FAI Cup Final

Our country is playing one of its biggest games in years in an hour and you talking about this rubbish at least wait until after

I wasn't talking about the rubbish who are playing France tonight I was talking about the Cup Final.

Will do well to match the drama of last year.

I would say Sligo will have the backing of 98% of other supporters.

Conditions alone may decide we don't see a classic.

The conditions for the last 5 Cup finals have been terrible.

I have been at a few and all except one it rained.

Rock piper your a clown

Maestro, you sir are a Galoot, it is not up to you to decide what is appropriate to post and when it is appropriate on this forum, if you not interested in the subject of a thread then you ought not to post in it. Charging in to a thread and abusing people shows a complete lack of manners, tact and civility. It is no wonder I lost interest in the international team compelled as I was to associate with self regarding ignoramuses like yourself.

Read my previous thread

^Maestro, I think you mean read my previous post, I have read your posts in this tread in their sub literate entirety. Now if you are quite finished offending me and the English language take please your unwelcome contributions elsewhere.

^Before anyone starts that was a typo.

Anybody going have any opinions?

Guys, anyone got a link for this?

Been a Sligo fan since I went to see them vs Dundalk in 1974 whilst on holiday.

Only ever seen them play live about 5 times since, but itching to watch the final.

Live on RTE, might be on the website www.rte.ie

but it might be restricted to the R of I

Hard to weigh up as fatigue could affect Fingal

all things being equal, not much between the sides

preference for Sligo, will be betting in-running

could follow Fingal's recent pattern of scoreless early with the goals coming second half

To all who are attending, enjoy your day. Hope it stays dry and makes for a good game. Sligo would be worthy winners given their passage through.

Fancy Fingal here . Playing very well and the busy end to season could actually be a help as most of the Sligo players have'nt played for 3 weeks. First goal will be important , Liam Buckley likes to play cagey 1st half and have a go 2nd half . Possibly Draw/Fingal the bet .

why is overs so unfancied here?

dunno but id fancy a few goals in this.

any inplay market? doesn't look likely

Found myself a link

http://www.rte.ie/live/index.html

After havin a bit on Fingal @ 9/4 ir with PP

Fair enough price imo

why no IR here?

I'll do it then.

Great play by Fingal there. Good value at 5/2 IR.

Think Damo is talking through his ring. Could nearly have a separate Damo watch thread.

Dubious free for Sligo. Ball cleared. Mayhem in the box.

Actually its on the web check it out yoursleves.

Come on Fingal.

Blox. 1-0 Sligo Doyle. 5/2 looks a bit short now for Fingal. :(

Disgrace that this isn't in-play. Betfair are a joke

Disgrace that this trash is on national television on a Sunday evening.I think i would prefer to watch Willie Wonkas Chocolate factory than watching two pub teams playing football in front of about 1000 people.

Disaster ! I blame George Hamilton. Hes at every socer game I care about and its always the soccer equivalent of the Towering Inferno

Thankfully we were saved extra time.Well done to the crowd in white with about 235 supporters.
Two things i noticed and firstly i must congratulate Hamilton for making this torture exciting as it cant have been easy,and secondly does anybody outside Dublin play this trash.

Sligo maybe

I wholeheartedly second Galway's comments.

why rte try to force this league of ireland crapp down our throats is inhumane...just cos george porgie is obcessed with this league ..from what i can see every team is made up of dublin gougers who spit every five seconds...

must all be travellers timberman.

Not a bad standard given the weather today. Profitable.

:-)

To Timberman, Allez and Galway59 ...

I have never cursed on this forum ... but you are a f -*-*-*ing disgrace and should be ashamed of yourselves for those comments ..

This was a great game of football played in incredibly bad conditions and a credit to both teams .. I am a Sligoman .. but I applaud Sporting Fingal and Liam Buckley for a magnificient achievement.

Well said. The conditions weren't conducive to good football. Sligo were desperately unlucky not to get at least extra time from the game.

2 sucker punches.

Plenty of football in Sligo I'm sure they'll come back for more next season.

:-)

unless youd a financail interest or are from sligo or one of the hundred sporting fingal supporters nobody gives a toss about todays match...fine if it was a good match but why rte are showing this league night and day when 99 % of the population have no interest....

here we go again the gaa nanderthals are out in force :) 99% of pop have no interest in it :) the most played game in ireland ffs. go back to your caves ffs , or come into the real world , when did the whole world media ever highlight a gga match ffs.no lads its worse your getting ,the old backword thinking from the gaa neanderthals .nearly forgot :)

Thought it was a good spectacle despite the awful conditions.

Something about Fingal doesnt sit easy with me. A bit like Dublin City, its not really an organic club in terms of its growth.

But fair play they took their goals well when it mattered.

Very unlucky to Sligo.

.....People like timberman are set in their ways but i would say if you don't have something constructive to say, just grumble to yourself and let the rest of the world live their lives.

nearly forgot what this thread was about :( sligo and fingal put up a wonderfull show it was a pity there had to be a loser ,still thats football .

workrider what sort of attendances do the loi get...outside of parts of dublin intetrest is minimal the harsh reality sorry if this upsets you...

great game well done both sides

what sort of crowds do the gaa get in places like manorhamilton ffs , plus at least our players get payed unlike the gaa, who grab everything should it not be called the grab gealic ass :) a behind the times outfit thats has no interest in coming into the 20th century never mind the 21st ffs .pay your players and lets see how many of your clubs last :)

p.s. timberman let me know about that world media thing wont you :)

great game well done sporting fingal on a magnificent season

well said malay , under those con .pity about the gaa neaderthals trying to highjack this thread , still i suppose if you were a gaa supporter theres nothing much to interest you this time of year .

i guess the silence tells a story.

Your players get paid?.. clubs cant sem to pay the wages you speak of..clubs cant even pay their buses for gods sake...nothing wrong with not getting paid and playing for your club or county....league of ireland might be better than i make it out to be but its largely a dublin thing which is where yoiur from but in the south, north & west theres very little interest and you attacking the gaa wont change that...off to the pub now so no need to be bad mouthing gaa all night..

Unlike you Workrider most people have better things to do than sit looking at a screen all night waiting to see if someone will respond to one of your semi literate posts. You don't get out very much I'd say.

Agree with some of that.

League is very Dublin oriented.

And next season there is real posiblity of no Cork club + Derry in the top division.

i suppose id go to the pub if i followed the gaa :0 enjo your drink .

dara, another neanderthal shows up :) hello were you been , dont answer that :(

applehunter , i'm really sorry about cork and derry, but really the accounttants should have seen what was happening , the loi will defo be the lesser without either cork or derry in it.still keep your chin up .

Timberman is right w.rider, attacking the GAA out of envy because domestic soccer is in such a deplorable state won't make it better.

If you watche RTE sport later on listen out for the match reports with clips of the goals and the RTE reporter (€160 per house in the State) getting it wrong telling us how "Owen Coyle" scores Sligos 1st goal. At least it sounded like "Owen Coyle" when I heard it, intend recording the clip after the 9pm news if the station uses it again.

Bayly looks to have a lot of ability. However I thought he was just throwing shapes for much of the match yesterday.

Looks like a good venue for cup finals there, atmosphere came across well on the tv. What was the attendance?

*Bayley

About 634 at it and all well behaved

8,105

decent game in my opinion, stunning finish to it. Very hard on the sligo lads. Losing Cretaro was a blow as poor old blinkhorn wasnt at the races today really.

what was rico at with his ''fingal county'' nonsense throughout the first half??!

he was very bad yesterday

workrider 22 Nov 19:01
what sort of crowds do the gaa get in places like manorhamilton ffs ,


Ehmm, I'd be careful with that one if I was you workrider, as far as I know Manorhamilton were in the Leitrim County Final this year - anyone know the attendance? Maybe the last gaa match for Manorhamilton had a bigger crowd the the National soccer final after all!!!

I spent time up there in the nineties and still know people there. Big soccer town in those days, in fact still is, I think did well in FAI Junior Cup last year - lot of under age teams for a small town (big catchment area though as far as I remember).

But anyway I wouldnt start comparing small town (village ) gaa teams with national sporting events, otherwise someone would compare Manorhamilton (Rangers??) attendance with the All Ireland.

Neither a Gaa or Soccer man, watched match as from Fingal, I thought the 2nd half was excellent particularly given conditions, penalty award was marginal and Fingal player would never have gotten to ball anyway. Others who watched with me thought it was a good spectacle so certainly wouldn't agree with those who think it was rubbish.

Gah heads are right. LoI shouldn't be shown on TV.

Fingal doing well is a travesty to the sport.