Analysis of 2nd third of the season...

[Poor Student]

Comparing the 1st two thirds of the season we've actually impoved a bit even though our recent form has been poor.

Shels (1-1) 1-1 - Same
Drogheda United (0-2) 2-1 - Improvement
Bray Wanderers (0-1) 3-2 - Improvement
Cork City (0-0) 1-5 - Disimprovement
Waterford United (1-0) 0-0 - Disimprovement
St. Patrick's Athletic (2-3) 1-0 Improvement
Derry City (1-0) 0-3 - Disimprovement
Bohemian FC (1-1) 1-1 - Same
Finn Harps (0-1) 1-1 - Improvement
Longford Town (0-1) 0-0 Improvement
Shamrock Rovers (0-0) 0-1 Disimprovement

That's 5 improvements, 2 the same and 4 disimprovements.

Our record in the 1st third was: Won 2 Drawn 4 Lost 5 Scored 6 Conceded 10 Points 10

Our record in the 2nd third was: Won 3 Drawn 5 Lost 3 Scored 10 Conceded 15 Points 14

We've won 1 more and lost 2 less, scored a few more too. Sadly we've conceded more too though. If we can further improve on this we should see a decent finish. However this was the only third where we had more home games than away. At least things have gotten better though the last result is very disappointing.

[pineapple stu]

Yeah, that usually happens to us alright. Pete Mahon's targets, I think, were 10, 13 and 16 points from each third. I'd be hopeful of getting the 16 from the last 11 games, as we usually finish well. I think at this stage, though, we're not going to finish higher than seventh, so any league movement will be downwards - i.e. the league is pretty much over for us (so long as we don't completely collapse and go down). However, if we can start getting a few goals (1 goal from open play in our last seven games! ) in the last third, that'll be success in itself and would set us up for next season.

[Poor Student]

I've said before, if we can keep our team core I have high hopes for next season. Kenna, Quigley, Dicker and Hurley are so young and could really come on in a year or two.