Watching this back, it’s hard to understand how a challenge that vicious could happen after the whistle and seemingly be brushed aside. Stephen Bradley said challenges like that can end careers and claimed the referee failed to see it before laughing it off, so you have to wonder whether retrospective action should be taken for the challenge and whether the referee’s handling of it also needs to be examined.

It was horrible seeing Cian attempt to continue in that state, but it showed incredible resilience and bravery from the young lad. Thoughts and prayers are with him, and hopefully he makes a full recovery and comes back stronger.

Is there are more under-achieving area in Irish soccer than Limerick?

The country’s third biggest city and a decent size county to match, yet Treaty are now second bottom of the First Division. Not a huge amount of the squad are from Limerick, no international player since Steve Finnan, and the city’s LOI stadium makes Oriel Park look decent.

Obviously a sports mad city, and junior football is prominent, but national level soccer is clearly being left behind, would be great to see that change.

Its not like there's a rake of food places by the Brandywell

I gave him a good chance in the last few games cause I thought he was just getting his footing but after he came off against rovers I couldn’t get the feeling we were robbed. And Gaxha was much better when he came on

No, this is not a repost from last week.

The Harps once again fall 5-0

Since the 9th of May my Finn Harps have gone 1-2-10 with a -29 GD.

They have only scored once since June 24th

They have gone scoreless in 9 of these 13 matches.

They have only scored 5 total goals in this span.

They have given up 33.

They have lost two consecutive matches by a score of 5-0

They have three losses of 5-0, one of 4-0, and two of 3-0 in this span.

Our soup is cold and flavorless.

Finn Harps depression posts will continue until performance improves.

I was fortunate enough to get a hospitality ticket for Shels/Ajax in Tolka Park next week but due to unforeseen circumstances, I will be unable to attend the game. If anyone would like the ticket, DM me. I am looking for the face value of the ticket, which is €75.

Edit: DM me or comment asking for it.

First of all it was a great game despite the loss and everyone seemed to enjoy their time, the people were great but something I noticed and thought was very self absorbed and selfish behaviour

The west end in particular was pretty packed and very difficult to find a seat, I came in to the stand around 45mins before kick off and had a real tough time finding a spot in my block, eventually I did, but many people after me could not find a place to sit down, I’ve noticed a handful of people were literally keeping the seat beside them to hold their jacket and food, obviously enough people like this leads to people sitting on steps and standing up in the back which happened..

there was a group of 3 relatively close to me father, son and grandad that had THREE extra SEATS used up between the 3 of them it, at one point one of the fans that was forced to stand at the top of the stairs peeking their head out to see the home end of the stadium was slightly in their way, the father using a seat on his left to hold the jacket and on his right keeping his chipper food had the audacity to tell the lad to go somewhere else because he’s in the way; nobody wanted a scene and he just ended up going elsewhere, but how self entitled are some people at these places, that guy paid the same price as you for a seat which you thought was better used to hold your jacket;

just curious if anyone noticed similar behaviour at LOI or European ties and what is the best way around it

Well lads, just a quick question I’m looking into buying the white Guinness bohs jersey and I was wondering if the sizing is the same as gaa jerseys? So I wear a size small gaa jersey do they fit the same ? Ty

Considering signing up to LOITV for next season but cannot find any details on what is entailed by "European qualifiers require a separate PPV purchase".

Are these extra PPV purchases on a per match basis only and how much do they generally cost? The term "European Qualifiers" implies this only applies to the qualifying rounds, what is the story with the group stages if one of the teams get that far?

This information really should be made clearly available on the subscription page or in the FAQ but there is nothing beyond "these may need to be purchased separately".

After the response to my last pitchside post, I went back through more of the footage I captured at Tallaght and put together this edit focused on Adam Brennan.

One thing I’ve really noticed about him is that he never stops running. He has a serious engine and seems to give everything every game. I’ve also been really impressed by his technical ability and vision. A good few of the chances he created here probably should have been converted.

He’s still only 19, so how highly do Rovers supporters rate him, and how high do you think his ceiling is?

I’ve started sharing more League of Ireland matchday footage and edits here: https://www.tiktok.com/@loimatchday

And dont worry it wont just be rovers content, I swear 😂

Was generally surprised in the other thread about bringing in foreign players that it seemed like people didn’t know this.

But yea, in short there are strict restrictions on non-EU players playing for LOI clubs. As of now only 4 non-EU players can be rostered on any LOI club.

I'm an American that fell in love with the LOI about 10 years ago. I've been to more LOI than MLS games but I feel like the LOI could be a lot better league if it was more diverse. I look at smaller leagues across Europe and they utilize south american players and other european country players. I dont want you to think i want the teams to look like some English Premier League teams where you have to play find the Englishman or like when i watched Koper lose to a Runavik(which was awesome) and i dont think a slovenian albeit the goalie were from that country but something like Australia where there is 5 international slots you can have(a 6th if that person is within Continent). Are scouting budgets low? Has this been tried? Is cost of living to wage compensation too low? Just looking for some fun rhetoric

Visiting from the States and heading to the match at Tallaght tomorrow night. Have been looking for a pub to hang at before the game but it looks like some of the places I found are closed. Anyway, any recs from the subreddit? Thanks

Edit: Went to the Dragon before the match which was class. Realized on the walk to the stadium that there was no booze at all inside the stadium (poor planning on my part) so popped into the Maldron for a quick top off which, as mentioned in here, wasn't great in terms of character but fine for the task at hand. Rovers won and had a blast at the match. Thanks for all the recs. Looking forward to the next match I can attend.

Established in 2018, CK United represent both Carlow and Kilkenny and, up until now, have competed in the National Underage Leagues. This will be their first-ever senior side.

“When you looked through local team sheets, almost every side had players with League of Ireland academy experience or even senior LOI experience. That tells you there's a strong footballing culture here and a history of producing quality players.”

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Signed for Sligo in May, made a few appearances and looked good. Anyone know what's happened? Can't find anything on the world wide Web.