Thursday, March 18, 2010

UCD safe as Railway await playoff

Men's Division One
UCD 2 (Robbie McFarlane, John Brennan) Railway Union 1 (Peter English)
UCD confirmed their place in Division One for another season with a game to go as they got the better of Railway Union at Belfield tonight, leaving their opponents in ninth and awaiting a promotion/relegation playoff. Robbie McFarlane got the only goal of the first half, in which Kenny Carroll was sin-binned, when he rebounded a corner.

Railway had their chances with Peter Yeates and Fiachra Maher going close but it was the students who added to their tally next when John Brennan scored his first goal since the club regained division one status, finishing off an excellent counter-attack early in the second half.

Karl Chapple and Ben Grogan both spent time in the sin-bin while Peter English's drag-flick with 15 minutes to go set up a lively finish but, despite holding decent possession, Railway were shut out by a UCD defence who gave up no clear chances.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

go on the students!! great stuff lads.. well deserved.

Anonymous said...

fair play college. especially the older lads- worked hard for a few years and finally a relaxed end to the season! fully deserved. since when has JB taken shots?!

Anonymous said...

Congrats to the oiks, glad to see a Uni team consolidating in Div. 1

Anonymous said...

Well done lads!!

Anonymous said...

Now let's hope YM will beat Railway. I believe they deserve the chance of playing IHL next season rather than TRR. Even with a young, but talented, side, it has been very dissapointing. Also, hiring a Dutch coach is no guarantee for success, look at UCD last year. In other words, arrogance doesn't guarantee points!

Anonymous said...

Lads its all about the warm up!

Anonymous said...

go on the collidge!

Anonymous said...

possesion throughout the game about 70-30 to railway?

Anonymous said...

students were streets ahead of railway all year. well done lads, now get up to 7th on sunday!

Anonymous said...

John "the train" Brennan!!!

Anonymous said...

that performance.........FTB

Anonymous said...

what's on this weekend?

Anonymous said...

one was as bad as the other. two were very bad performances.

Anonymous said...

No ucd in the playoff for the first time since 2005/6 season?!

Railway will stroll the playoff.

Anonymous said...

Ym will stroll the game on Sun against railway

Anonymous said...

I hope they don't stroll the game against railway, Railway played really well against UCD, but did not take their changes against college -