LOI 2014 Thread

legendary.xix · 06-05-2014 11:43AM

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Before it ended, a number of A Championship clubs were asked to join the 1st Division but declined the offer as they didnt see it financially viable to be part of it.

A number were turned down as well. No club in the A championship got financially burned. A number of clubs were content to build in a regionalised tier. For any new area it's not going to be an overnight success.

10green bottles · 06-05-2014 05:51PM

Darkglasses wrote: »

Anybody know when the league cup draw is?

Wednesday i believe.

Darkglasses · 06-05-2014 06:51PM

10green bottles wrote: »

Wednesday i believe.

I believe the term is OUR YEAR :cool:

06-05-2014 09:46PM

EA Sports League Cup results.

Bohemians 3-2 St Pat's Athletic
Longford Town 2-0 Mervue Utd

GLaDOS · 06-05-2014 09:52PM

Nice to win a game, typically I missed it. 2 goals for Jake Hyland, who impressed against Rovers in the LSC by all accounts.

That_Guy · 07-05-2014 10:44AM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Nice to win a game, typically I missed it. 2 goals for Jake Hyland, who impressed against Rovers in the LSC by all accounts.

Really enjoyable game. Played some great football at times. Hyland's two goals were very well taken. His reactions are superb. Would stick him in behind Jayo and Devaney on Friday night. Looks a good talent and not afraid to have a pop.

Anto Murphy came back in for the last 10 mins or so. Blooding new talent and getting some older heads returning at a good time.

Negatives: Bucko and Traynor. Horrendous games for both of them. Pushed off the ball to easily. Took them an age to pick a simple pass.

Good to see us really taking the game to the opposition at home in a second half we dominated largely.

Darkglasses · 07-05-2014 11:41AM

EA Sports cup 1/4 final draw

Derry City v Dundalk

Wexford Youths v Galway

Longford Town v Bohemians

Shamrock Rovers v Cork City

Vision of Disorder · 07-05-2014 12:17PM

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Before it ended, a number of A Championship clubs were asked to join the 1st Division but declined the offer as they didnt see it financially viable to be part of it.

Who? The only clubs who applied for a first division license were Cobh, Tralee and Carlow. Tralee and Carlow were basically dismissed. A couple of other clubs (Tullamore were one, I think Fanad too) pulled out before the last season of the A Championship because they knew they weren't ready to step up to a fully national second tier and saw no point in playing a final season in the doomed third tier.

hjkl · 07-05-2014 02:38PM

Vision of Disorder wrote: »

Who? The only clubs who applied for a first division license were Cobh, Tralee and Carlow. Tralee and Carlow were basically dismissed. A couple of other clubs (Tullamore were one, I think Fanad too) pulled out before the last season of the A Championship because they knew they weren't ready to step up to a fully national second tier and saw no point in playing a final season in the doomed third tier.

Tralee applied again for this season and were dismissed in favour of a Rovers B team, so they can't win.

dreamers75 · 07-05-2014 05:34PM

Treacy, Lawrence, Mc Court all released this week.

Anyone afford any of them?

Gavin "shels" · 07-05-2014 07:20PM

dreamers75 wrote: »

Treacy, Lawrence, Mc Court all released this week.

Anyone afford any of them?

Surely Kelleher can splash a few more quid, no?

dreamers75 · 07-05-2014 07:38PM

Gavin shels wrote: »

Surely Kelleher can splash a few more quid, no?

I`m sure he could. Dont think we need to tho.

10green bottles · 07-05-2014 08:22PM

Sure if he do's it will put another 500 on the gate......like Faheys arrival at Inchicore did....

dreamers75 · 07-05-2014 09:18PM

10green bottles wrote: »

Sure if he do's it will put another 500 on the gate......like Faheys arrival at Inchicore did....

"Our **** crowds are better than your **** crowds."

I love these posts :cool:

10green bottles · 07-05-2014 09:32PM

dreamers75 wrote: »

"Our **** crowds are better than your **** crowds."

I love these posts :cool:

How you manage to make out that i'm d*ck waving over attendaces from that post i dont know.pats fans were saying that Fahey would put 500+ on their gates when he signed.They didn't.i was hoping they would.

:cool:

djpbarry · 08-05-2014 08:58AM

10green bottles wrote: »

pats fans were saying that Fahey would put 500+ on their gates when he signed.

They were? News to me.

dreamers75 · 11-05-2014 01:41AM

10green bottles wrote: »

How you manage to make out that i'm d*ck waving over attendaces from that post i dont know.pats fans were saying that Fahey would put 500+ on their gates when he signed.They didn't.i was hoping they would.

:cool:

Fairly sure my post on the subject was" we signed Fahey should add a few hundred to the gate ........but wont"

I honestly cba with LOI fans that get into arguments over **** crowds. We all have **** crowds and a thread on here full of stupid fcuking ideas to increase our crowds. So i just dont worry about it anymore.

Imo the crowds will turn when we have an international player in our league, England heading towards picking players from the Champo.....when ireland does it will be the only thing to push the league on turnout wise.

Stadiums: some teams have nice ones, some teams dont.....doesnt help crowds. Cork and rovers prime examples of high attd and low attds. Cork have an actual football stadium.

Quality of Football...yah know the thing "we" all love....quality imo has been improving tenfold since i started going in the 80s. Atm you have Pats Sligo and Dundalk playing some super football. Imo this is down to the coaching at underage level, they getting better at coaching we getting better players who didnt go abroad. Honourable mentions to UCD and Cork. Oh and the FAI for work in the underage section......

Dundalk barely had 300 fans at a home FAI cup semi 2 years ago, brought nearly 1200 to Richmond last season. Im sure you have an amount of fans in your head that you have. We on the other hand have a consistent **** crowd :pac: good or bad our crowd is around the same level.

justshane · 11-05-2014 08:07AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

Fairly sure my post on the subject was" we signed Fahey should add a few hundred to the gate ........but wont"

I honestly cba with LOI fans that get into arguments over **** crowds. We all have **** crowds and a thread on here full of stupid fcuking ideas to increase our crowds. So i just dont worry about it anymore.

Imo the crowds will turn when we have an international player in our league, England heading towards picking players from the Champo.....when ireland does it will be the only thing to push the league on turnout wise.

Stadiums: some teams have nice ones, some teams dont.....doesnt help crowds. Cork and rovers prime examples of high attd and low attds. Cork have an actual football stadium.

Quality of Football...yah know the thing "we" all love....quality imo has been improving tenfold since i started going in the 80s. Atm you have Pats Sligo and Dundalk playing some super football. Imo this is down to the coaching at underage level, they getting better at coaching we getting better players who didnt go abroad. Honourable mentions to UCD and Cork. Oh and the FAI for work in the underage section......

Dundalk barely had 300 fans at a home FAI cup semi 2 years ago, brought nearly 1200 to Richmond last season. Im sure you have an amount of fans in your head that you have. We on the other hand have a consistent **** crowd :pac: good or bad our crowd is around the same level.

That's just a plain lie.

dreamers75 · 11-05-2014 04:14PM

justshane wrote: »

That's just a plain lie.

Sure.

FAI Cup Draw shortly.

Stupid cup just give it to Sligo already. We got Pats CYM.

Full Draw Numbers

1. Athlone Town

2. Avondale United

3. Ballynanty Rovers

4. Belgrove/Home Farm

5. Bohemians

6. Bray Wanderers

7. Cobh Ramblers

8. Cockhill Celtic

9. Collinstown

10. Cork City

11. Derry City

12. Drogheda United

13. Dundalk

14. Finn Harps

15. Galway

16. Limerick

17. Longford Town

18. Malahide United

19. Mayfield United

20. Phoenix

21. Saint Michael’s

22. Saint Mochta’s

23. Saint Patrick’s Athletic

24. Saint Patrick’s CY

25. Shamrock Rovers

26. Shelbourne

27. Sheriff YC

28. Sligo Rovers

29. UCC

30. UCD

31. Waterford United

32. Wexford Youths

Pighead · 11-05-2014 04:29PM

dreamers75 wrote: »

Dundalk barely had 300 fans at a home FAI cup semi 2 years ago, brought nearly 1200 to Richmond last season.

What a load of tosh! Even you can't believe that. There were over 2000 people at that game. Are you seriously trying to claim there were nearly 2000 Pats fans in Oriel? Disappointed with you dreamers.

Brilliant draw for Dundalk in the FAI Cup. A chance to avenge yesterday's heartbreaking defeat. Friday 8th of June will see the wrongs put right. **** draw for Sligo.

Darkglasses · 11-05-2014 04:29PM

Youths have Bray at home in the FAI cup

10green bottles · 11-05-2014 04:48PM

Dreamers was on the beers last night me thinks

pighead,correction on the date there,friday 6th june.

irish_goat · 11-05-2014 05:58PM

Cobh vs Derry is a nice draw. Two trips to County Cork for Derry in the space of a few weeks though.

Darkglasses · 11-05-2014 07:15PM

Roddy's been sacked from Derry City according to twitter

overshoot · 11-05-2014 07:18PM

Darkglasses wrote: »

Roddy's been sacked from Derry City according to twitter

noooo!
he was doing such a good job... from a non derry point of view!

Seren_ · 11-05-2014 07:41PM

Darkglasses wrote: »

Roddy's been sacked from Derry City according to twitter

I hear there's a press conference being held in Old Trafford at 10am tomorrow to unveil him as the new manager. All this hype about van Gaal has been a clever ruse.

red sean · 11-05-2014 07:46PM

@derrycityfc would like to announce that Roddy Collins has left the club by mutual consent. http://www.derrycityfc.net/2014/05/roddy-collins-leaves-the-club-by-mutual-consent/ …

From twitter

irish_goat · 11-05-2014 10:36PM

Bit of a celebratory atmosphere up in the Derry City social club at the minute...

JoeyJJ · 12-05-2014 04:27PM

The Beast Elds gone by mutual consent from City. Wonder if we can send Maguire home early and give Elds another go.

djpbarry · 12-05-2014 04:44PM

JoeyJJ wrote: »

The Beast Elds gone by mutual consent from City.

Jaysus, that was quick? What happened there?

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