Not if you had seen any of them play recently you wouldnt!
Bangor and Erris are probably on a par and its a derby game
Partry were 2-0 up against Westport and crusing before conceding 2 goals in 30 seconds and look the best footballing side in the leak albeit with a leaky defense
Swinford are lightweight and were always going to struggle against a more physical Claremorris side
So no - bar looking at the points table in isoltaion you wouldnt expect that!!!!
Just heard at training Ballinrobe v Swinford game is off due to Ballinrobe pitch not available..
and theres my point..the table in this case isn't reliable
A lack of consistency early on has meant the better quality teams are not necessarily those at the top. they may be but i dont think its a given.
it goes to show when the bottom team in the divison won the cup
the difference between B team/mid table teams results against the top 2 when games are on sun rather than sat has been crucial
partry athletic has lost 15 points in the last 5 minutes of games so logic says there must be leaks there somewhere and it would have been 17 by all accounts had ballinrobe not missed a last minute pen
its been a poor although exciting division where not one team is equipped to go up and wait up with their current squads
I was not at the swinford claremorris game last week but from what i heard Swinford would have won that game easily if the "lazy" ref could have kept up with the play..He waved away 2 clear cut pens cause he was 60-70 yards away from the play on both occasions..He booked one of the swinford boys for diving right at the end and after the game one of the claremorris lads told him to take it back that he DID foul him and it SHOULD have been a peno..Not the first time refs have cost has swinford and prob most team points this year..
Lost 3-1 to Bangor so its as good as over for us in the league this year. Was not happy with the amount of abuse we were subjected to during the game from sidelines yesterday, I havent witnessed anything like it since the days of playing parkside.
Ya I had some oul fella try and pick a fight with me down there a few weeks ago.
3 years ago we had a run with them also and they were so abusive calling our english manager and right back a "tan" and so on. We reported them as it was so bad and the ref instructed us to do so. But all they got was a slap on the wrist and nothing else (G.S defended them to the death). We were acused of egging them on and the league as much as blamed us for bringing it on ourselves.
They had about 18 people in the dug out (about 6 0f them children) and the abuse and language was unbelieveable. They were threatning to come over and start fighting it was that bad. Not a nice mob![]()
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