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Donal Cullen 
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 Topic: League of Ireland representative team
Posted: 17 Jun 2008 at 8:40am |
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Does the League of Ireland or FAI National League team play representative games now. Up until I moved to Canada in 2000 we always seemed to have a game against the Irish League but can't find any now. Are they still playing them and does anyone know where I could find the results from 2000 on.
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Posted: 17 Jun 2008 at 9:34am |
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The National U23 team is pick from Home based players. They are currently playing a series of games can not think who all the teams they are playing against but they won there 2 games they played, the last one against North of Ireland and the other against an East European team.
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Posted: 17 Jun 2008 at 9:43am |
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Yeah Flash you're correct, I think the u23's have taken over as the league's representative side - not doin too badly so far....
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008 at 8:35am |
I remember when we entered the L of I players for Olympic Qualifiers in the mid 80s, most of it was made up of that amazing Rovers 4-in-a Row team and they played really well, some cracking games I remember. The late and truly great Barry Kehoe of Dundalk was also on that team, he was a smashing player, lost to cancer at a tragically young age......wonder why we don't enter the Olympic tournament anymore.  Anyone know why?
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Donal Cullen
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008 at 10:25am |
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Holy man, FW! Now you are going back a bit! I remember playing Hungary and Spain at Milltown and drawing with Spain. Then we beat France 3-0 at Dalymount on a wonderful night. Yeah, the team was full of Rovers players but they did the LOI proud. The Olympic's then changed to an U23 competition from them and now we have to qualify via the U21 tournament. Noel Larkin, Barry Kehoe, Jackie Jamieson, Peter Eccles and the others all did well but I seem to remember Mick Neville being left out. One of the Shels fans says it was because he was a "black-hearted prod" but I think he just didn't like the man!
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008 at 11:06am |
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Jackie Jameson, another sad loss to the game in the sky.......they were cracking games alright, I must dig up those match programmes. Had forgotten Neville was left out, he was absolutely superb at centre back for Rovers till he left Kilcoyne's sinking ship at Tolka when Milltown was abandoned.
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Donal Cullen
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008 at 11:20am |
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Don't bring up the Milltown thing again, FW. That was a real shame and I am talking as a Bohs and LOI fan here. I mean they sell a really good pitch, the stadium was not as good and where are they now? Looking for a halting site in Tallaght! Tolka was a kip before Shels took it over and now it is a decent stadium. The same could have been done at Milltown. But I could go on and on and I've done enough of that on this forum this morning.
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008 at 11:36am |
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Not gonna bring up the Milltown issue Donal, done that elsewhere and we've already got riled up about Euro 88 and Lansdowne 95 so let's give peace a chance for the rest of the day. Louis Louis Louis......OUT OUT OUT.
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Posted: 20 Jun 2008 at 7:21am |
 Donal Cullen wrote:
Tolka was a kip before Shels took it over and now it is a decent stadium.
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is it f**k!, Tolka is like Dalymont a crumbling pisshole. Take away the Jodi in Pigsboro and what else have the margarine kids got? A crumbling dangerous Connaught Street seated terrace that needs a thorough structural examination on health and safety grounds alone.
Edited by soccerc - 20 Jun 2008 at 7:21am
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Posted: 20 Jun 2008 at 7:33am |
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Agree soccerc, sure only last season we all had to evacuate Tolka in the 1st half of Rovers v Waterford cos the floodlight pylon looked like it was gonna topple in the wind. The toilets in Tolka are scandalous, as you say soccer, a crumbling pisshole. Let's hope they do a nice job in Tallafornia.
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Donal Cullen
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Posted: 20 Jun 2008 at 12:50pm |
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Jaysus, have things gone that bad since I left. I remember Dalier and Tolka being kips but Dalier was improving when I left and Tolka was a decent stadium. Holy crap!
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