| What Fed can do with a grape, I can't do with a beach ball! Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,702 Thanks: 645 Thanked 661 Times in 632 Posts Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 |  February 2007.
 2nd February. St. Pat's Athletic sign Brown. St. Pat's Athletic has today announced the transfer of Scottish goalkeeper Alistair Brown from Hibernian for £40k. The transfer will go through on Tuesday 1st July 2008. 4th February. St. Pat's Athletic loan Eastwood. Huddersfield's English goalkeeper, Simon Eastwood has joined St. Patrick's Athletic on loan for 12 months. Eastwood has recently signed a new deal with Huddersfield which will keep him at The Galpharm Stadium until 2010. 5th February. St Pat's Athletic loan Adams. Kilmarnock's Scottish defensive midfielder Jamie Adams has joined St. Pat's Athletic on loan for 12 months. Adams signed for Premier League team Kilmarnock in 2004. 9th February. St. Pat's Athletic sign Amankwaah. St. Pat's Athletic have completed the signing of Swansea's twenty-four year old English right-back Kevin Amankwaah for a fee of £3k. Amankwaah joined Swansea from Yeovil in 2006 but was deemed surplus to requirements at The Liberty Stadium this season. 19th February. Vintage display ensures St. Patrick's Athletic victory. St. Patrick's Athletic 2-1 Cliftonville: All-Ireland Cup, Group B. St. Patrick's Athletic taught Cliftonville a lesson at Richmond Park this evening. The Super Saints produced a breathtaking display to a record a 2-1 win in the All-Ireland Cup match. Mark Quigley opened the scoring for St. Pat's Athletic on 24 minutes when he found himself some space in the Cliftonville defence and finished beautifully. The scoreline was 1-0 at half-time. Amankwaah gave Cliftonville a goal in his debut for St. Pat's when he brought down Ryan Smith in the area. The resulting penalty was scored by Gerald Woods in the 64th minute. St. Pat's went for the winner and their hard work paid off in the 87th minute when Mark Kee was disposessed by Joseph Ndo who struck the winner from 25 yards out. St. Pat's continued to push forward for the remaining minutes and nearly came close to going 3-1 ahead when Ndo found himself clear in the 89th minute but he blasted the ball over the bar. St. Pat's: Ryan (7), Amankwaah (6), Rogers (6), O'Cearuill (7), Paisley (7), Guy (7), Byrne (7), Ndo (8), Dempsey (7), Quigley (7), Fitzpatrick (7).
Subs: Adams (6), Brennan (7), Lynch (6).
Booked: O'Cearull, Dempsey.
Cliftonville: Connolly (6), McAllister (7), McMurray (6), Maguire (7), Woods (8), Doherty (7), McKenna (6), Parkes (7), Sproule (6), Smith (7), Smyth (7).
Subs: McVicker (6), Wells (7), Kee (6).
Booked: McKenna, Parkes, Smyth.
Man Of The Match: Joseph Ndo (St. Patrick's Athletic).
Ndo was the best player on the park during this match. The central midfielder bagged his dramatic late winner to round off his performance by scoring the powerful effort. 26th February. Drogheda Utd hold out for a draw. Drogheda Utd 1-1 St. Patrick's Athletic: All-Ireland Cup, Group B. After a 1-1 draw at United Park against St. Pat's, a kew member of the Drogheda side claimed that his team were fortunate to escpae from this All-Ireland Cup fixture with a draw. He admitted the Drogs were second best throughout much of the game and that their opponents have every right to feel aggrieved at their failure to win the match. The game started lively with Gary O'Neill scoring in the 6th minute for St. Pat's when he found himself clear. The ball was deflected in via Drogheda's Jason Gavin. Just 5 minutes later, Drogheda nearly equalised through Adams Hughes when Kevin Amankwaah made a poor clearance. Unfortunatly for Hughes, his first touch let him down and Barry Ryan easily gathered the ball. Drogheda pushed forward again on 13 minutes and scored when Brian Shelley crossed a good looking ball into the six yard box and Guy Bates heading the ball in the back of the net. At first glance the goal looked offside but it turned out to be perfectly fine. On 17, Gary Dempsey found himself with a bit of space when he intercepted a pass from Graham Gartland. From just outside the area he attempted a banana shot that deflected off of Brian Shelley. The deflection made the ball harmlessly float into Mikko Vilmunen's arms. When the 2nd half started St. Pat's pushed for another goal. They came close to scoring via O'Neill, Ryan Guy, Dempsey, Joseph Ndo and Dessie Byrne but they couldn't get past Vilmunen in The Drog's goal. The game ended in controversy when O'Neill recieved an elbow in the face from Gavin. Gavin had already been booked in the first half as well. Predictably the red card was immediately shown with a second yellow. Drogheda: Vilmunen (7), Shelley (7), Gartland (7), Maher (7), Gavin (5), Baker (7), Cahill (6), Keegan (7), Hughes (7), Bates (8), Zayed (7).
Subs: Barrett (7), Ristila (6), Prunty (7).
Booked: Shelley, Maher.
Sent Off: Gavin.
St. Pat's: Ryan (7), Paisley (8), Adams (7), O'Cearuill (6), Amankwaah (7), Byrne (7), Ndo (7), Dempsey (7), Guy (8), Fitzpatrick (7), O'Neill (8).
Booked: Ndo, Dempsey.
Man Of The Match: Gary O'Neill (St. Patrick's Athletic).
The 25 year old striker took his goal well and generally looked lively.       
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