Games weekend 27th to 30th September

**WoodquayBoy** · 28/09/2024, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Any of the top six can still finish anywhere in the top six so far as I can see. Wouldn't rule out Pat's winning it yet - only side that can keep some form it seems.

The final table if all sides get the same number of points in their last 4/5 games as they got in their last 4/5 games -

Shels 60
Pat's 57
Rovers 56
Galway 56
Derry 55
Sligo 54
Waterford 46
Bohs 43
Drogheda 39
Dundalk 24

Didn't think much of the half-hour of Shels v Sligo I caught on VM2. Lots of effort and tackles and passion, but skill was largely absent and long balls abounded. Shels' crossing let them down time and again. Sligo seemed to settle for the draw from maybe 20 minutes out. Not a great advertisement for the league leaders v Euro challengers tbh.

That said, the main takeaway from this season is how much Bradley and Higgins have been shown up by Kenny and Duff.

That would be such our luck - do enough to finish fourth, Derry win the cup but finish outside the top three so the euro place doesn’t filter down to fourth

**Nesta99** · 28/09/2024, 1:12 PM

Dundalk relegated, Shels winning the league, talk of expunging result, maybe an asterisk on the league table, country awash with money and being splashed around wastefully, rants about immigration, soaring house rices etc etc - its feels very 2002, if the country is on its knees fiancially in 5 or 6 years i'll be convinced we're in some looping error of the matrix.

**legendz** · 28/09/2024, 1:13 PM

Kerry's draw with Finn Harps was enough to climb off the foot of the First Division table last evening in the battle to avoid the wooden spoon. There'll be a few twists and turns yet. Longford have better momentum.

**Another Bohemia** · 28/09/2024, 3:07 PM

Originally Posted by Nesta99

Dundalk relegated, Shels winning the league, talk of expunging result, maybe an asterisk on the league table, country awash with money and being splashed around wastefully, rants about immigration, soaring house rices etc etc - its feels very 2002, if the country is on its knees fiancially in 5 or 6 years i'll be convinced we're in some looping error of the matrix.

Is the country awash with money? Seems every other person is struggling in some way. Either can't save for a house, rent is getting too much for them, can't afford child care, groceries & bills too expensive. Some people are certainly showing they have money but I reckon a lot of that is on credit cards or loans.

**Longfordian** · 28/09/2024, 3:22 PM

Originally Posted by legendz

Kerry's draw with Finn Harps was enough to climb off the foot of the First Division table last evening in the battle to avoid the wooden spoon. There'll be a few twists and turns yet. Longford have better momentum.

The real story in the LOI.

**Nesta99** · 28/09/2024, 4:33 PM

Originally Posted by Another Bohemia

Is the country awash with money? Seems every other person is struggling in some way. Either can't save for a house, rent is getting too much for them, can't afford child care, groceries & bills too expensive. Some people are certainly showing they have money but I reckon a lot of that is on credit cards or loans.

25bbillion gov surplus, the country is awash with money, wheter it is getting to those who need it is another debate. The parallels from 2 decades ago are there maybe minus cheap credit,

**Thewhitepele** · 28/09/2024, 5:29 PM

Originally Posted by Nesta99

25bbillion gov surplus, the country is awash with money, wheter it is getting to those who need it is another debate. The parallels from 2 decades ago are there maybe minus cheap credit,

And yet we have one of the highest national debts in the world. I haven't heard one person suggest we should just pay some of that off. The next recession will be epic.

From a Sligo Rovers perspective we tend to do well in a recession when all the billionaires decide they have had enough.

**Thewhitepele** · 28/09/2024, 5:40 PM

Originally Posted by oriel

It was almost a relief to finally all but have it confirmed as relegated tonight, for a club that hasn't won a game since 14 July, I wouldn't have been putting too much money on a play off win !

We were by a measure the worst in the PD this season, and can have no complaints really.

While I don't watch all the Dundalk games what I have seen they must be one of the better sides to finish bottom in my memory. There will be a few in for their players.

**nigel-harps1954** · 28/09/2024, 7:24 PM

Originally Posted by legendz

Kerry's draw with Finn Harps was enough to climb off the foot of the First Division table last evening in the battle to avoid the wooden spoon. There'll be a few twists and turns yet. Longford have better momentum.

Still scratching my head at this really. It was an utterly crap game on the most horrendous pitch in all of professional football, but Harps should have won comfortably.

**sbgawa** · 28/09/2024, 8:18 PM

Originally Posted by Another Bohemia

Is the country awash with money? Seems every other person is struggling in some way. Either can't save for a house, rent is getting too much for them, can't afford child care, groceries & bills too expensive. Some people are certainly showing they have money but I reckon a lot of that is on credit cards or loans.

Can't wait for the shinners to get in we all get a free house including refugees and a new hospital on every crossroads,

**oriel** · 28/09/2024, 8:57 PM

Originally Posted by Thewhitepele

While I don't watch all the Dundalk games what I have seen they must be one of the better sides to finish bottom in my memory. There will be a few in for their players.

Modest thanks but losing 18 games (so far) is just off the scales, yes played some good stuff, notable wins home to Rovers, away to Pats, home to Bohs, but that was only 3 of 5 wins all year.

Fully deserved to go down, it is what it is.

Next season will be interesting in PD, who are the runners and riders for bottom, should be a shortlist soon.

**Thewhitepele** · 28/09/2024, 9:52 PM

Originally Posted by sbgawa

Can't wait for the shinners to get in we all get a free house including refugees and a new hospital on every crossroads,

Hear they are promising some unicorns in Dublin zoo too.

**pineapple stu** · 30/09/2024, 8:05 PM

Pat's 1-0 up on Shels in Tolka.

Pat's are going to win the league, aren't they?

**TonyD** · 30/09/2024, 8:06 PM

Pats worth their lead at half time. Some lovely football. What an effort by Aidan Keena, hitting the bat from his own half. Such a pity it didn’t go in.

**TonyD** · 30/09/2024, 8:07 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Pat's 1-0 up on Shels in Tolka.

Pat's are going to win the league, aren't they?

If there were four or five more games left, probably.

**DCSIL** · 30/09/2024, 8:31 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Pat's 1-0 up on Shels in Tolka.

Pat's are going to win the league, aren't they?

Yes because everyone else will drop points...

**sessylU** · 30/09/2024, 8:39 PM

Pat's look excellent. Very player brave enough to be looking for possession wherever they are. Lovely, tight wee passes. Are they always like this? Can't remember paying attention since the early days of Kenny's reign and at the time, wondering if he was maybe a busted flush. But this looks like vintage Kenny.

2-0 now.