LOI In Europe 2025

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Originally Posted by placid casual

Any remaining advocates for winter football should be made watch the game tonight in baltic tallaght on a weather affected pudding of a pitch.
Burkey now joint all-time European goals for LOI player- Heads,shoulders,knees and toes above any other player in this league.
Victor showed what he's capable of.
Great season, enjoy your Christmas folks.

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Who's he joint with ?

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Yep, next year is already confirmed and the year after looks pretty solid now. There's still six countries below us left in European competition -

Armenia - FC Noah into the Conference League knock-outs
Finland - KuPS Kuopio into the Conference League knock-outs
Kosovo - Drita into the Conference League knock-outs
Kazakhstan - Kairat Almaty with two Champions League group stage games to come
Bosnia-Herzegovina - Zrinski Mostar into the Conference League knock-outs
North Macedonia - Shkendija Tetovo into the Conference League knock-outs

Kairat are home to Club Brugge and away to Arsenal - they could get something from Brugge, but almost certainly nothing from the Arsenal game, after which they'll be out. The other five are all unseeded in the Conference League round of 24, but the gap means they need at least I think six wins (= 3 points) to pass us out. Maybe one of the teams could go on a great run and do that, but it's unlikely, and certainly multiple clubs doing it isn't going to happen.

Moving from our current 31st up to 30th (Bulgaria) looks a long way off still - and ironically qualifying for the Europa League groups would only hinder that, as it's the same points for much harder matches, albeit there's two extra bites at the cherry.

A decent season overall - currently ranked 24th for the year, albeit a lot of countries below us still have teams left and we will fall from there. Scotland, Austria and Israel are below us for example. But you look at the teams that have reached the knock-outs and you have to think it's a missed chance for Rovers, and with them as league champions again, it's hard to see us having two sides in the groups like this year.

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That KuPS team from Finland were put out of Europe by Derry City just 2yrs. Now they're in the Conference League play-offs, after holding Palace to a draw at Selhurst (and being unlucky not to get the win, due to being reduced to 10 men). They must have had a load of cash put into them in the last 2 years so.

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Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

Who's he joint with ?

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David McMillan.

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Originally Posted by placid casual

Any remaining advocates for winter football should be made watch the game tonight in baltic tallaght on a weather affected pudding of a pitch.
Burkey now joint all-time European goals for LOI player- Heads,shoulders,knees and toes above any other player in this league.
Victor showed what he's capable of.
Great season, enjoy your Christmas folks.

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Burke is head and shoulders above any player in the LOI apart from Michael Duffy imo
It's a toss up between the 2 who is the best. Apart from one bad injury when he went to Derry he is available every week and plays 90mins and is usually by far the best player on the pitch so he would just get the nod from me

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Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Burke is head and shoulders above any player in the LOI apart from Michael Duffy imo
It's a toss up between the 2 who is the best. Apart from one bad injury when he went to Derry he is available every week and plays 90mins and is usually by far the best player on the pitch so he would just get the nod from me

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Id struggle to argue with your points on Duffy but there is something about the way Burke plays though that makes him such a pleasure to watch, some of his touches and control are off the charts.
a hard call

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Originally Posted by sbgawa

Id struggle to argue with your points on Duffy but there is something about the way Burke plays though that makes him such a pleasure to watch, some of his touches and control are off the charts.
a hard call

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No doubt Burke is an unbelievable player, but imo Duffy was Dundalks best player during the glory days, he replaced Horgan when he went to UK and to everybody's surprise he was actually just as good if not better

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Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

That KuPS team from Finland were put out of Europe by Derry City just 2yrs. Now they're in the Conference League play-offs, after holding Palace to a draw at Selhurst (and being unlucky not to get the win, due to being reduced to 10 men). They must have had a load of cash put into them in the last 2 years so.

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Crystal Palace played reserves & youths as they have a league match 48 hours later & they play again on Tuesday in the League Cup quarter finals.