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Armstrong 2019/20 season

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  • #92
    sodacat11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭sodacat11


    Has Gonzaga B played Dublin Uni yet?


  • #93
    Retd.LoyolaCpt
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Retd.LoyolaCpt


    sodacat11 wrote: »
    Has Gonzaga B played Dublin Uni yet?
    Retd.LoyolaCpt wrote: »
    Gonzaga B 3-3 Trinity, 2 to play later in the week

    Same as above. 2 games on Monday.


  • #94
    Retd.LoyolaCpt
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Retd.LoyolaCpt


    Retd.LoyolaCpt wrote: »
    Same as above. 2 games on Monday.

    TCD 4.5-3.5 Gonzaga B


  • #95
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Benildus 5-3 Rathmines. A few lucky breaks went our way, but I guess we were overdue some of that this season.


  • #96
    Retd.LoyolaCpt
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Retd.LoyolaCpt


    Exams hit Trinity and ourselves hard. Just 3 regulars for us, 3 subs and 2 scratches.

    Bray 6.5-1.5 Gonzaga B
    Kilkenny 3-4 Gonzaga A - Keogh vs Jackson to play.


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  • #97
    macelligott
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭macelligott


    R5 Balbriggan 2-5 Elm Mount. One game to play.


  • #98
    sodacat11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭sodacat11


    Dublin U v Ballinasloe,,, score?


  • #99
    macelligott
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭macelligott


    Has the round 4 game (board 1) between Dublin & Balbriggan been played yet?
    It seems to be holding up the FIDE ratings!


  • #100
    sodacat11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭sodacat11


    macelligott wrote: »
    Has the round 4 game (board 1) between Dublin & Balbriggan been played yet?
    It seems to be holding up the FIDE ratings!
    It should be scored as 0-0 . It is ridiculous that it has dragged on this long.


  • #101
    RooksPawn
    Registered Users Posts: 259 ✭✭RooksPawn


    sodacat11 wrote: »
    It should be scored as 0-0 . It is ridiculous that it has dragged on this long.

    Or even -1 each!


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  • #102
    macelligott
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭macelligott


    Armstrong Round 6
    Elm Mount 7.5 - 0.5 Blanchardstown


  • #103
    Retd.LoyolaCpt
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Retd.LoyolaCpt


    First win of the season for us (after a R+B+K vs K ending)
    Gonzaga B 4.5-3.5 Benildus


  • #104
    Youngdunne
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Youngdunne


    Ballinasloe 5 - 3 Bray


  • #105
    sodacat11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭sodacat11


    Rathmines 3-4 Balbriggan, 1 adjourned


  • #106
    Danville
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Danville


    Kilkenny 5.5 Dublin University 0.5 Two games adjourned


  • #107
    checknraise
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭checknraise


    Gonzaga A Dublin 6.5 -.5 1 game postponed.


  • #108
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Danville wrote: »
    Kilkenny 5.5 Dublin University 0.5 Two games adjourned
    With Gonzaga A next up and Ballinasloe exceeding expectations, is it looking increasingly likely that Trinity's long spell in the Armstrong is coming to an end?

    You'd wonder what'd happen the club if they do go down.


  • #109
    macelligott
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭macelligott


    cdeb wrote: »
    With Gonzaga A next up and Ballinasloe exceeding expectations, is it looking increasingly likely that Trinity's long spell in the Armstrong is coming to an end?

    You'd wonder what'd happen the club if they do go down.


    It is difficult to manage a university team. Without an exceptional captain, most university teams seem to flounder.


  • #110
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    macelligott wrote: »
    It is difficult to manage a university team. Without an exceptional captain, most university teams seem to flounder.
    At Armstrong level, in particular. The problem I saw at my university club back in the day is the lack of continuity. You can have a great captain, and then when he or she graduates, you roll the dice to see whether or not you can find an adequate replacement. Sooner or later, you can't. Meanwhile, even the biggest clubs tend to rely on a handful of people to carry most of the water, but they tend to stick around for decades instead of a few years like at university. Probably the only way for the university clubs to be really stable in the long run is if there's excellent staff buy-in.

    EDIT: I should say, I don't know TCD's current situation, and it may be turnover of players as much as admins in this case - I should be careful not to presume!


  • #111
    sodacat11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭sodacat11


    The relegation issue is far from clear with none of the bottom six teams safe. The league table always has a lopsided look depending on who has played against Gonzaga A and Elm Mount yet and who hasn't. Also some clubs have problems fielding anything near their first team when they have to travel to places like Ballinasloe and Kilkenny.


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  • #112
    spidersweb
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭spidersweb


    Bray have it in the bag now. They will win it in the final round. Gonzaga and ElmMount will get 2nd and 3rd but hard to tell in which order. Main thing is to get the bad results out of the way and then have a good run in for the last 4 rounds.


  • #113
    Rathminor
    Registered Users Posts: 290 ✭✭Rathminor


    Blanchardstown 0 Rathmines 6
    2 boards being played on Monday evening.
    A very good afternoon for us.


  • #114
    Retd.LoyolaCpt
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Retd.LoyolaCpt


    Balbriggan 3-4 Gonzaga B. One to play midweek

    Gonzaga A 6-1 Trinity. TCD didn’t have a board one and were missing two others. 3-2 on the boards that were played.


  • #115
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    St Benildus 5.5-2.5 Ballinasloe


  • #116
    Danville
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Danville


    Bray 2-Kilkenny 6


  • #117
    macelligott
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭macelligott


    Dublin 1.5 - 5.5 Elm Mount.
    1 game postponed due to FIDE Arbiters training course


  • #118
    sodacat11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭sodacat11


    spidersweb wrote: »
    Bray have it in the bag now. They will win it in the final round. Gonzaga and ElmMount will get 2nd and 3rd but hard to tell in which order. Main thing is to get the bad results out of the way and then have a good run in for the last 4 rounds.

    Bray 2 Kilkenny 6
    It looks like there is a rather large hole in that bag:pac:


  • #119
    spidersweb
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭spidersweb


    sodacat11 wrote: »
    Bray 2 Kilkenny 6
    It looks like there is a rather large hole in that bag:pac:


    Yes indeed there is no denying it, fair comment. Looks like the entire bottom has fallen out and Bray will now be doing well to stay up this year. The cavalry never arrived and the team struggles to put it's best foot forward.



    Kilkenny were just too strong on the day and are surely contenders now themselves. Nobody has it in the bag just yet!


  • #120
    Rathminor
    Registered Users Posts: 290 ✭✭Rathminor


    Final score:
    Blanchardstown 1 Rathmines 7


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  • #121
    Retd.LoyolaCpt
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Retd.LoyolaCpt


    Retd.LoyolaCpt wrote: »
    Balbriggan 3-4 Gonzaga B. One to play midweek

    Gonzaga A 6-1 Trinity. TCD didn’t have a board one and were missing two others. 3-2 on the boards that were played.

    Balbriggan 3-5 Gonzaga B finished


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