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OCTOBER
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Four games to go and we can win the league, interesting

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 3-0 Shelbourne
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Murphy, Nolan, ***** (Feely 82), Desmond, Bermingham, Poynton, Cawley (McGrath 57), Reilly, Kinsella, Dennehy, North (Gaffney 57)
A very good first half was enough as we cruised to victory against Shelbourne

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patricks Athletic 2-1 Cork City
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Murphy, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Bermingham, Poynton (Feely 64), Cawley, Reilly (McGrath 64), Kinsella, Dennehy, North
A dominant performance that was petering out into a defeat, until, that is, Danny North decided to play some football as he took 4 minutes to dismantle Cork's defence and lead

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Cobh Ramblers 2-3 St Patrick's Athletic
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Murphy, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Bermingham, Poynton (McGrath 58), Cawley, Reilly, Gaffney (Drennan 75), Kinsella, North (McEleney 90)
DANNY, DANNY NORTH! DANNY, DANNY NORTH! Cobh Ramblers gave us a run for our money but our quality showed as we got past them

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 1-1 Sligo Rovers
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Murphy, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Bermingham, Feely (McEleney 81), Cawley, Reilly, Kinsella, Dennehy, North (Drennan 65)
Final day. Shamrock drew. If we'd held on, we'd have won the league.

LEAGUE TABLE
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Gutting.​
 
4th of January 2019


The players I'd agreed deals for outside the transfer window arrived today, let's meet them

DYLAN CONNOLLY - BRAY WANDERERS - €90,000
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One of the conditions I had to meet when given the job was that I would sign young players and I've started that here with Connolly, the wingers at the club were fairly old with Gaffney and Dennehy being 29 and 32 respectively so we needed some fresh blood and we found that in Connolly who gives us more options out wide

JOEL COOPER - GLENAVON - FREE TRANSFER
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Another signing, another young winger. This one from north of the border as I travelled to old adversaries Glenavon, nicked their best player and put him in my team. He's a good crosser and fairly fast, I like him

ELLIOTT PARKER - CEFN DRUIDS - FREE TRANSFER
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One for the future, you might say, Elliott has bags of potential and will sit in the Under 19s for a bit

SEAN REILLY - LOUGHGALL - €4,300
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One of my favourite players from my time at Loughgall, we already have a talented defence but if he can progress the way he should then he'll be in the team in no time

TONY O'NEILL - GLENAVON - €30,000
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The folks at Glenavon must hate me! Not only have I taken their best player, but their second best player as well! O'Neill is a great prospect and, despite his tender age will lead the line for us this season

ADAM MCDONNELL - IPSWICH - €50,000
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Proof that the Irish sides have a pretty good pull? McDonnell made 27 appearances for Ipswich in the Championship last season bu has left the Tractor Boys and come home to Ireland

SCOTT WILSON - DUNGANNON SWIFTS - €35,000
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Northern Ireland is home to some top talents and we've picked up another one here in Wilson. He's only 18 but is probably already good enough for our first team and could go on to play for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland one day (Dependent on progression and who he chooses)​
 
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ST PAT'S SPLASH CASH ON MURPHY REPLACEMENT
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Following the St Patrick's board's controversial decision to sell star goalkeeper Greg Murphy to Celtic without consulting manager Matthew Hawkins, Hawkins has been desperately looking for a replacement with not long to go until the start of the season

Fortunately for fans of St Patrick's as well as Hawkins, they have found one in Colin McCabe, who's joined St Patrick's from Derry City €220,000

Murphy, who was sold for €750,000, was linked with a loan move back to Ireland but that never materialised, forcing Hawkins to look elsewhere and he's signed the 22-year-old former Celtic trainee to become his new number one
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MARCH
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The transfer window is over and now we get to see if I'm good at signing players at professional clubs

LEINSTER SENIOR CUP FOURTH ROUND
St Patrick's Athletic 4-0 Drogheda United
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McCabe, Nolan, ***** (S.Reilly 64), Desmond, Bermingham, Reilly (Feely 64), Cawley, Wilson, Kinsella (Dennehy 59), Cooper, O'Neill
A great start to the season! This is my biggest win as St Patrick's boss and the new players seemed to gel instantly and seemed a lot sharper than that the opposition, I'm going to put that down to the fact that we played 7 friendlies

IRISH PRESIDENT'S CUP
Shamrock Rovers 0-5 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe (Forrester 36), Nolan, *****, Desmond, Bermingham, Cawley, Wilson, Reilly, Kinsella (Dennehy 59), Cooper, O'Neill (North 76)
What was that about our biggest victory? Scratch that, this is our biggest win now! We blew the champions Shamrock Rovers away here as we banged five goals past them in the Irish version of the Community Shield. Only downside is Colin McCabe will be missing for 2 months with a fractured wrist

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 1-0 Bohemian
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley, Wilson, Reilly, Kinsella, Cooper, O'Neill
We were just as impressive here as we were elsewhere but couldn't find the net until extraordinarily late on when Tony O'Neill kept his nerve and scored his first professional league goal

EA SPORTS CUP FIRST ROUND
Shelbourne 0-3 St Patrick's Athletic
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Desmond (S.Reilly 62), Bermingham, Reilly (Feely 62), Cawley, Wilson, Kinsella, Cooper, O'Neill
Our defence of the EA Sports Cup got off to great start as we blew Shelbourne away, recording 19 shots with 11 on target to grab a 3-0 win

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 1-1 Dundalk
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Reilly, Cawley (McGrath 67), Wilson, Kinsella, Cooper (Dennehy 76), O'Neill
We were slightly off our game today which allowed Dundalk to take advantage of that and grab an important away point

LEINSTER SENIOR CUP QUARTER FINAL
St Patrick's Athletic 3-0 Dundalk
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Desmond (S.Reilly 79), Bermingham, Cawley (Feely 74), Wilson (McGrath 74), Reilly, Kinsella, Cooper, O'Neill
Why couldn't we do this a few days go? We blew Dundalk away in the first half which allowed us to cruise through the second half and into the Semi Final draw

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
University College Dublin 0-4 St Patrick's Athletic
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley, Wilson, Reilly, Kinsella, Cooper, O'Neill
Another great performance as we add to our goal difference against newly-promoted UCD

LEAGUE TABLE
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Third after three games and I'm still unbeaten as St Patrick's manager. Happy days.
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APRIL
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A solid start, let's keep going!

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Galway United 0-2 St Patrick's Athletic
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley, Wilson (McDonnell 72), Reilly, Kinsella, Cooper, O'Neill (Drennan 72)
We may have missed a penalty but we got there in the end! Tony O'Neill shocked us all with his shocking penalty but made up for it in the second half to set us on our way for a 2-0 victory

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Cobh Ramblers
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley, Wilson, Reilly (McDonnell 56), Kinsella, Cooper (Dennehy 64), O'Neill
Another good performance, another good win and another goal for Tony O'Neill! The man's a machine!

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Sligo Rovers 1-4 St Patrick's Athletic
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley (S.Reilly 59), Wilson (McDonnell 59), Reilly, Kinsella, Cooper, O'Neill
REVENGE! Sligo stopped us from winning the title last season so we decided to destroy them here and humiliate them in front of their own fans

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Shamrock Rovers 1-1 St Patrick's Athletic
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley (McGrath 42), Wilson, Reilly, Kinsella, Cooper (Dennehy 62), O'Neill
A poor game in truth, where neither side really got going, a draw was a fair result

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 1-1 Derry City
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Forrester, Nolan, *****, Feely (Drennan 73), Desmond, Reilly, Wilson (S.Reilly 58), McDonnell, Kinsella, Cooper, O'Neill
See above.

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Cork City 0-2 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley (S.Reilly 60), Wilson, Reilly, O'Boyle, Kinsella (Cooper 60), O'Neill
That's better! We went away to Cork, dominated play and returned with a healthy 2-0 win and three points! Also a debut for newboy Anthony O'Boyle, who just joined on a free transfer
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AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 4-0 Shelbourne
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McCabe, Nolan, ***** (S.Reilly 71), Feely, Desmond, Cawley, Wilson, Reilly (Elworthy 71), O'Boyle, Kinsella, O'Neill
Tony O'Neill missed another penalty but scored anyway as we secure a HUGE 4-0 victory against Shelbourne

LEAGUE TABLE
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Looking good after two months​
 
MAY
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We have a tough month coming up that could make or break our season

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Finn Harps 1-1 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, S.Reilly, Desmond, Cawley, Wilson (McDonnell 68), C.Reilly (Elworthy 68), O'Boyle, Kinsella, O'Neill
A decent performance but we should be sticking three or four past these guys, not good enough.

EA SPORTS CUP SECOND ROUND
Shamrock Rovers 0-3 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley (S.Reilly 62), Wilson, Reilly, O'Boyle, Cooper (Kinsella 69), O'Neill
A very good performance and a HUGE 3-0 victory as we bulldoze Shamrock Rovers to get into the next round of the EA Sports Cup

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Dundalk 2-2 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley (McGrath 69), Wilson, Reilly, O'Boyle, Cooper (Kinsella 45), O'Neill
We were dominant today and really deserved all three points but two very good Dundalk goals stopped that, still a point away to Dundalk is a good one

LEINSTER SENIOR CUP SEMI FINAL
St Patrick's Athletic 1-0 Bohemian
After Extra-Time
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley (McDonnell 90), Wilson, Reilly (S.Reilly 110), O'Boyle, Kinsella, O'Neill
We just don't seem to be at the races this month, we haven't really got into our rhythm and this is another display of that as we struggled over the line into the final

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 2-2 Shamrock Rovers
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McCabe, Elworthy, *****, Feely, Nolan, Reilly (Kelly 84), Wilson, McDonnell, O'Boyle (Dennehy 73), Kinsella, O'Neill
We played 45 minutes against 10 men and couldn't score. Not good enough. Liam Kelly made his debut after coming in on a free
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AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Bohemian 2-0 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Elworthy, *****, Feely, Desmond, Cawley (Kelly 62), Wilson, Reilly (McDonnell 60), O'Boyle, Kinsella, O'Neill
We were very poor today and deserved to lose. This is my first loss as St Patrick's boss, I went 30 games unbeaten.

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 6-1 University College Dublin
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McCabe, Nolan, ***** (S.Reilly 73), Feely, Desmond (Elworthy 73), Wilson, Cawley, Reilly, Kelly, North (McGrath 72), O'Neill
We changed formation and it worked! We went with a narrow 4-3-1-2 that worked with Loughgall and it went brilliantly as we smashed UCD 6-1!

EA SPORTS CUP QUARTER FINAL
Cabinteely 0-5 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Wilson, Cawley, Reilly, Kelly, North (McGrath 69), O'Neill
We started slightly slowly but really turned it on in the second half as we smashed in 4 goals in 30 minutes

LEAGUE TABLE
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We've slipped off top, not good!​
 
JUNE
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Four games this month, a lot less than recently

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Cobh Ramblers 0-2 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Wilson (McGrath 65), Cawley, Reilly, Kelly, North, O'Neill
For every game against Dundalk or Shamrock there are smaller games against teams like Cobh Ramblers which are no less important, we're good at these smaller games and got a deserved 2-0 win

FAI FORD CUP SECOND ROUND
St Patrick's Athletic 3-0 Shamrock Rovers
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Wilson, Cawley, Reilly, Kelly, North, O'Neill
A tough draw for the second round but we blew Shamrock away in the first 30 minutes which allowed us to cruise into the Third Round

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 1-0 Galway United
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Wilson, Cawley, Reilly, Kelly (Stewart 86), North (McGrath 61), O'Neill
We should have scored so much more as we spurned chance after chance, fortunately we kept going and finally broke through with just 13 minutes to go

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 3-0 Sligo Rovers
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, Wilson, Reilly (Stewart 67), McDonnell, Kelly, McGrath, O'Neill
A routine 3-0 win as we prepare for the upcoming Europa League games against the Icelandic side Breioablik UBK

LEAGUE TABLE
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I do enjoy being top​
 
First of July 2018

The transfer window opened today and that means one thing in these parts - pre-contracts!

KESTON DAVIES - SWANSEA - FREE TRANSFER
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A decent player with a bit of potential who has been brought in to provide cover in the heart of defence with Lee Desmond currently out with an injury.

KEVIN MORGAN - ABERYSTWYTH - FREE TRANSFER
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Another Welshman! This one is a whole lot more exciting than the first, however, with this one being a 20 year old attacking midfielder with 10 caps for Wales Under-21s despite playing in the Welsh Premier League! He scored 39 goals and bagged 14 assists in 92 games for Aberystwyth, winning the Welsh Premier League Young Player of the Year and even coming third in Welsh Young Player of the Year in 2016

REECE GREGO-*** - QPR - FREE TRANSFER
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We had an ageing striker force when I arrived at the club, with Rory Gaffney, Mikey Drennan and Danny North all being above 28, I've rectified that with my signings of O'Neill, Grego-*** and another striker who you'll meet soon

MATEUSZ HEWELT - EVERTON - FREE TRANSFER
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A well-rounded goalkeeper who will likely replace McCabe in goals, Hewelt made 4 Premier League appearances for Everton and has 6 Ireland Under-21 caps. Born in Gdynia, he is fluent in Polish, English and Irish!

TOM FIELD - BRENTFORD - FREE TRANSFER
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With Desmond out and Bermingham still injured, we needed a left-back and we've found one! Field is young for a defender, has plenty of room to grow and will slot straight into the first team. 15 Ireland Under-21 caps!!!

CALLUM SAUNDERS - CREWE - €93,000
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Saunders is a good player to bring in as a backup to O'Neill and offers something different if we change tactic and go for a two up-top

LUKE GRIEVE - ARMAGH CITY - FREE TRANSFER
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A bit of potential that's all.​
 
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ST PAT'S BRING IN MIDFIELD REINFORCEMENTS
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St Patrick's Athletic have acted swiftly following the news of star midfielder Callum Reilly's injury by bringing in two midfielders within days of each other

The first of these signings was that of young midfielder Marc IJzermann, who's been brought in from Ajax for €65,000

IJzermann, 20, never played for Ajax's first team, instead making 6 appearances for Jong Ajax in the Jupiler League and scoring one goal before moving to Dublin
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The second and most expensive of the two signings was that of Aaron McEneff, who's joined St Patrick's for €350,000 from Premier League rivals Derry City

The Northern Irish born midfielder, who has 3 Under 21 caps for the Republic of Ireland, started his career at St Pat's manager's old adversaries Institute before joining Tottenham Hotspur

McEneff never played for Spurs, instead finding himself back in his native Derry, for whom he made 103 league appearances over 5 seasons
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JULY
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Europe. I'm back.

LEINSTER SENIOR CUP FINAL
St Patrick's Athletic 1-0 University College Dublin
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond (Davies 90), Wilson, Cawley, Reilly, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill (Saunders 65)
Phew! We struggled over the line here but still managed to lift our third trophy under my stewardship via a Scott Wilson goal

EUROPA LEAGUE FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND FIRST LEG
St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Breioablik UBK
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely (S.Reilly 63), Field, Cawley, Wilson, Reilly, O'Boyle (Kinsella 63), Cooper, O'Neill
A solid 2-0 win that was wrapped up before half-time, the tie would have been over had O'Neill converted his penalty

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Derry City 0-5 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Field, Wilson, Reilly (Davies 60), Cawley (McGrath 60), Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill
BOOM! We now have 2 attacking midfielders so we've changed to a narrow 4-3-2-1 and boy did it work today! An amazing 5-0 win as a warm-up for the Europa League second leg

EUROPA LEAGUE FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND SECOND LEG
Breioablik UBK 2-2 St Patrick's Athletic
St Patrick's win 4-2 on Aggregate
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Field, Wilson, Cawley, Reilly, Kelly, McGrath, O'Neill
Disappointed not to win but we're through!

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Shelbourne 1-4 St Patrick's Athletic
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McCabe, Nolan, *****, Feely, Field (Davies 64), Wilson, Cawley (S.Reilly 69), Reilly, Kelly (Saunders 69), Morgan, O'Neill
Back to the day job n the league and another comfortable victory! An excellent 4-1 win with a dominant performance and a first St Patrick's goal for Kevin Morgan

EUROPA LEAGUE SECOND QUALIFYING ROUND FIRST LEG
St Patrick's Athletic 2-1 Lech Poznan
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Feely, Field, Cawley, Wilson, Reilly (McDonnell 65), Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill
What a win! We battered Lech on the opening stages and really should have scored more as we created chance after chance, unfortunately they kept us out and scored late, which could be costly

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Cork City
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Feely, Field, Wilson, Cawley (McGrath 80), McDonnell, Kelly (O'Boyle 80), Morgan, O'Neill (Saunders 80)
Another routine league victory with a first St Patricks goal for summer signing Adam McDonnell!

EUROPA LEAGUE SECOND QUALIFYING ROUND SECOND LEG
Lech Poznan 1-1 St Patrick's Athletic
St Patrick's win 3-2 on Aggregate
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Feely, Field, Cawley, Wilson, McDonnell (Morgan 64), O'Boyle, Cooper, O'Neill
We went with a more defensive 4-1-4-1 system aaaaaaaaaaand... it didn't really work as we went 1-0 down and were staring at defeat. I made a change to a more attacking 4-2-3-1 soon after before bringing on Kevin Morgan who's solo effort put us into the THIRD QUALIFYING ROUND!

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 3-1 Finn Harps
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Davies, Desmond, McEneff, Wilson (Grego-*** 61), McDonnell, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill
We fell behind early on as Finn Harps took a shock lead but we rolled up our collective sleeves and equalised via a resurgent Adam McDonnell before Tony O'Neill did his thing, there are rumours of Northern Ireland call-up brewing

LEAGUE TABLE
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11 games left and a 5 point lead, I could get used to this​
 
My European adventures had so far taken me to some pretty cold places, Iceland, Denmark and Poland spring to mind, so one of the big plusses of being drawn against Portuguese side Vitoria de Setubal in the Third Qualifying Round is that I would, for once, be experiencing a warmer climate

Another one of the big plusses was that this lot are beatable. I rate them as worse than Lech Poznan, a team whom we had comfortably dispatched in the last round and I had no fears going into the first leg, which was being played in the Aviva Stadium, home of the national team.

My lack of fear was soon rewarded as we played the visitor off the park, recording a solid 2-0 victory before travelling to Portugal, which is where we are currently
Despite our domestic and European success, the club are in the ****. Big style. We're over €800,000 in the hole and I feel that we're going to have to get to at least the playoffs if we want to survive, I haven't told the players but its a huge burden on my shoulders as we travel to Portugal

We went with our narrow 4-3-2-1, with Matuesz Hewelt in goal, Nolan, *****, Desmond and Field in defence, McEneff, Wilson and McDonnell in midfield, Liam Kelly and Kevin Morgan as our more advanced midfielders with Tony O'Neill up front. Let's do this.

The expected total football never arrived early on, with the players looking nervous and the match scrappy, Setubal didn't help matters by carving us open 27 minutes in, fortunately they missed. We weren't so lucky 6 minutes later when a monumental ****-up from Sean ***** allowed them to take the lead, they should have scored just before half-time as well, clearly a tactical re-think is in order.

I gave the lads a bollocking, David Cawley came on for Adam McDonnell and we were underway again.

The bollocking soon paid off, as Liam Kelly won the ball in their half, played in O'Neill who whipped the ball across for Kevin Morgan who tapped home. 1-1.

The game soon died down as Setubal desperately searched for a goal, allowing us to calm down and play our game, which we did as we constructed a sublime passing move that went from back to front before allowing Tony O'Neill to smash home his 44th of the season. 2-1.

We looked comfortable, until the 75th minute that is, when ***** cocked up again and allowed them to equalise. Idiot. They kept pushing and 12 minutes later they regained their lead, 3-2 and I'm starting to panic, that panic soon left as a Setubal player received a second yellow for tripping Scott Wilson. Happy days.

Anyway we held on and lost 3-2 but it was the best 3-2 loss ever


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Happy. Mother. F*cking. Days.
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(Most of) AUGUST
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That 4-3 aggregate win in the Europa League was dramatic, how was life at home?

EA SPORTS CUP SEMI FINAL
St Patrick's Athletic 4-1 Dundalk
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Hewelt, Elworthy, *****, Desmond, Field, McEneff, Wilson (Feely 65), McDonnell, Kelly (O'Boyle 65), Morgan, O'Neill
Wow. After a slow start to the second half we blew Dundalk away and could have had more. Extraordinary

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 0-2 Bohemian
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Field 26, McEneff, Wilson, McDonnell, Kelly (Davies 26), Morgan, O'Neill
Back down to Earth with quite the bang, a 2-0 loss to Bohemian was very poor indeed and wasn't helped at all by Tom Field's early red card, we remained competitive despite this but were hindered by virtue of having fewer men

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
University College Dublin 0-2 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond, McEneff, Cawley, McDonnell, Kelly, Morgan (O'Boyle 64), O'Neill
That's better! The dismissals went in our favour this time around as UCD ended the half with 10 men, allowing us to cruise to a 2-0 win. Tony O'Neill scored a 5.9 Match Rating last time out and missed a penalty here, could the attentions of Northern Ireland and Tottenham Hotspur be getting the better of him?

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 1-1 Dundalk
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Field, McEneff, Cawley, Wilson, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill
We battered Dundalk but struggled to a draw via a Kevin Morgan thunderbolt, could Europe be forcing our players to take their eyes off the ball?

EUROPA LEAGUE PLAYOFF FIRST LEG
St Patrick's Athletic 3-1 Sporting Club de Braga
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Hewelt, Elworthy, *****, Desmond, Field, McEneff (McDonnell 61), Cawley (Feely 89)), Wilson, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill (McGrath 30)
WOW! WOW, WOW, WOW! What a performance and what a win! We were excellent today and ripped into Braga from the get-go and forcing two early goals, they scored just before the break but we kept our composure and regained our 2 goal lead soon after, that could be huge. Tony O'Neill will be missing until October though

FAI FORD CUP THIRD ROUND
St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Derry City
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond (Davies 57), Field, Wilson, Cawley (McGrath 57), McDonnell, Kelly, Morgan, Saunders
A routine cup victory with Callum Saunders making his first start for the club

LEAGUE TABLE
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Looking slightly nervy at the moment to be honest​
 
Back in Europe and back in Portugal. We played this lot off the park at the Aviva Stadium and are in a great position to qualify for the Europa League group stages, we could be on the verge of something great

I'd love to go out and attack them, but my inner Tony Pulis is telling me "Steady on son, you've got a two goal lead, defend that" and for those words, Tony, I am grateful

I'm also heeding that advice, with Tony O'Neill out Kevin Morgan will lead the line in a defensive 4-1-4-1, with Mateusz Hewelt retaining his place in goal, Nolan, *****, Feely and Desmond as the back four, David Cawley in defensive midfield, McEneff and Wilson in midfield, Cooper and O'Boyle out wide and Morgan up front.

Let's go.

And the grand defensive plan went wrong almost instantly as Braga took the lead 15 minutes, thanks Tony.

Our disappointment doubled soon after, as did Braga's lead as they scored from a corner, it appears Braga are also channelling their inner Pulis. They're leading on away goals. Sod this, we're attacking

And we did, and we soon found ourselves in their box, with Kevin Morgan (Who;s suffered a thigh strain) on the all, turning his man and finding Joel Cooper! 2-1! Game on

We kept pushing and, just before half-time, we found ourselves in the Braga half with Joel Cooper standing over a free-kick, he did what all good wingers do and whipped a ball in, which was met by the head of goal machine Rory Feely. 2-2!!!!

I told the lads to keep going and we did, but we soon found ourselves behind again when Sandro Veloso converted a sensational Braga move. 3-2.

It was the 77th minute and I looked at my subs bench, one change already made when Liam Kelly replaced the injured Kevin Morgan and I realised, we are 13 minutes from the Europa League group stages, what the f*ck do I do?

Put on a defensive midfielder, that's what. Apparently, so Loughgall academy graduate Kyle Stewart entered the fray in the sweltering Portuguese heat. By the time I'd turned, they'd scored, 4-2, 5-5 on aggregate, Jesus.

And then, the sucker punch came, the 89th minute and Garces whipped the ball in, I knew what was coming as Andrade rose above Eddie Nolan at the back post, he powered it goalwards and... CORSSBAR! But it fell Veloso on the goal line WHAT A CLEARANCE SEAN *****!!!!!

From the resulting corner Scott Wilson conceded a free kick, the ball in dropped to an unmarked Brito! STRAIGHT AT HEWELT! My heart can't take it.

One last desperate pump forward from Braga and - THAT'S IT!!! WE'VE MADE THE GROUP STAGES!!!!!


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What a game

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Scenes.

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That's sorted the finances out
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Been great following this thread. I started my own unemployed save and decided against Loughall as I could not hope to emulate you. I took the Dundela job (N. Ireland 3rd division) - won league but resigned as not enjoying the club. Keep up the good work.
 
EnglishYeti said:
Been great following this thread. I started my own unemployed save and decided against Loughall as I could not hope to emulate you. I took the Dundela job (N. Ireland 3rd division) - won league but resigned as not enjoying the club. Keep up the good work.
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You're making me blush :p

Good luck with your save mate :)
 
SEPTEMBER
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Not long to go now

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 2-2 Cobh Ramblers
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Feely, Field, McEneff, Cawley, Wilson (McGrath 58), Kelly, Saunders, Grego-*** (North 80)
We fell apart in the least 20 minutes. Poor.

FAI FORD CUP QUARTER FINAL
Mervue United 3-5 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Field, IJzerman, Stewart (Wilson 61), McDonnell, Kelly, Grego-***, Saunders
To score 5 is great, to concede 3 to a lower division team is poor.

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Derry City
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Field, McEneff, Wilson, Reilly (McGrath 74), Kelly, Morgan (Saunders 56), Grego-***
That's better! A good performance, with goals form both of our backup strikers, this win sets us up nicely for the league

EA SPORTS CUP FINAL
St Patrick's Athletic 3-1 Galway United
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Field, McEneff (McGrath 70), Cawley, Wilson (Feely 70), Kelly, Morgan, Grego-***
Another trophy! This is my 9th trophy of my career so far, with 4 of those coming at St Patrick's!

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Shamrock Rovers 1-0 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Nolan, Feely, Desmond, Field, Wilson, Cawley, Reilly, Kelly (McGrath 90), Morgan, Grego-***
Another injury and loss as a weakened side falter against Shamrock, these problems could derail our season

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Sligo Rovers 2-2 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Feely, Desmond (Field 80), McEneff, Wilson, Reilly, McGrath, Grego-***, O'Neill (Saunders 79)
We've faltered in recent weeks and this could really harm our season

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Galway United 2-6 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Field, McEneff, Wilson, Reilly, Kelly (Grego-*** 62), McGrath, O'Neill (Saunders 62)
That's more like it! A crushing 6-2 victory really put the lads back on cloud nine and I couldn't be happier

LEAGUE TABLE
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3 games to go and we're in the driving seat​
 
END OF THE (IRISH) SEASON
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Three league games to go

FAI FORD CUP SEMI FINAL
Cabinteely 0-3 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, S.Reilly, Field, IJzerman, Cawley (Davies 80), C.Reilly, Kelly, Morgan (O'Boyle 80), O'Neill
A comfortable three goal victory sets us up nicely for a final clash against Cork City

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Shelbourne
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond (Davies 59), Field, McEneff, Wilson, Reilly, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill (Grego-*** 59)
A lot tighter than I would have liked against bottom-of-the-table Shelbourne, I would have expected a few more goals, but a win's a win

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Cork City 2-4 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Elworthy, *****, Desmond, Field, McEneff, Wilson (Cawley 66), Reilly, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill (Grego-*** 70)
Reece Grego-***'s late brace was the difference here as Cork staged a late comeback via Niall Canavan, fortunately we held on and WON THE LEAGUE!!! My second top flight trophy as a manager, I have now conquered the isle of Ireland!

AIRTRICITY PREMIER LEAGUE
Finn Harps 1-3 St Patrick's Athletic
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Davies, Desmond, McEneff, Reilly (Feely 64), Wilson, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill
A comfortable 2 goal victory to end the league season. With Northern Ireland international Tony O'Neill bagging is 32nd league goal of the season

FAI FORD CUP FINAL
St Patrick's Athletic 2-1 Cork City
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Hewelt, Nolan, *****, Desmond, Field, Wilson, Cawley (Stewart 61), Reilly, Kelly, Morgan, O'Neill
The Cup Final was decided in 18 frantic minutes as we dominate Cork. We had 26 shots, 13 on target, Cork had 2 shots.

LEAGUE TABLE
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Championes, Championes, Ole, Ole, Ole​
 
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