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AUGUST
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Our first month in the Premiership since 2007, let's do this!

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Loughgall 0-0 Lurgan Celtic
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Boggs, Glasgow, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Heneghan, Toal (McDonagh 87), Vieira, McAnallen, Patton, Courtney
Our first Premiership game and who do we play? Lurgan Celtic, last season's Championship winners. In truth this was a boring game with two familiar sides going through the motions

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Linfield 1-2 Loughgall
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Boggs, Glasgow, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Heneghan (McDonagh 60), Toal, Vieira, McAnallen, Patton (Grainger 65), Courtney
From last season's Championship champions to last season's Premiership champions and we played better here! Linfield were good for the first 54 minutes but their goal sparked us into life and we battered Linfield with attack after attack, eventually equalising via Vieira before Shane Doyle scored the winning goal with a header 3 minutes later

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Loughgall 1-1 Glenavon
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Boggs, Glasgow, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, McDonagh (Toal 57), McAnallen (Roohi 57), Patton, Courtney
We carried our great display over from the Linfield game but fell behind undeservedly, fortunately we showed our resolve and equalised through Ross Black late on

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Coleraine 2-0 Loughgall
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Boggs, Beacom, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Glasgow, Toal, Vieira, McAnallen, Patton, Courtney
We matched Coleraine in this game but we just lacked the quality to take advantage of our play, I'll need to rectify that before the end of the transfer window

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Loughgall 0-1 Dungannon Swifts
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Boggs, Beacom, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Glasgow, Toal (Vieira 60), Heneghan, McAnallen, Patton, Courtney (Roohi 60)
See above

NORTHERN IRISH LEAGUE CUP SECOND ROUND
Glenavon 2-3 Loughgall
After Extra-Time
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Boggs, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, McDonagh, McAnallen (Roohi 62), Courtney, Patton (Toal 64)
We played very well and should have won it in normal time, spurning chance after chance and highlighting our need for more quality

LEAGUE TABLE
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A decent start to the month, yet to win at home though​
 
SEPTEMBER
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A promising start to the season last month, we need to build on that

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Cliftonville 1-1 Loughgall
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Doherty, Beacom, Alderdice, Doyle, Black (Copeland 83), Glasgow, Toal, Vieira, McKinney (Heneghan 59), Patton, Croskery (Courtney 78)
We didn't deserve to go behind, but we did, so it was an uphill struggle with even before Stuart Glasgow's moment of madness. Fortunately this squad is resilient and that resiliency showed as we battled from behind with 10 men

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Loughgall 2-1 Portadown
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Doherty, Beacom, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Toal (McDonagh 78), Vieira, McAnallen, Courtney (Patton 57), Croskery
OUR FIRST HOME WIN OF THE SEASON! Portadown have struggled slightly so far, but it was us who struggled early on as they took the lead. We dominated but couldn't force our way through until late on with McAnallen and Patton the saviours

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Crusaders 3-1 Loughgall
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Glasgow, Toal, Vieira, McAnallen, Patton, Croskery
Just not good enough, Nigel Beacom has signed for Queen's University Belfast, who play in the Third Division...

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Glentoran 1-3 Loughgall
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland (Doyle 81), Black, Stewart, Toal (McKinney 59), Vieira, McAnallen, Patton, Croskery (Courtney 81)
We tried out a new tactic for this game and it worked wonders! We played a counter-attacking 4-1-2-1-2 and ripped Glentoran apart, somehow dominating despite being the counter-attacking team

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Loughgall 5-0 Ballinamallard United
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Heneghan, Toal (Stewart 64), Vieira, McAnallen, Patton (Courtney 64), Croskery (McKinney 75)
WOW! My primary focus in the summer window was to add a bit of quality in the final third, and if this performance is anything to go by, we did just that! Three of our summer signings scored in a stunning 5-0 win

LEAGUE TABLE
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Top six? Keep this up and we could be going on another European tour​
 
OCTOBER
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Just keep going

NORTHERN IRISH LEAGUE CUP THIRD ROUND
Loughgall 2-1 Newry City
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Doherty, Bradley, Reilly, Doyle, Black, Glasgow, Bright (Toal 53), Heneghan, Roohi (McAnallen 53), Courtney, Patton
A slightly rotated side fared pretty well here, securing safe passage to the next round despite a slight scare at the end

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Ballymena United 1-1 Loughgall
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Toal, Vieira, McKinney, Patton, Courtney (Grainger 68)
A tight affair that offered little in the way of entertainment as we battled with Ballymena, with a draw being the fairest result in the end

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Lurgan Celtic 0-3 Loughgall
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Copeland (Doyle 64), Black, Heneghan, Toal (Glasgow 64), Vieira, McAnallen, McKinney (Croskery 81), Courtney
Since our opening day 0-0 draw, both sides have taken very different paths, with Lurgan Celtic battling at the bottom of the league whilst we have European ambitions and the difference showed today as we battered them

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Loughgall 1-2 Linfield
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Glasgow 65), Toal, Vieira, McAnallen, Courtney, Croskery (Patton 65)
Defensive errors cost us as Linfield reversed the 2-1 defeat we inflicted on them earlier in the season with as they took the three points home with them, very disappointing

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Glenavon 2-2 Loughgall
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Glasgow, Toal (Heneghan 78), Vieira, McAnallen, Patton, Croskery (Courtney 78)
We absolutely battered Glenavon and should have won 2 or 3 nil, but didn't. Glenavon would probably admit they were lucky

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Loughgall 5-2 Coleraine
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Doherty, Glasgow (Bradley 70), Alderdice, Copeland, Doyle, Heneghan, Vieira, McKinney (Toal 81), McAnallen, Patton (Courtney 70), Croskery
Wow.

LEAGUE TABLE
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Europe calling?​
 
doing great man! hopefully can keep it up, Game is definately messed up though too many matches where you have 6 or 8 away fans, I know footballs not great but come on!
 
AldoKemp-1 said:
doing great man! hopefully can keep it up, Game is definately messed up though too many matches where you have 6 or 8 away fans, I know footballs not great but come on!
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Cheers mate

I think the reason we have so few away fans is because Loughgall are a village team for a village of ~250 people, so it would probably be unrealistic to have more than a few away fans every week
 
NOVEMBER
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We've been great so far this season, can we keep it up?

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Loughgall 0-0 Cliftonville
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, McKinney (Toal 73), McAnallen, Patton, Croskery (Courtney 73)
Lots of chances, lots of shots, zero goals. Interesting.

NORTHERN IRISH LEAGUE CUP QUARTER FINAL
Loughgall 2-0 Ballymena United
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Toal, Vieira, McAnallen (Courtney 45), Patton, Croskery
2 goals in 10 minutes meant that this was a simple victory

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Dungannon Swifts 2-0 Loughgall
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Doherty, Glasgow (Bradley 68), Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Toal, Vieira, McKinney (McAnallen 68), Patton, Croskery
I wasn't expecting anything from this game as Dungannon have been brilliant this season, still we didn't disgrace ourselves and gave them a game

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Portadown 3-4 Loughgall
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Heneghan (Reilly 64), Toal (McAnallen 64), Vieira (Roohi 85), McKinney, Patton, Croskery
Attack. Great. Defence. ****.

LEAGUE TABLE
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We're still looking good as we enter December​
 
DECEMBER
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We have a pretty hectic month as we begin to enter the "Third Phase" of the season

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Loughgall 1-3 Glentoran
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Heneghan, McAnallen, Vieira (Toal 65), McKinney, Patton, Croskery
We had 27 shots, they had 6. Very disappointing.

MID-ULSTER CUP FIRST ROUND
Loughgall 6-1 Lurgan Celtic
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, McAnallen, Toal, Vieira, McKinney, Patton, Croskery
Talk about a game of two halves! A slightly drab, boring first half and then a second half filled with action 7 goals! Six of them ours!

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Loughgall 4-2 Crusaders
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland (Doyle 65), Black, Heneghan, Toal, Vieira (McAnallen 65), McKinney, Patton, Croskery (Roohi 88)
To lose the lead twice in one game is awful, fortunately the referee took pity on us and gave us two penalties in the last 10 minutes

NORTHERN IRISH LEAGUE CUP SEMI FINAL
Loughgall 0-1 Linfield
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, Toal (McDonagh 62), McAnallen, Patton, Burns
A pretty poor display dumps us out of the League Cup, the only cup competition I'm yet to win in Northern Ireland, that I've managed in of course

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Loughgall 2-1 Ballymena United
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, Toal (McDonagh 64), McAnallen (Roohi 64), McKinney, Patton
A very exciting game, lots of shots and chances and fortunately we converted more as we ran out winners in an important match against nearby (Positionally) Ballymena

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Ballinamallard United 2-3 Loughgall
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, Toal (Stewart 60), McAnallen, Patton, McKinney
 We had a first half that was full of excitement and goals (4 of them) and then a second half that was tense as both teams tried to simultaneously hand on to their lead and score the winner. Fortunately our quality shone through with Joe McKinney bagging the winner

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Loughgall 2-0 Lurgan Celtic
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderidce, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Toal, Vieira, McAnallen, Patton (Roohi 63), McKinney
We kick off the third phase of the season with a 2-0 win that leaves us still in contention for Europe, what a season

LEAGUE TABLE
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We enter 2018 in 4th in the Premiership! Amazing for a village team!​
 
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LOUGHGALL SIGN TWO
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Danske Bank Premiership surprise package Loughgall FC have today announced the signing of two players and the "Completion of their January business" as they bolster their squad as they look to finish in a European place

The first player signed was John McGuigan, who's joined Loughgall from Championship side Warrenpoint Town for a fee of £4,000

McGuigan, 24, is a versatile midfielder, who can play anywhere on the right hand side but prefers to play in the middle

He began his career at Glentoran, making 45 appearances in the Danske Bank Premiership, before moving onto Warrenpoint, for whom he made 50 league appearances
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The second signing was that of Ryan Morris, who's joined Loughgall for the princely sum of £30 from Premiership rivals Ballinamallard United. Yes, you read that correctly, £30.

Morris, 20, has been brought in as the club's first choice right back following the departure of Nigel Beacom and Kevin Bradley's poor form and complaints that may lead to his departure

Morris spent his entire career at Ballinamallard but made just 7 league appearances in 5 seasons for the Premiership strugglers
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JANUARY
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Its 2018 and I'm looking for some silverware, folks!

IRISH CUP FIFTH ROUND
Crumlin Star 1-4 Loughgall
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Doherty, Bradley, Alderdice, Doyle, Black, Stewart, Toal, Vieira (McAnallen 65), McKinney (Roohi 65), Patton, Chambers
A routine victory with a brace from debutante Maurice Chambers to kick off our Irish Cup campaign

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Linfield 1-0 Loughgall
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, Toal, McKinney, Patton, Chambers (McAnallen 72)
Linfield probably should have had a few more, they were much better than us and deserved the win

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Coleraine 0-0 Loughgall
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, McGuigan (Toal 74), McAnallen (Chambers 74), McKinney, Patton
Coleraine have fallen away slightly following their great start to the season and were poor here as we dominated and deserved the win, we just couldn't take our chances

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Loughgall 1-0 Glenavon
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Bradley 85), McGuigan, Vieira, McAnallen (Chambers 72), Patton (Croskery 53), McKinney
Phew! We battered Glenavon but I thought they'd nick it, especially with their penalty, fortunately we managed to get the ball into their net through the returning Ruairi Croskery, who's back from injury

MID-ULSTER CUP QUARTER FINAL
Coagh United 0-3 Loughgall
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Doherty, Glasgow (Bradley 81), Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, Toal, McAnallen, McKinney, Croskery (Stewart 81)
A comprehensive victory in the Mid-Ulster Cup aided by a sensational hat-trick from Joe McKinney

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Loughgall 3-1 Dungannon Swifts
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Doherty, Glasgow, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Stewart 73), McGuigan, Vieira, McKinney, Patton, Croskery (McAnallen 69)
What a win! We were poor in the first half and were deservedly behind, but we got a slice of luck with the own goal and that seemed to spark us into life as we tore the Dungannon defence to shreds, scoring two excellent goals and claiming a HUGE 3 points

LEAGUE TABLE
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That victory over Dungannon means that they are firmly in our sights as we come to the end of the regular season​
 
FEBRUARY
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The squads are set as we enter the final stages of the regular season, can we do the unthinkable?

IRISH CUP SIXTH ROUND
Warrenpoint Town 1-0 Loughgall
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Toal, Vieira (McAnallen 69), McKinney, Patton, Croskery (Glasgow 84)
We were all over Warrenpoint but just couldn't find the net. Very disappointing.

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Cliftonville 1-2 Loughgall
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, McGuigan, Vieira (Toal 61), McKinney, Patton, Croskery (Chambers 73)
The Irish Cup hangover was in full effect today as we struggled over the line, relying on a Daniel Hughes own goal to bag the three points

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Glentoran 0-3 Loughgall
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Glasgow 79), McGuigan, Vieira (Toal 79), McKinney, Patton (Chambers 61), Croskery
That's more like it!!! We mauled Glentoran and were good value for the 3-0 win and probably deserved a few more, incredible.

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Loughgall 1-0 Portadown
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira (Toal 79), McGuigan, McAnallen, McKinney (Chambers 79), Croskery
Portadown are struggling so I'd have preferred we'd scored a few more, but a win's a win

MID-ULSTER CUP SEMI FINAL
Loughgall 3-1 Portadown
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Glasgow 71), Vieira, Toal, McAnallen, McKinney (Chambers 62), Croskery
A routine victory over Portadown puts us into a second Mid-Ulster Cup final in two years!


LEAGUE TABLE
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Hmmmm interesting....​
 
END OF REGULAR SEASON (PRE-SPLIT)
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Three league games and the Mid-Ulster Cup final. Excitement.

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Crusaders 0-0 Loughgall
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, McGuigan, Vieira (Toal 74), McAnallen (Roohi 86), McKinney, Croskery
We battered Crusaders and should have won but for some reason we just couldn't put the ball in the back of the net. Frustrating.

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Loughgall 2-0 Ballinamallard United
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, McGuigan, Vieira (Toal 59), McAnallen, McKinney, Croskery (Patton 75)
We were all over Balllinamallard and probably should have scored 4 or 5, but 2 will do

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Ballymena United 0-2 Loughgall
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Doherty, Morris (Glasgow 66), Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, McGuigan, Vieira (McAnallen 66), McKinney, Patton, Croskery (Roohi 87)
A simple victory that was aided by the fact that Ballymena played the majority of the match with 10 men. Dale Patton will miss the rest of the season with strained knee ligaments

MID-ULSTER CUP FINAL
Loughgall 3-0 Dungannon Swifts
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Stewart 67), Toal, Vieira, McAnallen, McKinney, Croskery
WOW! We blew Dungannon away here to clinch back-to-back Mid-Ulster Cup triumphs!

LEAGUE TABLE
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We enter the final stage of the season in second place as Linfield's main challengers, can we do it?​
 
POST-SPLIT
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5 games to go. 5 huge games.

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Loughgall 2-1 Cliftonville
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Glasgow 68), McGuigan, Vieira (Toal 68), McKinney, Chambers (Roohi 45), Croskery
A solid start to the fourth phase(?) of the season. To lose the lead then regain almost instantly shows character. Great character.

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Dungannon Swifts 1-3 Loughgall
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Heneghan (Toal 65), McGuigan, Vieira, McKinney, Grainger (Roohi 65), Croskery
Much like in the Mid-Ulster Cup final, we blew Dungannon away, scoring another 3 with Joe McKinney showing his class, bagging a hat-trick

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Loughgall 1-1 Linfield
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black, Glasgow, Vieira (Toal 82), McGuigan (Heneghan 82), McKinney, Burns (Roohi 61), Croskery
A very tight game between the two title challengers. I can't help but feel that if we had Patton or McAnallen available we would have won. This leaves us 2 points off Linfield with 2 games to go which means we need some favours

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Loughgall 2-1 Coleraine
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Doherty, Morris, Alderdice, Copeland, Black (Doyle 76), Heneghan, Vieira (Toal 76), McGuigan, McAnallen (Roohi 68), McKinney, Croskery
We did our job, grabbing a solid 2-1 win at home to Coleraine. Linfield are away to Dungannon, how did they get on?

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We're top with one game to go
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And we're without our captain
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Ballymena United 0-3 Loughgall
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Doherty, Morris (Glasgow 73), Metcalfe, Copeland, Black, Heneghan, Vieira, McGuigan (Toal 76), McAnallen (Chambers 76), McKinney, Croskery
WE'VE WON THE LEAGUE!!! WE'VE DONE IT!!! A comfortable win over Ballymena was enough to get us over the line and become the first non-Belfast team to win the Premiership since Portadown in 2002! This is amazing.

LEAGUE TABLE
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WE'VE WON THE LEAGUE!​
 
Quality achievement! You gonna look to progress to another club now or stick around for another?
 
Christ, fair play. That's one **** of an achievement winning the league first season up with a village team. Really enjoying the story so far.
 
NathanITFC said:
Quality achievement! You gonna look to progress to another club now or stick around for another?
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Cheers mate

I'm really not sure, I have another year's contract and nothing's come up that has really appealed to me, I've gotten rid of the Finnish and Slovakian leagues and am thinking of adding the Dutch ones to see if some better jobs come up
 
yescomeon said:
Christ, fair play. That's one **** of an achievement winning the league first season up with a village team. Really enjoying the story so far.
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Cheers mate, its probably one of my best achievements on FM :)
 
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