How did it all go wrong?

[patrickccfc]

Was looking at the current tables and decided to look back over the years and came across this table which paints an ugly picture.. five of those teams are now gone, have one back with cobh but its still fairly depressing



Team Name Home and Away Home Away
P W D L GF GA P W D L GF GA P W D L GF GA GD Pd Pts
Sligo Rovers 36 15 16 5 45 27 19 9 8 2 22 12 17 6 8 3 23 15 18 0 61
Dublin City 36 15 14 7 57 34 18 8 6 4 28 16 18 7 8 3 29 18 23 0 59
Cobh Ramblers 36 15 11 10 49 40 18 8 4 6 25 23 18 7 7 4 24 17 9 0 56
Kilkenny City 36 15 8 13 46 35 18 8 3 7 24 21 18 7 5 6 22 14 11 0 53
Galway United 36 14 11 11 46 43 17 6 6 5 23 20 19 8 5 6 23 23 3 0 53
Dundalk 36 12 13 11 44 40 18 4 7 7 23 25 18 8 6 4 21 15 4 0 49
Limerick FC 36 13 9 14 44 49 18 6 6 6 21 20 18 7 3 8 23 29 -5 0 48
Kildare County 36 10 11 15 33 42 18 4 7 7 15 20 18 6 4 8 18 22 -9 0 41
Monaghan United 36 9 9 18 36 66 18 4 3 11 19 35 18 5 6 7 17 31 -30 0 36
Athlone Town 36 6 10 20 28 52 18 3 6 9 13 23 18 3 4 11 15 29 -24 0 28

Apologies for the confusion of the table, original table would not fit in the post so had to paste it in plain text

[legendz]

Well things have gone right for Sligo, Dundalk and Limerick. It would be great to see Galway, Kilkenny, Kildare and Monaghan return. If recent A Championship teams Castlebar, Tralee, Carlow and Tullamore were brought in the LoI as well, the first division could be north and south groups of 8. All fallacy anyways I know, we are where we are.

[Comic Book Guy]

I can only comment on our own club, gross, reckless mismanagement of the club especially so in 2008 led to our problems. Simply spending money that wasn't there in chasing the dream and poor attendances have got these clubs to where they are, is love to see the likes if mons, kilkenny back, ain't going to happen any time soon.