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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.