Predictions

[Lim till i die]

Think people will get some chips at KFC to go with their mondogs though!

KFC Chips?!?! :eek:

Taste buds must be shot to pieces from all those (vegetarian) MonDogs :D

[niallsparky]

Premier: Drogs
First Div: Shels
Cup: Drogs , Bohs , Cork or Derry
Setanta Cup: Drogs

Your cup predicition is a bit vague...;)

[Dunny]

As long as KFC don't put the Mon Dog out of business. :)
Heres hoping:)

[don ramo]

Premier Division
Pats
Drogs
Cork
Bohs
Rovers
Derry
Bray
Cobh
Galway
Sligo
UCD
Harps

Botton six could really be in any order, think we could do ok if we beat the right teams, we will be struggling for the season but i see no reason why we couldnt survive any more than the other 5 clubs with us,
also could see cork relegated for failing some part of there financial licenceing requirements, unless they get there act togther, so maybe only 2 will go with them,

First Division
Shels
Longford
Dundalk
Monaghan

dundalk to come up short again, shels looked good near the end last year id say a good start would easily leave then in contntion, if there anywhere below 4th at midway id say longford will win it,

[bellavistaman]

Having looked into my crystal ball I foresee...

February: There is controversy during Linfield’s match at the Brandywell in the Setanta Cup when a Thompson through ball is diverted 4 miles across the border by police to avoid possible disturbances. “There were more direct routes,” protests David Jeffries.

March: Cohb Ramblers come out of the traps like a shot, winning their first 4 games and scoring 14, one of which is the result of a 22 pass move finished by their goalkeeper.
Derry City field an ineligible printer on their office desk and, on the verge of being docked 10 points, are saved by the revelation that the FAI did not inform Pat Jennings of the suspension when he was on holiday in Dublin the previous week.
Shelbourne crash out of the first preliminary round of the Cillit Bang Inter-Village Trophy after losing 4-1 to ‘O’Rourkes Pub and Sandwich Bar XI FC’ from Westmeath.

April: Rumours begin to circulate that Cobh’s good start is the result of a lengthy program of drug-taking their manager has put them on, after midfielder Shane Barrett begins a run and finishes just outside Wicklow, picking up a speeding fine on the way. Manager Stephen Henderson denies the rumours: “Shane was just trying to beat the offside trap.”

May: Bohemians surprise the world by signing David Beckham from LA Galaxy on a free transfer “I don’t want people to think I’m doing this because of the money,” Beckham tells the Phibsoboro Chronicle, “I truly want to play for Bomons and believe I can enjoy a long and happy career with them and Mr. Flong.”

June: Beckham leaves Bohemians, “I thought they were Brazilian.”
Hearing this, Stephen Henderson invites him to come to Cohb Ramblers.
Finn Harps’ Paul Hegarty signs a sheep as his Assistant Manager at Finn Park: “He’s good at getting the players up for it.”

July: Chairman John O'Sullivan angrily denies rumours of drug taking as Cobh Ramblers change their name to The Flying Carpets of Melting Colours FC.
Surviving relatives of Patrick Turner request that Cork City restore his memorial site into the cross it’s supposed to be. Henceforth, Cork will play matches from West-East, their opponents from North-South.

August: Bohemians draw Valencia in the UEFA Cup first round. “We certainly won’t be underestimating the uh…players from the Irish League,” their manager Ronald Koeman tells Northside News,” We’ve done lots of research about them and their formidable trio of Anna Nolan, Sheana Keane, and midfield hard-man Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh so I feel we’ll be well prepared.” Bohemians win 6-2 in Spain.
After a mere 9 supporters turn up for UCD’s game against St. Pats, the FAI’s John Delaney hails the success of summer football, “By playing games like this in the summer months, we’ve ensured that people have an alternative to having to watch them- a barbeque perhaps, maybe going for a nice walk?

September: Ian Stokes claims referees have been ‘ridden rock solid,’ by TV coverage of the league this year. “How are we supposed to influence games when TV replays can show what really happened? It‘s making us look silly.”
As school starts once more, attendances at Tolka Park fall by 67%.
Clubs at the foot of the table are hopeful as the Evening Herald reports on a Bono inspired campaign to ‘Make Relegation History.’ Their joy is short lived however when the Herald admits ’relegation,’ was a typo that should have read, ‘prostitution.’
Bono tells the News of the World, “There is no reason in this day and age why people should have to work at a soul-destroying, unhappy, undignified, inhuman job just to make ends meet.” After reading his comments, 16 players leave Finn Harps.
Pat McCourt’s hair gets its own squad number.

October: Derry City neglect to turn up for a match with Finn Harps at the end of the month as the players are too tempted by the Halloween celebrations in town. Finn Harps players decide to continue regardless. Derry win 2-0.
Bohemians finally sell their stadium to developers for EUR48m. “Cor!” manager Pat Fenlon tells the Dalymount Gazette as he counts his money, “You could buy all the soap in Dublin with that and still have EUR48, 999, 999.59”

November: Cobh Ramblers win the league, with 75 points. Captain Alan Carey asks reporters, “Do you have any biscuits?” Drogheda finish 2nd, equal on points but lose on “Games Played.”

December: The Christmas Tree at the FAI is surrounded by an 8 foot wall, topped by barbed wire, and surrounded by a moat as Dundalk fan Maxi ‘Desert Panther,’ is released early for Christmas.
Stephen Henderson takes his players on a post-season tour of Columbia.

Wats your fascination with rams, quite funny thgough. John Sullivan got the boot as charman 3 years btw, barry walsh current chairman.


Premier Division
Pats
Drogs
Cork
Bohs
Rovers
Derry
Bray
Cobh
Galway
Sligo
UCD
Harps

,

id agree don only swap sligo with galway IMHO.

[don ramo]

ya looking forward to that tour of columbia:cool:, and cant wait to give becks i swift kick in those goldenballs:D

[rambler14]

ya looking forward to that tour of columbia:cool:, and cant wait to give becks i swift kick in those goldenballs:D

Carey and Beckham fighting each other over free kicks............can't wait. I think we should make it a whole tour of the America's.
TOUR DETAILS
Leave Cork for Shannon airport
Arrive in Florida. Take in Disneyland.
Florida to Mexico. Tequila and more Tequila
Mexico to Cuba. Cigars and more cigars
Cuba to Brazil. Sun, sea and sand. Bit of xxx action too
Brazil to Colombia. Drugs and football.
Colombia to California. Party in Beckhams gaff
California to New York. Shopping. Pick up John Andrews and Eoghan Conlan:D
New York to Shannon.
Shannon to Cork.

It should be fun

[Rovers fan]

Bohs
pats
cork
drogheda
derry
Shamrock Rovers
Sligo
Galway
ucd
harps
cobh
bray

Cup:sligo rovers
League cup:cork
Setanta cup: drogheda

[braysnumber1]

Bohs
pats
cork
drogheda
derry
Shamrock Rovers
Sligo
Galway
ucd
harps
cobh
bray


ur takin the ****... bray last dream on!! we had a gud squad last season and have strenghtened it, unless we get docked points finishing last is highly unlikely..

Drogs
Pats
Bohs
Derry
Cork
Rovers
Galway
Bray
Sligo
Harps
Cobh
UCD

[monutdfc]

Can we not wait a few weeks until I get my hopes up on the back of a decent signing and some flattering results in meaningless pre-season friendlies before we do this?
For what it's worth, I agree pretty much with LTID's below, except Longford will top Group 2 and Mons will be bottom of Group 2 (in fairness, he does say positions are interchangeable within these groups).



S

FIRST DIVISION

Shels
Dundalk
Waterford
Gaping Chasm
Limerick
Mons
Athlone
Longford
Kildare
Gaping Chasm
Kilkenny
Wexford

The positions will be pretty interchangeable within those 3 blocks in the First Division IMO

[Raheny Red]

This thread is way too early, still plenty more wheelings and dealing to be carried out!

[pineapple stu]

ur takin the ****... bray last dream on!!
Says he putting us last!


This thread is way too early, still plenty more wheelings and dealing to be carried out!
True. But there's nothing else doing. So here goes...

1) Drogheda. No-one can compete with the sillt money they're spending, and I think Pat's will suffer a bit for going fully full time like Drogs did when they did it.
2) St Pat's. Not far off Drogs, but still no-one near them for spending.
3) Rovers. Will do well with up the best of the part-time players.
4) Cork. Can't tell what's going to happen there next season, but the present situation can't be helping.
5) Bohs. Don't rate Fenlon as a manager. Can see him taking Bohs backwards, assuming the Dalyer money doesn't start coming onstream soon.
6) Derry. Seems too much for Kenny to turn them around this quickly, though he's done it before. 2009, maybe. Quite possibly a Cup this year.

Gap

7) Bray. Some very good signings; almost like a best of UCD. Plus Matt Gregg.
8) Sligo. Paul Cook seems a decent manager; think some teams may pass them out this year rather than them getting worse.

Gap

9) UCD. Not going to predict us to go down obviously. :) Lost more players than I'd like, but our first XI is still as strong as last year, we have the reigning U-21 champions and this time last year we'd never heard of Ian Bermingham, Brian King, Killian Gallagher, Shane McFaul, Shane Fitzgerald and others. But I'd like to start finding out about the new generation sooner rather than later... Three down should mean we don't switch off with seven games to go. :rolleyes:
10) Galway. Struggled all last season and have signed First Division players to boost their squad. Can't see anything different this year.
11) Harps. Could well stay up; though three down makes it a lot less likely, unfortunately.
12) Cobh. Don't see anything other than relegation for them.


First Division -
1) Dundalk
2) Waterford

Gap

Gap

3) Shels? Certainly too poor to come up - much less stay up - but the First Division seems to get poorer every year as another team implodes...
4) Limerick
5) Kildare
6) Athlone
7) Longford, though could come from third to tenth depending on the players they manage to cobble together.
8) Monaghan
9) Wexford
10) Kilkenny

A League
1) UCD. :)
2) Sporting Fingal.

And I won't even pretend to have a notion how the other teams will do.

[micls]

With our current squad we'l be lucky to finish in the top half.

Can't even start to predict how we'l do yet so not much hope with others.

Drogs, Bohs and Pats will be challenging for the title
Cobh, Bray, Galway, UCD and Harps will be fighting relegation.

Relegated for financial irregularities? :D

[pineapple stu]

Going to go with Wexford for the asterisk also. New to the league, still a lot to learn!

[holidaysong]

Going to go with Wexford for the asterisk also. New to the league, still a lot to learn!

Can't see how they would end up in financial trouble with Wallace behind them. He is there for the long haul and has the funds to back it up.

[pineapple stu]

More than one way to get docked points. Ineligible player would be most likely for them obviously.

[holidaysong]

More than one way to get docked points. Ineligible player would be most likely for them obviously.

I suppose they are a bunch of amateurs...















... :o :o :o

[KR's Post]

Looking into my crystal ball.

1 Bohs
2 Drogs
3 Pats
4 Cork
5 Sham Rovers
6 Bray
7 Derry
8 Galway
9 Finn Harps
10 UCD
11 Sligo
12 Cobh

1st Div
Dundalk(by a mile)
Waterford

[Ebmania]

Bohs top of the league are you MAD. They will be lucky to finish 5th. Signing a clapped out Byrne and thinking that Crowe is anywhere near the player he was. No chance

1 Pats
2 Drogs
3 Cork
4 Sham Rovers
5 Derry
6 Bohs
7 Bray
8 Galway
9 Finn Harps
10 UCD
11 Sligo
12 Cobh

[Block G Raptor]

Surprised to see Drog's mentioned as champions by so many. 2 in a row is a very difficult thing in this league. Bohs and Pat's will be there or there abouts and you can't write off Rovers or cork either. It'll be a very interesting season me thinks

[ndrog]

Surprised to see Drog's mentioned as champions by so many. 2 in a row is a very difficult thing in this league. Bohs and Pat's will be there or there abouts and you can't write off Rovers or cork either. It'll be a very interesting season me thinks

yeah im surprised anyone is talking about bohs as champions looking at what youve signed so far .We ran away with it last season and should again , Fabio and Barrett back plus the new signings and another on the way .As for cork :eek:

[Sonic]

1st DivDundalk(by a mile)
Waterford


If battling with waterford I hope so!

[Block G Raptor]

yeah im surprised anyone is talking about bohs as champions looking at what youve signed so far .:

Really? we had the meanest defence last year, just didn't score enough, too many draws and 1-0 defeats. if Byrne gets firing we'll be challenging

[micls]

Really? we had the meanest defence last year, just didn't score enough, too many draws and 1-0 defeats. if Byrne gets firing we'll be challenging

The definition of meanest defense is being discussed in another thread but Id argue that ye're lack of scorin(or going forward) is what led to having the best defense.

If ye do start playing attacking football to supply Byrne then your defense will come under a lot more pressure. You have 2 quality players there but the other 2 would be fairly suspect imo

[Block G Raptor]

The definition of meanest defense is being discussed in another thread but Id argue that ye're lack of scorin(or going forward) is what led to having the best defense.

If ye do start playing attacking football to supply Byrne then your defense will come under a lot more pressure. You have 2 quality players there but the other 2 would be fairly suspect imo

Fair point we were negative. but we did create enough chances to win a lot of game's that we drew or lost narrowly. If we'd of had a decent striker to finish the few chances we created the drog's would have been left in our dust.
Basically if the other team dont score you cant lose, but if you dont score you cant win. that was our problem last year, too many 0-0 draws that with a decent striker would have been 1-0 wins. two points dropped on way too many occasions. I'd settle for 1-0 to the boh's all next year. won't be pretty to watch but seeing Kevin hunt lift the trophy in november will more than make up for that

[micls]

If we'd of had a decent striker to finish the few chances we created the drog's would have been left in our dust

Strangely enough despite being the leagues top scorer for years I never thought thats the type of player Byrne was.

It seems to me he generally needed a bucketload of chances to score one, but maybe that was just against us. The thing was the Shels team of the time created bucketloads of chances so he never had a problem with teh supply

[Block G Raptor]

Strangely enough despite being the leagues top scorer for years I never thought thats the type of player Byrne was.

It seems to me he generally needed a bucketload of chances to score one, but maybe that was just against us. The thing was the Shels team of the time created bucketloads of chances so he never had a problem with teh supply

Oh Cr@p I never factored that into the equation
we're doomed