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Sligo Rovers welcome Waterford FC to The Showgrounds on Monday night in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division.
There is a special offer for this game. Children under-12 will go free if accompanied by an adult. They must be accompanied by an adult or cannot be admited.
Rovers come into the game after their best performance of the season, beating Dundalk 2-1 thanks to goals from Romeo Parkes and Dante Leverock.
In team news Romeo Parkes is doubtful with a hamstring problem while Regan Donelon (illness) missed Friday’s game but is recuperating so he too could feature. A decision on both will be made on Monday.
Ronan Murray serves the second of a four game ban.
Liam Buckley said: “The lads played really well on Friday. There was great commitment from them all. I thought we deserved it over the 90 minutes.
“I was delighted for them all as well because they have all been putting in a serious shift in training as well and we had been under-achieving in results.
“We just have to push on now and see if we can get something on Monday.
“From our point of view we want to build on our last performance. We saw really good tic-tac play to create the chance for Romeo which was pleasing and overall the number of chances we created was encouraging. That is something that we want to increase over time. We have players capable of scoring goals in a variety of ways and Dante’s winner was a good example.
“The fixture run of so many games is unnecessary but there is nothing that can be done about that now. Saturday was recovery and we did a small bit of work on Sunday to be ready for this fixture, which we will be.
“We have to get on with it. Waterford are playing their third away game on the bounce and they’ll be keen to get the points. Like every side in this division, they have plenty of strengths. It never gets any easier in this league.
“The manner in which the supporters got behind us when Dundalk were pressing us in those final 15 minutes was tremendous. It made a big difference in helping us get the win.
We’ll need them again on Monday night and I’m sure they will be. We move on from that game and go about trying to get another three points if we can.”
Sligo Rovers are back in action this Monday against Waterford FC in The Showgrounds.
As this is our third home game in nine days, we are allowing children under-12 to enter for free with an adult.
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Sligo Rovers handed Dundalk their second defeat on the spin as the Bit O’Red bounced back from recent indifferent form of their own to beat the champions at the Showgrounds.
Romeo Parkes sent Rovers on the way to their first league victory in four before Pat Hoban levelled the tie from the spot.
Sligo’s Bermudan centre half Dante Leverock settled this game before half-time when he popped up at the back post to help Liam Buckley’s charges toward their third league win of the season.
The less fancied Sligo hit the lead with just 27 seconds played.
Ronan Coughlan combined with full -back Lewis Banks on the left and his cross was perfect for Parkes as he coolly slotted past Gary Rogers.
Rovers should have doubled their advantage on 11 minutes.
Coughlan got in the way of an attempted clearance from the Dundalk rearguard as the ball rolled into the path of Daryl Fordyce. But the attacker lacked the composure required and could only cushion his effort wide of the post.
Parkes almost had his brace on 20 minutes but his low drive struck the bottom of the post with the Lilywhites stretched at the back.
Sligo’s busy start was brought to a sudden halt when Kyle McFadden handled the ball inside the area. Hoban clipping his subsequent penalty down the middle.
Rovers took the lead again before the break. Parkes flicking David Cawley’s corner towards the back post where Leverock was on hand to head past Rogers for his second goal of the year.
A disjointed Dundalk struggled to find a way past a solid Rovers, in a second half bereft of much in terms of goalmouth action.
Fordyce was denied by a superb save from Rogers, when the Meath native pushed the Rovers attacker’s looping header over the Dundalk crossbar mid-way through the second period.
John Mountney’s first time volley was simple for Beeney to hold on to as the champions pressed late on, but it was Rovers who held on for the three points.
Sligo Rovers: Mitchell Beeney; Johnny Dunleavy, Dante Leverock, John Mahon, Lewis Banks; Kyle Callan-McFadden; David Cawley, Jack Keaney (Niall Morahan 89); Daryl Fordyce; Ronan Coughlan; Romeo Parkes (Kris Twardek 73).
Dundalk: Gary Rogers; Sean Gannon, Brian Gartland (John Mountney HT), Daniel Cleary, Dane Massey; Daniel Kelly (George Kelly 62), Sean Murray (Joe McKee 68), Sean Hoare, Jamie McGrath, Michael Duffy; Patrick Hoban.
Referee: Rob Rogers.
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Please note that the Showgrounds car park has been privately hired for the next number of days so it will not be in use for Friday’s game with Dundalk
We apologise for the inconvenience to all fans, please plan parking in advance especially if arriving close to kick off.
Sligo Rovers face reigning league champions Dundalk on Friday night in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division in The Showgrounds.
Rovers begin the second series of matches having earned a point in Oriel Park on the opening night of the season.
In team news, Ronan Murray is suspended for this game and three more matches following his red card last week against Bohs.
Ed McGinty is doubtful with a finger injury. John Russell is also doubtful.
Liam Buckley said: “I thought we were the better side for good periods against Bohs but the red card and the goal early in the second half were big setbacks.
“We fought well in the circumstances and had a couple of chances but in the end we lost the game and didn’t score on the night. We have to change that and we have to improve upon being decent in patches.
“We’re trying to build something here over a period of time and it’s a hard, hard league so while we are building, it’s imperative we keep getting points on the board.
“I’d ask the supporters to stick with the players and get behind them on night’s like these because we are up against the league champions and we know how hard it was to get that point in Oriel.
“We showed that night a fighting quality, but we have a lot more than that to our game and it’s up to us to show that too.”
The Sligo Rovers Women’s Under 17 team begin their Só Hotels Women’s Under 17 National League campaign on Saturday, when they travel to Dublin to take on Peamount.
The Bit O’Red girls were due to start last Saturday, but the game was postponed as a result of international call-ups on both sides.
Head-coach Darragh Healy says his players are raring to go: “We’re really excited. We’re happy with how things have gone so far. It’s all systems go. Peamount will be a tough game but we’re ready for it.”
There are just three new faces in the squad for this year. Healy feels that the settled squad will help. “There’s only two or three new players in the squad this year, who we’re really happy to get in. Obviously a few players have moved on that are overage, very few changes around the place. They did well last year, we’re hoping to build on that. The girls are that bit older and that bit more experienced so hopefully we’ll have a good season.”
“A lot of the girls still have this year and next year so they still have two seasons, a lot of those girls came in as 14 or 15 year olds last year and had a half season, we’re hoping that with this year and next year they will come on really strong and develop as players.”
Healy says the important thing is developing the players for the future. Results are not the most important aspect of the season.
“We want to see the girls to improve, that’s the main thing. We spoke to them, results may or may not go your way every week but the main thing is that we’re improving as players and improving as a group and that the girls are developing as players. The results will take care of themselves after that.
“There was a lot of good work done last year. I’m coming in and the girls are in a really good place, the club is in a really good place. We’re just hoping to build on that for the season ahead and take it to the next level if we can.”
He also confirmed his management team: “Assistant coach is Martin McManus, a Sligo man, he would have worked on the Emerging Talent programme so he would have worked with myself and John Russell around Sligo. I’ve Jason Quinn, goalkeeping coach, he’s played in the IT for many years and he’s a very good up and coming goalkeeping coach, really happy to have him on board. Stephen Travers is doing the video work for us, mostly on matches, that will be very useful. We have Conor Rush doing the strength and conditioning, he’s recently finished his masters. Delighted to have him on board, he will really help the girls. We have Hugh Cunningham doing the player observation and a bit of match analysis. Really happy with all the staff.”
Councillor Marie Casserly, Chairperson of the Sligo Rovers Womens committee said: “We were accepted as founding members of the inaugural U17 Women’s National League for the 2018 and 2019 Seasons which commenced in July 2018, with our plans to add a Senior Women’s National League team in the 2020 season to complete the pathway for elite female players which is not currently catered for in the North West of Ireland. When I was asked to become involved two years ago I was honoured and privileged as I truly believe in the need to attract, promote and retain women and girls in sport. To be able to do this in Sligo is fantastic as traditionally female football players of this standard have had to leave the region to continue to play football at an elite level. Now we have provided an opportunity through collaboration with different agencies to compete with the best of them here in this region.”
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The squad is as follows: Erin Taheny, Leah Duffy, Leah Fox, Sarah Kiernan, Cathy Harrison, Kate Nugent, Keela Scanlon, Muireann Devaney, Aoife McLoughlin, Helen Monaghan, Farrah McDonagh, Sophie McDonagh, Aife Haran, Ciara Henry, Emer O’Neill, Alva Munnelly, Ava Keane, Sorcha Reddy, Kate O’Dowd.
This Friday’s match programme includes the following, priced at €4
Free Seamus Coleman match poster
44 pages
Interview with our kitman Colin Feehily
Liam Buckley – his thoughts on tonights game
Leo Gray on selection headaches
Conal Collier on Hope Springs Eternal
Sligo Super Cup
Pure Telecom and Sligo Rovers U13’s
When Rovers Hit Dundalk for 8
20 Questions with Ed McGinty
Where are they now by Joe Molloy
Face In The Crowd Photo, if you are picked, you win a prize
Red Icon – Christy Houze
