End of series 1 opinions

[sligoman]

Well, we've all played each other once so what do you think so far?

Answer these based on this season so far:

Worst team - Finn Harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Sligo Rovers
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, U.C.D. and Cobh Ramblers
Best result for your team - Given our record up there, 0-0 away to Derry.
Best opposition - St. Pat's
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - Stephen Parkhouse
Who'll be champions - Bohemians

I think Pat's and Bohs will run close together throughout the season, with Bohs eventually taking the title in the end. Cork will improve after Matthews gets the chop. Galway will strengthen and I think the other 3 are worse which will see them go down. Hard to know what we'll do, if we keep all our good players in July and bring in a couple more then I think we might continue to do well but I think that's a big if.

[micls]

Worst team - Finn Harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - City
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Galway and Cobh Ramblers
Best result for your team - Wow this question is depressing....Sligo?
Best opposition - St. Pat's
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - Harps centre back
Who'll be champions - Not a clue tbh. It should be Pats but I can see McDonnell screwing it up again, I dont think Bohs will but who knows.



Cork will improve after Matthews gets the chop..

Wont happen. Cant afford it

[HarpoJoyce]

Their is no worst team for me, I think some of the clubs relegated will still go on good unbeaten/ hardly unbeaten runs and at times will be the form teams in the Division. Just because the opposition they play are vunerable.

Bray are bigger suprise than Sligo, only because they are starting from further back. Both have shown they can create a home fortress.
Derry in third is a shock, I had to sit down.

Drogheda were head and shoulders above us when they played us. Other clubs beat us but didn't show as much.

The four draws in a row ramped us up each time to know that the league is still the league and we can get individual results from anyone. By the end there will be big gaps in the Division but per match not so much.

Our biggest opponent, our own belief and the man in the middle.

St. Pats at the moment.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Derry in third is a shock, I had to sit down.
You mean you usually stand up when you use the computer?:D

[thischarmingman]

Worst team - Finn Harps, though haven't seen Galway play.
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Sligo Rovers have done well but it has to be Bray. It has to be said they've gotten lucky at times and they will go through a bad spell at some point but I've been impressed with the way they've quietly got on with things, leaving other teams to fight it out among themselves at the bottom. Also, Sligo have two star players in Coleman and Kudozovich that Bray lack.
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Cobh and Shamrock Rovers. Yup, you read it here first.
Best result for your team - St. Pats 0-1 Derry City. Still the only team to have beaten them this season and what a performance it was. Icing on the cake was going one better 3 days later.
Best opposition - St. Pat's
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - Thiam
Who'll be champions - Pats. Have to do it this year. If they collapse like they did last year and the year before then Mc Donnell should go. They have the squad this year, they're getting the results, they'll do it.


Cork will improve after Matthews gets the chop.

Rubbish. I think any manager, especially one such as Matthews with a decent track record deserves more of a chance than 11 games.

[sonofstan]

Well had an answer written out and it vanished, but TCM has, in the meantime, given all the right answers - I couldn't remember Thiam's name but I picked him too; only diff. is that I have seen Galway and they're even worse than Harps. Hope we win the league obv. but wouldn't dare predict it.

Also, can I add most enjoyable other team? the answer is Cork; games against them always bring out the best in us, but, even under Matthews, they're good to watch.

[thischarmingman]

You mean you usually stand up when you use the computer?:D

Depends what site you're on...

[centre mid]

Worst team - Galway.
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - Cork / Drogheda initially.
Surprise team - Probably Us.
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Galway and Cobh Ramblers.
Best result for your team - Drogheda.
Best opposition - St. Pat's.
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey.
Worst opposition player - Kieran O Reilly (Cobh).
Who'll be champions - Bohs.

[mrtndvn]

Worst team - Most teams raise their game against us and I couldn't pick a bad team.
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork
Surprise team - bohs
Who'll be relegated - rovers, cobh and ucd
Best result for your team - beating pats in dublin
Best opposition - St. Pat's in the league played well.
Best opposition player - Brian Murphy
Worst opposition player - That drogs forward, awful!!!
Who'll be champions - Derry of course

[Maroon 7]

Worst team - Probably Harps.
Most disappointing team Cork so far. Expected more from them.
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - The other three.:D
Best result for your team - UCD away. First win.
Best opposition - Probably Pat's.
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey.
Worst opposition player - Big Harps centre half with tache.
Who'll be champions - Pat's by a whisker from Bohs.

[Sam_Heggy]

Worst team - Ourselves :o
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - Cork
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Galway and Cobh Ramblers.
Best result for your team - UCD win
Best opposition - St. Pat's.
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey.
Worst opposition player - Clive Delaney
Who'll be champions - Pats


Worst opposition player - Stephen Parkhouse

:eek: you must be joking? Have you watched him play?


Worst opposition player - Big Harps centre half with tache.

Stuart Malcom, I would have said him or Roddy if it was just plain worst player

[rambler14]

Worst team - Shamrock Rovers(possibly the worst Rovers team i've ever seen or UCD(11 men behind the ball, they play bad football.)
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) -Ramblers(I thought we'd be better, definetley though we'd get more than one win!:()
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Galway and Cobh Ramblers(if we don't win one of our next 2 games) if not Ramblers then UCD.
Best result for your team - Shamrock Rovers
Best opposition - Bohs
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - John Fitzgerald(Galway)
Who'll be champions - Bohs or Pats. Probably Pats but I wouldn't be surprised if they screwed it up.

[Aaron]

Worst team - Finn Harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Bray wanderers
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Galway and Cobh Ramblers
Best result for your team - 1-0 away to St Pat's
Best opposition - St. Pat's
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - Thiam
Who'll be champions - Derry City

[jebus]

Worst team - Monaghan
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Fingal
Surprise team - Longford
Who'll be relegated - Kildare will finish bottom
Best result for your team - Wexford 2-0, which says it all really
Best opposition - Shels
Best opposition player - Anto Flood
Worst opposition player - Anyone from Monaghan's eleven
Who'll be champions - Shels

[Martinho II]

Worst team - athlone
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - monaghan utd
Surprise team - sporting fingal
Who'll be relegated - athlone will finish bottom
Best result for your team - sporting fingal 5-1, downhill ever since
Best opposition - Shels
Best opposition player - Anto Flood
Worst opposition player - anyone from kildare co
Who'll be champions - Shels

[SligoBrewer]

Worst team - Finn Harps/Galway Utd
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City/Shams
Surprise team - Bray ( I always expected us to do well:p)
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Galway. and Cobh Ramblers
Best result for your team - 0-0 away to Derry. Best 0-0 ever.
Best opposition - Oh.. tough one. Bohs maybe?
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey/Wes Charles.
(Without Wes, Galway certainly would be on a one way trip to the graveyard.
Worst opposition player - Galway's strikers
Who'll be champions - Bohemians

[JC_GUFC]

Worst team - Cobh (to be fair to Harps they've had a lot of injuries)
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Bray - not at all surprised by Sligo.
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, U.C.D. and Cobh Ramblers
Best result for your team - League Cup win over Sligo, not because it was Sligo but because we got a 0-0 draw away at a good team.
Best opposition - Cork
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - Just from TV Thiam looks useless
Who'll be champions - Drogheda

[JC_GUFC]

only diff. is that I have seen Galway and they're even worse than Harps.


I hope to be reminding you of this next Friday! ;)

It was a long time you saw us play anyway and we've had 2 managers since then!

[BohsPartisan]

Worst team - Finn Harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, U.C.D. and Cobh Ramblers
Best result for your team - The away win in Drogheda
Best opposition - St. Pat's
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - So many to choose from. Most of the Rovers team the night we played them.
Who'll be champions - Bohs. I think there's a confisence about the place and with the right moves in the transfer market the skys the limit. Definitely not Pats.

[The Lilywhites]

Worst team - Athlone
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Waterford (based on the two performances I've seen from them)
Surprise team - Wexford (most improved)
Who'll be relegated - Athlone
Best result for your team - 6-0 vs. Kildare :D
Best opposition - Shelbourne (by a mile)
Best opposition player - Anto Flood :(
Worst opposition player - There's too many to try to single one out!
Who'll be champions - Dundalk, obviously!

[bellavistaman]

Worst team - UCD
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Cork City for different reasons
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, U.C.D. and galway
Best result for your team - Only win vs rovers
Best opposition - Bohs 1st half, joy to watch
Best opposition player - Fahey, Gamble
Worst opposition player - Dan Murray, for the rep and how he played against us, total crap.
Who'll be champions - Bohs.

[deecay]

Worst team - Finn Harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Shams
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Harps, GUFC and Cobh
Best result for your team - 0-0 away to Derry.
Best opposition - Bohs
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - Peter Hutton
Who'll be champions - Pats

[thischarmingman]

Worst opposition player - Peter Hutton


:eek:

He's been great for us this season...


EDIT: 300 posts!

[WoodquayBoy]

Worst team - From what I've seen, our lot, but we are improving
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - ****
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, UCD and Harps
Best result for your team - Finally, a first win! UCD on Friday
Best opposition - Kills me to say it, but Sligo. They were clinical
Best opposition player - Again, from what I've seen, Fahrudin Kuduzovic
Worst opposition player - Alan Mahon
Who'll be champions - It's Pats title if they don't choke again, otherwise Bohs
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[WoodquayBoy]

Best opposition player - Keith Fahey/Wes Charles.
(Without Wes, Galway certainly would be on a one way trip to the graveyard.
Now I know Sligo people are, well, to be a little undelicate about it, mental. Just because he was a former favourite of you lot, doesn't mean ye should be blind to his, well, shortcomings this year. Of which there are many. Like he couldn't turn in a carpark and has the pace of a snail

[gustavo]

Worst opposition player - Pats centre back

They have more than one , the least you could do is actually find out the name of the player you are criticising

[GuisaSaigon]

Worst team - Harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Galway United (mainly under Cousins, Kenna seems to have got them playing)
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, Harps and Shamrock Rovers
Best result for your team - away to UCD
Best opposition - Wasn't at the Sligo game but they did more damage to us than anyone else
Best opposition player - Fahey (Pats)
Worst opposition player - Labonte (Harps)
Who'll be champions - Pats or Bohs....Probably Pats

[monutdfc]

Worst team - Monaghan
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Fingal
Surprise team - Longford
Who'll be relegated - Kildare will finish bottom
Best result for your team - Wexford 2-0, which says it all really
Best opposition - Shels
Best opposition player - Anto Flood
Worst opposition player - Anyone from Monaghan's eleven
Who'll be champions - Shels
And Limerick's results v Monaghan United this season have been 0-1 and 2-2

[Block G Raptor]

Worst team - Galway
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Rovers
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, Harps and Galway
Best result for your team - away to Drogheda
Best opposition - Pats
Best opposition player - Fahey (Pats)
Worst opposition player - Thaim(Droggs)
Who'll be champions -Bohs....Deffo

[pineapple stu]

Obviously only going on the matches I've seen, which is fairly restricted...

Worst team - Bray
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Bray (given how bad they were when we played them)
Who'll be relegated - Finn Harps, Galway and Cobh Ramblers (duh)
Best result for your team - 0-0 in Richmond
Best opposition - Drogheda. Only team we were never in the match against.
Best opposition player - Never really notice individual opposition players
Worst opposition player - Wes Charles
Who'll be champions - Pat's

[superfrank]

Worst team - Harps. They were terrible against us and we were terrible at the time.
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - Drogs. They undoubtedly have the strongest team in the league but they don't gel. They came to us with four strikers on the bench and still couldn't score.
Surprise team - Wanderers. We went seven unbeaten when we were rotting at the foot of the table and hadn't scored in our first four games and people were already writing us off.
Who'll be relegated - Right now, Harps, Cobh and UCD but, as we've shown, it can turn so quickly.
Best result for your team - 3-2 at Galway. The last game Galway lost...
Best opposition - Pats. They are a brilliant football side.
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey. He's been the outstanding player so far this season.
Worst opposition player - Kieran O'Reilly. This chap couldn't finish his dinner.
Who'll be champions - Pats. Maybe wobbling at the moment but still the best side by a mile.

[monutdfc]

Worst team - Athlone (they did beat us though!)
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - definitely Fingal
Surprise team - Wexford seem to be getting good results (but they started ok last season, but it's a long season)
Who'll be relegated - Wexford (see above)
Best result for your team - Shelbourne 1-0
Best opposition - Dundalk (based on games v MUFC; didn't see us v Waterford)
Best opposition player - Ben Whelehan
Worst opposition player - not the worst as such, but Robbie Doyle was very disappointing
Who'll be champions - Shels

[all drogged up]

Worst team - Cobh.
Most disappointing team Cork but you could say Drogheda getting better though - thought Derry would be better (league position is fine but thought they'd look stronger too)
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - hope galway don't go down - bad for league if full time club got relegated - hope UCD Harps and Cobh
Best result for your team - Cork away I suppose but the Pats game was legend and they must have been thankin theior lucky stars leaving united park we are a much better side and they'll win nothing
Best opposition - Bohs.
Best opposition player - Glen Crowe - fahey's great at the mo but his form will dip.
Worst opposition player - I'd say Thiam for us cos he seems to work against us anytime he's on - I've seen him win only two headers ffs - he also headed the ball down and over the bar from two yards out against shels (couldn't and brothel come to mind)
Who'll be champions - If not us then Bohs.

[placid casual]

Worst "football" team - Rovers
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - Rovers
Surprise team - bohs
Who'll be relegated - galway,cobh,finn harps
Best result for your team - drogs away 1-0
Best opposition -drogs
Best opposition player - fahey
Worst opposition player - g ocallaghan
Who'll be champions - drogs

[Mr A]

Who'll be relegated - hope galway don't go down - bad for league if full time club got relegated - hope UCD Harps and Cobh

Harps are full time as well now.....

[HarpoJoyce]

Harps are full time as well now.....

Yeah. Like us, we're Full-Time trying to get out of the bother we're in.

[dublinwanderer]

Worst team - Finn harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - Us!!
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, Harps and UCD
Best result for your team - Galway, Derry or Drog win take pick
Best opposition - Pats by a mile so far
Best opposition player - Fahy
Worst opposition player - Gary Rogers, was very bad against us, but what i've seen on the tv Thiam from drogs by a mile...
Who'll be champions - Drogheda

[Schumi]

Worst team - Bray, though they've obviously improved since I saw them.
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Rovers. Looked brilliant against Drogheda in their first game, gone downhill a lot since then. Based on league position: Cork but they looked OK against us and Pats.
Surprise team - Cobh on their performance against us, Bray without a doubt overall.
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, Harps and Galway. :)
Best result for your team - 1-1 home v Bohs, the win against Bray was the best performance though.
Best opposition - Drogheda, tore us apart.
Best opposition player -
Worst opposition player - Either Cobh striker, wouldn't have scored against us if they were still there.
Who'll be champions - Bohs

All based on the games I've seen so don't get in a huff if I mention your team negatively!

[Navandrog]

Worst team - Harps
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Us or Cork.
Surprise team - Sligo.Paul Cooke is doing some job, it will be hard keepin Faz though
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, Harps and Galway.
Best result for your team - 2-0 away to Cork
Best opposition - Pats
Best opposition player - Fahy
Worst opposition player - Well no one come near as bad as our own Thiam
Who'll be champions - Bohs

[sligoman]

They came to us with four strikers on the bench and still couldn't score.Maybe because they were on the bench?;)

[superfrank]

Maybe because they were on the bench?;)
Well actually three of them came on. My point is they have that kind of strength in their side (We're talking Zayed, Keegan, O'Brien and Barrett, iirc) and Doolin goes with Grant and O'Keefe (iirc) ahead of them and not one of the five that played could score. They also have Ristila, Thiam and Bates, to mention a few. How he couldn't get two forwards on the pitch that could score a goal is beyond me.

[CharlesThompson]

Worst team - Sorry to say, but Harps.
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - I'd probably have to say Cork. They've got a pretty useful side and although they could have gotten a point from us on the day, overall I thought they played within themselves and lacked something fundamental from a side that you'd expect to be challenging for league honours.
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, Galway, Harps
Best result for your team - Win away to Drogheda
Best opposition - Pats
Best opposition player - Fahy with an honourable mention to McCourt.
Worst opposition player - Malcolm (Harps)
Who'll be champions - Here I plead the 5th amendment. I certainly think that Bohs have a good chance, Pats are stronger than they were last year. I don't think Cork will do enough to catch up although stranger things have happened. I don't think that Derry will do enough especially if they lose McCourt and Drogheda are in a relatively comfortable position considering their poor form early on. So one from Bohs, Pats or Drogheda. Really difficult to say right now.

[Flume]

Worst team - Finn harps
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - Cork. I expected much more of a challenge to come from them but it just didn't happen. They seem to lack balance especially in the midfield.
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Harps, cobh, galway
Best result for your team - Win against cork
Best opposition - Drogheda. A better team then they were last year imo.
Best opposition player - John o'flynn. (if he kept fit it would make a huge difference to cork).
Worst opposition player - Stuart Malcolm
Who'll be champions - Ourselves. I think we have what it takes this year. I think our closest challengers will be drogheda though. If they start getting the results then they will run us close. I think bohs will fade.

[Rovers1]

Worst team - Finn Harps/ Galway....Galway will come good though
Most disappointing team- Cork
Surprise team - Bray so far although their run seems to have been hit.
Who'll be relegated - Harps, Cobh, UCD
Best result for your team - 3-2 V Shams
Best opposition - Pats
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey
Worst opposition player - Thiane...just because alot was expected of him. Dan Murray after that.
Who'll be champions - Pats

[micls]

They have more than one , the least you could do is actually find out the name of the player you are criticising

That should have been Harps btw.

I have no idea what his name is, and no intention of trawling the internet to find the name/picture of a random opposition player I couldnt care less about just for a thread on here.Maybe if he'd been better Id remember his name

Im sure you'll cope without it Gustavo

[harry crumb]

Worst team - Finn Harps
Most disappointing team (with good individual players) - Bohemians. Only for Killian Brennan I think they would be floundering.
Surprise team - St. Pats. Shown championship qualities
Who'll be relegated - Harps, cobh, UCD
Best result for your team - Beating Harps convincingly
Best opposition - Cobh Ramblers
Best opposition player - Gary O'Neill
Worst opposition player - Dessie Baker
Who'll be champions - St. Pats

[Port Saint]

Worst team - Shamrock R. (Most Pats fans say FH but I wasn't there)
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Cork City
Surprise team - (Minus)Galway should be doing better.
Who'll be relegated - Cobh, Finn Harps and Shamrock R.(purely because UCD and Galway won't)
Best result for your team - 1-0 away to Bohes
Best opposition - Drogheda
Best opposition player - UCD full back?? captain I think
Worst opposition player - Hard to say
Who'll be champions - Derry City. (I think it'll be close between Pats, Bohes, Derry and Drogs and we'll regret not taking the league cup seriously)

[Schumi]

Best opposition player - UCD full back?? captain I thinkConor Kenna? Blond guy?

[harpskid]

Worst opposition player - Stephen Parkhouse


He didn't even play against Sligo ffs...

Anyhoo, based on what I've seen thus far


Worst team - Harps, unfortunately
Most disappointing team(with good individual players) - Was disappointed with Derry when we played them, but more so with Drogheda United.
Surprise team - Bray
Who'll be relegated - Harps, Cobh and Galway
Best result for your team - home win v UCD
Best opposition - Pats
Best opposition player - Keith Fahey of St Pats
Worst opposition player - Clive Delaney
Who'll be champions - It's St Pats' to lose I reckon

[mrtndvn]

Was disappointed with Derry when we played them

2-1 and 3-0??

:?