conceded were sloppy but with people only playing together for the second or third time it's to be expected. Looking forward to the season proper now.

helimachoptor

Draupnir wrote: »

A couple of the goals we conceded were sloppy but with people only playing together for the second or third time it's to be expected. Looking forward to the season proper now.

Yeah agreed.
I think the new lads have gelled pretty well but as with everything it takes time.

There's a lot of positives to be taken from the 3 games, the football and movement is good, people are demanding the ball and wanting to take responsibility and thats what will see us through the league.

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what i'd like is to know peoples handles, i have no clue who im talking to here lol

Helmi and draup are ?
I'm Darren.

Draupnir

Centre Back Keith here

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sReq | uTeK wrote: »

what i'd like is to know peoples handles, i have no clue who im talking to here lol

Helmi and draup are ?
I'm Darren.

Pretty obvious who I am

helimachopter is Keith who played LB last night, bald fella.

draupnir is Keith who played Centre Half.

FrankGrimes is Jules.

Mgoraf is Mark, the striker

you may see a murtagh posting, that's Cathal the centre half.

helimachoptor

Time for team beers..

Draupnir

Des wrote: »

Pretty obvious who I am

helimachopter is Keith who played LB last night, bald fella.

draupnir is Keith who played Centre Half.

FrankGrimes is Jules.

Mgoraf is Mark, the striker

you may see a murtagh posting, that's Cathal the centre half.

You're Sean right?

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Draupnir wrote: »

You're Sean right?

goddammit Keith.

:mad:

FrankGrimes

Thanks to Rocco for the game, always good competitive games and both teams benefit from them.

We'll get sharper over the coming weeks, but it was good to see improvements in sharpness and communication even from last week. There were some excellent performances from new players, and some returning players.

I really like these transitional phases we go through every few seasons and I know Des does too: we go through a period of worry that we've lost some quality players (and we did lose some strong players after the end of last season) and the future outlook is unclear; but then along comes some new talent and they show they offer something different. And as long as the new additions know they are buying into a team that puts the team above any individual success and is about encouraging each other when trying to do the right thing and only criticising when someone is doing the wrong thing, we always move onwards and upwards from there. I'd say we've rebuilt the squad 4 or 5 times over the years but yet it still feels like the same team, and that is largely due to Des keeping the ethos on how the squad treat each other and the style of football we aim to play consistent.

Exciting times and I'm looking forward to getting stuck into this league with this new batch of players, giddyup lads!

DeviantD

Hi Guys,
I was the one that went off with a hamstring injury last week, couldnt make last Tuesday but hoping to be up watching for the next 2 weeks till leg gets better.
Team beers in a month or so sounds like a great idea.
Derek