Matches week 23/10 to 30/10

[sbgawa]

Premier Division

Monday 23rd

St Pats v Sligo 19:30

Friday 27th

Shels v UCD 19:45
Dundalk v Bohemians 19:45
Cork v Derry 19:45
St Pats v Shamrock Rovers 20:00

Saturday 28th

Sligo v Drogheda

Monday 30th

Cork v Shamrock Rovers

[sbgawa]

A thread to tidy up everything before the final weekend.

I'm assuming Pats will beat Sligo so a win against us on Friday for them could put them level with us on 65 points but we would still need a maximum of 3 points from our Games against Cork and Sligo given our goal difference advantage. We cant lose it from here you would hope .............

Dundalk v Bohs is a huge one for both teams. Bohs wont want to put themselves in the position of losing the cup final and not qualifying for Europe.
Losing a final is bad enough.
If Bohs dont win Shels can go 4th with a win against UCD. Be some performance from Duffer and Joey if they pull it off

[Jack B]

A win however it comes tonight and guaranteeing Europe in the process with time to spare is all I really want from these final three games. The league isn't happening and I don't really want to be needing a result in Derry or something on the final day and risk players getting injured on that pitch ahead of the final.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

The win tonight should come very easily

[Jd2793]

The win tonight should come very easily

are ye down bodies?

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Bolger, Hutchinson and Burton out anyway but there’s also the fact that we’re pure useless

[oriel]

Sligo looked like a jaded / semi disinterested team last Fri v Dundalk, and one that just wanted the season over.

Could be a long night for them v a Pats team in peak form.

[joey B]

Sligo blessed UCD and Cork are so poor,bad season for them,I wonder will Russell still be in charge next season?

[total hoofball]

I'd be doubtful that Russell would still be the man for that job, Sligo need to rebuild while cutting their budget and move up the table with Galway coming up into their local market so to speak. They looked like a team without any style or identity in their matches against Shels

Sligo must be praying for 2024 the likes of Cobh or Wexford win the promotion play-offs at the expense of Cork

[Jack B]

Horrible night in Richmond. On the balance of chances it was actually quite even and Lyness had a couple of saves to make, but on the whole Sligo were awful. Had a go to begin with and then just sat in hoping they were still in it with 10 to go and started trying to play again.

We weren't much better and struggled to play through them but the rain didn't make it easy for anyone out there. Happy to just get the win and wrap up Europe for next season.

[2 Year Contract]

Sligo started brightly tonight and looked dangerous in the first 10 or so minutes but after that it was all Pats for the rest of the first half pressure wise. Cracker of a goal from Kian Leavy who’s looked very very tidy the last 2 games. Should probably have been 2 or 3 up at half time but for 2 good Brush saves from 1v1s against Carty and McClelland. Second half was very uneventful from both sides on the whole. As mentioned, sligo tried to have a go in the last few minutes but their lack of quality going forward must be alarming for Sligo fans. Keena last year and Mata this year, there’s only so many times you can pull a rabbit out of the hat and you’d imagine a goalscorer of their quality will be very hard to replace for another season now. They’d have been lost this year without Mata's goals in the first half of the season

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Can’t really say ye should have been 2 or 3 up at half time when we should have scored twice early on. But we are very poor. Just assuming Cork won’t get enough points to catch us. That second half was horrific from both sides.

[2 Year Contract]

Can’t really say ye should have been 2 or 3 up at half time when we should have scored twice early on. But we are very poor. Just assuming Cork won’t get enough points to catch us. That second half was horrific from both sides.

Hartmann (shot from a tight angle with not much to aim at) and Barlow (flick header that Lyness tipped over but was ultimately straight in the middle of the goal and a save you would expect your goalkeeper to make) aren’t chances Id deem either player ‘should’ have scored. Mahon(?) I think had a decent header from a corner too but a free out was awarded for that

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Hartmann was a very good save and Buckley had a free header from 6 yards out that he should have buried. The free out was for what happened after it was blocked.

[2 Year Contract]

Hartmann was a very good save

Again, have to disagree. It’s at around 35 seconds in the highlights below. If any club’s goalkeeper conceded that shot their fans would rightly be disappointed in their goalkeeper. It’s straight at Lyness' feet with very little power on it

https://youtu.be/PWNWRXiZQe8?si=NWBSb2OP4sRFpCLQ

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Agreed he didn’t strike it as well as I thought at the time. Would still expect him to score from there. Similar enough to McClellands effort that it could have been struck better. Pity he didn’t get the deflection your goal got.

[EalingGreen]

I'd be doubtful that Russell would still be the man for that job, Sligo need to rebuild while cutting their budget and move up the table with Galway coming up into their local market so to speak. They looked like a team without any style or identity in their matches against Shels

Would the manager's job at Sligo be full-time? If so, I believe Ian Baraclough is still on-the-market. And while ultimately he flopped with the big job for NI, he wasn't so bad as many of his critics had it (imo), or at least was unlucky with circumstances and timing etc. While looking at his Wiki page, he seemed to do a good job at Sligo, no?

Keena last year and Mata this year, there’s only so many times you can pull a rabbit out of the hat and you’d imagine a goalscorer of their quality will be very hard to replace for another season now.

Keena's going through a real tough time of it at Cheltenham this season - looks to be missing playing alongside 20-goal Alfie May (signed for Charlton in the summer). And after starting 9 of their first 11 games this season (came on as sub in the other two) without scoring, he's been an unused sub for the new manager in the two games since.

Now as it happens, Cheltenham don't have a pot to **** in, meaning that if they go down again this season (v.likely), then they might be unable to pay off his contract, so will keep him for another season. But if they do survive, he may possibly even be released, should the new manager be able to sign a replacement? Could Sligo re-sign him for 2024?

[2 Year Contract]

Would the manager's job at Sligo be full-time? If so, I believe Ian Baraclough is still on-the-market. And while ultimately he flopped with the big job for NI, he wasn't so bad as many of his critics had it (imo), or at least was unlucky with circumstances and timing etc. While looking at his Wiki page, he seemed to do a good job at Sligo, no?

Keena's going through a real tough time of it at Cheltenham this season - looks to be missing playing alongside 20-goal Alfie May (signed for Charlton in the summer). And after starting 9 of their first 11 games this season (came on as sub in the other two) without scoring, he's been an unused sub for the new manager in the two games since.

Now as it happens, Cheltenham don't have a pot to **** in, meaning that if they go down again this season (v.likely), then they might be unable to pay off his contract, so will keep him for another season. But if they do survive, he may possibly even be released, should the new manager be able to sign a replacement? Could Sligo re-sign him for 2024?

Yeah, it’s a full time job as all other Premier division jobs are next season with the exception of Drogheda (who are in the process of being bought by Americans and will be going full time, just possibly not as early as January). Baraclough won a league with Sligo, albeit with a squad assembled pretty much entirely by Paul Cook, but it was impressive none the less, he also won the FAI Cup and Setanta Cup with them, so I can be corrected if I’m wrong but he’s probably their most successful manager ever? His name was linked with the Pats and Cork jobs earlier in the year but I’ve no idea how true those rumours were to materialising.

On Keena, yeah he’s not had a good season at all with Cheltenham but he did enough in his time with Sligo to have better offers than going back to Sligo. I’d imagine if he became available one or more of the league's European sides would be interested

[total hoofball]

Baraclough would be nostalgia appointment if you forget that he inherited Paul Cook's five seasons worth of work building Sligo into a team ready to win a league in 2012, that 2013 FAI Cup win papered over a team going backwards under him before he was found out the next season before the parting of ways. Nothing in his career since then indicates he would be able to rebuild that Sligo squad with his own recruitment on a reduced budget and I'd say he wouldn't come cheap himself

[Martinho II]

Baraclough would be nostalgia appointment if you forget that he inherited Paul Cook's five seasons worth of work building Sligo into a team ready to win a league in 2012, that 2013 FAI Cup win papered over a team going backwards under him before he was found out the next season before the parting of ways. Nothing in his career since then indicates he would be able to rebuild that Sligo squad with his own recruitment on a reduced budget and I'd say he wouldn't come cheap himself

Where is IB now TH? I read more about John Coleman ex Sligo mgr more than I hear of Baraclough himself!