Mayo Premier Division 2007

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Originally Posted by Maxell

bangor 3-1 celtic b
westpot b 3-0 swinford
ballinrobe 1-4 ballyglass
fahy 0-1 manulla
s+f 3-2 achill

Big shock in ballinrobe today and bangor taking full advantage of it.

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yeah was a very good win for bangor and they probably deserve to be up there at the top.very heavy defeat for ballinrobe-what happened to yee jp?especially as it was against ballyglass.as for ourselves-if you cant put the ball in the back of the net you wont win games!!we had at least five one on ones against manulla last weekend but just couldnt convert our domination into goals.they broke away with five minutes remaining and got a penalty.in fairness twas a smash and grab raid but they got the points-such is football!that result brings us right back into the relegation mire after other results didnt really go for either.puts a dent in our title aspirations now!!;)

Team P W D L F A GD Pts Pts
1 Bangor Hibs. 12 8 2 2 35 18 17 26
2 Ballinrobe Town 12 7 4 1 22 14 8 25
3 Westport United B 12 7 2 3 29 19 10 23
4 Straide & Foxford 12 5 1 6 18 28 -10 16
5 Castlebar Celtic B 12 3 6 3 21 21 0 15
6 Fahy Rovers 12 4 3 5 24 25 -1 15
7 Manulla B 12 4 1 7 21 24 -3 13
8 Ballyglass 12 3 3 6 18 20 -2 12
9 Swinford 12 3 2 7 19 28 -9 11
10 Achill Rovers 12 3 2 7 13 23 -10 11

So lads how do ye see the last 6 games goin? who goes up and who goes down??

Cant see the top two being ousted now. Thought we had a chance to make up the deficit but last weeks defeat has all but ended that dream. I expect Ballinrobe to drop quite a lot of points, but not enough to put S+F or ourselves into contention. The B teams are ineligible for promotion. At the bottom it's anyone from the bottom six, including the two I mentioned for promotion! One thing I really believe though; whoever goes up is coming straight back down. The standard this season has been pretty abysmal and considering Glehhest hockeyed everyone last year I have no confidence whatsoever in the chances of the promoted teams, unless they seriously strengthen their squads.

Achill vs Ballinrobe away
Ballyglass vs Fahy away
Celtic B vs Straide and Foxford draw
Manulla B vs Westport B away
Swinford vs Bangor away

Anyone got the results of the matches last night? We bet Ballyglass 2-0 but that's all I know.

Celtic 4 - 2 S&F

robe 4 - achill 0

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Originally Posted by juan pablo

robe 4 - achill 0

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Hibs & Robe are sure of Super League football next season after a very poor S&F Utd team were beaten by Celtic B

S&F were fair bad, were it not for the 12th Swinford it could have been worse ;)

So how do you see the season ending up at this stage? I reckon that Bangor or Westport will win the title, with Bangor and Ballinrobe going up. I think Ballinrobe will lose points to Fahy, Bangor and Westport B but still gain promotion. Whatever about Bangor's chances of survival in the Super league, Ballinrobe would have to recruit heavily in order to avoid embarassment at that level. I was not impressed by them at all but I suppose they are where they are for a reason! The relegation zone is much less easy to predict, with a good few teams involved, but it's hard to see past the bottom four of Achill, Swinford, Ballyglass and Manulla b. They pretty much all have to play each other so it should be interesting to see who survives. I can't call it anyway. Anybody got an opinion on these matters???

It is I think Bangors to lose, I think they will "survive" in Super League as they can play good football but I think Ballinrobe could be in for a "Glenhest" and the whips will come when they play the top 4 or 5 teams in the Super. But if they can get a few players who knows;

Relegation I reckon Fahy are certain to go down, just have loads of ugly players and no colored boots so its only fair ;)

Achill have really suprised me as have Swinford, this time last year they were contenders for the title.

Can't see Fahy goin down as they are one of the form teams in the Division. (Won 4 of the last 5). I agree that its goin to be difficult for Achill to stay up.

well lads,its lookin like bangor and ballinrobe to go up surley, if we beat s=f sunday we wont b too far behind (if!) the bottoms tight aldoh achill do look in trouble, as for whoever goes up comin straight back down again? i dno lads, claremorris are on 11 points and its possible they could survive on that! so its hard to say!!

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Originally Posted by irishyop

It is I think Bangors to lose, I think they will "survive" in Super League as they can play good football but I think Ballinrobe could be in for a "Glenhest" and the whips will come when they play the top 4 or 5 teams in the Super. But if they can get a few players who knows;

Relegation I reckon Fahy are certain to go down, just have loads of ugly players and no colored boots so its only fair ;)

Achill have really suprised me as have Swinford, this time last year they were contenders for the title.

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surely we have the best looking players in the division!:Das for the boots-we def have a few lads wearing those cool looking coloured boots so we're well kitted out!back on the pitch i'd be hoping for a fahy win against s and f tomorrow but thought that they played very good football the last time we played them.if they can get a full squad out they're a good side.reckon bangor and ballinrobe will both be promoted.at the other end of the table i cant see ballyglass surviving.they were shocking against us last weekend.havent played as poor a team in a long time.heard reports that theres a big rift in their camp and a lot of the younger players have left the team.also heard that they're meant to be paying their centre half to play for them!big waste of money if you ask me!!think the other relegation place is between swinford and achill.depends on how the teams do against each other in the last few weeks of the season.

Ballinrobe Town v Bangor Hibs. draw
Ballyglass v Swinford away
Fahy Rovers v Straide & Foxford Utd. home
Manulla ‘B’ v Castlebar Celtic ‘B’ draw
Westport Utd. ‘B’ v Achill Rovers home

Big top of the table clash this afternoon between ballinrobe and bangor, hard to know how it will go, its great to see the return of damian walsh and enda reilly back into the team, as for the possibility of robe getting promoted and than coming straight back down again, along with the current team and the return of conor maloney- i think robe stand a chance of holding there own in staying up,

Has anyone got results from weekend and/or fixture's for next weekend

Ballinrobe 0 - Bangor Hibs 0
Westport B 8 - Achill 0
Manulla B 5 - Celtic B 1
Fahy Rvs 0 - S&F United 0
Ballyglass 0 - Swinford 3

No Fixtures in this Division next week due to Touhy Cup Final between Bangor Hibs and Manulla B.

anyone got the updated premier table after the weekends games?

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Originally Posted by Ron Bergundy

anyone got the updated premier table after the weekends games?

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A couple of places have it.

http://www.sportsmanager.ie/t6.php?l...3994&sportid=8

http://www.soccerbot.com/mayo/tables/prem2007.htm

Swinford 0, Bangor Hibs 2. Hibs go back to the top of the league while Swinford still remain in relegation trouble

Touhy Cup Final
Manulla B 3 - Bangor Hibs 2

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Originally Posted by Footy Mad

Touhy Cup Final
Manulla B 3 - Bangor Hibs 2

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Congrats to manulla B. Hard luck Bangor, although im sure promotion will soften the blow!:ball:

Well done Manulla, bit suprised at that result. But well done

was a big upset with bangor losing to manulla 'b' last sunday,#

the league is drawing to a close with 4 games remaining, bangor surely looking comfortable to win the league, will all depend on the results between Ballinrobe Vs Westport and Bangor Vs Westport.

who's your money on??

as for who will be relegated, my prediction would be Achill & Ballyglass- possibly Swinford,ballinrobe play them at home last game of the season, if robe are still in the race for the league and swinford are facing the drop, what a match that will be!!

Bangor to win League

bangor and Ballinrobe to get promoted,

Achill & ballyglass to go down!

Your not counting Westport to win the league there at all JP, why is that?
They could easily take 6 from 6 in them 2 matches I would think.
They have come out of no where really.

Do ye feel that ye have blown winning the league?

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Originally Posted by irishyop

Your not counting Westport to win the league there at all JP, why is that?
They could easily take 6 from 6 in them 2 matches I would think.
They have come out of no where really.

Do ye feel that ye have blown winning the league?

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i don't think we have blown in, i just think bangor will win the rest of there games, i think whoever loses the westport vs ballinrobe game can rule themselves out for the league considering the remaining fixtures, i hope i am wrong though!!!

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Originally Posted by juan pablo

i don't think we have blown in, i just think bangor will win the rest of there games, i think whoever loses the westport vs ballinrobe game can rule themselves out for the league considering the remaining fixtures, i hope i am wrong though!!!

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Dunno Dude,alot will tell with Ballinrobe and Bangor against Westport,If Ballinrobe get the 3 points against Westport (and expect they will) they will be in a commanding position as expect defenses in the bangor/westport game shuting up being pretty tite just like the bangor/ballinrobe game a few weeks ago and a draw is a realistic result!!Ballinrobe are far from out of the title race yet!!!

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Originally Posted by Ron Bergundy

Dunno Dude,alot will tell with Ballinrobe and Bangor against Westport,If Ballinrobe get the 3 points against Westport (and expect they will) they will be in a commanding position as expect defenses in the bangor/westport game shuting up being pretty tite just like the bangor/ballinrobe game a few weeks ago and a draw is a realistic result!!Ballinrobe are far from out of the title race yet!!!

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I hope your right ron, i think after the unfortunate season ballinrobe had last year and in the way the lads regrouped this season and put the effort and hard work in from the start,even after losing a number of players than we do deserve to win the league,

now i am expecting posts back saying that i am wrong but only the players know themselves how hard they worked, sunday week will have a massive bearing on who wins.

by the way- we cant forget fahy rovers in this.!:p

we still have to play them away yet!

fahy- your views??- you regarded us as a poor team when we played ye, i think even i'll admit when saying it was probably our worst performance of the season but we are all looking forward to having another craic at ye in a few weeks time.

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Originally Posted by juan pablo

I hope your right ron, i think after the unfortunate season ballinrobe had last year and in the way the lads regrouped this season and put the effort and hard work in from the start,even after losing a number of players than we do deserve to win the league,

now i am expecting posts back saying that i am wrong but only the players know themselves how hard they worked, sunday week will have a massive bearing on who wins.

by the way- we cant forget fahy rovers in this.!

we still have to play them away yet!

fahy- your views??- you regarded us as a poor team when we played ye, i think even i'll admit when saying it was probably our worst performance of the season but we are all looking forward to having another craic at ye in a few weeks time.

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surely you're not saying that fahy are going to go up jp?:rolleyes:or are you saying that we might cause an upset or two along the way to deciding who'll take the league title?definitely think that we'll have a big say in who'll get the title-we owe bangor big-time for the drubbing we got from them earlier in the season and we have a number of players who are back playing with us who were missing for that game.add in that the game against westport is a local derby for us and the fact that we've already beaten them in the sports park leaves me thinking that we could beat them again.as for the game against your good selves-hard to call to be honest as we always have a good competitive match against yee with very little in any game that we've played.reckon we'll take yee though!!:D
i've no doubt that i've probably given us the kiss of death with my predictions!although i'd hope that we can manage to steer well clear of relegation at this stage of the season as a lot of the clubs below us have yet to play each other and will doubtlessly take points off each other.
bangor to win the league with fahy:D taking the second promotion spot!!ah no ballinrobe to also go up.achill and ballyglass to go down

well done to manulla b last weekend with the win in the cup final.

another near top table clash with Westport Utd B entertaining Ballinrobe on sunday?Both teams need to win if they want to push Bangor all the way,a draw and afraid its all over as expect bangor to avail of the three points on offer to them this weekend and they could open a nice gap on their chasers!any thoughts on the Mayo F.A premier div team of the year???expect Ballinrobe and bangor to clean up here,any notable exceptions from westport??Fahy???

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Originally Posted by Ron Bergundy

another near top table clash with Westport Utd B entertaining Ballinrobe on sunday?Both teams need to win if they want to push Bangor all the way,a draw and afraid its all over as expect bangor to avail of the three points on offer to them this weekend and they could open a nice gap on their chasers!any thoughts on the Mayo F.A premier div team of the year???expect Ballinrobe and bangor to clean up here,any notable exceptions from westport??Fahy???

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I wud expect it to be them 2 to dominate, I personally cannot think of anyone who stood out from the other teams.

i think whoever manages to win the league deserves to get the team of the year, its anyone's title now between the 3 top teams, sunday could decide all between westport and ballinrobe,depending on bangor's result also
westport will have to be the slight favourites playing at 'HOME' and all!!

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Originally Posted by Ron Bergundy

another near top table clash with Westport Utd B entertaining Ballinrobe on sunday?Both teams need to win if they want to push Bangor all the way,a draw and afraid its all over as expect bangor to avail of the three points on offer to them this weekend and they could open a nice gap on their chasers!any thoughts on the Mayo F.A premier div team of the year???expect Ballinrobe and bangor to clean up here,any notable exceptions from westport??Fahy???

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certainly the team will,and should,be made up mainly of the top three teams.how exactly is the team of the year picked anyway?who is it that decides who gets on it?personally i think that joe keane who plays at centre half for fahy should be a shoe in for making the team.he missed the first few games of the season but since he's come back into our team he's been in excellent form-man of the match in almost every game for us.honestly feel he should be on the mayo side.our captain gary goggins and pat mcnally would be our other main candidates for being picked for the team of the year but in all likeliness the team will probably be picked out of a hat??!!:confused:

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certainly the team will,and should,be made up mainly of the top three teams.how exactly is the team of the year picked anyway?who is it that decides who gets on it?personally i think that joe keane who plays at centre half for fahy should be a shoe in for making the team.he missed the first few games of the season but since he's come back into our team he's been in excellent form-man of the match in almost every game for us.honestly feel he should be on the mayo side.our captain gary goggins and pat mcnally would be our other main candidates for being picked for the team of the year but in all likeliness the team will probably be picked out of a hat??!!

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The team is picked by all the clubs in the Division. Each club must nominate 3 players(and they must also state the position they play in) from their own team and I'm not sure if its 5 or 6 players from the any of the other clubs in the Division and the players who are nominated the most make the team. I'm not sure but I think the referees get to pick eleven players as well and The League itself will then get the final say.

heres a few plyers that shud be there???what ya think? Ballinrobe-M Walsh,D Walsh,S o Malley,Jp o Gorman,S Ryan,Bangor-M Sweeney,T Moran,B mchale,S Bradley,G Sweeney,Fahy-Goggins, keane,havn't seen westport play so dunno much about them,S+f bound to have a few?super league last year sure,Whats happened Swinford this year??injuries or just not working for them,shame if they get relegated

Welcome Inn Hotel Premier Division Round 15

Bangor Hibs. 2 v 6 Fahy Rovers
Castlebar Celtic B 1 v 2 Ballyglass
Straide & Foxford Utd 0 v 1 Manulla B
Swinford 5 v 1 Achill Rovers
Westport Utd B 4 v 1 Ballinrobe Town

westport 4 - 1 Ballinrobe Town

well, what can we say, the scoreline really doesn't justify our performance today, lads bitterly disapointed with the loss, a lack of concentration for 10 mins cost us 2 goals and heads went down after that, we started playing towards the last 15 mins and got a goal back but another error in defense, settled the scoreline,

Fahy- what an end of the season awaits us, great result for ye against bangor, in one way ye did us a favor and in another ye are now 7 points behind us, with still a game against us to go,bangor vs westport in 2 weeks will surely decide the league.

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westport 4 - 1 Ballinrobe Town

well, what can we say, the scoreline really doesn't justify our performance today, lads bitterly disapointed with the loss, a lack of concentration for 10 mins cost us 2 goals and heads went down after that, we started playing towards the last 15 mins and got a goal back but another error in defense, settled the scoreline,

Fahy- what an end of the season awaits us, great result for ye against bangor, in one way ye did us a favor and in another ye are now 7 points behind us, with still a game against us to go,bangor vs westport in 2 weeks will surely decide the league.

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Great result for the port!What happened bangor?they at home aswell,heard goggins scored three,Ballinrobe wanna be careful fahy breathing down their necks,shock of the season if they pipped the robe to the other promotion place,the top 2(robe and bangor) for most of the sason running out of steam???Westport in pole position,there league to lose now!

robe need to win one more game to go up, we(fahy) will be hopeful to beat them anyways, but we may not, wev celtic robe and port left and are confident of wining all three