Fixture changes.

**El-Pietro** · 28/08/2016, 5:38 PM

If you saw him play more often then you do then you'd understand.

**Charlie Darwin** · 28/08/2016, 5:41 PM

Originally Posted by White Horse

Its just difficult to understand how a team who are challenging for the title are afraid to play without their first choice left back. Their left back, FFS.

Maybe they understand they need to be at their best to get a result against the defending champions.

**Ezeikial** · 28/08/2016, 10:57 PM

Once the Bohemians match was re-fixed for this weekend, it is no issue for Dundalk that Cork exercised their prerogative to postpone.

**seand** · 29/08/2016, 9:15 AM

Have to say I'm not comfortable with the league fooking Bohs and Wexford around to suit Dundalk. Still, the silver lining is that it's negated Cork's (entirely legitimate) attempt to game the fixture list themselves.

It's hard to balance though, I feel the league have an obligation to support the clubs in Europe, but it's hard to do that without messing up everyone else's fixtures. And someone up thread suggested we should have no league fixtures on an international weekend- that'd help!!

**El-Pietro** · 29/08/2016, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by seand

Still, the silver lining is that it's negated Cork's (entirely legitimate) attempt to game the fixture list themselves.

Really? You think our aim was to game the fixture list? Did you notice we also requested the Finn Harps game be postponed? If we were trying to make life difficult for Dundalk why would we have both games postponed? Perhaps we just wanted our full squad available for the games we have to play.

Heres a tip, the entire world doesn't revolve around Dundalk.

**oriel** · 29/08/2016, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by Ezeikial

Once the Bohemians match was re-fixed for this weekend, it is no issue for Dundalk that Cork exercised their prerogative to postpone.

Yep that's actually a fair point, from having no league game on Friday we now have one to replace the Cork game, albeit its away.

When the Dlk v Cork game is re-fixed, it will almost certainly be a first for a mid week league fixture between the two clubs.

There were cup replays in the past, (almost sure 1987-88 was one) but I can't recall any league games mid week ever.

**disgruntled** · 29/08/2016, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Really? You think our aim was to game the fixture list? Did you notice we also requested the Finn Harps game be postponed? If we were trying to make life difficult for Dundalk why would we have both games postponed? Perhaps we just wanted our full squad available for the games we have to play.

Heres a tip, the entire world doesn't revolve around Dundalk.

Fortunately

**dundalkfc10** · 29/08/2016, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Really? You think our aim was to game the fixture list? Did you notice we also requested the Finn Harps game be postponed? If we were trying to make life difficult for Dundalk why would we have both games postponed? Perhaps we just wanted our full squad available for the games we have to play.

Heres a tip, the entire world doesn't revolve around Dundalk.

Obvs not considering we "COULD" be 10 points clear before you play another league game! If we lose tomorrow and get a game re-fixed for nxt Fri night (Bohs at home still be to played from july) it could be 13 points!

I dont think Cork thought at all!

**Ezeikial** · 29/08/2016, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Really? You think our aim was to game the fixture list? Did you notice we also requested the Finn Harps game be postponed? If we were trying to make life difficult for Dundalk why would we have both games postponed? Perhaps we just wanted our full squad available for the games we have to play.

It is entirely Cork's prerogative to invoke the postponements (irrespective of the motivations), but it would hardly be feasible to request the postponement of only one of the affected matches.

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Heres a tip, the entire world doesn't revolve around Dundalk.

Come on now - of course not, but the destiny of this years league title probably does

**Dodge** · 29/08/2016, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Really? You think our aim was to game the fixture list? Did you notice we also requested the Finn Harps game be postponed? If we were trying to make life difficult for Dundalk why would we have both games postponed? Perhaps we just wanted our full squad available for the games we have to play.

Heres a tip, the entire world doesn't revolve around Dundalk.

Do you think Cork would have sought to have both games postponed if they were against, say, Wexford and Harps? I doubt it

**seand** · 29/08/2016, 1:59 PM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Really? You think our aim was to game the fixture list? Did you notice we also requested the Finn Harps game be postponed? If we were trying to make life difficult for Dundalk why would we have both games postponed? Perhaps we just wanted our full squad available for the games we have to play.

Heres a tip, the entire world doesn't revolve around Dundalk.

Absolutely, I think it'd be fair to say that Cork City's title challenge does though.

**El-Pietro** · 29/08/2016, 3:04 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Do you think Cork would have sought to have both games postponed if they were against, say, Wexford and Harps? I doubt it

Impossible to say. But we did postpone the Harps game, we were under no obligation to do so. We could easily have postponed the Dundalk game and played the Harps game.

**dundalkfc10** · 29/08/2016, 3:15 PM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Impossible to say. But we did postpone the Harps game, we were under no obligation to do so. We could easily have postponed the Dundalk game and played the Harps game.

Rumours in Dundalk today that our game V you will be 2nd last game of season on a Monday, you will be able to give us a guard of honour onto the field as we will have it wrapped up by then

**disgruntled** · 29/08/2016, 3:21 PM

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Rumours in Dundalk today that our game V you will be 2nd last game of season on a Monday, you will be able to give us a guard of honour onto the field as we will have it wrapped up by then

If ye have then good for you but don't you think you need to win a few games first

**sbgawa** · 29/08/2016, 3:33 PM

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Rumours in Dundalk today that our game V you will be 2nd last game of season on a Monday, you will be able to give us a guard of honour onto the field as we will have it wrapped up by then

Wow talk about tempting faith !!

**dundalkfc10** · 29/08/2016, 4:14 PM

Originally Posted by disgruntled

If ye have then good for you but don't you think you need to win a few games first

if we drop 10 points in our last 12 games, we would finish on 75 points.

Cork would need to pick up 31 points out of 36 to win the league. (30 points if they can get back the 10 gd)

Im quite confident 3 in a row will be on way to Oriel

**sbgawa** · 29/08/2016, 4:46 PM

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

if we drop 10 points in our last 12 games, we would finish on 75 points.

Cork would need to pick up 31 points out of 36 to win the league. (30 points if they can get back the 10 gd)

Im quite confident 3 in a row will be on way to Oriel

Can't argue with the maths if you drop 10 points from last 12 matches etc. Worth noting perhaps that you have dropped 6 in your last 3 games....

**Ezeikial** · 29/08/2016, 5:43 PM

Cork can be backed for the league title at 5/2 currently

I think that is probably a decent bet.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/...ivision/winner

**patrickccfc** · 29/08/2016, 6:18 PM

It's not easy for both clubs with the fixture back log with both of us playing twice a week for most of the run-in. Dundalk are favourites I think with the GD effectively giving them a 5 point advantage. Both of us still have to go to Sligo which will be a tricky one for both sides. The game that was postponed Friday would've had a massive bearing on the run-in, if dundalk won then it would've been hard to see past them winning it, had we won then it would makes things interesting. Both sides will drop points, I just hope our inability to capitalize on our recent games in hand doesn't come back to haunt us, as had we won them we would be in a great position now.

**Dodge** · 29/08/2016, 6:56 PM

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Rumours in Dundalk today that our game V you will be 2nd last game of season on a Monday, you will be able to give us a guard of honour onto the field as we will have it wrapped up by then

I don't think you could have 'easily'. I think if you asked for only one game, you'd have been laughed out of it