Looks like Fenlon could get the sack soon over in Scotland, it seems he may not be as good a manager as a lot of people think.
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I'd agree with your point, but that squad might not be the best example, there was probably too much of a clearout.
5 years on, a number of that 1st division squad are in the Premier:
Crowley, Mulvenna, Grimes, Cassidy, Ryan, Simon Kelly (don't think he has played yet though?).
Going back to the previous season, 3 released players who since made the Premier standard:
Stephen Quigley, Hynes, Flood
These guys weren't great but they did play in the Premier for the 09 season & avoid relegation:
Jamie Duffy, David O'Connor, Paul Shiels, Robbie Martin.
Good point.
I recall Dundalk wanting to keep Cassidy but the player was not interested in being part of a full time set up. Flood was released for disciplinary, and not football, reasons.
I would argue that the standard of the league in 2010 was higher and that several of the players mentioned would have struggled at that level.
Agree re the standard change.
I guess the off-topic point I was trying to make was with the clearouts in both clubs, 7 or 8 players went from Dundalk's 1st division squad to Drogheda's Premier squad, and survived relegation via playoff, ie, they were just about Premier standard. I can understand that they didn't meet Dundalk's ambition for that season which was never going to be in a relegation battle, but those players were of a lower Premier standard.
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1 of them is a nice lad. And ya can probably tell which one of the 7 it is. Only 2 of them frequently go to Athlone games.
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Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
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I think it's only a points deduction from Athlone ye should be looking for. We're doing a great job of taking points off ourselves at the minute.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
Europe aside, They have only played 2 games (They never beat Hearts, only have once since Fenlon was there, and was years before he was given the job since they did before)
To sack him now would be madness
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