Title / Promotion Run In

**bluepowers** · 10/10/2011, 10:40 AM

lets hope we can bring it to final game of the season anyway be a miracle if we do get promotion but you never know just need a monaghan slip up

**hotspur** · 10/10/2011, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by bluepowers

lets hope we can bring it to final game of the season anyway be a miracle if we do get promotion but you never know just need a monaghan slip up

Limerick will get promoted shels have bottled it and i think cork will beat them, limerick have to stay focused on every game.

**harpin** · 10/10/2011, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by hotspur

Limerick will get promoted shels have bottled it and i think cork will beat them, limerick have to stay focused on every game.

Shels would still have to lose to either Harps or Salthill as well....it's not happening

As for us getting promoted...Mervue to take points off Mons followed by us beating Athlone Mons and Waterford...it's not happening

Teams in the premier going bust, not getting licences, we get promoted...most likely scenario

I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it

**bluewhitearmy** · 10/10/2011, 1:28 PM

Originally Posted by harpin

Shels would still have to lose to either Harps or Salthill as well....it's not happening

As for us getting promoted...Mervue to take points off Mons followed by us beating Athlone Mons and Waterford...it's not happening

Teams in the premier going bust, not getting licences, we get promoted...most likely scenario

I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it

Definitely most likely but id hate to go up like that.

**thomas72** · 10/10/2011, 1:53 PM

Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy

Definitely most likely but id hate to go up like that.

After nearly 20yrs in division one I could not give a fck how we go up as long as we do.

**Jofspring** · 10/10/2011, 2:57 PM

Originally Posted by thomas72

After nearly 20yrs in division one I could not give a fck how we go up as long as we do.

Any way will do but it just wouldn't feel the same. Getting up on the field is a good way of drumming up support for the team and getting momentum in the club. Going up on technicalities just isn't the same.

**bluewhitearmy** · 10/10/2011, 3:28 PM

After how long we have spent in the 1st division i want to be bale to go mental after a match that we have been promoted get that moment of joy after finally getting out of the division.

Just wouldn't be the same finding out through reading it on here or Extratime or anything like that. On the pitch should be the only way to go up or down hope this league gets to a stage where that happens some year.

**Patrick Dunne** · 10/10/2011, 3:40 PM

If Limerick finish outside the play-off places, it is my reading of the situation that two clubs would have to go bust/be refused a Premier Licence, before you would be promoted.

The loser of the play-offs would be first in line (unless they go bust themselves first ! ).

**Shannonsider** · 10/10/2011, 5:37 PM

I wouldn't like to see another club go bust, even if that means Limerick will go up. As a football fan I would hate to see another club go, especially after the progress domestic football has made this year. Still a hope of doing it on the pitch, not a huge one, but fingers crossed. We should know by Friday anyways for sure.

**bluewhitearmy** · 10/10/2011, 6:06 PM

Originally Posted by Shannonsider

I wouldn't like to see another club go bust, even if that means Limerick will go up. As a football fan I would hate to see another club go, especially after the progress domestic football has made this year. Still a hope of doing it on the pitch, not a huge one, but fingers crossed. We should know by Friday anyways for sure.

What progress?

**ped_ped** · 10/10/2011, 8:26 PM

Assume he's referring to Rovers exploits in Europe? Which is nothing if not progress.

**bluewhitearmy** · 10/10/2011, 8:55 PM

Originally Posted by ped_ped

Assume he's referring to Rovers exploits in Europe? Which is nothing if not progress.

Progress for Rovers yes...The league is still a joke and Rovers getting into Europe hasnt helped the fact that we could lose clubs again this off season.

**abbeyvale** · 10/10/2011, 11:34 PM

As of Mon 10/10/11

1 Cork City 28 18 9 1 68 / 24 63
2 Shelbourne 27 20 2 5 53 / 21 62
3 Monaghan United 27 19 4 4 54 / 26 61
4 Limerick 27 17 6 4 42 / 21 57

Remaining Fixtures

Shels
Oct
14th H Finn Harps
22nd A Salthill Devon
29th H Cork City

Mons
Oct
14th A Mervue United
21st H Limerick
29th A Athlone Town

Cork
Oct
21st H Longford Town
29th A Shelbourne

Limerick
Oct
14th H Athlone Town
21st A Monaghan Utd
29th H Waterford United

**4tothefloor** · 10/10/2011, 11:42 PM

Hopefully the Limerick mafia at Athlone will roll over for ourselves and then take something off of Mons on the final day. If any of ye know the lads, start making some phone calls

**El-Pietro** · 11/10/2011, 12:31 AM

Mervue is your best bet to take points from Mons excluding yourselves

**kingpin4** · 11/10/2011, 1:36 AM

Imagine this scenario.

Shels v Finn harps, harps win
Shels v salthill, Shels win
Shels v cork, cork win
Leaves Shels on 65 points

Cork win their 2 games, finish on 69

Mons v mervue, draw
Mons v Lims, Lims win
Mons v athlone, mons win
Leaves them on 65

Lims win their 3, finish on 66 points

1. Cork
2. Limerick
3. Shels
4. Monaghan

How surreal would that be? (obviously it'll all be blown out of the water come this Friday when Shels and monaghan batter harps and mervue...but I can dream)

**sadloserkid** · 11/10/2011, 10:19 AM

Yeah it's this weekend that the dream will start to really crumble I fear. I'd hate to go up via some off the field mechanism (enlarged Premier division next year anyone?), much like bluepowers I would feel cheated out of a period of mayhem when that final whistle goes. OBVIOUSLY if it comes to that we take it and we plan for the future but you'd have to be a small, miserable sort of club to celebrate an administrative promotion like it was a cure for cancer.

**micls** · 11/10/2011, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by sadloserkid

Yyou'd have to be a small, miserable sort of club to celebrate an administrative promotion like it was a cure for cancer.

Meh, I'd take it. Obviously it would be way way better to go up for footballing reasons, but if it's a choice of staying in the graveyard or going up on a technicality then it's an easy call. We've only been down here 2 years and it's sucking the life out of us, I'd hae thought ye'd latch onto any chance of going up!

**bluewhitearmy** · 11/10/2011, 1:30 PM

Originally Posted by micls

Meh, I'd take it.

Sadloserkids point proven

**fieldofmarkets** · 11/10/2011, 4:54 PM

If we finish on 66 but Mons still beat is to 3rd...they'll be up on a technicality (2pts v Harps) and I'm sure they will be fine with it. I'd take it now.