2025 Prediction Thread

[DCSIL]

To seperate out from the Season Generic Thread. Feel free to explain your thoughts!

Premier Division

1. St Pats
2. Shelbourne
3. Shamrock Rovers
4. Derry City
5. Bohemians
6. Galway United
7. Waterford
8. Drogheda
9. Cork City(play off winners)
10. Sligo Rovers

First Division
1. Dundalk
2. Cobh(losing play off finalists)
3. Wexford
4. UCD
5. Bray
6. Athlone
7. Longford
8. Kerry
9. Treaty United
10. Finn Harps

FAI Cup Winners - Shelbourne

To go furthest in Europe - Shamrock Rovers again

First Manager Sacked - John Caulfield. More he will leave of his own choice

[WoodquayBoy]

Premier Division

1. St Pats
2. Bohs
3. Shels
4. Derry
5. Shamrock Rovers
6. Cork City
7. Galway United
8. Drogheda
9. Waterford
10. Sligo Rovers

First Division

1. UCD
2. Cobh
3. Dundalk
4. Wexford
5. Kerry
6. Bray
7. Treaty
8. Athlone
9. Harps
10 Longford


FAI Cup Winners - Pats

First Manager Sacked - going out on a limb here - no one will be sacked!

Best European run - Shels

[Iorfa]

Premier Division

1. St Pats
2. Rovers
3. Shels
4. Derry
5. Bohs
6. Galway
7. Sligo
8. Cork
9. Drogheda
10. Waterford

First Division

1. Dundalk
2. Cobh
3. Athlone
4. Wexford
5. UCD
6. Bray
7. Treaty
8. Kerry
9. Harps
10 Longford


Horrible feeling about this season.

[dansultheman]

Premier Division

1. St Pats
2. Shamrock Rovers
3. Derry City
4. Shelbourne
5. Bohs
6. Galway
7. Waterford
8. Sligo
9. Cork
10. Drogheda

First Division

1. Cobh
2. Athlone
3. UCD
4. Dundlak
5. Kerry
6. Wexford
7. Treaty
8. Finn Harps
9. Bray
10. Longford

[Dermobohs]

1 Bohs.
That is all.

[redarmyfaction]

1. Shels, deserved winners last year and no reason they can't kick on again this year.
2. Pats, don't look significantly stronger this season, signed Power from us who was absent both on and from the pitch last year, Chapman could go either way.
3. Shams, season depends on which Shams show up, hopefully it will be the bad one, with Greener, excepting the kid, the only player with claims to be a scorer.
4. Derry and this probably flatters them, new manager signs superannuated squad to play on surface where even Torvill and Dean fear to tread.
5. Rovers, prolly flatters us as Chapman and Ed will be missed, but we are shot of a lot of dead wood and hopefully the new signings gel.
6. Bohs, as you where, signing the ahem, frustrating Morahan from us was not the signing of the off season.
7. Galway, struggled to sign domestically, hard to know how the imports will cope with the Galway school of primitivism, though other clubs will have it sussed.
8. Cork, should score and concede handy enough, worry that the once great Greg Bolger is retained even as an impact player.
9. Drogs, rode their luck the few years, could struggle this one.
10 Waterford, Dejavu all over again as fans have to learn the identity of a new set of players, who will get pulled out by the owners if they show any form.

[2 Year Contract]

2. Pats, don't look significantly stronger this season, signed Power from us who was absent both on and from the pitch last year, Chapman could go either way.

I personally can’t see him doing a single thing for Pats this season

[redarmyfaction]

I personally can’t see him doing a single thing for Pats this season

Why that 2YC?

[2 Year Contract]

Why that 2YC?

He plays for Shels!

[passinginterest]

1. Derry
2. Bohs
3. Pats
4. Rovers
5. Sligo
6. Drogheda
7. Shels
8. Waterford
9. Cork
10. Galway

1. Athlone
2. Cobh
3. Dundalk
4. UCD
5. Wexford
6. Treaty
7. Bray
8. Kerry
9. Harps
10. Longford

Being different for the sake of it. Have a feeling it will be an unpredictable season and when I give it more thought I'm always miles off anyway!

Pats for the Cup
Duff to quit (to be fair I've been predicting this since he took over, it's bound to be true eventually).
Melia top scorer

[total hoofball]

Copy/pasted from the other thread no late changes made

I don't think the Premier Division will be as tight from 1-10 as last season I expect some increase in spread between teams in top-half/bottom-half of the table but all teams will still be at a competitive level to regularly pick points off each other. Like last season the fastest team out of the starting blocks after 10-12 games towards end of April will be hard to beat, if it's Pats in that position at end of April carrying their momentum from last season they will be overwhelming favourites

First Division is shaping to be vastly more interesting than last season. I don't think there is much between my Top 4 teams any of them could win it, that Dundalk team is nowhere near the strength of Cork from last season I'm not buying them as clear favourites, Cobh have added proven quality they will be there as will Athlone but with that young UCD team largely intact with a year extra experience 2nd to 1st in the table is an achievable move up the table this season


Premier Division:

1. St. Patrick's Athletic
2. Shamrock Rovers
3. Shelbourne
4. Bohemians
5. Derry City
6. Galway United
7. Waterford
8. Drogheda United
9. Sligo Rovers
10. Cork City


First Division:

1. UCD
2. Cobh Ramblers
3. Dundalk
4. Athlone Town
5. Wexford
6. Bray Wanderers
7. Treaty United
8. Finn Harps
9. Kerry
10. Longford Town

[redarmyfaction]

He plays for Shels!

That will make u right so.

Did anybody publish a preview for each team this season with the players in and out, I was looking for one before I posted and surprisingly couldn't find one for this much anticipated season

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Pats 1.52
Shams 2.03
Shels 3.21
Derry 3.76
Bohs 5.06
Galway 6.30
Waterford 7.36
Rovers 8.06
Cork 8.73
Drogs 8.97

Dundalk 1.73
Cobh 1.97
Athlone 3.50
UCD 3.50
Wexford 5.00
Bray 6.07
Harps 7.60
Treaty 7.83
Kerry 8.07
Longford 9.73

[culloty82]

Pats 1.52
Shams 2.03
Shels 3.21
Derry 3.76
Bohs 5.06
Galway 6.30
Waterford 7.36
Rovers 8.06
Cork 8.73
Drogs 8.97

Dundalk 1.73
Cobh 1.97
Athlone 3.50
UCD 3.50
Wexford 5.00
Bray 6.07
Harps 7.60
Treaty 7.83
Kerry 8.07
Longford 9.73

Is that the average of all our collective predictions?

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Yeah it is