Relegation 2008

With five weeks to go til the end of the season, lets see why this season could be the closest relegation battle for years with four and possible five teams liable to go down. below I've listed the five remaining fixtures for each team (six for galway and bray).

Cobh Ramblers:
Fri. 10 October St. Patrick's Athletic v Cobh Ramblers
Sat. 18 October Cobh Ramblers v UCD
Fri. 31 October Bray Wanderers v Cobh Ramblers
Sat. 8 November Cobh Ramblers v Bohemians
Fri. 14 November Derry City v Cobh Ramblers

UCDD:
Fri. 10 October Shamrock Rovers v UCD
Sat. 18 October Cobh Ramblers v UCD
Fri. 31 October UCD v Bohemians
Fri. 7 November St. Patrick's Athletic v UCD
Fri. 14 November UCD v Galway United

Finn Harps::
Fri. 10 October Cork City v Finn Harps
Fri. 17 October Finn Harps v Sligo Rovers
Fri. 31 October Drogheda United v Finn Harps
Fri. 7 November Galway United v Finn Harps
Fri. 14 November Finn Harps v Shamrock Rovers

Bray Wanderers::
Fri. 10 October Bray Wanderers v Derry City
Fri. 17 October Galway United v Bray Wanderers
Fri. 31 October Bray Wanderers v Cobh Ramblers
Fri. 7 November Bray Wanderers v Drogheda United
Fri. 14 November Sligo Rovers v Bray Wanderers
**game to be played against Shamrock Rovers - date yet to be decided

Galway United::
Sat. 11 October Sligo Rovers v Galway United
Fri. 17 October Galway United v Bray Wanderers
Fri. 31 October Derry City v Galway United
Fri. 7 November Galway United v Finn Harps
Fri. 14 November UCD v Galway United
**game to be played against St. Pat's - date yet to be decided

At present the table is as follows (with Bray and Galway with a game in hand)
Bray - 29
Harps - 24
UCDD - 20
Cobh - 20
United - 19

My prediction to go down is: Cobh, Ucd and Harps

Yeah Galway will stay up.

Harps, Cobh and UCD will go down.

We have the most diffult run in by a long way. UCD have small chance of staying up too but it seems to be between Galway and UCD now. As far as I hear the Harps players don't even want the club to stay up now. We will probably lose every match.

no offense to you or harps, but what you just said brings music to my ears

now i just gotta get on to boyle sports to see what odds they'll give my for galway to stay up and to win the cup... would be worth a fiver or if its pay day maybe a tenner.

Bray won't be involved.

Harps
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Galway
UCD
Cobh

Form Table (Last 6 weeks) Pld Pts Avg
1 Bohemians 6 18 3.0
2 St Patricks Athletic 4 9 2.3
3 Cobh Ramblers 5 8 1.6
4 Sligo Rovers 6 8 1.3
5 Drogheda United 7 9 1.3
6 Derry City 4 5 1.3
7 Galway United 4 5 1.3
8 Shamrock Rovers 4 4 1.0
9 Finn Harps 6 6 1.0
10 Bray Wanderers 4 3 0.8
11 UCD 5 3 0.6
12 Cork City 5 5 -1.0

Cobh on their best run of the season, can't see them get much at Pats next week but deff out of all the other games. Never underestimate a club fighting for survival against a club with nothing to play for and only seeing out the season (Bohs and Derry by time we meet them)

All that said though, Cork aren't supposed to be fielding a great team at the weekend so I think Harps will be too far ahead to catch.

The only other thing is what points deductions are going to be implimented to Cork, Harps, Drogs????? If any????

Bray is out of race. But between the others it could give an interesting battle. However Finn Harps has the best chance to stay up. If they get 4 points of the last games they will win the relegation race. Ok, Galway, Cobh and UCD have just a little chance, but to little in my mind. It would me surprise if Harps would going down, really.

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Originally Posted by The Rebel Ram

The only other thing is what points deductions are going to be implimented to Cork, Harps, Drogs????? If any????

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Why do you leave Cobh out of that equation but include Drogheda? Seems like wishful thinking to me.

If Bray take their eye off the ball they could be pulled in too along with Harps and Cobh

Bray are safe. I'd still expect Harps to stay up although their run-in is tough. They've been able to pick up wins in games I wouldn't expect. We have to beat Cobh and Galway and probably pick up another three or four points from the other games. Hopefully Bohs will have won the league when we're playing them and still be hungover. :eek:

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Originally Posted by The Rebel Ram

Form Table (Last 6 weeks) Pld Pts Avg

12 Cork City 5 5 -1.0

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LOL. Cork with an average of -1 points per game with their deduction included. :D

Three matches stand out:
Sat. 18 October Cobh Ramblers v UCD
Fri. 7 November Galway United v Finn Harps
Fri. 14 November UCD v Galway United

The results of these may determine the order of the bottom three. Harps should have enough to stay clear, but might not. UCD just got their first win in ages, so the race is on.

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Originally Posted by finnpark

Yeah Galway will stay up.

Harps, Cobh and UCD will go down.

We have the most diffult run in by a long way. UCD have small chance of staying up too but it seems to be between Galway and UCD now. As far as I hear the Harps players don't even want the club to stay up now. We will probably lose every match.

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Bull, Ive spoke to most of the players and they allwant to be playing Premier football next season.
Players have been offering their free time to help out the club with fundraising, PR work and anything that may be of use. So I really don't see where your statement comes out of.


I spoke with Paul Hegarty after the Bray game and I said we look to be pretty much safe, he said not a chance yet, he believes Cobh have the best chance because of the games they have.
He predicted they would beat Rovers, Bohs and Bray plus possibily a draw with UCD.

Its going to be an interesting few games ahead, If I had to predict I would say the bottom 3 will remain the same but it will be closer than it is now.

For the record, Bray have been easily the worst side we've played all season, they could be drawn into the bottom 4 yet.

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Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy

Bull, Ive spoke to most of the players and they allwant to be playing Premier football next season.
Players have been offering their free time to help out the club with fundraising, PR work and anything that may be of use. So I really don't see where your statement comes out of.


I spoke with Paul Hegarty after the Bray game and I said we look to be pretty much safe, he said not a chance yet, he believes Cobh have the best chance because of the games they have.
He predicted they would beat Rovers, Bohs and Bray plus possibily a draw with UCD.

Its going to be an interesting few games ahead, If I had to predict I would say the bottom 3 will remain the same but it will be closer than it is now.

For the record, Bray have been easily the worst side we've played all season, they could be drawn into the bottom 4 yet.

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Bohs and possibly bray, to stay up we HAVE to beat UCD and Bray, a point off pats and bohs or a win off one of them could keep us up.

I'm quitely confident we'll stay up, but harps have to be favourite to do it

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Originally Posted by bellavistaman

Bohs and possibly bray, to stay up we HAVE to beat UCD and Bray, a point off pats and bohs or a win off one of them could keep us up.

I'm quitely confident we'll stay up, but harps have to be favourite to do it

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Macca I know ye are confident of beating Bohs, title won and a few other factors to add into it means ill be making a few quid off the bookies that day.

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Originally Posted by The Rebel Ram

Cobh on their best run of the season, can't see them get much at Pats next week but deff out of all the other games. Never underestimate a club fighting for survival against a club with nothing to play for and only seeing out the season (Bohs and Derry by time we meet them)

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Very true but the fact is that apart from the 4 of us (Bray are safe) no-one else is really playing for anything in the league.

In many ways UCD and Galway have the best fixtures in that we're playing 2 of the bottom 4 sides. United obviously have the advantage of a game in hand, when we were originally due to play Pat's they were playing very well and we'd have almost certainly lost. Now there's even an outside chance that we go to Richmond Park and win!

Taking the matches game by game though and I think next weekend UCD and Galway have the best chance of getting results.
The week after Galway have a very winnable game, while UCD play Cobh and Harps have a good chance of beating Sligo at home.

At the end of the day though Harps have the points in the bag and looking at the last day of the season they're at home to Rovers which I would expect them to win and I think they'll just stay up.

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Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy

Macca I know ye are confident of beating Bohs, title won and a few other factors to add into it means ill be making a few quid off the bookies that day.

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Ah sammy you'll only make money by bckiung the draw me thinks, hopefully derry will have **** all to play for too, heartless performance by then will go down well with bella

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Originally Posted by JC_GUFC

Harps have a good chance of beating Sligo at home.

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Really? Have they replaced their whole defence recently then?:confused:

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Originally Posted by sligoman

Really? Have they replaced their whole defence recently then?:confused:

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Nah, we have paid off a few Sligo players and the ref :D

Thats why we have no money left ;)

I want either Cobh or Galway to stay up, and it will be either of them i think. Cobh because its like another home game for us, Galway for the good of the league imo.

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Originally Posted by A face

Galway for the good of the league imo.

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Why, in your opinion, are Galway good for the league?