Plans are already afoot for the second Mike Mac Golf Classic at the Ennis Golf Club with Saturday 14th April been penciled in for the tournament. Following last years outstanding success the committee is confident that the classic will be well supported once again this year.

Last year nearly €7,000 was distributed to Cahercalla Hospice, The John Giles Foundation, Ennis Old Folk, The McMahon Fund,The Clare Crusaders and Clarecastle Day Care Centre. While that figure was beyond our wildest dreams we hope once again this year to help out many local charities in the area. Of course the star of the show last year was the appearance of John Giles at the classic and once again contact had been made with John and the committee are hopeful he will once ahain grace us with his presence.

The committee is arranging a meeting in Moroneys on Thursday 26th January to kick start the… Read more

The Ennis Chelsea Supporters Club which meet in Moroneys for live televised games are holding a social on Saturday 21st January 2012 in The Templegate Hotel, Ennis at 8pm. Guest at the social is Chelsea legend Ron Chopper Harris ,a Chelsea player from the 60's and 70's and captain of their 1970 winning FA Cup final team. In the 70's there were some great battles between Chelsea and Leeds United and he will be speaking about these and this will be followed with a Question & Answer session.

There will be a meal, raffle ,spot prizes and also a comedian accompanying Ron on the night. Tickets cost €25 for adults and €10 for Juniors. Anyone interested in attending can contact Club Secretary Jim McMahon at 086-8119086 for further details.

After a absence of 5 months Ennislusc will return to Moroneys for tomorrows nights televised 3rd Round FA Cup game away to Arsenal. While Moroneys was closed we returned to Considine's in Parnell St and all the members and committee of Ennislusc would like to thank Mark Kelly and his staff for the hospitality they afforded the club while we were homeless.

New man in charge of Moroneys, Charlie O Mara is looking forward to meeting all the Leeds supporters and assures them they will be welcome with open arms. He admits to not knowing the words to the Leeds anthem, Marching On Together but he won't be long finding out when Ennislusc start singing me think !

Leeds United 2 Burnley 1

A goal seven minutes into injury time from Ross McCormack earned Leeds a dramatic win against 10-man Burnley in front of a crowd of 27,295, many of whom had left Elland Road before this unlikely victory. With United a goal down and 88 minutes on the clock Leeds were dropping down the table and the bookies had Grayson on his way out the door. However in a frantic seven minutes Leeds season was resurrected.

Grayson made five changes to his starting line-up after the 4-1 hammering at Barnsley and among those were debutant Andros Townsend, who has joined on loan from Tottenham, youngster Zac Thompson, and defender Alex Bruce, who was recalled from a loan spell at Huddersfield.
Simon Grayson's Leeds side were without a win in four going into the match and the manager must have been fearing the worst.

Eddie Howe's side went ahead despite full… Read more

Barnsley 4 Leeds United 1

There was no Christmas cheer for Leeds today at Oakwell as The Tykes completed the double over United having beaten us in November when we were at Elland Road on our club trip. This was a inept performance and indeed we only scored in injury time when Barnsley in truth should have been at least 6-0 such was their total dominance. As I 've said before I think Grayson must go now, three years on and we are progressing downwards and confidence among the supporters is at a low ebb.

Substitute Vaz Te ( he also scored at Elland Road) struck a hat-trick as Barnsley ended a run of three consecutive defeats. The Portuguese fired past Andy Lonergan on 16 mins to open the scoring after referee Neil Swarbrick had played a good advantage. His ninth and 10th of the season, separated by Craig Davies long-range effort,… Read more

Derby County 1 Leeds United 0

The Rams recent dominance over Leeds continued as Jamie Ward's second-half strike earned the Rams a sixth straight win over the Whites and in truth one that was fully deserved. Over the 90 mins Nigel Clough mens created the more clear cut chances and continued their indian sisn over The Whites with thier six straight win in a row over Graysons boys.

Ward, who hit the post in the first half, fired in from close range after United keeper Andy Lonergan parried his initial effort. Snoddy went closest for Leeds but his free-kick was was tipped over by Rams keeper Frank Fielding. The result leaves Leeds without a win in three games and hopefully Grayson (who celebrated 3 years in charge at Leeds this week) will be busy in the January transfer window as new recruits are badly needed to inject some confidence into our promotion… Read more

It's that time of the year when Santa brings some cheers to young and old alike and boy was it a fast year. El Presidente summarized the year excellently in the guest book and as I've already stated here before I don't think Grayson is the man to bring us back to The Premiership but hopefully he'll make me eat my words next May !

On behalf of the committee of Ennislusc I would like to wish each and every one of our members, their families and friends a happy and peaceful Christmas. Here's to more thrills and spills following The Whites in 2012. Marching On Together

Leeds United 0 Reading 1

Reading striker Simon Church scored the game's only goal in the second minute as the Royals beat play-off rivals Leeds United at Elland Road.
The Wales international controlled Jobi McAnuff's pass and put an angled finish past Andy Lonergan from 12 yards after less than two minutes on the clock.

Jamie McAnuff caused all sorts of problems to the home defence all through the game and was rightly voted Man Of The Match. Leeds remain sixth despite the defeat, struggled in front of goal, but Danny Pugh's shot from inside the area was well saved by Adam Federici. The Royals, who beat another promotion rival in West Ham a week ago, are now just one place behind

This was another dire home performance akin to our visit to Elland Road for the Barnsley game. Why can we not get it together at home ? It looks like we lack… Read more

Watford 1 Leeds United 1

Robert Snodgrass scored an injury-time penalty(95th min) as Leeds salvaged a draw against Watford in the Championship. To say we got out of jail was a understatement as Watford missed a penalty of their own with just two minutes of normal time remaining. Marvin Sordell had his penalty chance after being fouled by Patrick Kisnorbo but Alex McCarthy saved and Snoddy made Watford pay by equalizing after Nyron Nosworthy fouled Finnish International Mika Vayrynen. United were dealt a blow before kick off when captain Johnny Howson was ruled out with Danny Pugh taking over his position in the middle of the park.

Watford started the game much better than Leeds and were rewarded when Kightly ( on loan from Wolves) got the better of Kisnorbo and unleashed a superb, angled effort from the edge of the area past McCarthy, who was playing his final game of… Read more

Leeds United 2 Millwall 0

Scottish International Robert Snodgrass scored both Leeds goals against Millwall as Elland Road paid a moving tribute to former player Gary Speed who died on Sunday last.Gary played in United's title-winning side in 1992 and team-mates Gary McAllister, Gordon Strachan and David Batty laid a wreath before kick-off. All three were very emotional with tears flowing in honour of their former team mate.

The big screen showed a video of Gary Speed's goals before the game and Leeds fans chanted his name for 11 minutes, from the 11th minute, in recognition of his shirt number as they had done during their midweek 4-0 win at Nottingham Forest.
In a poor first half United had their keeper Alex McCarthy to thank for keeping the scores level when he dived to his right to push Darius Henderson's downward header round his post.

Millwall started the second half brightly, with Scott Barron's… Read more

Nottingham Forest 0 Leeds United 4

Leeds paid the best possible tribute to former number 11 Gary Speed with an emphatic win over Nottingham Forest on an emotional night at the City Ground. To say we expected such a performance is beyond our wildest dreams considering the drivel we watch on Saturday.
Applause before the match for Speed, who died at the weekend, was followed by 11 minutes of chants from the 11th minute by Leeds fans.

Simon Grayson, who was a great friend of Gary after they signed schoolboy forms with Leeds on the same day when they were 14 had asked his players to win the game in Speed's memory and they did not disappoint. How appropriate it was that Leeds's first goal came almost exactly at the end of the United fans 11 minutes of concentrated chants for Speed, with Snodgrass picking up the ball midway into the Forest… Read more

Leeds United 1 Barnsley 2

Barnsley won at Elland Road for the first time since 1990 with one of their best performances of the season to add to Leeds troubles at home. The visitors went ahead when Jim O'Brien squared for Ricardo Vaz Te, whose scuffed shot looped in over Alex McCarthy.

It was 2-0 when Man Of Match Jacob Butterfield's strike was pushed by Alex McCarthy into the path of Craig Davies, who finished with easy and not a Leeds defender in sight. On 55 minutes Ross McCormack fired in a 25-yard free-kick to give Leeds some hope but Barnsley hung on despite David Perkins second booking.

This was a deplorable match, two poor teams and daylight robbery to have to pay £36 to watch. After two superb away victories we were expecting a lively contest and predictions such as 3-1 were banded about before kick off. How wrong we were. Bar… Read more

Tomorrow week Friday 25th November our first club trip of the year will take place. Unfortunately due to the economic situation,the closeness to Christmas and the difficulty in getting to Leeds this will be our smallest group to visit the hallowed ground since our formation over 10 years ago. Indeed on this occasion we have a group heading over on Friday morning ( Slim,Marty B, Bryan Woods, Leon Quirke, Kevin Barry along with Johnny & Marian Moroney) while the remainder including Nuggy, Tommy Kelly and Josie Hestor will head over on Saturday morning.

While it may be our smallest squad yet I'm sure we'll hit the usual spots like The Ship, Flares's etc and hopefully we'll collect the three points on offer on Saturday afternoon. Oh and I forgot the traditional sing song in The Marriott on Saturday / Sunday morning. Bring it on. MOT

Leicester City 0 Leeds United 1

It was with trepidation that most Leeds fans viewed this game after the drubbing we received on Wednesday night at home to Blackpool. We were up against our bogey team and had never beaten them at The King Power Stadium. We also faced ex United stars Jermaine Beckford and Casper Schmeichel both who were facing their ex team mates for the first time since their departure from Elland Road.

In a match of few goalscoring chances, midfielder Clayton\'s long-range strike in the 68th minute proved decisive. Leeds much maligned defence was rarely tested by City, with on debutant keeper Alex McCarthy not having a meaningful save to make.The win moves Leeds up to seventh in the table, while Leicester are 12th.

Leeds will go into the upcoming international break in much better spirits after bouncing back from Wednesday\'s loss to Blackpool - only the second time they… Read more

Leeds United 0 Blackpool 5

In what was one of the worst displays of goalkeeping since the halcyon days of Gary Sprake Paul Rachubka had a night of horrors. Blackpool destroyed former manager Simon Grayson's 10-man Leeds on a night to forget for the Elland Road faithful. Rachubka (a summer signing from Blackpool) was hauled off at half-time after three errors helped The Tangerines cruise into a 3-0 lead.

Lomana Lua Lua slotted home the opener before Shelvey converted a retaken penalty after Tom Lees saw red as a result of Rachubka dropping the ball. Shelvey completed his treble either side of Lua Lua lashing in his second.The attendance at Elland Road was 22,423 but one expects when we travel over for their next home game at the end of the month that they will be lucky to break the 20,000 mark with this sort of performance.Enough said,I'm still not over the… Read more

Leeds United 1 Cardiff City 1

Scottish International Robert Snodgrass struck a second-half equaliser for Leeds after an inspired performance by ex Celtic keeper David Marshall had threatened to deny United. The result ends a string of six straight defeats for Leeds against the Bluebirds, but the home side created enough opportunities to feel they deserved better.

Cardiff took the lead on 17 mins when Irish International Darren O Dea tried to shepherd a ball to safety but he stumbled inside the area and Mason robbed him and then rounded Paul Rachukba to roll into a empty net. This rocked United but they responded well and McCormack and on loan Andy Keogh were inches from netting before half time.

Leeds took full control after the break as but they found David Marshall in top form. However he had no chance when Snodgrass poked in from Tom Lees knock-down 17 minutes from time.… Read more

Birmingham City 1 Leeds United 0

Serbian International Nikola Zigic who stands 6'8'' scored his first goal since February as Birmingham extended their winning run to six games thus putting an end to Leeds seven match unbeaten run. This was United's game in hand and a win would have put them third in the table but on this occasion while having the better chances throughout the game they looked leaden footed and off colour. Birmingham started impressively and ex Rangers winger Chris Burke was causing United a lot of problems down the right wing.

The only goal of the game came on 35 mins when Stephen Carr broke down the right and delivered a cross which was not cleared by the Leeds back four. The ball found its way to Zigic who controlled and shot, seeing the ball take a deflection off Paul Connolly before beating a despairing Rachubka. And Zigic was… Read more

Peterborough United 2 Leeds United 3

A goal in the 5th minute of injury-time by Darren O'Dea earned United a valuable three points against 10-man Peterborough. Leeds went ahead through Andy Keogh's stunning volley but Gabriel Zakuani levelled with a powerful header from a corner. Posh striker Lee Tomlin saw red for a late challenge on Andy Keogh on 37 mins before Leeds regained the lead when Adam Clayton took substitute Lloyd Sam's pass and stroked home on 54 mins.

Mark Little thought he had earned Posh a point when netting on 88 minutes but luckily for Leeds there was time to grab a winner and make up for Tuesday nights late equalizer for Coventry. This is the first time Leeds have won at Peterborough in the league. They were victorious in a League Cup tie in 1988 and an FA Cup match in 1974.

Leeds
12 Rachubka
02 Connolly
22 Lees
28 White
48 O'Dea (Yellow card)
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Leeds United 1 Coventry City 1

A stoppage-time equaliser from Coventry defender Richard Wood after a horrendous mistake by keeper Paul Rachubka denied Leeds a place back in the top six. United went ahead midway through the first half when Darren O'Dea fired home an angled shot following a Paul Connolly deflected cross.

Grayson's boys came close to going 2-0 up when Ross McCormack missed from six yards before Coventry keeper Joe Murphy saved from Danny Pugh and Adam Clayton. The Sky Blues made them pay when Paul Rachubka fumbled a Cyrus Christie cross in the last seconds of in jury time and centre half Wood pounced to score.

This was a bitter pill for United to swallow and once again our old failing at the back came back to haunt us. It's getting so persistent now it not funny as a win tonight would have seen us with three clean sheets in… Read more

Doncaster Rovers 0 Leeds United 3

Simon Grayson celebrated his 150th game in charge of Leeds and it was one to remember for the 41-year-old. And for the second week running loan signing Danny Pugh got his name on the score sheet. Rovers went in to the game on the back of two wins and a draw following the arrival of new manager Dean Saunders and completed the signing of exEngland goalkeeper Chris Kirkland on loan in midweek.

United took the lead on 20 mins when Pugh side footed home after the Doncaster defence failed to clear Robert Snodgrass's free-kick from the right. Jon Parkin had Donny's best chance just before the break but could only head wide. Then Leeds top scorer Ross McCormack doubled the advantage on 51 minutes with an excellent overhead effort which looped over a stranded Kirkland.

Young full back Tom Lees who is a revelation this season then… Read more