Derby games

There are many potential derby games in the EL.

1/ ATHLONE TOWN V LONGFORD TOWN
The midlands derby

2/ ATHLONE TOWN V LIMERICK F.C.
The Shannon Derby

3/ ATHLONE TOWN V GALWAY UNITED
The South Connacht Derby ( well the west bank of Athlone is on the Roscommon side of the river)

4/ GALWAY UNITED V SLIGO ROVERS
The Real Connacht Derby

5/SLIGO ROVERS V LONGFORD TOWN
North Midlandsish Derby 1

6/ SLIGO ROVERS V FINN HARPS
North West Derby 1

7/ FINN HARPS V DERRY CITY
North West Derby 2

8/ DERRY CITY V SLIGO ROVERS
North West Derby 3

9/ LONGFORD TOWN V MONAGHAN UNITED
Sort of Derby

10/ DUNDALK F.C. V MONAGHAN UNITED
North East Derby 1

11/ DROGHEDA UNITED V DUNDALK F.C.
Louth Derby

12/ DROGHEDA UNITED V MONAGHAN UNITED
North East Derby 2

13/ LIMERICK F.C. V CORK CITY F.C.
Munster Derby 1

14/ LIMERICK F.C. V COBH RAMBLERS
Munster Derby 2

15/ LIMERICK F.C. V WATERFORD UNITED
Munster Derby 3

16/ CORK CITY V WATERFORD UNITED
Munster Derby 4

17/ COBH RAMBLERS V CORK CITY
Leeside Derby

18/ WATERFORD UNITED V KILKENNY CITY
South East Derby

19/ KILKENNY CITY V KILDARE COUNTY
The K Clubs Derby

20/ KILDARE COUNTY V SHAMROCK ROVERS
In 2006 it was the First Division's Greater Dublin Derby

21/ ST.PATRICK'S ATHLETIC V U.C.D.
The Saints and Scholars Derby

22/ U.C.D. V BRAY WANDERERS
The SE Dublin/N Wicklow Derby

23/ SHAMROCK ROVERS V SHELBOURNE
The ex-Ringsend Derby

24/ BOHEMIANS V SHELBOURNE
The Northside Derby

25/BOHEMIANS V ST. PATRICK'S ATHLETIC
Dublin Derby 1

26/ BOHEMIANS V U.C.D.
Dublin Derby 2

27/BOHEMIANS V SHAMROCK ROVERS
El Gran Classico Derby

28/ SHELBOURNE V U.C.D.
The 1895 Derby ( both clubs founded that year)

29/SHAMROCK ROVERS V U.C.D
The ex-neighbours Derby

30/BRAY V ST. PATRICK'S ATHLETIC
The Eddie Gormley Derby

31/BRAY WANDERERS V SHAMROCK ROVERS
The (01) Green and White Derby

32/ BRAY WANDERERS V BOHEMIANS
The (01) B teams Derby

33/ SHELBOURNE V BRAY WANDERERS
The Dart/Commuter train Derby

34/ ST.PATRICK'S ATHLETIC V SHAMROCK ROVERS
The New West Dublin Derby

35/SHELBOURNE V ST. PATRICK'S ATHLETIC
S Club ( Dublin ) Derby

36/ Any Dublin V Country team is a Rural/ Urban Derby game

Not bad for a 21 team League:D

Seriously how long did that take you :)

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Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

7/ FINN HARPS V DERRY CITY
North West Derby 2 or "The REAL North West derby"

8/ DERRY CITY V SLIGO ROVERS
North West Derby 3 or the red and white stripey shirt derby

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Just a couple of add ons

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Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

4/ GALWAY UNITED V SLIGO ROVERS
The Real Connacht Derby

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Not really much of a derby as Galway aren't really our rivals. No matter how much they like to think they are:D.

Good list, but we all know that there's only really one proper derby in this Country ;)

Kind of stretching the defenition of the word derby there.

And, by your criteria, you also forgot:
WATERFORD UNITED V COBH RAMBLERS
The derby to decide who is Cork City's main derby rival (not that they would lower themselves to think either of us are worthy to be considered derby opposition, being that they're a 'big club' now, so surely their rightful derby opposition should be another big club etc. etc.)

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Originally Posted by hoopy

Good list, but we all know that there's only really one proper derby in this Country ;)

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aye.... Linfield - Glentoran ;)

Finn Harps V Athlone Town

"The joined the league in 1969 and are both moving from tin stadiums to really nice new ones and have a fair bit of blue in their kits and aren't that far apart really Derby"

Stretching the concept of a derby way too much there there CTID !!

Would be like saying Arsenal v Charlton was a derby, because both are from London, or that Hull City v Sheffield United was a derby, just cuz both were from Yorkshire (there's about 10 teams from Yorkshire in the league, as it's a huge area) when neither would be considered 'derbies' by their fans.

Loving the Eddie Gormley and Saints and Scholars games.

I'd suggest you send this to John Delaney. As we move to a historic new US style franchise Delaneyship we should be promoted every game as if its the biggest game in the world. Taking a leaf out of US college football, lets have a name for every game and have them all live on TV. I honestly can't wait for the Eddie Gormley bowl live on pay per view...

Go SAINTS!

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Originally Posted by sligoman

Not really much of a derby as Galway aren't really our rivals. No matter how much they like to think they are:D.

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There has always been a healthy rivalry between ourselves and Shligo. because we are the only Connacht teams and also because many of our players have also played with Shligo down the years.
This season our games with Athlone have been more like derbys probably because they are basically our b team and its our shortest trip.
The scum element that has attached itself to "De Town" recently also gets our blood boiling!

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Originally Posted by seand

aye.... Linfield - Glentoran ;)

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Or as we prefer up here, Glentoran v. Them 'uns

:D :cool:

Someone has time on their hands! Interesting although I would question the "Derbyness" of Monaghan and Drogheda. I reckon there are 7 or 8 clubs closer to the Dublin suburb that is Drogheda than CHP is.

Pretty soon we'll have the M1 Derbys Bohs V Shels (If Shels go to Morton). Bohs V Drogs, Shels V Drogs.

You could also have:

Galway v Pat's

And

Galway v Shels

The ex-Harold's Cross tenants derby. (Galway once played an end of season 'home' game against Shels in Dublin. It was a marketing move for United, much like the GAA playing matches in the US)

On that theme you could just have the ex/current Greyhound Stadia derbies:

Waterford (Kilcohan), Derry (Brandywell), Pat's/Shels (Harold's X - did Shels ever play in Shelbourne Park) Galway (Sportsgrounds/Harold's X)

Sligo Rovers vs Shamrock Rovers - The Rovers Derby .

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Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon

There has always been a healthy rivalry between ourselves and Shligo. because we are the only Connacht teams and also because many of our players have also played with Shligo down the years.
This season our games with Athlone have been more like derbys probably because they are basically our b team and its our shortest trip.
The scum element that has attached itself to "De Town" recently also gets our blood boiling!

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Bit rich calling Athlone your B team isnt it Guisa.
If you look at teh last time ye played Athlone,you could make a whole team,using both teams of Ex-Sligo players...but i wont say anymore about that.

Sligoman is talking through his arse.
If you look at Bebo or the reaction we sometimes get up there it is most certainly a derby.Sligoman consider Sligo v Rovers....more of a derby:rolleyes:

It was summed up for me before by a Sligo fan down here in Galway.To them Harps are bigger rivals but they hate us more.Rovers is just a long old rivalry.

Anyway i'd consider Sligo our main rivals but i'd hate Athlone just as much if not more in some ways.

sure while your at it, why not have the bray-galway east-west derby cos there roughly directly east/west of each other, oo and you could have a whole host of coastal derbies, im thinkin here bray-waterford, limerick-galway, limerick-bray, waterford-galway and then theres the "no one cares about us" monaghan-kilkenny derby, the "no one supports us" ucd-dublin ci.. no wait, scrap that one, but there is of course the possibility of a "proppin up the league" athlone-kilkenny-monaghan triligy series!:cool:

There's also the red neck derby between longford and Athlone.(or the midlands derby if ya want to be posh!!)