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Premier Division (all 19:45)
Friday 17th
Sligo v Bohemians
Shelbourne v Waterford
Dundalk v Shamrock Rovers
Drogheda v Galway
St Pats v Derry
Monday 20th
St Pats v Shelbourne
Shamrock Rovers v Derry
First Division
Friday 17th (all 19:45)
Wexford v Kerry
UCD v Harps
Cobh v Treaty
Bray v Cork
Saturday 18th
Longford v Athlone (19:30)
Monday 20th
Wexford v Cobh (19:45)
Two good results for Rovers against Dundalk and Derry combined with the Stephen Kenny led Pats???? taking points of Shels and things could look better.
Hopefully a few back for this double header.
A win for Drogs over Galway combined with a Rovers win in Oriel would have Dundalk 9 adrift.
I still feel they are to good/big to go down but Gartland leaving to join Kenny at Pats??? and King taking a bigger role doesnt auger well in terms of closiong a big gap.
Cork without looking impressive have established an 8 point lead and go to a Bray side that are a mixed bag but capable of getting a result.
UCD need to win a few to keep the league alive, hopefully Finner is back soon to drive them on
Wouldn't be surprised if Rovers pick up only 1 or 2 points from the weekend double headers. The team is clearly on the downward slope and descending rapidly -Any decent, organised team could take advantage and claim the league.
Bray no better off points-wise compared to same stage last season, despite Ryan putting together a new squad effectivelyQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
If hotel prices weren't so high in Ireland it would be a good idea for the Derry team to stay around Dublin for the weekend. Use it as a mid-season training camp. Is there no way the FAI computer could prevent these back-to-back away fixtures over a weekend.
Mark Scanlon was on LOI Central a few months back talking about this. He said the league don’t want Bohs/shels at home on the same night and the same with pats/rovers which makes it a headache to prevent back to back away games over a weekend for all clubs. I think most if not all teams will get stung with it this season at least once. Pats had Derry and Waterford away in one weekend in March (losing both and resulting in me questioning my sanity after travelling to both)Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
They dont make any effort to stop it.
Easter weekend we played twice away and Waterford played twice at home
May B/H we had 2 home games and Waterford had 2 away
The best part about it is that we played Waterford each weekend so all they had to do was flip those 2 games and it would have been both clubs with home/away over both weekends
Im feeling a bit more positive than that PC. People starting to come back from injury and hopefully that will be enough for Dundalk, with Derry who knowsQuote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
Jays, if you're seriously talking about maybe dropping points to Dundalk then there's huge issues at Rovers to be honest...
This is the really annoying thing about Dundalk, we can pick up points against anyone, well capable of it anyway. If we simply had zero quality anywhere then fine, relegation it is and you have to accept that. But there is little harder to wastch is your club underperforming with a squad that could actually be nice and dull in mid table. It is unlikely but not impossible that a run of 3 wins and you are looking up rather than just over the shoulder. Its a lot easier to motivate indifferent players against a Rovers or Derry especially if you can convince them they are playing for a contract somewhere. If rumours are to believed we havent plumbed the depths for the club of odd yet!
Dundalk players to raise their game against Rovers….. who’d of thought …..Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
UCD player Harry Curtis has been hit with a 10 game ban for discriminatory language used towards a Kerry player
https://www.leagueofireland.ie/news/statement-ucd/
Exactly, we couldn't be any more chaotic at the moment. Bradley for the chop if they don't win...Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
But I don't think Rovers fans seriously believe they will drop points on Friday, this is just the standard pattern to these match threads. Rovers fans come in say how worried they are about injuries, x, y, and z player not performing set the tone just in case they do drop points and when they usually then go on to win they come back gloating.
You can probably include me in the worried about injuries and expecting not to win department and ive largely been right. very little gloating here.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcgonigle
6 wins in 16 matches id say the Rovers supporters are being realistic.
Weve just lost at home to Waterford , our keeper is good for a goal for the oposition in half at least of our matches and the last time we played you we had to come from behind to get a point.
We should win but am i confident , im about 6 out of 16 confident
And yet 3 points off top. You could sleepwalk to this title there are no challengersQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
All games seem tough for Kerry at the moment who are on a poor run of results. Wexford away will be another tough one.
Well you certainly obsess on it CJ!Quote:
Originally Posted by Calcio Jack
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Originally Posted by mcgonigle
Id agree it is an awful league, i know peopel always say that but this year it is true.
Not even one half decent team in it
Well there is one half decent team, the rest of it are usually sitting in the stand perpetually injured...
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Originally Posted by Nesta99
Fair point :) but who could have predicted Clarke, Farrugia, byrne, gaffney, kavanagh, mcAneff would have been injured????
Bar Gaffney they’re all made of glass so it can’t have been that big a surprise reallyQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
The scenes at the end of Bohs v Palestine last night was an absolute tonic, beautiful to see how much it meant to those girls. Best tenner I've ever spent. Fair play to everyone involved in making that happen.
Yeah fair play to all at bohs for this gesture.
I wouldn't normally be into mixing sport and politics,but the situation in Palestine goes way beyond politics and demands attention,and this move by bohs will hopefully continue that attention seeking work.
Yeah politics and sports is a difficult one but in this situation it certainly adds a human face to what's happening there and that's only a good thing. In the world of social media and constant news cycle you can become a bit numb to the death counts and news reports of famine etc. It sounds horrid to say but I've spent the majority of my life hearing about "war" in the middle east, war on terror, trocaire appeals for famine and a plethora of other things. Seeing actual people affected by these things just trying to do something we all take for granted just makes it so much more relatable.
Honestly dont agree with Politics in Sport at all.
Bohs make a habit of it , Palistine is one , getting Unions on their shirts is another.
Im sure Jewish supporters and Business people that are involved with Bohs wouldnt be thrilled about either.
Making no judgements on the issues but you are a football club and as such taking positions that impact on your supporters...i just dont see that is neccessary...........and im not debating the rights or wrongs of the issues..its like the Moscow olympics being boycotted over Afganistan and then the LA games in retaliation, its just not right imo for sports to mix itself up in politics
If every Olmpics or Worldccup was boycotted over some political issue we would never have an event. Ther is always somethng going on in the world and once Sport involves itself you are bunched
Life, football, politics and community are intrinsically linked. I find any argument about keeping politics out of football a nonsense honestly.
Plenty of Jewish people are very much behind the Palestinian cause because of their own history. It's brave to take positions on something difficult and they should be applauded, they do so knowing they may lose some business and backing as a result. I wish more people and entities showed that same bravery.
I do agree that we'd basically have to boycott everything at this stage because of how hypocritical and problematic so many world governing bodies actions are, and the whole thing is basically a cluster**** that I certainly don't know how to navigate. I understand it's so much bigger than my understanding of the world, but I think it is of massive importance that when we see something terrible happen we say and do what we can, evil wins when good people do nothing and all that.
I'll leave it there because I know most people are not here to be arguing about geopolitics, but from my perspective sport and politics are linked at every level, it's nice to believe we can have safe havens free of having to worry about the bad and complicated stuff, but that's not how the world is anymore, or probably ever has been.
You can disagree with politics in sports but it's in pretty much every aspect of the game. It always has been and it's not exclusive to football. Sport washing has been going on since pre WW2 with Nazi Germany hosting the olympics. This type of thing still happens. Should we only let petro states & bad actors use sports to try to promote their cause out of some feigned moral superiority? Or should we try to use a game loved by billions of people to bring positive change to the world?Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Will a Stephen Kenny led PAts begin the ascent to top spot tonight??
Considering how poor the general standard is i reckon Kenny wont have ruled out a title push this year.
Any news on the backroom appointments?
We won’t challenge for the title. Seven losses already is just too many. Still in the hunt for Europe I reckon, particularly if we get a SK bounce. And of course making the cup f8nal is starting to become something of a habit, so that would be nice again.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
In fairness, nine points off the lead approaching halfway isn't insurmountable.
Losing lots of games only really matters if someone else is winning lots. Which they're not
Dundalk/Rovers delayed till 8pm because of the crash on the M50.
That could impact crowds at quite a few games I'd guess. Any of the Dublin/Wicklow/Louth games potentially
Harps score after about 14 seconds in the UCD Bowl,don’t think I’ve ever seen a quicker goal in the LOI ….
1-1 now though
Already six goals around the grounds inside the first ten minutes.
Quickest I’ve ever seen. 2-1 Harps now. Missed the goal. Decent match.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Watching the Bohs v Sligo game I'd be a bit worried if I was a Sligo fan. They don't seem to have much going forward. Bohs are very limited in attack but are at least offer some danger from set pieces. Not sure where the goals will come from without Mata.
Two points dropped by harps that. Would probably have taken a draw before the game but conceded some incredibly soft goals and gifted UCD a point.
Improving in the opposition end of the pitch but starting to leak some soft goals.
Galway have made 6 subs tonight according to FAI Connect, Flashscore, their own Twitter page.
One of them a concussion sub or is there miraculous late turnaround win going to be for nothing and a win awarded to Drogs?
When Harps score a penalty to go 3-2 up on 88 minutes at UCD the only question is how we’ll manage to not win,stupid ground for us never win there,UCD are what they always are in the First Division,very competitive,some handy players and will be up in the playoffs for sure,draw not a bad result just disappointing not to hold on ……