EX-IRELAND INTERNATIONAL Kevin Foley made his Ipswich debut at the weekend, after signing for the club in the January transfer window.
Foley couldn’t prevent Mick McCarthy’s side losing 2-1 to Bristol City, however, as Daryl Murphy also featured in the match, while ex-Ireland U21 international Jay Tabb was an unused sub. Alex Pearce also didn’t get off the bench for City.
Joe Mason scored his second goal in two appearances for Wolves, who lost 2-1 at Molineux against a Preston side who had Greg Cunningham and Alan Browne in their starting XI, while Eoin Doyle was a late substitute. The hosts also had former Bohemians youth player Matt Doherty in their side.
Richie Towell was not in the matchday squad, as Brighton beat Bolton 3-2 to stay fourth.
Charlton goalkeeper Stephen Henderson earned a clean sheet as his side drew 0-0 with Cardiff. Anthony Pilkington was also involved for the Welsh team.
Shane Duffy and Daragh Lenihan both started, as Blackburn lost 2-0 at home to Hull, for whom David Meyler was a late substitute.
Stephen Ward, Paul McShane and Stephen Quinn all started, as Reading and Burnley drew 0-0. Sean Dyche’s side remain third in the Championship as a result.
Stephen Gleeson played the full 90 minutes, as Birmingham drew 0-0 with Rotherham, who had Paul Green in their team.
Aiden McGeady was a 62nd minute sub, as Sheffield Wednesday beat Brenford 4-0, while Keiren Westwood played the full 90 minutes. Alan Judge featured for the Bees.
Darren Potter and Samir Carruthers both started as MK Dons defeated Derby 1-0. Cyrus Christie, Richard Keogh and Jeff Hendrick all were in action for Darren Wassall’s side.
Finally, there was bad news for Nottingham Forest’s Andy Reid recently, as it was confirmed that he would not return from injury this season, having already spent over 15 months on the sidelines.
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40 wins in a row. My god. No wonder most ppl couldn’t give a flying fiddlers about Football anymore. Maybe just maybe, the Dubs might realise the Money, home advantage and population might be the reason to this. Or shall we just hope Wexford or Westmeath beat them next year?
@John Paul Mullins: if its money and population Cork should be doing well
@John Paul Mullins: the government gave Dublin the money, they did say yes please, they can’t control the population, Derry Mayo and Kerry have small populations and can beat Dublin in the top games, the Dublin team and supporters would love to come out of Croke park, but both Leinster council and Croke park want them to play there, population agreement would have Dublin winning hurling and camoige and under age football championships all the time, just saying
@real man: dublin has three times the population of cork.
@Martin Lonergan: Good man….. Keep up the top quality denial and delusion. Why would dublin young lads ever switch to hurling when the money is in the football. Smh!
@real man: Corks Population is a fraction of Dublins
@Barry Baz: Cork’s gaa playing population is the highest in the country.
@Martin Lonergan: The Gaa gave them the money.
I was in the Hill when Dublin missed a peno to beat Meath in a Leinster semi final in 97. The place was packed. And the three games that Meath played against Kildare after that was packed too. Those days are gone. Today’s crowd was embarrassing. We need something new.
@Andrew Smyth: *quarter final
@Andrew Smyth: offaly beat meath that year in leinster final I remember it well was on a Saturday night and roy malone scored two crackers.
@Paully kells: Offaly put Meath to the sword in the final ten minutes. All the games caught up with them. Probably the best Leinster Championship of my lifetime.
Nice to see dubs getting a leg up from the ref to allow 13 steps for first goal
@Tony McGrath: Even as a Dub I agree it was steps, but having said that it would’ve made zero difference to the outcome if we’re honest.
@Ultán Corcoran: Think the referees take into account the fact he was fouled while heading towards goal. Always play advantage and balance out one foul with the technical foul. That way he doesn’t stop a goal chance or stop the flow. Just a theory
Obviously the money and the resources dublin have puts them way ahead of most Leinster counties but the real story in Leinster is how bad meath and Kildare are, monaghan beat dublin in the league and with 5 minutes to go In the all ireland semi final last year were level, Derry beat dublin in the league final and have a genuine chance of winning the all ireland, neither of these counties have superior resources or tradition to meath or Kildare they have no reason bot be competitive
Meath has a bigger population than Kerry, Tyrone, Down & Mayo – all counties that have been competitive in the last few years. Maybe some inward reflection required on why they cant put a good squad together
@Owen ODonoghue: half of Dublin live in Meath and play with Dublin clubs!!
@Owen ODonoghue: maybe Dublin people have reallocate to Meath because of house prices.
No one outside leinster would watch it. Fair play to Colm for saying it as it is. Dublin doesn’t have a serious game until at least the all Ireland semi’s. Ulster is the only competing province now. Something needs to be done and fast
How about starting with moving the semis out of croker in 2 weeks time Leinster council?
The GAA is in a poor state ATM. The majority of games that took place today and last week are irrelevant, Dublin won’t be stopped in Leinster, Mayo/Galway won easy Connaught and Armagh won at a canter against Fermanagh.
I’m a GAA man but also an avid sports fan and it’s hard to watch GAA when the Premier League is coming to an exciting climax and one of the 4 majors in golf is on all weekend.
I turned Meath/Dublin on for 15 mins and went back to the Arsenal game as the outcome was always going to be one way.
The GAA has done this to itself in my opinion not changing with the times and sticking with the same old same old championship structure that has run its course.
Very sad to see
Provisional competitions need to be scrapped. A champions league style AI would be amazing… Play Provisional competitions as stand alone
The round Robin in hurling is the same. The bigger counties Will always come out on top.
Should have stayed on the Sunday game Colm you had all the answers on tv .
Not as easy on the sidelines.
Not Dublins fault Meath so poor.
@Tom Murphy: Colm is not a novice and knows GAA far more than most. He was only stating what everyone was thinking including Dessie Farrell. It is a total eff up. Sad day when people have to go to Google to try and unravel the ins and outs of the championship!!
@David Jackman: won’t 3 crash out