***MatchThread*** 29th Jul 19:00 BEN2 The Full Irish

Lovely Bloke

Need 3 points, and these lads always give us a good game

Cathal - in
Ciaran
Cillian - in
Conor
Damo - in
Darren - in
Derek
Derek McL
Ed - in
Jules
Keith - in
Kings
SteK - in
SteMcd
Julius

Mousewar

In

helimachoptor

Big Game on a Big Pitch... Big performance needed

mrDerek

In

sReq | uTeK

In, still a good chance we can win this, ballalley playing the full irish and cork, both teams will give them a good good game.

SteMcD1

out. sick.

Lovely Bloke

Cathal - in
Ciaran
Cillian - in
Conor - in
Damo - in
Darren - in
Derek - out
Derek McL - in
Ed - in
Jules - in
Keith - in
Kings - in
SteK - in
SteMcd - sick
Julius - in
Dave - in

CaesersSon

In

helimachoptor

Massive game here lads, we must get 3 points, nothing else will do.

mrDerek

if were gonna use the next few games as something to play around with can we try playing 442? preferably somebody quick that will take the pressure off me even things a bit more up there

Samba Beat

Howdy fellas. I'm looking to join a new team for next season. I've watched a couple of teams in this league and seems you guys are by far the best, the ball alley have asked me to sign but who wants to play with a load of scumbags every week. Is it possible to get a trial game before next year and show you guys what I've got.

sReq | uTeK

Samba Beat wrote: »

Howdy fellas. I'm looking to join a new team for next season. I've watched a couple of teams in this league and seems you guys are by far the best, the ball alley have asked me to sign but who wants to play with a load of scumbags every week. Is it possible to get a trial game before next year and show you guys what I've got.

Anyone who knows what bally are like gets my vote.

Mousewar

What position do you play Samba?

Samba Beat

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

Anyone who knows what bally are like gets my vote.

I've seen enough of that bunch of scoundrels anyway. Do you lads train?? I play right wing or up front, I have to say I'd love to play alongside the chap up front......his finishing is sublime paired with his exquisite touches not normally associated with big guys.

Added to the fact you guys seem a great bunch my search for a new club may need to go no further if you will have me.

Frisbee

2\10

Must try harder.

Mousewar

Samba Beat wrote: »

I have to say I'd love to play alongside the chap up front......his finishing is sublime paired with his exquisite touches not normally associated with big guys.

Ah here, are you Derek's mother or something? :pac:

Samba Beat

Mousewar wrote: »

Ah here, are you Derek's mother or something? :pac:

Derek that's the one. I just know a good ball player when I see one........I played against you earlier in the season and his touch around the edge of the box is devastating. You can't argue with that, can you?????

mrDerek

Lol....I wonder who the wum is

Samba Beat

mrDerek wrote: »

Lol....I wonder who the wum is

Wum???

mrDerek

Wind up merchant :O

Samba Beat

mrDerek wrote: »

Wind up merchant :O

Well Derek ya big blouse I'd have to say the wum is a member of the champions who have enjoyed your complete and utter retarded thread each week bitchin about being wendys. There's only one team in this league. THE ANGELS PLAY TO THE SAMBA BEAT.

Champions champions.

I'd love to laugh at your big bald whingebag manager when we lift the trophy.

Ball alley legends. The untouchables.

Mousewar

Well done on the league (even though you haven't even won it yet).
Stay classy.

mrDerek

Samba Beat wrote: »

Well Derek ya big blouse I'd have to say the wum is a member of the champions who have enjoyed your complete and utter retarded thread each week bitchin about being wendys. There's only one team in this league. THE ANGELS PLAY TO THE SAMBA BEAT.

Champions champions.

I'd love to laugh at your big bald whingebag manager when we lift the trophy.

Ball alley legends. The untouchables.

Classy guy have fun

mrDerek

Samba Beat wrote: »

Well Derek ya big blouse I'd have to say the wum is a member of the champions who have enjoyed your complete and utter retarded thread each week bitchin about being wendys. There's only one team in this league. THE ANGELS PLAY TO THE SAMBA BEAT.

Champions champions.

I'd love to laugh at your big bald whingebag manager when we lift the trophy.

Ball alley legends. The untouchables.

classy guy..
maybe we should limit match threads to boards.ie team members only stop riff raff like this gobshíte nosing in, and i bet its prob one of they're fat centre halves who posted.

DeviantD

What was the score last night?

Mousewar

0-1
It was an unfortunate game. They scored early and held their own in the first half. But we absolutely battered them in the 2nd half but they defended well and we just couldn't get the ball in the net. Their keeper was excellent.

homerjay2005

Mousewar wrote: »

0-1
It was an unfortunate game. They scored early and held their own in the first half. But we absolutely battered them in the 2nd half but they defended well and we just couldn't get the ball in the net. Their keeper was excellent.

they played with 10 men behind the ball for alot of the game, i think we are giving their keeper alot more credit than he deserves -while he was very good, we only really tested him once, maybe twice in the entire game. the rest was just crossed up into the air that he won un challenged. i am not exaggerating when i say we put 20 crossed into the box and we must have failed to hit the target with at least 15 shots/failed crosses.

we must have had 80% possession last night we just didnt really do it in the final 3rd.

my point remains that ive been making last few weeks, when a team sets up in a system that is not 4-4-2, we struggle to break them down - thats 1 win from 7 games now against the teams around us and normally, they play a 4-5-1 against us. we played really well last night and last week, but if teams have extra bodies in their own half, its hard to break them down or more to the point get space and its killing us this season.

sReq | uTeK

Maybe we should be looking at going 4 3 3 or something in games where we are dominating ball but not creating much.

Although that said I think honest to god last night was just one if those games, yea we crossed a lot, but 2 of those crosses resulted in kings heading narrowly over and KIRAN having a ball cleared off the line, we hit the post twice one of which was a great finger tip save from me to the post.

There were some cut backs that didn't work and some off target shots but there were some nice through balls that almost came off also.

Mousewar

Well we're playing Monks in Benildus for the last game. Our first game against them was on the same pitch and almost a carbon copy of last night (except we did manage to score one goal).
That would be a great chance to test out any of these ideas and if we can turn possession against a well organised team on that pitch into goals.

homerjay2005

Mousewar wrote: »

Well we're playing Monks in Benildus for the last game. Our first game against them was on the same pitch and almost a carbon copy of last night (except we did manage to score one goal).
That would be a great chance to test out any of these ideas and if we can turn possession against a well organised team on that pitch into goals.

on that pitch this year our results are as follows -

2-3 loss
1-4 loss
1-5 loss
0-1 loss
1-1 draw

and to think lads think we are better on that pitch?

so we need to address this issue - we are focusing too much perhaps on width in this games and it doesnt work.

Mousewar

homerjay2005 wrote: »

on that pitch this year our results are as follows -

2-3 loss
1-4 loss
1-5 loss
0-1 loss
1-1 draw

We won that one 5-1 against Brown Bag I believe.

We certainly don't play badly on the pitch - but yes the results are poor.
Of course this might be academic - right now our winter league is scheduled for Wesley.

homerjay2005

Mousewar wrote: »

We won that one 5-1 against Brown Bag I believe.

We certainly don't play badly on the pitch - but yes the results are poor.
Of course this might be academic - right now our winter league is scheduled for Wesley.

thats the cup game i am talking about. think we played brown bag in colmcilles twice.

helimachoptor

where are people seeing the stuff about the winter league?

Mousewar

homerjay2005 wrote: »

thats the cup game i am talking about. think we played brown bag in colmcilles twice.

Oh yeah, the cup game.
But we did played Brown Bag in benildus for the second game agaisnt them, winning by that exact scoreline.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057239929

Mousewar

helimachoptor wrote: »

where are people seeing the stuff about the winter league?

http://astro.ie/Soccer/11aside/newleagues.aspx
Try that link.
Social on Tuesdays down for Wesley.
Although this season was down for Wesley as well before it seemed to change last minute.

Keaner

Just thinking of one or two things, thought I'd share with yas!

I was thinking the crossing play and long balls would work better with 2 strikers, it seems to me what we are complaining about recently is trying these things too often and with only Derek up there always surrounded and out numbered maybe 2 strikers would create more chances on the ground. I think it means the wingers would need to work harder to get up and back to make up for a lil extra space in midfield but could be something to try as it might be the tweek to create chances out of moves that we keep trying but aren't scoring right now...

Although saying that that doesnt take away from some of the great positions and chances people had last night, a few headers were very close and a few shots too needed to be on target and one cleared off the line

second thing.....who else wishes we still had to play ballalley again after them trolling us! all ill say is at least when we won the league we did it right!

Samba Beat

Keaner wrote: »

Just thinking of one or two things, thought I'd share with yas!

I was thinking the crossing play and long balls would work better with 2 strikers, it seems to me what we are complaining about recently is trying these things too often and with only Derek up there always surrounded and out numbered maybe 2 strikers would create more chances on the ground. I think it means the wingers would need to work harder to get up and back to make up for a lil extra space in midfield but could be something to try as it might be the tweek to create chances out of moves that we keep trying but aren't scoring right now...

Although saying that that doesnt take away from some of the great positions and chances people had last night, a few headers were very close and a few shots too needed to be on target and one cleared off the line

second thing.....who else wishes we still had to play ballalley again after them trolling us! all ill say is at least when we won the league we did it right!

You should give up or try play like the angels. Some of the rubbish you lot talk is hilarious.

Also our fat centre halves are still part of a league winning side unlike any of your pack of ****.

helimachoptor

right he's gone

homerjay2005

lads, we will finish 5th if we are not careful.

At the moment if the teams win their games in hand, we drop to 5th and for a team like ourselves, thats is really really poor stuff for the season. i think weve let the hammerings of the bottom teams go to our heads and when it came to digging out results in tight games against the better teams, we have struggled.

only 12 of the 55 goals we have scored came against the top teams and 5 of them came against Cork in a total freak game, leaving us with 7 goals in 6 games against the better teams, compared to compared to 43 goals in the other 9 games.

the difference is startling.