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2023-2024 Season: Taking on the leaders on their own turf The transfer window has been slammed shut on us for 2023-24 and we're, as a whole, very happy with our activity. Over the two windows, we have brought in 19 new players with 9 leaving for past...
2023-2024 Season: Three more through the door as the window slams shut… We concluded our transfer dealings with the arrival of three more players to the squad, whilst missing out on an audacious loan signing from a Premiership team. Arriving at The D...
2023-2024: Staying Unbeaten We have had a rather good month it has to be said, We've been unbeaten in six matches overall since losing 4-3 at home to Portstewart on the second weekend of December. I think a lot is down to a change in formation, we dr...
2023-2024 Season: A break from the grind We have had a much needed two week break between the Limavady United home win and our next fixture which is away to Armagh City on the last Saturday in January. After this fixture, there will be just 10 regula...
2023-2024 Season: The winning train keeps a-rolling…. I think it's safe to say that the Steel and Sons Cup win has certainly transformed the Club as a whole. Nobody gave us much hope of winning that, even our own Board, and especially on Moyola Park'...
2023-2024 Season: Revenge is a dish best served COLD! So we actually did build on the Cup triumph in our first game of 2024, and proved that we were actually not around to just turn up and become the latest team to succumb to Queens. In fact that las...
2023-2024 Season: Revenge is a dish best served COLD! So we actually did build on the Cup triumph in our first game of 2024, and proved that we were actually not around to just turn up and become the latest team to succumb to Queens. In fact that las...
2023-2024 Season: Unveiling some new signings We have been busy in the last few days with a host of new signings being unveiled, and to be honest we needed it. Please welcome the following newcomers to The Dub: As mentioned in previous post...
2023-2024 Season: Honours even as a draw dethrones Queens. Seven days passed after the euphoria of winning the Steel and Sons Cup Final against Moyola Park on their own turf. It's the second half of the season, a new year, and hopefully we can use th...
That's the plan, but nothing is ever easy especially in this division. Probably the toughest I have ever managed in for a while…
2023-2024 Season: Winter Window Re-Build The excitement of the Steel and Sons Cup win is something that will last for a while, at least to the end of this season when my one year deal expires. Will I do a Louis van Gaal, win a Cup and then get sacked...
2023-2024 Season: Late Hill winner brings the Cup home! Dress rehearsal done, now time for a Cup Final and what a day to play it on…Christmas Day itself! As advised before, we were going to be without two recognised first team players: one...
2023-2024 Season: Double blow ahead of Cup Final Our hopes of taking the Steel and Sons Cup on Christmas Day afternoon have suffered a double blow with two first teamers declared unavailable. The first known absence is central defender Ben Mitch...
2023-2024 Season: Six goal dress rehearsal thriller The win against Coagh was massive in every sense. It had been coming and it actually came at much needed stage of the season. If we had lost that one then the personal pressure would have been unbea...
2023-2024 Season: Praise be! We won a game! After the fans reaction to the previous game, I knew I had to try and find something new to change our fortunes. We were hurtling towards that dangerous 14th place which the pundits had predicted for us at...
2023-2024 Season: Seven goal thriller but the slide continues After exiting the Irish Cup at Banbridge Town, and a potential money spinning tie against one of the Premiership sides, we were undoubtedly down in the dumps. Aside of the Steel and Sons C...
Looking good with the screen grabs now mate. Definitely brings the story to life Hope you get the Cartoon army relegated tbh, I would say that because I’m a SAFC fan….
Interesting concept this. Would be even better with a few bits of graphics here and there in my opinion.Senegal seems an interesting international challenge, produced plenty of good players over the last few years it has to be said.
2023-2024 Season: Red card proves costly for us The recent run of games came to an end as we played in the fourth qualifying round of the Northern Irish version of the FA Cup. A place in the First Round Proper awaited the winners, and the potential o...
Thanks mate. As I said in my PM, more to come….Season 2023-2024: Current Expectations at a Glance. This is exactly how the board see things at the moment, no heat on at the moment. Guess they will have a better positive attitude if we get into the Fi...
2023-2024 Season: A look back so far… We have been in the job almost five months now, and safe to say it hasn't been all plain sailing. This is how we stand in the league table at the moment:Whilst our recent form leaves a lot to be desired, we...
2023-2024 Season: Can't buy a win for love or money…. After having such a good start where we hit the heights of fourth at one stage, we are now in a bit of a slide. We just can't seem to find a win at the moment, and it certainly feels a tad demoral...
2023-2024 Season: The league slide continues… There was very little time to dwell on our extra time win in midweek before a Saturday match in the league against Banbridge Town. This would be the first of two matches in the space of week against the s...
2023-2024 Season: One step from glory After that extended break, our next match was the Steel and Sons Cup semi-final against Distillery. For us, we saw this in two different lights: one, that we were maybe 90 or 120 (depending if went to extra time...
2023-2024 Season: Cup preparation time… We now had eleven days between games before the Steel and Sons Cup semi-final. As far as we were concerned though, it was just business as usual for us: three training sessions a week on Monday, Wednesday and F...
2023-2024 Season: Aaaar-magh, as if we haven't enough of draws recently…but it's better than losing! After spending the majority of October on the road, we have a series of three consecutive home matches in November before going on the road again as...
2023=2024 Season: The word on the street is…DRAW! I was so happy to get the Killyleagh Irish Cup out of the way, and even better that we managed to get through despite making a raft of changes. I would have felt rather embarrassed if we had gone out...
2023-2024 Season: Better late than never…. After the euphoria of the win at Ballyclare on my birthday, it was a case of switching our attentions to the Northern Irish FA Cup at the weekend. Aside of the League campaign, this is one competition I real...
2023-2024 Season: Birthday presents in Ballyclare Saturday's loss to bottom placed Limavady made it back to back losses in the league for us, and left us exactly halfway after seven matches. It had more complications than losing to the then basement...
2023-2024 Season: Another case of the away day blues… We had a week's break before the next game, which was on the road to the division's bottom placed side. Having lost in our last league match, we were hoping that the impressive showing against Eas...
2023-2024: Six of the best…once again! The midweek defeat in Lisburn really stung, especially considering how well we were playing beforehand. The fact our solid defence just collapsed like the proverbial deck of playing cards in just four minutes of...
2023-2024 Season: A loss in Lisburn After coming away with just a point on Friday night against Rathfriland, we were back in action on the Tuesday with a visit to Lisburn where Distillery were to be our hosts for the night. Distillery of course were...
I just love how you start somewhere obscure @tongey - this is just like days of yore. Stories like this are much more enjoyable than watching video stream stories in my opinion. It feels like retro Susie stories this way….. Have recently starte...
More updates coming soon, bit busy with work related commitments.
Welcome back Tongey lad.
2023-2024 Season: Under the Lights After the drama in Tobemore, we played a rare Friday night game under the lights of the Dub as we entertained Rathfriland Rangers. Rathfriland were our first competitive opponents of the season after we had finished...
2023-2024 Season: Moving serenely onwards…. After that great win at Tobemore United, where we showed our great powers of recovery to turn defeat at one stage into a last gasp victory, our next game is Friday night against Rathfriland Rangers. Su...
2023-2024 Season: Back to the bread and butter We had begun October with the draw of the Irish Cup, but were still awaiting to find out where we would travel in the Steel and Sons Cup quarter-final. Tuesday night, and our opponents were confirmed. In...
2023-2024 Season: The beginning of October So we are in the quarter finals of the Steel and Sons Cup, a tournament that we won in 1993 and have been runners-up three times in our history. The draw for this latest stage was on conclusion of Satur...
Before I post the next updates, I thought I would tell you about future stories which will be included in this collection. All stories will begin in 2023. England - The Monkey Challenge: Get Hartlepool United into the second tier for the first time i...
2023-2024 Season: September ends with another Cup match So the second month comes to an end with yet another Cup game for us. Out of the five matches we have played in September, four of them have been away from home and three of them have come in th...
2023-2024 Season: Time to to reflect on things so far. We had a two and half week gap between games as the month of September draws to its conclusion. Being a part time outfit, with most of our players being amateurs means that they don't train as mu...
2023-2024 Season: More Steel and Sons Cup action After being held to a 1-1 draw at home by Ballymacash Rangers thanks to them scoring an injury time equaliser, we move back into Cup mode in midweek. We have played three games and lie in seventh...
Gameplay on hold whilst I recover from a couple of procedures in hospital
2023-2024 Season: League Match 3 After playing midweek, it was back to the bread and butter of the league on Saturday as we entertained Ballymacash Rangers at The Dub. Rangers hail from a very loyalist area just outside of the city of Lisburn, and th...
2023-2024 Season: Post-Warrenpoint activity with Steel and Sons Cup Round Two action Winning at Warrenpoint Town has to be the pinnacle of my short career at PSNI so far. But football likes to throw up surprise results from time to time, and that has...
Season 2023-2024: League Game 2 Second Saturday of the season, and a trip to the border town of Warrenpoint. “The Point” are everyone's tip to win the title this season, and we couldn't have asked for such a testing trip for our first away trip. We a...
2023-2024 Season: August draws to an end, and September starts After losing so narrowly to the Crues and exiting the League Cup, it was down to business again and prepare for our second league game of the season on Saturday afternoon: our first one o...
I seem to have deleted the image of the team sheet for this game so will revert to what I used beforehand for this report… 2023-2024 Season: League Cup R2 Second Round, 29 Aygust 2023Seaview, Belfast. Attendance: 1156 (106 away) CRUSA...
2023-2024 Season, League Match 1 Saturday, the opening league game of the season at The Dub. We welcomed Dollingstown, a team that were on paper: expected to beat us on the day and comfortably too. The wind was blowing a wee bit of a hoolie so...