LOI fixtures 10th/11th April

**Town Legend** · 13/04/2015, 2:43 PM

Long also had to work with the squad Cooke assembled. The damage was already done when Long took over.

**bluewhitearmy** · 13/04/2015, 3:00 PM

How many points were they behind 2nd bottom when he took over?

**atfconline** · 13/04/2015, 3:13 PM

8, we went 10 behind after his 1st game.

We only took 1 win from 5 against Bray and UCD just above us, under Long.

**bluewhitearmy** · 13/04/2015, 5:40 PM

10 points with 22 games to go is hardly gone tbf and with the stats there against Bray and UCD it seems he had the chances to get em out of it. Not saying the improvement wasn't impressive but to make out he hadn't a hope of keeping em up is plain wrong imo.

**Town Legend** · 13/04/2015, 7:11 PM

If it were Sligo, Rovers, Dundalk or another team with a similar squad then fair enough. But it was Athlone, a newly promoted team with a squad put together by someone else. For a team like that to give a 10 point advantage to anyone is a lot. So to get them to the last game of the season with a chance of staying up was remarkable.

**Nesta99** · 13/04/2015, 7:42 PM

Originally Posted by Town Legend

If it were Sligo, Rovers, Dundalk or another team with a similar squad then fair enough. But it was Athlone, a newly promoted team with a squad put together by someone else. For a team like that to give a 10 point advantage to anyone is a lot. So to get them to the last game of the season with a chance of staying up was remarkable.

Admit it! You were thinking of Sligo but decided upon including Rovers and Dundalk for balance or to keep peace...

**Town Legend** · 13/04/2015, 7:52 PM

Haha I just listed those 3 cos they've been champions the past couple of seasons! I suppose I can throw Pats in there too.

**PartySaint** · 13/04/2015, 8:01 PM

Originally Posted by Town Legend

Haha I just listed those 3 cos they've been champions the past couple of seasons! I suppose I can throw Pats in there too.

We don't do relegation. Those 3 yoyo clubs that you mentioned were a good example.

**Nesta99** · 13/04/2015, 10:20 PM

Well Dundalk it was more yoyooooooooooooyo! You're sounding a bit like Roddy Collins PartySaint..

**Town Legend** · 13/04/2015, 10:33 PM

Did you have to bring Roderick into this?

**wonder88** · 13/04/2015, 11:31 PM

Terrible decision by ref for Sligo peno, even 80 yards away it looked wrong to me on the night. In 3 of the 4 league games in Galway so far this season the refs have being very poor.

**L.T.F.C.** · 14/04/2015, 2:30 PM

Originally Posted by wonder88

Terrible decision by ref for Sligo peno, even 80 yards away it looked wrong to me on the night. In 3 of the 4 league games in Galway so far this season the refs have being very poor.

Same bull**** with Shaw being brought down at 1 nil Bohs.

**Longfordian** · 14/04/2015, 2:41 PM

I thought at the time from the far end of the stand that Shaw's one was a penalty and there was no reason for him to go down. The replay makes it even worse than I thought then he books Shaw.