In that eventuality Nesta, the European spot goes to fourth placed team in the league.
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In that eventuality Nesta, the European spot goes to fourth placed team in the league.
Yup. Probably doesn't help that season tickets/guestlists are cut down on quite strictly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
The one advantage we have over the English game, strangely, is little money. Maybe we could use that to help.
Let season tickets cover cup games. Share the (reduced) gate anyway. Then give prize money. Something like -
Knocked out in the first round = €1,500
Win first round = €2,500
Knocked out in the second round = €2,500 (this guarantees all teams some prize money)
Win second round = €5k
Win each subsequent round = €5k
That's a total prize fund of €227k I think. So for example, Bray getting to the quarters would have earned €10k prize money so far - €5k for each of their two wins. And if they beat Killester, that'd be another €5k. Killester would have earned €12.5k because they also won in the first round.
But where the FAI would come up with €227k from is another question - not as if their turnover is up €30m in the past decade or anything.
Oh, wait...
I don't have a source but I was of the belief that if the cup was won by the team already qualified for the Champions League then the runner up got the Europa League spot if they hadn't already qualified for it but if the cup winners were already qualified for the Europa League then the spot would go to the 4th place team.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
From this season the only way to qualify for Europe via the cup is to win it. This applies across all UEFA members.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yossarian
Previously if you had been cup runners-up to a team which had qualified for the Champions League you would get the Europa League place.
From this European season (15//16) so applied to last year's LOI seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
No more cup runners up in Europe
You'd like to think this would generally mean we have our stronger sides in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Same for other countries though...
Though that said, how often has the Cup runners-up actually qualified?
We qualified in 2001 due to Bohs winning the double. Probably our most respectable showing to be honest!
1,893 at Bohs v Dundalk.Wasn't there(currently on hols in France ;) ) but was listening to the commentary on DundalkFM and they said about 6/700 from Dundalk.Not like those lads to exaggerate or anything :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
I'm useless at estimating numbers but that was the biggest support I can recall us having in Dalymount.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
I assume they had yous in the shed then?
Yup. I hate watching game from pitch level seats behind a goal. Especially when the Jodi was 2/3 empty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I momentarily felt sorry for the five or so Cork fans who were lumped in there earlier in the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
A few intrepid ( and quite elderly) souls found their way to the Connaught Street terrace, either seeking a decent view or perhaps it was 20 years since they've been in Dalymount. In any case a dozen security guards made sure they moved to the Des Kelly shed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
As opposed to watching 3/4 s of the pitch from the away facilities in oriEl.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Probably 300 Dundalk fans at a stretch.Lots of freebies from Dlk in the Directors box.all carrying a bit of weight.
Undeserved draw for Dlk they celebrated their plucky draw to excess, bless them
Ah were they wearing colours? Always plenty of Rovers fans in the Jodi when we play there, but then again stewards are no match for rowdy Rovers fans.
You sound very bitter. Congratulations on the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
This feels a bit like dragging the thread off-topic, but 2,518 at City v Galway.
We didn't celebrate the point.One draw and one win is a poor return this season against a very ordinary Dundalk team in a very poor quality league.
If the league is poor, there's always the FAI Cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Leinster cup is the real competition this season
On Tuesday night at 9.30 I'll agree with you again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Pats v Derry 926
Good Harps crowd at Cabinteely last night. Around 100, which is mental seeing as we had no buses running.
Awful how their home crowds have completely fallen away. Max of 250 in the ground.
If this Dundalk team are so ordinary I wonder how this reflects on a Bohs team currently trailing by 21 points?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Touchy... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
The number of Dundalk players diving/going to ground last night was amusing; having said that it was a very entertaining game.:ball:
Here we go again, the predictable and jaded comment that we see every year from a fan of a side having a mediocre season, out of the cup and probably out of contention for Europe. 'It's a poor league'Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Very ordinary side, tell that to Pats after 45 mins last Monday night.
I wasn't at the game but my mate was with his kids, he was in the Jodi, said well over 150 Dlk fans there and it looked over 400-500 behind the goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
LOL. It's always a **** year in the league and Cup when you're not involved at the latter stages of either!!Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Seen the photos Oriel,Des kelly was well packed up with Dlk fans and the lads on the radio said there was a good crowd sitting beside them in the Jodi.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
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Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Ah the typical minnow reaction.
Well we are pretty crap for the.most part but comfortably in fifth place.We were still good enough to give Dundalk a spanking in Oriel and have the luxury of missing a PenoQuote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Should also have won last night in what was a nothing game for us.
In my time I can think if three or four better Dundalk teams in the last thirty years better than this crop.
In any event good to have a bit of raw rivalry with someone other than Rovers!!
Great atmosphere last night.
732 at Shelbourne v UCD
2,178 at Sligo v Shamrock Rovers
Any estimates on the Drogs attendance last night? I hear it was a shocker :( 400
Thought it looked closer to 2,500, around 120-150 away supporters.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Ours wasn't much higherQuote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
No team has gone through a season without losing a game or having a bogey side. This year for Dundalk it is bohs that doesn't make Dundalk ordinary it just means you've seen them at their worst so your opinion is unbalanced. And the line about the league being poor is just lazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
I hate to rain on your parade but their is currently no rivalry between the two clubs, not from our side anyway. Bohs have certainly put it up to us this season and put in two of the best performances against us that I've seen but once the final whistle went on Friday bohs were forgotten and we turned our attention to teams who can challenge us.
Oh and your estimate of the away crowd is a good bit out. Between the Des Kelly and the Jodi I would have said 500
446 official, I think it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
This weeks excuse, the local gah championship. Next week: The weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
Need the star power of Pat Flynn back on the field. Crowds suffering without him.