Well done to dundalk

Daryl Horgan must be close to O'Neills squad.

Super again.

Yes brilliant result,big night for Cork and Pats tonight,hopefully they can also get through to the next round,

Agree with Huddys ,C'mon the Irish...

St Pats got a great 1-1 draw last week in Minsk last week, have a look at  Christy Fagan's goal,  http://stpatsfc.com/preview.php?id=863    hope they dont bottle it tonight.

I predict Cork City will go through and Pats will bow out.

You were right there applehunter,hope you enjoyed your night at the cross,

Good call Apple,

@ frank & huddys

This wasn't because of complicated algorithms I had to devise.

There is a simplicity to the league table in football and my eyes. Dundalk & Cork City are well ahead of the rest of the league. On the most basic scale, Cork City swapped Dennehy Bros. with Kenny Brown & Greg Bolger. Those that are conversant with the league will get the maths.

One would think that the Dublin clubs with the largest population and one of the best underage leagues in Europe would have  the best senior clubs, but no, us culchies somehow manage to outperform these clubs again and again.

Lets not run away with ourselves Apple, I think we won it in the not to distant past .Can't seem to remember your lot doing it in recent times...

There have been many Cork teams in the league of ireland over the decades lads ,here some to be going on with

Cork        The Mardyke   
Cork City        The Mardyke   
Cork Alberts        Flower Lodge
   
Cork Athletic        The Mardyke   
Cork Bohemians        Turners Cross   
Cork Celtic    Turners Cross   
Cork Hibernians        The Mardyke   
Cork United        The Mardyke    I seem to remember Evergreen Utd Played at Turners cross a few moons ago  as well, Was Albert Rovers a League of Ireland teams as well Applehunter ?   Cork City last won the league of ireland in 2005.

Well done Dundalk and Cork City, more of the same this week lads !!

Stunning performance tonight.

Unreal well done super result for Dundalk,

Wow, stunning is not the word

Fair play to Dundalk.

Well done Dundalk , guess it puts to the sword the notion that the LOI is rubbish ...

Dundalk are one of the better teams to come out of LOI in recent years, well done

Well done to Stephen Kenny and his Dundalk side.

Well deserved on the night.

Hope City can take some inspiration from that for Thursday.

Yes it would be brilliant if you can get a result,best of luck applehunter,

Dundalk have been handed a very tough Champions League play-off tie after they were paired with Polish champions Legia Warsaw at the draw in Nyon.

UEFA Champions League Play-Off draw:
Ludogorets v Plzen
Celtic v Hapoel Beer Sheva
FC Copenhagen v Apoel Nicosia
Dundalk v Legia Warsaw
Dinamo Zagreb v FC Salzburg
Steaua Bucuresti v Man City
FC Porto v Roma
Ajax v Rostov
Young Boys v Borussia M'gladbach
Villarreal v Monaco

To be fair the draw could have been worse. If Dundalk can take a lead to Warsaw they will be in business.

If Dundalk were at home in the second leg I would have fancied them strongly, it's a huge factor and playing the second leg away from home is a big blow imo

Agree with Gant here , could have been much worse indeed , that draw is winnable imo. Hopefully they do the business ..Applehunter, watched bits of the game during the racing at Leop last night,they tore ye apart down the left hand side. Surprised the manager didn't try and stop them by closing them down much higher up the pitch...

There is plenty of Polish people living in Ireland, Legia Warsaw BEAT St Pats 5-0 in Tallaght 2years ago after Pats drew 1-1 in Poland, The Polish fans were making  more noise then the Pats fans, Legia hammered Celtic in the next rd only to be throw out for bringing on a sub near the end of the game that was illegel,    Dundalk will find the Poles a tough nut to crack.

You are spot on Frank , I was going to highlight that myself Frank re the amount of Polish fans, who if they can get time off work will no doubt make their way to Lansdowne

I agree, the Dundalk fans will be outnumbered in the Aviva.

John Caulfied erred Thursday night vs Genk by  playing McSweeney at RB, the key decision over the 2 legs. Give him a pass on that due to injuries but tonight he deserves all the criticism he gets.

Another bottle job tonight IMO a bigger game vs Sligo.

What a chance to put some pressure on Dundalk.

Tim Flowers!

Fair play to Brian Kerr tonight.

Fran Gavin guested on RTE's Soccer Republic at 12.30am on Tuesday night to give the FAI's take on the controvery over the €5k grant towards strategic funding for LOI clubs.

Has to be seen to be appreciated.

The look of indignation and anger in Brian Kerr's face was fantasitic as a LOI supporter.

Well said, applehunter.

Brian Kerr is a good guy.


http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/0809/807871-brian-kerr/

Just watched this Reb,seems the funding is a peace offering , the size of it is laughable as the lads said , they took in over 61,000 in fines last year alone ,so you don't have to be a maths teacher to work out it cost them 39,000 overall , shamefull imo , some of the LOI grounds would embarreass a third world country...

Yes, it's pathetic workrider.

Credit to St Pats and Derry for refusing to take the Delaney Pittance.

Dundalk playing really well, putting it up to the Poles, could be very interesting 2nd half...

really puzzling how he gave that peno , caught napping in the last minute .

Was at Aviva lastnight,total shambles organisation wise,one small ticketmaster caravan about half a mile from ground,ffs then not enough turnstiles open,lots fans getting in after 25m of game,mess
Pity dundalk didnt attack a bit more,real lack of pace in team,Warsaw fans outsinging dundalk also,lovely venue pity about the amatuerish setup,the Q at ticketmaster a good half hour long.

I was seething,missed the champions league song and ko even though i got to train station at 7:05

i watched it last night.i thought dundalk got rode big time by the ref(as always is the case with minnows,ask eoin hand)..the penalty was a scandal of boxing judge proportions.whats the lad supposed to do? he didnt even see the ball as it approached him.his arm wasnt in an unnatural position..and dundalk had a stonewall peno when kilduff was taken down.  a 1/1 draw would have been a fair result i think..though hadjuk never really threatened the dundalk goal too much..as it is the tie is over

True harsh penalty but dundalk missed chance by not being positive enough imo,midfield looked clueless and big gaps between midfield and striker
Chance missed as they had 30k people there and ok keep it cagey for first half but must show more intent on getting a goal
Warsaw much more composed and shaped etc

small margins though..if peno wasnt given it was diff game entirely

Given the away goals rule, Dundalk and Kenny would have been quite happy with a scoreless draw from last night's game and the team, rightly, was set up and played accordingly. Legia, also, wouldn't have been dismayed by a 0-0. The penalty changed everything though.

This thread was set up in praise of Dundalk and they have done remarkably well in qualifying for the lucrative group stages of the Europa League.

A word of caution ,the money will come rolling in ,but it must be used properly ,dont make the mistakes Rovers did when they got it...

Just the defeatest attitude that stops progression imo

Come on Dundalk,back in with a chance,

Only caught the last 20mins, but what a performence , well done you brought LOI football up a notch tonight .

Stephen Kenny for Ireland.

If only some off the so called best fans in the world took an interest in our league,

Its a low self esteem thing , Mincer is the king ,anything thats IRISH just can't be good right!

Hello Huddys,not trying to take away from them but personally very disappointed from the time they had an extra man,did very little.
They can hold their heads up all the same just outclassed.

Ye Pa i agree with you,but the strain playing on such a big pitch in that weather would have taken it toll on them,

They tired, even when Legia went down to ten, it was them that looked to have the extra man. I laid them after the sending off to 1.38 for small money, I felt that they would get suckered on the break.
Dundalk have to go to Wexford on Friday after all that effort and you can lay them for about the same for that fixture. Wexford turned us over in the cup last Friday and their heads will be up, Dundalk have lost the last two on the trot away in the league, including to Wexford's fellow strugglers, Bray. That said I was hoping Dundalk would be a little smaller and there may not be a pile of value in it and maybe a little speculative punt on Wexford to win (10/1) is the order of the day. Kenny had a couple of kids on the bench tonight, who may get a chance to prove themselves on Friday and that has to come into calculations. Wexfords squad is pretty thin too and a man would want to look into injuries and suspensions for both clubs before putting the boot in.

Brilliant draw for Dundalk tonight,

Historic 1st ever group stage point for an Irish team as Ciaran Kilduff heads in Dundalk's equalizer.

Another cracking result for Dundalk tonight,

Brilliant result, no fluke about this side getting this far this time well deserved. Ha and on course to have more supporters in Tallaght this than the current tennents of that ground

Well done to Dundalk.

Top class result.

A Dundalk supporter was telling me about the fixture list they have over the next 2 weeks, what a bunch of backward gobsh1tes.
They should be trying to help Dundalk not hinder them.

Fair ply to Dundalk last night.

Well done Dundalk. They dogged you with fixtures but the cream came to the top.
The song the die hards had about the fans who stayed away last Monday for the Liverpool/Man Utd. game was class.

For all the CORK FANS (to bring a little balance to the thread)...

https://twitter.com/RTEsport/status/795328603743358976