LOI: League of Ireland Fixtures (Week 8 + 9), April 18-21, 2014

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Premier Division

Friday, April 18th, 2014

Dundalk v Shamrock Rovers - Oriel Park - 7.45pm

Bray Wanderers v Derry City - Carlisle Grounds - 7.45pm?

Cork City v Drogheda United - Turners' Cross - 7.45pm

Sligo Rovers v UCD - Showgrounds - 7.45pm

Limerick FC v Athlone Town - Thomond Park - 7.45pm

St. Patrick's Ath. v Bohemians - Richmond Park - 7.45pm

Monday, April 21st, 2014

Shamrock Rovers v Bray Wanderers - Tallaght Stadium

Drogheda United v St. Patrick's Ath. - United Park

Derry City v Limerick FC - Brandywell

Athlone Town v Dundalk - Lissywoollen

UCD v Cork City - Belfield

Bohemians v Sligo Rovers - Dalymount Park

First Division

Friday, April 18th, 2014

Waterford United v Shamrock Rovers B - RSC - 7.45pm

Shelbourne v Cobh Ramblers - Tolka Park - 8pm

Wexford Youths v Galway FC - Ferrycarrig Park - 8pm

Saturday, April 19th, 2014

Longford Town v Finn Harps - City Calling Stadium - 7.30pm

General info

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

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/

Soccer Republic - Mondays at 11.05pm on RTÉ Two & RTÉ.ie.

Try out a game near you. Click a fixture link for stadium detals.

See club sites for ticket info:

Shamrock Rovers FC
St Patrick's Athletic
Sligo Rovers
Bray Wanderers
Cork City
Derry City
Drogheda United
Dundalk FC
UCD AFC
Limerick FC
Athlone Town
Bohemians

Shamrock Rovers B
Shelbourne FC
Wexford Youths
Longford Town
Finn Harps
Galway FC
Waterford United
Cobh Ramblers

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No idea of the times on Monday, presumably 3pm or 5pm

10green bottles

A number of matches have changed ko times.Marwelie on the LOI predictions thread went with this-

Premier Division
Friday, April 18, 2014
Time Home Away Venue
3 p.m. Bray Wanderers v Derry City Carlisle Grounds
7:45 p.m. Cork City v Drogheda United Turners Cross
7:45 p.m. Dundalk v Shamrock Rovers Oriel Park
7:45 p.m. Limerick FC v Athlone Town Thomond Park
7:45 p.m. St. Patrick's Ath v Bohemians Richmond Park
7:45 p.m. Sligo Rovers v U.C.D The Showgrounds

Monday, April 21, 2014
Time Home Away Venue
6 p.m. Drogheda United v St. Patrick's Ath United Park
7 p.m. Shamrock Rovers v Bray Wanderers Tallaght Stadium
3 p.m. U.C.D v Cork City The UCD Bowl
3 p.m. Derry City v Limerick FC The Brandywell
3 p.m. Bohemians v Sligo Rovers Dalymount Park
5 p.m. Athlone Town v Dundalk Athlone Town Stadium

First Division
Friday, April 18, 2014
Time Home Away Venue
7:45 p.m. Waterford United v Shamrock Rovers B Regional Sports Centre
8 p.m. Shelbourne v Cobh Ramblers Tolka Park
8 p.m. Wexford Youths v Galway FC Ferrycarrig Park

Saturday, April 19, 2014
Time Home Away Venue
7:30 p.m. Longford Town v Finn Harps City Calling Stadium

Pighead

Should be a much different match on Friday against Rovers than the one we seen on Tuesday night. Neither side had their first choice 11 out on Tuesday but it'll be different tomorrow evening. Hopefully Rovers bring a few more fans with them this time. Think there was only about 80 at it the other night. Victory for Dundalk would open up a six point gap between us and Rovers which would be nice.

GLaDOS

Can't see us getting much out of either Pats or Sligo. That cheery optimism I had at the start of the season is well and truly gone

Gavin "shels"

Last minute winner against title challenging Galway with a great away support to Cobh..............

dreamers75

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Can't see us getting much out of either Pats or Sligo. That cheery optimism I had at the start of the season is well and truly gone

Defend well and his us on the break.

Seems to work for everyone else. Conceded 15 goals when we won the league last season, conceded 17 so far this season in all comps.

GLaDOS

dreamers75 wrote: »

Defend well and his us on the break.

We can't defend for shit

Mushy

Bray v Derry is at 5pm tomorrow. Hopefully get something out of it, even a point. Big injury list for Bray though!

Darkglasses

What are the chances of a good crowd coming over from Galway?

UnleashTheBeast

Darkglasses wrote: »

What are the chances of a good crowd coming over from Galway?

The chances aren't good.

A supporters bus is going and I'm sure there will be a few travelling by car and from Dublin but not many.

I'd say 40 max.

Darkglasses

UnleashTheBeast wrote: »

The chances aren't good.

A supporters bus is going and I'm sure there will be a few travelling by car and from Dublin but not many.

I'd say 40 max.

That could well be the most we get all year!

anncoates

Don't know what to make of Friday. Strongest team - referees and pitch withstanding - has more than a chance of a result but we'll see.

Gavin "shels"

Darkglasses wrote: »

That could well be the most we get all year!

We normally bring good crowds down.

Darkglasses

Gavin shels wrote: »

We normally bring good crowds down.

I think it's actually been a few years since I was at a Shels game in Ferrycarrig, even though i've been to every Youths game away in Tolka. Would you bring more than 40-50 this year?

Gavin "shels"

Darkglasses wrote: »

I think it's actually been a few years since I was at a Shels game in Ferrycarrig, even though i've been to every Youths game away in Tolka. Would you bring more than 40-50 this year?

We had about 250 in Galway but a lot made a night out of it (still 2 buses went down), so I'd say they'd be at least 100 down Friday week.

Omackeral

Syringeycore away, my favorite fixture of the year I have to say. Always seems to be either exciting or tense, never a washout. I'd love a victory for the Bohs tonight! We're unbeaten on the road so far this season

CHealy

Would'nt really accept anything less than 3 points against Drogs tonight at the Cross. Keep Fabio quiet and we should be fine. I'll go 3-1 City with a crowd of 3200.

GLaDOS

Apparently Mulcahy is back for us, makes me a bit more hopeful of getting anything. Not surprising we've looked a lot more fragile without him.

dreamers75

5 homes and derry away is 23 to 1 on PP.

I never win bets ever......ever.

Pighead

dreamers75 wrote: »

5 homes and derry away is 23 to 1 on PP.

I never win bets ever......ever.

That's good enough for me! I'm on it!

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Croly's MO for big away games is not to score, try to get a 0-0 and surrender after the first goal is conceded

It would be nice to change that...

dreamers75

Rovers fans get some stick but getting a bus at 12pm to Newry on good friday was ****ing genius.

dan1895

dreamers75 wrote: »

Rovers fans get some stick but getting a bus at 12pm to Newry on good friday was ****ing genius.

Remember them going on a day trip to Hollyhead before a semi final with Bohs many years ago.

dreamers75

Jason Byrnes lob, oh my god.....expect to see it in the best goals thread.

DrumSteve

Unbelievable goal from jayo, think he was the only one in Richmond who thought it was going in though!

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Dundalk 0-1 Rovers, that's unexpected

dreamers75

DrumSteve wrote: »

Unbelievable goal from jayo, think he was the only one in Richmond who thought it was going in though!

i was right behind him at ground level and thought it was going over, clarkie wasnt getting near it

DrumSteve

dreamers75 wrote: »

i was right behind him at ground level and thought it was going over, clarkie wasnt getting near it

Yeah im over in the stand, was about level with it... Quality goal. Clarke probably thought it was going out...

ShamoBuc

Kearney gives city the lead .


Edit1-1. Proxy deflection

ShamoBuc

2-1 city. Buckley ....... the X is rocking again

ShamoBuc

3-1...... Dennehy free kick.

GLaDOS

ScienceNerd wrote: »

We can't defend for shit

Told you

Great goal by Jayo at least

dreamers75

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Told you

Great goal by Jayo at least

We still leaking chances thought Byrne should have got a 2nd but when we click going forward we are pretty on the eye. Faheys 2nd 90 minutes now still hit and miss

2 points off top and not really playing as well as I think we can, getting there tho.

Kenna was sent off for Rovers for hitting a Dundalk player after the peno was scored, wtf happened there?

CSF

Don't miss the Premier Division at all!!!

dreamers75

2084 at the pats match my ****ing hole. Dont why clubs do it but main stand holds 1920 seats so about 250 in the rest of the ground.......

civis_liberalis

Report: Wexford Youths 0-1 Galway FC

CSF

dreamers75 wrote: »

2084 at the pats match my ****ing hole. Dont why clubs do it but main stand holds 1920 seats so about 250 in the rest of the ground.......

Tax purposes probably.

Pighead

Absolute sickened with that late equalizer from Rovers. Two points thrown away. I was too busy celebrating Towell's penalty to see what Kenna did but apparently he hit out at Horgan. 2-1 up against ten men for half an hour it should be game over. Meenan missed a massive chance when 1 on 1 against the keeper (probably should have squared it to Mountney) to make it 3-1 and that came back to bite us in the end. Sickened.

3364 I think in Oriel this evening.

dreamers75

Pighead wrote: »

Absolute sickened with that late equalizer from Rovers. Two points thrown away. I was too busy celebrating Towell's penalty to see what Kenna did but apparently he hit out at Horgan. 2-1 up against ten men for half an hour it should be game over. Meenan missed a massive chance when 1 on 1 against the keeper (probably should have squared it to Mountney) to make it 3-1 and that came back to bite us in the end. Sickened.

3364 I think in Oriel this evening.

Derry had fcuked up the bet so i didnt care for your result in the end :mad:

President at the Pats match supporting his 2 local clubs

Mint Sauce

Over 3000 in The Showgrounds tonight after a week of promotions, including free tickets to schools, family passes, Papa Johns giving out free Pizzas, and all infront of a 5 Nil drumming of 10 man UCD.

Hopefully they all come back for the next home game and its a turning point for our so far disappointing season.

NIMAN

Another shocking performance from Derry apparently.

But I am sure Roddy will claim it was a point gained.

Darkglasses

Awful Youths performance tonight, probably the worst we'll see all season. Awful week of football for me. I don't want to play anymore.

Pighead

And to top off a crap Good Friday it sounds as though our captain Stephen O'Donnell has done his cruciate.

dreamers75

Jason Byrnes lob as is the way in Ireland people go on about goals (that noone can see until monday.....**** sake) that are truly brilliant.

It was sublime and I love how twitter in a way makes LOI footballers accessible.

Ciaran ‏@BackPostHeader 5m
@BrenClarke1 What goes through a keepers head when you concede a goal like that? #NothingICanDoHere

Brendan Clarke ‏@BrenClarke1 Protected Tweets 1m
@BackPostHeader to be honest if I started clapping I don't think anyone would've objected.. was just hoping it would come back off post

overshoot

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Over 3000 in The Showgrounds tonight after a week of promotions, including free tickets to schools, family passes, Papa Johns giving out free Pizzas, and all infront of a 5 Nil drumming of 10 man UCD.

Hopefully they all come back for the next home game and its a turning point for our so far disappointing season.

could have been 10 to be honest, what little fight UCD were making of it was ended with the red card.

fair play on the promotion campaign tho, great crowd considering i counted 11 of the 33xx crowd in the away section.

dreamers75

Cracking pic by Peter Doherty, seriously this goal was ****ing special.

doncarlos

http://www.sportsfile.com/id/855877/

Not even a free for this challenge. Refs are getting worse in this league

dreamers75

doncarlos wrote: »

http://www.sportsfile.com/id/855877/

Not even a free for this challenge. Refs are getting worse in this league

Obviously only a pic but it looks like O Donnell kicks him. And it wouldnt a be a 1st for him.

doncarlos

dreamers75 wrote: »

Obviously only a pic but it looks like O Donnell kicks him. And it wouldnt a be a 1st for him.

O'Donnell was standing and Finn came bulling through. He won the ball but straight through the man and as you can see from picture looks like he badly injured O'Donnell.

Mint Sauce

overshoot wrote: »

could have been 10 to be honest, what little fight UCD were making of it was ended with the red card.

fair play on the promotion campaign tho, great crowd considering i counted 11 of the 33xx crowd in the away section.

I think Rovers took a little while to get going, quite a bit of passing the ball around in their own half, but once the red card was issued it was nearly all one way traffic, could have been double in the second half alone.

11? Are you sure there was even that many?

Being good Friday, and the good weather I think also contributed to the attendence, considering it was probably also competing against the funfair in Carraroe, altough got quite cold at the Old Shed end towards the end of the match.

Credit to the Guards as well on traffic duty, never got home after a match as quick before either.