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Obviously for us, at home to Dundalk and Shels are the big ones, but as Ash said we haven't beaten Athlone yet, so tonight's game is crucial, with the chance to go top.
All four are going to drop points, so it's still wide open.
Shels look to have the nicest run-in there, although the game against Lomerick will be somewhat of an unknown quantity.
I see the "we don't need mourinho, we've got john gillio" brigade have turned on there manager. The hard facts Dundalk have now blown the title under his stewardship now 2 seasons in a row. If any time to go up this was your year but the momentum is now with the Blues unless Shels and Fingal mount a late surge which is possible.
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Originally Posted by Raheny Red
We're going up!
Is that directed at me? I thought he should have gone at the end of last season but was content to give him another chance and its hardly tuning on a manager it was a gradual thing. This is a very poor 1st division this year and any team worth their salt would be running away with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5ForKeeps
It ain't over until it's over.
Wat`d 0 - Ath 0
Lim 1 - 1 Fing
Shel 1 - Mon 0
Dundalk still leaders........................
could not believe waterford didnt take their chance to go top
Tonight shows who the real bottlers are in the First Division.
Yeah. Monaghan. Useless c**ts.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lilywhites
Monaghan only come out to play four times a year.
2 weeks ago shels were dead and buried, now its a 3 horse race, just goes to show how quickly things can change
Our run in, is def the more favourable with 'only' waterford away the game we should be worried about........................then again we never saw last night coming, and waterford would def have expected to have beaten athlone tonight..............so who knows.
I still think and have done so all season that the top 5 will finish up as it stands tonight.
Absolutley not true. The battle we put in last night was a credit to the team. Was a real tough physical fight and resulted in loads of yellow cards and they only got one goal, through a penalty. So pull your horns in mate, Dundalk are not the be all and end all of our season. Yes we do love to give you a hard time but thats a local derby by nature.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lilywhites
Well we'll definitely come 5th. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by oriel
dont forget that if fingal win their 2 games in hand that they will be back in the race also. Tough to call who will come out on top this season, has gill got the balls this season? will keelys experience come to shine? will sportings money spending pay off? will waterfords grit win through?Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Fingal only have one game in hand, away to Athlone on Tuesday. Even if they win, they'll still be five behind and they have the hardest run-in of all.
oh right, soccerbot.com still have them down with 2 games in hand. You have to admit though that 5 points isnt much considering the way results have been going lately for everyone?
anything that helps you people celibrate christmas around a log fire works for meQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lilywhites
Now could some one tell me if this is true..But i was infomred that next year there will be no relegation or promotion..cant see it been true..hopefully Dundalk are in the premier then anyway
That was a frustrating night for us last night,held to a draw by Athlone for the 4th time this season and missing our chance to go top. The referee was awful but seeing as its the 1st division nothing will be done about that. Its a 3horse race again now.
Who told you that? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lilywhite Army
It's one up and one down automatically next year.
Playoff matches as follows: 2nd vs. 3rd in first divsion (2nd at home). 8th vs. 9th in premier division (8th at home).
Then the winner of the first division match and the loser of the premier division match play each other in a two leg promotion/relegation playoff.
Just heard people talkin about no promtion..but i tought it was nonsesne..sure there would be no point playing the league if there was no promotion..
Just hope that Dundalk are in the premier next season and were safe from the playoffs
there was a rumour going around when the fai took over the running of the league that they would have no relegation/promotion for 3 years to stablize everything after reducing the premier to 10 teams, but that was all just rumours, I hope !
Not quite. Sporting win the game in hand then its five points behind. We do have a bad run in and 5 points is a lot at this point especially with 3 other teams in the running for this title. But this league has been unpredictable. I thought us and shels where out of it. Now look where shels are in the space of a few weeks results. If we draw or loose against athlone then thats probably it. If we win then we are still in with a shout.Quote:
Originally Posted by trevy
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Originally Posted by trevy
Suprising result that trevy, not to mention ours the prev night. I think its a credit to the teams below us who have a right to challenge every team right to the last game. I could only imagine the pressure the waterford players and fans were under on fri night, to win and they go top. Just goes to show, no easy games in any league in the run in.
I stil think Waterord have the hardest run in (by far) .......in saying that, thats no use to us if we cant win our own games.
"HERE'S my prediction for the First Division - Waterford United are going to win promotion back to the top flight. It looks like Dundalk are losing their bottle once again, and the pressure on them is huge, given the amount of money they have spent."
Roddy Collins in the Star today. That's Waterford fùcked so :D
I wonder if it may be the turning point for their season.:p
Delighted with the weekend results with the obvious exception of our result on thursday. Still a long way to go.
Maybe the winners will stumble across the line rather than blow their oppossition apart
I'll gloss over the irony of United getting called bottlers by a Dundalk fan. :eek::p
In our game we had 6 or 8 excellent chances and just couldn't put one away. Their keeper and defence deserve a lot of credit for this too BTW, not all poor finishing by a long way.
Just one of those matches, but hardly bottling it.
On the other hand, should ye have won your match against Longford? Thought not. Neither did your three amigos on the radio. :D
Especially the forst 25 minutes of the second half. We defended with everything we had. One of those games either team could have won it. Thought we had a penalty claim in injury time and looking at the video it looks a definite to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Considering the flu outbreak we had the day of the game we wre lucky to field a team at all. Hamm and Jinks played with the flu and were suffering badly on the bus home
Waterford Bottled it because they knew they'd be top if they won. Thats what I call bottling it. Waterford have to play Fingal this coming Friday and thats a massive game for ye and it depends on which Fingal turns up.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Our Longford game on the balance of play we deserved nothing and any favourable outcome out of that game would of only papered over any cracks. You can also be reminded that we had a good goal disallowed and decent penalty claim and in the last 5 minutes we created as many chances as I can care to remember. However you can't give teams a 1 or 2 goal headstart and then start to play.
Hopefully what happenened is addressed now and we can push on and finish the rest of ye off.
Which fingal turns up may just depend on how we do against athlone. If we beat them then waterford will get a harder game from us no doubt. The waterford game would be too important a game for fingal to loose.Quote:
Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
If we draw or are beaten by athlone then the game against waterford will not have the same significance as we would be out of the running for the title at that point. Im just hoping for 6 points this week
The way the results are going it looks like no one wants to get promoted as with some of the big clubs in serious trouble and probably not going to get Premier licences the first division looks like the place to be
Maybe Gill should concentrate more on getting Dundalk promoted instead of mouthing off to the papers about matters that don't concern him :D
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Originally Posted by jebus
I recall someone on here saying a long time ago that "if john Gill was a bar of chocolate he would have swallowed himself years ago":D
The league need people like Gill and Keely. Could you imagine if everyone was like Matthews and Kerley
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Originally Posted by Battery Rover
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For fook's sake, Shels do the decent thing and go up. Don't necessarily increase your budget or anything but for God's sake somone take charge. The First could be interesting next year as BR said.
Top of the league, let's all laugh at Dundalk :) Super performance tonight as well surprisingly :eek:
Wouldn't get too excited yet. You're top by a single goal. WOW!Quote:
Originally Posted by LeixlipRed
3 games ago we were 8 points behind you. Now we're top. I'm allowed to be excited by that. Fully realise it's not over yet but for the moment I'm happy
On paper, I reckon we have the easiest run-in of the top four. Means fùck all in our current form though. Fingal favourites for me.