First Division 2010

[Mr A]

Run ins.

MONAGHAN UNITED
(A) Cork City
(A) Salthill Devon Rearranged fixture.
(H) Limerick
(A) Mervue United
(H) Derry City

DERRY CITY
(H) Shelbourne
(A) Salthill Devon
(H) Finn Harps
(A) Monaghan United

WATERFORD UNITED
(H) Finn Harps
(A) Longford Town
(H) Athlone Town
(A) Shelbourne

SHELBOURNE
(A) Derry City
(H) Mervue United
(A) Limerick
(H) Waterford United

Considering their respective form, Shels will be fancied to get a result at the Brandywell this weekend. If Derry get the win though they could finally regain their confidence- which with games against Salthill and Harps coming up should be enough to carry them through to the showdown on the last day. If they don't win the game against us gets harder- although we're playing so badly there's only so hard it can get. If Derry's fixtures looked anyway tough, they could totally bomb, but the games against Salthill and Harps should keep them up there.

If Monaghan win in Cork and Derry fail to win I think they'll go on to win it- they should beat Salthill, Limerick at home and Mervue. Waterford should beat Harps and indeed Athlone and Longford. But Athlone are notorious party poopers at this stage. Shels have it a bit tougher- Limerick have a bit of a history of screwing them over.

What it all boils down to is that the last day of the season looks fantastic. We could easily have Mons V Derry effectively playing off for 1st and Waterford V Shels for 3rd.

Before all that though, the game between Mervue and Salthill this week is massive for the clubs involved.

What a great division

[passerrby]

has to be the most intriging finish in a long time all to play for .if we can manage to get a result in cork then we realy are in the driving seat .
lots of possibilities would love a massive game with derry for the title.

[BonnieShels]

Tis a great division. But lord knows I can't wait to be out of it. Plus these seasons of last day drama are a killer on the old ticker. Bring back 2007 and boring mid table mediocrity. Not.
Cmon Shels.

[razor]

if we can manage to get a result in cork then we realy are in the driving seat .

Ye really are our new bogey team and given our home form this season i'm not hopeful.
But Saturday 3pm kick off, looking forward to a family day out at the Cross.

[SwanVsDalton]

Molloy, McCallion and Farren could yet take us over the line with their top-class experience of winning 16 League Cup's - but I doubt it.

[Schumi]

Ye really are our new bogey team

A team ahead of you in the league can't be your bogey team, they're just better than you.

[aidz1]

What a difference the 2nd half of last weeks games made to the top of the table. A great comeback win for Monaghan which puts us in a very strong positon for at least the play-offs:
Table if results had of remained as of half time scores:
1 Derry City 61 (29)
2 Waterford United 57 (29)
3 Monaghan United 55 (28)
4 Shelbourne 55 (29)

Present Table:
1 Derry City 59 (29)
2 Monaghan United 58 (28)
3 Shelbourne 55 (29)
4 Waterford United 54 (29)

[BonnieShels]

The more I look at that the more I get giddy.

[legendz]

Predicted Final Table Pld Pts
1 Monaghan United 33 71
2 Derry City 33 68
3 Shelbourne 33 62
4 Waterford United 33 61
5 Limerick 37 FC 33 55
6 Cork City FORAS 33 55
7 Wexford Youths 33 44
8 Finn Harps 33 37
9 Longford Town 33 36
10 Athlone Town 33 31
11 Mervue United 33 16
12 Salthill Devon 33 9

[Mr A]

Salthill to lose three points between now and end of season. And Derry thought they were in poor form!

[razor]

A team ahead of you in the league can't be your bogey team, they're just better than you.

They can be whatever I want them to be.
You're just upset cos it used to be ye

[BonnieShels]

Predicted Final Table Pld Pts
1 Monaghan United 33 71
2 Derry City 33 68
3 Shelbourne 33 62
4 Waterford United 33 61
5 Limerick 37 FC 33 55
6 Cork City FORAS 33 55
7 Wexford Youths 33 44
8 Finn Harps 33 37
9 Longford Town 33 36
10 Athlone Town 33 31
11 Mervue United 33 16
12 Salthill Devon 33 9

Don't be going jinxing us or I'll get John Phelan to wrap ya in our Phoenix banner and throw ya in the Tolka!


Ha, I hope you're right. If we finish in the playoffs I want an away game.

[razor]

Bray and Drogs down for Monaghan and Derry would certainly save us a bit on travel next season.
Add to that Cobh up instead of one of the Galway teams and we'd have our local derby back too.

[shep]

Bray are unlikely to be involved in playoff IMO,i think they will beat Galway in thier playoff.Gonna be vey interesting in the playoffs anyway.Personally i hope any 2 of Derry,Monaghan and Shels go up(sorry Waterford!!!)

[frenchman]

for me it could all be over this weekend (not the play-offs but the title)we've gone from ''potenially getting third and building on for next year'' to what i would consider ''stupid if we lost it''. how the title could be over at the weekend.
we beat cork (beat them already in cork and they are already 6 points off third) + derry lose (shels 6 wins in 7 and derry 2 wins in 9) =advantage utd+2
monday night we beat salthill (1-0) = advantage utd +5
wins over limerick (out of the runnings by then) + derro to beat salthill = adv utd +5
wins for both =adv utd +5
final day we don't care.................................. there is a chance that we draw with limerick but also the same chance tath derry draw with harps so even if we drop two points to limerick we will still be 3 ahead going into the final day. goal difference is + 3 to derry at the moment but will be turned around to + three in our favour before the final day. if we win big in salthill and merve (more than 2 goals) they'll have to hammer us by more than 3 goals.............this is not to be showing off i'm just in a state of shock after years of watching jim barr and peter magee running around in the freezing pouring rain in front of 50 people all those years ago!!!!!!!!!!can anyone see past my bullet proof plan?

[passerrby]

yep i can

[razor]

we beat cork (beat them already in cork and they are already 6 points off third)

We are more than due a win over you but sadly we have no centre halves, which could be a distinct problem against a team of monsters.

[Magicme]

What's that coming over the hill, its the mons monsters!

[pineapple stu]

No, it's just another cow, isn't it?

[Magicme]

The magic moos. I once told one of our players we were changing our motto to the magic moos and he believed me. Oops.