Originally Posted by
pineapple stu
Because the league leaders got dumped out of Europe by a Gibraltar side? Because the three dominant teams of the last decade or so - Cork, Dundalk and Rovers - are in various stages of serious decline and nobody's really taken their place as yet (Pat's are threatening to)? Because there's no real proven goalscorer? (The top scorers are on 10 plus a couple of penalties after 28 rounds)
It certainly isn't anywhere near the best quality the LoI has ever been. The UCD team currently second in the First Division has no-one comparable to, say, Colm Whelan, Liam Kerrigan (2021 promotion team), Gary O'Neill, Liam Scales, Neil Farrugia, Georgie Kelly (2018 promotion team), Andy Boyle, Ciarán Kilduff, Greg Bolger, Dave McMillan, Evan McMillan (2009 promotion team), and so on.
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