Printable View
Lads anyone got a video or highlights anywhere , i was in st mungos and didnt get out so missed it all ;(
The quote from rte was good on a night when united lose and dundalk draw away against a team 5 points off the league leaders and a man down. O'Neill has to call up a couple of them.
The eir sport twitter and facebook accounts have been sharing the major moments I believe.
Some result that. Taking a point away from home like that is a massive shot in the arm. No need for any inferiority complexes, have at em.
Only saw the last ten minutes after work but thought Rodgers looked really rattled. That's before I'd seen the superman punch MMA knockout.
My personal congrats to Dundalk and Ciaran Kilduff. I still remember his "perfect" hat-trick 8 years ago vs Fanad.
Here it is for those that don't remember ;) His first goal was pretty sweet and at the beginning of the video. The rest of the "highlights" worth skipping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSIlW5ngSNk
Well done Kilduff.
Might as well throw in this video too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6JgJjHv4y8, slightly(!) better quality video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43aVzuDUpY), the night that Dundalk were promoted. The scenes at the final whistle (about 5m 15s in) were eerie until news slowly filtered through first from the LMFM contingent in the top corner of the stand until all hell broke lose. Who knew that was the start of something big. How things could have been different if they missed out on that promotion, would we have had a day like today?
Blocking it in englandQuote:
Originally Posted by fionnsci
Watching itv now.hopefully they show it
Thats a serious start for Dundalk in the Europa League ..... hope they build on it now!
0.250 added to the co-efficient. A win could see us back up into the high 30s and be the golden 3 point mark that adds plus 1 to Dundalk's Team co-efficient. That would leave them close to 6.000, which could be enough to be seeded next year in QR2 CL (if they qualify)
Paul Ince and Glenn Hoddle has good words to say about Dundalks efforts on ITVs highlights programme. Showed great character was the general consensus.
Unfortunately the country coefficient is largely irrelevant after next year (THANKS UEFA). Every Irish club gets 0.05 added to their coefficient for next season and nothing for 2018.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Great result for Dundalk. Good to see them go one better than Rovers. Whats crazy is for all their European success this year they have still only won a single game.
Brilliant result for Dundalk (and the League).Over the 98 mins ;) they deserved a point IMHO. great European run and still a bit to run. C'mon de Town
I was au fait with the co-efficient system a number of years ago but I found it hard to keep up over the years. Is there somewhere where I can read a concise explanation of the system as is (relationship between national and club co-efficient etc) and how things are going to change? Something a little more substantial than wikipedia!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
There isn't a whole lot on the new system yet. We're getting information in bits and pieces. There has been some discussion on Bert Kassies website in the forum, and the key parts were included here but it will probably some time before we have teh full picture and it can be explained simply.Quote:
Originally Posted by fionnsci
The national co-efficient is calculated combing all 4 teams
So far this year including last nights draw Dundalk has contributed 3.5 to the national co-efficient giving us a total of 8.5 divided by 4 to get an average of 2.125.
http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/...ccoef2017.html
Dundalk's final ranking come the end of 2017 will combine its own points with 20% of our final averaged co-efficient (if there are no more results that will be 0.425). As it stands Dundalk has 2 points for qualifying plus the "country-part" so if nothing changes they will finish this year with a co-efficient of 2.425 added to their 4 previous years gives 4.715.
probably NOT enough to be seeded next year.
http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/...trank2017.html
Another draw for Dundalk would change things thusly:
9.5/4 = 2.375 * 20% = 0.475. added to their 2 points (as for as I can see Dundalk dont "add" to their points unless they get 3 draws or a win and a draw which is strange but eh) gives 2.475 and a final co efficient of 5.215 which would have put Dundalk as the highest unseeded that first round this year but not as high as Trencin who were on 5.4.
However,
If they win one game (or get a third draw)
we get 10.5/4 * 20% = 0.525 plus 3 = 3.525 plus the previos 4 years gives 5.815
which would be enough to be seeded.
http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/...eedcl2016.html
Great result for Dundalk & fantastic for the League of Ireland.
Did themselves & the league proud.
Well done to all concerned.
Hope the grave train is big enough for all the FAI blazers who'll want to get on now :rolleyes:
Of course if Cork beats Dundalk to the title
Cork's co-efficient for this year is 1 + Country part. Lets say Dundalk win their home game or get 2 more draws and the country part amounts to the 0.525 cork still only end up with a slight improvement to 2.565.
Obviously improving the country co-efficient cant lie solely on one teams back though. Irish clubs need to be more consistent collectively.
Although it seems much of this is mute since they are phasing out the national co-efficient. pity really.
Well, Portugal only won 1 game at the Euros in 90 mins and that was against Wales, do they care?Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Also, you could look at it from the opposite, 2 losses from 7 games against decent opposition, that's unheard of for a LOI club in Europe. They have conceded 8 goals in those matches, again that's great by LOI standards.
Great result by Dundalk. Hopefully they can pick up at least 2 more draws. Any win will be phenomenal.
Criminal the direction European football is taking. UEFA will offer sweeteners of more money for qualifiers missing out but the league champions of the lower leagues need more European games.
Remember there was talk of a third tier European competition. Maybe this is a move towards that?Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz