Cork city
Dundalk
Shams
Bray
Derry city
St Pats
Galway
Limerick
Rovers
Bohs
Harps
Drogheda
At least Harps are not bottom of everyones predictions table haha
Premier League:
Dundalk
Cork
Derry
Shamrock Rovers
St. Patricks Athletic
Bray Wanderers
Sligo Rovers
Limerick
Bohemians
Galway
Finn Harps
Drogheda
First Division:
Waterford
Longford
UCD
Shelbourne
Wexford
Cobh Ramblers
Cabinteely
Athlone
Dundalk
Cork
Derry
Shams
Bray
Pat's
Limerick
Rovers
Bohs
Galway
Harps
Drogheda
Dundalk
Derry
Cork
Sligo
Bray
Shamrock R
Galway
St Pats
Bohemians
Drogheda
Finn Harps
Limerick
First Division:
Longford
Waterford
Shelbourne
UCD
Athlone
Wexford
Cobh Ramblers
Cabinteely
Yeah agree with Pats, at 6/1 with PP worth a punt too
I also did some other bets
Double top scorers
Mark O'Sullivan (Waterford) @ 3/1 Sean Maguire (Cork City) @ 4/1
And Double To Win
Cork City @ 11/4
Waterford FC @ 8/11
Think Horgan and Boyle will be too much of a loss to Dundalk, and Maguire will fire Cork to the title, but it will be a close thing and i am really looking forward to this years league....
Pats are definitely better than last year. No question about that. If Derry's foreign lads work out they could be a danger as McEneff and McNamee are terrific. Rovers midfield is superb but the rest of the squad has question marks. Cork and Dundalk have loads of new players so we'll see if they settle soon. Full expect them to be top 2 but don't think they'll be so far ahead of the ready as recent seasons
Drogheda's squad looks the weakest but Pete Mahon is a great manager to have for a fight
Of course I am completely biased here but I think Drogs are a bit better than most people's predictions.
Mahon is a good manager and the preseason signings have been very interesting. We have a few ex. Premiership players, some promising younger players and three Brennan brothers 🙂 . I really think we will surprise a few people but as said - I am completely bias.
Anyhows I am looking so forward to the season kicking off tonight. If Drogs win I wonder will Paddy's offer to buy me out of my fiver bet at 500-1 to win the league 😋🤗
Drogheda United in this together
Premier Division
1. Cork City
2. Dundalk
3. Shamrock Rovers
4. Derry City
5. St Patrick's Athletic
6. Bray Wanderers
7. Sligo Rovers
8. Bohemians
9. Limerick
10. Galway United
11. Finn Harps
12. Drogheda United
First Division
1. Waterford
2. Longford Town
3. UCD
4. Cobh Ramblers
5. Shelbourne
6. Wexford
7. Cabinteely
8. Athlone Town
FAI Cup: Derry City
League Cup: Shamrock Rovers
First Manager Sacked: Shane Keegan
Top Scorer: Sean Maguire
Boss, you didn't seem to have much hope for you boys, would you be thinking of tweaking this a little after last nights (with respect) surprise result?
Last edited by oriel; 25/02/2017 at 9:53 PM.
#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).
With the greatest respect to Drogheda, even their most ardent fans will (and have) admitted it was a complete smash and grab. They were improved in the second half, no doubt, but we dominated the first half and it would not have been unjust if we went in 2-0 or 3-0 up at the break.
They came for a draw and went away with three points, which is a poor reflection on us and a concern, because we ran out of ideas in the second half, they stuck ten men behind the ball and played on the break. We lacked a clinical edge when we were on top, that will have to be remedyed very quickly or we will find ourselves quickly adrift. I didn't see anything last night from Drogheda to suggest they would be outside the bottom 3. That's not having a cut at Drogheda, they were well organised, as all Pete Mahon's sides are, but they were limited. Our fans are disgusted and rightfully so, we shouldn't be losing to teams like that at home. We have to be much better, you can't fault Drogheda for their gameplan, our finishing was atrocious and if you don't take your chances, you're always liable to be sucker punched.
Last edited by Olander; 25/02/2017 at 9:06 PM.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
Well with respect to Wexford Youths last year, we would bigger resources, we have more quality than they would've had and we have a lot of established Premier Division players with experience, who should theoretically be better with full time training.
I was somewhat surprised and happy to see so many people writing us off and tipping us for relegation on here and on many other forums. In my opinion, we have a better squad than the last two years, where we stayed up relatively comfortably, but we will need it this year because Drogheda will be stronger than Wexford and Limerick will be a lot stronger than Longford.
Over the last few years we have tended to have squads of 27 or 28 players. This year we have gone for quality over quantity and brought in established players like David Cawley, Gavan Holohan, Ronan Murray. We only really lost Ryan Connolly to Shamrock Rovers, I feel we have adequately replaced him with Murray, Holohan and Cawley.
I wouldn't hit the panic button yet, but that was a game we really should have won comfortably.
Last edited by Olander; 25/02/2017 at 9:42 PM.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
Bad start for Galway, but that's all it is, you need to see where you are after 5 or 6 games, that's generally a good sign. Dundalk were hammered 4-1 to Drogs on the opening night of 2014. Still have nightmares about that match!
#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).
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