Who is your money on?

[Mad Moose]

Try the cancer society website, they had some to sell and Ive heard rumours they might have a tiny number left.

Or else try Dalyer for the Bohs pink one, supposedly they have loads left and are nowhere close to selling out their allocation ...

bhs

Cheers bhs. I'll have a look here. I've seen the Boh's one. I want the Shams one however.

Thanks for that however.

[Calcio Jack]

No play off will re required, this only happened in 1993 as the rules at the time were not in place for GD. And what a joke that was with a 3 way play off.

The usual Goal Diff rule will apply if both finish on level points.

Good chance it might happen as it did in the SPL only 4 yrs or so ago.

Actually it also happened in 1971, when Rovers were robbed in a play off against Cork Hibs, score was 1-1 , Leech scored a legitimate goal when the Hibs keeper Joe 'redneck' O'Grady threw the ball in the air to take a kick out, and Leech flicked the ball over his head and tapped it into the empty net (very similar to what Best had done a few weeks earlier to Gordon Banks in Windsor Park)... would of been then 2-1 for Rovers but Hibs got instead got a second and then a very late third as rovers pressed for the equaliser....

[marinobohs]

Actually it also happened in 1971, when Rovers were robbed in a play off against Cork Hibs, score was 1-1 , Leech scored a legitimate goal when the Hibs keeper Joe 'redneck' O'Grady threw the ball in the air to take a kick out, and Leech flicked the ball over his head and tapped it into the empty net (very similar to what Best had done a few weeks earlier to Gordon Banks in Windsor Park)... would of been then 2-1 for Rovers but Hibs got instead got a second and then a very late third as rovers pressed for the equaliser....

surely not legitimate if the ref disallowed it ? Anyway, the point was that since the introduction of goal difference the likelihood of a playoff is more remote.
gotta say though, it would be fun

[kingdomkerry]

Whoever wins the Rovers Bohs game coming up will win the league.

[CMcC]

Whoever wins the Rovers Bohs game coming up will win the league.

And if its a draw?

[oriel]

Actually it also happened in 1971, when Rovers were robbed in a play off against Cork Hibs, score was 1-1 , Leech scored a legitimate goal when the Hibs keeper Joe 'redneck' O'Grady threw the ball in the air to take a kick out, and Leech flicked the ball over his head and tapped it into the empty net (very similar to what Best had done a few weeks earlier to Gordon Banks in Windsor Park)... would of been then 2-1 for Rovers but Hibs got instead got a second and then a very late third as rovers pressed for the equaliser....

Was this also around the time that two other clubs, I`m thinking a Cork one and Waterford ? drew in a lge play off, then one of them refused to play the replay ?

Before my time.

[De Town]

And if its a draw?

Then they'll obviously share the title.

[Calcio Jack]

Was this also around the time that two other clubs, I`m thinking a Cork one and Waterford ? drew in a lge play off, then one of them refused to play the replay ?

Before my time.

Don't ever recall anything like that....must of been even before my time

[stann]

Ah for feck sake, that was back in the '40s!
Anyone who remembers that is using the big type version of foot.ie with speech.

1941 it was, us and Cork United, our players refused to play the play-off until they were guaranteed bonuses by the management I think.
Possibly the club were hoping for the FAI to put the squeeze on the players in the dispute, but instead Cork got awarded the title and we resigned in protest and stayed away in a huff for 4 seasons!

[pineapple stu]

Dodge recommended a book on LoI stats; has all the league results from 1921 to 2005. I went and got it, and one of the things it mentions is that the play-off in 1995 (ish?) was because there were more than two teams level on points. Don't know if that holds, but it implied that if there were only two teams, goal difference would have counted.

[osborne]

Actually it also happened in 1971, when Rovers were robbed in a play off against Cork Hibs, score was 1-1 , Leech scored a legitimate goal when the Hibs keeper Joe 'redneck' O'Grady threw the ball in the air to take a kick out, and Leech flicked the ball over his head and tapped it into the empty net (very similar to what Best had done a few weeks earlier to Gordon Banks in Windsor Park).

I think you'll find that happened in a League match against Waterford, prior to the Windsor game. Leech did have a goal (maybe 2?) disallowed in the play off though.

[galwayjames]

I think the momentum is with Rovers at this stage. They've got Bohs and Cork at home while Bohs have Rovers and Cork away.

[Calcio Jack]

I think you'll find that happened in a League match against Waterford, prior to the Windsor game. Leech did have a goal (maybe 2?) disallowed in the play off though.

We're both kinda right....as you say it happened in a league match in Milltown, however it was against Cork Hibs late in the season, as a result of the decision going against us that game finished 0-0...thus robbing us of the league... although that year we actually blew it in our last home game...we were leading Sligo 1-0 with only a few minutes left... lost 2-1 with the legendary David Pugh scoring their winner