2021 Promotion/Relegation playoff series

**osarusan** · 30/10/2021, 12:00 PM

First Division Semi Finals

1st Leg: Wednesday Nov 3rd:
Treaty versus UCD
Bray versus Galway

2nd Leg: Sunday Nov Nov 7th:
UCD versus Treaty
Galway versus Bray

First Division Final: Provisionally set for Friday Nov 19th.

Promotion/relegation playoff: Provisionally set for Friday November 26th.

Should be interesting. I don't think the 4 Div 1 teams will fear each other all that much. Galway in the best form I suppose despite last night. Bray kind of imploded last night, but I expect they were caught while chasing a goal to overtake Treaty.

I don't see whoever qualifies doing much against whoever finishes 9th in the Premier anyway, there seems to be a fair gulf between divisions this season.

**Martinho II** · 30/10/2021, 4:42 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

First Division Semi Finals

1st Leg: Wednesday Nov 3rd:
Treaty versus UCD
Bray versus Galway

2nd Leg: Sunday Nov Nov 7th:
UCD versus Treaty
Galway versus Bray

First Division Final: Provisionally set for Friday Nov 19th.

Promotion/relegation playoff: Provisionally set for Friday November 26th.

Should be interesting. I don't think the 4 Div 1 teams will fear each other all that much. Galway in the best form I suppose despite last night. Bray kind of imploded last night, but I expect they were caught while chasing a goal to overtake Treaty.

I don't see whoever qualifies doing much against whoever finishes 9th in the Premier anyway, there seems to be a fair gulf between divisions this season.

I havent seen the final first division table Osauran at all it wasnt in the Sun today or the first division results either?

**Bucket** · 30/10/2021, 6:35 PM

You're literally on the Internet!

**Bucket** · 30/10/2021, 6:35 PM

https://www.extratime.com/loi/first/

**2 Year Contract** · 30/10/2021, 11:09 PM

Glad this fixture layout has remained this season. The one off game between the FD and PD side in a neutral venue is somewhat of a leveller for the FD side to pull it off similarly to how Longford did last year

**PartySaint** · 31/10/2021, 12:46 PM

Going to be some few days for Bohs, playing the playoff on the 26th then the cup final on the 28th.

**osarusan** · 01/11/2021, 8:59 PM

Would not surprise me if the UCD game needs to be postponed. The weather down here has been atrocious for most of the past week, very very heavy rain.

The next couple of days are supposed to be dry though.

**pineapple stu** · 01/11/2021, 9:07 PM

Would suit us given our keeper went off injured on Friday

Would it be moved to Sunday instead? The date for the second leg

**osarusan** · 02/11/2021, 10:47 AM

No idea. Today is dry here, if cold, so if we get the same tomorrow it will probably be ok.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 02/11/2021, 11:12 AM

How does it work in Belfield regards tickets in the current circumstances? Or is there any point in asking given the importance of the game?

**WeAreRovers** · 02/11/2021, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

How does it work in Belfield regards tickets in the current circumstances? Or is there any point in asking given the importance of the game?

I got tickets online - https://member.clubforce.com/tickets_m.asp?LL_ID=3085

**pineapple stu** · 02/11/2021, 11:56 AM

Yup - buy tickets in advance as noted. There was a limit of 500 at a game I think, but that may have changed with the new restriction advice.

**CraftyToePoke** · 02/11/2021, 12:03 PM

Didn't want UCD. Feel they've had the measure of us all year & were lucky with the one win we did have against them. Two legs, with the amount of possession they tend to have against us, can only see it ending here for us.

Still a fine season if it does & another season of stability without unpaid bills headlines in Div1 will do. Not sure how our best of regional junior players with a bit of LOI experience here & there would get on a division up anyway.

**pineapple stu** · 02/11/2021, 12:14 PM

Thought ye were the better team in Market's Field and deserved the win tbh. We don't have the advantage of two home games this time, so I think it's closer than you reckon.

But if full-time Galway don't win the play-off, then they've made a serious hames of things, and I think they're the only side who could challenge the Premier team. We ran Waterford close in the Cup, but that was in the Bowl. In Waterford would be a different kettle of fish I think.

**Bucket** · 02/11/2021, 3:41 PM

We kept chopping and changing formations and players earlier in the year and it cost us the title in the end. Lisa Fallon is a bluff but Mark Herrick joined as a coach in April and once JC settled on a team we have been hard to beat since. Football is terrible to look at but wasn't expecting anything else from JC. I don't mind, it's about results. It'll probably be the strongest Premier side in a play-off in a long time so whichever first division side gets there will be massive underdogs. Next year's First Division will be very competitive I think

**osarusan** · 02/11/2021, 3:43 PM

The first game in the Bowl, we were the better team for 45 minutes, but collapsed completely in the second half. UCD could and should have had another couple of goals, and fitness didn't explain all of that.

Thought we were worth the win in Limerick, and even though we lost a couple of weeks ago, I didn't read too much into it, as Treaty at least looked fairly relaxed about it, and I think they weren't too bothered, apart from avoiding injuries/suspensions.

If we get past UCD, I wouldn't have much fear of Galway or Bray either, nor they of us I imagine.

All 4 teams pretty evenly matched I think, but Galway are in the best form, and the pro setup can only help.