Crowd Vs Longford?

**James** · 06/11/2003, 8:44 AM

Originally posted by Macy
teams that played you twice at home obviously had an advantage over teams that had to go to the cross twice...

maybe not so much the case this season
fortress turners cross whereareya?

**Dodge** · 06/11/2003, 8:44 AM

only one club ever won the league playing 17 away games and 16 home... you know which one...

Its not that hard, just load the fron end of the season with the midweek games so you have space to manouvre at the end. Oh and no stupid two week break

**�anna** · 06/11/2003, 10:07 AM

if you start it a bit earlier, spread the mid-week games out and don't have a break. of course the best thing to do would be to have a 16 team premier and play each other twice.

too many matches, not enough time

**Macy** · 06/11/2003, 10:17 AM

Originally posted by �anna
if you start it a bit earlier, spread the mid-week games out and don't have a break. of course the best thing to do would be to have a 16 team premier and play each other twice.

Totally, if there were 16 teams good enough.... Unfortunatley at the moment I don't think there are (and it shouldn't be done for the sake of it)...

**James** · 06/11/2003, 10:25 AM

bringing it back to the crowd v longford
it was great to see the cup champions bring so many away supporters to cork for the match
nice one

**razor** · 06/11/2003, 10:32 AM

What I did think was nice was the round of applause the Shed gave Longford at the start of the game.
It doesn't happen often.
Nice Touch !!

**�anna** · 06/11/2003, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by razor
What I did think was nice was the round of applause the Shed gave Longford at the start of the game.
It doesn't happen often.
Nice Touch !!

yeah, that was nice to see. digger got a great reception too

**NorthoftheLee** · 06/11/2003, 12:03 PM

digger is a class act..........should show dan connor a thing or two about having a personality.......when the midget ****e linesman come down to check the nets...digger went over to him to look big......thought that was hilarious.......

crowd was very dissapointing..........terrible night tho it was....

Mick Conroys comments in the sun really ****ed me off.....I thought that guy had a bit more respect for the LOI than that...encouraging barstooling like that........

as for the 36 games.......dont see a problem......if there was no 2 week break for the Spec Olyms and the eL officials had a brain amongst them to play some more midweek games throughout the season then we wouldnt be having this fixture pile up........hopefully this will be sorted next season which i think starts even earlier...

**pineapple stu** · 06/11/2003, 12:33 PM

Weren't people complaining about the current format (i.e. playing each other four times a season) as well? I reckon playing each other three times, even with a different amount of home/away games, is still preferable to four meetings a season. Not enough teams to make a 16-team league with two rounds.

**Gary** · 06/11/2003, 12:45 PM

3 meeting a year is ridiculous, especially to the non Dub teams.

Alan Matthews said in some paper the other day that he reckons next season will be the last for the 10 team league. Anyone got any idea where he got this idea? i mean if there were 12 teams, playing 4 times, thats 46 games. Too much considering most of the league is still part time.