Your Club's Season
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Topic: Your Club's Season
Posted By: adineen98
Subject: Your Club's Season
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:22pm
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How would you rate your club's season? Good? Bad? Brilliant? Awful? Obviously, I'm going to say City's season was fantastic; if I was to give it a rating, I'd give it a 9/10. Winning the league and cup, I couldn't have asked for more, and then there were the admittedly minor but still nice to win President's Cup and Munster Senior Cup. Losing to Shamrock Rovers so late in the League Cup was very galling; it would have been brilliant to win the treble. Europe was slightly disappointing as well, unfortunately Larnaca were cuter on both nights and did well to stifle our play. Performances obviously could have been better since August, but losing Maguire and O'Connor at the same time, while having lost Dunleavy a few weeks prior was always going to blow, as was a potential deal for Eoghan Stokes falling through. The season as a whole, however, was excellent, Sunday was a fitting end, and I'm now very much looking forward to next season. ------------- Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam |
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Posted By: OnTheOneRoad
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:25pm
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9/10. Tipped to go down, came 5th. Keith Long strong shout for manager of the season. Already re-signed a lot of big players to new deals. Some great games, some great results, some great goals. Most of the signings came in and did a huge job, the ones that weren't up to it were quickly and quietly moved on. A couple of regrets - we always seem to inexplicably roll over for Derry which could have been the difference in achieving an improbable European spot, and we had no cup run - given how the team dug out big results against the big boys in the second half of the year, that loss to Harps is fairly galling. But on the whole, fantastic season and the future looks bright. Looking forward to next season. ------------- No thank you Turkish......I'm sweet enough |
Posted By: Daragho
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 9:42am
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St. Pats. Awful. One game away from being relegated for the first time in our history. A few summer signings (Jordi Balk, Killian Brennan in particular) and Conan Byrne saved us. Off the field we continue to be a shambles, with no energy, passion or direction in the club. Thank God we survived, because it could have been curtains financially if we had gone down.
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Posted By: FREEWHEELER
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 9:59am
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After a very shaky start, the overwhelming majority of Rovers fans are happy enough with the season. Too many defeats however, with very few draws meaning 3rd place is a decent effort. What pleases the Rovers fans most however is the nature and demeanour of Bradley's team. Young lads who know what's expected of them when they go out to play and they've at least tried to play decent ball after the absolute mind-numbing borefests under Croly and Fenlon. We need a good left back, a commanding centre half (even though Grace was a great signing), a reliable keeper and an out and out goalscorer, the last one is the hardest to acquire. A 7/10 for me and some really decent games to remember this year. ------------- We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the Green Flag flying high......Shamrock Rovers will never die, we'll keep the Green Flag Flying high. 19 Leagues and 25 Cups..... |
Posted By: thebronze14
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 10:05am
| First two thirds good, last third pathetic. |
Posted By: UCDFAN
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 11:54am
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UCD AFC SSE Airtricity League The stats are the only compensation. Beat every other team in the Division, a great win versus Waterford. Increased record against Shels 2 wins v. 1 loss. in three season P12 W8 D1 L3.Georgie Kelly 17 League goals, all-time club record for LOI, 2017 First Division leading goalscorer. 3 Captains through the season Gary O'Neill (Club Captain injured), Greg Sloggett (International duties) and Niall Corbet. Representatives: U19s RoI Neil Farrugia 3 caps (2 competitive, 1 goal) U19s UCD AFC played in UEFA Youth League 2 matches, 3 goals, 4 shootout penos, 1 shootout peno saved. 2 Schoolboys in springtime Centenary Shield Sean McDonald and Jack Ryan. CUFL, Universities 2016/17 Won CUFL Premier Division, Runner-up in Collywood Cup. 3 Irish Universities Representatives at XXIX Universiade Taipei, Taiwan. Jason McClelland, Daire O'Connor and Greg Sloggett. Leinster Senior League 2016/17 Relegation from Senior Division to Senior 1 Division. The pos. are watching development of Players like Simon Power, McClelland and Sloggett stepping up for a tough midfield role. The negs are not getting the most out of league games. We would of got closer to Waterford but I don't believe it would have change the eventual outcome of the First Division winners. ------------- www.ucdsupporters.ie |
Posted By: nvidic
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 11:56am
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Awful - started so well with good results and strong squad and then the board fall out, North Korea crap, manager leaving and then allegations of match fixing, couldn't have gone much worse. Lost a lot of interest over the season, hopefully we go back to budget squad next year and ditch the grandiose plans.
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Posted By: MC Hammered
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 11:57am
Hard to argue with much of this ------------- El Puto Amo |
Daragho wrote:Posted By: 9fingers
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 12:14pm
Would agree with everything bar the initial rating. 7.5/10 for me |
Posted By: FREEWHEELER
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 12:28pm
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Garvan seemed to do well for the junkies too. Kurtis Byrne off to MSL I hear? ------------- We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the Green Flag flying high......Shamrock Rovers will never die, we'll keep the Green Flag Flying high. 19 Leagues and 25 Cups..... |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 12:39pm
Jaysus that's a hell of a drop down playing in the Munster Senior League  ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: Saint Tom
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 1:24pm
------------- My destination inchicore my next stop being kilmainham Where patriots and super saints are the topics of conversation |
Posted By: mandrake
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 1:36pm
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Drogheda united , terrible, 13pts after 1/3 of season was ok , but after that we got 5pts from second third (win v rovers at home was strange cos we had no form) cup q-f, but as usual hammered by 'that lot up the road' lost a lot of players during the season , killian Brennan to name one (who saved pats) a fall out the management team of three ( three managers and we couldn't stay up) young lads tried their best I suppose.... I didn't go to any games after a defeat by finn harps in the middle of the season , lots of fans voted with their feet... ------------- Come on Irelind |
Posted By: Daragho
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 2:04pm
It really baffles me too. I got involved in some of the marketing/sponsorship committees, along with others, a few times over the last few years. All the energy and the good ideas go nowhere because there is no support or drive from the club. Kelleher is throwing good money after bad if he doesn't sort out the administrative side of things at Pats. Oh, and I reckon Jordi Balk will be signed by someone else in the close season. He has a great calmness and determination (not to mention ability) at centre back that lots of other teams would welcome.
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Posted By: saintjoey
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2017 at 8:41pm
Garvan played himself into fitness and ye could see his quality, he's signed for next year afaik so a full pre season behind him he could be a huge player for us next season.. No idea on Kurtis |
Posted By: corkery
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2017 at 11:13pm
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As a Cork City fan, I was bored after 15 or so games. There was nothing to look forward to as we knew we had the league won. I don't know what enjoyment Celtic fans get. ------------- 'The younger generation as in 17 -25 are certainly gayer than their predecessors. I think they may cause the extinction of the human race with their activities.'- Baldrick |
Posted By: AnCearrbhach
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2017 at 8:42am
I hope you're bored next year too ------------- Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile. |
Posted By: trevwaterford
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 8:21am
| 9 out of 10 for Waterford. We were tipped to win the league with the resources we had and did it with 2 games to spare. It was great to see the crowds back at the RSC with people who had given up coming back and lots of children getting into the Blues for the first time. Next season will be interesting in the Premier division and fans are already excited with lots of interest in season tickets and next season's squad. |
Posted By: Pablo Escobar
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 9:52am
I just hope for Waterfords sake that the return isn't a flop. I've seen comments suggesting a top 3/4 finish. That would require a complete squad overhaul. Maybe that will happen. But consolidation needs to be the target and fans need to understand that too. |
Posted By: ChuckVANSeagal
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2017 at 10:02pm
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Painful. Staring in a snuff movie would have been more fun. ------------- 
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Posted By: Wheelo
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 9:04am
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Awful season for the drogs. Started off with so much optimism, kept majority of decent young lads who got us promoted, brought in a couple of experienced players and genuinely thought we'd the right mix. Started well, got points on board and played decent ball. But went t!ts up then. Killian looked frustrated after getting that injury and things went pear shaped then. Fall outs with management (gill) and appeared to be a bit of infighting among a couple of the players. As said above, we'd a management team of 3. Never saw what kind Kinsella did for us, gill has been a disaster. We had a couple of patches where we played well (e.g. club killers and junkies at home), but our lack of a goal scorer all season never gave us a chance. We'd have done no worse keeping our whole squad from first division working with 1 manager (Mahon). Attendances were worst I've seen in nearly 30 years in united park for a premier division season. Home to rovers was a particular low point. Taking out away crowds, only a few hundred home fans on average. In saying all that, the fact we were in the premier division at all was a miracle. Mahon did an unreal job to get us up there. I'm probably in a minority of drogs but I'd like to see Mahon stay on and try perform another miracle. But would prefer he did it without gill! Will be amazed we go up no matter whose in charge though, can see attendances plummet even further too. Tough times ahead for the drogs  ------------- "Not surprised you are anti foreigner in your so called Kip of a town when you don’t want a manager because he is Swedish and you want big Sam in charge" - a fine post from a fine ybig poster |